This is what “Problem – Reaction – Solution” means. Centuries ago, homosexuals, child molesters, heretic Protestants and other antichrists infiltrated the Catholic Church where marriage was not allowed and were made to commit many abominations, the world reacted with indignant disbelief, ultimately, they are now forced to wear the code of the beast.
❖ Catholic priests in France will be forced to wear scannable QR codes to signal whether they are sex offenders as part of a national crackdown on abuse, according to church officials.
Under the new system, people can scan the wallet-size cards with their smartphones to receive one of three color codes revealing the clergy member’s “status,” according to the Bishops’ Conference of France.
Red shows that the priest has been stripped of his clerical position potentially due to child sex abuse, though the nature of the sanction is not specified.
Green is a sign that the priest is in good standing, while orange indicates he’s not yet fully qualified to lead Mass.
The system — announced May 10 in an effort by the church to appear more “transparent” — also applies to bishops and deacons, France 24 reported.
The Catholic Church hailed the program as an efficient way to bust imposter priests and “intensify the fight against sexual violence in the Church,” though it came under fire from some sex abuse victims.
“If we have to scan the QR codes of clergy members to reassure Catholics, it means the Church has hit a new low. It’s nothing more than a publicity stunt, and it shows the extent to which trust has been broken between the faithful and their hierarchy,” François Devaux, a former president of the church abuse survivors group La Parole Libérée (the Freed Word), told the outlet.
“It’s quite an exceptional measure which, in my opinion, is one of the Catholic Church’s top three most stupid ideas.”
Christine Pedotti, who runs the French Christian weekly magazine Témoignage Chrétien (Christian Testimony), called it “a small tool that, when compared to the scale of the problem, just isn’t enough.”
The tech-centric changes come after a bombshell 2021 report revealed that an estimated 330,000 children were victims of sex abuse within France’s Catholic Church over the past 70 years.
Previously, Catholic priests in the country have been required to carry a document confirming their profession and qualification, though the paperwork has been criticized as hard to keep up-to-date.
Details of the program, such as where the priest must wear or display the QR code and the date by which they must comply, were not immediately clear.
💭 When we hear Muslims claim that the State of Israel posed threats to the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, our attention should be turned again to Haj Amin al-Husseini, the former Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a collaborator with Nazi Germany and the leader of Arab Palestinian nationalism before and immediately after World War II. Some historians and, briefly, Israels Prime Minister Netanyahu also attributed to Husseini a significant decision-making role in the Holocaust in Europe.
👉 It’s fine if they don’t want to wear it. However, Muslims and homosexuals are secretly working together to wage war against Christianity. Although the two groups have different ways and seem to hate each other; But the truth is that Islam and Sodomism both come from the same Antichrist spirit..
💭 Five Muslim football players in France’s top division, the Ligue 1, reportedly refused to play in Sunday’s fixture between Toulouse FC and Nantes in protest over a campaign against homophobia, citing religious views.
According to the Daily Mail, all Ligue 1 and Ligue 2 matches over the weekend had been dedicated to the league’s initiative against homophobia, with the numbers on the back of players’ shirts in rainbow colors.
However, a report by La Depeche du Midi stated that many members of Toulouse’s club did not support the campaign and expressed their refusal to play. The players were named as Zakaria Aboukhlal, Moussa Diarra, Fares Chaibi, Said Hamulic for Tolouse and Nantes’ Mostafa Mohamed. Logan Costa of Tolouse also did not want to play, although both he and Chaibi were named on the team sheet, according to AFP.
Mohamed, who also plays for the Egyptian national team, tweeted: “I don’t want to argue at all but I have to state my position.”
“I respect all differences. I respect all beliefs and convictions. This respect extends to others but also includes respect for my personal beliefs,” he added.
“Given my roots, my culture, the importance of my convictions and beliefs, it was not possible for me to participate in this campaign. I hope that my decision will be respected, as well as my wish not to argue about this and that everyone is treated with respect.”
French website l’Equipe reported that Mohamed refused to wear the jersey and stayed in the hotel during the game which ended in a 0-0 draw.
On his Instagram account, Moroccan player Aboukhlal explained that he “made the decision not to take part in today’s game.”
“First and foremost, I want to emphasise that I hold the highest regard for every individual regardless of their personal preferences, gender, religion or background. This is a principle that cannot be emphasised enough,” Aboukhlal said.
“Respect is a value that I hold in great esteem. It extends to others, but it also encompasses respect for my own personal beliefs. Hence, I don’t believe I am the most suitable person to participate in this campaign.”
In a statement on Sunday, Toulouse said: “Some players of the professional squad have expressed their disagreement regarding the association of their image with the rainbow colors representing the LGBT movement.”
“Respecting the individual choices of its players, and after numerous exchanges, the Toulouse Football Club has chosen to exclude these players from the game,” the Ligue 1 club added.
💭 Floods that caused widespread destruction have also displaced 35,000 households
Floods have caused widespread destruction and displacement in the regions of Somali, Oromia, Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples, South West Ethiopia Peoples, and Afar, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).
“Over 23,000 livestock perished, and more than 99,000 hectares of farmland were destroyed in the Somali Region alone,” the OCHA said in a statement on Monday.
The UN agency said the humanitarian partners and the government of Ethiopia are providing lifesaving assistance to affected communities, but “assistance remains inadequate relative to the scale of needs.”
An emergency relief fund of $40 million will be allocated to address the needs of people affected by flood and drought, according to the statement.
“The flooding has deepened the vulnerability of populations whose resilience is already highly affected by the impact of a prolonged drought since 2020 as the areas most affected by flooding and drought overlap,” OCHA said.
The floods have also exacerbated health risks, including cholera, which continues to be reported in five regions of the Horn of Africa nation.
The outbreak that began last August have killed 94 people, with 6,157 cases reported so far.
💭 At Present India has 28 States and 8 Union Territories.
There are more than 19,500 mother tongues spoken in India
Indian dialects of over 19,500 and 121 are recognized as languages since they meet the standard of 10,000 or more speakers.
The most commonly spoken Indian dialect, which also happens to be one of the oldest surviving languages in the world, is Hindi, the official language of the Indian central government, alongside English.
💭 As of 2020 about:
➡ 79% of Indians are Hindu (1 billion)
➡ 15% are Muslim (170 million)
➡ 2.3% are Christian (28 million)
➡ 1.7% are Sikhs (20 million)
➡ 0.7% Buddhists (8 million)
✞ 25+ Churches BURNED in Manipur, India
Mobs Kill 60, Burn Down 25 Churches in Northeastern India
While ethnic tensions have festered for decades, leaders in Manipur say religious extremism is fueling the extreme aggression.
Rioting mobs have taken the lives of at least sixty people and destroyed or burned down 25 churches in the northeastern Indian state of Manipur. Since May 3, thousands of victims, the majority of them Christians, have fled as their homes and businesses have gone up in flames.
While tensions over property rights and economic interests have existed between the state’s ethnic groups for decades, local leaders told CT that church burnings are the result of the growth of Hindu nationalism among the dominant Meite community.
The chief minister of Manipur, N. Biren Singh, described the situation as a “prevailing misunderstanding between two communities” and said that his government was committed to protecting “the lives and property of all our people.”
“We should not allow the culture of communal harmony in the state to be disturbed by vested interests,” Singh said, adding that he also intended to address the community’s “long-term grievances.”
Manipur borders Myanmar and is home to a diverse range of ethnic groups, including Meiteis, who are a numerical majority in the state and are predominantly Hindu, and various tribal communities, who are largely Christian.
Primarily based in Imphal Valley, a region which includes Manipur’s capital, the Meiteis have long dominated the state’s political and economic landscape. Meanwhile, tribal communities make up around a third of the population (35.4%) and are mainly concentrated in the hills surrounding the valley, 90 percent of the state’s geographical area.
For decades, the issue of land ownership and control has been a source of conflict between the two groups. But in recent years, these tensions have been exacerbated by the political influence of the Hindu nationalist organizations Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which have sought to promote their faith as the dominant religion in India and have used the Meitei community to advance their political agenda in the state.
This month’s violence came weeks after the Manipur High Court ordered the state government to respond to the Meitei community’s request for Scheduled Tribe status. The designation gives communities special constitutionally backed protections including reserved seats in the parliament and state legislatures, affirmative action in education and employment, and property protections.
But believing that this categorization would dilute their own protections and political representation, Mainpur tribal groups have long fought this change.
While area leaders believe that the violence was largely a reaction to this political decision, they see its viciousness and severity, particularly the attack on churches, as the growth of the influence of BJP and the RSS. Radical Hindu ideology historically has struggled to find a foothold in Manipur, because of its mix of tribal, Hindu, Christian, and Muslim communities.
Christian leaders from the area told CT that they believed this violence was religiously motivated.
“In this pogrom, the Hindu Meiteis not only burned down churches belonging to tribals but also churches that exclusively belong to Meitei Christians,” said Ngaineilam Haokip, an academic at university in Kolkata, who grew up in Manipur. “They targeted their own brethren who follow Christ by burning their churches.”
“If this is not a pogrom, what is? They are burning churches when the protest rally was simply against the inclusion of Meiteis as Scheduled Tribe by All Tribal Student Union Manipur (ATSUM). There is definitely a religious angle here,” said a Christian leader in the area, who for security reasons asked to be identified by the name Lien.
On Wednesday, thousands of people across the state, the majority Christians, gathered locally to protest the Meitei’s demand. Although the event ended peacefully in several districts, there were reports of arson, vandalism, and confrontations in other areas.
In the district of Churachandpur, one unidentified group set fire to a famous war memorial. Infuriated by this arson, there was a clash among locals, resulting in the destruction of homes and forcing hundreds of residents to seek refuge in nearby forests. Retaliatory attacks by local youths targeted Meitei neighborhoods in Churachandpur, and the violence caused two deaths and injured 11. Some reports alleged attackers carried sophisticated weaponry.
In response, groups of people targeted several tribal neighborhoods in the capital city of Imphal. Residents told The Wire that mobs burned down 23 houses and injured 19 residents.
One victim of the attacks was a tribal legislative assembly representative who sustained severe head injuries and is currently in critical condition.
“Tribals were not prepared for a war. They were holding peace rallies against the demand for Scheduled Tribe status by Meiteis. The Meiteis on the other hand, were planning for this kind of confrontation for a long time, it seems. They collected gun licenses and guns and then lit the fire,” Haokip said.
In the wake of the violence, the government has imposed a curfew and suspended internet access. The severity of the situation has led the Indian government to deploy military to the affected areas and authorize it to use lethal force in “extreme cases” in addressing the increasing violence. The federal government has additionally invoked Article 355, giving it authority over the state of Manipur. More than 7,500 people have been evacuated to safer places.
💭 Six Brit and Italian tourists injured and one killed in Tel Aviv suspected attack
A 30-year-old man from Italy was killed and four other people are receiving medical treatment for mild to moderate injuries after a car rammed into a group of people and flipped over in Tel Aviv, Israel
Police said a car rammed into a group of people near a popular seaside park before flipping over.
Police said they shot the driver of the car. The driver’s condition is unknown at the moment.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry referred to the incident as a “terror attack”, a term Israeli officials use for assaults by Palestinians.
🥚 That is, During Passover – and on the eve of Easter 🥚
These rockets were fired at the Galilee region in northern Israel. The Galilee is where many of the miracles of Jesus occurred, according to the New Testament, on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.
🔥 Rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israel on Thursday and answered by a burst of cross-border artillery fire, officials said, amid escalating tension following Israeli police raids on the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.
The Israeli military said it had intercepted at least one rocket as sirens sounded in northern towns near the border, while two Lebanese security sources said there had been at least two attacks, with multiple rockets.
Israeli news outlets reported that around 34 rockets were launched from Lebanon, half of which were intercepted, while five landed in Israeli areas. Israel’s ambulance service said one man had sustained minor shrapnel injuries.
In a written statement, the United Nations peacekeeping force in south Lebanon (UNIFIL) described the situation as “extremely serious” and urged restraint. It said UNIFIL chief Aroldo Lazaro was in contact with authorities on both sides.
Israeli broadcasters showed large plumes of smoke rising above the northern town of Shlomi and public sector broadcaster Kan said the Israel Airports Authority closed northern air space, including over Haifa, to civilian flights.
“I’m shaking, I’m in shock,” Liat Berkovitch Kravitz told Israel’s Channel 12 news, speaking from a fortified room in her house in Shlomi. “I heard a boom, it was as if it exploded inside the room.”
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.
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