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Dear Ron,
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January 1 - Same-sex marriage ceremonies begin in Maryland
Article: Perilous Times
Same-sex couples in
Maryland were greeted
with cheers and noisemakers held over from New Year's Eve parties, as gay
marriage became legal in the first state south of the Mason-Dixon Line on
New Year's Day.
Brigitte Ronnett, who also was married, said she
hopes one day to see full federal
recognition of same-sex marriage. Maryland, Maine and Washington state were
the first states to approve same-sex marriage by popular vote, in November,
a development Ronnett said was significant.
"I think it's a great sign when
you see that popular opinion is now in favor of this,"
said Ronnett, 51, who married Lisa Walther, 51, at City Hall.
Shortly after, Archbishop Edwin O'Brien of Baltimore wrote
to O'Malley that same-sex marriage went against the governor's faith.
"As advocates for the truths we are compelled to uphold,
we speak with equal intensity and urgency in opposition to your promoting a
goal that so deeply conflicts with your faith, not to mention the best
interests of our society," wrote O'Brien, who served as archbishop of the
nation's first diocese from October 2007 to August 2011.
The governor was not persuaded.
He held a news conference in July 2011 to
announce that he would make same-sex marriage a priority in the 2012
legislative session. He wrote back to the archbishop that "when shortcomings
in our laws bring about a result that is unjust, I have a public obligation
to try to change that injustice."
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January 1 - Egypt official: Israel will be wiped out in a decade
Article: Israel And The Last Days
Muslim
Brotherhood official and advisor to the Egyptian president, Essam al-Aryan
has spent the past few days trying to explain what he meant when he called
on Jews to return to Egypt.
The London-based
newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported Tuesday
that al-Aryan estimated that the State of Israel
will be wiped out within a decade.
The Muslim Brotherhood
official, who also serves as the Freedom and Justice Party's deputy
chairman, explained on his Facebook account
that Jews must return to Egypt in order to make room
for Palestinian refugees. "Palestine houses people who conquered it and
those occupiers have previous homelands," he wrote.
He added
that Israel is destined to collapse. "There will be no such thing as Israel,
instead there will be Palestine which will be home to Jews, Muslims and
Druze
and all of the people who were there from the start.
"Those who want to stay will stay as Palestinian citizens. Those who
conquered Palestine will have to go back to their countries."
On Thursday, al-Aryan
said that the return of Egyptian Jews to
Israel will enable Palestinians to return to their homeland. "Every Egyptian
has a right to return especially if he is making room for a Palestinian. I
want to enable the Palestinians to return to their land," he said. "I call
upon the Jews, Egypt is worthier of you than Israel."
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January 3 - 'Lost Tribe's' Return to Israel Fulfilling Prophecy?
Article: Israel And The Last Days
A "lost tribe" has come home to Israel and the return
could be part of biblical prophecy.
CBN News was at
Ben Gurion Airport when more than 50
members of the Bnei Menashe tribe made history.
The group was just the first of a long-awaited migration. Nearly
2,000 tribe members live in Israel, but five years ago the government
stopped their return.
"I feel like I'm home," one tribe member said.
A
recent decision now permits all the
Bnei Menashe, about 7,000, to return.
"The ten tribes may have been lost to us
for many centuries, but they were never lost in terms of their
identity," Michael Freund, with Shavai Israel, told
CBN News.
The Assyrian Empire exiled the tribe of Manassah almost 3,000
years ago. Although they settled in northeast India, tribe members kept
their Jewish roots for more than 2,000 years.
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We hope the Weekly News In Review has been a
blessing to you.
Sincerely,
Roger Oakland
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