Unreported news: Christian Persecution Abroad. We Can Help.

Christians around the world are persecuted by Muslims.  You can relieve their suffering by asking your congressman to stop foreign aid to these countries - until they stop their intolerance to other religions.  It's your money - on your conscience.  Let us all do something to help our brothers in Christ.

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Mary gave her Fiat to the angel that's why she had to take the donkey to Bethlehem.

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Song: Let It Be Done Unto Me by Danielle Rose


Video description:
This is a song from Danielle Rose's album titled "Mysteries" on which she wrote a song for every mystery of the holy Rosary. This is the song she wrote for the first joyful mystery, the Annunciation.

My comments:
Today we celebrate the Annunciation which is not only the announcement that God has chosen Mary to bear His Son but also the acceptance of Mary to go along with the program. And when she gave her fiat to the angel, she conceived Jesus while remaining a virgin.  This was done through the Holy Spirit and today God became incarnate, a man.  He is Emmanuel - "God with us".

(So, 9 months from now, we celebrate the birth of the Messiah on Christmas.)

Another tribute to the fairest woman of all:

Purity, Sixth Commandment, Mortal Sin and Hell

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Video description:  or more examples of mortal sin and why they are grave matter visithttp://www.saintaquinas.com/mortal_sin.html

Also remember when you are going to confession you must give all known mortal sins in kind and number to the best of your ability. If you knowingly and willingly fail to mention a mortal sin then your confession is a sacrilege, non of your sins are forgiven, and you must return to the sacrament to confess all of those sins and the sacrilege that you committed. This might sound like a lot of rules, but you have to realize what is actually happening. Christ desires a serious loving relationship with you. When you seriously offend a loved one you have to apologize to them for the things you have done wrong and amend not to do them again if it is going to be a true apology. If you would be specific when apologizing to your spouse, how much more does God deserve an authentic apology?

Bomb Explodes at Jerusalem Bus Stop

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More than two dozen people have been injured in a bomb explosion at a crowded bus stop in central Jerusalem. It appears to be the first militant attack in the city in several years.

Organizing to Oppose Mohammedanism

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On Hanging On To Life vs. Saving Money.

When my dad died, we found that he had Leukemia.  None of us knew - not even my youngest brother who visited him weekly.  Knowing how thifty he is, I suspect that he might have known - formally or informally and opted to let the disease take it's toll.  He might thought of sparing us the financial burden for his medical treatments.    At hindsight, I was thinking that if he languished on through chemo, then it may be troublesome but it would have brought out the best from us all.  I know that my other brother, the middle, loves him because he comes to join us whenever I set up a get together for my dad.  But when my dad died, he got into drugs and is now a biker.  So, when making end of life decisions, old people should consider that their worth goes beyond becoming a burden.  That burden may actually do good.

Stop foreign aid to countries that engage in religious persecution

Here in the US, we have the power to curb if not eliminate religious persecutions against Christians, Jews, Hindus from Muslim nations that receive foreign aid. Please email your Congressman and Senator to ensure that foreign aid is tied to a condition of respecting religious diversity. Thank you and God bless. Rick

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Video description: From Nigeria to Indonesia, Christians are under siege in virtually every single country in the Muslim world, the victims of countless acts of discrimination, depredation, brutality, and murder that are so widespread and systematic that it can rightfully be called the new Holocaust. This time, however, the perpetrators of this Holocaust aren't wearing swastikas, but kufi skull caps and hijabs.

Some of the oldest Christian communities in the world are subject to relentless attack and teeter on the brink of extinction at the hands of the "Religion of Peace": Palestinian Christians in Gaza and the West Bank; Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean Christians in Iraq; Coptic Christians in Egypt; Evangelical and Orthodox Christians in Eastern Ethiopia and Eritrea; Armenian Orthodox Christians in Turkey; and Maronite Christians in Lebanon.

Several of these communities date back to the beginning decades of Christianity and all have weathered wave after wave of Islamic persecution for centuries and more, but in the very near future some will simply cease to exist. In our lifetime, the only trace of their past existence will be in footnotes in history books (and probably only Western history books at that

Indonesia: Agence France Presse reported last month on an attack by the Islamic Anti-Apostate Movement, who stormed a church service in a Protestant church in the West Java town of Soreang. The AFP report notes that more than 30 churches have been forced to close in West Java and dozens more throughout the country in recent years due to Muslim violence, churches which were among the few spared during the outbreak of hostilities during 1997-1998, where hundreds of Christian churches were burned to the ground and never rebuilt.

Source and additional information:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/07/islams_global_war_against_chri.html

"Muslim Persecution of Christians" by Robert Spencer is available for download here:
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/021384.php