DEADLY ISRAEL-JERUSALEM ATTACKS BY ARAB-BALESTINIANS KILL 2 ON BUS INJURE LOTS-AND THE ATTACKS CONTINUED ALL DAY.

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)

ISRAEL SATAN COMES AGAINST

1 CHRONICLES 21:1
1 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

GENESIS 12:1-3
1  Now the LORD had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I (GOD) will shew thee:
2  And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:
3  And I will bless them that bless thee,(ISRAELIS) and curse (DESTROY) him that curseth thee:(DESTROY THEM) and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

ISAIAH 41:11
11  Behold, all they that were incensed against thee (ISRAEL) shall be ashamed and confounded: they shall be as nothing;(DESTROYED) and they that strive with thee shall perish.(ISRAEL HATERS WILL BE TOTALLY DESTROYED)

ISRAELS TROUBLE

JEREMIAH 30:7
7 Alas! for that day is great, so that none is like it: it is even the time of Jacob’s trouble;(ISRAEL) but he shall be saved out of it.

DANIEL 12:1,4
1 And at that time shall Michael(ISRAELS WAR ANGEL) stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people:(ISRAEL) and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation(May 14,48) even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro,(WORLD TRAVEL,IMMIGRATION) and knowledge shall be increased.(COMPUTERS,CHIP IMPLANTS ETC)

Palestinian 'Day of Rage' attacks kill three: Israeli police-Reuters By Jeffrey Heller-OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian men armed with knives and a gun killed at least three people and wounded several others in a string of attacks in Jerusalem and near Tel Aviv on Tuesday, police said, on a "Day of Rage" declared by Palestinian groups.With the worst unrest in years in Israel and the Palestinian territories showing no signs of abating, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a security cabinet meeting for 3 p.m. to discuss what police said would be new operational plans.Officials said Israel's public security minister was considering whether to seal off Palestinian neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, home of many of the assailants of the past two weeks, from the rest of the city.Unlike their brethren in the occupied West Bank, Palestinians in East Jerusalem can travel in Israel without restrictions. Israel annexed East Jerusalem after a 1967 war in a move that is not recognized internationally.Adding to a growing sense of Israeli public insecurity, two Palestinians shot and stabbed passengers on a bus in Jerusalem, killing two and injuring four, police said. One of the assailants was killed, an ambulance service spokesman said, and the other captured." We don't know what to do, or where to walk," Avi Shemesh, a witness to the attack, told reporters. "They are Israel-haters and they need to be eliminated."Minutes later, another Palestinian rammed his car into a bus stop in the center of Jerusalem, then got out and began stabbing pedestrians, killing one and wounding six, police said. They said the attacker had been "neutralized", without saying what this meant. Seven Israelis and 27 Palestinians, including nine alleged attackers and eight children, have died in almost two weeks of street attacks and security crackdowns.The violence has been stirred in part by Muslim anger over increasing Jewish visits to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem, Islam's holiest site outside the Arabian Peninsula.RUSH HOUR ATTACK-In Raanana, just north of Tel Aviv, a Palestinian man stabbed and lightly wounded an Israeli on a shopping street during the morning rush hour, officials and witnesses said.Amateur video distributed by police showed several men kicking and beating the alleged assailant as he lay on the ground. The ambulance service said he was seriously hurt.A shopkeeper said that, after hearing shouting, he had grabbed a heavy wooden umbrella and run outside to confront the assailant." He started stabbing the guy. I hit him a couple of times and kicked him and the knife flew out of his hand," the store owner said. "I wish I had had a gun - I would have shot him."Within an hour of that incident, another Palestinian stabbed and wounded four people in Raanana, police said.The main Palestinian factions, including the Western-backed Fatah movement and the militant Hamas group, declared a "Day of Rage" on Tuesday across the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, accusing Israel of "escalating its crimes against our people" and carrying out "summary executions".The leaders of Israel's Arab community called for a commercial strike in their towns and villages.The now-daily stabbings have raised speculation that Palestinians could be embarking on another uprising or intifada, reflecting a new generation's frustrations over their veteran leadership's failure to achieve statehood.Palestinians also see increasing visits over the past year by Jewish groups and right-wing lawmakers to the al-Aqsa plaza, revered by Jews as the site of two destroyed biblical temples and Judaism's holiest place, as eroding Muslim religious control of the compound. Netanyahu has said repeatedly that he will not allow any change to the status quo under which Jews are allowed to visit the site but non-Muslim prayer is banned, but his assurances have done little to quell alarm among Muslims across the region.(Additional reporting by Maayan Lubell and Ori Lewis; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Deadly Jerusalem attacks escalate wave of violence, mayor proposes sealing off some Arab areas-The Canadian PressBy Aron Heller, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – oct 13,15-yahoonews

JERUSALEM - A pair of Palestinian men boarded a bus in Jerusalem and began shooting and stabbing passengers, while another assailant rammed a car into a bus station before stabbing bystanders, in near-simultaneous attacks Tuesday that escalated a monthlong wave of violence. Three Israelis and two attackers were killed.The Jerusalem attacks, along with two stabbings in a central Israeli city, marked the most serious outbreak of violence since the current round of tensions erupted. More than 15 people were wounded.The violence, coming at a time when peace prospects appear bleak, have fueled a sense of panic in Israel and raised fears that the region is on the cusp of a new round of heavy violence.Police closed major highways leading in and out of Jerusalem, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called an emergency meeting of his Security Cabinet, where police were to present a plan to halt the violence. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the country's internal security minister, Gilad Erdan, was considering a number of immediate steps, including sealing off Arab neighbourhoods in east Jerusalem, where many of the attackers have come from, and making it easier to get gun licenses.While Israelis are on edge over the random nature of the attacks, the long-running diplomatic deadlock has left many Palestinians feeling hopeless about their chances of ending nearly half a century of Israeli occupation.In the bus attack, police said two men, one carrying a gun and the other with a knife, boarded the vehicle and attacked passengers. Police said a 60-year-old man was killed, and a second person who was wounded later died. One of the attackers was shot dead and the second attacker was subdued by a crowd.Elsewhere in Jerusalem, a Palestinian motorist rammed his vehicle into a crowded bus stop, then got out and began stabbing people. One Israeli was killed, police said.The attacker, who worked for Israel's largest telecommunications group Bezeq and used his company car in the attack, was shot by a civilian security guard and later died of his wounds, police said.The Jerusalem attacks, coupled with a pair of stabbing attacks in the central Israeli city of Raanana that wounded five, including one seriously, came in rapid succession. Emergency services said several of the wounded were in serious condition.At the scene of one of the attacks, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat called on the government to seal off the West Bank and certain Arab neighbourhoods of east Jerusalem to quell the wave of attacks that have struck the city. Some government ministers have called for even more dramatic measures.In a sign of the tensions, police said a Jewish-Israeli man stabbed another Jew in northern Israel in a suspected failed revenge attack. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the man was trying to avenge the recent attacks against Israelis by stabbing an Arab. However, he actually attacked another Israeli Jew whom he mistook for an Arab because of his Middle Eastern appearance.The 22-year- old victim was moderately wounded.Since the Jewish New Year last month, eight Israelis have been killed and dozens wounded in a series of attacks. At least 28 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire, including 12 identified by Israel as attackers and the rest in clashes between stone-throwers and Israeli troops. Hundreds of Palestinians have been wounded in such confrontations.On Monday, Palestinians carried out three stabbings in Jerusalem, leaving a teenage Israeli boy in critical condition.The unrest began last month with clashes at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site and quickly spread across Israel and into the West Bank and Gaza Strip.The Israeli military said hundreds of Palestinian protesters in Gaza gathered Tuesday near the Israeli border and threw stones and burning tires toward Israeli positions. The army said it was using "riot dispersal means" against the crowd.Palestinian medics say five people have been wounded by Israeli gunfire, two of them seriously. Over the weekend, nine Palestinians in Gaza, including a mother and her 2-year-old child, were killed in Israeli-Palestinian violence.Sami Abu Zuhri, a spokesman for Gaza's Hamas rulers, said the movement "praises these heroic operations in Jerusalem and greets the heroes who carried them out."The attacks come at a time of deep despair for the Palestinians. Peace talks broke down more than a year ago, and prospects for relaunching diplomatic efforts to end the conflict appear slim. After years of diplomatic deadlock, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has seen his popularity plunge.The attackers, many of them teenagers, have had no affiliation with militant groups, and the seemingly random nature of the stabbings has made it difficult to predict or prevent them. The use of vehicles and firearms in Jerusalem on Tuesday, however, marked a more serious level of violence and bring back memories of the deadly attacks that plagued Israeli cities during last decade's second Palestinian uprising.Israeli security officials, however, said Tuesday's seemingly co-ordinated attacks indicated that the outburst of violence was starting to take on a more organized fashion, from groups behind the planning and those carrying out attacks. The officials, speaking anonymously according to regulations, said Israel expects the current wave to last at least a few more weeks.Netanyahu has come under heavy criticism for failing to stop the violence, and an opinion poll this week showed that more than 70 per cent of the public is dissatisfied with his handling of the crisis.Some of the attacks have been carried out by members of Israel's Arab minority, who often encounter discrimination and identify with their Palestinian brethren in the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza Strip.In a fiery speech to parliament on Monday, Netanyahu accused the country's Arab leaders of helping incite weeks of violence.Israeli Arab towns called a general strike Monday to protest recent tensions.The violence erupted over the Jewish New Year last month, fueled by rumours that Israel was plotting to take over a site holy to both Muslims and Jews. The rumours ignited clashes between Israeli police and Palestinian activists who hurled stones and firebombs at them from inside the mosque, and the violence has spread.Israel has dismissed the rumours and repeatedly said there are no plans to alter a longstanding status quo at the spot, revered by Jews as the site of the biblical Temples and today home to Islam's Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Israeli MPs to resume work on NGO gag laws By Andrew Rettman-EUOBSERVER

BRUSSELS, 12. Oct, 09:24-The flow of information to the outside world on Israeli settler and military abuses could diminish, as the Knesset resumes work, on Monday (12 October), with NGO gag laws on its agenda.The two NGO bills were drafted before the summer recess by members of the hard-right Jewish Home party in the ruling coalition - Bezalel Smotrich and Yinon Magal.The Smotrich bill says NGOs which receive grants from foreign governments must "conspicuously indicate" their outside support on all publications and in all letters or "spoken communication" with civil servants.They must also wear a special badge when meeting public officials.The Magal bill says the NGOs are to be designated as "foreign agents".They must label all publications with the phrase, which is to be "no smaller than one eighth of the page or advertising space".It obliges them to file quarterly declarations of foreign income and of "the foreign activity which it has performed or intends to perform".It obliges them to pay 37 percent tax on foreign grants.The bill also says "government ministries and Israeli Defense Forces will avoid cooperation with a foreign agent", with "cooperation" designated as "among other things: the transfer of budgets, national service regulations, the organisation of conferences and symposiums, or joint publications".-'Foreign interests'-Smotrich's "rationale" is that foreign-funded NGOs shouldn't be allowed to "represent inside Israel the interests of foreign states in a non-transparent manner".Magal says "they must present themselves as entities who explicitly represent foreign interests that do not align with the Israeli interest".The Jewish Home party's justice minister, Ayelet Shaked, went further in June, describing foreign grants as "contaminated and corrupted money whose purpose is to subsidise self-hatred … a fifth column".The draft laws are expected to be amalgamated in a government bill and tabled for a first reading in the coming days or weeks.EU part-funded NGOs, such as B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, or Territorial Jerusalem, which contribute information to EU and UN diplomats, say the legislation is an attempt to "gag" their work.Breaking the Silence said if the laws are passed it "will undermine Israel's civil society".For her part, Federica Mogherini, the EU's foreign policy chief, told the European Parliament in a statement on 28 September that she "personally" voiced concern on the potential crackdown on her last visit to Israel.She added that EU support for Israeli civil society aims to "advance the rights of vulnerable groups or minorities within Israel, notably the Arab minority" and "promote ... respect for international humanitarian law and human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territory".A senior EU diplomat told this website the EU is "one of the biggest funders" of Israeli NGOs and that the laws, if passed, could damage the "atmosphere and environment" in which the NGOs work.Violence-The Knesset session will open amid a fresh wave of violence.On Monday morning, a Palestinian tried to stab an Israeli border guard before being shot.On Sunday, an Arab Israeli stabbed four Jewish Israelis and a Palestinian driver detonated a bomb at a roadside checkpoint. A Palestinian boy also died in clashes in Ramallah, the de facto Palestinian capital, and an Israeli air strike killed a pregnant woman and her daughter in Gaza.Mogherini phoned Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to appeal for "calm".But the situation is likely to harden the NGO debate.For its part, Breaking the Silence has highlighted that Honenu, a right-wing Israeli NGO, is channelling US donations to families of Jewish settlers convicted of murder, attempted murder, and kidnappings of Palestinians. Meanwhile, the My Israel movement, an online group which says it has 140,000 cyber "soldiers", last month flooded the Dutch foreign ministry with signatures designed to stop B’Tselem from winning a Dutch prize, the Human Rights Tulip award.

Portugal begins granting citizenship to Sephardic Jews-Associated Press-OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal has started granting citizenship rights to the descendants of Jews it persecuted five centuries ago.The Justice Ministry said Tuesday that on Oct. 2 it approved the first three of more than 200 applications it has received so far. The other applications are still being processed following a law that began in March.Seeking to make amends for past wrongdoing, both Portugal and Spain adopted laws this year allowing citizenship for descendants of Sephardic Jews — the term commonly used for those who once lived in the Iberian peninsula — persecuted during the Inquisition.Alfonso Paredes Henriquez, a Panama-based real estate developer, said he and his brother were among Portugal's successful applicants. They are entitled to a passport and the right to work and live in the 28-nation European Union.Paredes Henriquez said he initially intended to request Spanish citizenship but switched to Portugal after Spain's delays in enacting its law, which was finally approved in June.The Jewish Community of Oporto in northern Portugal, which is one of the organizations vetting applications, said Paredes Henriquez is a descendant of Spanish and Portuguese Jews. His ancestors were Rabbi Eliau Abraham Lopez, the great Sephardic rabbi of the Spanish-Portuguese community in Curacao and of Spanish origin, and his wife Rachel Nunes da Fonseca, of Portuguese origin.The Community said Tuesday it has issued certificates for Jews from 23 countries, with two-thirds of them for Sephardic Jews from Turkey.

France and Saudi Arabia sign deals worth 10B euros in Riyadh-Associated Press By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI-OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — France and Saudi Arabia have signed deals worth 10 billion euros, the latest example of the deepening alliance between the two nations.French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who announced the deals on Twitter Tuesday, is in Saudi Arabia with Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius and Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian.After their arrival Monday, they held talks with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Saudi capital, Riyadh.A French official, who spoke anonymously because he was not authorized to speak to the media, says that a military helicopter deal is also expected to be signed in Riyadh.The alliance between France and Saudi Arabia has grown stronger in recent years as ties between Washington and Riyadh cooled under President Barack Obama.

COUNTRIES WITH ISRAEL AND THE ENEMIES OF THE WEST

EZEKIEL 38:10-19
10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
11 And thou shalt say,(RUSSIA,ARAB,MUSLIMS) I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates,
12 To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.
13 Sheba, and Dedan,(SAUDIA ARABIA)(JORDAN) and the merchants of Tarshish,(ENGLAND) with all the young lions thereof,(USA,CANADA,AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND,EU,ENGLAND,ENGLISH SPEAKING shall say unto thee, Art thou come to take a spoil? hast thou gathered thy company to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take away cattle and goods, to take a great spoil?
14 Therefore, son of man, prophesy and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord GOD; In that day when my people of Israel dwelleth safely, shalt thou not know it?
PSALMS 83:3-7 (COUNTRIES AGAINST ISRAEL)(EXCEPT JORDAN)
3 They (ARABS,MUSLIMS) have taken crafty counsel against thy people,(ISRAEL) and consulted against thy hidden ones.
4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
5 For they (MUSLIMS) have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:(TREATIES)
6 The tabernacles of Edom,(JORDAN) and the Ishmaelites;(ARABS) of Moab, PALESTINIANS,JORDAN) and the Hagarenes;(EGYPT)
7 Gebal,(HEZZBALLOH,LEBANON) and Ammon,(JORDAN) and Amalek;(SYRIA,ARABS,SINAI) the Philistines (PALESTINIANS) with the inhabitants of Tyre;(LEBANON)
ISRAEL-WEST ENEMIES EZEK 38:4-6,15-19
4 And I (GOD) will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws,(GOD FORCES THE RUSSIA-MUSLIMS TO MARCH) and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:
5 Persia,(IRAN,IRAQ) Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
6 Gomer,(GERMANY) and all his bands; the house of Togarmah (TURKEY) of the north quarters, and all his bands: and many people with thee.(AFRICAN MUSLIMS,SUDAN,TUNESIA ETC)
15 And thou shalt come from thy place out of the north parts,(RUSSIA-ARAB/MUSLIMS) thou, and many people with thee,(AFRICAN ISLAMIC COUNTRIES) all of them riding upon horses, a great company, and a mighty army:
16 And thou shalt come up against my people of Israel, as a cloud to cover the land; it shall be in the latter days, and I will bring thee against my land, that the heathen may know me, when I shall be sanctified in thee, O Gog, before their eyes.
17 Thus saith the Lord GOD; Art thou he of whom I have spoken in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, which prophesied in those days many years that I would bring thee against them?
18 And it shall come to pass at the same time when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, saith the Lord GOD, that my fury shall come up in my face.
19 For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
DANIEL 11:44 (CHINA WITH RUSSIA-MUSLIMS)
44 But tidings out of the east(CHINA) and out of the north(RUSSIA, MUSLIMS WHATS LEFT FROM WAVE 1) shall trouble him:(EU DICTATOR IN ISRAEL) therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.( 1/3RD OF EARTHS POPULATION)
EZEKIEL 39:1-6 ISRAELS ENEMIES DESTROYED
1 Therefore, thou son of man, prophesy against Gog,(LEADER OF RUSSIA) and say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech (MOSCOW) and Tubal: (TUBOLSK)
2 And I will turn thee back,(RUSSIA-ARAB MUSLIM ISRAEL HATERS) and leave but the sixth part of thee,(5/6TH OR 300 MILLION DEAD RUSSIAN/ARAB/MUSLIMS I BELIEVE) and will cause thee to come up from the north parts,(RUSSIA) and will bring thee upon the mountains of Israel:
3 And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.
4 Thou shalt fall upon the mountains of Israel, thou, and all thy bands,( ARABS) and the people that is with thee: I will give thee unto the ravenous birds of every sort, and to the beasts of the field to be devoured.
5 Thou shalt fall upon the open field: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord GOD.
6 And I will send a fire on Magog,(NUCLEAR ATOMIC BOMB) and among them that dwell carelessly in the isles: and they shall know that I am the LORD.

Damascus shelling of Russia embassy an 'act of terror': Lavrov-AFP-OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS

Moscow (AFP) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday described the shelling of Moscow's embassy in Damascus as an "act of terror" aimed at intimidating those who support Moscow's bombing campaign in Syria."It is a clear act of terror meant to scare supporters of fighting terrorism," Lavrov told reporters in Moscow, after two rockets struck the Russian embassy compound.Nobody was killed during the incident which took place as some 300 people were rallying near the embassy in support of Russia's recent intervention in Syria.Demonstrators had been waving Russian flags and holding up large photographs of Russian President Vladimir Putin."We are counting on the perpetrators being found and that measures be taken to prevent such acts in the future," Lavrov said, adding Moscow would investigate the incident along with Syrian authorities.Russian late last month launched a bombing campaign in the war-torn country at the request of its ally President Bashar al-Assad against what Moscow says are targets of the Islamic State jihadist group and other "terrorists".On Tuesday, Russia's defence ministry said its air force had hit 86 targets in Syria in the past 24 hours, destroying "terrorist" command posts, training camps and ammunition depots.And Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front called on jihadists from the Caucasus to perpetrate attacks in Russia in response to the air strikes.Lavrov was on Tuesday meeting the United Nations' Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura in Moscow for the first time since the Kremlin launched its bombing campaign.

Rockets hit Russian embassy compound in Damascus during demo-AFP-oct 13,15-yahoonews

Damascus (AFP) - Two rockets struck the Russian embassy compound in Damascus on Tuesday sparking panic as several hundred people gathered to express their support for Moscow's air war in Syria, AFP journalists said.Some 300 people had begun to gather for a demonstration backing Russia's recent intervention in Syria when the rockets crashed into the embassy compound in the Mazraa neighbourhood of the capital, the journalists at the scene said.There was widespread panic among the demonstrators, who moments earlier had been waving Russian flags and holding up large photographs of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Quoted by Russian news agency Interfax, senior embassy official Eldar Kurbanov said: "Two rockets hit embassy territory at 10:15 am. No one was killed or wounded."The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said the rockets were fired from the eastern edges of the capital, where Islamist rebels are entrenched.The Russian embassy has been the target of rocket attacks before.On September 21, just nine days before it began its air war in Syria, Moscow demanded "concrete action" after a shell hit the embassy's compound in Damascus.In May, one person was killed by mortar rounds that landed nearby. Three were hurt when mortar rounds landed inside the compound in April.

Dutch Safety Board says Buk missile fired from surface to air system downed MH17-The Canadian PressBy John-Thor Dahlburg And Mike Corder, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – oct 13,15-yahoonews

GILZE-RIJEN AIR BASE, Netherlands - The missile that downed Malaysia Airlines flight 17 exploded less than a meter from the cockpit, killing the crew inside instantly and breaking off the front of the plane, the Dutch Safety Board said Tuesday as it presented the results of an official probe into the crash in eastern Ukraine.It added that the tragedy that killed all 298 people aboard the plane on July 17, 2014, wouldn't have happened if anyone had thought to close the airspace of eastern Ukraine to passenger planes as fighting raged below.The report did not consider who launched the missile. However, it identified an area of 320 square kilometres from which the launch must have taken place. All the territory within the area was in rebel separatist hands at the time of the crash.Safety Board chairman Tjibbe Joustra said the 15-month investigation found the warhead was that used on a Buk surface-to-air missile system.Joustra said that Ukraine authorities had "sufficient reason" to completely close the airspace in that area, but "nobody gave a thought" to the possible threat to civil aviation.Missile fragments found in the cockpit crew's bodies, as well as paint traces, enabled investigators to identify the Buk, Joustra said.The investigation found that the missile killed the three crew in the cockpit instantly, while the passengers and other crew died due to reduced oxygen levels, extreme cold, powerful airflow and flying objects as the plane broke up and crashed.The investigators unveiled a ghostly reconstruction of the forward section of MH17. Some of the nose, cockpit and business class of the Boeing 777 were rebuilt from fragments of the aircraft recovered from the crash scene and flown to Gilze-Rijen air base in southern Netherlands.On Tuesday in the village of Hrabove where the jet came down, Lyudmila Grigoryak — whose house was the closest to the crash site — brought red carnations to the field of dry grass where small pieces of the fuselage are still scattered.Unlike a year and a half ago when heavy fighting was just nearby, the area is quiet and deserted. All the camouflaged rebels who were patrolling the area and manning the checkpoints are gone.Hours before the report was released, the missile's Russian maker presented its own report trying to clear the separatists, and Russia itself, of any involvement in the disaster.Almaz-Antey contended that its experiments -- in one of which a Buk missile was detonated near the nose of an airplane similar to a 777 -- contradict that conclusion.The experimental aircraft's remains showed a much different submunitions damage pattern than seen on the remnants of MH17, the company said in a statement.It said the experiments also refute claims that the missile was fired from Snizhne, a village that was under rebel control. An Associated Press reporter saw a Buk missile system in that vicinity on the same day.Almaz-Antey in June had said that a preliminary investigation suggested that the plane was downed by a model of Buk that is no longer in service with the Russian military but that was part of the Ukrainian military arsenal.Information from the first experiment, in which a missile was fired at aluminum sheets mimicking an airliner's fuselage, was presented to the Dutch investigators, but was not taken into account, Almaz-Antey chief Novikov said.Novikov said evidence shows that if the plane was hit by a Buk, it was fired from the village of Zaroshenske, which Russia says was under Ukrainian government control at the time. When pressed by a journalist on Tuesday about the reports that Zaroshenske was in fact in rebel hands at the time of the crash, Novikov said it was outside his competence to comment on "who occupied what" at the time.Many reports, including an investigation by the open-source group Bellingcat, also suggest the plane was downed by a missile fired from near Snizhne.___Corder reported from The Hague, Netherlands. Nataliya Vasilyeva and Jim Heintz in Moscow, Raf Casert in Brussels and Mstyslav Chernov in Hrabove, Ukraine, contributed to this report.

JEREMEIAH 49:35-37 (IN IRAN AT THE BUSHEHR OR ARAK NUKE SITE SOME BELIEVE)
35  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will break the bow of Elam,(IRAN/BUSHEHR NUCLEAR SITE) the chief of their might.(MOST DANGEROUS NUKE SITE IN IRAN)
36  And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven,(IRANIANS SCATTERED OR MASS IMIGARATION) and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.(WORLD IMMIGRATION)
37  For I will cause Elam (IRAN-BUSHEHR NUKE SITE) to be dismayed before their enemies, and before them that seek their life: and I will bring evil upon them, even my fierce anger,(ISRAELS NUKES POSSIBLY) saith the LORD; and I will send the sword after them, till I have consumed them:(IRAN AND ITS NUKE SITES DESTROYED)

ISAIAH 17:1,11-14
1 The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.
11  In the day shalt thou make thy plant to grow, and in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
12  Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations,(USELESS U.N) that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
13  The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
14  And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not.(ASSAD KILLED IN OVERNIGHT RAID) This is the portion of them that spoil us,(ISRAEL) and the lot of them that rob us.

AMOS 1:5
5  I will break also the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the plain of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden:(IRAQ) and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir,(JORDAN) saith the LORD.(I belive ISIS-DAMASCUS GET NUKED BY ISRAEL)

Iran lawmakers vote to implement nuclear deal with world powers, signalling it will be honoured- The Canadian PressBy Nasser Karimi, The Associated Press | The Canadian Press – OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's parliament voted Tuesday to support implementing a landmark nuclear deal struck with world powers despite hard-line attempts to derail the bill, suggesting the historic accord will be carried out.The bill will be reviewed by Iran's 12-member Guardian Council, a group of senior clerics who could return it to lawmakers for further discussion. However, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has the final say on key policies, has said it is up to the 290-seat parliament to approve or reject the deal.Signalling the nuclear deal's likely success, a spokesman for moderate President Hassan Rouhani's administration welcomed the parliament's vote and called it a "historic decision.""Members of parliament made a well-considered decision today showing they have a good understanding of the country's situation," Mohammad Bagher Nobakht said. "We hope to see acceleration in progress and development of the country from now on."The European Union's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini, who helped facilitate the nuclear talks, also praised the vote as "good news" in a message on Twitter.In the parliamentary session carried live by state radio, 161 lawmakers voted for implementing the nuclear deal, while 59 voted against it and 13 abstained. Another 17 did not vote at all, while 40 lawmakers did not attend the session.A preliminary parliamentary vote Sunday saw 139 lawmakers out of the 253 present support the outline of the bill. But despite getting more support Tuesday, hard-liners still tried to disrupt the parliament's session, shouting that Khamenei himself did not support the bill while trying to raise numerous proposals on its details."This decision has no link to the leader!" shouted Mahdi Kouchakzadeh, a hard-line lawmaker who rushed toward the front of parliament to yell at speaker Ali Larijani. "It is a decision by Larijani and we oppose it!"The semi-official Fars news agency reported that Ali Aghar Zarei, another hard-line lawmaker, broke down weeping after the vote. Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, who led Iran's nuclear negotiation team, left the session when it grew tense, the state-run IRNA news agency said.The bill grants responsibility for implementing the deal to Iran's Supreme National Security Council, the top security body of the country, which Rouhani heads. It allows Iran to withdraw from the agreement if world powers do not lift sanctions, impose new sanctions or restore previous ones."The government is obligated to stop its voluntary co-operation if the other side fails to remain committed," the bill says.The bill also requires the Iranian government to work toward the nuclear disarmament of Israel, which has the region's sole, if undeclared, nuclear arsenal. The bill also says the government should take "necessary measures" to prevent the U.S. and the West from penetrating the country through the deal, a worry mentioned by Khamenei himself in recent weeks.Hard-liners had hoped to stall the deal in order to weaken Rouhani's moderate administration ahead of February's parliamentary elections. But many in Iran applauded the final nuclear deal, struck July 14 in Vienna, as it would lift crippling economic sanctions in exchange for limits on the nuclear program.The U.N. Security Council previously approved the deal on July 20 and the U.S. Congress blocked efforts by Republicans to derail the accord in September. That left Iran to approve the deal, which came after nearly two years of negotiations between it and the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China and Germany.It was not immediately clear Tuesday when the Guardian Council would issue its own decision. However, it usually approves bills in a short span after a decision by parliament. While Khamenei himself has neither supported nor rejected the deal in public, he frequently praised Iran's negotiators during the talks.Saeed Leilaz, a Tehran-based political analyst, told The Associated Press that he believed the Guardian Council would approve the bill. He dismissed the hard-liner anger as a "domestic manoeuvr" ahead of the February election."The entire system has been supporting the deal," Leilaz said. "The case is over. The deal should be implemented."___Associated Press writer Jon Gambrell in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, contributed to this report.

Syrian rebels pour men and missiles into frontlines-Reuters By Tom Perry-OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Insurgents in Syria are deploying more men and weapons, including significant quantities of anti-tank missiles, to resist ground attacks by the Syrian army and its allies, backed by Russian air strikes, rebels and a monitoring group said on Tuesday.With help from Lebanon's Hezbollah and Iranian soldiers, Syria is trying to drive insurgents from western areas that are crucial to President Bashar al-Assad's survival, and has recaptured a number of towns in the provinces of Hama and Latakia.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a British-based group tracking the war, said a battle continued for control of the town of Kafr Nabuda in Hama province, which the army said it captured on Monday. At least 25 fighters on the government's side were killed, it said.The Observatory's director Rami Abdulrahman identified most of the reinforcing fighters as members of jihadist groups."The (rebel) reinforcements stopped the regime from taking Kfar Nabuda," he said.A number of rebel groups backed by Assad's foreign enemies and operating under the banner of the "Free Syrian Army" have deployed anti-tank missiles along a frontline stretching from Kafr Nabuda to the town of Maan some 30 km (20 miles) to the east, said Fares al-Bayoush, a former Syrian army colonel who heads the Fursan al-Haq group.NORTH-SOUTH HIGHWAY-The aim is to stop government forces advancing north from Morek to rebel-held Khan Shaykhoun, both towns on a north- south highway linking the city of Hama to Aleppo and Idlib.The rebels have been using guided anti-tank, or TOW, missiles to hit tanks and other army vehicles. "We have an excellent supply of missiles," Bayoush said."TOW launching platforms have been deployed along the entire frontline," he told Reuters from Syria, via an internet-based messaging system. "We will, God willing, move to attack, not just defense." Foreign states opposed to Assad have supplied TOW missiles to a number of rebel groups via an operations room in Turkey, one of the states in the region that wants Assad gone.The rebels are hoping for more military support from Arab states, notably Saudi Arabia, which has warned Russia that its intervention will escalate the war and inspire more foreign fighters to go to Syria to fight.But Bayoush and another commander of a foreign-backed rebel group said that military support had not increased."The situation is so far good: continued supplies of rockets and ammunition, but no clear increase," said the second commander, who declined to be identified.Abdulrahman said: "There are many TOWs being used. It increased in the last days, and it has proven its effectiveness".ADVANCE ON IDLIB-The government's first aim is to advance north towards Idlib province, nearly all of which was captured by rebels this year in an attack spearheaded by Islamists including the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front and the powerful Ahrar al-Sham group.Hezbollah has redeployed all its fighters in Syria to take part in the battle in the northwest, according to sources familiar with political and military developments in Syria.A Hezbollah officer was killed on Monday in Idlib province, a Lebanese security source said. A senior Hezbollah commander, Hassan al-Haj, was also killed in the same area in recent days.On the rebels' side, men and weapons also arrived in the strategically important Ghab Plain on Monday, said Abu al-Baraa al-Hamawi, the nom de guerre of a rebel from the Ajnad al-Sham insurgent group, which is fighting in the area.The Ghab Plain abuts the Alawite mountains that form the heartland of Assad's Alawite sect.The reinforcements came from factions including the Turkistan Islamic Party, a foreign jihadist group also operating in the area, and Syrian rebel groups, he said."The reinforcements that arrived are from the groups that were already present. It is an increase in numbers and equipment," Hamawi said. "One of the factions has TOW missiles."He said the rebels had thwarted an attack by pro-government forces on the town of al-Mansoura in the Plain, and that government forces had suffered losses.But Abdulrahman of the Observatory said there was conflicting information on which side controlled the town.(Additional reporting by Laila Bassam; Writing by Tom Perry; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

Turkey warns U.S., Russia against backing Kurdish militia in Syria-Reuters By Orhan Coskun-OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey has warned the United States and Russia it will not tolerate Kurdish territorial gains by Kurdish militia close to its frontiers in north-western Syria, two senior officials said."This is clear cut for us and there is no joking about it," one official said of the possibility of Syrian Kurdish militia crossing the Euphrates to extend control along Turkish borders from Iraq's Kurdistan region towards the Mediterranean coast.Turkey fears advances by Kurdish YPG militia, backed by its PYD political wing, on the Syrian side of its 900 km (560-mile) border will fuel separatist ambitions among Kurds in its own southeastern territories. But Washington has supported YPG fighters as an effective force in combating Islamic State."The PYD has been getting closer with both the United States and Russia of late. We view the PYD as a terrorist group and we want all countries to consider the consequences of their cooperation," one of the Turkish officials said.Turkey suspects Russia, which launched air strikes in Syria two weeks ago, has also been lending support to the YPG and PYD."With support from Russia, the PYD is trying to capture land between Jarablus and Azaz, going west of the Euphrates. We will never accept this," the official said.He said Turkey had raised its concerns at high level meetings with the U.S., European Union and Russia.IRAQI STRIKES- The officials did not say what action, if any, Turkey might take if YPG forces crossed the Euphrates. Ankara has carried out air strikes against Turkish Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels based in the mountains of northern Iraq; but attacks on Kurds in Syria would be far riskier, bringing Ankara into possible conflict both with U.S. and Russian air forces.The YPG said on Monday it had joined forces with Arab rebels and that their new alliance has been promised fresh weapon supplies by the United States for an assault on Islamic State forces in what is effectively their capital, Raqqa.Turkey has accused the Kurdish militia of pursuing "demographic change" in northern Syria by forcibly displacing Turkmen and Arab communities. Ankara fears ultimately the creation of an independent Kurdish state occupying contiguous territories currently belonging to Iraq, Syria and Turkey.Amnesty International on Tuesday accused the YPG, which has seized swathes of northern Syria from Islamic State this year, of committing war crimes by driving out thousands of non- Kurdish civilians and destroying their homes.The Kurds, who have emerged as the U.S.-led coalition's most capable partner in Syria against Islamic State on the ground, deny such accusations. They say those who left areas they seized did so to escape fighting and are welcome to return.Over 40,000 people have been killed in a Kurdish insurgency in Turkey since 1984. The collapse of a ceasefire in July has brought a sharp increase in conflict between security forces and Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters.(Additional reporting by Akin Aytekin in Istanbul; Writing by Nick Tattersall; editing by Ralph Boulton)

Muslim groups' lawsuit over N.Y. surveillance revived by U.S. court-Reuters By Joseph Ax-OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A coalition of Muslim groups can pursue a civil rights lawsuit that accuses New York City police of conducting secret surveillance of Muslims in New Jersey without suspicion of criminal activity, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday.The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia reversed a lower court's decision to throw out the case, finding the plaintiffs had legal standing to assert claims that the counter-terrorism program violated their rights."We have learned from experience that it is often where the asserted interest appears most compelling that we must be most vigilant in protecting constitutional rights," Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro wrote for a three-judge panel, invoking the U.S. internment of Japanese-Americans during World War Two.A spokesman for the city's law department said the city was reviewing the ruling.The program became widely known after a series of articles by the Associated Press, which reported that police officers were infiltrating Muslim organizations throughout the greater New York region in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center.Mayor Bill de Blasio, who criticized the effort on the campaign trail, ended the program after taking office in 2014, according to media reports.The plaintiffs in the case, including New Jersey imams, business owners and students, sued New York in 2012, claiming the surveillance subjected them to discrimination, threatened their careers and caused them to stop attending religious services, among other effects.But U.S. District Judge William Martini in Newark, New Jersey, dismissed the case in February 2014, finding the city had persuasively argued that the surveillance was an anti-terrorism, not an anti-Muslim, program.The appeals court decision does not resolve the merits of the case but returns the lawsuit to Martini for further proceedings." There is no Muslim exception to the Constitution," said Baher Azmy, legal director for the Center for Constitutional Rights, which represents the plaintiffs along with Muslim Advocates.The case is one of several lawsuits filed against New York over the program.The New York Civil Liberties Union brought a similar claim in Brooklyn federal court in 2013. In addition, a group of civil rights lawyers filed papers in Manhattan federal court, claiming the surveillance runs afoul of a longstanding court order limiting how the police can monitor political activity.Both of those disputes have been settled, according to court filings.The case is Hassan et al. v. The City of New York, 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, No. 14-1688.(Reporting by Joseph Ax)

FALSE POPE FROM THE VATICAN

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 13:11-13
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 (FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER) 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,

REVELATION 17:1-5,9,15-18
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.
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.
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.(BOMB OR NUKE THE VATICAN)
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,(VATICAN) which reigneth over the kings of the earth.

Catholic board's transgender policy misses mark, Edmonton mom says-CBC – OCT 13,15-YAHOONEWS

After a seven-year-old transgender girl from Edmonton won the right to use the girls' washroom at school, she asked her mother for a guarantee."She had said, 'Mama, actually I need to see that in writing first," recalls her mother with a mixture of pride and heartache, who feels her daughter does not have the same rights as her classmates."To date, I haven't been able to provide that to her," said the mother of the girl, who CBC has agreed to not identify for fear of discrimination. "But she, I think in her own little way, is just as suspicious."On Tuesday, the Edmonton Catholic School Board's proposed policy on gender identity will be given first reading.It's the result of a four-month battle between school staff and district administration and the girl's mother, who wants her daughter, who was born a boy, to have to right to use the girls' bathroom.But the mother said the proposal will do little to protect the rights of her daughter or other LGBTQ students. Mom urges provincial policy-She is urging Education Minister David Eggen to create a province-wide policy protecting transgender students' right to decide which washroom or change room they use."The decision needs to be taken away from the trustees," she said. "They have proven time and time again that, collectively, they cannot make a sound decision that aligns on the side of human rights rather than archaic religious principles."Among her concerns, the policy will not safeguard against the bias of trustees such as Larry Kowalczyk, who said transgender people are mentally ill, she said."It worries me that you have a trustee that is openly a bigot, you have priests and clergy that agree with him," she said.She said a recent meeting between the board and representatives of the Edmonton Archdiocese could influence policy that should have "no religious perspective."She's also concerned that regulations stemming from the policy would be developed by Superintendent Joan Carr, who she said told her more than once that her daughter was not to use the girls' washroom.-Contrary to teachings of Church-Carr is on the Council of Catholic School Superintendents of Alberta, which distributed a document meant to guide policy that states gender transitioning "is contrary to the teachings of the Catholic Church".Carr's involvement is also a concern to Marni Panas, a transgender woman and parent with a child in the Edmonton Catholic school system."These guidelines will be written by a superintendent and administration who already has a clear history of not being particularly inclusive and addressing this issue appropriately," she said."I don't have a lot of faith in their ability to create guidelines that are in the spirit of what we're looking for in this policy."The draft also makes no mention of protections for LGBTQ staff."That's quite concerning, because we do have a history in this province of Catholic school boards firing transgender people," Panas said. "I probably wouldn't even be allowed to apply for a job there."She said provincial guidelines would take pressure off school boards, eliminate the challenge of religion and rely on evidence-based best practices."Most importantly, we don't have to have this fight with every single school board for years," Panas said.'Children continue to be hurt'-" While school boards go without a policy like this, children continue to be hurt."In an email, Eggen said he and his staff have been given assurances the board is "working towards a policy that will provide support for transgender students."He said he would wait until Tuesday to comment on the policy's lack of protection for LGBTQ staff.When asked if he would rule out a province-wide policy, he wrote, "We are keeping all options on the table."Neither Carr nor board chair Debbie Engel have responded to requests for comment. The board's draft policy will be given first reading on Tuesday, followed by a consultation period before a second reading on Nov. 24.Meanwhile, the mother of the girl dreams of the day she can tell her daughter, "You will never have anybody questioning you about which bathroom, which locker room, which sports team."There's nothing more discouraging than looking into a little kid's face and seeing hurt and pain."andrea.huncar@cbc.ca @andreahuncar

10/13/2015-VATICAN INSIDER-"Publication of disputed letter aimed to cause a stir"-Fr. Lombardi-Regarding the letter written by 13 cardinal, the Vatican spokesman said the Pope has already given a clear response. No one must “allow themselves be conditioned” by the text, which was published “just days” after the Secretary General and the Pope gave clear statements regarding the new Synod procedures-Iacopo Scaramuzzi

vatican city-The publication of a letter which 13 cardinals addressed to the Pope at the start of the assembly, expressing their concerns about Synod procedures, is to be considered “an attempt to cause a stir” and no one should “let themselves to be conditioned” by this. The letter was published on a website yesterday. The Vatican spokesman, Fr. Federico Lombardi, clarified this, returning to the issue for the second time in two days. He underlined that the response given by Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri and the Pope himself during the discussions in the Synod Hall in recent days, “was crystal clear”.Fr. Lombardi opened today’s press briefing in the Vatican newsroom by making a clarification about “a strange letter there was talk of yesterday”: “As we know,” he said, “at least four of the Synod Fathers included in the list of signatories - Scola, Piacenza, Vingt-Trois and Erdő - denied they had signed such a letter. In a statement, Pell said that the letter delivered to the Pope was confidential and should have remained confidential and that the content published bore no correspondence to the text or the signatures in the letter. Essentially, the issues raised in the letter were discussed on Monday evening in the Synod Hall, though not in such great detail, as I had mentioned when I spoke about objections and doubts regarding Synod procedures. As we know, the responses given by the Secretary General and the Pope were very clear. The person responsible for publishing the letter just days later, caused a stir that was not intended by the signatories of the letter, at least not by  some of the more authoritative persons among them and no one should let themselves be conditioned by this. Of course, it is only natural that observations should be made on the Synod’s new procedures. But one these procedures have been established, everyone must undertake to apply it in the best possible way. Some of the “signatories”, Fr. Lombardi went on to say, underlining the word in inverted commas, are also elected moderators of the circuli minores; they are working very hard and the general climate is positive.” In the meantime, Mexican cardinal Norberto Rivera Carrera also publicly denied his signature was on the letter.Fr. Lombardi also said Cardinal Wilfrid Fox Napier had asked him to pass on a clarification about an interview he gave to an American website. The South African Cardinal wished to reiterate that “no one is questioning Pope Francis’ right” to appoint the ten members of the commission for the drafting of the Synod’s concluding document.During today’s briefing, German Benedictine abbot Jeremias Schröder, President of the Benedictine Congregation of St. Ottilia, amongst other things, expressed his satisfaction about the adopted working method, which gives more space to language group discussions (circuli minores). He underlined the “good working climate”, in which concrete issues are discussed and “abstract ideas” avoided. He did not hide the fact that the work “is a bit tiring but we are soldiering on with determination and patience”. “I must admit,” he the abbot said, “that I am still not sure where we will end up but I am not too worried about this because I know that these consultation processes require an open vision, there is no set ending and so we set to work with good reasons to hope that we will arrive at a result that we can present to the Pope here in about a week and a half.”As far as specific issues are concerned, the “bold and convincing” hypothesis of introducing the female diaconate was only brought up once in the general Synod discussions (by Canadian archbishop Paul André Durocher), but it wouldn’t have enjoyed much support. In terms of granting greater doctrinal powers in specific problem areas, “many of the speeches in the general discussions mentioned the possibility of dealing with questions on the basis of a given cultural context. I would say there were about twenty or so speeches and only two or three were against, claiming that for the sake of the Church’s unity handing over powers would have fatal consequences. I think that in this stage of the discussions, the idea is mostly shared. I, for example am German and it seems to me that the remarried divorces issue is very strongly and widely felt in Germany and much less so elsewhere. This is an area where there could be space for original pastoral ideas, also as far as the understanding of homosexuality goes, an issue that really varies from culture to culture. National Episcopal Conferences could be allowed to search for pastoral solutions that are in tune with their specific cultural context.” Two auditors attended today’s press briefing, Thérèse Nyirabukeye, a Rwandan educator from the African Federation for Family Action, who spoke about natural method of contraception amongst other things and the Canadian, Moira McQueen, Director of the Canadian Catholic Bioethics Institute. During the press briefing, Fr. Lombardi announced that on Wednesday 21 October the convent of St. Sabina on the Aventine Hill in Rome will be visiting, on the occasion of the 800th Jubilee of the Order of Preachers. Tomorrow, Wednesday 14th October, the 13 language-based discussion groups are to publish the reports of the second week of Synod meetings.

10/12/2015 -VATICAN INSIDER-The mystery surrounding the letter allegedly sent by cardinals criticising Synod procedure-Cardinals and bishops attend the Synod-According to a list of names published by Vatican commentator, Sandro Magister, the letter was signed by thirteen cardinals. But four of the men mentioned – Scola, Vingt-Trois Piacenza and Erdö – denied signing the document. The incident underlines the importance of Francis’ call for this “hermeneutics of conspiracy” to stop-andrea tornielli

vatican city-Thirteen cardinals - Synod Fathers - are said to have sent a letter to Pope Francis, expressing their doubts about the procedures followed in the current Synod on the family and raising fears of piloting with the aim of obtaining “predetermined results”. The cardinals were apparently especially keen to know about the composition of the commission tasked with drafting the concluding text. They asked that the rapporteurs of the language-based discussion groups be elected, not nominated (the possibility of having non-elected was nominees was wafted about by some media circles on the eve of the Synod but it was never considered seriously).The letter was published in full by Vatican commentator Sandro Magister, along with a complete list of the letter’s signatories: Carlo Carlo Caffarra, Archbishop of Bologna, Thomas Cardinal Collins, Archbishop of Toronto, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Archbishop of New York, Wim Cardinal Eijk, Archbishop of Utrecht, Péter Cardinal Erdö, Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest and Relator General of the Synod, Gerhard Cardinal Müller, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Wilfrid Cardinal Napier, Archbishop of Durban and one of the presidents delegate of the Synod, George Cardinal Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy, Mauro Cardinal Piacenza, Major Penitentiary, Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Angelo Cardinal Scola, Archbishop of Milan, Jorge Cardinal Urosa Savino, Archbishop of Caracas, André Cardinal Vingt-Trois, Archbishop of Paris and one of the presidents delegate of the Synod.But four of these figures denied their names were on the letter sent to the Pope. The Archbishop of Milan, Angelo Scola’s spokesman issued a statement on his behalf, confirming that he had signed no such letter. Later, the Archbishop of Paris, André Vingt-Trois, also denied having signed the letter, in a statement to French Catholic newspaper La Croix’s Vatican commentator. Then, in the late morning, the Major Penitentiary Cardinal Mauro Piacenza also denied signing the text. In a statement to Vatican Insider, he said he had not signed the letter, nor was he invited to do so. In the early afternoon, the General Rapporteur of the Synod, Cardinal Péter Erdö, also said his signature was not on that letter. Following each of these statements, Sandro Magister removed the signatories’ names from the list in his article.In their letter, the cardinals – who gave their assurance that their concerns were shared by other Synod Fathers too – criticise the Instrumentum laboris, the Synod working document, stating: “it also has sections that would benefit from substantial reflection and reworking”. They criticise “the new procedures guiding the synod seem to guarantee it excessive influence on the synod’s deliberations and on the final synodal document”.“The new synodal procedures,” the letter reads, “will be seen in some quarters as lacking openness and genuine collegiality”. Although the cardinals do not mention specifically which “quarters” they are referring to, it is clear that these doubts are their own.  “In the past, the process of offering propositions and voting on them served the valuable purpose of taking the measure of the synod fathers’ minds. The absence of propositions and their related discussions and voting seems to discourage open debate and to confine discussion to small groups; thus it seems urgent to us that the crafting of propositions to be voted on by the entire synod should be restored. Voting on a final document comes too late in the process for a full review and serious adjustment of the text.”In another paragraph of the letter, cardinals write: “the lack of input by the synod fathers in the composition of the drafting committee has created considerable unease. Its members have been appointed, not elected, without consultation. Likewise, anyone drafting anything at the level of the small circles should be elected, not appointed.”“In turn, these things have created a concern that the new procedures are not true to the traditional spirit and purpose of a Synod. It is unclear why these procedural changes are necessary. A number of fathers feel the new process seems designed to facilitate predetermined results on important disputed questions.”Finally, cardinals express their “concern that a synod designed to address a vital pastoral matter – reinforcing the dignity of marriage and family – may become dominated by the theological/doctrinal issue of Communion for the divorced and civilly remarried. If so, this will inevitably raise even more fundamental issues about how the Church, going forward, should interpret and apply the Word of God, her doctrines and her disciplines to changes in culture.”The Secretary General of the Synod, Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri and the Pope himself responded to this letter in the Synod Hall the following day. Baldisseri explained that the signatories were off the mark in the comments about procedural changes to do with the commission in charge of drafting the final document and about the appointment of rapporteurs in the circuli minores.Regarding the first objection, Baldisseri explained that until the Extraordinary Synod of 2014, three or four people from the General Secretariat had been in charge of writing the final document. It was Francis who wanted to expand this task, assigning one Synod Father from each continent. The commission was never elected by the Synod Fathers. In addition, the prediction some media circles close to the signatories made about the failure to elect rapporteurs and moderators from the language-based discussion groups (circuli minores), proved to be mistaken. As in 2014, the rapporteurs and moderators of the circuli minores, were elected by the Synod Fathers and not appointed. And the reports issued by these circles were published in full like last year.Readers will recall Francis’ reference to a “hermeneutics of conspiracy”, defining it as “sociologically weak and spiritually unhelpful”. In other words, it is exactly the opposite of what the Synod Fathers are called to do and all these suspicions about conspiracies and plotting needs to stop. His words were welcomed with applause.The Pope pointed out that “Catholic doctrine on marriage has not been touched, no one called it into question in this assembly or in the Extraordinary assembly. It has been preserved in its integrity”. He also urged Synod Fathers not to let themselves “be conditioned or limit” themselves, “seeing the question of communion for remarried divorcees as the only problem”.

10/12/2015 -VATICAN INSIDER-Pope’s dormitory for the homeless is inaugurated-The Pope's dormitory for the homeless-The residence in Rome’s Via dei Penitenzieri is already up and running and can host up to 34 people a night: the dorms are run by nuns from Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity. The restructuring work was paid for by the Papal Office of Charities-ANDREA TORNIELLI

vatican city-The structure has been up and running for about a day or so and the official inauguration took place away from prying eyes last week: Pope Francis’ dormitory for the homeless can host up to 34 people. The news was announced in a communiqué from the Office of Papal Charities which covered the costs of the restructuring work and furnishings.“A new dormitory for the homeless has been open for almost a week now in Via dei Penitenzieri near the Santo Spirito Hospital in Rome. It was officially inaugurated in the liturgical memory of Our Lady of the Rosary, on Thursday 7 October, with the blessing of the locals and a holy mass,” celebrated by the Apostolic Almoner, Bishop Konrad Krajewski. The mass was attended by the dormitory’s first guests and by volunteers.The large structure is located outside the Vatican. Until a few months ago it had been used as a travel agency and was offered to Pope Francis by the headquarters of the Society of Jesus. This was the Jesuit community’s way of responding to Francis’s October 2013 appeal for buildings to be placed in service of the needy  and those in difficulty.“The dormitory,” the communiqué says, “bears the name Gift of Mercy. Gift because it is a true gift from the religious community; Mercy because mercy is love’s second name which is expressed through concrete and generous gestures toward others.”“The structure can host up to 34 men a night and is run by Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, as are the other Roman structures in Via Ratazzi, Termini Railway Station and San Gregorio al Celio. “ There are specific regulations in place for the smooth running of the dormitory: an interview is held with the nuns who admit and register those seeking shelter. This takes place at the Dono di Maria (Gift of Mary) shelter for the homeless in the Vatican; the maximum period of stay is 30 days; there are clearly set time schedules for guest arrivals (from 6 to 7 pm), lights-out, rest and waking up (6:15 am), personal hygiene, bed-making and tidying belongings in closets provided. The structure shuts at 8 am for cleaning.”Guests are offered dinner in the refectory located in the Dono di Maria shelter before returning to the dormitory. Breakfast is served in the same structure as the dormitory and guests can also use the homeless shower facilities under the St. Peter’s Square colonnade, which have been available for some time.“All work was overseen and financed by the Office of Papal Charities, through offerings collected from the distribution of apostolic blessing parchments and the generous contributions of individuals. The Papal Office of Charities, together with the Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity, is committed to financing the entire running of the dormitory.”It is also worth mentioning that since 1988, the Dono di Maria shelter for the homeless has been offering overnight shelter to 50 women, 30 of whom are permanent residents. With the addition of the new dormitory, the Vatican is now in a position to offer a bed to a total of 84 people without a fixed abode.

Why Baltimore police officers want statements tossed in Freddie Gray case-Six police officers are scheduled to go on trial for charges relating to the death of Freddie Gray on Nov. 30. A judge will decide if jurors will hear the officers' initial statements.-Christian Science Monitor By Kelsey Warner

Court proceedings are underway in the case of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who died from an injury he sustained while in the custody of Baltimore Police last April. A judge is holding a hearing to determine the admissibility of statements made to investigators by five of the six police officers charged in connection with Mr. Gray's death.Those officers are requesting their statements be thrown out, and therefore not be made available to any potential jury, under claims the statements were improperly obtained. The sixth officer facing charges didn't give a statement.The hearings may bring forth details about what was said in the contested police statements, but are more likely to focus on the specific procedures investigators used to gather the statements, legal experts told The Baltimore Sun. The Sun reports that "prosecutors have said Gray asked officers for medical attention but never received it, and that he was shackled but not seat-belted in the police van, which is against department policy."More specifically, The Sun reports that Officer William Porter told investigators that he had "warned" a fellow officer that Gray needed medical care, adding that he was not sure if Gray was faking injuries to avoid jail. Mr. Porter also told investigators he had informed Sgt. Alicia White that Gray needed medical attention. Ms. White contradicted those claims, telling investigators she was not told Gray needed care.Police have the same rights as any other defendant, including the right to remain silent when questioned by law enforcement regarding events in which they were involved. They also have protections under Maryland's Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights, which affords some further rights to officers accused of misconduct, as well as by legal precedent, The Sun reports.Circuit Judge Barry Williams is presiding over the hearing which begins Tuesday, and is expected to last two days.Charges were announced by Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby against the six officers on May 1, and the first trial in Gray's death is set to start Nov. 30.Goodson is the only officer charged with second-degree murder. Three others, White, Porter and Lt. Brian Rice are facing manslaughter charges. Officers Edward Nero and Garrett Miller face lesser charges, including second-degree assault. All six are charged with misconduct, and are currently free on bail.This report contains material from the Associated Press.