RUSSIA AND NATO REHEARSING FOR WAR.

JEWISH KING JESUS IS COMING AT THE RAPTURE FOR US IN THE CLOUDS-DON'T MISS IT FOR THE WORLD.THE BIBLE TAKEN LITERALLY- WHEN THE PLAIN SENSE MAKES GOOD SENSE-SEEK NO OTHER SENSE-LEST YOU END UP IN NONSENSE.GET SAVED NOW- CALL ON JESUS TODAY.THE ONLY SAVIOR OF THE WHOLE EARTH - NO OTHER. 1 COR 15:23-JESUS THE FIRST FRUITS-CHRISTIANS RAPTURED TO JESUS-FIRST FRUITS OF THE SPIRIT-23 But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ’s at his coming.ROMANS 8:23 And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.(THE PRE-TRIB RAPTURE)

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US THAT WE CAN BE SAVED FOREVER.AND DURING WW3 PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE SHED AS A JUDGEMENT FOR HATING HIM AND ISRAEL.GOD IS NOT MOCKED.

ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2  I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3  I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

EZEKIEL 5:15-17
15  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the (ARAB/MUSLIM) nations that are round about thee,(ISRAEL) when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17  So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,(WHEN RUSSIA/MUSLIMS GET DEFEATED THIER BODIES GET EATEN BY BIRDS,ANIMALS IN ISRAEL MIGRATION SEASON) and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;(NUKES) and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth (ATOMIC BOMB) before them;(RUSSIAN-ARAB-MUSLIM ARMIES AGAINST ISRAEL) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.(ATOMIC BOMB AFFECT)

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED FROM ATOMIC BOMB)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven;(FROM ATOMIC BOMBS) and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(ATOMIC BOMBS)(RUSSIA CHINA DESTROYED BY ISRAELS ATOMIC BOMBS)

REVELATION 16:12-16
12 And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates;(WERE WW3 STARTS IN IRAQ OR SYRIA OR TURKEY) and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.
13 And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon,(SATAN) and out of the mouth of the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) and out of the mouth of the false prophet.(FALSE POPE)
14 For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.(WERE 2 BILLION DIE FROM NUKE WAR)
15 Behold, I come as a thief. Blessed is he that watcheth, and keepeth his garments, lest he walk naked, and they see his shame.
16 And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
17 And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

PROOF HALF ON EARTH DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD (8 BILLION ON EARTH)

REVELATION 6:7-8 (8 BILLION- 2 BILLION = 6 BILLION)
7 And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse:(CHLORES GREEN) and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth,(2 BILLION) to kill with sword,(WEAPONS) and with hunger,(FAMINE) and with death,(INCURABLE DISEASES) and with the beasts of the earth.(ANIMAL TO HUMAN DISEASE).

REVELATION 9:15,18 (6 BILLION - 2 BILLION = 4 BILLION)
15 And the four(DEMONIC WAR) angels were loosed,
18 By these three was the third part of men killed,(2 BILLION) by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMBS)

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37 (8 TOTAL BILLION - 4 BILLION DEAD IN TRIB = 4 BILLION TO JESUS KINGDOM) (HALF DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION PERIOD JUST LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS)(GOD DOES NOT LIE)(AND NOTICE MOST DIE IN WAR AND DISEASES-NOT COMETS-ASTEROIDS-QUAKES OR TSUNAMIS)
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.(half earths population 4 billion die in the 7 yr trib)
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES.BECAUSE NOT HALF OF PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE CHRISTIANS.AND THE CONTEXT IN LUKE 17 IS THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION OR 7 YR TREATY PERIOD.WHICH IS JUDGEMENT ON THE EARTH.NOT 50% RAPTURED TO HEAVEN.

MATTHEW 24:37-42
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.

Russia and Nato rehearsing for war, report says-By Andrew Rettman-aug 14,15-euobserver

BRUSSELS, 12. Aug, 09:17-Russian and Nato drills indicate they are “preparing for a possible confrontation”, in a political climate which risks accidental war, a British think tank warns.The European Leadership Network (ELN), a London-based NGO, profiled a massive Russian exercise in March and a smaller Nato drill, called Allied Shield, in June.The Russian manoeuvres saw soldiers wake up on 16 March to orders which eventually drew in 80,000 servicemen.Russian airborne troops simulated an invasion of Latvia supported by attack helicopters and artillery, while its Baltic Sea fleet carried out search and destroy missions and air defence operations.Its Northern Fleet, based in the Barents Sea, conducted similar exercises, supported by strategic bombers and fighter jets.Its Black Sea Fleet carried out anti-submarine sweeps. Russian troops were also mobilised in Arctic regions and in the Far East Sakhalin and Kuril islands.On the Nato side, four separate drills involved 15,000 troops from 19 member states.One drill practiced amphibious landings in Nato member Poland and in Nato ally Sweden and simulated operations against the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad.A second one rehearsed tank battles with close air support in the Baltic States and in Poland.A third one saw the first-ever deployment of Nato’s Very High Readiness Joint Task Force, a new unit designed to deter Russian aggression, in Poland.With both Russia and Nato using live fire, and with attempts to monitor what the other side is doing leading to “close military encounters” between Russian jets and Nato naval assets, the ELN warns the activities risk making “war in Europe more likely”.“We do not suggest that the leadership of either side has made a decision to go to war … but the changed profile of these exercises is a fact and plays a role in sustaining the current climate of fear and tension in Europe”, the NGO’s director, Ian Kearns, said.Russia did not comment on the ELN report, but its previous line is that it is responding to Nato expansion.Carmen Romero, a Nato spokeswoman, said the ELN study “misleadingly puts Nato and Russian exercises on par”.She noted that the Russian drills simulate offensive operations and involve nuclear assets, while the Nato exercises are defensive and conventional in nature.She said Russia has violated international commitments, under the so-called OSCE Vienna Document, on pre-notifying Nato of its actions.She also said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and its war propaganda puts its behaviour in a different light.“These exercises are part of a more aggressive Russian military doctrine, dangerous political rhetoric, increased military deployments, and the annexation of Crimea. This is the new strategic reality in Europe”.Red hot’-The ELN survey comes amid fresh worries of escalation in east Ukraine.Ukrainian authorities on Tuesday said Russian proxy forces, on Monday, launched a tank, artillery, and Grad rocket-backed assault on Starohnativka, a Ukrainian-controlled town.International monitors, from the Vienna-based OSCE, described it as “a significant increase in ceasefire violations”.The EU foreign service, in a statement, also complained about “attacks on several government-controlled areas”.The British defence minister, Michael Fallon, who was in Kiev on Tuesday, added: “This must not be allowed to be [called] a frozen conflict … it seems to me pretty red hot”.Russia, which denies playing any role in the conflict, blamed the flare-up on Ukrainian aggression.Local spokesmen for the Russian-occupied parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions in east Ukraine said Ukrainian forces shelled themselves as a pretext for new hostilities.MH17-Russian state media, on Wednesday, also reacted to a report by Dutch investigators into the MH17 disaster last summer.The Dutch Safety Board, leading the enquiry, said it found “possible Buk missile parts” at the crash site, which are “of particular interest”.The prevailing theory is that Russian proxies shot down the passenger plane with a Russian-supplied Buk system because they thought it was a Ukrainian military plane.The Dutch statement noted that “at present” the conclusion “cannot be drawn that there is a causal connection between the discovered parts and the crash of flight MH17”.Russia’s flagship broadcaster, RT, said, in its headline, this means there is “no proof” of Russia’s guilt.

Hiroshima/Nagasaki atomic blasts still echo, 70 years on-News release-06 August 2015

6 August 2015, Hiroshima/ Geneva (IFRC/ICRC) – Seventy years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japanese Red Cross Society hospitals are still treating thousands of survivors for long-term health effects, with nearly two-thirds of deaths among them due to cancer."Even after so many decades, we continue to see the catastrophic health impact from the use of nuclear weapons on these two cities," said ICRC President Peter Maurer. "What more compelling argument could there be for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons, especially as most of the bombs in the arsenals of nuclear armed states today are more powerful and destructive?"With nearly 200,000 survivors still alive it is expected that many thousands will continue to need care for radiation related illnesses in the coming years, while the psychological impact of the bombings continues to haunt even those survivors not physically ill."This commemoration is a reminder of the indiscriminate humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons," said Tadateru Konoé, the President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies who is representing the Movement at Peace Memorial Ceremonies in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. "It is a reminder that these consequences travel across space and time and that, once unleashed, they can never be contained."In the year last year alone, the Japanese Red Cross Hiroshima and Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Survivors Hospitals treated 4,657 and 6,030 survivors respectively.Nearly two-thirds (63 per cent) of atomic bomb survivor deaths in the hospital through March 2014 were attributed to cancers of which the primary types were lung cancer (20 per cent), stomach cancer (18 per cent), liver cancer (14 per cent), leukemia (8 per cent), intestinal cancer (7 per cent) and malignant lymphoma (6 per cent). Over this period, more than half of all deaths at the Nagasaki Red Cross hospital (56 per cent) were due to cancer.The Japanese Red Cross Society has run hospitals for atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima since 1956 and in Nagasaki since 1969. The hospitals have together handled more than 2.5 million outpatient visits by atomic bomb survivors and more than 2.6 million admissions of survivors as inpatients.The 70th commemoration of the atomic bombings comes just months after the failure of the Review Conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons to agree on moves forward towards their elimination. ENDS-For further information, please contact:International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC):Hitomi Makabe, Head of Communications, ICRC, Tokyo, Mobile: +81 80 41 42 97 23, Email: hmakabe@icrc.org –Twitter @ICRC_jp -Francis Markus, Public Relations Officer, ICRC, Geneva, Mobile: +41 79 244 64 24, Email: fmarkus@icrc.org - Twitter: @francis_markus -International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies:Benoit Matsha-Carpentier, Team Leader, Public Communications, IFRC Geneva, Mobile: +41 79 213 24 13, E-mail: benoit.carpentier@ifrc.org - Twitter: @BenoistC

HOARDING OF GOLD AND SILVER

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.(IN 1 HR THE STOCK MARKETS WORLDWIDE WILL CRASH)
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed:(CONFISCATED) their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

LUKE 2:1-3
1 And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.
2  (And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor of Syria.)
3  And all went to be taxed, every one into his own city.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.

Euro ministers meet on Greece in toxic atmosphere-By Eric Maurice-aug 14,15-euobserver

BRUSSELS, 14. Aug, 09:28-Friday’s (14 August) Eurogroup meeting on the Greek bailout could see Germany push for tighter conditions and clash with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on debt relief.Meanwhile, the Greek Parliament, on Friday morning, approved the bailout agreement and the required prior actions after almost 24 hours of discussions, which exposed the ever-deeper rift in Greek PM Alexis Tsipras' coalition.Two hundred and twenty two MPs voted Yes, 64 voted No, including 32 from Tsipras' own party, while 11 abstained.The Vouli debate went on all night, with heated exchanges between MPs and with the parliament speaker, Zoe Konstantopoulou, trying to delay the vote to Friday afternoon through procedural manoeuvres."I am not going to support the prime minister any more”, Konstantopoulou, a representative of Syriza's left wing, said in an indication of what could be a definitive split in the party.Tsipras told MPs the choice was between "a memorandum with the euro or a memorandum with the drachma”.He also warned them that German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble would try to take back the up-to €86 billion aid which Greece had managed to negotiate if they did not vote in time for the Eurogroup event.' Partially compliant'-Germany had already voiced skepticism on the technical EU-Greece accord reached on Tuesday, and Schaeuble is expected to push for new conditions at the Eurogroup.A document from the German finance ministry leaked by Green MEP Sven Giegold indicates Schaeuble will say the memorandum of understanding (MoU), which outlines reforms to be implemented during the three-year bailout, does not meet all the conditions agreed at July’s euro summit."Large parts of the summit statement including the prior actions from the aide-memoire are included in the MoU. However, the implementation of many measures is foreseen not before October/ November, and some very important reforms will not be implemented yet and are not yet specified”, the leaked document notes.According to the German ministry, the MoU is only "partially compliant" with the euro summit accord on issues like the reform strategy, fiscal targets, or public administration, and is “largely compliant" on labour market and pension reforms.On public administration reform, Schaeuble's ministry thinks the MoU is "repeating and weakening the summit language".The ministry also thinks the MoU is "not yet compliant" on the privatisation fund demanded by Germany to manage Greece's assets, nor on debt sustainability.Debt relief-“Three key questions to be clarified now”, the document adds, using language that could herald difficult talks at the Eurogroup event." First : Does IMF fully subscribe to the conditionality (no split in conditionality between ESM and IMF)?”, it asks, referring to the European Stability Mechanism, the eurozone fund that will provide the bulk of the bailout."Second: How can debt sustainability be ensured (hint to debt relief later on is not convincing)? And third: Can the independent privatisation fund rapidly start working and also take over the Greek banks together with recapitalization of up to €25 billion (ensuring governance standards as with direct recap)?”. While Germany insists that the IMF should participate in the third bailout, Berlin and the Washington-based institution are at loggerheads over debt relief.Germany and the IMF agree Greek debt is unsustainable.But Germany is opposed to any haircut and insists on fiscal discipline, while the IMF has repeatedly said it would not participate in the bailout unless Greek debt is restructured.In a statement on Thursday, the IMF said it "look[s] forward for Greece’s European partners to make decisions on debt relief that will allow Greece’s debt to become sustainable".It added it would "make an assessment of its participation in providing any additional financing to Greece once the steps on the authorities' programme and debt relief have been taken, expected at the time of the first review of the ESM programme”.The European Commission also entered the new debate on Thursday.
In a series of messages posted on Twitter, commission president Jean-Claude Juncker's chief of staff, Martin Selmayr, noted that EU treaties say IMF involvement is "wherever appropriate+possible" and asked if debt relief "is what all 19 €Member States want”? If the bailout is not approved in time for 20 August, when Greece has to repay a €3.2 billion loan to the European Central Bank (ECB), the EU could agree on bridge-financing instead.According to German tabloid Bild, Greece would, in this case, receive €6.04 billion over a three-month period.This option has the support of Germany, but is rejected by Tsipras."It would be a return to a crisis with our end," he told Greek MPs on Thursday.

EU endorses Greek bailout, first payment next Thursday By Andrew Rettman-AUG 14,15-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, Today, 22:36-Euro countries have agreed to lend Greece up to €86 billion more to keep it in the single currency, with the first tranche, of €23 billion, to be transferred next Thursday (20 August).The agreement was clinched at a meeting of euro finance ministers in Brussels on Friday (14 August).Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chaired the event, told press that if Athens implements the required reforms it will “allow Greece to return to sustainable growth”.European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said: “The message of today's Eurogroup is loud and clear: On this basis, Greece is and will irreversibly remain a member of the euro area”.Valdis Dombrovskis, his economic affairs commissioner, called the deal “solid and comprehensive … fair”."Today's agreement will lift the uncertainty that has hung over the country and the euro area for too long”, he added.The money is to come in the form of a 32.5-year maturity, 1 percent interest rate, loan from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM), the EU’s Luxembourg-based anti-crisis fund, which has up to €455 billion in its coffers.But ESM chief Klaus Regling noted, in Brussels, that he expects the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to join the programme in autumn, reducing the ESM’s full share of the burden.He also said he expects income from Greek privatisations to reduce the burden further."Greece is the only euro area country which hasn't turned the page on the crisis", he noted.Toxic debate-The accord comes after Greek MPs, following a toxic debate on Thursday night, voted through a tough package of reforms, dubbed “prior actions”.It also comes despite German reservations, with Berlin having signalled earlier in the day the reform package was not quite tough enough.The ESM board plans to rubber-stamp the agreement at a meeting next Wednesday, enabling it to pay out the €23 billion the next morning, in time for Greece to repay a €3.2 billion loan to the European Central Bank (ECB).It also aims to disburse a further €3 billion in September or October and to create a €10 billion “reserve fund”, wich can be tapped by Greek banks if they get into trouble in the short term.With Greece having been forced to impose capital controls in recent weeks to stem a potential bank run, Dijsselbloem underlined that Greek savers will not be forced to “bail-in” - contribute money - to the rescue package, even though some “senior” Greek bondholders will lose out.“We wanted to make sure there is no unrest among depositors”, Dijsselbloem said.Among a laundry list of measures demanded from Greece, its banks will face “stress tests” in autumn, before receiving recapitalisation funds.The ownership of the recapitalised banks will then be transferred to a new Greek privatisation fund, which is to be co-managed by the commission, the ECB, and the IMF.The arrangement means the return to Greece of what used to be called the “troika” of EU and IMF monitors - a hated institution which Greek PM Alexis Tsipras had earlier pledged to abolish.Political uncertainty-Despite the Greek Yes vote on Friday, Tsipras faces a rebellion by the left wing of his party, auguring potential political instability.But Dijsselbloem, Regling, and Dombrovsksis praised the Greek PM in glowing terms.Dijsselbloem said the Greek government has become “very serious” in the way it is now managing the crisis and in the way it has “normalised” its working relationship with creditors.He declined to speculate whether Greece will need long-term debt relief or further bailouts before it gets back on its feet.He also said he is happy that, despite the Syriza rebellion, the bailout conditions have a “broad majority from a broad range of parties [in Greece] … from the right, from the moderate left, and from the centre”.

Greek deal puts Tsipras in straitjacket By Eric Maurice-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, 12. Aug, 19:18-The memorandum of understanding (MoU) agreed by the Greek government and creditors on Tuesday (11 August) sets out a very constraining roadmap for Greece in exchange for a new bailout, the amount of which is yet to be decided.The 29-page document, which was leaked to media on Wednesday, requires wide-ranging and specific reforms to be implemented according to a precise timetable.The document, if it is endorsed by the Eurogroup, which will take place on Friday (14 August) in Brussels, and then ratified by eurozone countries, will leave very little room for manoeuvre for Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras.A set of prior actions will have to be voted by the Greek parliament, probably on Thursday, as a condition for the Eurogroup to endorse the deal.Prior actions include pension, tax and healthcare reforms, a strategy to address the issue of non-performing loans, reform of the gas market, and implementation of an already-agreed privatisation programme.By the end of August, the creditors ask the Greek government to "finalise a comprehensive strategy for the financial system which has deteriorated markedly since end-2014”.-Ownership-The Greek government will then be required to implement reforms with deadlines almost every month until autumn next year, under close control by its creditors - the EU, the European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)."Success requires ownership of the reform agenda programme by the Greek authorities," the MoU says in its preamble.It adds that the Greek government must "stand ready to take any measures that may become appropriate for this purpose as circumstances change”."The government commits to consult and agree with the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund on all actions relevant for the achievement of the objectives of the Memorandum of Understanding before these are finalised and legally adopted”, the document says.Concerning the banking and financial sector, the MoU specifies that "no unilateral fiscal or other policy actions will be taken by the authorities, which would undermine the liquidity, solvency, or future viability of the banks"."All measures, legislative or otherwise, taken during the programme period, which may have an impact on banks' operations, solvency, liquidity, asset quality etc. should be taken in close consultation with the EC/ECB/IMF and where relevant the ESM”, it adds, referring to the European Stability Mechanism, the eurozone fund which will furnish a large part of the bailout.-Primary budget-In the meantime, the creditors are careful to say "the recovery strategy takes into account the need for social justice and fairness, both across and within generations"."Fiscal constraints have imposed hard choices, and it is therefore important that the burden of adjustment is borne by all parts of society and taking into account the ability to pay”.The MoU identifies four pillars on which it builds the bailout programme strategy: "restoring fiscal sustainability", "safeguarding financial stability", "growth, competitiveness, and investment", and "a modern state and public administration"."Success will require the sustained implementation of agreed policies over many years," it warns, with the bailout programme to cover the years 2015 to 2018.In order to achieve the designed strategy, the Greek government is required to achieve a primary budget with a deficit of 0.25 percent of GDP this year, with a surplus of 0.5 percent in 2016, 1.75 percent in 2017, and 3.5 percent in 2018.The target is lower than the 1 percent target outlined in previous discussions in June.At the time, the EU expected 0.5 percent growth of the Greek economy this year.But according to EU sources quoted by the AFP news agency Wednesday, the Greek economy is now expected to shrink by 2.3 percent this year, and 1.3 percent in 2016.To meet these targets in a downgraded environment, the Greek government is required to adopt next October "a supplementary 2015 budget as needed, the draft 2016 budget and a 2016–19 medium-term fiscal strategy, supported by a sizable and credible package of parametric measures and structural fiscal reforms”.Reforms-The measures will include further pension reforms, tax reforms to increase revenue, as well as the extension, until 2018, of a special contribution from Greece's shipping sector, and the reduction of military spending by €100 million in 2015 and €400 million in 2016.In addition, the Greek government will have to take "credible structural measures", also in October, to ensure spending cuts of "0.75 percent of GDP coming into effect in 2017 and 0.25 percent of GDP coming into effect in 2018".Other measures required from Greek authorities in the coming months include the deregulation of some professions, an overhaul of the welfare system, the privatisation of the electricity transmission company, ADMIE, a reform of the agriculture sector, and "capacity-building and de-politicising" of the Greek administration.In a country where deficient tax recovery and tax evasion are an old problem, the MoU asks Greek authorities to adopt measures by September and October and to "produce by November 2015 a comprehensive plan for combating tax evasion based on an effective interagency co-operation".

Greek MPs recalled from holidays for bailout vote By Eric Maurice-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, 13. Aug, 09:19-The Greek parliament is expected to vote on Thursday evening (13 August) on a series of reforms, including tax hikes, which are likely to stoke a left-wing rebellion against prime minister Alexis Tsipras.The reforms constitute the prior actions required by Greece's creditors - the EU, the European Central Bank (ECB), and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) - before new bailout money can start being disbursed.The bailout deal will also need to be endorsed by the Eurogroup on Friday and ratified by eurozone countries.Greek MPs have been called back from their summer holiday for a vote according to a fast-track procedure.Discussions started at committee level on Thursday morning and will be followed by a plenary debate in the evening. Voting should take place late in the night, as was the case in previous votes in July.Reforms-The memorandum of understanding (MoU) agreed by the Greek government on Tuesday details what is expected from the Greek government over the next three years.The reduced VAT rate for islands are to be abolished in several steps by the end of 2016 and the VAT system is to be streamlined. Taxes on fuel for farmers is to be raised from €66 per 1,000 litres to €200 from October.Early retirement will be phased out, with the retirement age to be set at 67 years in 2022 at the latest.A previous pension reform voted in 2010 at the creditors' request are to be implemented and measures introduced by Tsipras’ government earlier this year are to be repealed.The price of off-patent drugs and generic medicine is be cut to 50 percent and 32.5 percent, respectively, of the patent price.Measures on healthcare introduced by the left-wing government have to be taken back.The government is required to launch a strategy to address the issue of non-performing loans - loans which are not being repaid to Greek banks.The list of prior actions also includes implementation of an already-agreed privatisation programme and gas market reform.Opposition-Tsipras said on Wednesday the bailout deal “will put a final end to economic uncertainty" .But the Greek PM is facing strong opposition from the left wing of his Syriza party.He was voted into power in January on an anti-austerity ticket and he called a referendum, in July, on creditors’ demands in which Greeks voted No.In July, 39 Syriza MPs already voted against the first set of prior actions and 36 MPs voted against the second set.Rebels could be more numerous on Thursday, casting a shadow over the future of the Syriza-led coalition government.A vote in support of the creditor's demands would trigger an “immediate divorce”, Costas Isichos, a former Tsipras government minister, warned.

A FALSE PROPHET COMES FROM THE VATICAN ALSO AT THIS TIME.

ISAIAH 23:15-17
15  And it shall come to pass in that day, that Tyre shall be forgotten seventy years, according to the days of one king: after the end of seventy years shall Tyre sing as an harlot.
16  Take an harp, go about the city, thou harlot that hast been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that thou mayest be remembered.
17  And it shall come to pass after the end of seventy years, that the LORD will visit Tyre, and she shall turn to her hire, and shall commit fornication with all the kingdoms of the world upon the face of the earth.(COULD THIS BE 70 YEARS AFTER ISRAEL BECAME A NATION IN 1948)(IF SO THIS SATANIC ONE WORLD WHORE CHURCH WILL MINGLE TOGETHER BY 2018)(AND NOW ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY AND ALL RELIGIONS ARE MINGLING AS ONE PEACE-LOVE-JOY-GET ALONG RELIGION LEAD BY THE VATICAN RIGHT NOW 4 YEARS FROM THE 70 YEAR TIME WHEN ISRAEL BECAME A NATION).AND IN CONTROL OF JERUSALEM.

REVELATION 13:11-18
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,
14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(CHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast: for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM

REVELATION 17:1-18
1 And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
3 So he carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
4 And the woman (FALSE CHURCH) was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour,(VATICAN COLOURS)(ANOTHER REASON WE KNOW THE FALSE POPE COMES FROM THE VATICAN) and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:
5 And upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
10 And there are seven kings: five are fallen,(1-ASSYRIA,2-EGYPT,3-BABYLON,4-MEDO-PERSIA,5-GREECE) and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS AND JESUS DAY-6-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.(7TH-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE OR THE EUROPEAN UNION TODAY AND THE SHORT SPACE IS-THE EUROPEAN UNION WILL HAVE WORLD CONTROL FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS.BUT WILL HAVE ITS MIGHTY WORLD POWER FOR THE FULL 7 YEARS OF THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD.AND THE WORLD DICTATOR WILL BE THE BEAST FROM THE EU.AND THE VATICAN POPE WILL BE THE WHORE THAT RIDES THE EUROPEAN UNION TO POWER.AND THE 2 EUROPEAN UNION POWER FREAKS WILL CONTROL AND DECIEVE THE WHOLE EARTH INTO THEIR DESTRUCTION.IF YOU ARE NOT SAVED BY THE BLOOD OF JESUS.YOU WILL BE DECIEVED BY THESE TWO.THE WORLD POLITICIAN-THE EUROPEAN UNION DICTATOR.AND THE FALSE PROPHET THAT DEFECTS CHRISTIANITY-THE FALSE VATICAN POPE.
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.
12 And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.
13 These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.
14 These shall make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them: for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they that are with him are called, and chosen, and faithful.
15 And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.(VATICAN-CATHOLICS ALL AROUND THE WORLD OVER 1 BILLION)
16 And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast,(WORLD DICTATOR) these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
17 For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be fulfilled.
18 And the woman which thou sawest is that great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

08/14/2015 -VATICAN INSIDER-Comastri: Francis entrusts the Jubilee to Mary-The Pope pays tribute to the Madonna in the Basilica Santa Maria Maggiore-The Cardinal Vicar General of the Pope for the State of Vatican City talks about the Feast of the Assumption and the bond between the Pope and the Virgin Mary-Domenico Agasso jr

Rome-The Holy Year of Mercy will open, according to Pope Francis, on December 8, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, which “is the initial plan of God. God wants us all spotless, pure within, and this original beauty, which now has been lacking in history because of human sin, has started again with Maria.” So, inaugurating the Jubilee in that Solemnity, “the Pope tells us, ‘This is the dream of God,’ and we can all take a step to get closer to the dream of God.” This was stated by Cardinal Angelo Comastri, Vicar General of the Pope for the State of Vatican City, in an interview with Vatican Radio.We must allow ourselves “to be led by Mary,” is his invitation, “Let us be taken by her: Mary will show us the way of mercy, the way in which we can recover all the beauty we have lost. God is ready; the door is open: we enter.”The occasion of the interview with Alessandro Gisotti is the Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven: tomorrow the Pope will recite the Angelus at 12 along with the faithful gathered in St. Peter's Square. On the significance of this celebration and the bond between Jorge Mario Bergoglio and the Madonna, Comastri said: “Today this celebration is especially timely, even for our culture and for the moment we are living. There is a large cult of body worship, an idolatry of the body, one unfortunately separated from the soul. It is from a beautiful soul that the beauty of the body emerges! Mary was beautiful inside; Mary was beautiful in her feelings, Mary was beautiful in her humility, Mary was beautiful in her generosity, Mary was beautiful in her dedication to her Son, the Savior, and it was that beauty that somehow surfaced in the body and justified her assumption.” And the Pope, “knows all of this: Francis knows and believes and lives - we can say - with the simplicity of a child, and this is a beautiful fact, from which we can draw important lessons.”Comastri recalled that “the Pope often refers to his grandmother, because she must have been, in the house, the link of the faith tradition - she taught him to pray - a character reference from his childhood, from which he certainly received as well the ‘love for Our Lady.’”The Cardinal emphasizes the simplicity of the relationship between Pope Bergoglio and Maria: “Seeing the Pope who, when he returns from a trip, goes to bring a bunch of flowers to Santa Maria Maggiore: this fact already speaks of his simplicity. And being simple, it speaks: it speaks straight to the heart, sending the message immediately and telling us very clearly that the Pope feels like a child clinging to his mother, a child who needs to tell his story to his mother, recounting his travels, his labors, his commitments. This is the meaning of the bouquet of flowers that he brings to the altar.”The Cardinal reveals being moved by the “characteristic devotion that the Pope brought to Buenos Aires and then brought to the world: the devotion to ‘Our Lady who untangles the knots.’ Who does not have any knot in life? Who does not have any problem to solve? So it's nice to imagine Mary and imagine the mother as the one who takes a tangle and who, with patience, tries to dissolve it, to unravel it and to bring back the beauty of ordinary life, the life that we all want to live.”Comastri cites “a detail of the life of the Virgin Mary: Mary at Cana. A wedding, a knot: there is no more wine. And Mary unties the knot. But she does so with extreme delicacy. Maria turns to Jesus, but does not say: ‘You have to make a miracle!’ No. The style of Mary is the style of delicacy, the style of humility. She says simply: "Son, they have no wine." Jesus' response is a response that certainly Our Lady at that time could not understand in all of its depth and it was a test of faith also for her: ‘My hour has not yet come.’ Maria later understood what ‘hour’ Jesus was referring to at the time; but her answer is of extraordinary beauty. Mary was not discouraged. She said to the servants, simply: ‘Whatever says to you, do it.’ And this simple, humble abandon, is the soil in which the miracle blossoms, the land in which you untie the knot.”

08/11/2015 -VATICAN INSIDER-Francis devotes World Peace Day to “overcome indifference”-The Pope-Facing fundamentalism and its massacres, persecution, enslavement, corruption, wars, and the plight of refugees and forced migrants-Iacopo Scaramuzzi
Vatican City-“Overcome Indifference and Win Peace.” This is the theme that Pope Francis has chosen for the 49th World Day of Peace, which will be celebrated on January 1, 2016, with the intention, explained in a statement issued today by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, to “build  a sense of responsibility and  create awareness about the serious problems and challenges afflicting our time, such as fundamentalism, intolerance and massacres, persecutions on account of faith and ethnicity, disregard for freedom and the destruction of the rights of entire peoples, the exploitation of human beings submitted even to the different forms of slavery, corruption and organized crime, war and the plight of refugees and forcibly displaced persons.”The World Day of Peace was initiated by Paul VI, and is celebrated each year on the first day of January. The Holy Father's Message is sent to all Foreign Ministers of the world, and also indicates the Holy See’s diplomatic line during the coming year. That of 2015 is the third World Day of Peace by Pope Francis.“Indifference in regard to the scourges of our time,” explains the note from the Dicastery led by Cardinal Peter Turkson,  “is one of the fundamental causes of the lack of peace. Today, indifference is often linked to various forms of individualism which cause isolation, ignorance, selfishness and, therefore, lack of interest and commitment. Increase of information does not mean per se an increase of attention to the problems, if it is not accompanied by solidarity-based openness of conscience. To this end, it is essential the contribution that can provide – besides the family – educators, teachers, people of culture, media practitioners, intellectuals and artists. Indifference can be won only responding together to this challenge. Peace,” emphasizes the note, echoing the thoughts of Jorge Mario Bergoglio, “is to be worked at: it is not something that one gains without efforts, without conversion of mind and heart, without a sense of creativity and positive engagement in discussion. Such  an  action  must  urgently have recourse to  build  a sense of responsibility and  awareness creation about the serious problems and challenges afflicting our time, such as, fundamentalism, intolerance and massacres, persecutions on account of faith and ethnicity, disregard for freedom and the destruction of the rights of entire peoples, the exploitation of human beings submitted even to the different forms of slavery, corruption and organized crime, war and the plight of refugees and forcibly displaced persons. Such training and awareness creation should seek, at the same time, also opportunities and possibilities to fight these evils: the creation of a culture of law, education in dialogue and co-operation are, in this context, the fundamental forms of a constructive response. The field for daily peace-building, overcoming indifference, is located in  the different forms of slavery in our daily world, to which was dedicated The Message for 1st January 2015: No longer slaves, but brothers and sisters. We should continue this commitment with heightened conscience and cooperation. Peace is possible where the rights of every human being are recognized and respected, heard and known, according to freedom and justice. The Message for 2016 aims to be a starting point for all people of good will, particularly those who work in the education, media, culture, each one acting according to their possibilities and according to their best aspirations to build together a more conscious and merciful, and, therefore, more free and fair world.”

08/14/2015 -VATICAN INSIDER-Turkey, the Pope: the Jesuit Bizzeti in the office that belonged to Padovese-The Turkish flag-A specialist in Middle Eastern affairs, “It's a country that I love.” The office had been vacant since the Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia was killed in 2010-Iacopo Scaramuzzi

Vatican City-Pope Francis appointed as Apostolic Vicar of Anatolia (Turkey), the Jesuit Father Paolo Bizzeti, 67, of Florence, a Middle East expert, until now rector of Patavina Residentia Antonianum and director of the Antonianum Center for the formation of the laity in Padua. The seat had been vacant since, in 2010, the Capuchin Bishop Luigi Padovese was killed. “I am very happy that the Holy See will give continuity to the work, the commitment, the testimony of Bishop Padovese,” declared the Jesuit at the microphones of Vatican Radio. “The local Christian community has long awaited a pastor and so I think there is reason for joy, together with our brothers who are surely living a situation of the Christian life as an extreme minority with some difficulties.” This is, Bizzeti continues, “a small but vibrant community, proud of its faith that continues onward in a context that is certainly not easy. However Turkey is a big country that also has a very beautiful tradition of tolerance, of multi-religiosity. We could just say that it is a country where religions have always met and where there has always been a fruitful exchange between the Western and Eastern traditions. So I hope that we can also establish bridges, the relations between the Christian communities present here and the others, just as Saint Paul did, who connected even very diverse Christian communities from the East and the West.”Moreover “Antioch on the Orontes, Tarsus, are places where - we could say - to have been born, as much as Jerusalem.”Already in 1984, said the press office of the Italian Jesuits, Father Bizzeti had asked his superiors to be sent as a missionary in Turkey: “I realized the importance of the land to the Church and its extreme poverty of consecrated persons, but time was not yet ripe.” Since then his love and interest in this country has continued to grow. “I have thorough knowledge of the many biblical sites (Antioch, Tarsus, Ephesus), of the small existing Christian communities, I brought many groups of pilgrims, I wrote a guide, I was there on vacation ... so it is a country I love. I love its people, its nature, its history.”As for dialogue with Islam at this complex juncture throughout the Middle Eastern scenario, “it is more important than ever - and more than ever, especially in prayer, we ask God alone to protect us from divisions, from sterile wars, and from fundamentalism. I believe that the vast majority of people do not agree with either violence or fundamentalism. We must give voice to what the vast majority of the people feel and want,” said the Jesuit on Vatican Radio. What wishes for the new mission? “I will go with a lot of humility, because I am not very young, I have to learn the language ... and so I will go at the beginning of this Jubilee Year of Mercy asking everyone to have mercy upon me and hoping to bring to them the mercy of God.” And, as reported by the press office of the Italian Jesuits, Bizzeti states: “I do not intend to proselytize. Even the Pope has been very clear on this point. I want to help Christians to live fully in the local Churches, to guard their precious identity and to be loyal citizens of a country that can always grow better if it values diversity.”Bizzeti was born in Florence on September 22, 1947. He holds a license in Philosophy from the Pontifical Faculty of Philosophy at the Aloisianum Institute of Gallarate, a baccalaureate in Theology from the Pontifical Theological Faculty of Southern Italy and the degree in Humanities from the Alma Mater Studiorum at the University of Bologna. He entered the Society of Jesus on November 22, 1966; was ordained a priest on June 21, 1975 and made his solemn profession on June 12, 1982. As a specialist in Middle Eastern issues, among many positions held, Bizzeti founded and leads the Friends of the Middle East non-profit organization, the community of families “Maranatha” and the “Tavola Pellegrini Medio Oriente (TPM)” (“Pilgrims Table of the Middle East” ed). From 2007 to 2013 he was Rector Scholasticate in Philosophy at the Aloisianum Institute of Padua, and since 2007, Rector at Patavina Residentia Antonianum and director of the Antonianum Center for the formation of the laity in Padua. Besides Italian, he speaks English, German, Spanish and French. The Turkish office had been vacant since June 3, 2010, when just days before a visit by Pope Benedict XVI to Cyprus, the then Apostolic Vicar for Anatolia, Luigi Padovese, was killed. His driver, Murat Altun, was arrested and sentenced for murder. Soon, at a date and place still to be determined, Bizzeti will be ordained bishop and in a few months will begin his pastoral service in the ecclesiastical region ranging from Antioch on the Orontes (Antakya today) and Tarsus - deep in southern Turkey - to the shores of Black Sea, with the city of Trabzon and Samsun.

08/14/2015-VATICAN INSIDER-The intimate baptisms of Pastor (and Pope) Francis-The baptism of the Pope-Last weekend, the Pope baptized two young Argentines during a private and intimate ceremony at the Vatican, a gesture repeated on several other occasions-Andrés Beltramo Álvarez

Vatican City-An intimate ceremony, without protocol or official photographers. There were only eight guests. And so it was, the latest baptism celebrated by Pope Francis, last Saturday, August 8, in the chapel of St. Martha’s House. Two young Argentines received the first sacrament, and one of them is the newborn daughter of an old friend. It is neither the first nor the last of these gestures, because Francis has shown that, despite being at the head of the universal Church, he has not lost the habits of a pastor.The stage? St. Martha’s House. Lucas Schaerer and Ana Laura De Abreu arrived, where they presented Simona Libertad (a little more than two months old) and her sister Charo (9 years old). The Pope received them as a priest. He himself prepared the ceremony and, in the end, turned off the candles and said: “I still have the habits of a pastor.”Schaerer forms part of “La Alameda,” an Argentine organization that fights against trafficking and slave labor. Its leader, and now parliamentarian, Gustavo Vera, introduced them to Bergoglio few years ago, when he was archbishop of Buenos Aires. Whenever all three of them met, they would comment half- jokingly and half-seriously, “Lucas will be a priest.” He just laughed. But their journeys are very different, and today he is a parent, the head of a family.When Francis received a letter with the ultrasound image of ultrasound Simona, he had no doubt: he told Vera he wanted to baptize the baby. And that's what he just did last Saturday, at 5pm, during a brief but meaningful liturgy.“It was a very emotional moment, he did everything for the christening, like a simple priest. He also made the official certificate and we signed it. He explained the steps of the christening and, at times, played around a bit.” It was all very cheerful. Then we went into a small room next door and we all talked. It’s obvious that he likes to baptize and evangelize - continuing to baptize, explaining the sacrament, talking about the compromise that we have as parents and godparents, “said Schaerer to Vatican Insider.And then: “It was very human and the friendship was clear, not only in the occasion itself, but also in the time that passed: we were an hour, more or less, in the room, beyond the time of baptism. He spent a lot of time and I think it is a gesture both to the family of ‘La Alameda.’ and for the people who work for others; was an evangelization for the people who are risking their life every day for a city without slavery - neither labor or sexual - without trafficking of people. This is the message.”The godparents of Simona were Mercedes Ninci, journalist, and Fernando Kunkel, a family friend. Also receiving the sacrament was Charo, 9 years old, who was not yet baptized. Her godparents were Maria Paola Tallini and the same Gustavo Vera, who had received an invitation from the organization “Libera” to give a conference near Naples.“You are much more conscious of your sister,” said Bergoglio to little Charo, while explaining the importance of the sacrament that she was about to receive. She and her family were able to make the journey to Rome thanks to a huge economic effort and the generosity of their family and friends.According to Schaerer, the christening was not just a gesture of friendship, but also a “blessing” for the work done by activists of “La Alameda,” who accompanied Cardinal Bergoglio when he celebrated Mass against trafficking in Plaza Constitución in Buenos Aires, where about 150 people participated. Those were different times, and Bergoglio was not so popular. Despite the difficulties, he was close to the “cartoneros” and the tailors who came from illegal warehouses in which clothes were “signed” and then sold in luxury shops of the Argentine capital.“Not all of them can come, but with this gesture the Pope tells us that we are on the right road, the road of fighting for truth and justice, the path of brotherhood,” said Lucas.After the ceremony last Saturday, Francis received dozens of letters from various parishes of Buenos Aires: San Cayetano de Liniers, Perpetuo Socorro de Villa Luro and others. He also talked with his guests about memories from the neighborhood Boedo, where they first met his parents, and birthplace of its football team, San Lorenzo.Even if they are not widely known, liturgies like this are not rare to the Pope. At St. Martha’s House he celebrates them on a fairly regular basis. Like when he baptized the children of  Lucrecia Cardoso, director of the National Institute of Cinema and Audio-visual Arts of Argentina (last Saturday, February 21). In 2014, in October, he had done the same with the second daughter of Alejandro Marmo, an Argentine artist and also an old friend.Schaerer explains very well: “For us it is a great joy, what he did for 'La Alameda'  by baptizing the children of tailors, this consistency he has maintained throughout his 78 years demonstrates that he continues to be the Jorge Mario Bergoglio we have known. Today it hasn’t gone to his head; he has not forgotten the friends, of the Pope, with whom he fought, but he also nurtures friendships.”