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Showing posts with label Virgin Mary. Show all posts
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Sunday, May 19, 2024

Islam hates Christians > Muhammad pushes Christian woman into machine, cut's off her ear; Someone in France beheads Virgin Mary statue again

 

No such thing as justice for Christians in Pakistan. You should all leave! Abandon the godless country to Satan.



Pakistan: Muslim pushes Christian employee

into chaff cutter, tearing off her ear, she is denied justice

Christians are always at risk in Pakistan. Muslims such as Muhammad Mustafa know that the authorities will side with them. They can abuse Christians with impunity.


Justice Denied Christian Woman Cast into Chaff Cutter in Pakistan

Morning Star News, May 15, 2024:

LAHORE, Pakistan (Christian Daily International–Morning Star News) Saima Bibi was serving tea to guests at her quarters in Punjab Province, Pakistan when her Muslim employer dragged her outside and pushed her towards an electric chaff cutter, tearing off her ear and cutting most of her scalp, her husband said.

The 24-year-old Christian mother of two children was working last month with her husband, Shahzad Masih, on the farm of two Muslim landlords in Ram Diwali Chak No. 6 village, Faisalabad District, he said. Relatives had come to visit them on April 12, the third day of the Muslim festival of Eid Al-Fitr, Masih said.

His wife was making tea for them when one of the landlords, Muhammad Mustafa, arrived and rebuked them for not cutting fodder for the cattle, he said.

“I immediately got up and started to cut the fodder in the electric chaff cutter, but as soon as my wife came outside to give me tea, Mustafa started hurling abuses at her and told her to get to work,” Masih told Christian Daily International-Morning Star News. “When Saima said that she’ll begin work in 10 minutes, Mustafa pulled her from the hair and pushed her towards the chaff cutter, causing her to fall and hitting her head in the running machine.”

Besides the wounds to her right ear and the skin of her head, the chaff cutter also injured her right eye, he said.

“Blood started gushing out of Saima’s head, and she screamed and cried in pain,” Masih said. “Seeing her in a bloody mess, Mustafa fled the scene.”

Her cries brought a large number of villagers to the site, including the other Muslim landowner, Muhammad Imran, who took her to a hospital in his car, Masih said. Upon reaching Government Allied Hospital, however, Imran warned them not to tell anyone how she had been injured.

“Imran threatened me with even more serious consequences if we did not say that the incident was the result of an accident,” he said. “Saima was in great pain, and naturally my priority was to get her treated immediately. The doctors gave her first aid and shifted her to the plastic surgery ward, where she’s still under treatment.”

The impoverished Catholic laborer said that on April 24 he tried to file a case against Mustafa with the Nishatabad Police Station in Faisalabad, but officers refused to accept it….




France: Statue of Virgin Mary beheaded and

fire set in Sainte-Thérèse church in Poitiers

Leftists have in recent years indulged in several orgies of destroying statues, but their favored method of destruction is pulling them down, not beheading them. Still, a Leftist may have done this, but could it have anything to do with the introduction into France of a large population of people who believe that Christianity is a false religion and that they are commanded to fight unbelievers so that Allah may punish them by the hands of the believers (cf. Qur’an 9:14-15), and that they should behead the unbelievers (cf. Qur’an 47:4)?

Could it have anything to do with the Qur’an’s suggestion that the destroyed remnants of ancient non-Muslim civilizations are a sign of Allah’s punishment of those who rejected his truth? “Many were the Ways of Life that have passed away before you: travel through the earth, and see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.” (Qur’an 3:137) The ruins of non-Muslim civilizations thus bear witness to the truth of Islam. What ensues from that idea? The creation of more ruins.

Or is this the work of Leftists who are unwittingly (or knowingly) advancing the same agenda as that of the Islamic State and the Taliban?

Vienne: a fire started in a church in Poitiers and a desecrated Virgin

translated from “Vienne : un incendie allumé dans une église de Poitiers et une Vierge dégradée,” La Nouvelle République, May 15, 2024 (thanks to Medforth):

Firefighters intervened at the Sainte-Thérèse church in Poitiers, this Tuesday, May 14, 2024, for an arson attack.

Who is targeting the Sainte-Thérèse church in Poitiers? The religious building has now been attacked for the second time, marking another extreme.

Tuesday, May 14, 2024 in the morning, benches gathered in a pile were set on fire in front of the choir.

Father Albert opened the church Tuesday morning around 8:30 a.m., without noticing anything unusual.

“The church was full of smoke”
“I had an appointment at 11 a.m. with a person for fire safety,” says the delegate in charge of material life. “We opened the sacristy and when I wanted to join the choir, he told me not to come. The church was full of smoke. As he is a former Paris firefighter, he took the necessary measures. »

The firefighters intervened with significant resources, the start of the fire was quickly brought under control and the benches and chairs, set on fire and partially charred, were taken out of the church.

Already targeted for early 2022
A statue of the Virgin, located on the side of the choir, was the victim of vandalism. She was found with her head severed. Like two years ago. It had since been repaired.

In 2022, in addition to this statue of the Virgin, there are figurines that had been broken.

A company must come on Wednesday May 15 to establish an estimate for cleaning soot on the walls, floor and works.

A complaint will be filed by the diocese, private owner of this church, built after the law of 1905 returning religious buildings to the heritage of the municipalities or the State.

The church was closed to the public and the religious burial ceremony which was planned for Wednesday was moved to Migné-Auxances.

(1) The diocese, the City of Poitiers and the National Rally, each denounced this damage in a press release and provided their support to the community of parishioners attending this church.



Saturday, September 10, 2022

Bits and Bites > 16 Missing People found in Venezuela; Poutine anyone? - Habs, Leafs, Canucks?

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Venezuelan authorities locate 16 people who followed a woman

into the Andes Mountains after she told them she received

a revelation from the Virgin Mary


On Thursday, Venezuelan cops found 16 people, including a spiritual advisor, who were reported missing after going on a retreat in the Andes Mountains

The group was located at a farmhouse at a mountainous village in Tovar, Mérida, 35 miles from the Táchira city of La Grita where they reside



Rosa García reportedly persuaded the group to join her for a spiritual retreat to Juan Pablo Peñaloza National Park in La Grita

As many as 40 people abandoned their homes and took off in two vehicles August 22 for an encounter with God and the Virgin Mary

Some individuals eventually quit and returned home due to religious differences with García, who instructed them not to look at the eyes of the Virgin Mary

By ADRY TORRES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 11:46 EDT, 9 September 2022 |

She also told them not to worship the Holy Christ of La Grita and to get rid of their cell phones.

The full story can be read at The Daily Mail.




Habs fans faceoff against Leafs Nation after jab on Sooke menu


Poutine battle sees Twitter users rejoice


SOOKE NEWS STAFF
Sep. 9, 2022 4:30 p.m.
 
A local pub is gaining national attention for its menu.

17 Mile House Pub owners are known locally to be Habs fans – and their disdain for the Toronto Maple Leafs is no secret. But menu items that have been making locals laugh at the popular Sooke establishment are now making national headlines thanks to one social media post.

Habs - Montreal Canadiens.


A photo of the menu, posted by
Twitter user @Angeline19781 has pushed the “Maple Leafs Poutine” into the spotlight.

On the menu for $67 (a nod to the Leafs’ last Stanley Cup win in 1967), it’s described as “in usual Leafs fashion, a cold, overpriced dish served with under-performing gravy, ice cold fries and a side of disappointment.”

Another blow for Leafs fans is the menu item above it.

The “Habs Pountine” is listed at $12.95 as a Quebec classic with crispy fries and cheese curds, smothered in gravy.

Other Twitter users couldn’t help joining the fun, throwing a few light-hearted jabs back and forth. Many quickly pointed out how well Leafs Nation was taking the joke, while others questioned why there was no option for Canucks fans on the menu.

Of course, Canucks Poutine is still waiting for delivery. They were ordered 50 years ago.

@JMooreHockey wrote: “So that’s what they do with the fries and the gravy after it’s sat for a while and tastes like cardboard, that’s actually a great idea.

Poutine anyone?



Thursday, September 8, 2022

Bits and Bites > 20 People Disappear on Fanatical Pilgrimage; Man catches shark with human body inside

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More than a dozen people vanished two weeks ago after following a woman into the Andes Mountains when she told them she received a revelation from the Virgin Mary


By ADRY TORRES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 17:09 EDT, 7 September 2022 | 

Up to 20 people, including five children, remain missing in Venezuela after going on a spiritual retreat led by a woman who says the Virgin Mary told her the world was about to end. 

Rosa García, 57, is said to have initially persuaded as many as 40 people in the Táchira town of La Grita to join on her trip to Juan Pablo Peñaloza National Park on August 22, according to La Nacion newspaper.

García allegedly told the group that they would be having a spiritual encounter with God or the Virgin Mary at an unknown area in the park that is located along the border of the western states of Táchira and Mérida.

They were expected to return Thursday and were reported missing later that day after they failed to show up at their homes.

Authorities in Venezuela are searching for more than a dozen people who have been reported missing
after a 57-year-old woman in La Grita, Táchira convinced them to join her on a spiritual retreat. 
She apparently told her followers that the Virgin Mary told her the world was about to end


Some of the individuals dropped out of the group when García started behaving erratically, La Nacion reported.

García instructed the group that they could no longer worship the Holy Christ of La Grita, that they were not to look the Virgin Mary in the eyes and that they were to discard their cellular phones.

Authorities said Wednesday that nine of the individuals missing are from the same family and that the group is traveling in two vehicles.

La Grita Mayor Juan Carlos Escalante said that 160 members from a search and rescue team and law enforcement agencies were looking for the group. Drones and sniffer dogs were also deployed as part of a wider search.

The mountainous town of La Grita sits 4,725 feet above sea level.

On Monday, authorities discovered an abandoned farm where some of the people who are still unaccounted for discarded several clothing items and left food behind.

Locals said García dropped out of a neighborhood prayer group and formed her own, called 'Following Jesus.'  The group would frequently get together to hold prayer sessions for people battling illnesses.

Others recalled that García's group 'switched from religious practices to fanaticism' and noticed that group members 'spent their time beating their chests' while promoting their religious ideas.

Some said that García's family thought she was mentally unstable.

'She sent people to confession, to go to mass and to pray,' a resident told La Nacion. 'She said that many bad things were coming, that Christ cried tears of blood for what we all do. That the world was going to end.'

Since March, none of the group members were allowed to watch television and had to start praying at 3am every day, digital news outlet Impacto Venezuela reported. Women were also urged not to do their hair and could not show their faces when they left their homes.

During a mass held Sunday at the La Grita Minor Basilica of the Holy Spirit, Father Jesús Mora warned the congregation to be aware of people like García who could do more harm than good.

'You have to be afraid of fanatics, because a fanatic can do a lot of damage,' Mora said. 'God doesn't want us to be fanatics.'

García is not married and administered her own station at a food stand owned by her sister Teresa García - one of her 13 siblings.

She allegedly was able to influence Teresa to join the retreat along with her husband, two children, son-in-law and grandson.




Horrifying moment banker catches tiger shark with human remains

inside the beast’s stomach after foot pops out

Katie Davis
10:55, 8 Sep 2022

A BANKER was horrified after realising the tiger shark he had caught had human remains inside its belly after the beast coughed up a foot.

Humphrey Simmons was fishing in waters off the Bahamas with pals when he snared the "unusually heavy" 12-foot predator.

Authorities found the remains of a man inside the shark - except his head


But as Simmons went to cut the hook from the shark's jaws, a human foot suddenly popped out, The Tribune reported.

He said: "We were going to cut the hook out of his mouth and let him go when he regurgitated a human foot. Everything was intact from the knee down. It was mangled, but there was still flesh on the bone."

The stunned fishermen - fearing there may be more bodies inside - took the shark to shore in Nassau and it was cut open. Inside, disgusted authorities found the severed remains of a man - minus his head.

The shark had regurgitated the man's left leg, and his right leg, two arms and two - split in two - were found in its stomach.

Forensic examiners completed DNA tests on the mutilated body parts, confirming the remains appeared to be at least a couple of days old.

They could not say for sure whether the man was dead or alive when eaten by the beast.

Considering that his head was not present, my guess is that he was not alive at the time. That was one greedy shark - so full from the man it swallowed and yet it took the bait from the banker-fisherman.

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