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Islamic State terrorists have begun their promised killing of Christians in Mosul, and they have started with the children. According to a report via CNN, a Chaldean-American businessman has said that killings have started in Mosul and children's heads are being erected on poles in a city park.

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By | December 31, 1969

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Largest Christian settlement in Iraq falls as ISIS kills its way south (PHOTOS)
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | August 7, 2014

Islamic State terrorists have captured the largest Christian city in Iraq and driven tens of thousands of Christians as well as thousands of Yazidis, a religion related to Zoroastrianism. According to reports, many thousands of people are trapped in the mountain regions near the cities of Mosul and Kirkuk without food or water or basic shelter or sanitation, promoting consideration of supply drops.

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The world, and much less the United Nations, cannot stand by with obvious complacency and apathy towards our plight and allow this destruction of these peoples in Iraq. Mere statements of condemnation by the UN, and even of the major countries of the West, are not sufficient! These statements, though taken with gratitude, are not enough to bring an end to these atrocities and to stop this genocide of a religious nature!- Mar Dinkha IV, The Patriarch of Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East

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Josiah Wedgwood was a potter, industrialist and entrepreneur. He was also an abolitionist. He crafted a medallion which bore this inscription - Am I not a man and a brother? It is credited with moving the heart of the United States of America to reject the evil of slavery. It depicted a Black Man, bound by the chains which came from the evil of slavery, pleading for His God Given Right to Freedom. It bore these words, "Am I not a man and a brother?" He sent several of the medallions to Benjamin Franklin in 1788. Franklin gave them to several of his friends and was deeply moved by their response. Franklin wrote back to the designer - I am persuaded it may have an effect equal to that of the best written pamphlet in procuring honor to those oppressed people.

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By | December 31, 1969

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As Moses stipulated regarding the Covenant with God in accordance with the law received on Sinai, so Jesus, from a hill on the shore of Lake Galilee, gives to his disciples and to the crowd a new teaching that begins with the Beatitudes. Moses gave the Law on Sinai and Jesus, the new Moses, gives the Law on that hill, on the shore of Lake Galilee. The Beatitudes are the path that God indicates as an answer to the desire of happiness inherent in man, and perfects the Commandments of the Old Covenant. We are used to learning the Ten Commandments - you certainly all know them, your learned them in catechism - but we are not used to repeating the Beatitudes.- Pope Francis

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Jesus Asks Today: Who Do You Say That I Am?
By Deacon Keith A Fournier | August 7, 2014

The same question is asked of each one of us - WHO DO YOU SAY THAT I AM? It is not just once - but continually. It is meant to inform the response of our entire life. How we answer that question determines who we will become and how we live. It is a question which cannot be answered indirectly, or halfheartedly. It is not enough to rely on what - some say. The question is profoundly personal as well as public. Who is Jesus Christ to ME?

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Stop wasting time on mobile phones, Internet, Pope tells altar servers
By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | August 6, 2014

Meeting 50,000 altar servers, mostly from Germany but also including those from Austria, Switzerland, Lithuania and northern Italy, Pope Francis urged the young faithful what many others have been admonishing them: Get off your mobile phones and stop surfing the Internet!

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By | December 31, 1969

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