Moscow-Jerusalem axis over Syria & Treason

RUSDear friends of the faith:
As Americans, our country supported the Syrian rebels in order to topple President Assad. One of the main reasons we wanted Assad toppled is because of his threat to Israel. Now however since Russia and Iran joined up with Assad, Israel has aligned itself with Russia. In my time they used to call this treason, today it’s just politics.  Tell that to all of those dead rebels we supported and the Syrian refuges. Continue reading

Limited Nuclear War Within 18 days as Saudis (and Friends) mass 350,000 troops, 20,000 Tanks, 2,450 Planes, 460 Helicopters for Syria Invasion

WARRussia will have no choice but to use Tactical (Battlefield) Nuclear Weapons to defend Syria once a ground invasion begins within 18 days, as 350,000 troops, 20,000 Tanks, 2,450 military planes  and 460 Helicopters from 25 countries are massing in northern Saudi Arabia.  Syria has warned “any aggressor entering the country will go home in wooden coffins;” Russia has said any country sending ground troops into Syria without permission will be considered “a declaration of war.”

Thousands of soldiers from regional countries are set to participate in what is being “called” a military “exercise” media reports say. MORE

Europe’s churches find new spirit from Muslim refugees

SPIREOn a recent Sunday in Broby in southern Sweden, some 100 people settled in for morning service at their Lutheran church. There was nothing unusual about the liturgy – apart from the fact that some 20 worshipers were wearing headphones to hear a simultaneous translation. They were asylum seekers from Muslim countries.

Their presence has grown increasingly customary at this 1930s-era, peach-colored church in the past half year. In fact, as the population of asylum seekers has grown in this town of 3,000, so too has a new curiosity about Christianity. MORE

Break in ‘unholy’ cold case: Police arrest former beauty queen’s priest in her 1960 killing

BEAUTYFifty-six years ago, a young schoolteacher went to church during Holy Week and never came home.

The next day, a few of her possessions were found scattered along the road outside the local Sacred Heart Church, as Texas Monthly recounted. One high-heeled shoe, a patent-leather handbag, a piece of crumpled white lace.

The following week, her body was found, fully dressed and badly bruised, retrieved from a canal in which someone had left her to decompose, her corpse washed clean of evidence. An autopsy found that she had been raped while comatose. MORE

Russia’s warming relations with the Vatican

RUSVATPope Francis revealed that following a speech he delivered to the European Parliament in which he described Europe as “haggard” and “now a ‘grandmother’, no longer fertile and vibrant.” Speaking to Italian daily Corriere della Sera in the Feb. 8 report, Francis said he an angry phone call from German Chancellor Angela Merkel after the 2014 speech. He told the newspaper, “She was a bit angry because I had compared Europe to a barren woman, incapable of producing children.” MORE

The Moscow-Jerusalem axis over Syria

MOSCPolitics Trouble in Paradise?

Russia’s offensive in Syria is paying big dividends, and not only for the coalition assembled by Russian President Vladimir Putin. As a consequence of understandings reached between Putin and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu since the beginning of the Russian bombing campaign in September, Israel has become a silent if uneasy partner, along with Iran and Hezbollah, in the energised campaign to defeat the increasingly besieged opposition.  MORE