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The Vatican appears to disapprove of Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith’s statement of July 25, that it is right to give to Buddhism the “foremost place” in the Sri Lankan constitution and that it is not right to declare Sri Lanka a secular state. The Vatican Radio’s website carries a story from Colombo dated August 4, in which a group of Sri Lankan Catholics are quoted as saying that the new Sri Lankan constitution should be a secular one and that giving a special constitutional status to Buddhism is a violation of human rights. Cardinal Ranjith ,who is Colombo’s Archbishop, had said...

In a front-page column in the August 7 edition of the Vatican newspaper, Italian philosopher Luca Possati said that climate change must be addressed now before it is too late. Citing a report released on August 2 by the National Centers for Environmental Information, Possati noted that the year 2015 was the warmest since climate recordkeeping began in the nineteenth century. Recalling that the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change contains no sanctions, Possati called for a “new globalized approach to development” in which climate change, poverty, and inequality are addressed holistically. Adesso o mai più (L’Osservatore Romano, p. 1)

Pope Francis is not the first pope to turn his pastoral gaze toward China, and in the long scope of the Middle Kingdom's history, the Vatican’s overtures to China are not so unusual.The American historian and novelist Edward Eggleston once said, “Journalism is organized gossip.” There has been a lot of journalism lately about the Church in China, but it has been extremely difficult to separate the genuine news from “organized gossip.” In June, the bishop of Shanghai, Ma Daqin, who has spent four years under house arrest for refusing to join the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA), released an...

Let us lift up Paul Nehlen in prayer, that he be elected.

Ever since the failed coup in Turkey, there has been a rapid alignment towards an Ezekiel 38 scenario and several of these developments need to be addressed. First, some background: Ezekiel 38 describes a war between Israel and certain surrounding nations with the enemies of Israel having the motive of taking a certain spoil.  This war has clearly not yet taken place and it appears to occur shortly before the millennial reign of the Messiah (Jesus) per the text, likely around the time of the rapture and the beginning of Daniel's 70th Week.  While there is some debate regarding Russia's...

Why would anyone except a professional organist take the magazine The American Organist? A friend gave me a recent issue of this highly specialized publication. The stunning picture on the front cover got my attention. The foreground features a glorious pipe organ with five key boards, endless foot pedals and a hundred stops. In the background is the grandiose nave and the vaulted ceiling of the historic Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago. To me, the church organ is a symbol of high Western Christian culture, made famous by the soaring oratorios of Johann Sebastian Bach and the stirring grandeur of...

Of all the horrors we've witnessed from our comfortable homes over the past year nothing hurts more than the attempted annihilation of Christians of the Near East, along with buildings, churches, sacred ruins, precious relics of the past that have been utterly destroyed by the ISIS conquerors. The suffering these people have endured and are enduring is recorded at numerous websites but the world has remained deaf, dumb and blind until recently when with one eye open it had no choice but to acknowledge the specific targeting of Christians. By that time it was too late. Carnage, decapitations, torture, eradication...

Guest Speaker Amir Tsarfati provides a discussion on prophecy and “End Times” as presented in the Bible and why Satan hates it.

Can Donald Trump save America (View this post's title image above)? Well, that is the question that at least half of America is asking themselves and with blind delusional optimism many think that he can. Tragically, many today are beyond clueless to America's incurable ills that are at an EXPONENTIAL zenith. In these Americans minds, their delusional optimistic, no depth appraisals and ignorant evaluations have zero perspective of our nation's EXPONENTIAL growing depths of depravity, lawlessness, and societal ills that can NEVER be reversed or overturned! As the Titanic minutes before her doom so is our nation. My dear friends,...

Facebook deletes Israel from the list of Olympic participants .... Anti-Semitism in the UK is the highest since 2009 and the Gaza conflict .... Israel bitterly rejects Obama's claim how it backs now the Iran deal .... The new leader of Boko Haram, who is associated with ISIS, makes a vow to kill every Christian and blow up every church .... Obama will reach next month's target of letting 10,000 Syrian refugees, all Sunni Muslims, into the country .... Clinton got millions from the world's biggest Sharia Law education firm .... Muslim Brotherhood members are part of the Obama administration...

Pastor J. D. Farag interviews Major Amir Tsarfati during live streaming post on Facebook at the new Calvary Chapel Kaneohe which is undergoiing renovation for occupancy. video at link

"There is a way which seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death." Proverbs 14:2

Egyptian citizens, whatever their religious affiliation, “all have the same rights and duties under the constitution.” And the Egyptian Christians have “displayed prudence and a spirit for the homeland” in the way in which they have reacted to sufferings and provocations in past years. They have remained sensibly united against the attacks of those who “want to use religion to sow discord and spread extremist ideas.” These are the significant thoughts expressed by Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi during his meeting with Coptic Orthodox Patriarch Tawadros II, as he received him in the presidential palace, together with a delegation of...

With the 2016 elections at hand, the white and black oppressors of the lawless Left Democratic Party, who abhor Almighty God the Creator are seeking to agitate, enrage and scare their 90 % of black Democratic voters to vote in this up coming election for Hillary. In ignorantly doing so each election, the 90% of black voters, who continue to vote Democrat only put the very ones who are their personal social oppressors back in power each time making heavier their chains of social ills. The Left is horrified of losing their political strangle hold and power and truly care...

ROME (RNS) Despite intense bombing and severe food shortages, several Carmelite nuns are refusing to abandon the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo and have appealed for urgent aid. “The bombs are falling all around us, but we are not going to leave the people in their suffering,” said Sister Anne-Francoise, a French nun from a community of Discalced Carmelites in Aleppo. “The people here are suffering and dying.” The nun’s comments came in a statement released on Thursday (Aug. 4) by the Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need. ACN has been trying to draw attention to the plight...

Princeton's Robert George called for Mr Biden's excommunication soon after Mr Biden's wedding duty was reported. But although the Church doesn't sanctify gay marriage and considers homosexual behaviour a sin, Mr Biden didn't actually break Church law, said Fr James Bretzke, a theologian at Boston College. A Catholic can only be excommunicated on "canonical grounds," he said. "It's not like voting the person off the island." A bishop would have to cite the specific Church law, known as canon, that the Catholic follower broke, "much like arresting someone," Fr Bretzke said. "There is no provision in canon allowing for the...

Lagos - New Boko Haram leader, Abu Masab Al-Barnawi says that the terrorist organisation would now target Christians in Nigeria vowing to kill all Christians and blow up every church across the country, Punch reports. Al-Barnawi who replaced Abubakar Shekau as Boko Haram leader said in an interview given to Al-Naba Newspaper that Boro Haram's mission was to fight against apostates and crusaders. He also accused the west of trying to Christianise Africa saying that it was doing so with the aide of charities. "They (West) strongly seek to Christianise the society…They exploit the condition of those who are displaced...

Egypt's Al Azhar University, the world's leading institution of Sunni Islam, has welcomed the statement by Pope Francis that Islam is not responsible for terrorist violence. Responding to the papal statement-- made during an exchange with reporters on his return flight after a visit to Poland-- Al Azhar said: "This statement reflects the pontiff's understanding of the true nature of Islam and its teachings of tolerance." Al Azhar hails Francis on Islam and violence (ANSA)

When Pope Francis made a comment about terrorism and Islam it was bound to get attention. However, the sentiments expressed by the man who has been described as the "world's most popular leader", was not welcomed by all. Speaking onboard the papal plane as he returned to Rome from Poland, the Pope told reporters why he doesn't use the word "Islam'' when discussing terrorism. "It's not right to identify Islam with violence. It's not right and it's not true,'' he said. "I believe that in every religion there is always a little fundamentalist group.'' And referring to organised crime in...

A judge has ruled that a Mississippi church – not the Presbyterian Church (USA) – owns its property. In First Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) of Starkville Mississippi vs. Presbytery of St. Andrew, the Presbyterian Church (USA) Inc., the Honorable H.J. Davidson Jr., granted the church’s motion for summary judgment “affirming its right to hold title to its property without interference of claim from the PCUSA.” FPC-Starkville filed a lawsuit in early 2015 with the Chancery Court of Oktibbeha County in Miss., asking for a declaratory judgment “recognizing that FPC Starkville alone is the absolute, full, exclusive, fee simple owner of all...