🔥 Minnesota mosque in St. Paul, fire believed to be arson, community leaders ‘disgusted’
Authorities believe arson is the cause of a fire at the Oromo American Twhid Islamic Center in St. Paul.
According to authorities, the building at 430 Dale St. N, was not occupied at the time of the fire, which started around 8:45 a.m. No injuries were reported.
Investigators are currently working with the St. Paul Police Department to determine a suspect. State Fire Marshal and ATF officials are also part of the investigation.
“We take this very seriously and will determine who’s responsible for this, and hold them responsible,” said St. Paul Police Department Deputy Chief Josh Lego during a press conference Wednesday morning.
The building was currently undergoing a four-month renovation, which was almost complete at the time of the fire.
“We’ve said it before, and I hate to say it again – we do not tolerate attacks against our community. Communities of faith were attacked today,” said St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter during the press conference. “We all stand together. An attack against one of us is an attack against all of us.”
Carter said increased patrols around St. Paul mosques will occur as a result of this, and other recent mosque fires.
“This feels like a different version of America that should be taking place at a different chapter in history. And yet here we are once again … Whoever committed this crime, you will be caught,” Carter said.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on April 21, 2023
🔥 Massive Explosion as Fuel Tanker Truck Crashes and Ignites on ☆ Golden Star Bridge (CT)
Currently multiple emergency crews are on the scene at a significant accident that occurred on the Golden Star Bridge, between New London and Groton, Connecticut after a fuel tanker truck overturned, igniting a massive explosion the extent of injuries remains unknown at this time. Tragically, the driver of the tanker truck has been confirmed deceased.
“Son of man, you live in the midst of the rebellious house, who have eyes to see but do not see, ears to hear but do not hear; for they are a rebellious house.
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ― Elie Wiesel.
✞ Local authorities and representatives of the schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine” completely demolished an Orthodox church in Lvov today.
The wooden Church of St. Vladimir was quickly destroyed by backhoe.
“Look at the future of Ukraine,” someone off-camera can be heard saying, “they’re demolishing a church and they rejoice.”
Maxim Kozitsky, the head of the Lvov Provincial Administration, described the blasphemous act as the dismantling of the “last outpost of the Moscow Church in Lvov.”
Recall that His Eminence Metropolitan Philaret of Lvov stated in June, reflecting on the Ukrainian Church’s change in status at its Council in late May: “So now we are completely outside the Russian Orthodox Church. Patriarch Kirill is no longer the primate of our Church in any form.”
A few days ago, radicals even disrupted the funeral of a fallen soldier at the Cathedral of St. George in Lvov, evicting the faithful and seizing the church.
😈 The Genocider Oromo-Jihadist PM of Ethiopia Who Masscared Over a Million Orthodox Christians is Now in the USA
💭 Is America Committing Suicide?
💭 ‘Bolshevist’ Congressman Jamie Raskin Calls to Destroy ‘Orthodox Christian’ Russia by Jihad
💭 Tucker Carlson: Why is Neo-Bolshevik President Zelenskyy Banning Orthodox Christianity in Ukraine?
💭 Anti-Orthodox Conspiracy: NATO ‘Ready to Act’ in KOSOVO if Tensions with SERBIA Escalate. US/NATO Kosovo created State to protect Muslims good. After Ukraine they’re preparing to attack Orthodox Serbia, again!
✞ In the village of Novopoltavka in the Nikolaev Province, a wooden Orthodox church was set on fire yesterday.
Estimates on the number of churches destroyed since the war in Ukraine began last February vary considerably. According to a UNESCO report published yesterday, the organization has verified damage to 108 religious sites. Meanwhile, the World Council of Churches reported in February nearly 500 churches and religious sites have been destroyed, including 142 belonging to the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
Among the most recent casualties was the Iveron Monastery in Odessa, which was damaged again last month. “In the evening of March 21, 2023, as a result of enemy shelling, the buildings of the Iveron Monastery of the Odessa Diocese were once again damaged,” reports the Information-Education Department of the UOC .
Four people were injured, including one hospitalized, but thankfully no one died.
The diocesan press service noted that a chapel at the monastery was badly damaged, btu the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God wasn’t damaged at all.
🔥 More than 149 police injured, 172 people arrested in French pension protests
Millions of people are protesting on the streets of Paris in a new show of rage against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform – protesters setting the steeets on fire and police retaliating with tear gas.
🔥 Bordeaux town hall has been set on fire as French protests continued over plans to raise the pension age. More than a million people took to the streets across France on Thursday, with 119,000 in Paris, according to figures from the interior ministry. Police fired tear gas at protesters in the capital and 80 people were arrested across the country. The demonstrations were sparked by legislation raising the retirement age by two years to 64.
👉 Courtesy: BBC
🔥How many revolutions did France have? It seems like that question should have a quick and easy answer, and it does: three. But, as with all things historical, there’s also a lengthy and complex answer: It depends.
“If revolution is a regime change involving collective physical force, then the key dates are 1789, 1830 and 1848,” said Peter Jones, a professor of French history at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. The first revolt is the one we all know as the French Revolution, which ended with Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette losing their heads. The second is usually called the July Revolution, which saw the House of Bourbon dethroned in favor of the House of Orléans. And the third is sometimes called the February Revolution or the French Revolution of 1848, which ended the Orléanists and brought in a period known as the Second Republic.
Too bad; We Ethiopians are in an age where we face suffering, hatred and violence wherever we go. Even if we are in Ethiopia, Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Australia, we will not escape the challenge anywhere.
It is surprising that when the Jewish US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken is heading to Ethiopia; Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu too planned to go to “Pergamon” Berlin; However, they delayed their visit because the Western media are shouting loud that “Israel is violating human rights”.
The German government is under pressure for hosting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was due to arrive in Berlin later Wednesday and facing strong criticism over planned legal reforms.
On the eve of Netanyahu’s departure for Germany and ahead of a planned trip to Britain, 1,000 writers, artists and academics wrote to the two European nations’ ambassadors urging their governments to scrap the visits.
👉 So let’s compare this with the situation in Ethiopia and encounter ‘double standards:
When the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken heades departs for Ethiopia to meet the barbaric Gala-Oromo Ahmed Ali, who massacred more than a million Orthodox Christians, all the media and governments that said, “We will fight for human rights” say and do nothing. Hypocritical, ugly and dirty world!
💭 Mixed Jewish-Arab city has been a flashpoint of nationalistic crime in the past.
Israel Police have arrested two Arabs on suspicion that they set fire to the “Beit HaGadzo,” a cultural center for Ethiopian Jews located behind the pre-military training school in the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood of Lod.
“We will not be silent,” local residents responded, and announced that they would be holding a demonstration. “At 8:30 p.m. we will all gather at the site for the evening prayer and raise a cry of protest.”
Investigators from the Lod Police Station used advanced technological means to investigate the crime leading to the swift apprehension of two Lod residents aged 18 and 25, who are suspected of the arson. At the conclusion of their interrogation, it will be decided whether to ask the court to extend their detention.
Posted by addisethiopia / አዲስ ኢትዮጵያ on February 25, 2023
🔥 In just one day, massive fires broke out at three different facilities in Mexico and one in the United States that are controlled by the state-owned Mexican oil company, Pemex.
On Thursday, three separate fires broke out at Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) facilities, resulting in two workers’ death, at least eight people were injured, and several others missing, Bloomberg reported.
This resulted in increased scrutiny of the safety record of the Mexican state oil firm in advance of its earnings call on Monday.
The fires broke out at the Pemex crude oil storage facility in Veracruz, Mexico, in Maya unit (285,000-barrel-a-day) Minatitlan refinery in Veracruz, and in Deer Creek, Texas.