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Monthly Archives: July 2012
Violent Jihadis Imprisoned for Terror Crimes Being Released
Egypt’s Shura Council announced in a statement that it has agreed for the Islamic Group to begin taking steps to release convicts who have been imprisoned in Egyptian prisons for years from Islamic Jihad and Al Gama’a Al Islamiya, including several who were given the death sentence and confined under high security for committing terrorist crimes. According to Tarek al-Zomor, the formal speaker of the Islamic Group and a member of the Shura Council, they have already begun taking steps to release 40 prisoners, all members of the Islamic Jihad and Al Gama’a Al Islamiya. Zomor refused to release their names until they have been released from prison.
(From Al Ahram Al Massai)
The chaste mouth speaks of goodness; it gives pleasure to its owner and rejoices its listeners.
St. John Saba
I keep getting Facebook messaged by some Muslim girl trying to prove that Christianity is wrong and Islam is right. It has been going on for about a week. Considering my religious background you’d think she would understand that my lack of willingness to convert is not because I’m ignorant of Islam (which she claims) but that I see no truth in it. Yet she persists. How random.
On, Sunday 29 July 2012, the oldest living monk on Mount Athos reposed in the Lord. Fr. John of Hilandari was 105 years old. He lived at the Serbian Monastery of Hilandari.Fr. John was born on 10 May 1907 in Serbia. Following World War 2 he emigrated to England where he stayed until…
GTAsoldier’s Universe: Memory Eternal: Fr. John of Hilandari, the oldest Athonite Monk
Anyone bearing the power of the sword, or any city magistrate, who wears purple, let him cease from wearing it at once or be dismissed from the church. Any catechumen or believer who wishes to become a soldier must be dismissed from the church because they have despised God.
Hippolytus – The Apostolic Tradition 16.11.
Never forget the original.
For anyone who continues to say “Get Assad out” and thinks the Rebels are peace loving, kind people.
We do not know what will lie beyond Assad, all we know is that he prevented the persecution of 1.5 million Christians, something almost no other Middle-Eastern leader has achieved.
Adeeb Jawad Joudeh, keybearer to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and Palestinian Muslim.
A beautiful cross design of Assyrian Church of the East
Musings of an Orthodox Brit 