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This is the most recent video from Amir. First part is how San Remo figures in Jewish history. End is good advice for Christians. Middle is a lot of good information, the Tsarfati trademark.

Amid negotiations between the Holy See and China’s Communist government over the appointment of bishops, Pope Francis has asked the nation’s Catholics to remain “open to encounter and dialogue.” On May 24, which Pope Benedict declared a day of prayer for China’s Catholics, “we will all be united spiritually to the Catholic faithful of China, on the feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary Help of Christians, venerated at the Sheshan Shrine at Shanghai,” Pope Francis said to the faithful following his May 21 Regina Coeli address. “To Chinese Catholics I say: let us raise our gaze to Mary Our Mother,...

Join with Fellow FREEPERS to Pray for our PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP/VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE and AMERICA: Government, Family, Military, Business, Education, Churches, and the Media. 'And this is the Confidence that we have in Him, that, if we Ask Anything According to His Will, He Heareth us.' 1 John 5:14 Religion Forum Threads Labeled [Prayer] are Closed to Debate of Any Kind.

Will Gervais and Maxine Najle are co-authors of a study suggesting that far more Americans are atheist than previously thought. The dubious claim by Gervais, director of the University of Kentucky’s Beliefs and Morality Lab (Bam! for short), and Najle, a grad student advised by Gervais, provided fodder for a fake news story posted this past week on the website FiveThirtyEight. “Attitudes about atheists are quickly changing, driven by the same powerful force that transformed opinion on gay rights,” wrote Daniel Cox, who hyped the study by Gervais and Najle. Dismissing recent studies in which no more than 3 percent...

President makes pick as he leaves for first foreign trip, including Rome. Before leaving on his first international trip as president, which will include a visit to Pope Francis at the Vatican, Donald J. Trump announced the appointment of Callista Gingrich as U.S. ambassador to the Holy See.The announcement was made as one of several other appointments to the Trump Administration. The choice has long been rumored. Gingrich’s husband, Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House of Representatives, confirmed early on in the new administration that his wife was being considered.The actual title of the position, according to the...

Retired Hong Kong cardinal Joseph Zen has criticised the Catholic Church’s effort to negotiate a deal with China, which could see the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Beijing.In a Thursday interview with the UK’s Catholic Herald, the 85-year-old activist cited the continued persecution of Catholics in China and the illegitimacy of a rival “patriotic” church as reasons why he believed Pope Francis’s advisers were wrong to pursue the deal.Joseph Zen. Photo: Apple Daily. The Chinese government has arrested a number of pastors following their opposition to the removal of publicly-displayed crosses in the eastern provinces, the area of...

A new Gallup poll shows that only 24% of Americans believe the Bible is the “literal word” of God, which is a decline from the 1970s, but the survey also shows that the number of Americans who think the Bible is the “inspired word” of God, 47%, has stayed pretty steady over the last 40 years. In addition, an overwhelming majority of Americans, 71%, believe the Bible is a holy document, inspired by God or containing God’s own words. “Fewer than one in four Americans (24%) now believe the Bible is ‘the actual word of God, and is to be...

L'Osservatore Romano During the General Audience of May 17, 2017, Pope Francis greeted veterans of the battle of Monte Cassino, which enabled the Allies to liberate Rome in 1944 from the German occupation. He hoped that the sacrifice of the dead would sow peace in the world.Addressing himself to Poles in the course of the greetings in different languages, the Pontiff turned to the veterans of the Second Corps of the Polish Army, who came to Italy for the anniversary of the battle, which after several months of confrontations, witnessed the break in the Gustav line and the retreat...

MOSCOW, Russia, May 19, 2017 (LifeSiteNews) — The Russian Orthodox Church is again calling upon the nation's government to make abortion illegal. Archimandrite Theothilactes addressed Parliament's Commission for the Protection of Christian Values at their first session of the new State Duma. He advised the commission to make an abortion ban the top legislative priority. “Abortion must be made equal to murder," the Patriarch’s representative urged. "Attention must be paid to this bill and eventually it must be passed.” The Commission for the Protection of Christian Values is a lower house coalition of 46 members of Parliament coming together to...

For the first time in 60 years places of worship are being built in Cuba. A parish in Florida funded the construction of a Catholic church in the western corner of the country showing that Cuba is taking big steps toward religious freedom.TAMPA, FL - Funded by a parish in Florida, a new Catholic church is being built in Cuba and is the first the island nation has seen in 60 years. Father Ramon Hernandez, pastor of St. Lawrence church in Tampa, said he and his parishioners are happy to see how their funds have financed the project, and said...

A champion of life—that title expertly captures the work and legacy of Pope John Paul II. More than a decade after his death, the author of Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life) remains one of the greatest heroes of the pro-life movement, respected by people of all faiths and all walks of life.The story of Pope John Paul II’s life is filled with suspense, heroism, and intrigue. What is particularly striking is the number of times during the course of his long life, he escaped death. His life hung in the balance when he was hit by a vehicle in...

Cardinal Joseph Zen says that, in their desperation for a deal, the Pope's advisers seem to want 'success at any cost'The Salesian House of Studies has not changed much since it was built on a Hong Kong hillside in the 1930s. But the city around it has altered beyond recognition. Tower blocks, main roads and schools have sprung up and engulfed the mission house. The soundtrack of the presumably once tranquil retreat is now a symphony of constant drilling, rushing traffic and workmen shouting. Cardinal Joseph Zen himself greets me at the door of the mission house. The humble building...

The signatories expressed their 'respect for what you, as the main leader of the Cuban Revolution, have achieved for the dignity of your people'Jesuit superior general Fr Arturo Sosa allegedly signed a letter praising Cuban dictator Fidel Castro in 1989. Infovaticana says that ahead of the communist leader’s visit to Venezuela that year, nearly 1,000 “intellectuals and artists” sent him a “manifesto” welcoming him to their country. The 810th name on the list of signatories is “Arturo Sosa, S.J.,” of the Centro Gumilla, of which he was director at the time. The letter begins: “We… wish to publicly express our...

ANSA) - Milan, May 15 - A Milan judge on Monday admitted the Coordination of Islamic Associations in Milan and Monza (CAIM) group as a civil plaintiff in the trial against Marco Belpietro, who wrote a front-page news story in November 2015 titled "Islamic bastards" when he was editor of Italian newspaper Libero.    The story was in response to the terrorist attacks in Paris.    In the public prosecutor's indictment Belpietro is accused of having "publicly injured the Islam religion through contempt towards those who profess it".    The next hearing will be held June 5.

Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal, a Venezuelan Communist and Modernist, is carrying out Francis’s agenda. Understanding the adage that personnel is policy, Pope Francis has been planting Marxists throughout the Church, including at the top of the troubled religious order to which he belongs. In 2016, the Jesuits, with the blessing of Pope Francis, installed as its general superior a Venezuelan, Fr. Arturo Sosa Abascal, whose communist convictions have long been known. Sosa has written about the “Marxist mediation of the Christian Faith,” arguing that the Church should “understand the existence of Christians who simultaneously call themselves Marxists and commit themselves...

“As Venezuela burns, many Latin Americans ask: ‘Where is Pope Francis?’” The headline on a Catholic World Report essay by Samuel Gregg more or less speaks for itself. And Sando Magister of L’Espresso raised essentially the same question a week ago. The Catholic bishops of Venezuela have been relentless in their criticism of the government led by President Nicolas Maduro. That government has led the country into a disastrous economic collapse, characterized by raging hyperinflation and severe shortages of food and medicine. Then, rather than acceding to popular demands for new elections, the Maduro regime (through the president’s allies on...

Moscow, May 15, Interfax - The Russian Orthodox Church is optimistic about the progress of the dialogue between Russia and the United States on key international issues. "I saw that American leaders wanted to cooperate with Russia, to settle accumulated problems," head of the Synodal Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk said in his interview with Interfax-Religio on his return from Washington. During the visit the metropolitan participated in the World Summit of Christian Leaders in Defense of Persecuted Christians, met with US Vice President Michael Pence and the country's influential religious figures. Metropolitan Hilarion is going...

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♥MAY 15 MORNING ♥God shall wipe away all tears: ... there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, ... for the former things are passed away. ♥He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord GOD will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of His people shall He take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.♥Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine Everlasting Light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.♥The inhabitant shall not say,...

♥MAY 14 EVENING ♥They overcame ... by the blood of the Lamb. ♥Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died.♥It is the Blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.♥I am the LORD. The Blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the Blood, I will pass over you. ♥There is ... no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. ♥What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence...