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Israeli settler attacks on church sanctities in Palestine continue amid lax international response – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

The Church of All Nations built on the land of Gethsemane in East Jerusalem survived Dec. 4 an attempted arson attack. An Israeli settler had lit a fire inside the church before it was quickly extinguished, causing only minor damages.

With the help of young Jerusalemites, the church guard managed to catch the settler before he escaped and turned him over to the Israeli police.

Hamza Ajaj, a 30-year-old Jerusalemite who lives next to the church, was an eyewitness to the attempted arson attack. Ajaj told Al-Monitor, “I was sitting in front of my house at around 2 p.m. when I saw the church guard, who is also a friend of mine, running outside the church. So I ran after him to check what was going on. He told me that a settler set fire to the church and ran away.”

Ajaj added, “The settler took advantage of the fact that there were no worshippers and tourists in the church — which is closed as part of the coronavirus-related measures — to break into the place and pour a flammable substance on the church’s wooden benches and set it alight before fleeing. We were able to catch him and hand him over to the Israeli police.”

Source: Israeli settler attacks on church sanctities in Palestine continue amid lax international response – Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

Colonialismo del 21 ° secolo: implementato da corporazioni e ONG? Di chi è in gioco la sopravvivenza qui, Survival? La sopravvivenza delle foreste pluviali e delle popolazioni indigene o di Cartier e altri nel settore della gioielleria di lusso in oro e diamanti? — Barbara Crane Navarro

21st Century Colonialism: Implemented by Corporations and NGOs? Whose survival is at stake here, Survival? The survival of rainforests and indigenous peoples or Cartier and others in the luxury gold and diamond jewelry industry?

Originally posted on Barbara Crane Navarro: pubblicità di Cartier “La follia dell’uomo ha aumentato il valore dell’oro e dell’argento a causa della loro scarsità; mentre la natura, come un genitore amorevole, ci ha donato gratuitamente le cose migliori, come l’aria, la terra e l’acqua, ma ci ha nascosto quelle vane e inutili. “Thomas More,”Utopia“, libro…

Colonialismo del 21 ° secolo: implementato da corporazioni e ONG? Di chi è in gioco la sopravvivenza qui, Survival? La sopravvivenza delle foreste pluviali e delle popolazioni indigene o di Cartier e altri nel settore della gioielleria di lusso in oro e diamanti? — Barbara Crane Navarro

Pećka patrijaršija

History of the monastery of Pec Patriarchate

Myrela

Još za života Svetog Save, na mjestu gdje je danas Pećka patrijaršija, osnovan je metoh manastira Žiče. Arhiepiskop Arsenije, nasljednik Svetog Save, podigao je na žičkom vlastelinstvu crkvu Svetih Apostola u Peći i prenio sjedište arhiepiskopije u Peć. Oko 1260. godine crkva je živopisana. Sa sjeverne strane ovog najstarijeg hrama u pećkom kompleksu, arhiepiskop Nikodim je oko 1320. godine podigao crkvu Svetog Dimitrija. Njegov nasljednik arhiepiskop Danilo, poznati književnik, sagradio je oko 1330. godine sa južne strane Svetih Apostola hram posvećen Bogorodici Odigitriji, da bi njemu pridodao sa južne strane i crkvicu Svetog Nikole. Ispred tri hrama arhiepiskop Danilo Drugi podigao je monumentalnu pripratu, a ispred nje pirg. U vrijeme arhiepiskopa Joanikija, 1345. godine, hram Svetog Dimitrija je živopisan.

Poslije turskog osvajanja srpske države, manastir Pećka patrijaršija je u teškom stanju. Godine 1485. u manastiru je sedam kaluđera. Obnavljanjem patrijaršije 1557. godine, manastir ponovo postaje duhovno sjedište gdje stoluje patrijarh…

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Homecoming…

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I build. I break. I love. I berate. 

When birds build a home, they travel far… far away to distant lands. They fly to the highest branch of their favorite tree, only to find a void left unhealed, just for them.

How do you know if you weren’t shying away from healing that one last wound in your heart in the wait for your person to come back home and caress it?

Someone once called love the greatest healer of all times. Years later, poets began writing verses about how love broke them. So, is love a beautiful irony that breaks you and heals you in the same moment, or do we admire our scars so much that breaking away from them is the kind of bereavement we can’t take?

Four walls, two windows, and a heart. That is all it takes to build…

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Just One Cookie #Christmas #Joy

penned in moon dust

He really wasn’t a Scrooge he just didn’t like giving gifts.

He wasn’t a mean guy he just didn’t like people.

Then there came a day when a little boy maybe 2 or 3 rushed up to this man who had seen the underside of war and needed a bottle to sober him.

“Mister, mister please come look at the tree with me. I love lights.” Before the man could object the little boy grabbed the man and pulled him down the hallway toward the Christmas tree.

Many of the vets who lived at the hospital were sharing eggnog and cookies.

“I love Christmas cookies.” The little’s boy’s eyes lit up.

“Well let us have some then my friend.” The man’s face was less pinched.

I watched as my little boy sat on the lap of this man. He couldnt stop talkign and the man didnt seem to mind the…

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Making Almond Milk Kefir for the First Time

Foundation Operation X for Languages, Cultures and Perspectives

Written by Dyami Millarson

It is many years ago now that we had water kefir and milk kefir at home in Leeuwarden. There was a discount on kefir starter in my local ecological supermarket a little while ago, so I decided to give it a try. Yesterday was the first time I made almond milk kefir. In fact, it was probably the first time that I ever made kefir on my own. I was already quite familiar with the process because I had observed countless times how my father made new batches of kefir.

I used a 2 euro coin in all of the pictures to show the scale. There were 3 sachets of kefir starter in the box. I used one of the sachets on Sunday 13 December 2020.

There was a two-sided instruction manual in Dutch which I read. It said it is possible to use almond milk…

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