Egyptian Armed Forces Demolish Fences Guarding Coptic Monasteries video

Please pass this on to help the Christians who are facing increasing persecution as shown below.  Perhaps the Egyptians will be shamed by global opinion into respecting the human rights of their minorities - unless the cradel of civilization has decayed with the cult of Islam.

If video fails, click here or go to http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/02/video-of-egyptian-army-tearing-down.html 

Translation: The start of the attack on the monastery which was denied by the army


 H/T http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=30911


(AINA) -- Egyptian armed forces this week demolished fences surrounding ancient Coptic monasteries, leaving them vulnerable to attacks by armed Arabs, robbers and escaped prisoners, who have seized the opportunity of the state of diminished protection by the authorities in Egypt to carry out assaults and thefts.

"Three monasteries have been attacked by outlaws and have asked for protection from the armed forces, but were told to defend themselves." said activist Mark Ebeid. "When the terrified monks built fences to protect themselves, armed forces appeared only then with bulldozers to demolish the fences. It is worth noting that these monasteries are among the most ancient in Egypt, with valuable Coptic icons and manuscripts among others, which are of tremendous value to collectors."

On Sunday February 20, armed forced stormed the 4th century old monastery of St. Boula in the Red Sea area, assaulted three monks and then demolished a small fence supporting a gate leading to the fenceless monastery. "The idea of the erection of the gate was prompted after being attacked at midnight on February 13 by five prisoners who broke out from their prisons," said Father Botros Anba Boula, "and were armed with a pistol and batons. The monks ran after them but they fled to the surrounding mountains except for one who stumbled and was apprehended and held by the monks until the police picked him up three days later."
More from source: Assyrian International News Agency

Catechism on The Church's relationship with the Muslims - on believing the same God

The catechism teaches:

841 The Church's relationship with the Muslims. "The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind's judge on the last day."

To me, this is the old doctrine of baptism of desire, where a person no matter what faith, and is unable to know Jesus not because of his own fault, invincible ignorance, is also baptised by his sincere desire if he lives according to his conscience. 

The problem or heresy comes when some Church leaders raises this cult to the same level as Christianity by teaching or actions e.g. sharing Church buildings.  In my mind, that puts Jesus the Incarnate Son of God, Second Person of the Most Holy Trinity down to how Mohammed defined him as a minor prophet but just a man.  Adoring the heavenly Father just as one would worship Allah negates the truth that Jesus is the Way and the only way to bridge the gap between God and man.

Then there is the flipside i.e. how do Muslims see Christians?  I have 20 links on the side of my page that reports how a Christian or Jew being murdered by a Muslim because of his Christian or Jewish faith daily.  So, while we see them as worshipping the Heavenly Father as Allah, I doubt if they see Allah in the Heavenly Father, much less in the Triune God of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  In fact, their doctrinal text, the Q'uran, is quite explicit about the negations. 

"They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity: for there is no god except One Allah. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them," (Quran 5:73, Yusuf Ali).

"They surely disbelieve who say: Lo! Allah is the third of three; when there is no Allah save the One Allah. If they desist not from so saying a painful doom will fall on those of them who disbelieve," (Quran 5:73, Pickthal).
 
who say: Lo! Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary. Say: Who then can do aught against Allah, if He had willed to destroy the Messiah son of Mary, and his mother and everyone on earth? Allah's is the Sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and all that is between them. He createth what He will. And Allah is Able to do all things," (Quran 5:17, Pickthal).

"And the Jews say: Ezra is the son of Allah, and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah. That is their saying with their mouths. They imitate the saying of those who disbelieved of old. Allah (Himself) fighteth against them. How perverse are they!" (Quran 5:30, Pickthal)

Then again, it may not matter even if they indeed descended from Abraham by their faith; because, didn't the Lord say, "And do not think you can say to yourselves, 'We have Abraham as our father.' I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham."  Mathew 3:9


Source:  http://carm.org/catholic-catechisms-view-muslim-god-wrong

On the contrary, former Muslims hold that Allah is not the same as the Christian and Jewish God. Watch the video below.


If video fails, click here or go to http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/02/catechism-on-churchs-relationship-with.html

Christians asked to bow in submission to Allah

JERUSALEM – In what Egypt's Christians fear may be a sign of things to come, a senior Islamic cleric asked Christians to bow in Muslim prayer in an act of submission to Allah.

On Friday, famed Egyptian theologian Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a spiritual leader to the Muslim Brotherhood who hosts a popular Islam-themed television show on Al Jazeera, led the Islamicprayer servicesin Cairo's Tahrir Square, the epicenter of Egypt's uprising.

While he repeatedly offered nods to Egypt's Coptic Christians, unmentioned in most news media accounts of the ceremony was that Qaradawi asked all in attendance, specifically singling out Christians, to bow in Islamic prayer.  More from source  http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=266385

Stimulating lactation.

When the mother does not produce milk, you have other options besides buying formula. Formula is no match for mother’s milk because it does not have the anti-bodies, colostrums and natural proteins that will give your baby immunities and support the brain development better. It is the last resort, in my opinion.


There are pumps – manual and mechanical; however, I don’t think those were intended to stimulate production as much as to extract what is already there for whatever reason. It might be painful to have one’s breasts filled with milk.

The little secret or old wife’s tale that I wanted to share with you is the idea that you, the husband, can stimulate lactation. Note those key words to search for videos, images and articles later. You would need to latch on to the breast just as the infant would have done and suck the milk out with jaw and tongue movements. (I found graphics of this before but lost them. I’ll keep looking and update the post  later. But I wanted to get this idea out to start you off.) Also, you need to open your mouth to cover the dark area around the nipple – like doing a mouth to mouth resuscitation.

(If this post was useful, just a little prayer for my family and me. Thanks and God bless.)

Defending under aged girls from abuse by Planned Parenthood. An appeal from Lila Rose.

This video was to used to kick off the exposeplannedparenthood.com website launch in front of over 250 people at a congressional press conference on Capital Hill.  Planned Parenthood will try to frame this fight as "women's rights". But we must keep the pressure on them by sharing the truth. The way they take advantage of women is despicable. Please share this short montage of PP repeatedly failing to protect girls from abuse. Evil exposed in just 2 minutes. Post this link on your Facebook page. Make a personal stand for LIFE today!  If video fails, click here or go to  http://divine-ripples.blogspot.com/2011/02/defending-under-aged-girls-from-abuse.html

When tolerance is not Christian

by Chuck Asay

Islam Excuses Rape using "uncovered meat" Defense

Excerpt "... Most of the men in the survey admitted they have harassed women and most of them blamed it on women for dressing provocatively. What is worse is that the majority of women in the survey believe that women who dress immodestly deserve the harassment.  
.... Mohammed himself, who is viewed as the ideal example for men, in all his battles against non-Muslims allowed sexual enslavement of women captives. Such Islamic history lessons send the wrong message to Muslim men and influence how they view and relate to women and take away any feeling of guilt or shame.  


From birth, Muslim boys are excused and defended for misbehaving towards their sisters and women in general. The message is that uncovered women are to be loathed and disrespected. Muslim preachers often rush to blame women as having “asked for it” or being “uncovered meat”. Even in Australia, an Egyptian Muslim preacher, Sheik al-Hilali, used the “uncovered meat” excuse to defend Muslim men who raped Australian women wearing bikinis on the beach. These kind of religious teachings are the reason behind honor killing, female genital mutilation and abuse, all of which are designed to tame women and set an example to the rest of society..."    


More at source:  http://frontpagemag.com/2011/02/18/islams-uncovered-meat-excuse-for-sexual-assault/