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President Biden Attends Ash Wednesday Mass With Polish Priest In Hotel Room
President Biden Attends Ash Wednesday Mass With Polish Priest In Hotel Room
Ash Wednesday Mass: Polish Priest celebrates with President Biden in private hotel room during Poland visit.
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Polish Father Wieslaw Dawidowski poses with U.S. President Joe Biden after Father Wieslaw celebrated Ash Wednesday Mass in a Marriott Hotel room in Warsaw, Poland, Feb. 22, 2023. Biden was wrapping up his three-day visit to Poland. ©Facebook
President Joe Biden attended a private Catholic Mass on Ash Wednesday during his visit to Poland, according to Polish priest Wieslaw Dawidowski. The Mass was held in a room at the Marriott Hotel, where the President stayed during his trip to Warsaw, and was celebrated by Father Dawidowski.
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In a post on his Facebook page, Father Dawidowski revealed that he had the honor of placing ashes on the forehead of the US President. The Mass took place in an improvised chapel in a hotel room, with the two praying for peace, the conversion of Russia, and the light of the Holy Spirit for President Biden.
Although the President’s attendance at the Ash Wednesday Mass was not on his official itinerary, a faded cross was observed on his forehead during the family photo at the B9 summit held at the Presidential Palace.
Father Dawidowski is an Augustinian, doctor of theology, and a publicist. He has a history of involvement in the anti-communist movement, having been arrested and sentenced to six months in prison during martial law as a high school student.
President Joe Biden attended a private Catholic Mass on Ash Wednesday during his visit to Poland, according to Polish priest Wieslaw Dawidowski. The Mass was held in a room at the Marriott Hotel, where the President stayed during his trip to Warsaw, and was celebrated by Father Dawidowski.
Support us today with a contribution from just $10 a month.We are powered by readers who believe in free speech and independent journalism. This makes us different.
In a post on his Facebook page, Father Dawidowski revealed that he had the honor of placing ashes on the forehead of the US President. The Mass took place in an improvised chapel in a hotel room, with the two praying for peace, the conversion of Russia, and the light of the Holy Spirit for President Biden.
Although the President’s attendance at the Ash Wednesday Mass was not on his official itinerary, a faded cross was observed on his forehead during the family photo at the B9 summit held at the Presidential Palace.
Father Dawidowski is an Augustinian, doctor of theology, and a publicist. He has a history of involvement in the anti-communist movement, having been arrested and sentenced to six months in prison during martial law as a high school student.
Wednesday, February 22, 2023
Biden: Today, I Join Christians Worldwide in Observing Ash Wednesday. The Lenten Season is a Time...
The latest Tweet by President Biden states, 'Today, I join Christians worldwide in observing Ash Wednesday. The Lenten season is a time for reflection and discernment and an opportunity to recommit ourselves to God and to one another. May we continue to keep the faith and look with hopeful hearts towards Easter.'
Team Latestly Feb 22, 2023 10:18 PM IST
President Biden’s Meeting with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland
Readout of President Biden’s Meeting with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland: 21 February 2023 Following his speech in Warsaw today, President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. met with Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland in Warsaw to
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Vice President Harris Meeting with NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg
Just one year ago on February 18, 2022 -
Six Days before Russia's Invasion of Ukraine.
Vice President Harris Meeting with NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg
In her meeting with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg in Munich, Germany, Vice President Harris warned Russian President Putin that his nation would face “severe consequences” if it invades Ukraine, and she called for resolving the crisis diplomatically.
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AOC runs cover for ‘Hunter Biden’s half-fake laptop story’ in shameless hearing rant
February 9, 2023 | Vivek Saxena
A House Judiciary Committee hearing into Twitter’s censorship of the New York Post’s reporting on Hunter Biden’s laptop went off the rails Wednesday thanks to Democrat shenanigans.
Take the Democrat shenanigans of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who came to the hearing equipped with her usual shameless distortions of the truth.
Instead of accepting the now-confirmed fact that Hunter Biden’s laptop is real and that coverage of it was censored by Twitter, she used the hearing to weave a fraudulent narrative about how the whole story is somehow “half-fake.”
Indeed, to hear the congresswoman tell it, the story was practically manufactured out of thin air as part of some “right-wing political operation.”
“So they’ve dragged a social media platform here in Congress. They’re weaponizing the use of this committee so that they can do it again. A whole hearing, about a 24-hour hiccup in a right-wing political operation. That is why we are here right now. And it is — it’s just an abuse of public resources and abuse of public time,” she said.
“We could be talking about health care, we could be talking about bringing down the cost of prescription drugs, we could be talking about abortion rights, civil rights, voting rights, but instead we’re talking about Hunter Biden’s half-fake laptop story. I mean, this is an embarrassment,” she added.
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What Sabbath-keeping is
We have already learned that the Sabbath rest is a spiritual rest, and it is therefore impossible for one to keep the Sabbath unless Christ, whose presence gives rest, dwells in his heart by faith. Every case of conversion is a display of the creative power of God in calling out of darkness into light, in delivering from the power of darkness and translating into the kingdom of his dear Son; and the true Sabbath is a sign to every Christian of the creative power that has thus wrought for his deliverance, and which is to uphold him through all his varied experiences, as he journeys toward the eternal kingdom. As the Israelites were enabled to keep the Sabbath after they were brought out of Egypt, so the Christian, who has been delivered from the bondage of sin, can enjoy the spiritual rest, which is the true idea of Sabbath-keeping.
So the Sabbath is a sign to every Christian of the creative power of God in his deliverance from the power of sin. It is a sign to him of the blessing of God in turning him away from his iniquities. It is a sign to him of the presence of Christ to make him holy. It is a sign to him of the presence of Christ in him to sanctify him. That is to say, it is a measure of the working of that creative power in his individual experience.
But the real purpose of God in creation will not be fully carried out, until all who receive Jesus Christ have been created anew, until the body has been fashioned anew, “that it may be conformed to the body of his glory,” until the new heavens and the new earth are made. Then, with the new heavens and the new earth, with the body conformed to his glorious body, and with the character of God in Jesus Christ wrought in them by faith, the earth will be peopled with a righteous people, just as God intended in the first place, and just in pursuance of his original plan of creation. And so in the new earth the Sabbath will remain, the sign of God’s power in a completed creation. And thus we read in Isaiah 66:22, 23: “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain. And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.” And so onward through all the ages of eternity, the Sabbath will always be the sign of the creative power of God.
What, then, is the Sabbath?-It is the memorial of the power of God manifested to the world through Jesus Christ, not only in the creation of the heaven and the earth, but in the re-creation of the individual. What, then, is Sabbath-keeping?-It is Christian experience. What, then, is the Sabbath blessing?-It is the blessing of sanctification by the power of God working through Jesus Christ. What, then, is Sabbath-keeping?-It is the sign to the individual Christian of his own Christian experience. It is to him the measure of the working of that creative power of God in Jesus Christ, that he may be renewed in the image of God, that he may be made a perfect man in Christ Jesus. What, then, is Sabbath-keeping?-It is the sign to the Christian that he trusts for salvation in the power that created all things. What, then, is Sabbath-keeping?-It is the sign to the Christian that his hope, his confidence, are entirely in Jesus Christ, who is the Creator and Redeemer. What, then, is Sabbath-keeping?-It is the sign of his growth in Jesus Christ? What, then, is Sabbath-keeping?-It is all and in all to the Christian.
When it is understood what the Sabbath really is and what Sabbath-keeping is, there is not a person who desires Jesus Christ, there is not a person who longs for the blessings and the rest that there are in Jesus Christ, who would hesitate one moment as to what day it is. It is what it is rather than when it is that we must consider, because when we study what it is, we shall at the same time find out in the most emphatic way when it is. One day will do just as well as another in which to rest physically, but there is only one day on which we can keep Sabbath; there is only one day that has the blessing by the presence of Christ in this way. Come to the Sabbath blessing; come to Sabbath-keeping.
Christ and the Sabbath, p.25-27.
U.N. Trying To Push Religious Communities To ‘Fully Comply’ With LGBTQ Agenda
U.N. Trying To Push Religious Communities To ‘Fully Comply’ With LGBTQ Agenda
February 7, 2023 NewsHound
The United Nations is releasing a report in June regarding the “perceived contradictions” between religious freedom and sexual orientation and gender identity, or SOGI, laws and is looking to push governments to “fully comply with their obligations under international human rights law to protect and empower LGBT+ persons,” according to a U.N. announcement.
The U.N. closed a call for LGBT+ and religious freedom organizations to submit input to the report earlier this month and is scheduled to introduce its findings at the 53rd Human Rights Council meeting in June, according to the announcement. The announcement explains that while there are “perceived contradictions” between the LGBT+ community and religious freedom, the report aims to find ways to “protect LGBT+ persons’ access to faith and spirituality” while also indicating that religious beliefs that would contradict this are not “justified” under the protection of human rights.
“Religious and spiritual narratives have also historically been used to promote, enable, and condone institutional and personal violence and discrimination against individuals based on sexual orientation or gender identity (real or presumed); repress sexual and gender diversity; and promote cis-gendered and heteronormative norms of sexual orientation and gender identity,” the announcement read. “These practices cannot be justified under the rubric of Freedom of Religious Beliefs, or indeed any other human right, to circumvent and defeat the rights of marginalized populations.”
Any organization that wished to comment for the inquiry was tasked with keeping their comments to a minimum of 2,500 words and providing answers to 11 questions on religious freedom and the rights of the LGBT+ community, according to the announcement. Respondents were asked whether or not any religious beliefs and LGBT+ rights were “mutually exclusive,” to point out policies that protect discriminatory religious practices and about the extent to which religious individuals have the right to a conscientious objection.
The U.N. didn’t disclose who commented ahead of the report’s release, but two organizations publicly published their comments for the inquiry, focusing on their concerns about the impact on the religious community. The Religious Freedom Institute and the Heritage Foundation’s comments worried that the special inquiry would “undermine” and result in the “politicization” of religious freedom as a human right.
We reached out to the Seventh-day Adventist PARL department, to see if they submitted concerns to the UN. No response yet.
Observations
The United Nations increasingly sees LGBTQ rights (agenda) and religious convictions as being in conflict. Their default position is the elevation of human rights (ie. LGBTQ) over biblical morality.
Reports like the one from the U.N. are based on a “narrative” that “religion is an oppressor and that religious freedom can be weaponized to harm others.”
This narrative is not only harmful because it could make people doubt the importance of religion in their own lives and their communities, but it’s also harmful because it will undermine important social protection.
Religion and religious freedom is a stabilizing presence, and for the cases where religion is being misused to oppress (ie Islam etc), the answer isn’t to shut down religion entirely.
The United Nations position is that religious and spiritual narratives have historically been used to promote discrimination against individuals based on sexual orientation or gender identity (real or presumed); repress sexual and gender diversity; and promote cisgendered and heteronormative norms of sexual orientation and gender identity. This has resulted in a variety of discriminatory normative constructions reinforced over time. In other words, the Bible premise of male and female uniting in marriage for life and producing children in that union is discriminatory towards sexual confusion and deviancy. Yes it is. Delightfully so.
The United Nations is three parts incompetent and one part corrupt, yet the GC PARL Department still trusts them.
Our PARL department director’s affinity for the United Nations could result in him being conflicted by such pro-LGBTQ initiatives from the UN. He is also deeply embedded in ecumenical initiatives — in our opinion, dangerously so.. He may have to choose whether to follow the Bible or the United Nations. It can’t be both.
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BLACK-OUT @ Ex-Twitter execs grilled on Hunter Biden laptop ‘censorship’
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Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the committee chair, says the hearing will be on recess until 2:30 p.m., following a power outage that has interrupted an official feed of the hearing.
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The lights have partially returned in the room, as power outages impacted a floor in the Rayburn House Office Building.
A committee aide told The Post that the power went down in a quadrant of the Rayburn House Office Building. Some of the computers and lights in the building went off, and the WiFi temporarily went down, the person said.
The lights have partially returned in the room, as power outages impacted a floor in the Rayburn House Office Building.
A committee aide told The Post that the power went down in a quadrant of the Rayburn House Office Building. Some of the computers and lights in the building went off, and the WiFi temporarily went down, the person said.
Putin 'supplied' MH17 missile - investigators
By George Wright
BBC News
8 February 2023, 12:31 GMT
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The wreckage of MH17 was painstakingly reassembled in the Netherlands and later inspected as part of the trial
There are strong indications that Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to supply the missile that downed flight MH17 in 2014, international investigators say.
The aircraft was hit by a Russian-made missile over Ukraine, killing nearly 300 people.
Prosecutors said there is evidence that Mr Putin decided to provide the missile to Moscow-backed separatists.
There is no suggestion that Mr Putin ordered the aircraft be shot down.
In November, a Dutch court found three men - two Russians and a Ukrainian - guilty of murder in absentia for their part in the downing of MH17.
The prosecutors said on Wednesday that they had exhausted all leads and could not continue with any more criminal proceedings.
The Boeing 777 was flying from the Dutch capital to Kuala Lumpur when it was hit by a Russian-made surface-to-air missile in July 2014 during a conflict between pro-Russia rebels and Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region of Ukraine.
Of the 298 passengers and crew, 196 were Dutch while many of the other passengers came from Malaysia, Australia, the UK, Belgium and other countries.
In a statement, the Joint Investigation Team said the court ruled that Moscow had "overall control" over the Donetsk People's Republic, which controlled the area in July 2014.
It cited recorded telephone conversations where Russian officials said that the decision to provide military support "rests with the President".
"There is concrete information that the separatists' request was presented to the president, and that this request was granted," it said.
But it adds that is not known whether the request "explicitly mentions" the system used to shoot down MH17.
"Although we speak of strong indications, the high bar of complete and conclusive evidence is not reached," investigators said.
"Furthermore, the President enjoys immunity in his position as Head of State."
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The Dutch Safety Board released an animated video showing the flight path of the plane
The Joint Investigation Team is made up of members from the Netherlands, Australia, Belgium, Malaysia and Ukraine - the countries worst affected by the shooting down of MH17.
The team wanted to prove the identities of the missile's crew members, and who was in the chain of command, but admitted that was not possible for now.
Russia denies all involvement and dismissed last year's Dutch verdict as "scandalous" and politically motivated.
Piet Ploeg lost his brother, his brother's wife, and nephew on MH17. He said he was glad prosecutors had laid out their evidence for Mr Putin's involvement.
"We can't do a lot with it, Putin can't be prosecuted," he told Reuters. "We wanted to know who was ultimately responsible and that's clear."
In January, the European Court of Human Rights confirmed it would hear a separate Dutch case against Russia over the downing of MH17.
