It’s already August, which means fall is around the corner – and another winter no longer seems that far away. Forecasters are out with some predictions about the weather we can expect in the coming months:
– A polar vortex (if we’re allowed to call it that when it’s not winter) across the Great Lakes and into the interior Northeast during mid-to-late September, says Paul Pastelok, Accuweather’s lead long-range forecaster. MORE
Hundreds of years before the Muslim prophet began receiving ‘revelations’ around 600AD, the beginnings of Islam, Christians have lived in the Iraqi city of Mosul for nearly 2,000 years.
ISIS militants imposing harsh Sharia law in Mosul (Iraq’s second largest city) gave Christians a 24 hour ultimatum to convert to Islam, pay a steep tax in submission, leave, or be executed. MORE
Stranded on a barren mountaintop, thousands of minority Iraqis are faced with a bleak choice: descend and risk slaughter at the hands of the encircled Sunni extremists or sit tight and risk dying of thirst.
Humanitarian agencies said Tuesday that between 10,000 and 40,000 civilians remain trapped on Mount Sinjar since being driven out of surrounding villages and the town of Sinjar two days earlier. But the mountain that had looked like a refuge is becoming a graveyard for their children. MORE
French food trader Jean Selverro will lose €200 thousand a month because of Russia’s import bans on food from the European Union, announced this week. Normally, 90 percent of his apples and pears are exported to Russia. MORE
What is wrong with these people? How can anyone think this is a good thing?
Check it out:
A kafir has no human value in Islam. They can be exploited for their skills, for sex, for slavery, for anything – or just be killed off. Muslims believe they have great rewards in heaven for killing kafirs. MORE
Please everyone write, email or phone to the two address’s of the 6th court of appeals enclose. And if you would, to your local newspapers and federal public officials. Federal Judge Martha C. Daughtrey says “Sky didn’t fall where gay marriage is legal.” VIDEO: MORE
Can’t boycott the whole world? Going Going Gone…
Target Corp. is adding its name to a legal defense of gay marriage, joining other large companies that are taking a stand, just four years after the retailer came under criticism for supporting a strident opponent of same-sex unions. MORE
A photographer captured the incredible moment a gigantic ‘hand’ appeared through the clouds.
David Christie, 38, captured the stunning footage of the fist-like wind funnel as it punched its way through the dark clouds above his home.
The father of two looked on with amazement with his wife Jodie, 37, as the cloud formed in the sky above Deal in Kent. MORE
It might now be the modernist Church, but a million dollars is nothing and in areas where property value goes up or these “bishops” had money before, this is just a red herring–it is just the disparity caused by greed (even by the poor–who do not live according to the Gospel either) and the policies of the richest government that has no problem spending money on extravagant parties and life styles and unnecessary benefits. Throwing this out is just to rouse anger toward the Church to get people to leave the faith–affecting us (Traditionalists) because people do not distinguish.
“Christianity in Mosul is dead, and a Christian holocaust is in our midst,” said Mark Arabo, a Californian businessman and Chaldean-American leader. In an interview with CNN’s Jonathan Mann, he called what’s happening in Iraq a “Christian genocide” and said “children are being beheaded, mothers are being raped and killed, and fathers are being hung.” MORE
As the orgy of condemnation against Israel in the wake of the Gaza war continues, Christians in Iraq are doing their best to be heard above the din while they still have a voice.
The radical Sunni movement ISIS, now known simply as the Islamic State, has been happy to have the Gaza war as cover as it completes its conquest of northern Iraq. “We can do anything now the world is looking only to Gaza,” an Islamic State official reportedly said recently.
And Canon Andrew White, popularly known as the “Vicar of Baghdad,” lamented that “in reality that is true.” MORE
The IRS is in the news again, this time capitulating to the Atheist group Freedom From Religion Foundation that sued the IRS to get them to further monitor church activities, particularly anything they deem to be political. MORE
Iselle will bring the threat for heavy rain, damaging winds and rough seas to the southern part of the Hawaiian Islands into Friday, namely the Big Island. A second tropical system, Hurricane Julio, also bears watching.
Iselle will be the strongest tropical system to make landfall on the Big Island of Hawaii since reliable records began in 1950. MORE
An advocate of Marxist-oriented “liberation theology” and recipient of a Lenin Peace Prize has returned to his duties as a priest in the Roman Catholic Church, after a 29-year suspension. MORE
