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Orthodox churches burn on holiest day
SBS News ^ | 2 May 2016 | Staff

Posted on 05/02/2016 9:55:02 PM PDT by BlackVeil

Within 24 hours of the Orthodox Church celebrating Easter, three of its buildings around the world have gone up in flames.

Orthodox churches in Sydney, Melbourne and New York all caught fire, although there appears to be no link between the blazes.

In Sydney, the Macedonian Orthodox Church of the Resurrection was gutted following a fire that broke out about 10pm on Sunday.

Less than 12 hours after the end of the Easter service, the Rockdale church, parts of which have been standing since the 1890s, was destroyed. ...

(Excerpt) Read more at sbs.com.au ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; US: New York
KEYWORDS: churches; easter; fires; orthodoxchurches
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Very strange coincidence - if indeed it is merely a coincidence. I hope all the fires are fully investigated.
1 posted on 05/02/2016 9:55:02 PM PDT by BlackVeil
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To: BlackVeil

I’m not saying it’s moslems, but...

It’s moslems.


2 posted on 05/02/2016 9:57:40 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Canadians can't be President!)
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To: grey_whiskers

Ping to this story - an issue we were discussing.


3 posted on 05/02/2016 9:58:07 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: BlackVeil

There appeared to be no link...


4 posted on 05/02/2016 9:58:37 PM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: arthurus

I know that they state that - there is no link, nor anything suspicious about the fires. However ... one does wonder.


5 posted on 05/02/2016 9:59:52 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: BlackVeil

The chances these three old churches went up on the same day due to accidents are astronomical.

My patience is getting very very very very short.


6 posted on 05/02/2016 10:01:30 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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To: BlackVeil

Any relation to the Russian Orthodox Church? (I didn’t read the article, neyt, I mean yet.)


7 posted on 05/02/2016 10:01:44 PM PDT by Captainpaintball (Immigration without assimilation is the death of a nation -- FUJB!!!)
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To: BlackVeil

I doubt it is merely coincidence.


8 posted on 05/02/2016 10:04:45 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: arthurus

These are the same people that come on and tell us they dont know what motivated an attacker who screams allah akbar.

Same people,who lie and say they are unsure why a white kid gets beaten up or has the knockout gamr done on him by a gang of urban feral blacks, unsure its a hate crime or why he was targeted.


9 posted on 05/02/2016 10:07:10 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: BlackVeil

Sounds very unlikely to just be coinsidental.


10 posted on 05/02/2016 10:08:53 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Not only is the timing suspect, but these fires are very similar - massive blazes which take out the whole church.


11 posted on 05/02/2016 10:21:56 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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Orthodox Catholic church fires may be end time opening ceremony torches for God’s wrath.

RE: “Not only is the timing suspect, but these fires are very similar - massive blazes which take out the whole church.”


12 posted on 05/02/2016 11:01:05 PM PDT by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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To: MarchonDC09122009
Church on fire in Rockdale, a suburb of Sydney.
13 posted on 05/02/2016 11:17:03 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: MarchonDC09122009; Secret Agent Man
Church on fire in New York.
14 posted on 05/02/2016 11:18:17 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Islam is a war plan.


15 posted on 05/02/2016 11:19:22 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: DoughtyOne

I agree.

The fires, also, were exceptional. In Australia, several fire fighters in Rockdale were injured and taken to hospital - these were experienced staff, unable to cope with the ferocious blaze.

See the pics I have posted above. Startling.


16 posted on 05/02/2016 11:20:54 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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although there appears to be no link between the blazes." . . ."

Except for the fact they all burned within the same 24 hour period, were all Orthodox churches, Macedonian, Serbian, and Greek, (which is an interesting mix to me, at least). Wonder if those three have something more than being Orthodox in common in that geographic area at the moment ? Outspoken Patriarchs for example ?

Why don't the authorities just tell the truth and say they don't care enough to investigate and see if there's something linking the fires to one another ?

17 posted on 05/02/2016 11:50:22 PM PDT by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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Why don't the authorities just tell the truth ... ?

Because they don't know how?

In this case, there may be an answer which they don't want the public to discuss.

18 posted on 05/02/2016 11:58:32 PM PDT by BlackVeil ('The past is never dead. It's not even past.' William Faulkner)
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To: BlackVeil

The Russian Orthodox church is again the state church of russia. Nato is positioning thousands of troops on the border with Russia. The new world order wants to take over russia and do to them what they are doing to europe. They want to make us all slaves in all but name. Russia sees this clearly, They survived 70 years of Jewish inspired communism and won’t go back there again, ever. Russia has nukes, thousands of fallout shelters and we have Obama, the GOPe and the new world order. Get your fallout shelter now.


19 posted on 05/03/2016 1:32:11 AM PDT by x_plus_one (Lose with Cruz.)
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To: Paladin2

Reminds me of Glenn Beck’s little ditty, “It’s just a coincidence”.


20 posted on 05/03/2016 2:30:20 AM PDT by Does so (Vote for Hillary...Stay Home...==8-O)
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