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03/21/2015 -The blood of St. Gennaro liquefies in Francis’ presence-Francis kisses the vial-St. Gennaro’s relic miraculously turned to liquid in Naples Cathedral. This usually only happens on the feast of the saint on 19 September. Sepe said St. Gennaro loves the Pope, the blood has already liquefied by half." But the whole relic eventually turned to liquid-Giacomo Galeazzi
in naples-This is the first time it happened. San Gennaro’s blood had never liquefied during a papal visit to Naples before. None of the visits paid by Pius IX, John Paul II or Benedict XVI provoked the phenomenon. But the miracle was witnessed this afternoon, after Francis’ heartfelt address to faithful and clergy.The Pope had taken the vial with the blood of St. Gennaro - displayed on the altar - in his hands and kissed it. Cardinal Sepe said over the microphone: “It is the sign that St. Gennaro loves Pope Francis: half of the blood turned to liquid.” The pronouncement was followed by a long applause from faithful. The Pope then replied: “If only half of it liquefied that means we still have work to do; we have to do better. We have only half of the saint’s love.” But the blood continued to liquefy until the whole relic had turned to liquid, with many faithful crying out as they witnessed this.Prior to this, the Pope had set aside his written speech and continued off the cuff, describing some personal experiences he had had and encouraging faithful to worship and love the Church (“you cannot love Jesus without loving his Church”) and show apostolic zeal (“The Church exists in order to bring Jesus” to people, he stressed). “We need to start from Jesus and Mary, the Pope urged, before going on to condemn wheeling and dealing in the Church, the “terrorism of gossip” and the attachment to money displayed by some priests and religious. “Wheeling and dealing” in the Church is an “ugly” thing.Pope Francis set aside his prepared speech and delivered a long address off the cuff at his meeting with priests, nuns and religious in Naples Cathedral. He listed a series of “testimonies” and counter-testimonies which the consecrated can give God’s people, including the “spirit of poverty”. The Pope told the story of a nun who was attached to money. “When there is wheeling and dealing in the Church this is an ugly thing,” he said. “I remember a great nun, a good woman, a great bursar who was good at her job but was too attached to money. She would subconsciously pick people according to how much money they had: ‘I like him more, he’s very well off’. She was a bursar at an important college, she had important structures built. She was a great woman but you could see this in her. And the final humiliation this woman faced was public: she was around 70 years old and she was in the teachers’ lounge having a coffee when she fainted and fell. People tried slapping her to get her return to consciousness but she wouldn’t. So one of the female teachers said put a 100 pesos note on her and let’s see if she reacts. The poor woman was dead but this was the last thing that was said when no one was sure if she was alive or not: an ugly testimony.”When a priest is “greedy” and “gets involved in business”, how many scandals have been witnessed int he Church and how much lack of freedom just because of money!” the Pope continued. H eexplained the cautiousness shown by some clerics when they find themselves int he midst of moneyed people: “I should give this person a piece of my mind but since he or she is an great benefactor and great benefactors lead the lives they want, it is not my place” to start preaching to them. “A priest can have his savings, but that is not where his heart should be” otherwise “you start to differentiate between people when there’s money involved and so I ask you to examine your conscience: how is my life of poverty going? Even in the small things, whether one is a cleric or not.”Pope Francis also condemned “worldliness “and excess, for example spending too much time in front of television.” In the diocese where I served before there was a nuns’ college. They were good nuns but the house in which they lived, the apartment they had was a bit old and needed work done to it. So they had work done on it, too much work in fact, it became a luxury house. They put televisions in every room. And when there was a soap opera on there wasn’t a nun in sight at the college!”“These are the things that lead us to a worldly spirit,” the Pope underlined. “And this brings me onto the other point I wanted to make. Worldliness is dangerous, living a worldly life, living in a spiit of worldliness that Jesus did not want.”In response to a question put to him by a prelate on the scarcity of vocations, the Pope said: “But bearing witness to the faith attracts vocations. ‘I want to be like that priest, I want to be like that nun’. A comfortable and worldly life does not help us.” The Pope then spoke about the joy of testimony. “If a cleric is sad then something’s not quite right. They should go to a friend or a good spiritual councillor.” “If Jesus isn't center of your life, postpone ordination,” Francis said addressing candidates to the priesthood.Francis also warned religious against the “terrorism of gossip” because “whoever gossips is a terrorist who throws a bomb and destroys, while he or she keeps a safe distance. At least if that person was suicide bomber…” “Gossip destroys. You talk about differences face to face,” he added.
BRIEF STORIES FROM THE TIMES OF ISRAEL MAR 22,2015
19:54-Ted Cruz to announce presidential run-Hard-right Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz plans to announce on Monday that he will run to become the party’s 2016 presidential candidate, making him the first White House hopeful to officially enter the race.Cruz is a strong backer of Israel. On foreign policy, Cruz was among 47 Republican senators who signed a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader warning that any nuclear deal that is struck with the Obama administration and five other world powers could become null and void after the 2016 election — when the current president leaves the White House. He met with Netanyahu twice in the past year, and defended Israel during the summer conflict in Gaza.Cruz, 44, has considerable appeal among the Republican Party’s base of conservative voters. After his election to the Senate in 2012, the former Texas solicitor general quickly established himself as an uncompromising conservative willing to take on Democrats and Republicans alike.Criticized by members of his own party at times, he won praise from ultraconservative tea party activists for leading the Republican push to shut down the federal government during an unsuccessful bid to block funding for President Barack Obama’s health care law.In a recent Associated Press interview, he said he wants to counter the “caricatures” of the right as “stupid,” ”evil” or “crazy.”“The image created in the mainstream media does not comply with the facts,” he continued.The son of an American mother and Cuban-born father, Cruz would be the nation’s first Hispanic president. Cruz was born in Canada, but two lawyers who represented presidents from both parties at the Supreme Court recently wrote in the Harvard Law Review that Cruz meets the constitutional requirement to run.— AP, Times of Israel staff
19:32-Morocco says IS cell busted, arms seized-Morocco says it dismantled a “terrorist cell” and seized weapons earmarked for a string of assassinations in a nationwide operation targeting supporters of the Islamic State jihadist group.The interior ministry says the operation was carried out by a newly formed judicial investigations agency, but did not specify the timing or the number of arrests.Raids were carried out in several cities including Agadir in southwest Morocco, Marrakesh in the south, Boujaad in the center, Tangiers in the north, Ain Harouda near Casablanca, and in the Western Sahara.“Firearms and a large amount of ammunition” to be used “to assassinate political, military and civilian figures” were seized near Agadir, the ministry says, quoted by the official MAP news agency.It says members of the dismantled network had pledged allegiance to IS and vowed to target the Moroccan security forces and send recruits to fight in Syria and Iraq.According to official figures, between 1,500 and 2,000 Moroccans are fighting or have fought alongside jihadists in Iraq and Syria as well as in Libya.— AFP
17:56-Hundreds bury female Afghani lynch victim-Hundreds of people attend the burial of an Afghan woman who was beaten to death and set on fire by a mob for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran.
Authorities announce the suspension of 13 police officers as well as multiple arrests over the lynching, which took place in full view of several policemen and sparked widespread condemnation at home and abroad.The body of Farkhunda, 27, who was lynched on Thursday by an angry crowd in central Kabul, is carried to the graveyard by women amid crowds of men, an AFP reporter says, a rare act of protest in a male-dominated society.The crowd, shouting “Allah o Akbar” (God is greatest), demands the government bring the killers to justice.— AFP
17:27-Syrian regime chopper crew captured by rebels-Islamist rebels in Syria capture four crew members when a regime helicopter crashes in the country’s northwest, a monitor says, while a fifth serviceman is killed.“A regime helicopter was forced to land in the region of Jabal al-Zawiya in the northwest, which is a bastion of (Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate) Jabhat al-Nusra,” Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, tells AFP.“Four of the crew were captured and a fifth man was killed by armed men in a neighboring village.”— AFP
16:50-McCain tells Obama, ‘Get over temper tantrum’-Sen. John McCain urges Obama to “get over” his “temper tantrum” over Netanyahu’s comments, and says the president “has his priorities so screwed up it’s unbelievable” with regard to the Middle East.“There was a free and fair democratic election, the only nation in the region that will have such a thing. The president should get over it. Get over your temper tantrum, Mr. President. It’s time that we work together with our Israeli friends and try to stem this tide of ISIS and Iranian movement throughout the region, which is threatening the very fabric of the region,” McCain told CNN’s “State of the Union.”Netanyahu’s remarks are “the least of your problems,” he says, stressing that the comments were said during an election campaign.When pressed by the interviewer as to whether Obama should simply ignore Netanyahu’s rejection of the two-state solution, he says: “I think maybe the president shouldn’t like it, but thousands are being slaughtered by ISIS… Bibi’s rhetoric concerning an election campaign pales in comparison to the threat, the direct threat to the United States of America, of ISIS. The president has his priorities so screwed up that it’s unbelievable.”McCain says that if Obama would back a UN resolution for Palestinian statehood, “Congress would have to reexamine our funding for the United Nations.”Such a move would be a “violation” and would contradict US policy for “at least ten presidencies,” McCain says.
16:40-Iran supreme leader’s sister dies-The sister of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dies at the age of 89, the semi-official Fars News Agency reports.Seyedeh Fatemeh Hosseini Khamenei died on Saturday night of unspecified causes.Her death came two days after the mother of President Hassan Rouhani died.
16:14-CIA chief says US will keep pressure on Iran-CIA Director John Brennan tells Fox News that the US will “continue to keep pressure” on Iran to ensure it does not “destabilize” the region and develop nuclear weapons, regardless of whether a nuclear deal is ultimately signed.“The nuclear program is one issue that we’re hoping to be able to halt; but also, we see that Iran is still a state sponsor of terrorism,” he says. “And so what we have to do, whether there’s a deal or not, is continue to keep pressure on Iran and to make sure that it is not able to continue to destabilize a number of the countries in the region.”He says Iran is aware there will be “tremendous costs and consequences and implications” to its expansionism and attempts to develop a weapon. Brennan says the US “has gone to school” in the past ten years, “so that we can now have a better plan and an opportunity to verify some of the things that they are saying that they’re going to do and not do.”“President Obama has made it very clear that we are going to prevent Iran from having that type of nuclear weapon that they — they were going on the track to obtain. So if they decide to go down that route, they know that they will do so at their peril.”
15:30-US Marines issues warning after IS cyber-hack-The US Marine Corps urges “vigilance” after a group claiming to be Islamic State hackers publishes what they said were the names and addresses of 100 military personnel and urges supporters to kill them.The warning comes after a group calling itself the Islamic State Hacking Division posted information about members of the air force, army and navy, including photos and ranks, on the Internet, according to monitoring group SITE Intelligence.
The US Marine Corps says it was visiting all affected staff, and urges caution online.“Vigilance and force protection considerations remain a priority for commanders and their personnel,” US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel John Caldwell says in a statement, adding that the threat remained “unverified.”“It is recommended Marines and family members check their online/social footprint, ensuring privacy settings are adjusted to limit the amount of available personal information.”– AFP
15:13-Third Tunisia museum attacker ‘on the run’-A third attacker in the massacre of tourists in Tunisia’s national museum is on the run, President Beji Caid Essebsi says, vowing to track him down.
“Definitely there were three,” Essebsi tells France’s iTele television and Europe 1 radio.“Two were killed, but there is one who is now on the run,” he says. “In any case, he will not get very far.”The attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis on Wednesday killed 21 people, all but one of them foreign tourists, and was claimed by the Islamic State group.— AFP
15:00-UK medical students feared to have joined IS-A group of British medical students of Sudanese origin who went missing after traveling to Turkey are feared to have crossed into Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group as doctors, reports and sources say.The families of the students have traveled to the Turkey-Syria border in a desperate appeal for them to return home before it is too late, a Turkish opposition MP says.According to reports in Britain’s The Guardian newspaper and the BBC, the nine young British medical students flew to Istanbul from the Sudanese capital Khartoum on March 12 and then overland towards Syria.They have been joined by two other medics from the United States and Canada, also of Sudanese origin, the BBC says.– AFP
03/21/2015 -The blood of St. Gennaro liquefies in Francis’ presence-Francis kisses the vial-St. Gennaro’s relic miraculously turned to liquid in Naples Cathedral. This usually only happens on the feast of the saint on 19 September. Sepe said St. Gennaro loves the Pope, the blood has already liquefied by half." But the whole relic eventually turned to liquid-Giacomo Galeazzi
in naples-This is the first time it happened. San Gennaro’s blood had never liquefied during a papal visit to Naples before. None of the visits paid by Pius IX, John Paul II or Benedict XVI provoked the phenomenon. But the miracle was witnessed this afternoon, after Francis’ heartfelt address to faithful and clergy.The Pope had taken the vial with the blood of St. Gennaro - displayed on the altar - in his hands and kissed it. Cardinal Sepe said over the microphone: “It is the sign that St. Gennaro loves Pope Francis: half of the blood turned to liquid.” The pronouncement was followed by a long applause from faithful. The Pope then replied: “If only half of it liquefied that means we still have work to do; we have to do better. We have only half of the saint’s love.” But the blood continued to liquefy until the whole relic had turned to liquid, with many faithful crying out as they witnessed this.Prior to this, the Pope had set aside his written speech and continued off the cuff, describing some personal experiences he had had and encouraging faithful to worship and love the Church (“you cannot love Jesus without loving his Church”) and show apostolic zeal (“The Church exists in order to bring Jesus” to people, he stressed). “We need to start from Jesus and Mary, the Pope urged, before going on to condemn wheeling and dealing in the Church, the “terrorism of gossip” and the attachment to money displayed by some priests and religious. “Wheeling and dealing” in the Church is an “ugly” thing.Pope Francis set aside his prepared speech and delivered a long address off the cuff at his meeting with priests, nuns and religious in Naples Cathedral. He listed a series of “testimonies” and counter-testimonies which the consecrated can give God’s people, including the “spirit of poverty”. The Pope told the story of a nun who was attached to money. “When there is wheeling and dealing in the Church this is an ugly thing,” he said. “I remember a great nun, a good woman, a great bursar who was good at her job but was too attached to money. She would subconsciously pick people according to how much money they had: ‘I like him more, he’s very well off’. She was a bursar at an important college, she had important structures built. She was a great woman but you could see this in her. And the final humiliation this woman faced was public: she was around 70 years old and she was in the teachers’ lounge having a coffee when she fainted and fell. People tried slapping her to get her return to consciousness but she wouldn’t. So one of the female teachers said put a 100 pesos note on her and let’s see if she reacts. The poor woman was dead but this was the last thing that was said when no one was sure if she was alive or not: an ugly testimony.”When a priest is “greedy” and “gets involved in business”, how many scandals have been witnessed int he Church and how much lack of freedom just because of money!” the Pope continued. H eexplained the cautiousness shown by some clerics when they find themselves int he midst of moneyed people: “I should give this person a piece of my mind but since he or she is an great benefactor and great benefactors lead the lives they want, it is not my place” to start preaching to them. “A priest can have his savings, but that is not where his heart should be” otherwise “you start to differentiate between people when there’s money involved and so I ask you to examine your conscience: how is my life of poverty going? Even in the small things, whether one is a cleric or not.”Pope Francis also condemned “worldliness “and excess, for example spending too much time in front of television.” In the diocese where I served before there was a nuns’ college. They were good nuns but the house in which they lived, the apartment they had was a bit old and needed work done to it. So they had work done on it, too much work in fact, it became a luxury house. They put televisions in every room. And when there was a soap opera on there wasn’t a nun in sight at the college!”“These are the things that lead us to a worldly spirit,” the Pope underlined. “And this brings me onto the other point I wanted to make. Worldliness is dangerous, living a worldly life, living in a spiit of worldliness that Jesus did not want.”In response to a question put to him by a prelate on the scarcity of vocations, the Pope said: “But bearing witness to the faith attracts vocations. ‘I want to be like that priest, I want to be like that nun’. A comfortable and worldly life does not help us.” The Pope then spoke about the joy of testimony. “If a cleric is sad then something’s not quite right. They should go to a friend or a good spiritual councillor.” “If Jesus isn't center of your life, postpone ordination,” Francis said addressing candidates to the priesthood.Francis also warned religious against the “terrorism of gossip” because “whoever gossips is a terrorist who throws a bomb and destroys, while he or she keeps a safe distance. At least if that person was suicide bomber…” “Gossip destroys. You talk about differences face to face,” he added.
BRIEF STORIES FROM THE TIMES OF ISRAEL MAR 22,2015
19:54-Ted Cruz to announce presidential run-Hard-right Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz plans to announce on Monday that he will run to become the party’s 2016 presidential candidate, making him the first White House hopeful to officially enter the race.Cruz is a strong backer of Israel. On foreign policy, Cruz was among 47 Republican senators who signed a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader warning that any nuclear deal that is struck with the Obama administration and five other world powers could become null and void after the 2016 election — when the current president leaves the White House. He met with Netanyahu twice in the past year, and defended Israel during the summer conflict in Gaza.Cruz, 44, has considerable appeal among the Republican Party’s base of conservative voters. After his election to the Senate in 2012, the former Texas solicitor general quickly established himself as an uncompromising conservative willing to take on Democrats and Republicans alike.Criticized by members of his own party at times, he won praise from ultraconservative tea party activists for leading the Republican push to shut down the federal government during an unsuccessful bid to block funding for President Barack Obama’s health care law.In a recent Associated Press interview, he said he wants to counter the “caricatures” of the right as “stupid,” ”evil” or “crazy.”“The image created in the mainstream media does not comply with the facts,” he continued.The son of an American mother and Cuban-born father, Cruz would be the nation’s first Hispanic president. Cruz was born in Canada, but two lawyers who represented presidents from both parties at the Supreme Court recently wrote in the Harvard Law Review that Cruz meets the constitutional requirement to run.— AP, Times of Israel staff
19:32-Morocco says IS cell busted, arms seized-Morocco says it dismantled a “terrorist cell” and seized weapons earmarked for a string of assassinations in a nationwide operation targeting supporters of the Islamic State jihadist group.The interior ministry says the operation was carried out by a newly formed judicial investigations agency, but did not specify the timing or the number of arrests.Raids were carried out in several cities including Agadir in southwest Morocco, Marrakesh in the south, Boujaad in the center, Tangiers in the north, Ain Harouda near Casablanca, and in the Western Sahara.“Firearms and a large amount of ammunition” to be used “to assassinate political, military and civilian figures” were seized near Agadir, the ministry says, quoted by the official MAP news agency.It says members of the dismantled network had pledged allegiance to IS and vowed to target the Moroccan security forces and send recruits to fight in Syria and Iraq.According to official figures, between 1,500 and 2,000 Moroccans are fighting or have fought alongside jihadists in Iraq and Syria as well as in Libya.— AFP
17:56-Hundreds bury female Afghani lynch victim-Hundreds of people attend the burial of an Afghan woman who was beaten to death and set on fire by a mob for allegedly burning a copy of the Koran.
Authorities announce the suspension of 13 police officers as well as multiple arrests over the lynching, which took place in full view of several policemen and sparked widespread condemnation at home and abroad.The body of Farkhunda, 27, who was lynched on Thursday by an angry crowd in central Kabul, is carried to the graveyard by women amid crowds of men, an AFP reporter says, a rare act of protest in a male-dominated society.The crowd, shouting “Allah o Akbar” (God is greatest), demands the government bring the killers to justice.— AFP
17:27-Syrian regime chopper crew captured by rebels-Islamist rebels in Syria capture four crew members when a regime helicopter crashes in the country’s northwest, a monitor says, while a fifth serviceman is killed.“A regime helicopter was forced to land in the region of Jabal al-Zawiya in the northwest, which is a bastion of (Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate) Jabhat al-Nusra,” Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, tells AFP.“Four of the crew were captured and a fifth man was killed by armed men in a neighboring village.”— AFP
16:50-McCain tells Obama, ‘Get over temper tantrum’-Sen. John McCain urges Obama to “get over” his “temper tantrum” over Netanyahu’s comments, and says the president “has his priorities so screwed up it’s unbelievable” with regard to the Middle East.“There was a free and fair democratic election, the only nation in the region that will have such a thing. The president should get over it. Get over your temper tantrum, Mr. President. It’s time that we work together with our Israeli friends and try to stem this tide of ISIS and Iranian movement throughout the region, which is threatening the very fabric of the region,” McCain told CNN’s “State of the Union.”Netanyahu’s remarks are “the least of your problems,” he says, stressing that the comments were said during an election campaign.When pressed by the interviewer as to whether Obama should simply ignore Netanyahu’s rejection of the two-state solution, he says: “I think maybe the president shouldn’t like it, but thousands are being slaughtered by ISIS… Bibi’s rhetoric concerning an election campaign pales in comparison to the threat, the direct threat to the United States of America, of ISIS. The president has his priorities so screwed up that it’s unbelievable.”McCain says that if Obama would back a UN resolution for Palestinian statehood, “Congress would have to reexamine our funding for the United Nations.”Such a move would be a “violation” and would contradict US policy for “at least ten presidencies,” McCain says.
16:40-Iran supreme leader’s sister dies-The sister of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei dies at the age of 89, the semi-official Fars News Agency reports.Seyedeh Fatemeh Hosseini Khamenei died on Saturday night of unspecified causes.Her death came two days after the mother of President Hassan Rouhani died.
16:14-CIA chief says US will keep pressure on Iran-CIA Director John Brennan tells Fox News that the US will “continue to keep pressure” on Iran to ensure it does not “destabilize” the region and develop nuclear weapons, regardless of whether a nuclear deal is ultimately signed.“The nuclear program is one issue that we’re hoping to be able to halt; but also, we see that Iran is still a state sponsor of terrorism,” he says. “And so what we have to do, whether there’s a deal or not, is continue to keep pressure on Iran and to make sure that it is not able to continue to destabilize a number of the countries in the region.”He says Iran is aware there will be “tremendous costs and consequences and implications” to its expansionism and attempts to develop a weapon. Brennan says the US “has gone to school” in the past ten years, “so that we can now have a better plan and an opportunity to verify some of the things that they are saying that they’re going to do and not do.”“President Obama has made it very clear that we are going to prevent Iran from having that type of nuclear weapon that they — they were going on the track to obtain. So if they decide to go down that route, they know that they will do so at their peril.”
15:30-US Marines issues warning after IS cyber-hack-The US Marine Corps urges “vigilance” after a group claiming to be Islamic State hackers publishes what they said were the names and addresses of 100 military personnel and urges supporters to kill them.The warning comes after a group calling itself the Islamic State Hacking Division posted information about members of the air force, army and navy, including photos and ranks, on the Internet, according to monitoring group SITE Intelligence.
The US Marine Corps says it was visiting all affected staff, and urges caution online.“Vigilance and force protection considerations remain a priority for commanders and their personnel,” US Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel John Caldwell says in a statement, adding that the threat remained “unverified.”“It is recommended Marines and family members check their online/social footprint, ensuring privacy settings are adjusted to limit the amount of available personal information.”– AFP
15:13-Third Tunisia museum attacker ‘on the run’-A third attacker in the massacre of tourists in Tunisia’s national museum is on the run, President Beji Caid Essebsi says, vowing to track him down.
“Definitely there were three,” Essebsi tells France’s iTele television and Europe 1 radio.“Two were killed, but there is one who is now on the run,” he says. “In any case, he will not get very far.”The attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis on Wednesday killed 21 people, all but one of them foreign tourists, and was claimed by the Islamic State group.— AFP
15:00-UK medical students feared to have joined IS-A group of British medical students of Sudanese origin who went missing after traveling to Turkey are feared to have crossed into Syria to join the Islamic State (IS) group as doctors, reports and sources say.The families of the students have traveled to the Turkey-Syria border in a desperate appeal for them to return home before it is too late, a Turkish opposition MP says.According to reports in Britain’s The Guardian newspaper and the BBC, the nine young British medical students flew to Istanbul from the Sudanese capital Khartoum on March 12 and then overland towards Syria.They have been joined by two other medics from the United States and Canada, also of Sudanese origin, the BBC says.– AFP
