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If You Voted to Release Terrorists - We Don't Want to See You'-Bereaved daughter advises ministers who voted to release terrorists not to show up at memorial ceremonies.-By Shimon Cohen and Elad Benari-First Publish: 5/5/2014, 12:16 AM-IsraelNationalNews
Meirav Osher, whose father Avi Osher was murdered by an Arab terrorist in 1991, on Sunday called on Cabinet ministers who supported the release of terrorists as a “gesture” to the Palestinian Authority (PA) not to come to ceremonies on Memorial Day.Osher’s murderer, Sharif Abu-Dahila, was released this past October as part of the third batch of terrorists Israel had agreed to release during peace talks with the PA."This Memorial Day is different from past ones,” Meirav Osher told Arutz Sheva. “The Government of Israel betrayed its people and released murderers for a piece of paper containing some falsehood. Bodies of terrorists were returned without the victims’ families being informed about it in advance. They released the vile murderer of my father and it’s a tough feeling. We do not forgive nor forget the ministers who voted in favor, the Prime Minister and anyone else who supported this release.”Avi Osher, 40 at the time of his death, had managed the date grove at Moshav Masua. Abu-Dahila, who had worked for Osher for years, stabbed him to death and hid his body in a vineyard.“My father was a lovely man, he was good to the Arab employees, viewed them as human beings just like him, and the terrorist took advantage of my father’s kindness and his fair treatment of him,” said Meirav Osher. “He took a machete and took advantage of a day when other workers were off to murder him. Then he went back to the packing house, drank coffee, stole my father’s M-16 and hid for a year before being caught.”She expressed anger not only at those Cabinet ministers who voted in favor of the terrorist releases, but also at those who voted against but failed to resign after the releases were approved.“They should have said ‘enough is enough’ because people are still being murdered, but they didn’t,” said Osher."From a moral point of view, I would advise the ministers who voted in favor of [releasing terrorists] not to come to the cemeteries [for the memorial ceremonies],” she continued. “They have no right to be there. You freed the murderers and we do not want to hear or see you. Leave us alone because you betrayed us and we are now walking around with terrible feelings. Do not come to the cemeteries. You aren’t wanted there.”
Abbas and Mashaal to Meet in Qatar-Hamas and Fatah continue to hold talks on the implementation of the unity pact signed between the sides recently.-By Dalit Halevi-First Publish: 5/5/2014, 1:16 AM-IsraelNationalNews
Hamas and Fatah are continuing to hold talks ahead of the planned elections, as stipulated in the unity pact signed between the sides recently.Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Fatah movement, is scheduled to travel to Qatar later this week, where he will meet with the head of Hamas’s politburo, Khaled Mashaal, and discuss the implementation of the unity pact.Meanwhile, Azzam Al-Ahmad, a member of the Fatah Central Committee who has been placed in charge of the reconciliation efforts, is to arrive this week in Gaza where he will hold talks with Hamas on the planned unity government.As part of the Hamas-Fatah deal, Abbas will issue a "presidential decree" announcing the dates for elections, which PA officials said would likely take place within the next six months. The PA’s Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has already offered to step down to pave the way for a unity government.The unity government is supposed to be made up of independent figures, but a senior Hamas figure said this week that the group’s leadership decided to submit a candidate for the presidency.Late Saturday, Hamas’s deputy leader, Mussa Abu Marzuq, declared that Hamas will never recognize Israel and will not accept the conditions laid out by the Middle East peacemaking Quartet. These remarks are contrary to ones made by Abbas last week, when he said that the new government will "obey my policy," and would "recognize Israel and reject violence and terrorism, and recognize international commitments.”Israel reacted to the Hamas-Fatah deal by pulling out of the peace talks with the PA and imposing sanctions on it.Last week, U.S. Senators Mark Kirk and Marco Rubio called on Secretary of State John Kerry to publicly state that there will be an immediate cut-off of relevant assistance to the PA, should its new unity government fail to comply with the detailed requirements set forth by the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006.
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
AMOS 1:5
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
KNOWLEGE AND WORLD TRAVEL (IMMIGRATION) INCREASED
DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION FROM FLEEING WARS) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS MICROCHIPS ETC)
Zaatari: birth of a new city in EU neighbourhood
03.05.14 @ 11:06-By Andrew Rettman-EUOBSERVER
ZAATARI - “Welcome to my neighbourhood: District 5, Street 18,” says Nour, a Syrian school teacher, as she leads EUobserver to her home: a metal container and a tent in the Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian desert.She is doing well.Her husband has a job in a fruit and vegetable shop on the “Champs-Elysees” - the UN’s humorous name for the camp’s main street.They have saved up for a washing machine, a fan, and a TV. Two of their four children go to school and Nour finds time to read her favourite writer, Syrian love poet Nizar Qabbani.In February last year, things were different.The family fled their village, near Daraa in southern Syria, when government snipers started shooting people from the tops of tall buildings. The Free Syrian Army (FSA), a rebel group, drove them through the countryside in a three-day trip to the border, where they walked for one hour before Jordanian guards took them to a UN registration point.“It was very cold, especially at night. We had to hide from government helicopters. The children were very frightened and they were crying all the way,” Nour said.Zaatari has also come a long way in the past 14 months.Kilian Kleinschmidt, the UN “mayor” in charge, told this website that for the first year after it opened in mid-2012 it was “a storage facility for human beings” with tents on naked sand.“The situation was tense. There was lots of violence. We had more than 100 violent demonstrations - stone throwing at our base camp and injured staff every month.”Heinke Veit, an official at the EU embassy in Amman, which has spent more than €50 million on aid in the past two years, noted: “People came from green fields in Syria to this dust bowl. They felt like they had landed on Mars.”Today, Zaatari is home to 100,000 Syrians from the Sunni Muslim majority which opposes President Bashar Assad’s Alawite Muslim government. It is the second largest refugee camp in the world after Dadaab in Kenya and what Kleinschmidt calls the fourth largest “city” in Jordan.It has six schools, four hospitals, and several kindergartens, playgrounds, and mosques, donated by Bahrain, Italy, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the US.The Champs-Elysees area hosts 4,000 small businesses. There are mini-supermarkets with trolleys, karate clubs, wedding-dress hire, pet shops, and travel agencies. Kleinschmidt estimates that €10 million a month changes hands in the camp’s “GDP.”People have moved around to create neighbourhoods of extended families. In some places, they have poured concrete between containers, built fountains and hung cages with song birds in imitation of their former life.They live on UN coupons which they exchange for food and other essentials.But many of them sneak back and forth past the Jordanian gendarmes and Bedouin guards who patrol the perimeter to work on the black in local villages.There is far less unrest, but there is crime - mafias control the market, and Jordanian farms alongside roads to the camp are littered with white tarpaulins bearing blue UN logos, which cost the UN $500 to supply, but which are sold for as little as 10 Jordanian Dinars ($14 or €10) on the outside.“Call it organised crime or disorganised crime: Everything that can be stolen is stolen," Kleinschmidt noted.“Professionals, those who have money, find ways to leave the camp and make arrangements for themselves in Amman. Those who are left are mostly former traders or border smugglers … They are incredibly active people,” he added.The criminality extends to arranged marriages.In Syria, the minimum legal age for girls to wed is 14, and some Zaatari fathers sell young daughters to men in Jordan, where the legal age is 18 and where Muslims can have up to four wives, in snap ceremonies officiated by Zaatari clerics.The UN and Jordan do not like to talk about it and initiatives to control the practice have reduced the numbers. But Carlos Gallegos, another EU official in Amman, said: “It’s a big issue for us.”Khaled, a Jordanian policeman from a nearby town, told EUobserver about a marriage which took place in March.He said: “A man and his wife went to Zaatari to buy UN food from the refugees. The man said: ‘I will stay and guard the car.’ While his wife was gone, they came and made him a proposal. He married a girl right there and then. His wife came back with bags. ‘Who’s this?’ she asked. ‘She is a poor refugee. We’ll drive her so that she can join her family in Jordan. It’s on our way home,’ he said. They drive. They drive. ‘Where is she is getting off?’ the wife asked. ‘Soon.' They drive again. ‘Is it near?’ the wife asked. ‘It’s near.' They get home. ‘So where does she live?’ the wife asked. ‘She lives with us now. She is my wife number one and if you don’t like it, you can go to hell.' So what can his old wife do? She is no longer attractive. No one else wants her. So she accepts it. It's true. It's true. And I know many cases like this.”
Small part
The camp is a small part of the Syrian civil war.The UN has registered 2.7 million refugees in Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Turkey since it began in 2011. It says more than 6 million have fled their homes but are still in Syria.It stopped counting the dead at 100,000 for lack of data.One official from the EU embassy in Amman drives to Damascus and back each month under Assad’s protection to appeal for more access. But the embassy’s Veit said Syria remains closed. “How much do we know about the death toll? How many people have really been displaced? We work on estimates,” she noted.There are five camps in Jordan and a sixth one, to house 130,000 people, is being built.Jordan’s top interior ministry official in charge of refugees, Saleh Kilani, told this website he has more than 600,000 registered persons, and up to 1.3 million Syrians in total trapped in his country.There are signs that Jordan's patience is wearing thin.Most refugees used to come via crossing points in north-west Jordan near the roads from Daraa. But the flow recently dropped to as few as 500 a month, mainly via the harsh deserts in the north-east, where Jordan borders Iraq and Syria and where people’s journeys can last weeks.Kilani told this website that his “[north-eastern] borders are not closed” and that the change is “because of the situation on the other side [in Syria].”But the UN and the EU suspect Jordanian guards in the north-east are pushing people back. “This is an issue that we are constantly trying to raise - that people who need protection should be able to cross wherever they are,” the EU’s Gallegos said.Meanwhile, back in Zaatari, Dima’s daily routine goes on.She wakes at 5am, prays, and goes to get bread for breakfast. She takes her two older daughters to school, where some classes have 150 students, but keeps her youngest daughter and her son at home.“I don’t let the children play outside our caravan because I am frightened for them to learn something bad … my son is an only boy, he has no brother to protect him, and there are too many bad boys here,” she says. She does housework. She cooks in the communal kitchens. The children go to bed at 9pm. She sleeps at 11pm. She does not go out in the evening because it is considered indecent for Muslim women to walk alone after dark.Despite the semblance of normality, the war is near.The camp is 12km from the Syrian border and people hear bombs and artillery shells on the other side. “When we hear the explosions, we remember everything: how we had to hide, the crying,” Nour said.It is not her real name. Few adults in Zaatari want to be named in press reports or photographed because they have relatives in Syria and they fear that if Syrian authorities identify them they will come to harm.One new family, which arrived the day EUobserver visited the camp, hid in an iron shack at the gate.The man said through an intermediary that he, his wife, and their one-year-old child had been on the road for two weeks, that they crossed near the Iraqi border, and that they wanted to leave Zaatari because they think Syrian secret police has infiltrators inside.Even those who are doing well long to leave the camp despite the UN's improvements. None of them want to be resettled in Europe.“We just hope to go back to Syria. It’s our country, our home … Nobody likes life here. It feels like a big prison,” Nour said.“It was better in my village. I want to go back,” Bashar, an 11-year-old boy who earns 1 to 3 Jordanian Dinars (JDs) a day working from 9am to 3pm carrying things in a wheelbarrow at the Zaatari gate, noted.Isam, a 40-year-old Syrian businessman, who earns 8 JDs a day doing odd jobs for the UN, added: “A man needs money to develop himself and there is no honest way to make money here.”He is the only one earning cash for a family which includes his and his brother’s wives and 42 children. But many men sit around doing nothing while their wives and sons, who get jobs more easily because they are paid less, become the breadwinners.The EU’s Veit said Syrian men reject psychological help, but their frustration causes domestic violence: “I once attended a women’s group in the camp and they told me: ‘We have two problems in our lives: One is [Syrian leader] Assad and the other is our husbands’.”The camp still sees occasional protests. In April, fighting between Jordanian gendarmes and Zaatari stone throwers saw one man shot dead and 20 injured.“They say: 'So what that you spend $500,000 a day on us? That’s the price of half a missile that America could fire at Assad’,” the UN’s Kleinschmidt said.Some men and boys sneak back to Syria to join the Jabhat al-Nusra rebel group, which is considered stronger than the FSA.
’We can live together again’
For his part, Adnan (not his real name), a 42-year-old Sunni imam, tries to make sure they have their parents’ written permission if they are minors.When he leads prayers for his congregation of more than 400 each Friday he calls for peace so they can return to Syria. But his contacts tell him that Assad is now using chlorine gas to kill civilians. Asked by EUobserver if people in Zaatari feel God has betrayed them, he said: “No. They accept God’s will.”He also voiced anger: “Assad is like a bacteria, a germ. God wants him to go, but many countries in the world want him to stay: Iran; Iraq; Hezbollah [a Shia Muslim militia in Lebanon].” Two ideas make him laugh.One: that Assad’s decision to hold elections in June will end the conflict. Two: that Western countries will intervene.“It’s a big joke. There can be no election when someone is killing his own people. He will elect himself again, but nobody will elect him … If America and other countries wanted to help, why have they waited until he killed half his people? It’s a black future for us,” Adnan said.He believes peace will come in the end.“People don’t have this feeling - to kill Alawis. Our war is not against Syrian citizens. It’s Assad who is trying to create a war between Alawi and Sunni. We can live together again. Sunni people want peace. A grieving mother, when she loses her child, grieves in the same way whether she is Sunni, Alawi, or Christian,” he added.Hais, a 16-year-old boy from Daraa, whose father died fighting with the FSA, echoes the imam.When asked by this website if he wants to take up arms, he said: “I don’t want to fight. I want to live. There has been enough killing in Syria.”As the EU considers how to spend aid in its next budgetary period, officials on the ground do not expect the crisis to end soon.“ Everybody [in the media] is writing about Ukraine now. It’s natural. But if there is less interest in Syria, there's likely to be less money,” the Amman embassy’s Veit noted.The EU's Gallegos said: “If Zaatari becomes a permanent settlement, it wouldn’t be the first one in Jordan. There are 2 million Palestinian refugees here from the 1940s whose camps became cities long ago, even if the Jordanians still call them 'camps’.”
FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN
REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
05/ 3/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-A rabbi and an Islamic dignitary are to form part of papal entourage during visit to Holy Land-A view of Jerusalem-Abraham Skorka and Omar Abboud will be joining the official Vatican delegation that will be accompanying Pope Francis on his visit to Jordan, the Palestinian Territories and Israel-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-A rabbi and an Islamic dignitary are to officially form part of the Pope’s entourage on an international visit for the first time. Both of them are old friends of Pope Francis and both spent a great many years helping him to create room for dialogue in Buenos Aires. They will be accompanying him as full members of the Vatican delegation that will be travelling to the Holy Land for a brief but intense three-day pilgrimage, which will start in Jordan’s capital, Amman, on Saturday 24 May and continue the next morning with visits to Bethlehem, the Palestinian Territories and finally Jerusalem, in Israel.Abraham Skorka, rector of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary of Buenos Aires and Omar Abboud, former secretary general of the Islamic Centre of Argentina will officially be accompanying Poep Francis on his Holy Land visit. Vatican correspondent, Alver Metalli, revealed the news to Vatican Insider yesterday and today it was confirmed by Vatican spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi.Francis is visiting the Holy Land at the invitation of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew. The main point of the visit is to meet all Christian denominations present in the Holy Land, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to commemorate the historic embrace between Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras fifty years ago. The issue of dialogue among religions and relations between the three faiths who share every square inch of the Holy City, considered such by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, will be of key importance.The Pope will therefore appear before his Jewish, Christian and Muslim interlocutors, accompanied by two old friends who helped him establish the Institute for dialogue in the Argentine capital. The initiative, Abboud pointed out, became “part of our national identity, a fruit that was eagerly cultivated by a number of leaders and religious leaders” thanks to the key impulse given by the then cardinal Bergoglio to create spaces in which a culture of encounter could be built.”Of course, Buenos Aires is “on the other side of the world”, miles away from the Middle Eastern tensions. And yet, as the Islamic leader – who like Bergoglio’s priests does not spurn the work done with the poor in the villas miserias, Buenos Aires’ slums - reminds us, “ours is one of the few cities in the world in which co-existence between religions developed in the way we can all see.”Commenting on the trip and the positive experience of Latin America, on his first visit to Rome after the March 2013 election, Rabbi Skorka received the following response from Pope Francis: “Our dialogue and friendship is proof that it is possible.” “We have done so much together,” Skorka recalled. “The Pope is a true friend of the Jewish people.”It is widely known that Israeli-Palestinian relations are going through a tough patch since Abu Mazen forged links with Hamas. Every gesture and word will be scrupulously analysed. This is precisely why the pilgrimage of a Pope who named himself after the saint of peace and has chosen two representatives of the Jewish and Muslim faiths as travel companions, can help renew dialogue.
05/ 3/2014 -THE VATICAN INSIDER-Vatican looks into possibility of establishing a Secretariat of Communications-Faithful in St. Peter's Square-As part of the plans for the re-organisation of the Roman Curia, the Vatican is deliberating the possibility of creating a centralized coordination structure based on the model of the new Vatican Economy structure-GIACOMO GALEAZZI
vatican city-A Secretariat of Communications. As part of the plans to reorganise the Curia, the Vatican is looking into the possibility of introducing a central coordination body along the lines of the Vatican structure for the Economy. All communications sections (which are currently split into various Curia offices: press office, Pontifical Council for Social Communications, CTV, Vatican radio, L’Osservatore Romano) would be centralized and grouped into one single entity.Last Wednesday, Vatican spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi, spoke at the professional seminar held by the Faculty of Institutional Communications at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross on the theme: “Creative Strategies for Promoting Cultural Change”. In his speech – a summary of which was given by Vatican Radio – he announced an update to the communication of the Holy Father’s message to the world. And so we have yet seen everything: there are still many things we have to learn and see.”The various consultancy firms (Ernst & Young, KPMG, Priecewaterhouse Cooper's, Deloitte, McKinsey and Promontory Financial Group) that were tasked with preparing reports on a series of questions, from accountancy systems, to hospital management, the IOR and mass media, will soon be publishing their findings. One single body, the Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Organisation of the Economic-Administrative Structures of the Holy See (COSEA), headed by Joseph F.X. Zahra, will collect these findings and present them to Pope Francis for a final evaluation.The Vatican structural reform process continues therefore and specific decisions are expected to be taken on individual subjects (communications in this case) which may be announced earlier. This is what happened in the economic sphere with the establishment of the Secretariat for the Economy headed by Cardinal George Pell, the “super-minister of finance”, the Council for the Economy coordinated by German cardinal Reinhard Marx (both members of the “C8”) and with the confirmation of the IOR’s mission. The IOR is to stay and will continue to provide specialist financial services” to the Church.The Curia dicasteries are also being re-examined: the Pope and the C8 are placing each and every one of the Pontifical Councils under the looking glass, taking into consideration all the various proposals for merging and simplifying the structures. The “C8” meeting that has just come to an end is the fourth one following the sessions held in October, December and February. A fifth meeting has been scheduled for 4 July. Now the eight-member Council of Cardinals will need to finish discussing what to do with the Congregations and the Pontifical Councils, as well as the possible creation of the “moderator Curiae” figure to coordinate the various offices. The suggestion for the new position was made during the meetings held before the last Conclave, in a draft presented by Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, head of the dicastery for Legislative Texts. The possibility of creating a Congregation for the Laity that would collect together and merge some of the Pontifical Councils, is also being examined.
04/30/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-Those little prayers Francis slips under his St. Joseph statue
The statuette of St. Joseph Bergoglio had in his room at the Colegio Máximo in San Miguel (Argentina), the very same one that now sits in St. Martha's House in the Vatican-The statuette of St. Joseph Bergoglio had in his room at the Colegio Máximo in San Miguel (Argentina), the very same one that now sits in St. Martha's House in the VaticanFrancis has a statuette of St. Joseph near his room in St. Martha’s House, where he leaves prayer requests: “He’s a carpenter and he gets the job done, even though he sometimes makes you wait”-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-“The Holy Father really makes St. Joseph work. Francis’ devotion to Jesus’ adoptive father has spread to all those who work in and around the Pope’s residence, including the Swiss Guards…” Francis has a great devotion for St. Joseph and even keeps a statuette of the saint in a marble-topped dark wooden chest of drawers just outside his room (Room 201) in St. Martha’s House. The Pope slips prayer requests he has written under the pedestal and as the pieces of paper grow in number – “the Holy Father really makes the saint work” - the statuette slowly rises.Today, 1 May, is the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker and so it is the right occasion to write about a devotion which has accompanied Pope Francis since his childhood days. The parish of Flores, the Buenos Aires neighbourhood where Francis was born and grew up, is dedicated to San José. It was in this church, dedicated to Jesus’ adoptive father, that Bergoglio attended mass and had his earliest Christian experiences. It was in this parish and under St. Joseph’s protection that on 21 September 1953, Bergoglio met Fr. Carlos B. Duarte Ibarra at the age of (almost) 17. After going to him for confession, he discovered his priestly vocation. Francis’ pontificate is also under St. Joseph’s protection, having been solemnly inaugurated on 19 March 2013.“Let us never forget that authentic power is service, and that the Pope too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into that service which has its radiant culmination on the Cross. He must be inspired by the lowly, concrete and faithful service which marked Saint Joseph and, like him, he must open his arms to protect all of God’s people and embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important, those whom Matthew lists in the final judgment on love: the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick and those in prison. Only those who serve with love are able to protect!” Pope Francis said in his homily on the Solemnity of St. Joseph.On 5 July 2013 the Pope consecrated the whole of the Vatican City State to St. Joseph and St. Michael the Archangel, whom the Governorate had previously chosen as its own patron saint.The wooden statuette of St. Joseph which is by Francis’ room in St. Martha’s House is about forty centimeters long and depicts the saint dressed in gold-trimmed dark green and red garments, typical of Hispanic American iconography. Joseph is lying down and asleep, a positions which is symbolic of the Gospel: it is always in his sleep that Jesus’ adoptive father receives messages from heaven about Mary and which name the Child should take and warnings about the danger Herod represents, causing the flight into Egypt. Bergoglio had a similar statue in the room he occupied for eighteen years at the Colegio Máximo of San José in San Miguel where he was rector and where he also lived when he was Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus. The statuette of the sleeping St. Joseoh which he kept in the Buenos Aires curia is one of the few things the Pope had sent over from Argentina after his election: the head came off during the journey to Italy but Bergoglio saw to it that it was fixed.“You know,” Francis told one of his collaborators in the first months after his election, “you have to be patient with these carpenters: they tell you they’ll have a piece of furniture finished in a couple of weeks and it ends up taking a month even. But they get the job done and they do it well! You just need to be patient…”Tenderness, silence, concealment, avoiding the spotlight and his vocation to protect: these are some of the qualities Francis appreciates in the saint. This is why although the Pope’s statuette depicts the patron saint sleeping, Francis makes him work a lot, often asking him for a helping hand.
If You Voted to Release Terrorists - We Don't Want to See You'-Bereaved daughter advises ministers who voted to release terrorists not to show up at memorial ceremonies.-By Shimon Cohen and Elad Benari-First Publish: 5/5/2014, 12:16 AM-IsraelNationalNews
Meirav Osher, whose father Avi Osher was murdered by an Arab terrorist in 1991, on Sunday called on Cabinet ministers who supported the release of terrorists as a “gesture” to the Palestinian Authority (PA) not to come to ceremonies on Memorial Day.Osher’s murderer, Sharif Abu-Dahila, was released this past October as part of the third batch of terrorists Israel had agreed to release during peace talks with the PA."This Memorial Day is different from past ones,” Meirav Osher told Arutz Sheva. “The Government of Israel betrayed its people and released murderers for a piece of paper containing some falsehood. Bodies of terrorists were returned without the victims’ families being informed about it in advance. They released the vile murderer of my father and it’s a tough feeling. We do not forgive nor forget the ministers who voted in favor, the Prime Minister and anyone else who supported this release.”Avi Osher, 40 at the time of his death, had managed the date grove at Moshav Masua. Abu-Dahila, who had worked for Osher for years, stabbed him to death and hid his body in a vineyard.“My father was a lovely man, he was good to the Arab employees, viewed them as human beings just like him, and the terrorist took advantage of my father’s kindness and his fair treatment of him,” said Meirav Osher. “He took a machete and took advantage of a day when other workers were off to murder him. Then he went back to the packing house, drank coffee, stole my father’s M-16 and hid for a year before being caught.”She expressed anger not only at those Cabinet ministers who voted in favor of the terrorist releases, but also at those who voted against but failed to resign after the releases were approved.“They should have said ‘enough is enough’ because people are still being murdered, but they didn’t,” said Osher."From a moral point of view, I would advise the ministers who voted in favor of [releasing terrorists] not to come to the cemeteries [for the memorial ceremonies],” she continued. “They have no right to be there. You freed the murderers and we do not want to hear or see you. Leave us alone because you betrayed us and we are now walking around with terrible feelings. Do not come to the cemeteries. You aren’t wanted there.”
Abbas and Mashaal to Meet in Qatar-Hamas and Fatah continue to hold talks on the implementation of the unity pact signed between the sides recently.-By Dalit Halevi-First Publish: 5/5/2014, 1:16 AM-IsraelNationalNews
Hamas and Fatah are continuing to hold talks ahead of the planned elections, as stipulated in the unity pact signed between the sides recently.Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Fatah movement, is scheduled to travel to Qatar later this week, where he will meet with the head of Hamas’s politburo, Khaled Mashaal, and discuss the implementation of the unity pact.Meanwhile, Azzam Al-Ahmad, a member of the Fatah Central Committee who has been placed in charge of the reconciliation efforts, is to arrive this week in Gaza where he will hold talks with Hamas on the planned unity government.As part of the Hamas-Fatah deal, Abbas will issue a "presidential decree" announcing the dates for elections, which PA officials said would likely take place within the next six months. The PA’s Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah has already offered to step down to pave the way for a unity government.The unity government is supposed to be made up of independent figures, but a senior Hamas figure said this week that the group’s leadership decided to submit a candidate for the presidency.Late Saturday, Hamas’s deputy leader, Mussa Abu Marzuq, declared that Hamas will never recognize Israel and will not accept the conditions laid out by the Middle East peacemaking Quartet. These remarks are contrary to ones made by Abbas last week, when he said that the new government will "obey my policy," and would "recognize Israel and reject violence and terrorism, and recognize international commitments.”Israel reacted to the Hamas-Fatah deal by pulling out of the peace talks with the PA and imposing sanctions on it.Last week, U.S. Senators Mark Kirk and Marco Rubio called on Secretary of State John Kerry to publicly state that there will be an immediate cut-off of relevant assistance to the PA, should its new unity government fail to comply with the detailed requirements set forth by the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006.
ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11 In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12 Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14 And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.
AMOS 1:5
5 I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.
JEREMEIAH 49:23-27
23 Concerning Damascus.(SYRIA) Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea;(WAR SHIPS WITH NUKES COMING ON SYRIA) it cannot be quiet.
24 Damascus is waxed feeble, and turneth herself to flee, and fear hath seized on her: anguish and sorrows have taken her, as a woman in travail.
25 How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!
26 Therefore her young men shall fall in her streets, and all the men of war shall be cut off in that day, saith the LORD of hosts.
27 And I will kindle a fire (NUKES OR BOMBS) in the wall of Damascus, and it shall consume the palaces of Benhadad.(ASSADS PALACES POSSIBLY IN DAMASCUS)
PSALMS 83:3-7
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
KNOWLEGE AND WORLD TRAVEL (IMMIGRATION) INCREASED
DANIEL 12:4
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION FROM FLEEING WARS) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS MICROCHIPS ETC)
Zaatari: birth of a new city in EU neighbourhood
03.05.14 @ 11:06-By Andrew Rettman-EUOBSERVER
ZAATARI - “Welcome to my neighbourhood: District 5, Street 18,” says Nour, a Syrian school teacher, as she leads EUobserver to her home: a metal container and a tent in the Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian desert.She is doing well.Her husband has a job in a fruit and vegetable shop on the “Champs-Elysees” - the UN’s humorous name for the camp’s main street.They have saved up for a washing machine, a fan, and a TV. Two of their four children go to school and Nour finds time to read her favourite writer, Syrian love poet Nizar Qabbani.In February last year, things were different.The family fled their village, near Daraa in southern Syria, when government snipers started shooting people from the tops of tall buildings. The Free Syrian Army (FSA), a rebel group, drove them through the countryside in a three-day trip to the border, where they walked for one hour before Jordanian guards took them to a UN registration point.“It was very cold, especially at night. We had to hide from government helicopters. The children were very frightened and they were crying all the way,” Nour said.Zaatari has also come a long way in the past 14 months.Kilian Kleinschmidt, the UN “mayor” in charge, told this website that for the first year after it opened in mid-2012 it was “a storage facility for human beings” with tents on naked sand.“The situation was tense. There was lots of violence. We had more than 100 violent demonstrations - stone throwing at our base camp and injured staff every month.”Heinke Veit, an official at the EU embassy in Amman, which has spent more than €50 million on aid in the past two years, noted: “People came from green fields in Syria to this dust bowl. They felt like they had landed on Mars.”Today, Zaatari is home to 100,000 Syrians from the Sunni Muslim majority which opposes President Bashar Assad’s Alawite Muslim government. It is the second largest refugee camp in the world after Dadaab in Kenya and what Kleinschmidt calls the fourth largest “city” in Jordan.It has six schools, four hospitals, and several kindergartens, playgrounds, and mosques, donated by Bahrain, Italy, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the US.The Champs-Elysees area hosts 4,000 small businesses. There are mini-supermarkets with trolleys, karate clubs, wedding-dress hire, pet shops, and travel agencies. Kleinschmidt estimates that €10 million a month changes hands in the camp’s “GDP.”People have moved around to create neighbourhoods of extended families. In some places, they have poured concrete between containers, built fountains and hung cages with song birds in imitation of their former life.They live on UN coupons which they exchange for food and other essentials.But many of them sneak back and forth past the Jordanian gendarmes and Bedouin guards who patrol the perimeter to work on the black in local villages.There is far less unrest, but there is crime - mafias control the market, and Jordanian farms alongside roads to the camp are littered with white tarpaulins bearing blue UN logos, which cost the UN $500 to supply, but which are sold for as little as 10 Jordanian Dinars ($14 or €10) on the outside.“Call it organised crime or disorganised crime: Everything that can be stolen is stolen," Kleinschmidt noted.“Professionals, those who have money, find ways to leave the camp and make arrangements for themselves in Amman. Those who are left are mostly former traders or border smugglers … They are incredibly active people,” he added.The criminality extends to arranged marriages.In Syria, the minimum legal age for girls to wed is 14, and some Zaatari fathers sell young daughters to men in Jordan, where the legal age is 18 and where Muslims can have up to four wives, in snap ceremonies officiated by Zaatari clerics.The UN and Jordan do not like to talk about it and initiatives to control the practice have reduced the numbers. But Carlos Gallegos, another EU official in Amman, said: “It’s a big issue for us.”Khaled, a Jordanian policeman from a nearby town, told EUobserver about a marriage which took place in March.He said: “A man and his wife went to Zaatari to buy UN food from the refugees. The man said: ‘I will stay and guard the car.’ While his wife was gone, they came and made him a proposal. He married a girl right there and then. His wife came back with bags. ‘Who’s this?’ she asked. ‘She is a poor refugee. We’ll drive her so that she can join her family in Jordan. It’s on our way home,’ he said. They drive. They drive. ‘Where is she is getting off?’ the wife asked. ‘Soon.' They drive again. ‘Is it near?’ the wife asked. ‘It’s near.' They get home. ‘So where does she live?’ the wife asked. ‘She lives with us now. She is my wife number one and if you don’t like it, you can go to hell.' So what can his old wife do? She is no longer attractive. No one else wants her. So she accepts it. It's true. It's true. And I know many cases like this.”
Small part
The camp is a small part of the Syrian civil war.The UN has registered 2.7 million refugees in Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, and Turkey since it began in 2011. It says more than 6 million have fled their homes but are still in Syria.It stopped counting the dead at 100,000 for lack of data.One official from the EU embassy in Amman drives to Damascus and back each month under Assad’s protection to appeal for more access. But the embassy’s Veit said Syria remains closed. “How much do we know about the death toll? How many people have really been displaced? We work on estimates,” she noted.There are five camps in Jordan and a sixth one, to house 130,000 people, is being built.Jordan’s top interior ministry official in charge of refugees, Saleh Kilani, told this website he has more than 600,000 registered persons, and up to 1.3 million Syrians in total trapped in his country.There are signs that Jordan's patience is wearing thin.Most refugees used to come via crossing points in north-west Jordan near the roads from Daraa. But the flow recently dropped to as few as 500 a month, mainly via the harsh deserts in the north-east, where Jordan borders Iraq and Syria and where people’s journeys can last weeks.Kilani told this website that his “[north-eastern] borders are not closed” and that the change is “because of the situation on the other side [in Syria].”But the UN and the EU suspect Jordanian guards in the north-east are pushing people back. “This is an issue that we are constantly trying to raise - that people who need protection should be able to cross wherever they are,” the EU’s Gallegos said.Meanwhile, back in Zaatari, Dima’s daily routine goes on.She wakes at 5am, prays, and goes to get bread for breakfast. She takes her two older daughters to school, where some classes have 150 students, but keeps her youngest daughter and her son at home.“I don’t let the children play outside our caravan because I am frightened for them to learn something bad … my son is an only boy, he has no brother to protect him, and there are too many bad boys here,” she says. She does housework. She cooks in the communal kitchens. The children go to bed at 9pm. She sleeps at 11pm. She does not go out in the evening because it is considered indecent for Muslim women to walk alone after dark.Despite the semblance of normality, the war is near.The camp is 12km from the Syrian border and people hear bombs and artillery shells on the other side. “When we hear the explosions, we remember everything: how we had to hide, the crying,” Nour said.It is not her real name. Few adults in Zaatari want to be named in press reports or photographed because they have relatives in Syria and they fear that if Syrian authorities identify them they will come to harm.One new family, which arrived the day EUobserver visited the camp, hid in an iron shack at the gate.The man said through an intermediary that he, his wife, and their one-year-old child had been on the road for two weeks, that they crossed near the Iraqi border, and that they wanted to leave Zaatari because they think Syrian secret police has infiltrators inside.Even those who are doing well long to leave the camp despite the UN's improvements. None of them want to be resettled in Europe.“We just hope to go back to Syria. It’s our country, our home … Nobody likes life here. It feels like a big prison,” Nour said.“It was better in my village. I want to go back,” Bashar, an 11-year-old boy who earns 1 to 3 Jordanian Dinars (JDs) a day working from 9am to 3pm carrying things in a wheelbarrow at the Zaatari gate, noted.Isam, a 40-year-old Syrian businessman, who earns 8 JDs a day doing odd jobs for the UN, added: “A man needs money to develop himself and there is no honest way to make money here.”He is the only one earning cash for a family which includes his and his brother’s wives and 42 children. But many men sit around doing nothing while their wives and sons, who get jobs more easily because they are paid less, become the breadwinners.The EU’s Veit said Syrian men reject psychological help, but their frustration causes domestic violence: “I once attended a women’s group in the camp and they told me: ‘We have two problems in our lives: One is [Syrian leader] Assad and the other is our husbands’.”The camp still sees occasional protests. In April, fighting between Jordanian gendarmes and Zaatari stone throwers saw one man shot dead and 20 injured.“They say: 'So what that you spend $500,000 a day on us? That’s the price of half a missile that America could fire at Assad’,” the UN’s Kleinschmidt said.Some men and boys sneak back to Syria to join the Jabhat al-Nusra rebel group, which is considered stronger than the FSA.
’We can live together again’
For his part, Adnan (not his real name), a 42-year-old Sunni imam, tries to make sure they have their parents’ written permission if they are minors.When he leads prayers for his congregation of more than 400 each Friday he calls for peace so they can return to Syria. But his contacts tell him that Assad is now using chlorine gas to kill civilians. Asked by EUobserver if people in Zaatari feel God has betrayed them, he said: “No. They accept God’s will.”He also voiced anger: “Assad is like a bacteria, a germ. God wants him to go, but many countries in the world want him to stay: Iran; Iraq; Hezbollah [a Shia Muslim militia in Lebanon].” Two ideas make him laugh.One: that Assad’s decision to hold elections in June will end the conflict. Two: that Western countries will intervene.“It’s a big joke. There can be no election when someone is killing his own people. He will elect himself again, but nobody will elect him … If America and other countries wanted to help, why have they waited until he killed half his people? It’s a black future for us,” Adnan said.He believes peace will come in the end.“People don’t have this feeling - to kill Alawis. Our war is not against Syrian citizens. It’s Assad who is trying to create a war between Alawi and Sunni. We can live together again. Sunni people want peace. A grieving mother, when she loses her child, grieves in the same way whether she is Sunni, Alawi, or Christian,” he added.Hais, a 16-year-old boy from Daraa, whose father died fighting with the FSA, echoes the imam.When asked by this website if he wants to take up arms, he said: “I don’t want to fight. I want to live. There has been enough killing in Syria.”As the EU considers how to spend aid in its next budgetary period, officials on the ground do not expect the crisis to end soon.“ Everybody [in the media] is writing about Ukraine now. It’s natural. But if there is less interest in Syria, there's likely to be less money,” the Amman embassy’s Veit noted.The EU's Gallegos said: “If Zaatari becomes a permanent settlement, it wouldn’t be the first one in Jordan. There are 2 million Palestinian refugees here from the 1940s whose camps became cities long ago, even if the Jordanians still call them 'camps’.”
FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN
REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.
05/ 3/2014 - THE VATICAN INSIDER-A rabbi and an Islamic dignitary are to form part of papal entourage during visit to Holy Land-A view of Jerusalem-Abraham Skorka and Omar Abboud will be joining the official Vatican delegation that will be accompanying Pope Francis on his visit to Jordan, the Palestinian Territories and Israel-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-A rabbi and an Islamic dignitary are to officially form part of the Pope’s entourage on an international visit for the first time. Both of them are old friends of Pope Francis and both spent a great many years helping him to create room for dialogue in Buenos Aires. They will be accompanying him as full members of the Vatican delegation that will be travelling to the Holy Land for a brief but intense three-day pilgrimage, which will start in Jordan’s capital, Amman, on Saturday 24 May and continue the next morning with visits to Bethlehem, the Palestinian Territories and finally Jerusalem, in Israel.Abraham Skorka, rector of the Latin American Rabbinical Seminary of Buenos Aires and Omar Abboud, former secretary general of the Islamic Centre of Argentina will officially be accompanying Poep Francis on his Holy Land visit. Vatican correspondent, Alver Metalli, revealed the news to Vatican Insider yesterday and today it was confirmed by Vatican spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi.Francis is visiting the Holy Land at the invitation of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew. The main point of the visit is to meet all Christian denominations present in the Holy Land, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to commemorate the historic embrace between Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras fifty years ago. The issue of dialogue among religions and relations between the three faiths who share every square inch of the Holy City, considered such by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, will be of key importance.The Pope will therefore appear before his Jewish, Christian and Muslim interlocutors, accompanied by two old friends who helped him establish the Institute for dialogue in the Argentine capital. The initiative, Abboud pointed out, became “part of our national identity, a fruit that was eagerly cultivated by a number of leaders and religious leaders” thanks to the key impulse given by the then cardinal Bergoglio to create spaces in which a culture of encounter could be built.”Of course, Buenos Aires is “on the other side of the world”, miles away from the Middle Eastern tensions. And yet, as the Islamic leader – who like Bergoglio’s priests does not spurn the work done with the poor in the villas miserias, Buenos Aires’ slums - reminds us, “ours is one of the few cities in the world in which co-existence between religions developed in the way we can all see.”Commenting on the trip and the positive experience of Latin America, on his first visit to Rome after the March 2013 election, Rabbi Skorka received the following response from Pope Francis: “Our dialogue and friendship is proof that it is possible.” “We have done so much together,” Skorka recalled. “The Pope is a true friend of the Jewish people.”It is widely known that Israeli-Palestinian relations are going through a tough patch since Abu Mazen forged links with Hamas. Every gesture and word will be scrupulously analysed. This is precisely why the pilgrimage of a Pope who named himself after the saint of peace and has chosen two representatives of the Jewish and Muslim faiths as travel companions, can help renew dialogue.
05/ 3/2014 -THE VATICAN INSIDER-Vatican looks into possibility of establishing a Secretariat of Communications-Faithful in St. Peter's Square-As part of the plans for the re-organisation of the Roman Curia, the Vatican is deliberating the possibility of creating a centralized coordination structure based on the model of the new Vatican Economy structure-GIACOMO GALEAZZI
vatican city-A Secretariat of Communications. As part of the plans to reorganise the Curia, the Vatican is looking into the possibility of introducing a central coordination body along the lines of the Vatican structure for the Economy. All communications sections (which are currently split into various Curia offices: press office, Pontifical Council for Social Communications, CTV, Vatican radio, L’Osservatore Romano) would be centralized and grouped into one single entity.Last Wednesday, Vatican spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi, spoke at the professional seminar held by the Faculty of Institutional Communications at the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross on the theme: “Creative Strategies for Promoting Cultural Change”. In his speech – a summary of which was given by Vatican Radio – he announced an update to the communication of the Holy Father’s message to the world. And so we have yet seen everything: there are still many things we have to learn and see.”The various consultancy firms (Ernst & Young, KPMG, Priecewaterhouse Cooper's, Deloitte, McKinsey and Promontory Financial Group) that were tasked with preparing reports on a series of questions, from accountancy systems, to hospital management, the IOR and mass media, will soon be publishing their findings. One single body, the Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Organisation of the Economic-Administrative Structures of the Holy See (COSEA), headed by Joseph F.X. Zahra, will collect these findings and present them to Pope Francis for a final evaluation.The Vatican structural reform process continues therefore and specific decisions are expected to be taken on individual subjects (communications in this case) which may be announced earlier. This is what happened in the economic sphere with the establishment of the Secretariat for the Economy headed by Cardinal George Pell, the “super-minister of finance”, the Council for the Economy coordinated by German cardinal Reinhard Marx (both members of the “C8”) and with the confirmation of the IOR’s mission. The IOR is to stay and will continue to provide specialist financial services” to the Church.The Curia dicasteries are also being re-examined: the Pope and the C8 are placing each and every one of the Pontifical Councils under the looking glass, taking into consideration all the various proposals for merging and simplifying the structures. The “C8” meeting that has just come to an end is the fourth one following the sessions held in October, December and February. A fifth meeting has been scheduled for 4 July. Now the eight-member Council of Cardinals will need to finish discussing what to do with the Congregations and the Pontifical Councils, as well as the possible creation of the “moderator Curiae” figure to coordinate the various offices. The suggestion for the new position was made during the meetings held before the last Conclave, in a draft presented by Cardinal Francesco Coccopalmerio, head of the dicastery for Legislative Texts. The possibility of creating a Congregation for the Laity that would collect together and merge some of the Pontifical Councils, is also being examined.
04/30/2014 - VATICAN INSIDER-Those little prayers Francis slips under his St. Joseph statue
The statuette of St. Joseph Bergoglio had in his room at the Colegio Máximo in San Miguel (Argentina), the very same one that now sits in St. Martha's House in the Vatican-The statuette of St. Joseph Bergoglio had in his room at the Colegio Máximo in San Miguel (Argentina), the very same one that now sits in St. Martha's House in the VaticanFrancis has a statuette of St. Joseph near his room in St. Martha’s House, where he leaves prayer requests: “He’s a carpenter and he gets the job done, even though he sometimes makes you wait”-ANDREA TORNIELLI
vatican city-“The Holy Father really makes St. Joseph work. Francis’ devotion to Jesus’ adoptive father has spread to all those who work in and around the Pope’s residence, including the Swiss Guards…” Francis has a great devotion for St. Joseph and even keeps a statuette of the saint in a marble-topped dark wooden chest of drawers just outside his room (Room 201) in St. Martha’s House. The Pope slips prayer requests he has written under the pedestal and as the pieces of paper grow in number – “the Holy Father really makes the saint work” - the statuette slowly rises.Today, 1 May, is the Feast of St. Joseph the Worker and so it is the right occasion to write about a devotion which has accompanied Pope Francis since his childhood days. The parish of Flores, the Buenos Aires neighbourhood where Francis was born and grew up, is dedicated to San José. It was in this church, dedicated to Jesus’ adoptive father, that Bergoglio attended mass and had his earliest Christian experiences. It was in this parish and under St. Joseph’s protection that on 21 September 1953, Bergoglio met Fr. Carlos B. Duarte Ibarra at the age of (almost) 17. After going to him for confession, he discovered his priestly vocation. Francis’ pontificate is also under St. Joseph’s protection, having been solemnly inaugurated on 19 March 2013.“Let us never forget that authentic power is service, and that the Pope too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into that service which has its radiant culmination on the Cross. He must be inspired by the lowly, concrete and faithful service which marked Saint Joseph and, like him, he must open his arms to protect all of God’s people and embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important, those whom Matthew lists in the final judgment on love: the hungry, the thirsty, the stranger, the naked, the sick and those in prison. Only those who serve with love are able to protect!” Pope Francis said in his homily on the Solemnity of St. Joseph.On 5 July 2013 the Pope consecrated the whole of the Vatican City State to St. Joseph and St. Michael the Archangel, whom the Governorate had previously chosen as its own patron saint.The wooden statuette of St. Joseph which is by Francis’ room in St. Martha’s House is about forty centimeters long and depicts the saint dressed in gold-trimmed dark green and red garments, typical of Hispanic American iconography. Joseph is lying down and asleep, a positions which is symbolic of the Gospel: it is always in his sleep that Jesus’ adoptive father receives messages from heaven about Mary and which name the Child should take and warnings about the danger Herod represents, causing the flight into Egypt. Bergoglio had a similar statue in the room he occupied for eighteen years at the Colegio Máximo of San José in San Miguel where he was rector and where he also lived when he was Provincial Superior of the Society of Jesus. The statuette of the sleeping St. Joseoh which he kept in the Buenos Aires curia is one of the few things the Pope had sent over from Argentina after his election: the head came off during the journey to Italy but Bergoglio saw to it that it was fixed.“You know,” Francis told one of his collaborators in the first months after his election, “you have to be patient with these carpenters: they tell you they’ll have a piece of furniture finished in a couple of weeks and it ends up taking a month even. But they get the job done and they do it well! You just need to be patient…”Tenderness, silence, concealment, avoiding the spotlight and his vocation to protect: these are some of the qualities Francis appreciates in the saint. This is why although the Pope’s statuette depicts the patron saint sleeping, Francis makes him work a lot, often asking him for a helping hand.
