Sunday 7 August 2016

Words for spiritual strength to endure

Paul tells us,
 “whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope” (Romans 15:4).

 These precious words are designed and have been preserved by God to give us the spiritual strength to endure.

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Tuesday 2 August 2016

Maleizen convent Sint-Ignatius school under watchful eyes



One month before schools start we wonder what is going to happen to the very conservative Catholic school in Overijse.

Located in the Maleizen convent Sint-Ignatius was officially recognised by the government in November 2015. Because it had fewer than 83 students the shcool did not receive subsidies.

The school has been the cause of some concern in the region, however, because it bases its religion lessons on the Mechelse Catechism, which was published for the last time in 1954. Flanders’ Catholic education network and the archdiocese of Mechelen and Brussels – the most senior of Belgium’s Catholic hierarchy – have now spoken out against the school’s curriculum, saying that it is dangerously outdated.

The founders of Sint-Ignatius, on the other hand, have publicly denounced regular Catholic schools because they allow “atheists and Muslims to teach” and their teachers “encourage the use of contraception”.

Crevits had arranged a second visit by education inspectors to Sint-Ignatius, and also asked the education department’s Management Commission to determine whether the school’s criticism of the Catholic education network constitutes an “attack”. A government circular explicitly forbids school managements to attack other education providers.

Monday 1 August 2016

French authorities have shut down around 20 mosques and prayer halls

PARIS (AFP) – French authorities have shut down around 20 mosques and prayer halls considered to be preaching radical Islam since December, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday.
”There is no place … in France for those who call for and incite hatred in prayer halls or in mosques, and who don’t respect certain republican principles, notably equality between men and women,” the minister said.
“That is why I took the decision a few months ago to close mosques through the state of emergency, legal measures or administrative measures. About 20 mosques have been closed, and there will be others.”
Cazeneuve confirmed that authorities were working on a French foundation for Islam which would guarantee total transparency in financing of mosques “with rigorous respect for secular principles.”

Imam at a Cardiff mosque preaches you can take captives and own sex slaves

Saudi Arabia’s religious scholars are the ultimate authority on the verification of Islamic materials that Muslims worldwide read, follow, teach and promote. The Saudis spread their approved doctrines throughout the world.

Ali Hammuda, an Imam at a Cardiff mosque where three young jihadis from the city worshipped before travelling to Syria to join Islamic State, told the group of boys as young as 13 that the ‘day of judgment is close’ – a key part of IS’s warped propaganda.

The teachings that cleric Ali Hammuda is propagating has been approved and cleared right from Mecca. In other words, parallel with British law and society there is a Saudi culture and legal system building momentum in the city of Cardiff where that Imam is also preaching things which are not according to our Western values.

Many may not understand that radicalising authority is till allowed to teach in Great Britain.

He tells those who come by him for guidance to what the Prophet says one of the Doomsday signs will be when a slave girl gives birth to her master:
‘One of the interpretations as to what this means is that towards the end of time there will be many wars like what we are seeing today, and because of these wars women will be taken as captives, as slaves, yeah, women will be taken as slaves.

When wars go on  often we can see that children and women are degraded and used as sex slaves. But that does not mean we have to agree with that or to find it normal. but in this teacher his interpretation of the Hadith, coming near the end it will be acceptable that children will come to treat their mothers like slaves and that it is permissible
to have relations with a woman who is your slave or your wife.
 he said.

At no point does Hammuda, who was born in Palestine but brought up in the UK, point out that slavery is no longer permitted in Islam, nor indeed that it is illegal in the UK.

Hammuda, in white, is the English Islamic programmes officer at Cardiff’s Al-Manar Mosque. His Halaqa – or study circle – are advertised on posters stating Keep Calm And Come To Halaqa


Read more about it: >
UK: Muslim cleric teach Islamic law: ‘Yes, you can take captives and own sex slaves’

Belgisch priester neergestoken


The priest who was stabbed in his own home has been named locally as 65 year old Jos Vanderlee (pictured)Zondag namiddag kreeg de 65 jarige Belgische priester een asielzoeker op bezoek. Deze vroeg om zich te kunnen wassen waarop de priester hem toe liet een stortbad te nemen.

Enkele dagen nadat de Franse katholieke priester Jacques Hamel ter dood werd gestoken door twee mannen die trouw hadden beloofd om de Islamitische Staat is er in het Noorden van België ook een priester neergestoken.

In Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandië, Frankrijk was er eerder, op dinsdag, de 85-jarige predikant die in zijn kerk met enkele gelovigen werd gegijzeld door twee tieners. Adel Kermiche en Abdel Malik Nabil Petitjean, beiden 19, name vijf gijzelaars voordat ze de keel van de priester drastisch doorsneden aan het altaar.


De priester is verantwoordelijk voor acht Lanakende parochies en werd eerder deze maand nog gevierd voor zijn 40-jarig priesterschap.

Toen de asielzoeker de priester geld trachtte te ontfutselen ontstond een schermutseling waarop de  overvaller de pastoor daarbij met een mes verwondde. Het slachtoffer raakte gewond aan handen en pezen. De dader sloeg vervolgens op de vlucht.

Pastoor Vanderlee werd naar het ziekenhuis in Genk gebracht voor een operatie. Hij verkeert niet in levensgevaar.

English version / Engelse versie: Belgian priest stabbed at his home in Lanaken