"When the communism comes back..."

Yep.
I think that is very accurate....

 

Tho the new world order will likely morph from it's current guise into all-out communism..
There are however several things I just can't work can't work out tho:
- is Putin in on it with them?
- is Trump in on it too?
- are China on-board with it as well?

They all seem to be installing digital ID's and getting rid of cash in lockstep. They all also had lockdown policies and promoted those jabs in similar lockstep....

I'm a betting man, and I'd wager that they're all a part of the same gang. And, if this is the case - then unlike WW's 1 & 2; there's no one coming to our rescue.
Only heavenly intervention can put a stop to it.

 

I don't think they are "in on it" necessarily,.that'd be a little far fetched and things of a movie imho, I think the more likely scenario is two different sets of world powers with the same end game in mind of world domination and communistic control, with just w different visions of how to implement it. How this all plays out is anybodys guess.

 

There was a lot Trump didn’t do and should have done. Appointing Pence and not firing all the Bushites was quite suspicious.

 

From this geographical distance, I have always had a lot of difficulty understanding the excessive excitement of so many Catholics around politicians like Trump, Bolsonaro or Milei, although I understand that they could be a lesser evil.

 

Hong Kong’s Catholics face ‘collapse of religious freedom’



Religious freedom is being lost in Hong Kong due to pressure from the Chinese Communist Party, according to a new report from the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation.

Released 30 January 2024, the Hostile Takeover: The CCP and Hong Kong’s Religious Communities report highlights “the systematic breaking of promises” made under the so-called “One Country, Two Systems” arrangement that was outlined in the Sino-British Joint Declaration when the UK handed control of Hong Kong to the CCP in 1997.

The report also highlights how the Beijing-imposed National Security Law (NSL) is being used to quash religious liberty and risks the “collapse of religious freedom” in Hong Kong, a special administrative region of China, which is meant to have executive, legislative and judicial powers devolved from the national government.

“This report cites eyewitness testimonies from people directly affected by the CCP’s takeover of the religious sphere in Hong Kong in hopes to highlight some of the tragedy they have been forced to undergo simply for having personal beliefs that the CCP perceive as a threat to their dominance,” says Frances Hui, CFHK Foundation’s Policy and Advocacy Coordinator and lead author of the report. “As the CCP has tightened control over Hong Kong, particularly since the rollout of the NSL in 2020, religious communities have continued to face threats to their values and practices.”

The report says the CCP “is actively taking control of Hong Kong’s religious institutions, as seen through various initiatives and efforts to influence religious groups”. This process includes the “Sinicization of Religion”, whereby the CCP implements its control over elements of the Church, with the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese alleged to be “working with the CCP” and facilitating that takeover.

The report also claims that the Catholic Church in Hong Kong “is suppressing information on religious persecution in China” while the “Justice and Peace Commission under its auspices has diluted its focus on Chinese affairs and human rights”. It is doing this, the report claims, even though “religious leaders and believers face increasing legal prosecution”, with a Protestant pastor recently sentenced to 13 months in jail under the National Security Law.

The report notes that Jimmy Lai, the Catholic founder of now defunct pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily, is currently on trial in Hong Kong “facing sham charges” brought under the NSL.

The report also notes that the Vatican is considering opening a liaison office in China, raising “concerns about the potential legalisation of state-controlled entities”, alongside Hong Kong clerics fearing “pressure to join associations pledging fidelity to the government”.

The CFHK calls on the Vatican to establish an advisory board on China affairs, advocate for the release of religious prisoners, speak out against China’s erasure of Uyghur and Hui Muslim culture, and to repeal the Vatican-China agreement.

Otherwise, the CFHK argues, members of all religions face “a bleak future for religious freedoms” as the CCP asserts increasing control over Hong Kong’s religious sphere.

“The world must respond to these alarming signs with real collective efforts to safeguard religious freedom in Hong Kong,” Hui says.

Photo: Former Hong Kong Governor Chris Patten accepts a religious icon from Fr John Tsang during Mass at Caritas Catholic Church, Hong Kong, 29 June 1997. The mass was Patten’s last as governor with Hong Kong reverting to Chinese rule the next day at the stroke of midnight on 30 June 1997. (Photo by DAVID GRAY/POOL/AFP via Getty Images.)


Source:
https://catholicherald.co.uk/catholics-in-hong-kong-face-collapse-of-religious-freedom/

 

Russia has put Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas on a wanted list “for the destruction and damage of monuments to Soviet soldiers,” according to Russian news outlets.

Source:
https://www.politico.eu/article/russia-declares-estonian-pm-wanted/

 

Nicaragua’s crackdown on Catholic Church spreads fear among the faithful, there and in exile

MIAMI (AP) — Nineteen priests kicked out of the country, dozens of incidents of harassment and church desecrations, rural areas lacking worship and social services: the situation for Catholic clergy and faithful in Nicaragua is only worsening in 2024, according to exiled priests, laypeople in the Central American country and human rights advocates.

The fear of the ongoing crackdown by President Daniel Ortega – on the Catholic Church in particular but not sparing evangelicals – has become so pervasive that it is silencing criticism of the authoritarian government and even mentions of the repression from the pulpit.

“All the time the silence gets deeper,” said Martha Patricia Molina, a Nicaraguan lawyer who fled to the United States. Her work recording hundreds of instances of church persecution recently won her an International Religious Freedom Award from the U.S. State Department.

“If it’s dangerous to pray the rosary in the street, it is exceedingly so to report attacks,” Molina said.

“Many priests believe that if they make reports, there will be more reprisals against the communities. We as laypeople would like for them to speak, but the only alternatives are cemetery, prison or exile.”

She counted 30 church desecrations in the past year, only a few reported to authorities. Recently, she heard of a priest who went to the police after a theft in his church – only to be cursed at and told he was a suspect.

“Life in Nicaragua is hell, because surveillance is brutal. You can’t say anything that’s against the government,” said an exiled priest. Like him, most exiles interviewed for this story spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity out of fear of retribution against their families or communities in Nicaragua.

“People now keep their heads down, as they wonder, ‘If they do this to the priests, what will they do with us?’” the clergyman added. He was barred from returning to Nicaragua, where he, like many priests and nuns, drew the government’s ire for providing shelter and first aid to those injured when the Ortega government violently repressed massive civic protests in 2018.

The unrest then, which started against proposed social security cuts, broadened to demand early elections and to accuse Ortega of authoritarian measures after hundreds of demonstrators were killed by security forces and allied civilian groups.

Like several Latin American governments tracing their roots back to socialist revolutions, Nicaragua’s has had an uneven relationship with faith leaders for decades. But those protests triggered an escalating and systematic targeting of the church in what the U.S. government’s Commission on International Religious Freedom calls a “campaign of harassment and severe persecution.”

Ortega and his wife, Rosario Murillo, who also is the vice president, blame “terrorist” clergy for supporting the civil unrest they claim amounts to plotting a coup against them. Clergy and lay observers say the government is trying to quash the church because it remains the rare critic in Nicaragua that dares to oppose state violence and whose voice is respected by many citizens.

The “unprecedented exiling of critical voices” – from religious leaders to journalists and artists – in Nicaragua amounts to a “total censorship plan,” said Alicia Quiñones, who leads the freedom of expression organization PEN International in the Americas.

It’s become nearly impossible to do independent reporting in Nicaragua, she added, citing last year’s imprisonment of a journalist on the charge of “fake information” after he covered an Easter celebration when public Catholic feasts have largely been barred.

“The pressure is becoming unsufferable,” said one priest now in the United States. Like others, he says Mass-goers have started noticing people in the pews they have never seen before and fear they’re there to report on any whiff of opposition to the government, even if only a prayer for the safety of clergy imprisoned in often dangerous conditions.

In a country where more than 80% of the population is Christian – about 50% Catholic and more than 30% evangelicals, according to the U.S. religious freedom commission – the repression cuts deep both spiritually and materially.

It has hit not only clergy and religious orders but college students, minority and marginalized populations, even tiny businesses in rural towns that relied on now often prohibited or indoors-only religious processions and patron saints’ feasts for their income.

In November, Molina said many priests were even prevented from celebrating traditional Masses in cemeteries for the Day of the Dead, an important holiday across Latin America.

Nicaragua’s congress, dominated by Ortega’s Sandinista National Liberation Front, has shuttered more than 3,000 nongovernmental organizations, including Mother Teresa’s charity, creating a major gap in social services especially in rural areas. In addition to many diocesan assets, the government confiscated the prestigious University of Central America, whose Jesuit leaders had opened the doors to student protestors fleeing police and paramilitary attacks.

Despite the growing fear, many faithful continue to attend church services – where they remain available. Especially in rural areas, parishes and chapels are left without priests, though the seminaries still have students so some faithful hope they will be able to eventually replace those exiled or forced to flee.

Many of the senior leaders of the Catholic Church, including Bishop Rolando Álvarez who was jailed for more than a year, were released from prison and sent overseas in negotiations with the Vatican last month. A dozen jailed priests had similarly been sent to the Vatican in October.

The Holy See has offered little public comment on the situation other than calling for dialogue. The Vatican spokesman didn’t respond when asked by the AP if Nicaragua’s highest-ranking cleric, Cardinal Leopoldo Brenes, is in Rome, as some Nicaraguan sources reported.

Managua’s Auxiliary Bishop Silvio Báez has been one of the most outspoken critics of Nicaragua’s repression from the Miami area, where he is based after the pope asked him to leave his country to avoid violent threats. In late January, he wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter, that he was at the Vatican to meet with Pope Francis, who had “shown his interest and love for Nicaragua.”

Many exiles argue that while negotiating to release priests and other political prisoners marks progress, sending them into exile cannot become an acceptable practice.

“Exile cannot be normalized,” said Dolly Mora, who was forced to flee to the United States, where she’s helping campaign against the practice alongside other Nicaraguan activists. “It’s as unjust as prison. The international community cannot say it’s okay that they’re expelled.”

Without stronger protests from the Vatican and foreign governments, many exiles fear that any church representatives left in Nicaragua will be cowed into accommodating the Ortega government, which now only a minority of clergy supporters.

So they hope that continuing to call out the repression and to document each beaten-up priest, each desecrated tabernacle will eventually lead to justice.

“The dictatorship, what it wants is to completely eliminate the Catholic faith, because they haven’t succeeded in making the church kneel before them,” Molina said. “And they will not succeed.”

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Source:
https://apnews.com/article/nicaragu...an-us-ortega-ddcbe3f439ea0773dc9e1db88a7bb952

 

Putin opponent Alexei Navalny dies in prison

 

Russian Priest Detained After Announcing Navalny Memorial Service


A St. Petersburg priest has been detained after he announced he would hold a memorial service for the late Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, his wife said on Facebook on Saturday.

Grigory Mikhnov-Vaitenko was detained near his home as he was going to the Solovetsky Stone dedicated to Soviet victims of political repression.

Later Saturday, Mikhnov-Vaitenko was hospitalized with a stroke, St. Petersburg opposition deputy Boris Vishnevsky said on the Telegram messaging app.

"At police station No. 43, his lawyer called an ambulance. Grigory was taken to the hospital and the decision was made to hospitalize him," Vishnevsky said, adding that he had just spoken to Mikhnov-Vaitenko.

Pskov opposition deputy Lev Shlosberg said Sunday that Mikhnov-Vaitenko was in the hospital's intensive care unit with signs of a stroke.

Supporters of Navalny, who was announced dead by Russian authorities on Friday, have been laying flowers and photos of the politician at monuments across Russia.

The memorial service in St. Petersburg was conducted by another priest, local media outlet Bumaga reported.

The Russian Orthodox Church said in a statement that “Grigory Mikhnov-Voitenko is not a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church” and urged “to ignore any of his statements and calls in the public space.”

Russian police have detained more than 170 people at spontaneous memorials for Navalny across the country, the police-monitoring group OVD-Info said Saturday.

Russian authorities on Friday warned against attending demonstrations.

Navalny, 47, was serving a 19-year prison sentence in the Arctic when authorities announced his death.

He was imprisoned in January 2021, when he returned to Russia from Germany after recovering from a near-fatal poisoning with what Western scientists said was the banned military-grade nerve agent Novichok.

Russia outlawed Navalny’s nationwide political and activist organizations later that year, declaring them “extremist,” which means that protesting for Navalny puts his supporters at risk.

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Source:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2024...ned-at-memorials-for-navalny-in-russia-a84124

 

70-year-old and sick Catholic priest in Belarus arrested last November on charges of “high treason”



Great concern is expressed by Viasna, an NGO based in Minsk which has been fighting for human rights and democracy in Belarus since 1996. As of 31 January 2024, we read in the organisation's latest report, Belarus has 1,429 political prisoners, including 170 women and around 530 young people. The case of Father Henrykh (Henadz) Akalatovich, a 70-year-old Catholic priest, arrested in November 2023, on charges of "high treason" under Article 356 of the Criminal Code. Sick, we read in the Viasna Report, the priest requires "constant medical supervision and medications". (google translated)

More information in the Italian SIR - Religious Information Service:
https://www.agensir.it/europa/2024/...vivranno-abbastanza-da-vedere-la-liberazione/

 

Wave of arrests continue for Belarus Catholics as they face up to new restrictions


A woman holds an image of Mary and the Christ Child before a 2018 procession marking the feast of Corpus Christi in Minsk, Belarus. In a statement Jan. 10, 2024, the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need said Belarus is now ranked second in the world, after Nicaragua, for the number of arrests of Catholic priests and laypeople. (OSV News photo/Vasily Fedosenko, Reuters)

(OSV News) ─ Priests and lay Catholics from Belarus said they still hope their church's situation will improve, despite the continued arrests of clergy and new religious restrictions that are imminent.

"Priests are being targeted on various pretexts, and many Catholics feel pressured and harassed," explained Father Dzmitry Prystupa, from Baranavichy in Belarus' southern Diocese of Pinsk.

"It's painful that there's no free speech in our church -- and that the good news, so strongly linked with truth and justice, has to be announced selectively, subject to official surveillance and verification. But I still think we should trust our church's leaders to do their best," he said.

The priest spoke amid the country's plans to enforce a new Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations law, signed Dec. 30 by President Alexander Lukashenko and published Jan. 5, which will restrict educational and missionary activity by churches and require all parishes to reapply for legal status.

In an OSV News interview, Father Prystupa said fellow clergy were still coming to terms with the law's implications, adding that he regretted that Lukashenko's regime only thought "in a narrative of political opposition."

Meanwhile, a prominent lay Catholic said the Belarus bishops' conference had analyzed the law when it was being drafted last June, but had not yet offered advice on how church communities should prepare for it.

"In coming months, meetings should be held to guide parish rectors through the new procedures," Artiom Tkaczuk, a social worker now living in neighboring Poland, told OSV News.

"But the whole legal system in Belarus is unpredictable -- so while church leaders will be studying the new law's detailed provisions, they'll also be trying to anticipate what the regime hopes to achieve with it," Tkaczuk said.

Besides obliging communities to re-register their founding charters or face liquidation, the law will prohibit religious activities deemed to harm "health and morals," infringe Belarus' "sovereignty, constitutional system and civil harmony," or "humiliate national honor and dignity."

Parental applications will be required for children seeking catechism classes at churches, while parish office-holders must have their addresses and personal data registered.

In a June 12 statement, the bishops warned the law would "complicate the dynamics of state-confessional relations," adding that the Catholic Church would "face difficulties" observing its tightened controls over religious education, as well as its accompanying ban on minority languages and curbs on monastic communities, pilgrimages and religious literature.

The law also was criticized by United Nations rapporteurs, who cautioned in August it could "fail to meet Belarus' obligations under international human rights law."

The Catholic Church, making up a 10th of Belarus' population of 9.4 million, has not reacted publicly to mistreatment of citizens since its leader, Archbishop Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, was made to retire in January 2021 after being temporarily barred from the country.

However, dozens of clergy from various denominations have also faced arrest, while in a Jan. 10 statement, the pontifical foundation Aid to the Church in Need said Belarus now ranked second in the world after Nicaragua for the number of arrested Catholic priests, with 10 detained on extremism and treason charges in 2023, along with many lay Catholics.

On Jan. 24, a well-known Catholic journalist, Oksana Yuczkavich, working recently for the church's Catholic.By news service, was detained on unspecified charges. Another prominent lay Catholic, Piotr Rudkovsky, was arrested Jan. 26 -- an arrest linked to his cooperation with Belarus' opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya.

Meanwhile, three priests arrested in November included Polish native Father Henryk Okolotovich, rector of St. Joseph's Parish at Volozhin, northwest of Minsk, who also remains in detention on unknown charges.

Tkaczuk said clergy from Father Okolotovich's Minsk-Mohilev Archdiocese had prayed for him at a December meeting, while Curia officials also had sought information about the 63-year-old's fate.

In the face of new arrests, Tkaczuk told OSV News that with the new law, "it's clear we must now prepare for a fresh wave of systemic pressure across our four dioceses."

Russia has gained military and logistical support for its invasion of Ukraine from Lukashenkoa, whose disputed August 2022 reelection after 26 years in power was followed by harsh repression and international sanctions.

Up to half a million Belarus citizens have since left the country, while 1,413 political prisoners are currently incarcerated, including Ales Bialiatski, winner of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize, according to a Jan. 16 report by the Minsk-based Viasna Human Rights Center. The report said 1,603 people had been convicted in 2023 "in politically motivated criminal cases."

Tkaczuk added that Catholics living abroad had demanded "more open testimony" against repression from Belarus' Catholic bishops, but said "important developments" were occurring "outside the public sphere," with an extensive self-help network in local parish communities.

Meanwhile, Father Prystupa said he also understood frustration at the church's current silence, but added that Catholics in the country understood the risks of speaking out.

"With all media under strict regime control and priests routinely intimidated by security agents, it simply isn't possible to say anything about arrests and detentions," Father Prystupa told OSV News.

"But we know the fate of martyrs has always provided a seed, so we should trust in God's will. For now, instead of fighting in vain, we should focus on proclaiming the Gospel and following Christ, the church's first duty."

The bishops' conference spokesman, Father Yuri Sanko, declined OSV News requests to comment on the new religious restrictions, which have not been mentioned on the church's Catholic.By website.

Source:
https://www.detroitcatholic.com/new...catholics-as-they-face-up-to-new-restrictions

 

Wow, what piercing and beautiful eyes she has.

 

Russian invaders rebuild monument to Lenin in occupied Ukrainian city of Melitopol. The monument to the Soviet communist leader had been dismantled in 2015.





Before the Russian invasion:


Sources:
https://lb.ua/society/2022/11/05/534933_rosiyani_vstanovili_okupovanomu.html
https://uk.wikipedia.org/

 

Even in West Germany there are communist groups. It’s an epidemic. Our Lady warned us communism will be back if we don’t go back to God. Has the West obeyed?
https://www.rferl.org/a/germany-marx-statue-unveiled-soviet-union-lenin/32007216.html

 

Russian invaders restore statue of the beast Lenin and raise red Soviet flag over the main administrative building of Henichesk, in April 2022, seven years after it was dismantled as part of the country's "decommunization".





Sources:
https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-reg...nskij-prapor-i-vidnovili-pamatnik-leninu.html
https://ua.korrespondent.net/ukraine/4470445-u-henichesku-okupanty-vstanovyly-pamiatnyk-leninu
https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live...s-04-19-22/h_ad118ebf74fb99b39aee56cf0f9ef91e

 

This seems like a glimpse of what will happen in Rome, according to a prophecy by sister Elena Aiello:

1959: The Madonna ” Russia will march upon all the nations of Europe, particularly Italy, and will raise her flag over the Dome of St. Peter’s. Italy will be severely tired by a great revolution, and Rome will be purified in blood for its many sins, especially those of impurity! The flock is about to be dispersed and the Pope must suffer greatly!”

https://imposterpope.wordpress.com/the-actual-voice-analysis-of-the-imposter-pope/

 

Russia puts two Belarusian Catholic priests on wanted list



Belarusian Catholic priests Vyacheslav Barok and Andrei Vashchuk are on the wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Ks. Vyacheslav Barok is the former rector of the parish in honor of St. Josaphat Kuntsevich in the city. Rossony, Vitebsk region, ks. Andrey Vashchuk headed the parish of the Holy Spirit in Vitebsk. In 2021-2022, priests were repeatedly subjected to persecution by the authorities for their civic position, including anti-war, they were arrested and fined, which is why they were forced to leave Belarus. Youtube channel ks. Barka is considered extremist by the country's authorities.

Now the Russian authorities have also joined in the persecution of priests.

Source:
https://shaltnotkill.info/rossiya-obyavila-v-rozysk-dvuh-katolicheskih-svyashhennikov-iz-belarusi/ (Google translated from the website of the Belarusian organization 'Christians against War')

More here:
https://risu.ua/ru/rossiya-obyavila-v-rozysk-dvuh-katolicheskih-svyashchennikov-iz-belarusi_n146196
https://t.me/shaltnotkill/6441
https://www.avveniredicalabria.it/b...ati-del-ministero-degli-affari-interni-russo/

 

400 people arrested in Russia for what they said on social media. How many were arrested in Great Britain?
https://youtube.com/shorts/DIl-HO9Ng3I?si=Xhq6048flJiOPaeO