1,700 DEAD IN MYNAMAR QUAKE. THE POPES AGE 88.

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)

 1,700 DEAD IN MYNAMAR QUAKE. THE POPES AGE 88.

FEARFUL SIGHTS AND GREAT SIGNS FROM HEAVEN

LUKE 21:11,25-26
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.so was not yet deemed a threat to land.
25 And there shall be signs in the sun,(HEATING UP-SOLAR ECLIPSES) and in the moon,(MAN ON MOON-LUNAR ECLIPSES) and in the stars;(ASTEROIDS ETC) and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity;(MASS CONFUSION) the sea and the waves roaring;(FIERCE WINDS)
26 Men’s hearts failing them for fear,(TORNADOES,HURRICANES,STORMS) and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth:(DESTRUCTION) for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.(FROM QUAKES,NUKES ETC)

EARTHQUAKES

MATTHEW 24:7-8
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

MARK 13:8
8 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETHNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places,(DIFFERNT PLACES AT THE SAME TIME) and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

REV 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.

JAMES 1:11
11 For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

The Hebrew noun accurately translated “oven” refers to a “baking oven” as distinct from a kiln or smelting furnace—both of which burn much hotter. (The Hebrew nouns for “kiln” or for “smelting furnace” are more likely to appear in contexts of God's wrath or judgment.)
21 They have roused me to jealousy with a non-god, they have exasperated me with their idols. In my turn I shall rouse them to jealousy with a non-people, I shall exasperate them with a stupid nation.
22 Yes, a fire has blazed from my anger, it will burn right down to the depths of Sheol; it will devour the earth and all its produce, it will set fire to the footings of the mountains.
23 I shall hurl disasters on them, on them I shall use up all my arrows.

QUAKES SINCE MYANMAR QUAKE.(THERES LOTS MORE)
4.2-7 mi WNW of Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar)-2025-03-28 10:49:19 (UTC-04:00)
4.6-7 mi WNW of Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar)-2025-03-28 08:21:56 (UTC-04:00)
4.5-Burma-2025-03-28 07:16:50 (UTC-04:00)
4.5-2 mi NNW of Pyinmana, Burma (Myanmar)-2025-03-28 05:55:36 (UTC-04:00)
6.6-central Mid-Atlantic Ridge-2025-03-28 13:17:27 (UTC-04:00)
4.1-72 mi NE of Taunggyi, Burma (Myanmar)-2025-03-28 05:26:46 (UTC-04:00)
4.4-62 mi E of Mawlaik, Burma (Myanmar)-2025-03-28 05:18:28 (UTC-04:00)
6.7-Burma (Myanmar)-2025-03-28 02:32:04 (UTC-04:00)
7.7-2025 Mandalay, Burma (Myanmar) Earthquake-2025-03-28 02:20:52 (UTC-04:00)

Myanmar quake death toll tops 1,600 as aid delivery hindered by damaged roads-Dozens missing after tower under construction collapses in Thailand's capital-Thomson Reuters · Posted: Mar 29, 2025 1:30 AM EDT |

Rescue crews in Myanmar and Thailand are working tirelessly to attempt to pull survivors from rubble after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked the region on Friday. The death toll has already exceeded 1,600 and authorities expect it to continue to rise.Myanmar's military rulers let in hundreds of foreign rescue personnel on Saturday after an earthquake killed more than 1,600 people, the deadliest natural disaster to hit the impoverished, war-torn country in years.Friday's 7.7 magnitude quake, among the biggest to jolt the Southeast Asian nation in the last century, crippled airports, bridges and highways amid a civil war that has wrecked the economy and displaced millions.The death toll in Myanmar climbed to 1,644, the military government said on Saturday. Myanmar's embassy in London said more than 3,400 people were injured and nearly 140 were missing, adding that these numbers were expected to increase.In neighbouring Thailand, where the quake rattled buildings and brought down a skyscraper under construction in the capital Bangkok, at least nine people were killed and 78 others were still unaccounted for at the scene of the collapse, located near the city's popular Chatuchak market.Survivors in Mandalay, Myanmar's second-biggest city, dug with their bare hands on Friday in desperate attempts to save those still trapped, lacking heavy machinery and with authorities absent.In Bangkok on Saturday, rescue operations continued at the site of the 33-storey tower's collapse, where 47 people were missing or trapped under the rubble — including workers from Myanmar.Predictive modelling by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimated Myanmar's death toll could exceed 10,000 and losses could exceed the country's annual economic output.A day after making a rare call for international assistance, Myanmar's junta chief, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, travelled to hard-hit Mandalay near the epicentre of the quake, which brought down buildings and triggered fires in some areas."The Chairman of the State Administration Council instructed authorities to expedite search and rescue efforts and address any urgent needs," the junta said in a statement on state media, referring to Min Aung Hlaing.Airports closed, critical infrastructure damaged-An initial assessment by Myanmar's opposition National Unity Government said at least 2,900 buildings, 30 roads and seven bridges had been damaged by the quake."Due to significant damage, Naypyitaw and Mandalay international airports are temporarily closed," said the NUG, which includes remnants of the elected civilian government ousted by the military in a 2021 coup that triggered the civil war.At the airport in Naypyitaw, Myanmar's purpose-built capital city, a control tower collapsed, rendering it inoperable, a person with knowledge of the situation told Reuters. It wasn't immediately clear if there had been any injuries.Flights carrying relief supplies and rescue teams landed in Yangon, Myanmar's commercial capital, instead of at the airports in Mandalay and Naypyitaw. The flights arrived on Saturday from India, China, Singapore, and Malaysia, the Myanmar Embassy in London said.Humanitarian operations in Myanmar have been hindered by damaged roads and infrastructure, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Saturday."Damage to the Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw-Mandalay expressway led to service disruptions, with cracks and surface distortions forcing highway buses to halt operations," the UN agency said in a statement.A powerful earthquake rocked Southeast Asia on Friday, killing several people, bringing down a skyscraper under construction in Bangkok and toppling buildings in neighbouring Myanmar, where the ruling junta declared a state of emergency in some areas.The Association of Southeast Asian Nations, a 10-country bloc that includes Myanmar, said that it recognized the urgent need for humanitarian assistance. "ASEAN stands ready to support relief and recovery efforts," the group said in a statement.South Korea said it would provide an initial $2 million US in humanitarian aid to Myanmar through international organizations.The United States, which has a testy relationship with the Myanmar military and has sanctioned its officials, including Min Aung Hlaing, has said it would provide some assistance.Chinese President Xi Jinping spoke by phone with the junta chief, China's embassy in Myanmar said on Saturday, and said Beijing would provide $13.77 million US worth of aid, including tents, blankets and emergency medical kits.'No help coming' The quake, which hit around lunchtime on Friday, impacted wide swathes of Myanmar, from the central plains around Mandalay to the hills of Shan, parts of which are not completely under the junta's control.After he was dragged out from under a wall by other residents in Mandalay, Htet Min Oo, 25, said he tried to clear the rubble of a crumpled building himself to rescue his grandmother and two uncles — but eventually gave up."I don't know if they are still alive under the debris," he told Reuters, breaking into tears. "After so long, I don't think there's any hope."Rescue operations in Mandalay could not match the scale of the disaster, another resident said by phone, asking not to be named because of security concerns."Many people are trapped but there is no help coming just simply because there isn't manpower or equipment or vehicles," he said.Construction workers trapped in Bangkok-In Bangkok, 1,000 kilometres from the epicentre, authorities on Saturday pushed ahead with efforts to find construction workers trapped under the rubble of the collapsed tower, using excavators, drones and search-and-rescue dogs.Thailand's Deputy Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said all possible resources had been deployed to search for survivors and to bring out bodies of the deceased."We always have hope," he told reporters. "We're still working around the clock."Chanpen Kaewnoi, 39, said she rushed over on Friday afternoon after seeing news reports that the under-construction building where her mother and younger sister were working had collapsed."I called my sister, but no matter how many times I tried to call her there was no connection," she said after a sleepless night at the site."I want to wait for my mother and sister," said Chanpen, herself a construction worker. "I want to see their faces again."Across the sprawling metropolis, where such quakes are rare, there may be up to 5,000 damaged buildings, including residential towers, said Anek Siripanichgorn, a board member of the Council of Engineers Thailand, which is helping municipal authorities."We are going through hundreds of cases," he said. "If we see cases where there is potential danger, we will immediately send engineers."With files from CBC News.

Scientists explain why Myanmar quake was so deadly.

Experts say Friday's devastating earthquake in Myanmar was likely the strongest to hit the country in decades.Experts say that the devastating earthquake in Myanmar on Friday was likely the strongest to hit the country in decades, with disaster modeling suggesting thousands could be dead.Automatic assessments from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) said the shallow 7.7-magnitude quake northwest of the central Myanmar city of Sagaing triggered a red alert for shaking-related fatalities and economic losses."High casualties and extensive damage are probable and the disaster is likely widespread," it said, locating the epicenter near the central Myanmar city of Mandalay, home to more than a million people.Myanmar's ruling junta said on Saturday morning that the number killed had passed 1,000, with more than 2,000 injured.However, the USGS analysis said there was a 35% chance that possible fatalities could be in the range of 10,000-100,000 people.The USGS offered a similar likelihood that the financial damage could total tens of thousands of millions of dollars, warning that it might exceed the GDP of Myanmar.Weak infrastructure will complicate relief efforts in the isolated, military-ruled state, where rescue services and the health care system have already been ravaged by four years of civil war sparked by a military coup in 2021.Dangerous fault-Bill McGuire, emeritus professor of geophysical and climate hazards at University College London (UCL), said it was "probably the biggest earthquake on the Myanmar mainland in three-quarters of a century".Infographic with a map of Myanmar and neighboring countries showing the location and magnitude of major earthquakes in the area since 1980.A 6.7-magnitude aftershock struck minutes after the first and McGuire warned that "more can be expected".Rebecca Bell, a tectonics expert at Imperial College London (ICL), suggested it was a side-to-side "strike-slip" of the Sagaing Fault.This is where the Indian tectonic plate, to the west, meets the Sunda plate that forms much of Southeast Asia—a fault similar in scale and movement to the San Andreas Fault in California."The Sagaing fault is very long, 1,200 kilometers (745 miles), and very straight," Bell said. "The straight nature means earthquakes can rupture over large areas—and the larger the area of the fault that slips, the larger the earthquake."Earthquakes in such cases can be "particularly destructive", Bell added, explaining that since the quake takes place at a shallow depth, its seismic energy has dissipated little by the time it reaches populated areas above.That causes "a lot of shaking at the surface", Bell said.Building boom-Myanmar has been hit by powerful quakes in the past.There have been more than 14 earthquakes with a magnitude of 6 or above in the past century, including a magnitude 6.8 earthquake near Mandalay in 1956, said Brian Baptie, a seismologist with the British Geological Survey.Friday's devastating earthquake in Myanmar follows a boom in high-rise buildings constructed from reinforced concrete, one expert said.Ian Watkinson, from the department of earth sciences at Royal Holloway University of London, said what had changed in recent decades was the "boom in high-rise buildings constructed from reinforced concrete".Myanmar has been riven by years of conflict and there is a low level of building design enforcement."Critically, during all previous magnitude 7 or larger earthquakes along the Sagaing Fault, Myanmar was relatively undeveloped, with mostly low-rise timber-framed buildings and brick-built religious monuments," Watkinson said."Today's earthquake is the first test of modern Myanmar's infrastructure against a large, shallow-focus earthquake close to its major cities."Baptie said that at least 2.8 million people in Myanmar were in hard-hit areas where most lived in buildings "constructed from timber and unreinforced brick masonry" that are vulnerable to earthquake shaking."The usual mantra is that 'earthquakes don't kill people; collapsing infrastructure does'," said Ilan Kelman, an expert in disaster reduction at UCL."Governments are responsible for planning regulations and building codes. This disaster exposes what governments of Burma/Myanmar failed to do long before the earthquake, which would have saved lives during the shaking."Discover the latest in science, tech, and space with over 100,000 subscribers who rely on Phys.org for daily insights. Sign up for our free newsletter and get updates on breakthroughs, innovations, and research that matter—daily or weekly.Skyscraper checks-Strong tremors also rocked neighboring Thailand, where a 30-story skyscraper under construction was reduced to a pile of dusty concrete, trapping workers in the debris.Another expert said "problematic design" might have been an issue in Bangkok, where an under-construction office tower collapsed after Friday's quake.Christian Malaga-Chuquitaype, from ICL's civil and environmental engineering department, said the nature of the ground in Bangkok contributed to the impact on the city, despite being some 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) from the epicenter in Myanmar."Even though Bangkok is far from active faults, its soft soil amplifies the shaking," he said. "This affects especially tall buildings during distant earthquakes."Malaga-Chuquitaype said the construction techniques in Bangkok favoring "flat slabs"—where floors are held only by columns without using strengthening beams, like a table supported only by legs—were a "problematic design".He said that initial video analysis of the collapsed tower block in Bangkok suggested this type of construction technique had been used."It performs poorly during earthquakes, often failing in a brittle and sudden (almost explosive) manner," he said.Roberto Gentile, a catastrophe risk modeling expert from UCL, said the "dramatic collapse" of the Bangkok tower block meant that "other tall buildings in the city may require a thorough assessment".Bangkok city authorities said they will deploy more than 100 engineers to inspect buildings for safety after receiving more than 2,000 reports of damage.

85,000 without power in Ontario as ice storm moves through province-Orillia could see up to 25 mm of freezing rain this weekend, Environment Canada says-CBC News · Posted: Mar 29, 2025 7:15 AM EDT |

About 85,000 customers are currently without power in Ontario Saturday as an ice storm pummels parts of the province, Hydro One said. The outages, which are concentrated in central and eastern Ontario, are being caused by tree limbs and branches weighed down by freezing rain that break and fall onto power lines, said spokesperson Tiziana Baccega Rosa. She said some areas in the province, which are known as water-access only, may be without power for more than 24 hours. Crews will need to either fly in by helicopter or use boats, which they cannot do until the storm is over, Baccega Rosa said. Affected areas may include parts of Parry Sound and Huntsville. Crews are working to restore power across the province, Hydro One said in a post on X. "Stay safe, stay back from downed lines," the company wrote.Freezing rain began in parts of southern Ontario early Saturday morning while Toronto is expected to see it begin on Saturday night, Environment Canada said. The following areas saw freezing rain begin early Saturday, according to the federal weather agency: Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Markham, Newmarket, Georgina, northern York Region, Uxbridge, Beaverton, Pickering, Oshawa, Durham Region, Barrie, Collingwood and Hillsdale. These areas are expected to see ice build up between five to 10 mm, according to Environment Canada freezing rain warnings issued early Saturday morning. Freezing rain will likely change over to rain as temperatures hover near zero degrees, the warning said, but will continue longer over higher terrain where temperatures are cooler. "Freezing rain is expected to end for all areas by midday Sunday," the warning says.People are advised to consider postponing non-essential travel until conditions improve, Environment Canada said. Tree branches may break under ice build-up and surfaces including highways, roads and walkways will become "icy, slippery and hazardous," the warning says. 2 to 4 millimetres of freezing rain forecast in Toronto-Meanwhile in Toronto, Mississauga and Brampton, freezing rain is expected to begin early Saturday evening and continue into Sunday morning, Environment Canada said. These cities may see ice build up between two to four millimetres, as well as utility outages, slippery surfaces and broken tree branches, the federal weather agency said in a freezing rain warning Saturday afternoon. An initial special advisory that was in effect until noon Saturday also warned of possible utility outages, but that was no longer included in the latest freezing rain warning. Environment Canada is warning a messy storm is expected to bring freezing rain across the GTA. CBC meteorologist Chris Potter shares what to expect in this weekend's forecast.Further north in Orillia, Lagoon City and Washago, ice build up is expected between 10 to 20 mm, and amounts more than 25 mm are possible. The ice storm began Saturday morning and is forecast to continue into Sunday afternoon. Widespread power outages and icy, slippery conditions are expected, Environment Canada said. The city is among those hit by power outages, and it says the public library has been closed for the day because it's without electricity.Barrie, Collingwood and Hillsdale are also under a rainfall warning, starting early Saturday morning. By Sunday morning, rainfall amounts between 25 to 50 mm is expected.With files from The Canadian Press and Naama Weingarten

Freezing rain warnings extended, hundreds without power as storm rolls through-Anticipated freezing rain and snow affecting much of eastern Ontario-Gabrielle Huston · CBC News · Posted: Mar 29, 2025 11:28 AM EDT |

An anticipated major winter storm has arrived in eastern Ontario, with power outages affecting hundreds of people in Kingston, Ont., and the surrounding area and police reporting dozens of collisions.Environment Canada said Friday to prepare for widespread power outages and dangerous travel over the weekend because of freezing rain hitting communities ranging from Bancroft to Belleville to Brockville.It's since upgraded some regional warnings and extended them into Sunday.As of Saturday morning, the agency had active freezing rain warnings in place along Lake Ontario for Kingston, Belleville and Quinte West, warning the public that these regions could get five up to 25 millimetres of ice accretion or more and widespread power outages are possible.There is also a freezing rain warning along the border of western Quebec in places like Grenville and Deep River, noting that people there may see between five and 10 millimetres of ice accretion. Ottawa, Gatineau and communities to the south — including Perth and Siths Falls — are now under a freezing rain warning, upgraded from a special weather statement around 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.On Friday, that statement said these regions could get five to 10 millimetres of ice accretion.The freezing rain may ease for a time on Saturday, according to Environment Canada. The agency provided an update late Saturday morning to note that freezing rain in some places would continue into Sunday afternoon.Kingston has declared a significant weather event, putting in its snow plans for transit and overnight parking. Cornwall and Pembroke have followed suit.For a benchmark, the infamous 1998 ice storm brought more than eight centimetres of ice to Ottawa over multiple days.Power outages in Lake Ontario communities-Forecasters said Friday it would get slippery outside and tree branches could break as ice builds up, putting utilities such as electricity at risk where there are freezing rain warnings.Around noon on Saturday, Hydro One's outage map showed at least 1,800 customers were experiencing power outages around Kingston, Leeds and the Thousand Islands, and Lennox and Addington county.At that time Hydro Ottawa's outage map showed there were a handful of outages in Ottawa, affecting fewer than 20 customers. Outages are measured in customers, not people, with a large building sometimes considered a single customer.Organizations such as Emergency Management Ontario have advice on how to prepare for and manage power outages. CBC Lite is a low-bandwidth version of this website that can help you stay informed.An evergreen tree's green needles are seen coated in ice.Dozens of collisions-Environment Canada and the Ontario Provincial Police recommend postponing non-essential travel under the freezing rain warnings.OPP reported on X that its officers had responded to about 94 collisions across eastern Ontario between midnight and noon on Saturday.Most of the collisions Saturday morning resulted in "no injuries or minor injuries," OPP wrote.But they also said that one three-vehicle collision on Highway 138 north of Monkland Saturday morning was fatal,  while another three-vehicle collision on Highway 416 near Spencerville just before midnight Friday resulted in at least seven people sent to hospital with injuries.

South Korea's worst-ever wildfires double in size, killing at least 28 and incinerating temples-Blaze that began in central Uiseong county has carved trail of devastation-Thomson Reuters · Posted: Mar 26, 2025 11:27 PM EDT |

Wildfires raging in South Korea doubled in size on Thursday from a day earlier, as authorities called the blazes the country's worst natural fire disaster with at least 28 people killed and historic temples incinerated.More than 33,000 hectares has been charred or were still burning in the largest of the fires that began in the central Uiseong county, making it the biggest single forest fire in South Korea's history. The previous record was 24,000 hectares in a March 2000 fire."We are nationally in a critical situation with numerous casualties because of the unprecedented rapid spread of forest fires," acting President Han Duck-soo told a government response meeting.South Korea relies on helicopters to fight forest fires because of its mountainous terrain, and the military has released stocks of aviation fuel to help keep them flying as they try to douse flames across mountainous regions in the southeast of the country that have been burning for nearly a week.More than 120 helicopters have been deployed in three regions battling the blazes, the safety ministry said.The fatalities include a pilot whose helicopter crashed during efforts to contain a fire Wednesday and four firefighters and other workers who died earlier after being trapped by fast-moving flames. Authorities haven't disclosed details of the civilian dead, except that they are mostly in their 60s or older who found it difficult to escape quickly or people not willing or able to heed evacuation orders.The Uiseong fire began spreading quickly on Wednesday, reaching the coastal county of Yeongdeok 51 kilometres away in just 12 hours, said Won Myung-soo, director of satellite imagery analysis for the national forestry service.The wildfires have been moving east rapidly, spreading almost to the coast, aided by gusty winds and dry conditions.Some rain, but not much-On Thursday evening, it rained briefly in some parts of the affected region. Precipitation of around one millimetre was too little to extinguish the main fire, but will help contain it, officials said.About the same amount of rain is expected for some areas on Friday.The wildfires have carved a trail of devastation through an area equivalent to about half the area of Singapore, ravaging everything in their path including historic temples and homes in the mountainous forest regions of North Gyeongsang province.Teams of firefighters are on standby to protect the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Hahoe Village and the Byeongsan Confucian Academy in the city of Andong, if a blaze jumps the stream that flows around them.The picturesque folk village has traditional Korean houses, many with thatched roofs, while the Confucian academy dates back more than 450 years.The fires have already badly damaged other historic sites, including much of Gounsa Temple in Uiseong, which was built in 681."The buildings and remains of what Buddhist monks have left over 1,300 years are now all gone," said Deungwoon, the head of the Gounsa Temple.Experts have said the Uiseong fire showed extremely unusual spread in terms of its scale and speed, and that climate change is expected to make wildfires more frequent and deadly globally.Higher temperatures amplified by human-caused climate change contributed to the existing seasonally dry conditions, "turning dry landscapes into dangerous fire fuel" in the region, the Climate Central group, an independent body made up of scientists and researchers, said in a report.With files from The Associated Press

INVENTION OF THE ATOMIC BOMB.

2 PETER 3:10-11
10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements (NUKES) shall melt with fervent heat,(BLAST) the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.(BUT ITS NO END OF THE WORLD HOGWASH)
11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved,(BY NUKES INCLUDING 3 BILLION PEOPLE) what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

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

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 (THESE ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES-SURE NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)
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.

NAHUM 3:13
13 Behold, your troops are women in your midst. The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire has devoured your bars.

DR DOCTORION-ANGEL OF THE MIDEAST
"The angel showed me that the United Nations shall be broken in pieces because of the crisis in the Middle East. There shall be no more United Nations. The angel with the sickle shall reap the harvest.

IT JUST AMAZES MY WHY THE ISRAELS PROTEST PM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU.WHEN ITS THE DEATH CULT HAMAS THATS HIDING THEM HOSTAGES.NETANYAHU IS BOMBING THE DUNG OUT OF THE HAMAS DEATH CULT WORSHIPPERS.I WOULD BE SUPPORTING MY LEADER. IF USE WANNA PROTEST, PROTEST THAT GAZA SHOULD BE FLOODED OUT OR PIGS BLOOD POURED ALL OVER IT. SO THE ARABS ARE DESICRATED. THEN THE ARABS WOULD MAYBE FINALLY GET OUTTA GAZA. AND ISRAEL COULD BLOW UP EVERY TUNNEL IN GAZA AND AREA. AND ISRAEL COULD KEEP GAZA AND THE WESTBANK AS THEIR GOD GIVIN PROMISED LAND BY GOD. AND BUILT A CITY IN THE JORDAN VALLEY FOR THESE AHAB THE ARABS. SO THEY GET OFF YOUR GOD GIVIN LAND ISRAEL.

'Put an end to this nightmare that began 540 days ago' Desperate for hostage deal, furious at PM, masses take to the streets in protest-Israel is ‘held captive by Netanyahu,’ hostage’s mother fumes; two arrested in clashes with police; Tel Aviv mayor vows to shut down country if High Court rulings ignored-By Noam Lehmann, Charlie Summers and ToI Staff Today, 1:32 am-MAR 30,25

Tens of thousands of people once again rallied in Tel Aviv and throughout Israel on Saturday night to demand the return of the 59 hostages still held in Gaza and to protest against government efforts to weaken the judiciary and fire key gatekeepers.At the main demonstrations in Tel Aviv, masses gathered in public squares and in the streets to listen to speeches from former hostages and the families of those still in captivity, as well as Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai.The protests began hours after Hamas released a propaganda video of hostage Elkana Bohbot pleading for his release. It was the second video of Bohbot released by the terror group in the past week, after it published a clip of him and fellow captive Yosef-Haim Ohana five days prior.Following the release of the video, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum urged “all Israelis, from every background and political viewpoint” to attend the Saturday night protests in support of “a comprehensive agreement that will bring all hostages home at once, without delay.”As the night’s events got underway, thousands of anti-government protesters began to gather at Habima Square in Tel Aviv, waving Israeli flags, and holding posters calling for the release of the hostages and emblazoned with slogans against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government. Similar events were held in cities and intersections across the country at the same time.While the events passed mostly without incident, some protesters clashed with police toward the end of the night, and law enforcement officers were filmed violently dragging and detaining demonstrators.Speaking to protesters at Habima Square, Einav Zangauker, mother of hostage Matan Zangauker, accused the government of carrying out a “targeted assassination” against her son, after Israel launched a surprise aerial attack on Gaza last week, followed by a renewed ground offensive in the days that followed, scuttling the fragile ceasefire and hostage deal with Hamas.“Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decided to bomb Matan instead of saving him and bringing him home,” said Zangauker.“Netanyahu knows my Matan is bound in chains, starved, beaten, with no air, light or hope, and nonetheless he’s decided to continue abandoning him,” she added. “The hostages are held captive by Hamas, and the entire nation of Israel is held captive by Netanyahu.”Zangauker also accused Netanyahu of de-prioritizing the hostages while passing the 2025 state budget and railed against his efforts to oust Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara. “Netanyahu, you can’t evade your guilt for the October 7 massacre. The only way you can mitigate your punishment is to bring a comprehensive deal now for all 59 hostages and an end to the war.”Tel Aviv Mayor Huldai, who took the stage after Zangauker, said it was “difficult to speak after Einav, who can express the pain with such force and spirit.”The nation is at war, Huldai told the crowd, but “not the futile, life-threatening, hostage-abandoning re-entry into Gaza.” Rather, he said, “We’re at war because the government is trying to demolish the ground we’ve stood on for almost 80 years,” the mayor said.He said that, if the High Court were to rule against the government’s dismissal of Bar and the government were to ignore the ruling, then “we in the municipalities will also know how to overrule and derail the day-to-day life that the government imagines will go on.”After the speeches, the crowd spilled out of Habima Square and marched toward the demonstration on Begin Road, in front of the IDF headquarters, where hostage families who have adopted a more political tone than the weekly Hostages Square rallies were protesting against the government.“The government prefers dead hostages. Dead hostages talk less. They don’t give interviews, or fly to [meet US President Donald] Trump,” declared Yotam Cohen, brother of captive soldier Nimrod Cohen, adding that if the government “doesn’t manage to kill them with military pressure, they’ll kill them in roundabout ways.”Cohen recalled to the crowd that when the Begin Road protests grew exponentially in September after the murder in captivity of six hostages, Netanyahu’s office accused protesters of emboldening Hamas.That response, he said, is similar to the Hamas statement that protesters against the terror group in Gaza this week were “friends of the Zionist enemy” and were demanding unacceptable concessions.“Netanyahu and Hamas use the same rhetoric and the same psychological terrorism for suppression and silencing,” Cohen said. “The symmetry is sickening.”He also claimed that he had heard from former hostages held with his brother that their captors “refrained from exposing them to Israeli media, and when the hostages asked why, they responded, ‘to protect them.'”“To protect them from statements of [National Security Minister Itamar] Ben Gvir the terrorist, [Settlements and National Missions Minister] Orit Strock, [Finance Minister Bezalel] Smotrich and Netanyahu,” Cohen said, referring to far-right ministers who oppose a hostage deal.“For every populist tweet by Ben Gvir about humanitarian aid, another hostage is starved. For every threat by [Defense Minister Israel] Katz, another hostage is beaten. For every statement by Netanyahu, another hostage loses hope that they’ll be brought back home,” he told the crowd.Across the street at Hostages Square, former captive Iair Horn, whose younger brother Eitan is still in captivity, pleaded with Israel’s lead hostage negotiator, Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer, to meet with him and his family and “explain to us why you don’t sign a deal, like all of Israeli society is asking, and put an end to this nightmare that began 540 days ago.”“Explain to us why we’ll be having another Passover seder without Eitan,” he asked. “Please explain to us why Eitan, who is still very sick with a difficult skin disease, remains in the tunnels.”“Returning the hostages needs to be the top national priority, but there’s no progress in negotiations,” Horn said. “We’ve resumed the fighting — fighting that endangers the hostages. I was there, I tell you, I heard tanks rolling over me, I ran in the tunnels during the bombings, I pulled Eitan by the arm when he didn’t have the energy to move anymore — ‘I’m not leaving you here,’ I yelled to him.”“I know there is someone who can pull someone by the arm to get out all the hostages now… before they become collateral damage,” Horn said, calling on the government to reach a deal by Passover, which begins on April 12.Horn, who was released on February 15 as part of the now-scuttled hostage-ceasefire deal with Hamas, said he spent “498 days underground, without water, without seeing the sun, without breathing fresh air.”“I’m sick of being ‘without.’ From now on, I want to be ‘with,'” he said. “It’s almost Passover, the festival of freedom. I wish us a Seder ‘with’ — with the living hostages who have to come home, with the fallen who have to be buried.”Also speaking at the Habima Square rally, Bar Godard told the crowd that the military had tried and failed to recover the body of her father, Manny Godard, who was murdered and dragged to Gaza on October 7, 2023.She said that an IDF officer told her family of the “daring operation and brave soldiers who tried to rescue my father,” and that despite not being able to, they had seized a fridge that contained evidence belonging to him.The officer told her her was “so sorry,” she said, commending him for taking responsibility for the failed operation.“I couldn’t but help think of another person who, since October 7, has not taken responsibility for anything,” she said, referring to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “If only he would dare to come to Nir Oz or Be’eri and look at us in the eye.”After the main rallies ended, protesters marched to Kaplan-Begin intersection in central Tel Aviv, where some of them faced off with mounted police officers who attempted to control the crowds.“Ben Gvir is a terrorist!” protesters chanted, as cops pushed them westward, up Kaplan Street and away from the Ayalon Highway, while mounted officers formed a line on the intersection’s eastern edge.Two people were detained.Democrats lawmaker Gilad Kariv was filmed yelling at police officers through a megaphone, accusing them of storming the crowd despite there being no violence from protesters.Police were also filmed violently dragging a protester after telling demonstrators to clear the road in front of the Kaplan Street entrance to the IDF headquarters.Although the protester was standing on a traffic island in the middle of the street, a police officer accused him of failing to clear the road by not going to the sidewalk. When the protester objected that he was already off the road, the officer put him in a chokehold and dragged him away.In a statement after the protest, the Israel Police said that the protest had been declared “illegal” by cops on the scene, but that protesters nevertheless “continued to disturb the order and tried to block traffic lanes.”‘The hostages are of no concern to Netanyahu’In Jerusalem, thousands of protesters calling for the release of the hostages marched to the Prime Minister’s Residence on Azza Street,Some marchers carried a banner that read: “Dermer, 59 or resign,” in reference to the 59 hostages still held in Gaza and the negotiating team that he heads.At the protest in front of the premier’s house, the grandfather of freed hostage Naama Levy told the crowd that he had lost faith in Israel’s political leadership and was calling for Netanyahu’s ouster.“You abandoned them [the hostages] on October 7 and you continue to abandon them now, too,” he said, addressing the premier directly.He charged Netanyahu with declining to proceed with the second phase of the agreed-upon ceasefire with Hamas in favor of winning back Ben Gvir and his far-right Otzma Yehudit party, which had resigned from the coalition in protest of the deal.“In just the past few days, you renewed the war in Lebanon because they violated the ceasefire. What is stopping you from stopping the war in Gaza, returning all the hostages and, if they violate the peace, returning to war?” he added. “The hostages are of no concern to Netanyahu, maybe they are just a fabrication, and there’s no such thing as citizens, soldiers, or hostages that are still stuck in Gaza.”Jucha Engel, whose grandson Ofir was freed in a hostage-truce deal in November 2023, spoke next, repeatedly calling Netanyahu “Mr. Abandonment.”“The use of force has already cost the lives of 41 hostages… Their blood is on the hands of all the government ministers and Knesset members,” Engel said.Saturday’s mass demonstrations were held against the backdrop of an ongoing impasse in the hostage negotiations amid the resumption of fighting in Gaza, as well as the government’s passage of key judicial legislation and its highly controversial moves to fire Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar and Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara.A poll aired Friday by Channel 12 showed that 69 percent of Israelis support ending the war in exchange for a deal that releases all remaining hostages in Gaza, compared to 21% who oppose such an agreement. Even among coalition voters, a majority (54%) back such a move compared to 32% who oppose it.Over 100,000 people were believed to have taken part in demonstrations across Israel the previous Saturday, marking the largest day of protests in months as anger boiled over at the government’s failure to reach a deal to free more hostages, compounded by Netanyahu’s moves to fire key officials in a bid to assert greater control over the levers of power.Protests continued throughout last week, especially in Jerusalem, where thousands of demonstrators rallied against the government’s recent moves, including the advancement of the judicial overhaul plan and the Knesset’s vote on the contentious 2025 state budget.The protests in Jerusalem also called for the release of the 59 remaining hostages held by terror groups in Gaza, 35 of whom have been confirmed dead by the IDF.

Houthi missile triggers sirens in central Israel, is downed en route-Iran-backed rebel group says it clashed with US aircraft carrier 3 times in past day, as round of airstrikes said to target rebel-held districts in western Yemen-By Emanuel Fabian-and ToI Staff Today, 11:36 am-MAR 30,25

A ballistic missile launched at Israel by the Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen was successfully intercepted by air defenses Sunday morning, hours after the rebels claimed they had targeted an American aircraft carrier in the Red Sea.The Israel Defense Forces said the missile aimed at Israel was shot down before crossing the country’s borders.Sirens had sounded across central Israel, in several towns near Jerusalem, and in some West Bank settlements.Medics said a 42-year-old woman was moderately injured when she fell from a significant height into a ditch at the side of the Route 1 highway between Tel Aviv and Jerusalem while seeking shelter during the alert.She was taken to a hospital in Tel Aviv with injuries to her limbs and back, the Magen David Adom emergency service said.It was at least the eighth Houthi attack on Israel since March 18, when the IDF resumed its offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip. All of the missiles fired since then have been intercepted without causing significant damage.Earlier, in a statement Sunday morning, Houthi spokesman Yahya Saree said the group clashed with the USS Harry S. Truman three times in the preceding 24 hours, using missiles, drones, and naval forces. The Houthis vowed to keep “supporting the oppressed Palestinian people until the aggression against Gaza is stopped.”The statement did not mention airstrikes reported some seven hours earlier by the Houthi-owned Al-Masirah network. According to the network, at least four US airstrikes hit the Saada governate, in the country’s northwest, minutes before 1 a.m. Some 30 minutes later, the network reported three US airstrikes on the Bani Matar district, just west of the Houthi-held capital Sanaa, in the country’s west.The network did not report on casualties or the extent of the damage. The US Central Command has not issued a statement on social media about either the statement or the reported airstrikes.US airstrikes had pounded Yemen overnight between Friday and Saturday, reportedly killing at least one person as the US military acknowledged having bombed a major military site in the heart of Sanaa.An Associated Press review has found the new American operation under US President Donald Trump appears more extensive than those under former president Joe Biden, as the US moves from solely targeting launch sites to firing at ranking personnel as well as dropping bombs in cities.The new campaign of airstrikes started after the rebels threatened to resume attacks on “any Israeli vessel” in nearby maritime routes, in response to the Israeli-imposed halt of humanitarian aid to Gaza, though the rebels have in the past also targeted ships with no known connection to Israel.Houthis began attacking Israel and Red Sea shipping in November 2023 — a month after fellow Iran-backed group Hamas stormed southern Israel on October 7, 2023, killing some 1,200 people, taking 251 hostages, sparking the war in Gaza.The Houthi attacks had paused following the Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal in January. The deal’s first phase expired on March 2 amid Israel’s refusal to negotiate a second phase, and Israel resumed its attacks in Gaza on March 18.Before they paused their attacks, the Houthis had targeted over 100 merchant vessels with missiles and drones, sinking two vessels and killing four sailors. The Houthis launched missiles and drones at Israel, killing one person and injuring several others in a drone strike on Tel Aviv in July.The attacks on shipping greatly raised the Houthis’ profile as they contended with economic problems and launched a crackdown targeting any dissent and aid workers at home amid Yemen’s decade-long stalemated war, which has torn apart the Arab world’s poorest nation.The Houthis have begun threatening both Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, two American allies in the region, over the US strikes. That’s even as the nations that have sought a separate peace with the Houthis have stayed out of the new US airstrike campaign.The renewed airstrike campaign has become a source of controversy in domestic US politics after a journalist, inexplicably added to a chat group of Trump’s national security team, reported that top White House officials had used a commercial application to discuss a March 15 strike, two hours before it took place.The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Washington formalizes plans to shutter USAID, dramatically cut foreign aid spending-USAID officials have said aid groups working to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza forced to buy supplies out of pocket after millions of dollars of funding frozen-By Agencies Today, 6:43 am-MAR 30,25

WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump’s administration announced plans Friday to effectively close the US international development agency USAID, formalizing widely-criticized plans to dramatically cut foreign aid spending.“Today, the Department of State and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) have notified Congress of their intent to undertake a reorganization that would involve realigning certain USAID functions to the Department by July 1, 2025,” US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement.The State Department, he said, also plans on “discontinuing the remaining USAID functions that do not align with Administration priorities.”“Unfortunately, USAID strayed from its original mission long ago,” he said. “As a result, the gains were too few and the costs were too high.”After taking office in January, Republican President Donald Trump signed an executive order freezing US foreign aid for 90 days.Dramatic cuts to various USAID programs followed, with some exemptions granted for vital humanitarian aid.The aid freeze has caused shock and dismay at the independent agency created by an act of the US Congress in 1961.Senate Democrats on the Committee on Foreign Relations denounced the move, stating that the reorganization “will not only render it impossible for any retained USAID programs to be implemented, but the burden placed on the State Department will cause significant disruption to its core mission.”“This proposal is illegal, dangerous and inefficient,” they added.Before its closure, the agency managed an annual budget of close to $43 billion, accounting for more than 40 percent of the world’s humanitarian aid. Most of its staff were placed on administrative leave shortly after Trump took office.USAID staff were informed in a memo on Friday of plans to eliminate all jobs not required by law, according to multiple US media organizations.In his memo, Lewin said agency personnel worldwide would shortly receive emailed termination notices giving them the choice of being fired on July 1 or September 2.The exact number of personnel being fired was not immediately available. As of March 21, there were 869 US direct hire personnel on active duty and working, while 3,848 others were on paid administrative leave, according to Stand Up for Aid, a grassroots advocacy group.Over the next three months, the State Department would assume USAID’s remaining “life-saving and strategic aid programming,” he said, adding that USAID personnel will not automatically be transferred to the department, which would conduct “a separate and independent hiring process.”In the memo, Jeremy Lewin, the acting head of the independent agency, reportedly said the State Department also planned to retire most of USAID’s independent operations in the coming months.The deep cuts at the agency have thrown humanitarian efforts around the world into turmoil. The latest notice came on the day that a powerful earthquake hit Thailand and Myanmar, toppling buildings and killing scores of people. USAID has historically played a major role in coordinating disaster relief efforts.Cuts risk worsening Gaza humanitarian crisis-In the Middle East, cuts to USAID are said to have frozen hundreds of millions of dollars in contractual payments to aid groups working to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.Earlier this month, three USAID officials speaking on the condition of anonymity for fear of retribution said that the Trump administration had approved over $383 million in funding on January 31 to maintain a fragile ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, which has since collapsed.But since January 31, the officials said there had been no confirmed payments to any partners in the Middle East, forcing senior officials at aid organizations to pay out of pocket for urgent supplies and services.Among the organizations impacted by the freeze was the International Medical Corps, a global nonprofit that provides medical and development assistance.It was awarded $12 million to continue operations at two hospitals in Gaza, including at the largest field hospital in the Strip, whose construction was funded by USAID at the request of the Israeli government.The organization was forced to lay off some 700 staff members as a result of the freeze, a USAID official said, and can now offer only basic services at the hospitals, with a skeletal crew.

Hezbollah chief threatens response to continued Israeli ‘aggression’ in Lebanon-In Quds Day speech, Naim Qassem says normalization with Jerusalem will never be accepted, threatens to pursue ‘other alternatives’ if diplomacy fails to uphold ceasefire-By Nurit Yohanan-and Agencies Today, 3:18 am-MAR 30,25

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem warned Saturday that if Israel continues to carry out strikes in Lebanon, and the Lebanese government does not act to stop it, then the terror group will take matters into its own hands.His comments came a day after Israel carried out strikes in Beirut for the first time since a November ceasefire went into effect, after two rockets were fired at northern Israel from Lebanon on Friday morning.In a speech marking Quds Day, Qassem insisted that Hezbollah was still committed to the November 27 ceasefire agreement that ended over a year of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group.“We fully complied and we have no presence south of the Litani, but Israel did not abide,” Qassem declared. His comments contradict the IDF’s assessment that it has struck dozens of Hezbollah fighters operating south of the Litani River since the start of the ceasefire, in violation of the deal’s terms.“Israel is carrying [out] aggressions every day. These are not violations. They are an aggression that crossed all limits,” the Hezbollah chief added.He asserted that Israel appeared to be pressuring Lebanon into normalizing relations, and warned that Hezbollah would not accept such a scenario.An Israeli official claimed earlier this month that Jerusalem was seeking to establish full diplomatic relations with Beirut, after a military-to-military meeting in the United Nations peacekeeping headquarters in Naqoura in which Israel and Lebanon agreed to open negotiations to delineate the border between the two countries.Israel and Lebanon do not recognize one another, but signed a short-lived peace agreement in 1983. Israel in the past enjoyed deep military and economic ties with Christian factions in Lebanon.Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salem has since poured cold water on the idea of normalization with Israel, telling journalists that  “no one in Lebanon wants to normalize ties with Israel.”“Israel will not get during peace time what it was not able to achieve by war,” Qassem said. “Let everyone know that this resistance (Hezbollah) is present and ready and at the same time is committed to the agreement.”Even while insisting that Hezbollah remained committed to the deal, Qassem reiterated that if Israel did not abide by the deal, and the Lebanese government failed to impose its implementation through political means, the terror group would “have to resort to other alternatives.”His remarks appeared to be a threat that Hezbollah might return to fighting against Israeli troops still stationed in Lebanon, at five strategic locations.“We will not allow anyone to deprive us from using our force and capabilities to confront this enemy,” said Qassem, adding that Hezbollah “is not weak in facing the projects of America and Israel.”“Our patience so far aims to give a chance to solutions that could reduce the pains and casualties,” he finished.Qassem was supposed to give his speech on Friday to mark Quds (Jerusalem) Day, which is usually held on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. However, it was postponed because of the Israeli airstrikes on different parts of Lebanon, including a suburb of the capital.Quds Day commemorations, when Iran and its allies organize marches in support of the Palestinians and call for Israel’s annihilation, were launched in 1979 by Iran’s revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.Qassem’s speech came after a rise in tensions between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group on Friday, when two rockets were fired at northern Israel, triggering sirens in the city of Kiryat Shmona and the nearby communities of Tel Hai, Margaliot, and Misgav Am.It was the second attack within the past week, after three rockets were fired at Metula on March 22, the first such incident since the November 27 ceasefire took effect.As it had on March 22, Hezbollah denied having any connection to the rocket fire.Following the attack, the IDF carried out a wave of strikes on what it said were Hezbollah targets in the south of the country, and later, on Friday afternoon, brought down a building it claimed was used by the terror group’s drone unit in southern Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh.It was the first time that the IDF had targeted a building in Beirut since November.The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect following two months of open war aimed at ending rocket attacks from the Iran-backed group that plagued the north for nearly a year.The terror group started firing rockets and drones at Israeli communities and military posts on October 8, 2023, in support of fellow terror group Hamas, which had invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip a day earlier.Under the ceasefire, Hezbollah was obligated to pull its forces north of the Litani River, about 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the Israeli border, and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south, while the Lebanese army deployed to control the area.Israel, in parallel, was obligated to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon, though it retains the right to respond to immediate threats.Following an initial postponement, with US and Lebanese approval, of the deadline to withdraw, Israel pulled all its troops out of Lebanon in February, aside from five strategic posts along the border.

Report: A June 2023 Defense Ministry document proposed near-sovereignty for Hamas in Gaza-Written by head of COGAT, top-secret paper recommended an Egyptian proposal for long-term truce; IDF chief advised advancing it; Israeli team was in Cairo days before Oct. 7 attack-By ToI Staff Today, 12:15 am-MAR 30,25

The Defense Ministry unit that oversees the Gaza Strip produced a document four months before Hamas’s October 7, 2023, massacre recommending a potential long-term truce (hudna) with the terror group in Gaza, under which Israel would recognize Hamas rule in the enclave and grant it something akin to sovereignty, a TV report said Saturday night.The top secret document, entitled: “Program for ‘Long-Term Truce’ in the Strip,” was written by Major General Ghassan Alian, the head of COGAT (Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories), and was distributed to senior security officials on June 11, 2023, Channel 12 said.The report said the plan was discussed the next day at a consultation led by then-IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, and Halevi’s recommendation was that the idea should be advanced with the goal of “taking the Gaza Strip in a better direction.”The potential for establishing a long-term truce with Hamas was still considered viable days before the Hamas invasion, the TV report noted, claiming that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and then-defense minister Yoav Gallant sent a delegation from COGAT and the Shin Bet to Cairo 10 days before the massacre to see if it was possible to advance such a truce and protracted stability with Hamas.The truce proposal set out in Alian’s June 11, 2023, document was initiated by Egypt, Channel 12 said. Israel’s efforts to advance it, the TV report said, underline the degree to which it was duped by Hamas into thinking that the terror group was seeking long-term calm and sovereignty in Gaza, even as it made meticulous preparations for the October 7 invasion and slaughter.Moreover, the TV report said that practical Israeli policy, including support for years of cash funding for Gaza from Qatar and vast payments to UNRWA (the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency) that also included large sums in cash, were central to Hamas’s war machine. In the run-up to October 7, the TV report said, Israel had even allowed motorbike tires to be imported into Gaza, as well as metal that was then used by Hamas to manufacture rockets and chemicals that were used to launch them.The truce proposal detailed in the June 11, 2023, document “in essence called for recognizing Hamas rule in Gaza, [and] granting it sovereignty — almost a state,” the TV report said.Alian’s June 11 document was sent to the heads of the Shin Bet, Mossad, the IDF chief of staff and other senior IDF officers, as well as to the COGAT chief’s direct boss at the time, Gallant.The report quoted the document as saying that circumstances and vectors “have created the opportunity to advance the idea of a hudna, by means of the partners: the Egyptians and the Qataris.“These conditions ensure long-term stability and limit Hamas’s strengthening in the Strip. It is evident that Hamas is interested in advancing… an agreement on understandings, in a move that would strengthen the more moderate elements of the Hamas leadership in Gaza.”The TV report noted that Yahya Sinwar, the October 7 architect, had said in a 2006 Channel 12 interview, while in an Israeli prison, that he was interested in a long-term truce, which would “enable calm for our generation and maybe the next,” apparently underlining the long-time strategy of duplicity that preceded the 2023 massacre.It also broadcast an audio clip of Halevi telling residents of Kibbutz Nir Oz earlier this month that Hamas “succeeded in duping us” ahead of the attack into thinking it was seeking long-term calm. Hamas had reached out to COGAT and the IDF’s Gaza Division to ask that Gaza children with cancer be treated in Israel, as an ostensible signal of a desire for cooperation “in order to lull us and prepare the ground,” Halevi said.The report noted that by May 2023 Sinwar had even decided on the precise October 7 date for the invasion. At around the same time that Sinwar made that decision, Egypt presented an Israeli delegation in Cairo– including representatives of the Shin Bet and IDF, and headed by Alian — with the long-term truce proposal. On their return, COGAT put together a team, with members from the Shin Bet and the IDF Southern Division, to work on the idea, which in turn led to Alian’s document the next month.The report said Hamas was maintaining a dialogue with Israel at the time, purporting to be solely interested in economic improvement for Gaza.“Hamas is deeply concerned about an escalation into another conflict at the current time,” Channel 12 quoted Alian’s document as saying. “It is very troubled by this, including the hawkish leaders and the military wing.”The COGAT document also distinguished between Hamas, which it asserted was showing responsible leadership and seeking sovereignty in Gaza, and the smaller Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group. “Islamic Jihad challenges the new Hamas policy regarding Israel,” the document reportedly stated.Setting out some of what the truce would entail, the document cites “acceptance in practice of Hamas rule, and giving it the permission to entrench its influence on the Palestinian front, alongside a broadening of its ties with regional players.”The document reportedly recommended “checking with the Egyptians the viability of a long-term truce” and stressed that “the logic of the truce is based on creating an Egyptian initiative, not an Israeli one.”Halevi convened senior IDF figures, including the deputy chief of staff and the head of the air force, for a June 12 discussion on “the security regime in Gaza,” at which Alian’s document was discussed.The TV report said Halevi’s recommendation at the end of that discussion was that work be done with the mediators to take Gaza in a better direction under the headline of a “hudna.”In July 2023, the cabinet held its first meeting on Gaza since taking office the previous December. Headed by Netanyahu, the cabinet agreed to “advance the civilian arrangement with Hamas, while insisting on maintaining Israel’s demands in that regard, in coordination with the stages defined by COGAT,” Channel 12 reported, without elaboration.The network said the National Security Council also presented plans at the meeting, including for “an effort to maintain long-term calm, examining long-term solutions for prolonged stability.”The TV report said Israel’s political and security chiefs registered Hamas’s claims of wanting calm but ignored all contrary messages the group was issuing in Arabic media, where it was constantly calling for jihad. It cited a May 2022 speech by Sinwar in which he called for Palestinians to attack Israelis with whatever they had — rifles, or axes or cleavers — and a TV drama series broadcast on Hamas TV that year showing an invasion.It also said that Netanyahu had not only encouraged Qatari funding for Gaza, but also intervened to keep money flowing to UNRWA, including in cash, after President Donald Trump stopped funding the UN body in 2018. The IDF said in March 2024 that over 450 Hamas and Islamic Jihad operatives worked for UNRWA.The report noted that Alian’s truce proposal reflected Israel’s policy on the eve of October 7, but is not mentioned in any of the IDF’s October 7 probes so far.The report did not specify whether COGAT’s own probe into the attack refers to the document, but said that neither Halevi nor his successor Eyal Zamir have asked to see COGAT’s probe as of yet. It also noted that were the head of COGAT to be probed about the document, questions would also need to be asked of Gallant and Netanyahu. “Such a probe would show that the government initiated and created the conception” of potential long-term calm with Hamas, “together with COGAT.”In a response to the report, COGAT told the station that Alian’s document “presented an Egyptian proposal from June 2023, and not an Israeli initiative.” It said the discussions on it “were held in accordance with the policy of the political leadership.”Gallant, in response, reiterated his demand for a state commission of inquiry into October 7, covering at least the past decade, in which he, too, would be questioned.The Shin Bet, IDF and Netanyahu’s office did not respond to questions, Channel 12 said.

Iranian police disperse weeks-long pro-hijab protest outside parliament in Tehran-State media says encampment dismantled after ‘illegal’ 48-day sit-in to support stringent modesty law, passed a year after Mahsa Amini protests and shelved amid fierce debate-By Agencies Today, 12:56 pm-MAR 30,25

Iranian police have dispersed a weeks-long sit-in by demonstrators supporting a bill to impose harsher penalties on women who refuse to cover their hair with a hijab, state media reported Saturday.The demonstrators — predominantly women in black full-body robes — staged the sit-in since last month outside the parliament building in Tehran.The Iranian judiciary’s Mizan Online website said late Saturday, “After numerous negotiations with the relevant authorities and the protesters, they were requested to disperse and refrain from causing disruption, blocking roads, and creating traffic congestion for citizens.”“A large number of the protesters complied with the police order and left the area, but, unfortunately, a small number (around 30 individuals) resisted,” Mizan added.It published a video showing an altercation between the demonstrators and security forces ordering them to leave the area.The official IRNA news agency said the “illegal” sit-in in favor of the new hijab bill had been in place for around 48 days.Since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian women have been required to conceal their hair in public. However, increasing numbers, particularly in major cities including the capital Tehran, have pushed the boundaries by allowing the covering to slide back.In September 2023, Iran’s parliament, the Majlis, approved a bill to penalize the boundary-pushing.Officially known as the “Law on Supporting the Family through the Promotion of the Culture of Chastity and Hijab,” the bill would have imposed tougher penalties on women who refuse to wear the mandatory hijab. It also required significant fines and prison sentences for those deemed to be promoting “nudity” or “indecency.”The bill triggered heated debate in Iran and was not submitted to the government for final approval. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, who ran as a reformist candidate in the July election, has expressed uneasiness about the law and vowed to ensure the country’s morality police wouldn’t “bother” women.In January, Iranian government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani said the bill had been shelved as it “could have had serious social consequences.”The bill was passed about a year after mass demonstrations set off by the death in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurd arrested by the country’s morality police for allegedly failing to wear her hijab properly.More than 500 people were killed and 22,000 were arrested in the security crackdown that followed the protests. After the mass demonstrations, police dialed down enforcement of hijab laws, but it ramped up again in April 2024 under what authorities called the Noor — or “Light” — Plan.At least 618 women have been arrested under the Noor Plan, UN investigators said in a report earlier this month, citing a local human rights activist group in Iran.The report by the United Nations Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran found that Iran was increasingly relying on informants and electronic surveillance to enforce its hijab laws.The fact-finding mission had also determined last year that Iran’s government was responsible for the “physical violence” that led to Amini’s death.

Hezbollah chief threatens response to continued Israeli ‘aggression’ in Lebanon-In Quds Day speech, Naim Qassem says normalization with Jerusalem will never be accepted, threatens to pursue ‘other alternatives’ if diplomacy fails to uphold ceasefire-By Nurit Yohanan-and Agencies Today, 3:18 am-MAR 30,25

Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem warned Saturday that if Israel continues to carry out strikes in Lebanon, and the Lebanese government does not act to stop it, then the terror group will take matters into its own hands.His comments came a day after Israel carried out strikes in Beirut for the first time since a November ceasefire went into effect, after two rockets were fired at northern Israel from Lebanon on Friday morning.In a speech marking Quds Day, Qassem insisted that Hezbollah was still committed to the November 27 ceasefire agreement that ended over a year of fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group.“We fully complied and we have no presence south of the Litani, but Israel did not abide,” Qassem declared. His comments contradict the IDF’s assessment that it has struck dozens of Hezbollah fighters operating south of the Litani River since the start of the ceasefire, in violation of the deal’s terms.“Israel is carrying [out] aggressions every day. These are not violations. They are an aggression that crossed all limits,” the Hezbollah chief added.He asserted that Israel appeared to be pressuring Lebanon into normalizing relations, and warned that Hezbollah would not accept such a scenario.An Israeli official claimed earlier this month that Jerusalem was seeking to establish full diplomatic relations with Beirut, after a military-to-military meeting in the United Nations peacekeeping headquarters in Naqoura in which Israel and Lebanon agreed to open negotiations to delineate the border between the two countries.Israel and Lebanon do not recognize one another, but signed a short-lived peace agreement in 1983. Israel in the past enjoyed deep military and economic ties with Christian factions in Lebanon.Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salem has since poured cold water on the idea of normalization with Israel, telling journalists that  “no one in Lebanon wants to normalize ties with Israel.”“Israel will not get during peace time what it was not able to achieve by war,” Qassem said. “Let everyone know that this resistance (Hezbollah) is present and ready and at the same time is committed to the agreement.”Even while insisting that Hezbollah remained committed to the deal, Qassem reiterated that if Israel did not abide by the deal, and the Lebanese government failed to impose its implementation through political means, the terror group would “have to resort to other alternatives.”His remarks appeared to be a threat that Hezbollah might return to fighting against Israeli troops still stationed in Lebanon, at five strategic locations.“We will not allow anyone to deprive us from using our force and capabilities to confront this enemy,” said Qassem, adding that Hezbollah “is not weak in facing the projects of America and Israel.”“Our patience so far aims to give a chance to solutions that could reduce the pains and casualties,” he finished.Qassem was supposed to give his speech on Friday to mark Quds (Jerusalem) Day, which is usually held on the last Friday of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. However, it was postponed because of the Israeli airstrikes on different parts of Lebanon, including a suburb of the capital.Quds Day commemorations, when Iran and its allies organize marches in support of the Palestinians and call for Israel’s annihilation, were launched in 1979 by Iran’s revolutionary leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.Qassem’s speech came after a rise in tensions between Israel and the Iran-backed terror group on Friday, when two rockets were fired at northern Israel, triggering sirens in the city of Kiryat Shmona and the nearby communities of Tel Hai, Margaliot, and Misgav Am.It was the second attack within the past week, after three rockets were fired at Metula on March 22, the first such incident since the November 27 ceasefire took effect.As it had on March 22, Hezbollah denied having any connection to the rocket fire.Following the attack, the IDF carried out a wave of strikes on what it said were Hezbollah targets in the south of the country, and later, on Friday afternoon, brought down a building it claimed was used by the terror group’s drone unit in southern Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold known as Dahiyeh.It was the first time that the IDF had targeted a building in Beirut since November.The ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah came into effect following two months of open war aimed at ending rocket attacks from the Iran-backed group that plagued the north for nearly a year.The terror group started firing rockets and drones at Israeli communities and military posts on October 8, 2023, in support of fellow terror group Hamas, which had invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip a day earlier.Under the ceasefire, Hezbollah was obligated to pull its forces north of the Litani River, about 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) from the Israeli border, and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south, while the Lebanese army deployed to control the area.Israel, in parallel, was obligated to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon, though it retains the right to respond to immediate threats.Following an initial postponement, with US and Lebanese approval, of the deadline to withdraw, Israel pulled all its troops out of Lebanon in February, aside from five strategic posts along the border.

Israel confirms it received new Gaza truce proposal from mediators, made counteroffer-Hamas said to agree to Egyptian proposal to free 5 living hostages for a 50-day ceasefire, which is reported to fall short of Jerusalem’s demands-By Lazar Berman,ToI Staff and Agencies 29 March 2025, 9:05 pm

Israel confirmed on Saturday night that it had received a new ceasefire-hostage release proposal from mediating countries and said it had made a counteroffer. According to the Prime Minister’s Office, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held a series of consultations Friday night to discuss the proposal.On Saturday afternoon, Jerusalem responded with its own counterproposal, the PMO said, adding that this was done “in full coordination with the US.”The Israeli statement came after media reports on Saturday said Hamas had agreed to an Egyptian proposal to release five living hostages in exchange for a 50-day ceasefire in Gaza.Egyptian officials told the Qatari New Arab news outlet Saturday afternoon that Hamas had accepted the offer. An Israeli official speaking to Walla news anonymously confirmed that Hamas appeared to have accepted the offer for a ceasefire to begin on the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, set to begin Sunday or Monday.According to multiple media reports, this does not meet Jerusalem’s demands, with Israel insisting on the return of 10 or 11 living hostages to resume the truce, based on a previous proposal by US Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff.The official, speaking to Walla, said an agreement was unlikely to be reached by Eid al-Fitr. He added that the Egyptian proposal would also see the bodies of slain hostages released during the ceasefire, but he didn’t provide a number.According to the New Arab report, US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander would be released under the potential deal, with the United States and Qatar intensively involved in the proposal.“The ball is now in the Israeli government and Americans’ court,” an Egyptian official said.Sources familiar with the negotiations earlier told Lebanon’s Al-Akhbar outlet that the Egyptian proposal includes “a temporary ceasefire lasting approximately 50 days, in exchange for the release of five Israeli [hostages] and a number of Palestinian prisoners, along with the activation of a mechanism for the entry of sufficient quantities of aid [into Gaza], including food, medical supplies, and basic necessities for civilian relief.”Egyptian officials told Al-Akhbar that Cairo was cautiously optimistic about the possibility of progress.A senior Egyptian official told Al-Akhbar: “Cairo is seeking that all parties, including Washington, push Israel toward making genuine concessions that would guarantee reaching an agreement.”Responding to the reports, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum on Saturday expressed appreciation for any effort to release hostages, but demanded a deal that brings all captives home in one go.“Israel will continue to delay for weeks, which could result in the fate of dozens of hostages being decided — some sentenced to death, and others will disappear,” the forum said in a statement.The forum asserted it was possible to return all 59 hostages at once in exchange for a permanent end to the war. Such a deal is not known to have ever been on offer.Israeli television reported Friday that mediators see a willingness among some senior Hamas members to release a small number of hostages to secure a truce during Eid al-Fitr.Kan news said the deal was less about Eid al-Fitr, and more to do with the protests that have broken out against Hamas throughout Gaza over the past several days.Hamas wants to crack down on those participating in the protests, the report said, and it cannot do so due to Israel’s resumed operations in Gaza, as the military is targeting operatives that it spots out in the open.Kan’s report came a day after a senior Arab diplomat told The Times of Israel that Qatar presented Hamas with a new US proposal to restore the ceasefire through the release of Alexander, in exchange for which US President Donald Trump would issue a statement calling for calm in Gaza and the resumption of negotiations for a permanent end to the fighting sparked by the Hamas-led attack on October 7, 2023.Hamas has already rebuffed a proposal from US envoy Witkoff, which sought to extend the first phase of the ceasefire. The group has insisted on sticking to the terms of the deal signed in January, which was to have seen negotiations begin in early February for a second phase of the deal. The outline for the phase broadly envisions the release of all remaining living hostages in exchange for a full IDF withdrawal from Gaza and an end to the war.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to end the war until Hamas’s military and governing capabilities have been dismantled and has accordingly refused to enter talks on the second phase, instead pushing for an extension of the phase one temporary ceasefire. Israel renewed intensive military operations throughout Gaza on March 18.A senior Hamas official said Friday that the negotiations were gaining momentum.“We hope that the coming days will bring a real breakthrough in the war situation, following intensified communications with and between mediators in recent days,” Bassem Naim, a member of Hamas’s political bureau, said in a statement.The talks aim to “achieve a ceasefire, open border crossings, and allow humanitarian aid in,” Naim said.Most importantly, he said, the proposal aims to bring about a resumption in “negotiations on the second phase, which must lead to a complete end to the war and the withdrawal of occupation forces.”

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:(VATICAN)
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.(THATS PEDOPHELIA-FORNICATION IS SINGLES HAVING SEX OUT SIDE OF MARRIAGE)(AND SINCE PREISTS CAN NOT MARRY IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THIS FALSE CHURCH GOES AGAINST THE BIBLE.THE CATHOLIC CHURCH BECOMES A HOMOSEXUAL HAVEN OF PEDOPHILIAS FACTORY).  
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:(THE VATICAN GOES AGAINST A PRIEST MARRING A WOMAN-LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS-AND WHATS AN ABOMINATION AGAINST GOD-HOMOSEXUALITY AND PEDOPHILIA JUST LIKE THIS SCRIPTURE SAYS-FORNICATION IS THE SINGLE HOMOSEXUAL PRIESTS IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH HAVING UNMARRIED FORNICATION OR SEX WITH SINGLES-IN THIS CASE ITS SEX WITH CHILDREN OR PEDOPHILIA)
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.(GOD HIMSELF GIVES THE OK TO 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, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.(VATICAN)

IT IS INTERESTING THAT THE NUMBER 8 IN THE BIBLE MEANS ABOUT JESUS AS THE LAMB OF GOD THAT WAS A SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS.WELL WHILE POPE FRANCIS WAS IN THE HOSPITAL FOR THE 5 WEEKS. I PREDICTED I THINK 3 OR 4 WEEKS AGO THAT NO WORRIES POPE FRANCIS WON'T DIE. IF HES THE FALSE POPE IN REV 13:11-16 AND REV CH 17. HE WILL BE ALIVE FOR AT LEAST 7 YEARS YET. UNTIL AFTER THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD. WHEN HE STILL DOES NOT DIE. JESUS THROWS HIM AND THE EU WORLD DICTATOR ALIVE (WHICH MEANS THEIR SOUL OR SPIRIT IS STILL IN THEIR HUMAN BODY WHEN THEY GET THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. IN FACT THESE 2 ARE THE FIRST EVER THROWN IN THE LAKE OF FIRE. A THOUSAND YEARS LATER SATAN IS THEN THE FINAL PART OF THE FALSE TRINITY BY BEING THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. AND VERY SHORTLY AFTER THAT. THEN ALL THE LOST ON EARTH FROM ADAM TILL THE LAST SINNER IN HELL (OR HADES THE LOCAL JAIL). WILL HAVE THEIR BODY AND SPIRIT PUT BACK TOGETHER AS IT WAS ON EARTH. AND THEN ALL THESE LOST WILL STAND IN FRONT OF JESUS TO BE JUDGED BY THEIR WORKS AND DEEDS. THAT ARE WRITTEN IN BOOKS IN HEAVEN OF THEIR WHOLE LIVES. ONLY TO BE THROWN ALIVE BODY AND SPIRIT BACK TOGETHER INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE (GEHENNA-THE PENITENTIARY-FINAL LIFE SENTENCE OF JUDGEMENT) LIKE THE FALSE PROPHET (POPE FRANCIS) AND THE EU WORLD DICTATOR HAD DONE TO THEM 1,000 YEARS EARLIER. NOW WE KNOW WHY HELL OR HADES THE LOCAL JAIL IS CAST INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE (THE FINAL PENITENARY LIFE SENTENCE). IT WILL BE EMPTIED OF ALL THE LOSTS SPIRITS BECAUSE JESUS PUTS ALL THE LOSTS SPIRITS AND IN THE GRAVE DEAD BODIES BACK TOGETHER. TO STAND IN FRONT OF HIM TO BE JUDGED FOR THEIR WORKS AND DEEDS. SO NO MORE NEED FOR HELL TO BE IN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH ANY MORE. BECAUSE THE LAKE OF FIRE IS IN THE OUTER DARKNESS OF THE GALAXIES SOME WHERE. I BELIEVE THE OUTER DARNESS MEANS A GIGANTIC BLACK HOLE LAKE OF FIRE OUT IN OUTER DARKNESS OF SPACE. WERE WE ON EARTH WITH JESUS WILL NEVER HAVE TO THINK ABOUT IT AGAIN. AND SINCE HELL IS NOT IN THE CENTER OF THE EARTH ANY MORE. THE EARTH WILL NOT BE CURSED ANY MORE. AND IT WILL BE PERFECT UNDER KING JESUS' RULE FOREVER. I EVEN BELIEVE IF SOME OUR FAMILY MEMBER ARE LOST AND THROWN INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE. GOD WILL TAKE THE MEMORIES OF THEM FAMILY MEMBERS OUT OF OUR MINDS FOREVER. BECAUSE IF HE DID NOT. WE WOULD BE SAD AND CRYING ALL THE TIME. AND BEGGING JESUS TO TAKE THEM OUT OF THE LAKE OF FIRE. AND BRING THEM TO EARTH WITH US. SO YES I BELIEVE GOD WILL BLOT THEIR LIVES OUT OF OUR MINDS. SO WE CAN LIVE IN PEACE FOREVER WITH THE MEMBERS OF THE FAMILY THAT WERE SAVED ONLY. AND WITH JESUS AND ALL THE OTHER CHRISTIANS AND JEWS THAT WERE SAVED LIKE US. THIS WILL BE A JESUS LED JEWISH-CHRISTIAN NEW WORLD ORDER FOREVER ON EARTH.

NOW BACK TO THE EIGHT SITUATION. POPE FRANCIS JUST HAPPENS TO BE 88 YEARS OF AGE. WELL IF 8 IS JESUS' NUMBER.THEN DOUBLE THAT MIGHT BE AN IMITATION OF EIGHT. OR A FALSE CLONE OF JESUS. THE FALSE POPE HAS IN REV 13:11 TWO HORNS OF A LAMB REPRESENTING JESUS AS THE LAMB OF GOD (CHRISTIANITY).BUT HE SPEAKS LIKE THE DEVIL (A DEFECTOR FROM JESUS AND CHRISTIANITY. AND THIS IS WHY I PREDICTED POPE FRANCIS WOULD NOT DIE IN HIS 5 WEEK HOSPITAL STAY. BECAUSE IF HE IS THE FALSE RELIGIOUS LEADER OF REVELATION 13 & 17.LIKE I BELIEVE HE IS-HE MUST BE ALIVE FOR AT LEAST 7 YEARS OR MORE. TILL THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION BEGINS.AND IF IT IS HIM. HE WILL INFACT NEVER DIE. JESUS THROWS HIM AND THE EU WORLD DICTATOR ALIVE INTO THE LAKE OF FIRE TO BE TORMENTED DAY AND NIGHT FOREVER (NEVER ENDING) AND THE SMOKE OF HIS TORMENT GOES UP FOREVER. SO THE BLACK HOLE LAKE OF FIRE MIGHT HAVE AN OPENING AT THE TOP OF IT. SO THE SMOKE OF WHOEVERS IN THE LAKE OF FIRE TORMENTS GOES UP OUT OF THE LAKE OF FIRE FOREVER...NEVER ENDING.LIKE THE BIBLE SAYS. SO THIS IS WHY I BELIEVE POPE FRANCIS IS THE FALSE PROPHET OF THE BOOK OF REVELATION. AND IF HE DIES OR RESIGNS. MY THEORY HERE GOES OUT THE WINDOW. BUT FOR NOW MY PREDICTION THAT POPE FRANCIS WOULD NOT DIE IN HOSPITAL STANDS AS TRUTH. AND I ALSO WENT BY A CATHOLIC PREIST MALACHI. AS HE PREDICTED THEIR WOULD ONLY BE 112 POPES FROM HIS VISION ON. AND POPE FRANCIS IS CURRENTLY THAT 112TH AND FINAL POPE IN MALACHIS PROPHESY.

AND THE FIRST THING POPE FRANCIS SAID IN THE PRESS RELEASE.AFTER HIS HOSPITAL STAY. HE MENTIONED FOR ISRAEL TO STOP KILLING DEATH CULT ARABS IN GAZA.    

Eight is also an integral part of Jesus' sacrifice. Like the Passover lamb, Jesus was selected as the Lamb to take away man's sins on Nisan 10 (April 1, 30 A.D. - John 12:28 - 29) and was crucified on Nisan 14. His resurrection occurred three complete days after he was buried, which was at the end of the weekly Sabbath day that fell on Nisan 17. Nisan 17 was day 8, counting inclusively, from the time Christ was selected as man's sacrificial Lamb.

POPE FRANCIS FIRST PUBLIC APPEARENCE AFTER HOSPITAL STAY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btfX_i1vBM8

Pope’s condition slowly improving after release from hospital-Posted By: Kiply Lukan Yaworski March 28, 2025-By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

[Vatican City – CNS] – Home from the hospital after more than five weeks, Pope Francis is showing “slight improvements” in his breathing, ability to speak and mobility, the Vatican press office said.The 88-year-old pope, released from Rome’s Gemelli hospital March 23, is following doctors’ orders and is focused on his recovery, the press office told reporters March 28.His days are devoted to prayer, breathing exercises, physical therapy, rest and handling paperwork sent from Vatican offices to his residence, the Domus Sanctae Marthae.Each morning, he concelebrates Mass in the small chapel down the hall from his bedroom and private office, the press office said.Pope Francis has not received any visitors, it said. He spends each day with members of his medical team — one of whom is on duty 24 hours a day — and with his private secretaries.The pope was praying March 28 for victims of a massive earthquake that caused death and destruction in Myanmar and Thailand, the press office said.In a telegram sent to civil and church authorities in the two countries, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, said the pope was “deeply saddened by the loss of life and widespread devastation.”“Pope Francis offers heartfelt prayers for the souls of the deceased and the assurance of his spiritual closeness to all affected by this tragedy,” the message said. The pope also prayed that emergency workers would be given “the divine gifts of fortitude and perseverance.”The pope was hospitalized Feb. 14-March 23 after a case of bronchitis worsened, making it difficult for him to breathe. He was diagnosed with multiple infections and then with double pneumonia, resulting in several life-threatening breathing crises.The Vatican press office said that since the pope was released from the hospital, he has had a reduced need for supplemental oxygen and is using high-flow oxygen through a nasal cannula during only part of the night.The results of blood tests performed March 26 were within the normal range, the press office said. Before they discharged the pope, his doctors said he would continue drug therapy at home to deal with mycosis, a fungal infection, and the press office said he was continuing that medication.Pope Francis watched the livestream March 28 of the Lenten meditation for cardinals and senior members of the Roman Curia offered by Capuchin Father Roberto Pasolini, preacher of the papal household.While the Vatican published a schedule of major Holy Week and Easter liturgies March 27, the press office said it was too soon to know if the pope would be in attendance.Polish President Andrzej Duda visited the Vatican March 28 and met with Cardinal Parolin. Among the gifts the Polish president brought was a rosary for Pope Francis.Duda and his wife also were at the Vatican March 27, making a pilgrimage to the Holy Door of St. Peter’s Basilica for the Jubilee Year and praying at the tomb of St. John Paul II.Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican secretary of state, and Polish President Andrzej Duda pose for a photo March 28, 2025, in the Apostolic Palace at the Vatican. Pope Francis, who continues his convalescence, was unable to meet the president during his visit to the Vatican. (CNS photo/Vatican Media) The Vatican press office announced March 28 that Cardinal Parolin would preside at a memorial Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica April 2, the 20th anniversary of the death of the Polish pope.

Cardinal Parolin: The Pope has never stopped governing the Church.In an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper, Cardinal Secretary of State Pietro Parolin explains that “even in the most difficult days” of his illness, Pope Francis “reviewed reports” on which he “made decisions accordingly.” There are also issues that the Vatican Dicasteries can handle independently based on the authority the Pope has entrusted to them or delegated to others as in the case of a canonization.By Alessandro De Carolis-MAR 29,25

Pope Francis has slowed down, as his health recovery has required, but “the governance of the Church is in his hands,” Cardinal Pietro Parolin explained in an interview with Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper. The Cardinal Secretary of State recalled how the Pope’s hospitalization and now his convalescence have changed the duration and amount of attention he can dedicate, but there has been no interruption in his ability to deal with issues that required a decision by him or direction from him. In the interview Cardinal Parolin speaks about the functioning of the Holy See, noting that while “the Pope has never stopped governing the Church, not even during his hospitalization at Gemelli,” it is also true that there are “many more routine matters on which the collaborators of the Curia can proceed without consulting him, based on instructions already given earlier and existing rules.”On behalf of the Pope-The matters presented to the Pope during this period, Cardinal Parolin clarifies, are solely the “issues on which he alone can and must decide”; for the rest, there is an “authority” that the Vatican dicasteries, which “work on behalf of the Pope,” can exercise by making decisions “following the guidelines” outlined by Pope Francis, something that also happens “in normal times.”One such circumstance, Cardinal Parolin cited, regards canonizations: “It is the Pope who pronounces the formula, but this, if necessary, can be delegated to a collaborator who pronounces it in the Pope’s name.” Thus, he continues, if the Pope were to authorize Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, Prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints, he could “read the formula on his behalf, in case the Pope is unable to do so at that time.”All of this, Cardinal Parolin notes, “will also depend on how the Holy Father feels during those days.” Now, the important thing for Pope Francis, he says, “is that he can rest and get better” for the two months prescribed by the doctors with the hope that this “reduced period of activity” compared to his previous pace “will help him fully resume his ministry.”

Cardinal Parolin urges lasting peace in Ukraine and Gaza-Calling for a disarmament of words and the rejection of nuclear weapons, Cardinal Parolin reiterates the Holy See’s long-standing commitment to peace, dialogue, and solidarity, and urges world leaders to embrace diplomatic solutions that prioritize human dignity and global stability.By Salvatore Cernuzio and Linda Bordoni-MAR 28,25

Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin has reiterated the Holy See’s call for a just and lasting peace in Ukraine, advocating for negotiations without preconditions. Speaking at the third day of the "Cattedra dell’Accoglienza" – an event aimed at promoting issues related to hospitality, migration and social inclusion -   Parolin also appealed for a "sense of moderation" in Gaza, urging Hamas and Israel to seek solutions without resorting to violence. And echoing Pope Francis, he  firmly condemned the possession of nuclear weapons as "immoral."Disarming words to prevent conflict-Addressing the power of language on the international political stage, Cardinal Parolin reflected on Pope Francis’ recent letter to an Italian daily in which the Pope elaborated on the need to "disarm words" to prevent them from escalating into conflict.In dialogue with some of the participants at the event who mentioned heightened global tensions, including recent remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump and his collaborators, who referred to Europeans as "parasites," Parolin said, "Disarming words is essential to prevent them from turning into war.""This applies to everyone. In today’s tense global climate, we should speak less, remain silent when possible, and use words wisely—to foster dialogue and unity rather than division."The immorality of nuclear weapons-During a conversation with a legal expert, Parolin highlighted the fragility of peace, pointing out that many had taken for granted that stability would persist, only for this illusion to be shattered by renewed conflicts. "The root of the problem," he noted, "lies in an increasingly individualistic worldview and a decline in mutual trust."Parolin linked this erosion of trust to escalating military buildup, explaining that a lack of diplomatic relationships leads nations to arm themselves in a perpetual state of readiness for war.Thus, he reiterated the Holy See’s firm stance that the very possession of nuclear weapons is "immoral" due to their catastrophic consequences.The role of international institutions-Reflecting on the recent meeting of the "coalition of the willing" in Paris, the cardinal emphasized that international order depends on the willingness of states to uphold established agreements."Without political will, there can be no peaceful and constructive global governance," he stated. He acknowledged that international organizations were founded during the Cold War and after the devastating global conflicts of the 20th century, but he suggested that these institutions have struggled to adapt to the modern multipolar world."There may be a loss of hope in reforming these systems, which now operate in a state of mutual deadlock, preventing them from addressing society’s real challenges," Parolin remarked. He urged renewed efforts to adapt international organizations to present realities while questioning whether there is genuine interest in reform or whether alternative, less cooperative principles are guiding global politics.The Church’s commitment to peace and migration-The debate also touched upon the role of the media in amplifying messages of peace and dialogue. "As Christians, we have a duty to bring attention to these issues, which are often sidelined due to national interests or media neglect," said Parolin.On migration, the cardinal highlighted the paradox of European attitudes toward immigration: while there is a "negative perception" of migration, Europe simultaneously has a "pressing need" for migrants."The current focus is on reducing irregular migration," he said, but pointed to the importance of shifting public perception away from fear-driven narratives."Many in Europe fear an invasion, but this is a misconception that needs to be dismantled. We must adopt a more positive approach toward our brothers and sisters who are fleeing extreme poverty or conflict. Providing spaces of welcome is essential," Cardinal Parolin urged.The Vatican Secretary of State also lamented the exodus of Christians from the Middle East, calling it "a great tragedy from both a religious and communal perspective." He warned that the diminishing Christian presence in the region not only weakens its historical religious roots but also removes a moderating influence that helps alleviate tensions. "A society without Christians risks becoming radicalized and extremist," he concluded.

Cardinal Parolin urges EU bishops to foster peace, dialogue, unity-The Vatican Secretary of State addresses EU bishops, highlighting the urgency of renewed European unity in the face of mounting global challenges and calling for action for peace and dialogue.By Linda Bordoni-MAR 28,25

Addressing the Plenary Assembly of the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), Cardinal Pietro Parolin, Vatican Secretary of State, reaffirmed the Holy See’s commitment to fostering diplomacy as a means of conflict resolution.Speaking to the delegates gathered from 26 – 28 March in Nemi, a town in the Alban Hills outside Rome, the Cardinal also urged political leaders to “set aside divisions and ideological barriers” in favor of genuine dialogue.He underscored that Europe, rooted in a deep Christian tradition, has a particular responsibility to be a beacon of peace and solidarity in an increasingly fragmented world.Continent at a crossroads-Cardinal Parolin highlighted the multiple crises affecting the continent, from geopolitical tensions to economic instability and migration challenges. He warned against the temptation to retreat into nationalistic or isolationist policies, stressing that “the European project must continue to be one of integration, not division; of bridges, not walls.”Quoting Pope Francis, he reminded those present that “war is always a defeat for humanity” and called upon European leaders to intensify diplomatic efforts to end conflicts, particularly in Ukraine and the Middle East.“Dialogue remains the only viable path,” he said, insisting that the Church’s role is to promote reconciliation and understanding in the face of hostilities.Solidarity and the common good-The Secretary of State dedicated much attention to the importance of solidarity in addressing social and economic inequalities, and said that the Church must continue advocating for policies that place the dignity of the human person at the center of economic and social systems.“The European Union was built on the principles of solidarity, respect for human dignity, and justice. These values must not be abandoned in times of difficulty but rather strengthened,” he stated.He also called for greater attention to the needs of migrants and refugees, urging policymakers to adopt humane and fair immigration policies.Renewed commitment to diplomacy-Cardinal Parolin reiterated the Church’s unwavering support for diplomatic efforts aimed at peacebuilding.“The Holy See has always championed dialogue as the most effective means of resolving disputes. We encourage all nations to choose the path of negotiation over confrontation,” he said.He also commended the European Union’s diplomatic initiatives but warned against complacency, emphasizing the need for sustained efforts to promote justice and human rights worldwide.The Church as a moral compassCardinal Parolin concluded his address by urging the European Church to remain a strong moral voice amid societal upheavals.“We must continue to remind Europe of its founding values, peace, human dignity, and the common good,” he reiterated, “only by returning to these principles can Europe truly be a force for good in the world.”

FINALLY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING THEIR OWN ARMY.AND IT MUST HAPPEN.
REVELATION 19:16-21
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.(JESUS RETURNG TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A WHITE HORSE WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YEARS EARLIER)
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.(2ND TIME GOD-JESUS TELLS THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO GET READY TO EAT HUMAN FLESH.THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN GOD TOLD THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS-TO EAT RUSSIA,GERMAN,ARAB, MUSLIM BODIES FOR 7 MONTHS IN EZEK 38 @ 39.
19 And I saw the beast,(E.U WORLD LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(HERE IT SAYS THE E.U WILL HAVE ITS OWN ARMY) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, (JESUS) and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (E.U WORLD LEADER) was taken, and with him the false prophet (POPE FRANCIS) that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Zephaniah 2:1-15
1 Gather together, yes, gather,O shameless nation,
2 before the decree takes effect[a] -before the day passes away like chaff—before there comes upon you the burning anger of the Lord, before there comes upon you the day of the anger of the Lord.
3 Seek the Lord, all you humble of the land, who do his just commands;[b] seek righteousness; seek humility; perhaps you may be hidden on the day of the anger of the Lord.
4 For Gaza shall be deserted, and Ashkelon shall become a desolation; Ashdod's people shall be driven out at noon, and Ekron shall be uprooted.
5 Woe to you inhabitants of the seacoast, you nation of the Cherethites! The word of the Lord is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines; and I will destroy you until no inhabitant is left.
6 And you, O seacoast, shall be pastures, with meadows[c] for shepherds and folds for flocks.
7 The seacoast shall become the possession of the remnant of the house of Judah, on which they shall graze, and in the houses of Ashkelon they shall lie down at evening. For the Lord their God will be mindful of them and restore their fortunes.
8 “I have heard the taunts of Moab (JORDAN) and the revilings of the Ammonites, how they have taunted my people and made boasts against their territory.
9 Therefore, as I live,” declares the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall become like Sodom, and the Ammonites like Gomorrah, a land possessed by nettles and salt pits, and a waste forever.The remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the survivors of my nation shall possess them.”
10 This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.
11 The Lord will be awesome against them; for he will famish all the gods of the earth, and to him shall bow down, each in its place, all the lands of the nations.
12 You also, O Cushites, shall be slain by my sword.
13 And he will stretch out his hand against the north and destroy Assyria,(SYRIA) and he will make Nineveh a desolation, a dry waste like the desert.
14 Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts;[d] even the owl and the hedgehog[e]  shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
15 This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one else.” What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.Sa'ar: No free meals; talks possible if more hostages freed Israel halts aid into Gaza, citing Hamas refusal to extend first phase of truce
Footnotes-a -Zephaniah 2:2 Hebrew gives birth, b-Zephaniah 2:3 Or who carry out his judgment, c-Zephaniah 2:6 Or caves, d-Zephaniah 2:14 Hebrew beasts of every nation, e-Zephaniah 2:14 The identity of the animals rendered owl and hedgehog is uncertain

DANIEL 2:37-45
37 Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
38 And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth.
40 And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron: forasmuch as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things: and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise.
41 And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay.
42 And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken.
43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.
44 And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
45 Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure.

DANIEL 7:17-26
17 These great beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.
18 But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom, and possess the kingdom for ever, even for ever and ever.
19 Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast, which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails of brass; which devoured, brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;
20 And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell; even of that horn that had eyes, and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows.
21 I beheld, and the same horn made war with the saints, and prevailed against them;
22 Until the Ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the most High; and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
23 Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces.
24 And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.
25 And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.
26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end.

THE WORLD IN 10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS LEAD BY THE EUROPEAN UNION THE WORLD LEADER, NOT AMERICA.I PREDICT.

THE EUROPEAN UNION AND REVIVED ROMAN WORLD GOVERNMENT
DANIEL 2:31-33,36-43, DAN 7:3-8,17

First From Daniel Chapter 2

1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (HEAD OF GOLD) DAN 2:31-32,36-38, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (CHEST & ARMS OF SILVER) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (WAIST & HIPS OF BRONZE) DAN 2:32,39, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (2 LEGS OF IRON) DAN 2:33,40, ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) (FEET IRON & CLAY) DAN 2:33,41-43,10 TOES

Now From Daniel Chapter 7

1 EGYPT
2 ASSYRIA
3 BABYLON (LION WITH EAGLES WINGS) DAN 7:4, DAN 1:1
4 MEDO-PERSIANS (BEAR ON HIND LEGS) DAN 7:5, DAN 9:1
5 GREECE (LEOPARD 4 WINGS, 4 HEADS) DAN 7:6, DAN 11:2
6 ROME (HUGE IRON TEETH) DAN 7:7 (10 HORNS), ROM 1:6
7 REVIVED ROME (EU) DAN 7:8,19-20,23-25 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS
REV 17:9,12, 10 HORNS, 10 KINGS, 7 HILLS ROME. REV 13:1 BEAST WITH 7 HEADS. THE E.U LEADER OF WORLD GOVERNMENT DAN 2:40-45, 7:7-8,23-25,27, 8:23, REV 13:3,7,8,12,14,16

REVELATION 17:10-12
10 And there are seven kings (7TH WORLD EMPIRE IN HISTORY) five are fallen, (EGYPT, ASSYRIA, BABYLON,:MEDO-PERSIAN,GREECE and one is,(IN POWER IN JOHNS DAY-ROME) and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh,(FUTURE-REVIVED ROMAN EMPIRE-EUROPEAN UNION TODAY) he must continue a short space.(7 YEARS OF WORLD DOMINATION-BUT 3 1/2 YEARS OF NEW WORLD ORDER OR ONE WORLD GOVERNMENT)
12 And the ten horns (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS OR REGIONS) which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

REVELATION 17:12-13
12 And the ten horns (10 WORLD TRADE BLOCS-NATIONS) 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,(WORLD SOCIALISM) and shall give their power and strength unto the beast.

We shall have World Government, whether or not we like it. The only question is whether World Government will be achieved by conquest or consent.James Paul Warburg appearing before the Senate on 7th February 1950

Like a famous WWII Belgian General,Paul Henry Spock said in 1957:We need no commission, we have already too many. What we need is a man who is great enough to be able to keep all the people in subjection to himself and to lift us out of the economic bog into which we threaten to sink. Send us such a man. Be he a god or a devil, we will accept him.And today, sadly, the world is indeed ready for such a man.

DICK MORRIS-This truly creates a global economic system. From now on, don’t look to Washington for the rule making, look to Brussels.

THE CLUB OF ROME FOUNDER AURELIO PECCEI WANTS THE WORLD IN 10 REGIONAL TRADING BLOCKS.

REVELATION 16:1-2
1 And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.
2 And the first went, and poured out his vial upon the earth; and there fell a noisome and grievous sore upon the men which had the mark of the beast, and upon them which worshipped his image.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(FALSE POPE) causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, (SLAVE) 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

I KNOW THIS MARK WILL BE A MICROCHIP IMPLANT UNDER THE SKIN. LETS LOOK UP WHAT THE WORD MARK SAYS IN REVELATION 13:16-18, 14:9,11, 15:2, 16:2, 19:20, 20:4-ALL THESE VERSES FROM THE BOOK OF REVELATION SPEAK OF THIS DICTATORS MARK. NOW LETS SEE WHAT IT MEANS FROM STRONGS EXAUSTIVE CONCORDANCE OF THE BIBLE. UNDER MARK PAGE 684.MARK UNDER MARK. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS UNDER HEBREW AND THE NEW TESTAMENT IS UNDER GREEK. SO WHEN WE LOOK UNDER REVELATION 13:16-17 WE SEE IT IS UNDER GREEK, SO WE GO TO GREEK IN THE BACK SECTION AND GO TO 5480 TO SEE WHAT IT SAYS THIS MARK WOULD BE. SO LETS GET TO IT.MARK IN STRONGS GREEK 5480 XAPAYUA CHARAGMA, KHAR-AG-MAH: FROM THE SAME AS 5482: A SCRATCH OR ETCHING, I.E STAMP (AS A BADGE OF SERVITUDE), OR SCULPTURED FIGURE-(STATUE):-GRAVEN, MARK FROM 5482 XAPAE CHARAX, KHAR-AX; FROM XAPAOOW CHARASSO (TO SHARPEN TO A POINT; AKIN TO 1125 THROUGH THE IDEA OF SCRATCHING); A STAKE, I.E (BYIMPL.) A PALISADE OR RAMPART (MILITARY MOUND FOR CIRCUMVALLATION IN A SIEGE): - TRENCH FROM 1125 YPAPOE GRAPHO, GRAF-0; A PRIM. VERB; TO "GRAVE", ESPEC. TO WRITE; FIG. TO DESCRIBE:-DESCRIBE, WRITE (-ING, -TEN).G5516-GO TO G4742-666 - STRONGS NT 4742: στίγμα - στίγμα, στιγματος, τό (from στίζω to prick; (cf. Latinstimulus, etc.; German stechen, English stick, sting, etc.; Curtius, § 226)), a mark pricked in or branded upon the body. According to ancient oriental usage, slaves and soldiers bore the name or stamp of their master or commander branded or pricked (cut) into their bodies to indicate what master or general they belonged to, and there were even some devotees who stamped themselves in this way with the token of their gods (cf. Deyling, Observations, iii., p. 423ff); hence, τά στίγματα τοῦ (κυρίου so Rec.) Ἰησοῦ, the marks of (the Lord) Jesus, which Paul in Galatians 6:17 says he bears branded on his body, are the traces left there by the perils, hardships, imprisonments, scourgings, endured by him for the cause of Christ, and which mark him as Christ's faithful and approved votary, servant, soldier (see Lightfoots Commentary on Galatians, the passage cited). (Herodotus 7, 233; Aristotle, Aelian, Plutarch, Lcian, others.)

THE INVENTOR OF THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT-CARL SANDERS MICROCHIP ENGINEER LEADER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgH9D6n4ZWo

THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT IN YOUR RIGHT HAND OR FOREHEAD.

LEVETICUS 19.28
Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am the LORD.

HERES WHAT THE WORLD WOULD LOOK LIKE (SINCE THERE WILL BE WORLD GOVERNMENT IN THE FUTURE)-UPDATED VERSION

01 CANADA, U.S.A, MEXICO
02 EUROPEAN UNION,WESTERN EUROPE
03 JAPAN
04 AUSTRALIA,NEW ZEALAND, S AFRICA, ISRAEL AND PACIFIC ISLANDS
05 EASTERN EUROPE
06 SOUTHERN, CENTRAL AND LATIN AMERICAS
07 NORTH AFRICA, AND MIDEAST (MOSLEMS)
08 CENTRAL AFRICA
09 SOUTH AND SOUTHEAST ASIA
10 CENTRAL ASIA

THE CLUB OF ROME WANTS A WORLD CHARISMATIC DICTATOR (EITHER RELIGIOUS, POLITICAL OR SCIENTIFICAL) TO HEAD THIS WORLD GOVERNMENT. REV 13:3,7-8, DAN 7:23-24

WORLD POWERS IN THE END TIME

NORTH - RUSSIA EZEK 38:1-2, 39:1-2
SOUTH - EGYPT DAN 11:42
EAST - CHINA DAN 11:44,REV 16:12
WEST - EUROPEAN UNION DAN 7:23-24 (NOT THE U.S.A)
http://israel7777777.blogspot.ca/2012/03/10-world-trade-blocs-one-world.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2006/09/how-eu-takes-world-control.html
http://israndjer.blogspot.ca/2012/05/one-world-religion-crislam.html

FINALLY THE EUROPEAN UNION IS TALKING ABOUT HAVING THEIR OWN ARMY.AND IT MUST HAPPEN.
REVELATION 19:16-21
16 And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King Of Kings, And Lord Of Lords.(JESUS RETURNG TO EARTH LITERALLY ON A WHITE HORSE WITH THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS 7 YEARS EARLIER)
17 And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, Come and gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God;
18 That ye may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of them that sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and bond, both small and great.(2ND TIME GOD-JESUS TELLS THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS TO GET READY TO EAT HUMAN FLESH.THE FIRST TIME WAS WHEN GOD TOLD THE 500 MILLION MIGRATING BIRDS-TO EAT RUSSIA,GERMAN,ARAB, MUSLIM BODIES FOR 7 MONTHS IN EZEK 38 @ 39.
19 And I saw the beast,(E.U WORLD LEADER) and the kings of the earth, and their armies,(HERE IT SAYS THE E.U WILL HAVE ITS OWN ARMY) gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, (JESUS) and against his army.(RAPTURED CHRISTIANS)
20 And the beast (E.U WORLD LEADER) was taken, and with him the false prophet (POPE FRANCIS) that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.
21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.

Face biometrics popularity comes with opportunity and risk-Mar 29, 2025, 2:12 pm EDT    | Chris Burt

Face biometrics are increasingly the preferred way for people to complete processes from international travel to attending concerts, as seen in several of Biometric Update’s most-read articles of the week. Air and sea port deployments of NEC, Idemia and Vision-Box biometrics in Asia demonstrate the growing popularity of facial recognition. But could the technology become a victim of its own success? Its use at UK borders and police stations has caused a transparency scandal, London police are taking a step towards normalizing live facial recognition and a biometric event management app has been caught leaving IDV data exposed.Top biometrics news of the week-The UK Home Office was busted this week for requiring the nation’s airports to match the face biometrics of all passengers boarding domestic flights. The secret facial recognition checks have been going on for at least 15 years. The National Police Chiefs’ Council, meanwhile, told UK police forces not to share information on the use of banned surveillance software like PimEyes when responding to FOI requests.China’s government, perhaps ironically, has moved to limit the indiscriminate use of face biometrics in the private sector with new regulations. New rules taking effect in June will require data protection impact assessments, explicit and informed consent and for companies handling large volumes of biometric data, registration with cybersecurity authorities.Event ticketing and access is a growth area for face biometrics, but a data exposure by Brazilian app FacePass shows the risk to consumers of poor data storage practices. Researchers found 1.6 million files, including PII and selfies used in biometric identity verification, vulnerable. The data was not protected with either encryption or segmentation.Live facial recognition in public spaces was long considered solely the domain of China, but London police are planning to install fixed cameras running LFR when officers are nearby on lampposts or building exteriors in June or July. The ICO has warned the guidelines for police use of the technology are lacking, in one of a series of cautions about gaps in regulation, oversight, and public engagement.Real-time remote biometric identification technology has been approved for public deployment in Hungary, in direct violation of the AI Act and possibly other EU laws, as part of a ban on LGBTQ+ Pride events, ICLG writes. The country’s government argues its use of live facial recognition for surveillance of demonstrations will protect traditional cultural values.Toronto police are seeking to upgrade their retrospective facial recognition system with software capable of handling eight to ten thousand annual image searches for a five-year contract. TCG Digital, Cumberland Strategies, Facia, GenVis, Idemia, IMDS, NEC America, ROC, Securaglobe Solutions, Shufti Pro and Tech5 have each expressed interest.Three of Japan’s largest airports will have walkthrough face biometric gates from NEC installed just weeks from now, as Asia’s ports continue to charge ahead with seamless travel process makeovers. Vietnamese airports are expanding their rollout of Vision-Box biometrics and a sea port in Singapore is expanding its deployment of Idemia’s tech.Reactions to IATA’s call for digital identity adoption in the aviation sector is welcomed by executives with Dock and SITA, who site the security and interoperability gains such a move would yield. Alan Goode of Goode Intelligence says the tech is ready and proven, and IATA’s call will be an accelerant to change.DHS has made the specification for interacting with the IDENT database available to vendors and developers so they can build products that interact with the biometric system. OBIM has built an automated tool for evaluating if queries match the IXM spec.The U.S. Social Security Administration has reversed course on a change that would have required all Americans attempting to file new claims who cannot complete online identity proofing to do so in person at an SSA office. With 47 field offices closing down, a broad backlash forced another update to accommodate rural and vulnerable people.A new report from ABI Research says biometric payment cards will not reach mass-market adoption any time soon, in part due to costs ten times higher than standard contactless payment cards. That leaves vendors like Idemia, Thales and Idex Biometrics looking for new opportunities. Goode Intelligence notes certification and enrolment challenges, in addition to the high costs. Idex’ new CEO says the company is not abandoning payments, but will focus more on access control.Digital IDs for businesses are gaining traction, with the UK exploring its options and Hong Kong planning a launch for 2026. Financial services are a key constituency for both, and CFIT has been leading a collaboration to develop a prototype Digital Company ID app for the UK.London’s municipal government has proposed that a digital ID verification service should be put in place to unlock billions in economic opportunity over the next six years, in an analysis which also suggests collaboration with CFIT on the Digital Company ID.The EU is expanding its EUDI Wallet scheme to include mobile driver’s licenses by 2030. Thales believes the move will help make regional travel and digital transactions easier for 440 million people. A blog post from Dock says that Amazon is committed to mDLs and EUDI Wallets as the future of identity verification.Please let us know about any panels, podcasts or other content you feel we should share with those in biometrics and the digital identity community in the comment section below or through social media.

China strengthening face biometrics regulation to mandate choice, consent-Mar 24, 2025, 3:47 pm EDT    | Chris Burt

China’s boom in selfie biometrics and facial recognition may already have peaked, with new regulations published so businesses can plan for compliance before they take effect later this year.The new regulation is known as “Administrative Measures on the Security of Facial Recognition Technology Application,” according to Tech in Asia.Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has published new regulations for commercial uses of facial recognition, including hotel check-ins or physical access to gated communities. The agency says the regulations are a response to growing concerns about the impact on data privacy from widespread use of face biometrics. They take effect in June.The regulations specify the need for clear signage indicating when facial recognition is in use, and that companies need to gather explicit and informed consent before processing individual’s biometric data. For people under 14 years old, parental consent is required.Individuals who don’t give consent for their face biometrics to be used should be given “other reasonable and convenient options,” CAC said in a post to its website, as quoted by Reuters.Organizations handling the face biometrics of more than 100,000 people will be required to register with provincial cybersecurity authorities. Businesses must also carry out Personal Information Protection Impact Assessments (PIPIAs), DataGuidance reports.Cybersecurity rules introduced recently also place limits on the storage and handling of biometric data by payment providers.China’s Personal Information Protection Law, which took effect in November of 2021, also mandates explicit consent to process people’s biometric data. The law was introduced just as reports emerged of the Chinese public’s discomfort with the proliferation of facial recognition.The change also comes amid turbulence at Chinese facial recognition and AI “dragon” SenseTime, as Co-founder Xu Bing has resigned from the company.

NIST updates differential privacy guidelines to enable more data analytics-Mar 28, 2025, 2:59 pm EDT    | Chris Burt

Guidelines for using differential privacy from the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology have been updated to make the privacy protection technology easier to apply.  This in turn will enable data analytics to be applied to more databases containing confidential information.The technology itself is relatively mature, NIST says, but lacks standards that can make is easy to adopt and use.Hence the update to NIST’s Guidelines for Evaluating Differential Privacy Guarantees (NIST Special Publication 800-226).Differential privacy (DP) is a method of obscuring the identity of individuals in datasets while retaining the utility of the database as a source of statistical information, through the addition of random “noise.” The noise has the effect of de-identifying individuals in the dataset.The technology is well-established as a privacy protection tool, and can be applied to biometrics.A video shared by NIST gives the example of an emergency call in which a medical crisis is reported. If a cluster of similar medical crises are found through data analysis, a cause could be identified, and perhaps lives saved. But the call contains a bundle of personally identifiable information (PII), and even redacting the most obvious data points like the individual’s name and exact address may not be enough to prevent the re-identification of an individual. This is where the noise added by DP comes in.NIST’s guidelines are intended to help organizations assess claims DP vendors make. They were originally released in draft form in December of 2023, and have been updated for ease of use.NIST Scientist Gary Howarth, who co-authored the guidelines, says the update makes the language more precise and less ambiguous to help decision-makers “more clearly understand the trade-offs inherent in DP and can help understand what DP claims mean.”The guidelines are not a complete primer on the subject, but include a reading list to help practitioners improve their understanding of how DP works.“With DP there are many gray areas,” Howarth says. “There is no simple answer for how to balance privacy with usefulness. You must answer that every time you apply DP to data. This publication can help you navigate that space.”

InfoCert liveness passes CLR Cert tests for PAD, injection attack detection-First substantial level compliance conformations-Mar 28, 2025, 1:30 pm EDT    | Chris Burt

InfoCert has received certificates of conformity to the international standards for biometric Presentation Attack Detection (PAD) and Injection Attack Detection (IAD), each at the substantial level, from CLR Labs’ CLR Cert. The company is the first to be confirmed for compliance to both standards, according to the announcement.The compliance tests carried out by CLR Cert were based on the CEN/TS 18099 standard for biometric data injection attack detection and the ISO/IEC 19989-3 standard for biometric presentation attack detection. InfoCert was also tested to the ISO/IEC 30107-3 standard seen more often in PAD testing by French cybersecurity conformity assessment body LSTI.InfoCert is part of Italy’s Tinexta Group, and is one of Europe’s largest Qualified Trust Service Providers, according to the announcement. The company offers liveness detection as part of its portfolio of technologies for digital identity and biometric onboarding. InfoCert is also one of the leading providers of Italy’s digital ID, SPID.“Infocert Liveness becomes the first liveness detection solution to obtains a certificate of conformity on both Presentation Attack Detection and Injection Attack Detection at the Substantial Level,” says CLR Cert Director Christian Croll. “We are honored that InfoCert has selected CLR Cert, the department of Cabinet Louis Reynaud -CLR Labs in charge of the certification of conformity.”Fabrizio Leoni, head of service innovation, R&D, and open innovation with InfoCert, says reaching the “substantial” level of identity proofing demonstrates the company’s readiness to meet the “LoIP extended” definition in ETSI 119 461 v2.1.1, which was published in February.CLR Cert and the new IAD standard-The CLR Cert program was launched in October to provide a comprehensive suite of testing and compliance confirmation services for biometrics and digital identity standards.European biometric data injection attack detection standard CEN/TS 18099 standard was published in January, and is the starter document for ISO/IEC 25456, which is currently in development.The first compliance certificate issued under the standard was awarded by CLR Labs to Unissey near the end of 2024.

Aadhaar biometric testing ramps up with UIDAI challenge, PAD compliance-Mar 28, 2025, 2:55 pm EDT    | Chris Burt

Fingerprint biometrics testing in India has ramped up with authorities requiring certification of scanners based on presentation attack detection capabilities and now a program to advance research into challenges in authentication.The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) and IIIT-Hyderabad have launched a competition to test invariance in fingerprint biometric algorithms, starting with a challenge to test the authentication of children between five and ten years old.The first phase of the Biometric SDK Benchmarking challenge focusses on how 1:1 matching algorithms for fingerprint biometrics work for children in the given age range, and with updates after five to ten years. Participants are invited from among active commercial and academic biometrics developers, and will be evaluated with anonymized datasets which will not be shared with them.The organizers note the importance of biometric authentication to India’s good governance and digital inclusion efforts, with 90 million Aadhaar transactions carried out daily.Cash prizes worth a total of 770,000 Indian rupees (approximately US$9,000) will be awarded to the top three teams.The challenge opened on March 25, and runs until May 25. Registration is available from the Biochallenge website run by UIDAI and IIIT-H.SDK benchmarking competitions for iris and face biometrics will follow.Precise partner certified-A biometric scanner implementing Precise Biometrics’ BioLive liveness detection software for protection against spoof attacks has been approved by the UIDAI to the new specification for use in Aadhaar authentications.UIDAI strengthened the criteria for Aadhaar biometric devices to include liveness detection and data protection measures, and as of the beginning of 2025 requires all scanners to be certified as Level 1 devices.“We are extremely proud to have our BioLive solution approved for the Aadhaar program,” says Precise CEO Joakim Nydemark in the announcement. “By meeting the strict guidelines of national ID programs like Aadhaar, BioLive not only reinforces the system’s integrity but also sets a new benchmark for anti-spoof and liveness detection technology globally. Our solution is designed to integrate seamlessly into existing systems, making it both powerful and easy to implement – even in embedded environments.”Precise updated its BioLive software for stronger security last Ma

World Wallet courting connection with Visa for stablecoin payments-Mar 28, 2025, 1:29 pm EDT    | Joel R. McConvey

CoinDesk reports that Sam Altman’s World Network is in talks with Visa to bring Visa card functionality to the World Wallet, turning it into a “mini bank account” and enabling stablecoin-based payments to thousands of merchants around the world that are part of the Visa network. The story quotes “a source familiar with the plans,” who says “the plan is to build up a whole connected wallet strategy so that you can trade in all kinds of things, from FX to crypto, load to wallet, send to wallet, spend from card.” World Network recently announced the World Chat application, which includes functionality for crypto-based transactions between users on the network.Meanwhile, both Visa and Mastercard have been wading deeper into crypto – Visa with its Tokenized Asset Platform and Mastercard with its own tokenized payments system. Last month Visa partnered with crypto payments provider RedotPay and StraitsX to roll out a crypto-backed credit card program in Singapore.

Canada’s privacy regulator releases results of age assurance consultation-Office of the Privacy Commissioner plans to revise guidance based on feedback-Mar 28, 2025, 12:00 pm EDT    | Joel R. McConvey

The key learnings are in from an exploratory consultation on age assurance by Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC). A statement published on the OPC’s website says responses to the survey varied, with some submissions supporting the OPC’s initial positions and others challenging them. Stakeholder groups surveyed included industry (both age assurance service providers and organizations that deploy age assurance systems), civil society, academia, technology policy think tanks, interested individuals, and overseas data protection authorities.Six key themes emerged from the feedback. They can be summarized as follows:The term “age assurance” encompasses different forms, methods and uses. The harms and impacts associated with age assurance should not be understated. The point is not the technology, but protecting young people online. There is a need to consider who should be responsible for age assurance. Of the two main methods, age estimation and age verification, age estimation “deserves special caution – or could be preferable to age verification.” And the use of age assurance should be subject to a risk-based assessment.Let’s be clear: age assurance is not just one thing-Theme One highlights the importance of differentiating between forms and uses of age assurance, and in taking the differences into account when developing guidance or policy. Or, more colorfully: “Age assurance is not monolithic;” as such, “the OPC should be cautious about establishing policies that treat broad ranges of technologies as equivalent.”Expanding on the theme, the OPC notes that “age assurance is not single-purpose: while age assurance is frequently associated with the online safety of youth, it may also be used in situations where youth are not involved – such as being a component of anti-fraud measures undertaken by financial institutions.” Moreover, age assurance methods will vary depending on the intended purpose. Finally, “age assurance does not always take the form of an access gate.”The overall ask for theme one is additional clarity on definitions and key terminology.Let’s be serious: the threat is real-Theme Two is straight to the point: “the clearest, and most consistent, message put forward by respondents was that the potential impacts – positive and negative – of the use or misuse of age assurance technologies should not be underestimated.” The OPC identifies three broad categories of impact.The first is attached to the harms age assurance is intended to mitigate. It’s not just keeping kids away from porn; per one submission, “Canadian children have also been the targets of ever-increasing harmful interactions with adults, including grooming, sextortion, and other online sexual violence”The second relates to harms caused by loss of access, particularly for LGBTQ+ youth. Per one response, “the Internet provides ample avenues for community-building, civic engagement, and education, especially for members of marginalized groups who might not have access to the same opportunities offline.” Submissions also raised concerns about the difficulty of “objectively defining what content is harmful to youth or other groups,” which is “subject to political agendas of the time.”The third relates to harms associated with data breaches. “Certain kinds of online content subject to age assurance may be legal but deeply stigmatized within a community, and individuals who access or create that content could be subject to significant psychological or physical harms should their online activities be publicly exposed.”The calls to action split along predictable lines, with industry groups warning of overly prescriptive age assurance requirements, and others calling for “a clear and strong regulatory regime.”It’s the kids, dummy: tech is secondary to purpose The thrust of Theme Three is that age assurance is not an end in itself, but merely a vehicle for keeping kids safer online. “Knowing the age of individuals online should not be the goal of age assurance; rather, age assurance should be positioned as one of many potential measures that support the goal of creating a safer online experience for youth.”Age assurance doesn’t have to be perfect, and workarounds like VPNs don’t negate the net harm prevention of age assurance technology. Moreover, it is not a panacea or silver bullet, but “one tool among many,” with complementary measures including legislation, transparency and  family or parental controls.There is also another call for clarity, this time in the meaning of “effective” – a broad term that has ended up playing central roles in various regulators’ age assurance guidelines, but remains open to interpretation.Not my problem: responsibility for age assurance is a contested question-Theme Four highlights the heated debate over who should be responsible for age assurance: “responses differed with respect to by whom it should be implemented. Options put forward included options such as: (i) at the individual device level; (ii) at the individual website or online service level; and (iii) at the app store level.”No aspect of the age assurance conversation more resembles the famous meme of Spider-Man pointing fingers than the question of whose problem it is. Three parties identified by the OPC are individuals, including parents, websites and online services, and OS app sites. “To be clear,” it says, “none of these positions was without detractors. For instance, we heard that ‘applying age-assurance systems deeper in a technology stack – such as at the internet service provider, device, or app store level – is overbroad, intrusive, and inappropriate.’” It says future guidance will “further explore the potential accountabilities of various players in the online ecosystem.”Not my biometrics: age estimation raises need for regulatory oversight-On the question of facial age estimation, there is similar ambiguity. “Responses differed with respect to the appropriateness of age estimation, particularly where it is based on measurement of an individual’s physical characteristics (such as their facial features).” Some noted the need for “special provisions for processing biometric data.”The fundamental question of trust also rears its head here: “it was also noted that, from an individual’s perspective, there is likely to be little difference in experience between, for example, an age estimation process in which data is only used for a single purpose and immediately deleted and a process in which biometric characteristics are processed and used for additional purposes.” Oversight and education are seen as the answer; for instance, age assurance service providers surveyed had to point out that age estimation systems do not necessarily rely on measurements of a person’s physical characteristics. (For example, email-based age estimation.)Let’s ask why: reason, purpose, risk must factor inThe final big theme is that the focus should be on ensuring that age assurance is proportionate to the risk of harm being addressed. The OPC’s preliminary position stated that the use of age assurance systems should be restricted to situations that pose a high risk to the best interests of young people. Some said that was too restrictive; one respondent noted that “we do not tolerate unmitigated ‘medium’ risks to children in other contexts.” The OPC says it intends to “nuance our initial position given it may not capture all potentially appropriate uses of age assurance.”Next steps for OPC to focus on risk assessment, privacy-by-design-The OPC says it “intends to take a leadership role in ensuring that age assurance is used appropriately and in a privacy-protective manner.” To that end, based on responses to the exploratory consultation, it plans draft guidance on two critical topics: assessing when age assurance should be used through risk-based assessment, and the design features or privacy considerations that should be addressed in any age assurance technique.

NADRA’s Pak ID app gets digital ID storage, face verification upgrade-Mar 26, 2025, 1:18 pm EDT    | Ayang Macdonald

Pakistan’s National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) has unveiled the latest version of the Pak ID mobile application (version 3.8.1) with advancements that support digital ID storage and facial verification.According to Tech Juice, the objective of the novelty is to strengthen access and security for the app users.With the addition of the face verification feature, elderly persons or those who have issues with their fingerprints, will have an alternative method to complete their ID verification. The existing fingerprint verification system is contactless and can be completed using a smart phone camera.For the digital ID storage, users of the app can keep the digital version of their national ID card on their mobile device to be easily used for transactions requiring identity authentication.The Pak ID app is a digital ID service which allows Pakistanis to carry out many transactions digitally. It is one of the many solutions driving the country’s digital government agenda.With the possibility of uploading documents and submitting biometric data via the platform, users can rely on it to follow up all processes related to applications for national ID cards and family registration certificates.The upgrade also makes it much easier to request changes to one’s national ID card, something that will bring great relief and convenience to citizens.NADRA says the retouch of the app is part of efforts to continuously improve the efficiency of its digital services, and further reduce the need for physical documents and processes in accessing certain public services.Early this year, NADRA migrated all services from the Pak ID website to the mobile application.Pakistan’s financial inclusion push-The Pak ID app upgrade is in line with the country’s ongoing digital transformation efforts highlighted by strides made in aspects such as financial inclusion which is contributing significantly to the growth of its digital economy.An analysis published by Development Asia, an initiative of the Asian Development Bank, explores how digital solutions in the financial sector are helping to bridge the financial inclusion gap.The analysis notes that while small and informal sector businesses have faced difficulties related to credit access and digital payment methods over the last 15 years, the increasing availability of these digital financial services and infrastructure is helping those who are not formally banked to be able also participate in the business economy. Pakistan’s mobile banking sector is also driving financial inclusion.The authors cite the growing popularity of mobile money services in the country, arguing that they offer “huge potential to improve lives by enabling low-cost, fast, safe, and easy transactions.” They allude to examples from India’s Unified Payment Interface (UPI) and China’s P2P and P2M systems where instant payments are crucial in exploring the full potential of sectors like retail and merchant services.With progress in digital adoption notwithstanding, the analysis posits that much efforts, including the putting in place of the right policy and regulatory environment, still have to be made in order to trigger full adoption. Such frameworks, coupled with strong government leadership, will go a long way in not only encouraging merchant and consumer adoption, but in expanding the country’s digital finance ecosystem, the authors contend.The write-up also makes the case for closing the financial inclusion gender gap, an areas which is said to be already receiving attention though the Women Inclusive Financial Sector Development Program implemented by the Asian Development Bank, intended to “boost financial inclusion for women through comprehensive reforms in policy, regulatory, and institutional frameworks.”Regionally, Pakistan is also viewed as an emerging player in the digital transformation field with strides already being registered in several areas including AI adoption, tech startup ecosystem, and digital finance, just to cite these.