Your Weekly “Must Read” of Religious and World News

 

VATICAN CITY

Pope Francis: “Children are never a mistake”
 
ALETEIA

 

Vatican newspaper publishes article decrying radical French secularism — 
L’Osservatore Romano has published an article denouncing the decision by RATP, France’s state-owned public transit company, to remove the words
“for the benefit of Eastern Christians” from 250 posters advertising a concert for persecuted Eastern Christians 
CATHOLIC CULTURE

 

"Those who abandon Vatican II are killing themselves" — Cardinal João Braz de Aviz 
NCR   CNA

 

Pope Francis addresses the Patriarchal Synod of the Armenian Catholic Church 
VATICAN NEWS

 

Francis sends rosaries and Easter cakes to Iraqi Christians 
CNA

 

NORTH AMERICA

Conservative Christians in Indiana may have accidentally protected Wiccans’ religious right to plural marriage, drugs and nudity
 — ("Conservative" Christians are fighting for subscription to the Scriptural truths which have held America together since she became a nation. The options available are few, and everything would appear to be against them. We need to pray for one another during these times of endless battles) 
TDB

 

Obama rejects Netanyahu’s call for Iran to recognize Israel — This week, President Obama casually rejected the Israeli Prime Minister’s call for Iran to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist as part of US-led nuclear negotiations 
BREITBART

 

Left-wing politicians declare Indiana open for business after state caves on religious liberty 
LIFE SITE

 

US and Iran already fighting over details of supposed nuclear "agreement" 
THE BLAZE

 

JP Morgan CEO warns of Treasury shortage — (When outfits like JPM start saying things like this, you can be fairly certain that "something" is going to hit the economy) 
USA TODAY

 

The New America: A look at the lifestyle of America’s train-hoppers 
DAILY MAIL

 

Obama criticizes "less-than-loving" Christians 
WASHINGTON TIMES

 

“You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war” 
SHOEBAT

 

Obama’s priority: Installing "LGBT" restrooms in the White House 
POLITICO

 

Anti-Christian America: Journalists have an "anti-parenting bias," confesses NYT managing editor  
CHRISTIAN POST

 

Dick Cheney declares Obama "Worst President America has ever had" 
DAILY CALLER

 

Mother of Boston Marathon bomber says "America is the REAL terrorist" 
DAILY MAIL

 

American priest named bishop of southern Italian Melkite diocese — A Melkite Catholic priest from the Eparchy of Newton, Mass., has been named to head a diocese in the southern Italian region of Sicily 
CNH

 

Chinese nuclear subs represent potential threat, says Admiral William Gortney of the US Northern Command 
WFB

 

 

Police State America: Man sentenced to jail for overgrown lawn 
IWC

 

First Church of Cannabis approved after Indiana’s religious freedom law was passed 
WASHINGTON POST

New York Times runs Easter story suggesting resurrection didn’t happen 
ALETEIA

Irish priest who changed Catholic tithing is remembered in Mobile as "beloved pastor" 
ALABAMA

Intolerant America: Maine coach loses job over open letter to Obama 
TUNDRA

Catholic Mass for single parents to be held April 19 in Metairie 
NOLA

Rev. Robert Schuller dies at 88 
CATHOLIC PHILLY

The New America: Gay sex is the new religion 
ONE NEWS

Glenn Beck warns of coming Christian holocaust — "We said we would never let the world fall into such darkness again, and yet here we stand" 
CHARISMA

USA, 25% more priests in 2015 
VATICAN INSIDER

Montreal Cardinal Jean-Claude Turcotte passes away aged 78 
THE STAR

 

LATIN AMERICA

Murderous Mexico: 

15 police officers killed in ambush in western Mexico
 
REUTERS

 

US seeks extradition of suspect from El Salvador over murder of five Spanish Jesuits 
TODAY

 

Armed gang steals $8.5 million of gold from Mexican mine 
BLOOMBERG

 

Church in El Salvador debates whether to make deal with murderous gangs  
CRUX

 

Mass Catholic graves found in Mexico 
ALETEIA

 

ISRAEL

Iran’s "zero breakout" sooner than later 
— Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran’s breakout time for nuclear weapons production begins when the framework agreement is finalized, not in 13 or 14 years as President Barack Obama has said  
CBN

 

ISIS raids Palestinian camp and begins to fulfill Netanyahu’s prophecy — The Islamic State has taken control over most of a Palestinian refugee camp in Syria from a rival terrorist group in what is a major step towards confirming Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s warning that aspects of the Palestinian Authority would fall under the control of ISIS 
JEWISH PRESS

 

Jewish rabbi warns of troubling times ahead — Rabbi Amram Vaknin, who predicted the events of the Gaza flotilla and the Carmel forest fire in 2010, and Operation Pillar of Defense (2012) and Protective Edge (2014), warns that Israel is facing great judgment and potential danger at this time. Vaknin also predicted that the 44th US president would bring bloodshed to the Jewish people 
BIN

 

Obama mocks Netanyahu’s "Red Line" illustration with misleading and inaccurate graphic  
JEWISH PRESS

 

Israelis pray for God’s blessing over nation 
ISRAEL TODAY

 

Muslims chase Jews off Temple Mount 
JEWISH PRESS

 

Iran aiding Hamas to acquire attack drones 
JERUSALEM POST

 

Palestinian terrorist stabs two Israeli solders in West Bank 
AP

 

RUSSIA

Russia hacks White House
 
CNN

 

What ARE the Russians up to? — NATO fears grow over why "research vessels" sent by Moscow have taken over mothballed secret Arctic base in mountain hideaway 
DAILY MAIL

 

RECOMMENDED ON ALETEIA

Kenyan Students Asked for Prayers Before al Shabaab Shot Them
 — Details emerge of victims of Holy Thursday attack

 

University Recruits Women and Girls for Late-Term Abortion Bleeding Experiment — Females as young as 14 have been recruited since October 

 

Progressives Spurn Science in Denying Emotional Harm Caused by Same-Sex Parenting — Gay advocates are going ballistic and ignoring the research

 

BRITAIN & IRELAND

Non-Christian Britain: 

Christianity now written off as fixation with "sky pixie"
 says Michael Gove — Christians in Britain are being cowed into hiding their faith for fear of being viewed as a “bigots” and “accessories to child abuse” or simply fools obsessed with “genuflecting before a sky pixie,” according to MP Michael Gove (I think this says more about the integrity of Britain’s members of Parliament than anything constructive about faith) 
DAILY TELEGRAPH

 

The Bishop of Banks! — Bishop joins effort to restore faith in UK banking system (It will take considerably more than one Anglican bishop to restore people’s faith in British banking. The world’s banking system (as some are aware) is utterly corrupt) 
FINANCIAL TIMES

 

Britain discovers 100 billion barrels of oil in largest onshore find in 30 years 
DAILY MAIL

 

In contrast to Obama, Cameron praises Christianity at Easter 
ALETEIA

 

Islamic Britain: 
Attacks on Muslims will become specific hate crime in Britain 
DAILY MAIL

 

Builder in Inverness finds full-length figure of Christ in a snapped scaffolding board 
DAILY MAIL

 

Calls for Easter weekend dates to be fixed so it falls at the same time every year amid claims it would be a boost for the economy 
DAILY MAIL

 

The New Britain: 
Study finds watching porn is "normal" for a shockingly high number of British children  
LIFE SITE

 

Meet the cyber nun who has 15,000 followers on Twitter 
MALVERN GAZETTE

 

Islamic Britain: 
British Islamic group with links to extremists boasts of its influence over some 30 seats in the UK’s upcoming election 
DAILY MAIL

Anti-Christian Britain: 
Tribuanal rules against Christian employee who offered to pray for Muslim colleague 
CHRISTIAN TODAY

Sunderland priest cancels Easter Mass to watch football match — (As least now his congregation know where his priorities lie) 
CHRONICLE

British Muslim teens see ISIS thugs as "pop idols" 
GUARDIAN

Cost of bank scandals hits £39billion — (Most of the world’s major banks are utterly corrupt)  
DAILY MAIL

Syria carries out assassination in London 
DAILY MAIL

Church choir of landmark St. Peter and St. Paul’s in Suffolk quits in protest over sacking of music director 
DAILY MAIL

The changing face of marriage in the Catholic Church 
IRISH TIMES

Scottish Catholic Church faces major structural change due to unprecedented decline 
CHRISTIAN TODAY

Major gathering of Catholic Church reform groups in Limerick next week 
IRISH TIMES

 

EUROPE

Anti-Semitic attack in Ukraine
 
JERUSALEM POST

 

Romanian gang sold newborn baby for £6,500 and a BMW 
DAILY MAIL

 

Muslim attacks Jewish leader with weighted chain in "moderate" Bosnia 
JWO

 

Dutch football fans chant "Burn the Jews and send them to the gas chambers" 
INDEPENDENT

 

Slovakia: Nun stabs boy in hand in attempt to demonstrate sufferings of Christ 
METRO

 

Gunman kills judge and witness after going on rampage at court in Milan where he faced bankruptcy charges 
DAILY MAIL

 

Roman plans for prostitutes upsets sex workers and Catholic Church 
NPR 

 

AFRICA

The aftermath of Islam’s cowardly and wicked massacre in Kenya
 
DAILY MAIL

 

"Kenya’s cities will run red with blood," promises Al Shabaab 
STAR TRIBUNE

 

Kenya: Armed guards protecting Easter congregations after Islamist attack — Kenyan churches used armed guards to protect their congregations over Easter after terrorists from Al Shabaab  
CHRISTIAN TODAY

 

Libyan diplomat slams Obama for letting country fall to terrorists 
WASHINGTON TIMES

 

Chibok girls likely to have been slaughtered in Bama, says UN 
TDL

 

Islamic terror group Boko Haram kill 24 after disguising themselves as clerics 
CHRISTIAN NEWS

 

60,000 Nigerians flee Boko Haram for Cameroon 
CATHOLIC CULTURE

 

More Egyptian Coptic Christians come under attack 
NATIONAL REVIEW

 

Pastor’s daughter killed in Islamic attack on church in Nigeria 
CHRISTIAN TODAY

 

Copt tells how Muslims beheaded his cousin in front of family 
SHOEBAT

 

MIDDLE EAST

Iran transfers millions to Hamas for reconstruction of terror tunnels
 
JERUSALEM POST

 

“Iran today has become an empire, as it was throughout history, and its capital is now Baghdad in Iraq,” 
says senior adviser to Hassan Rouhan — Yes, you heard right, Tehran is declaring that Baghdad is its capital  
SHOEBAT

 

Iran Holocaust cartoon contest receives hundreds of submissions — Over 300 artists from Iran and countries such as France and China have sent entries for the openly anti-Semitic, holocaust-denying competition 
i24

 

Iran says Saudi-led airstrikes a "mistake" — (Look for rising tension between Iran and Saudi Arabia) 
AP

 

Iran deploys destroyer to Yemen amidst growing Iranian-Saudi tensions 
USA TODAY

 

Yemen in throes of humanitarian catastrophe 
RADIO VATICANA

 

THE ISIS FILES

Graves of 1,700 ISIS victims discovered in Iraq
 
DAILY MAIL

 

ISIS blows up historic Syrian Church at Easter 
BREITBART

 

Interrogated then beheaded and crucified: Depraved ISIS militants execute four men accused of stealing 
DAILY MAIL

 

ISIS launches English radio 
AP

 

ISIS kill 52 (mainly police) in Iraq 
CNN

 

ASIA & CHINA

Christian journalists being targeted in Pakistan 

VATICAN INSIDER

 

Hundreds of fishermen race to be rescued from remote Indonesian island after being held captive to catch fish for Western restaurants 
DAILY MAIL

 

Three millions pilgrims visit Philippine shrine during Holy Week 
INQUIRER

 

Our cruel world: Chinese boy aged 9 whipped by adoptive mother 
DAILY MAIL

 

FAMILY MATTERS

Pope says children are never a mistake 
— Children are never a “mistake” and no sacrifice is too great for an adult to make so that children can feel their worth, Pope Francis has said 
CATHOLIC HERALD

 

New British law plans to protect children from online sleaze 
DAILY MAIL

 

More teens using long-acting birth control 
WASHINGTON EXAMINER

 

Obama calls for end to gay conversion therapy — (What Obama actually wants is for an end to gay conversion, period) 
ALETEIA

 

ADDITIONAL REPORTS

Muslim population projected to almost match Christian by 2050
 — The world’s Islamic population is growing so rapidly that by 2050, the number of Muslims will be nearly equal to the number of Christians 
WSJ

 

Huge increase in foreign fighters joining terrorist groups worldwide 
TOWNHALL

 

Ayaan Hirsi Ali proposes 5 changes to Islam that could help lead its religious reformation 
CHRISTIAN POST

 

"Are You Muslim or Christian? Death to Christians!" 
RAYMOND IBRAHIM

 

Bible replaces God with name of rapper Kanye West 
GOSPEL HERALD

 

Why Obama’s all-out attack on Christians should concern you 
CHARISMA

 

The systematic economic destruction of American families 
IWC

 

A slow-motion Christian genocide: We can’t ignore it anymore — Yet again the world is presented with the horrific specter of human butchery and barbaric savagery perpetrated by radical Islamist jihadists 
CHRISTIAN POST

 

An atheist stops in for Easter Mass at suburban Roman Catholic church  
GATEWAY

 

Behold, the Cathedral Basilica of St. Louis, Hidden Gem of the Midwest 
CPC

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