JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T
MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE
MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Abbas: No peace without defining borders-In a televised address on final day of nine-month negotiations, Abbas lays out his conditions to continue talks-By AFP April 29, 2014, 4:16 pm 12-The Times of Israel
RAMALLAH — There can be no peace with Israel without first defining the borders of a future Palestinian state, president Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday.“Since the creation of Israel, nobody knows what the borders are. We are determined to know our borders and theirs; without that there will be no peace,” he said as Washington’s nine-month deadline for reaching a peace deal expired, leaving the process in tatters.In a televised address, Abbas laid out his conditions for returning to the crisis-hit peace talks with Israel which have made no progress since they were launched on July 29 last year.“If we want to extend the negotiations, there has to be a release of prisoners… a settlement freeze, and a discussion of maps and borders for three months.”The peace talks hit a major stumbling block in late March after Israel refused to comply with a commitment to release 26 veteran Palestinian prisoners, prompting Abbas to resume moves to seek international recognition.Abbas has repeatedly insisted that Israel release the two dozen detainees plus hundreds more and agree to a freeze on settlement activity.He has also demanded comprehensive talks on the issue of borders.
Israel pushes ahead with Palestinian sanctions-In light of Hamas-Fatah unity, sources say -Jerusalem will begin using taxes it collects on PA’s behalf to offset Ramallah’s debts-By Times of Israel staff April 29, 2014, 1:17 am 11-The Times of Israel
Israel has begun using tax money it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to pay off existing Palestinian debts, according to senior officials who spoke to Israeli media outlets Monday night.An unidentified Israeli official who spoke to Walla News said Jerusalem had embarked on the economic “punishing steps” that were agreed to by the cabinet following last week’s announcement of a reconciliation pact between Hamas and Fatah.He said the PA had been informed of the move, which he claimed was “only a first step.”A senior Palestinian official who spoke on condition of anonymity to Ynet Monday confirmed that Jerusalem had informed Ramallah over the weekend that the Israeli government would begin to use tax funds collected on behalf of the PA to offset debts owed by the PA to Israel at the end of the current month. The PA notably owes about 1 billion shekels ($285 million) to the Israel Electric Company.The government is now considering additional sanctions against the PA, including the revocation of VIP access documents for certain Palestinian officials. Such access passes allow the officials to travel relatively freely through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will be looking for alternative paths toward peace with the Palestinians, and insisted that he will not negotiate with any Palestinian government that is backed by Hamas.If a negotiated peace proves impossible because of the makeup of the Palestinian government, “then we will seek other ways,” Netanyahu told CNN. “I am not going to accept a stalemate. I won’t accept another Palestinian state that is an Iranian offshoot of Iran, firing missiles in our cities… But I do seek a two states for two peoples solution. If I can’t have it right away with this Palestinian government, then we will seek other ways.”The current round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which was set to expire Tuesday, was suspended by Jerusalem last Thursday after Hamas and Fatah agreed a day earlier to form a unity government within five weeks and hold subsequent elections.
Netanyahu cancels meeting on settlement construction-Officials say move is tied to maintaining stance that Palestinian Authority is responsible for talks stalemate-By Marissa Newman April 29, 2014, 5:29 pm 0-The Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon Tuesday to cancel a hearing on settlement construction scheduled for the following day.The directive coincided with the deadline for the US-mediated peace, amid concerns that should renewed construction be pushed forward, the blame for the collapse of the negotiations would be pinned on Israel, officials told Army Radio.“We are making great efforts to convince the world that [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] rejects peace, [and] embraces Hamas,” an unnamed official said. “This is a strong card, and it would be wrong to squander this [opportunity]. An announcement on construction now could shift public opinion against us in a second.”However, Avi Roeh, chairman of the Yesha Council, an umbrella movement of Jewish settlers, said he was not informed of the decision to push off the discussion indefinitely.“They didn’t tell us anything,” he told the radio station. Roeh claimed that with regard to such decisions, the West Bank council heads were kept in the dark “because no one includes us: not in the negotiations, and not in these discussions, and not in other discussions.”“I call on the prime minister to summon us and explain the process,” he said.The Civil Administration, tasked with overseeing the West Bank, declared 28,000 dunam (6,900 acres) in 40 strategic areas in the West Bank as state land last year, Haaretz reported Tuesday.The approvals were granted by the Blue Line task force, established by the Civil Administration in 1999 to reevaluate the demarcations of state land. During the 1980s, then-head of the administration Plia Albek designated nearly 1 million dunam (247,000 acres) as state land. The Blue Line task force is investigating all of the approvals granted then that were deemed hastily given and imprecise.The approvals pave the way for settlements to apply to build on the allotted plots. Many of them are adjacent to existing West Bank settlements, the largest of which is a 3,476-dunam (858 acres) bloc near Ariel. Other areas are close to the Green Line, which could prove a tactical measure to expand the contours of Israel.Of the recently approved lands, 22,058 dunams are within settlement parameters, and 3,700 include areas that have been developed illegally, but would now be recognized under Israeli law.However, while the reconsideration of state lands seemingly aids further construction, settlers have complained that the tedious process, under which all construction must first seek higher civil administration permissions, stymies construction.In a report published Tuesday morning, the left-wing watchdog Peace Now claimed that during the nine months of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s orchestrated negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli government approved tenders and plans for at least 13,851 apartments in the settlements and East Jerusalem.“This is an unprecedented number representing an average of 50 housing units per day, or 1,540 per month,” the group said.Jerusalem did not commit to freezing settlement construction during the negotiations when talks were announced nine months ago in July, though it has been a key Palestinian demand.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
With peace talks stalled, sides resort to old moves-Palestinians will now focus on winning international recognition; for Israel, it’s back to shunning the Palestinian leadership-By Ben Sales April 29, 2014, 6:44 am 2-The Times of Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Nine months of negotiations were supposed to propel Israelis and Palestinians into a future of peace. Instead, the collapse of talks is threatening to make the future look much like the past.Israel’s decision last week to suspend negotiations — a day after the signing of a reconciliation between the Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas — has prompted both sides to resort to their old ways.For the Palestinians, that means focusing on internal unity and a redoubled effort to win international recognition for statehood, particularly at the United Nations. For Israel, it’s a return to shunning the Palestinian political leadership.“If the Palestinian Authority persists with efforts to reunite with Hamas, that is not only a game changer,” Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, told JTA. “It is a game stopper.”After weeks in which they teetered on the brink of failure, peace negotiations finally stalled April 23 when Fatah agreed to form a unified Palestinian government with Hamas, the ruling power in Gaza considered a terrorist organization by the United States, Israel and the European Union.The two groups split after violent clashes in 2007. Three previous reconciliation deals — in 2007, 2011 and 2012 — have gone unimplemented.Israel responded to the reconciliation agreement as it had to earlier ones, declaring that it would not negotiate with Hamas and announcing economic sanctions against the Palestinian Authority. On April 24, Israel suspended the peace negotiations, five days before their initial nine-month term was set to expire.“Instead of choosing peace, Abu Mazen formed an alliance with a murderous terrorist organization that calls for the destruction of Israel,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, referring to Abbas by his nom de guerre. “Whoever chooses the terrorism of Hamas does not want peace.”Israel and the United States have called on Hamas to recognize Israel, commit to nonviolence and abide by previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements — three conditions that have guided negotiations for a decade. But on Sunday, Hamas officials vowed never to recognize Israel.Palestinian officials nevertheless moved to downplay the significance of the unity accord on the peace process, noting that an interim government set to be formed in the coming weeks would be made up of technocrats, not political figures aligned with Fatah or Hamas. Munib al-Masri, a Palestinian industrialist who served as a Fatah delegate to the reconciliation talks, told JTA that Abbas would continue to manage negotiations should they go on.
“All parties will abide by President Abbas regarding the political agenda,” al-Masri said. “The most important thing is to have one voice for the Palestinians.”Despite such hopes, Israel remains deeply wary of Hamas’ intentions. Naftali Bennett, chairman of the pro-settler Jewish Home party, said in a Facebook post that the PA has now become “the biggest terror group in the world” and vowed not to negotiate with murderers. Prior to the unity deal, Bennett had compared peace talks with Abbas to buying a car from someone who owns only half of it.With prospects for a peace accord receding, several Israeli politicians urged the government to respond by unilaterally settings its own borders. Bennett has encouraged Netanyahu to annex all areas of the West Bank that contain Jewish settlements. Oren argued that Israel should withdraw to a frontier it sets, creating a de facto Palestinian state.“What are the borders that give us the maximum amount of security and embrace the maximum number of Israelis?” Oren told JTA. “There are people on all sides of the Israeli political spectrum that have considered the necessity of taking our destiny into our own hands.”Al-Masri said that absent direct negotiations, Abbas will turn again to various UN bodies for recognition, as he did in 2012 when the General Assembly accepted Palestine as a non-member observer state. Israeli analysts said such diplomatic pressure will have little impact on the ground.“Their position in the UN doesn’t mean anything,” said Avraham Diskin, an emeritus professor of political science at Hebrew University. “Life is one thing and declarations are another.”Given the failure of previous attempts at Palestinian unity, experts are doubtful that the latest pact will succeed, not least because Hamas likely will not agree to hand over its weaponry and soldiers to Fatah control.“They’re talking about a technocracy so they won’t have to split the pie between them,” Mordechai Kedar, an expert on Islamist groups at Bar-Ilan University. “They can’t agree on anything.”Netanyahu thus far has not responded to calls for unilateral action, but the collapse of negotiations means his governing coalition will hold for the moment. Jewish Home had threatened to leave had Netanyahu agreed to withdraw from much of the West Bank.Meanwhile, analysts were not expecting another wave of violence. Palestinian security cooperation with Israel has helped curb Hamas’ influence in the West Bank, but it’s unclear whether such coordination will continue if Palestinian reconciliation becomes a reality.Oren told JTA it was difficult to see how the Israel Defense Forces could continue to cooperate with the Palestinian Authority once the PA unites with Hamas.“The cooperation is about fighting Hamas,” he said. “How can the IDF fight Hamas with Palestinian security forces who serve under a government that includes Hamas?”
Palestinian deal will not make Hamas change: veteran leader-By Crispian Balmer and Nidal al-Mughrabi 27 minutes ago-APR 29,14-YahooNews-Head of Hamas security services Abu Sharekh speaks with senior Hamas leader Al-Zahar during a graduation ceremony for members of Hamas security forces in Gaza City
GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian unity deal will not lead Islamist group Hamas to recognize Israel's right to exist and will not result in any Gaza militants coming under President Mahmoud Abbas's control, a senior Hamas official said on Tuesday.Veteran Hamas strategist Mahmoud Al-Zahar told Reuters the group, which runs the Gaza Strip, was waiting for Abbas to form a unity government, but said the Palestinian leader was taking his time in an effort to overcome U.S. and Israeli opposition.Hamas, which is viewed as a terrorist group by many Western capitals, unexpectedly agreed with Abbas last week to lay aside old animosities and create a transitional cabinet paving the way to long-overdue elections across the Palestinian Territories.The reconciliation accord angered Israel, which promptly suspended floundering peace talks with the Western-backed Abbas, saying it would not negotiate with any administration backed by Hamas.Zahar, who is one of Hamas's most influential voices, said Abbas only decided to seek unity because the U.S.-driven negotiations were leading nowhere, but predicted he would take his time trying to assemble a government of technocrats."He is trying to overcome a great wave of pressure. We are waiting," said Zahar, adding that Hamas had already handed across lists of names of possible ministers.Hamas's elder statesman, who has had spiky relations with the group's leadership, said Abbas was using the unity deal to put heat on Israel, but that he was also worried by a U.S. threat to suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in vital aid."He is seeking a guarantee that U.S. financial support will continue," Zahar said, speaking from his well-guarded house. Looking to reassure Western allies, Abbas said the new government would recognize Israel and honor previous treaties. Zahar dismissed this as a hollow gesture, saying the ministers would be academics with no political authority."Abbas is not telling them the truth. He says 'this is my government'. But it is not his government. It is a government of national unity. He is marketing it in this way to minimize the pressure," said Zahar, who took part in the unity negotiations.Hamas leaders have said in the past that the movement could live peacefully alongside Israel if it wins a state on all Palestinian land occupied by Israel in 1967, although the Islamist group's 1988 founding charter calls for the destruction of Israel and for recovering all mandate Palestine. But it continues to say it will not recognize Israel officially.
ARMED WING
The unity pact follows a trail of previous, failed efforts to overcome the deep schism that has traumatized Palestinian politics. Agreed in just a few hours, it sidestepped one of the most sensitive issues - who would be in charge of security.Hamas's armed wing has some 20,000 men in its ranks. Abbas has his own, Western-trained forces, that often cooperate with Israeli troops and police in the nearby West Bank - a practice that Zahar called "shameful".Zahar said Hamas would remain in charge of its own troops regardless of the latest deal and irrespective of who won national elections, that are slated for later this year."Nobody will touch the security sections in Gaza. No one will be able to touch one person from the military group. Nobody asked for that," he said, sitting next to a photograph of one of two sons who were killed in Israeli attacks.Hamas won the last legislative elections held in the Palestinian Territories in 2006 and then seized control of Gaza after ousting forces loyal to Abbas a year later.It appeared to be on the ascendance when fellow-Islamists were elected to office in neighboring Egypt, but its fortunes crumpled following last year's military coup in Cairo, with the new army-backed rulers launching a fierce crackdown on Hamas.Hundreds of smuggling tunnels connecting Gaza to Egypt were destroyed, compounding an Israeli blockade on the Palestinian enclave, that restricts movement of goods and people.Zahar said divisions in Egypt were a "catastrophe" for the region. He also acknowledged that once deep ties with Iran had not fully recovered after Hamas had refused to back Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his on-going civil war."We have a good relation (with Iran), but you know the impact of the Syrian problem is still a factor. ... The communication is not as it was," he said, declining to give details of Iranian funding for Hamas.Some political analysts said Hamas's international problems had spurred it towards reviving the reconciliation pact. But Zahar said Abbas, whose mandate expired five years ago, had made the overture because peace talks with Israel were at a dead end."He is very weak," said Zahar.Hamas has regularly clashed with Israel, fighting two major conflicts in 2008/09 and again in 2012. The last confrontation ended in a truce that resulted in months of relative quiet.Sporadic rocket fire out of Gaza and into Israel picked up at the start of the year, amid mutual recriminations over who was to blame for the truce deal fraying.However, Zahar said not all the missile attacks were sanctioned by Hamas, accusing some small groups of actively seeking to destabilize Gaza - including last week at the time the unity deal with Abbas was being concluded."Why when we signed the agreement did 20 dancing rockets go to Israel? It was not Hamas.... It was not done for Palestinian reasons. It was against Palestinian interests. Palestinian interests are to have this unity agreement," he said.(Editing by Angus MacSwan)
04/28/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-C8 becomes C9 and sets to work on Curia dossier-Francis with the "C8" in Assisi-The Pope and the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, have been present at the meetings held by the Council of Cardinals which has started looking into the situation of the Pontifical Councils-andrea tornielli
vatican city-The day after the canonization of the two Popes, Francis’ group of eight cardinal advisors held a meeting in St. Martha’s House and set to work on the reform of the Roman Curia. The group which is referred to as the C8, might as well be called the C9 given that the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, also took part in today’s two meetings. Pope Francis obviously wants him to be directly involved in the process of reorganizing the Holy See’s dicasteries. Francis has also attended all of the Council’s meetings as a listener: he and the Secretary of State absented themselves only to attend the audience with the King and Queen of Spain.The Council of Cardinals which Bergloglio established exactly one month after his election, has the task of assisting him in the government of the universal Church and looking into a project for the revision of the “Pastor Bonus” , the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia. During its morning and afternoon meetings, the Council began examining the situation and proposals for the reform of the Pontifical Councils. Each of the cardinals presented a summary of the material collected, to the other members of the group.Readers will recall that the issue of Curia reform had come to a halt in recent months because last February the Council of Cardinals focused their attention on the Vatican’s financial and economic affairs. The group made the proposal to establish the Secretariat of the Economy - the Vatican’s centralised “finance ministry” which oversees spending and personnel – its own. The proposal was presented by one of the commissions for reference. In February, the Council of Cardinals also addressed the issue of IOR reform after the commission of reference on the IOR presented its report.The Council’s meetings will go on until Wednesday evening. Another four-day session is expected to take place next July. This is when the cardinals will finish discussing their proposals. We will have to wait until then to find out which proposals will finally be presented to the Pope. So far, cardinals have discussed the possibility of merging some of the Pontifical Councils and introducing a new figure, the “moderator Curiae”, who would coordinate the work of the dicasteries. There is a strongly felt need to make sense of the numerous existing offices so as to cut the red tape and the Curia more efficient.The Pope’s Council of Cardinals is made up of the following eight members: Giuseppe Bertello (the only Italian and the only Curia member in the C8), Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (the group’s only emeritus member), Oswald Gracias, Reinhard Marx (recently nominated coordinator of the Council for the Economy made up of cardinals and lay financial experts), Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Sean Patrick O’Malley, George Pell (the former Archbishop of Sydney who was recently nominated “minister of the Economy”) and Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. Maradiaga is also the group’s coordinator, while Albano Marcello Semeraro holds the position of secretary.
04/28/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-Obama says new saints have changed the Church and the world-Barack Obama-Just 24 hours after the canonizations of John XXIII and John Paul II, the US President has issued a statement praising the two new saints-vatican insider staff
Rome-Emotions are still running high all over the world following the canonizations of Roncalli and Wojtyla: 24 hours after the canonization ceremony ended in the Vatican, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, issued a statement for the occasion, which reads: "Today, Michelle and I join Catholics from all over the world in celebrating the canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. Their work and their testimony did not just change the Catholic Church, but the whole world.”“Pope John XXIII articulated powerful roles for the Church in the cause of global peace and justice, and by convening the Second Vatican Council he revolutionized not only aspects of worship but the Catholic Church’s relationship with other faith communities,” President Obama said in hi statement.“Pope John Paul II helped inspire the Solidarity movement in Poland, a movement that spread and eventually helped to end communism in Eastern Europe, and he spoke out forcefully against apartheid in South Africa and genocide in Rwanda. He had a special rapport with young people, drawing many of them to the Church’s work and teachings,” the president added.The canonization of the two Popes also gave President Obama a chance to pick up on the recent meeting he had with Pope Francis in the Vatican: “We celebrate these Saints and the leadership of His Holiness Pope Francis, and we look forward to continuing to work with Pope Francis and Catholics around the world to advance peace and justice for all people.”
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04/27/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-The day of the four Popes is here and St. Peter’s Square is packed-CROWDS GATHER FOR THE DAY OF THE FOUR POPES=The “red zone” opened at 5:50 am. A million pilgrims are expected in the Vatican today. Pope Francis is concelebrating mass with Benedict XVI at 10 am-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city-The day of the double canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II is here. The mass Francis is going to be concelebrating with Benedict XVI begins at 10 am. The celebratory area opened to the public at 5:30. An hour later St. Peter’s Square was packed. One million people are expected to attend today’s ceremony.Pilgrims started queuing at the crack of dawn after the “white night of prayer” in churches across Rome, which opened especially for the occasion. Some pilgrims slept in sleeping bags. The “red zone”, the area around the Vatican that had been closed off to the public, remained out of bounds until 7 pm yesterday evening. Three passages on Via Conciliazione, Via Traspontina and Via San Pio X opened up at 5:30 this morning and the crowds were channeled into Via della Conciliazione. A line of young volunteers split pilgrims into groups to manage the influx of people. When St. Peter’s Square, Via della Conciliazione and the Castel Sant’Angelo gardens are full the plan is that the crowd will be diverted towards Via dei Fori Imperiali, Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, Piazza Farnese and Piazza Navona. Seventeen giant screens have been installed across the city.According to figures offered by the municipality of Rome, there will be “at least five hundred thousand and at most one million pilgrims present, including tourists.” Two billion people across the world will be watching today’s ceremony on live television and in cinemas. There are twenty six thousand volunteers, ten thousand policemen and women helping out in Rome. Rome’s underground was open through the night, hotels were booked out yesterday through to today and 4362 bus parking spots have been allocated for 216 thousand people. There are seventy seven ambulances on the ready.Today is also Divine Mercy Sunday, a feast introduced by John Paul II. 150 cardinals, 1000 bishops and 6000 priests will be assisting in the canonization ceremony which should end at around midday.
1 THESSALONIANS 5:3
3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
ISAIAH 33:8
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant,(7 YR TREATY) he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.(THE WORLD LEADER-WAR MONGER CALLS HIMSELF GOD)
JERUSALEM DIVIDED
GENESIS 25:20-26
20 And Isaac was forty years old (A BIBLE GENERATION NUMBER=1967 + 40=2007+) when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram, the sister to Laban the Syrian.
21 And Isaac intreated the LORD for his wife, because she was barren: and the LORD was intreated of him, and Rebekah his wife conceived.
22 And the children (2 NATIONS IN HER-ISRAEL-ARABS) struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, why am I thus? And she went to enquire of the LORD.
23 And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels;(ISRAEL AND THE ARABS) and the one people shall be stronger than the other people;(ISRAEL STRONGER THAN ARABS) and the elder shall serve the younger.(LITERALLY ISRAEL THE YOUNGER RULES (ISSAC)(JACOB-LATER NAME CHANGED TO ISRAEL) OVER THE OLDER ARABS (ISHMAEL)(ESAU)
24 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were twins in her womb.
25 And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.(THE OLDER AN ARAB)
26 And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau's heel; and his name was called Jacob:(THE YOUNGER-ISRAELI) and Isaac was threescore (60) years old when she bare them.(1967 + 60=2027)(COULD BE THE LAST GENERATION WHEN JERUSALEM IS DIVIDED AMOUNG THE 2 TWINS)(THE 2 TWINS WANT JERUSALEM-THE DIVISION OF JERUSALEM TODAY)(AND WHOS IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM TODAY-THE YOUNGER ISSAC-JACOB-ISRAEL)(AND WHO WANTS JERUSALEM DIVIDED-THE OLDER,ESAU-ISHMAEL (THE ARABS)
ISAIAH 28:14-19 (THIS IS THE 7 YR TREATY COVENANT OF DANIEL 9:27)
14 Wherefore hear the word of the LORD, ye scornful men, that rule this people which is in Jerusalem.
15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste.
17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.
18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
19 From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.
Abbas: No peace without defining borders-In a televised address on final day of nine-month negotiations, Abbas lays out his conditions to continue talks-By AFP April 29, 2014, 4:16 pm 12-The Times of Israel
RAMALLAH — There can be no peace with Israel without first defining the borders of a future Palestinian state, president Mahmoud Abbas said on Tuesday.“Since the creation of Israel, nobody knows what the borders are. We are determined to know our borders and theirs; without that there will be no peace,” he said as Washington’s nine-month deadline for reaching a peace deal expired, leaving the process in tatters.In a televised address, Abbas laid out his conditions for returning to the crisis-hit peace talks with Israel which have made no progress since they were launched on July 29 last year.“If we want to extend the negotiations, there has to be a release of prisoners… a settlement freeze, and a discussion of maps and borders for three months.”The peace talks hit a major stumbling block in late March after Israel refused to comply with a commitment to release 26 veteran Palestinian prisoners, prompting Abbas to resume moves to seek international recognition.Abbas has repeatedly insisted that Israel release the two dozen detainees plus hundreds more and agree to a freeze on settlement activity.He has also demanded comprehensive talks on the issue of borders.
Israel pushes ahead with Palestinian sanctions-In light of Hamas-Fatah unity, sources say -Jerusalem will begin using taxes it collects on PA’s behalf to offset Ramallah’s debts-By Times of Israel staff April 29, 2014, 1:17 am 11-The Times of Israel
Israel has begun using tax money it collects on behalf of the Palestinian Authority to pay off existing Palestinian debts, according to senior officials who spoke to Israeli media outlets Monday night.An unidentified Israeli official who spoke to Walla News said Jerusalem had embarked on the economic “punishing steps” that were agreed to by the cabinet following last week’s announcement of a reconciliation pact between Hamas and Fatah.He said the PA had been informed of the move, which he claimed was “only a first step.”A senior Palestinian official who spoke on condition of anonymity to Ynet Monday confirmed that Jerusalem had informed Ramallah over the weekend that the Israeli government would begin to use tax funds collected on behalf of the PA to offset debts owed by the PA to Israel at the end of the current month. The PA notably owes about 1 billion shekels ($285 million) to the Israel Electric Company.The government is now considering additional sanctions against the PA, including the revocation of VIP access documents for certain Palestinian officials. Such access passes allow the officials to travel relatively freely through Israel, the West Bank and Gaza.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will be looking for alternative paths toward peace with the Palestinians, and insisted that he will not negotiate with any Palestinian government that is backed by Hamas.If a negotiated peace proves impossible because of the makeup of the Palestinian government, “then we will seek other ways,” Netanyahu told CNN. “I am not going to accept a stalemate. I won’t accept another Palestinian state that is an Iranian offshoot of Iran, firing missiles in our cities… But I do seek a two states for two peoples solution. If I can’t have it right away with this Palestinian government, then we will seek other ways.”The current round of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, which was set to expire Tuesday, was suspended by Jerusalem last Thursday after Hamas and Fatah agreed a day earlier to form a unity government within five weeks and hold subsequent elections.
Netanyahu cancels meeting on settlement construction-Officials say move is tied to maintaining stance that Palestinian Authority is responsible for talks stalemate-By Marissa Newman April 29, 2014, 5:29 pm 0-The Times of Israel
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon Tuesday to cancel a hearing on settlement construction scheduled for the following day.The directive coincided with the deadline for the US-mediated peace, amid concerns that should renewed construction be pushed forward, the blame for the collapse of the negotiations would be pinned on Israel, officials told Army Radio.“We are making great efforts to convince the world that [PA President Mahmoud Abbas] rejects peace, [and] embraces Hamas,” an unnamed official said. “This is a strong card, and it would be wrong to squander this [opportunity]. An announcement on construction now could shift public opinion against us in a second.”However, Avi Roeh, chairman of the Yesha Council, an umbrella movement of Jewish settlers, said he was not informed of the decision to push off the discussion indefinitely.“They didn’t tell us anything,” he told the radio station. Roeh claimed that with regard to such decisions, the West Bank council heads were kept in the dark “because no one includes us: not in the negotiations, and not in these discussions, and not in other discussions.”“I call on the prime minister to summon us and explain the process,” he said.The Civil Administration, tasked with overseeing the West Bank, declared 28,000 dunam (6,900 acres) in 40 strategic areas in the West Bank as state land last year, Haaretz reported Tuesday.The approvals were granted by the Blue Line task force, established by the Civil Administration in 1999 to reevaluate the demarcations of state land. During the 1980s, then-head of the administration Plia Albek designated nearly 1 million dunam (247,000 acres) as state land. The Blue Line task force is investigating all of the approvals granted then that were deemed hastily given and imprecise.The approvals pave the way for settlements to apply to build on the allotted plots. Many of them are adjacent to existing West Bank settlements, the largest of which is a 3,476-dunam (858 acres) bloc near Ariel. Other areas are close to the Green Line, which could prove a tactical measure to expand the contours of Israel.Of the recently approved lands, 22,058 dunams are within settlement parameters, and 3,700 include areas that have been developed illegally, but would now be recognized under Israeli law.However, while the reconsideration of state lands seemingly aids further construction, settlers have complained that the tedious process, under which all construction must first seek higher civil administration permissions, stymies construction.In a report published Tuesday morning, the left-wing watchdog Peace Now claimed that during the nine months of US Secretary of State John Kerry’s orchestrated negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli government approved tenders and plans for at least 13,851 apartments in the settlements and East Jerusalem.“This is an unprecedented number representing an average of 50 housing units per day, or 1,540 per month,” the group said.Jerusalem did not commit to freezing settlement construction during the negotiations when talks were announced nine months ago in July, though it has been a key Palestinian demand.Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
With peace talks stalled, sides resort to old moves-Palestinians will now focus on winning international recognition; for Israel, it’s back to shunning the Palestinian leadership-By Ben Sales April 29, 2014, 6:44 am 2-The Times of Israel
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Nine months of negotiations were supposed to propel Israelis and Palestinians into a future of peace. Instead, the collapse of talks is threatening to make the future look much like the past.Israel’s decision last week to suspend negotiations — a day after the signing of a reconciliation between the Fatah faction of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas — has prompted both sides to resort to their old ways.For the Palestinians, that means focusing on internal unity and a redoubled effort to win international recognition for statehood, particularly at the United Nations. For Israel, it’s a return to shunning the Palestinian political leadership.“If the Palestinian Authority persists with efforts to reunite with Hamas, that is not only a game changer,” Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States, told JTA. “It is a game stopper.”After weeks in which they teetered on the brink of failure, peace negotiations finally stalled April 23 when Fatah agreed to form a unified Palestinian government with Hamas, the ruling power in Gaza considered a terrorist organization by the United States, Israel and the European Union.The two groups split after violent clashes in 2007. Three previous reconciliation deals — in 2007, 2011 and 2012 — have gone unimplemented.Israel responded to the reconciliation agreement as it had to earlier ones, declaring that it would not negotiate with Hamas and announcing economic sanctions against the Palestinian Authority. On April 24, Israel suspended the peace negotiations, five days before their initial nine-month term was set to expire.“Instead of choosing peace, Abu Mazen formed an alliance with a murderous terrorist organization that calls for the destruction of Israel,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, referring to Abbas by his nom de guerre. “Whoever chooses the terrorism of Hamas does not want peace.”Israel and the United States have called on Hamas to recognize Israel, commit to nonviolence and abide by previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements — three conditions that have guided negotiations for a decade. But on Sunday, Hamas officials vowed never to recognize Israel.Palestinian officials nevertheless moved to downplay the significance of the unity accord on the peace process, noting that an interim government set to be formed in the coming weeks would be made up of technocrats, not political figures aligned with Fatah or Hamas. Munib al-Masri, a Palestinian industrialist who served as a Fatah delegate to the reconciliation talks, told JTA that Abbas would continue to manage negotiations should they go on.
“All parties will abide by President Abbas regarding the political agenda,” al-Masri said. “The most important thing is to have one voice for the Palestinians.”Despite such hopes, Israel remains deeply wary of Hamas’ intentions. Naftali Bennett, chairman of the pro-settler Jewish Home party, said in a Facebook post that the PA has now become “the biggest terror group in the world” and vowed not to negotiate with murderers. Prior to the unity deal, Bennett had compared peace talks with Abbas to buying a car from someone who owns only half of it.With prospects for a peace accord receding, several Israeli politicians urged the government to respond by unilaterally settings its own borders. Bennett has encouraged Netanyahu to annex all areas of the West Bank that contain Jewish settlements. Oren argued that Israel should withdraw to a frontier it sets, creating a de facto Palestinian state.“What are the borders that give us the maximum amount of security and embrace the maximum number of Israelis?” Oren told JTA. “There are people on all sides of the Israeli political spectrum that have considered the necessity of taking our destiny into our own hands.”Al-Masri said that absent direct negotiations, Abbas will turn again to various UN bodies for recognition, as he did in 2012 when the General Assembly accepted Palestine as a non-member observer state. Israeli analysts said such diplomatic pressure will have little impact on the ground.“Their position in the UN doesn’t mean anything,” said Avraham Diskin, an emeritus professor of political science at Hebrew University. “Life is one thing and declarations are another.”Given the failure of previous attempts at Palestinian unity, experts are doubtful that the latest pact will succeed, not least because Hamas likely will not agree to hand over its weaponry and soldiers to Fatah control.“They’re talking about a technocracy so they won’t have to split the pie between them,” Mordechai Kedar, an expert on Islamist groups at Bar-Ilan University. “They can’t agree on anything.”Netanyahu thus far has not responded to calls for unilateral action, but the collapse of negotiations means his governing coalition will hold for the moment. Jewish Home had threatened to leave had Netanyahu agreed to withdraw from much of the West Bank.Meanwhile, analysts were not expecting another wave of violence. Palestinian security cooperation with Israel has helped curb Hamas’ influence in the West Bank, but it’s unclear whether such coordination will continue if Palestinian reconciliation becomes a reality.Oren told JTA it was difficult to see how the Israel Defense Forces could continue to cooperate with the Palestinian Authority once the PA unites with Hamas.“The cooperation is about fighting Hamas,” he said. “How can the IDF fight Hamas with Palestinian security forces who serve under a government that includes Hamas?”
Palestinian deal will not make Hamas change: veteran leader-By Crispian Balmer and Nidal al-Mughrabi 27 minutes ago-APR 29,14-YahooNews-Head of Hamas security services Abu Sharekh speaks with senior Hamas leader Al-Zahar during a graduation ceremony for members of Hamas security forces in Gaza City
GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian unity deal will not lead Islamist group Hamas to recognize Israel's right to exist and will not result in any Gaza militants coming under President Mahmoud Abbas's control, a senior Hamas official said on Tuesday.Veteran Hamas strategist Mahmoud Al-Zahar told Reuters the group, which runs the Gaza Strip, was waiting for Abbas to form a unity government, but said the Palestinian leader was taking his time in an effort to overcome U.S. and Israeli opposition.Hamas, which is viewed as a terrorist group by many Western capitals, unexpectedly agreed with Abbas last week to lay aside old animosities and create a transitional cabinet paving the way to long-overdue elections across the Palestinian Territories.The reconciliation accord angered Israel, which promptly suspended floundering peace talks with the Western-backed Abbas, saying it would not negotiate with any administration backed by Hamas.Zahar, who is one of Hamas's most influential voices, said Abbas only decided to seek unity because the U.S.-driven negotiations were leading nowhere, but predicted he would take his time trying to assemble a government of technocrats."He is trying to overcome a great wave of pressure. We are waiting," said Zahar, adding that Hamas had already handed across lists of names of possible ministers.Hamas's elder statesman, who has had spiky relations with the group's leadership, said Abbas was using the unity deal to put heat on Israel, but that he was also worried by a U.S. threat to suspend hundreds of millions of dollars in vital aid."He is seeking a guarantee that U.S. financial support will continue," Zahar said, speaking from his well-guarded house. Looking to reassure Western allies, Abbas said the new government would recognize Israel and honor previous treaties. Zahar dismissed this as a hollow gesture, saying the ministers would be academics with no political authority."Abbas is not telling them the truth. He says 'this is my government'. But it is not his government. It is a government of national unity. He is marketing it in this way to minimize the pressure," said Zahar, who took part in the unity negotiations.Hamas leaders have said in the past that the movement could live peacefully alongside Israel if it wins a state on all Palestinian land occupied by Israel in 1967, although the Islamist group's 1988 founding charter calls for the destruction of Israel and for recovering all mandate Palestine. But it continues to say it will not recognize Israel officially.
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The unity pact follows a trail of previous, failed efforts to overcome the deep schism that has traumatized Palestinian politics. Agreed in just a few hours, it sidestepped one of the most sensitive issues - who would be in charge of security.Hamas's armed wing has some 20,000 men in its ranks. Abbas has his own, Western-trained forces, that often cooperate with Israeli troops and police in the nearby West Bank - a practice that Zahar called "shameful".Zahar said Hamas would remain in charge of its own troops regardless of the latest deal and irrespective of who won national elections, that are slated for later this year."Nobody will touch the security sections in Gaza. No one will be able to touch one person from the military group. Nobody asked for that," he said, sitting next to a photograph of one of two sons who were killed in Israeli attacks.Hamas won the last legislative elections held in the Palestinian Territories in 2006 and then seized control of Gaza after ousting forces loyal to Abbas a year later.It appeared to be on the ascendance when fellow-Islamists were elected to office in neighboring Egypt, but its fortunes crumpled following last year's military coup in Cairo, with the new army-backed rulers launching a fierce crackdown on Hamas.Hundreds of smuggling tunnels connecting Gaza to Egypt were destroyed, compounding an Israeli blockade on the Palestinian enclave, that restricts movement of goods and people.Zahar said divisions in Egypt were a "catastrophe" for the region. He also acknowledged that once deep ties with Iran had not fully recovered after Hamas had refused to back Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his on-going civil war."We have a good relation (with Iran), but you know the impact of the Syrian problem is still a factor. ... The communication is not as it was," he said, declining to give details of Iranian funding for Hamas.Some political analysts said Hamas's international problems had spurred it towards reviving the reconciliation pact. But Zahar said Abbas, whose mandate expired five years ago, had made the overture because peace talks with Israel were at a dead end."He is very weak," said Zahar.Hamas has regularly clashed with Israel, fighting two major conflicts in 2008/09 and again in 2012. The last confrontation ended in a truce that resulted in months of relative quiet.Sporadic rocket fire out of Gaza and into Israel picked up at the start of the year, amid mutual recriminations over who was to blame for the truce deal fraying.However, Zahar said not all the missile attacks were sanctioned by Hamas, accusing some small groups of actively seeking to destabilize Gaza - including last week at the time the unity deal with Abbas was being concluded."Why when we signed the agreement did 20 dancing rockets go to Israel? It was not Hamas.... It was not done for Palestinian reasons. It was against Palestinian interests. Palestinian interests are to have this unity agreement," he said.(Editing by Angus MacSwan)
04/28/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-C8 becomes C9 and sets to work on Curia dossier-Francis with the "C8" in Assisi-The Pope and the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, have been present at the meetings held by the Council of Cardinals which has started looking into the situation of the Pontifical Councils-andrea tornielli
vatican city-The day after the canonization of the two Popes, Francis’ group of eight cardinal advisors held a meeting in St. Martha’s House and set to work on the reform of the Roman Curia. The group which is referred to as the C8, might as well be called the C9 given that the Vatican Secretary of State, Pietro Parolin, also took part in today’s two meetings. Pope Francis obviously wants him to be directly involved in the process of reorganizing the Holy See’s dicasteries. Francis has also attended all of the Council’s meetings as a listener: he and the Secretary of State absented themselves only to attend the audience with the King and Queen of Spain.The Council of Cardinals which Bergloglio established exactly one month after his election, has the task of assisting him in the government of the universal Church and looking into a project for the revision of the “Pastor Bonus” , the Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia. During its morning and afternoon meetings, the Council began examining the situation and proposals for the reform of the Pontifical Councils. Each of the cardinals presented a summary of the material collected, to the other members of the group.Readers will recall that the issue of Curia reform had come to a halt in recent months because last February the Council of Cardinals focused their attention on the Vatican’s financial and economic affairs. The group made the proposal to establish the Secretariat of the Economy - the Vatican’s centralised “finance ministry” which oversees spending and personnel – its own. The proposal was presented by one of the commissions for reference. In February, the Council of Cardinals also addressed the issue of IOR reform after the commission of reference on the IOR presented its report.The Council’s meetings will go on until Wednesday evening. Another four-day session is expected to take place next July. This is when the cardinals will finish discussing their proposals. We will have to wait until then to find out which proposals will finally be presented to the Pope. So far, cardinals have discussed the possibility of merging some of the Pontifical Councils and introducing a new figure, the “moderator Curiae”, who would coordinate the work of the dicasteries. There is a strongly felt need to make sense of the numerous existing offices so as to cut the red tape and the Curia more efficient.The Pope’s Council of Cardinals is made up of the following eight members: Giuseppe Bertello (the only Italian and the only Curia member in the C8), Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa (the group’s only emeritus member), Oswald Gracias, Reinhard Marx (recently nominated coordinator of the Council for the Economy made up of cardinals and lay financial experts), Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya, Sean Patrick O’Malley, George Pell (the former Archbishop of Sydney who was recently nominated “minister of the Economy”) and Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. Maradiaga is also the group’s coordinator, while Albano Marcello Semeraro holds the position of secretary.
04/28/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-Obama says new saints have changed the Church and the world-Barack Obama-Just 24 hours after the canonizations of John XXIII and John Paul II, the US President has issued a statement praising the two new saints-vatican insider staff
Rome-Emotions are still running high all over the world following the canonizations of Roncalli and Wojtyla: 24 hours after the canonization ceremony ended in the Vatican, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, issued a statement for the occasion, which reads: "Today, Michelle and I join Catholics from all over the world in celebrating the canonization of Pope John XXIII and Pope John Paul II. Their work and their testimony did not just change the Catholic Church, but the whole world.”“Pope John XXIII articulated powerful roles for the Church in the cause of global peace and justice, and by convening the Second Vatican Council he revolutionized not only aspects of worship but the Catholic Church’s relationship with other faith communities,” President Obama said in hi statement.“Pope John Paul II helped inspire the Solidarity movement in Poland, a movement that spread and eventually helped to end communism in Eastern Europe, and he spoke out forcefully against apartheid in South Africa and genocide in Rwanda. He had a special rapport with young people, drawing many of them to the Church’s work and teachings,” the president added.The canonization of the two Popes also gave President Obama a chance to pick up on the recent meeting he had with Pope Francis in the Vatican: “We celebrate these Saints and the leadership of His Holiness Pope Francis, and we look forward to continuing to work with Pope Francis and Catholics around the world to advance peace and justice for all people.”
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04/27/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-The day of the four Popes is here and St. Peter’s Square is packed-CROWDS GATHER FOR THE DAY OF THE FOUR POPES=The “red zone” opened at 5:50 am. A million pilgrims are expected in the Vatican today. Pope Francis is concelebrating mass with Benedict XVI at 10 am-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
vatican city-The day of the double canonization of John XXIII and John Paul II is here. The mass Francis is going to be concelebrating with Benedict XVI begins at 10 am. The celebratory area opened to the public at 5:30. An hour later St. Peter’s Square was packed. One million people are expected to attend today’s ceremony.Pilgrims started queuing at the crack of dawn after the “white night of prayer” in churches across Rome, which opened especially for the occasion. Some pilgrims slept in sleeping bags. The “red zone”, the area around the Vatican that had been closed off to the public, remained out of bounds until 7 pm yesterday evening. Three passages on Via Conciliazione, Via Traspontina and Via San Pio X opened up at 5:30 this morning and the crowds were channeled into Via della Conciliazione. A line of young volunteers split pilgrims into groups to manage the influx of people. When St. Peter’s Square, Via della Conciliazione and the Castel Sant’Angelo gardens are full the plan is that the crowd will be diverted towards Via dei Fori Imperiali, Piazza Santa Maria Maggiore, Piazza Farnese and Piazza Navona. Seventeen giant screens have been installed across the city.According to figures offered by the municipality of Rome, there will be “at least five hundred thousand and at most one million pilgrims present, including tourists.” Two billion people across the world will be watching today’s ceremony on live television and in cinemas. There are twenty six thousand volunteers, ten thousand policemen and women helping out in Rome. Rome’s underground was open through the night, hotels were booked out yesterday through to today and 4362 bus parking spots have been allocated for 216 thousand people. There are seventy seven ambulances on the ready.Today is also Divine Mercy Sunday, a feast introduced by John Paul II. 150 cardinals, 1000 bishops and 6000 priests will be assisting in the canonization ceremony which should end at around midday.
