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The Weekly News In
Review
Newsletter is a
compilation of the news articles that have appeared
on the Understand The Times website during the
previous week.
We have chosen the 15 most important articles
for 2006 in our "Year In Review 2006" . You can read
these by clicking on the link below:
http://www.understandthetimes.org/yir2006.shtml
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January 23, 2007 - Iran: Israel, US will soon die
Article: Wars And Rumors Of Wars
Ahmadinejad: Be
assured that the US and Israel will soon
end
lives
Yaakov
Lappin
Israel and the United
States will soon be destroyed,
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said
Tuesday during a meeting with
Syria's foreign minister, the Islamic
Republic of Iran Broadcasting
(IRIB) website said in a report. Iran's
official FARS news agency also
reported the comments.
"Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad... assured that the
United States and the Zionist regime of
Israel will soon come to the end of
their lives," the Iranian president
was quoted as saying.
"Sparking discord among
Muslims, especially between the
Shiites and Sunnis, is a plot hatched by
the Zionists and the US for
dominating regional nations and looting
their resources,"
Ahmadinejad added, according to the report.
...Syria's Foreign
Minister, Wailed Mualem, accused
the US of attempting to carry out a
"massacre of Muslims"
and of sowing "discord among Islamic faiths in
the
region."
Mualem called on "regional
states to pave the ground for the
establishment of peace and
tranquillity... while preventing
further genocide of the Muslims," the
IRIB website said.
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January 23, 2007 - Nun's The Word
Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days
Italy's
surge in women religious hints at a
wider renewal. Cardinal praises the
"vitality and dynamism" and
"profound faith and
fervor" of Italian convents.
BY
EDWARD PENTIN
Vocations to female contemplative
orders in
Italy are booming, according to
the Italian bishops' conference.
In
2005, 300 women took their solemn
profession of vows, bringing the
number of contemplatives in the country
to 6,672.
..."The number of
contemplative religious
sisters is growing throughout the world,
but - and this is more significant -
this is also happening in Europe
and in our own Italy, which often
seems so hardest hit secularization,"
he said.
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January 29, 2007 - "Lectio Divina" Is Central to Ecumenism, Says Pope
Article: Ecumenical Movement - Misc.
VATICAN CITY, JAN. 26, 2007 (Zenit.org).-
Listening to the word of God is a
priority for ecumenism, said Benedict
XVI at the close of the Week of
Prayer for Christian Unity.
"The Church does not 'make'
herself and does not live of herself, but of
the creative word that issues from
the mouth of God," the Pope said
Thusday at the ecumenical
celebration of vespers, held in the Basilica
of St. Paul Outside the Walls.
The Holy
Father suggested that to proceed on the
path to Christian unity it is
necessary to "listen together to the word
of God; to practice 'lectio divina'
of the Bible," and to "allow
oneself to be surprised by the
novelty, which never grows old and is
never exhausted, of the word of
God."
Comment from Understand
The Times:
Lectio Divina defined:
An ancient form of
meditation on scripture where one reads very
slowly through a text
until a word or phrase lights up and attracts
the reader. The text is
then laid aside and the phrase is repeated
in the heart...without
analysis.
Lectio divina, is a form
of eastern mysticism.
This is what Pope Benedict believes will
assist in bringing about
ecumenism. Lectio divina is also being
promoted by leaders of
the Emerging Church movement as a means of
getting closer to God.
Rooted in the occult, such methods open the
door to the gods (the
fallen spiritual dimension).
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We hope the Weekly News In Review has been a
blessing to you.
In Jesus,
Roger Oakland
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