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20050719
Craziness!!!
I found this on MSNBC.com I was wondering...how 'bout celebs weigh in on bloggers who are always critizing them and how much intervention they (the bloggers) need.
Craziness!
Article excerpt taken from MSBNC.com Click on text to view whole article.
Our readers intervene
We picked 7 celebs who need help; --you had a long list of others. We had our own list, but Tara Reid was one of many on your list of celebs who could use some help. And a very long list it was.
When we picked seven celebrities who need some intervention, we considered the possibility (for about 10 seconds) that maybe we just needed to cut them some slack.
As you'll see below, what we thought about Katie (and by extension, Tom, since they are now a fused pair) paled in comparison to the bold-faced, capital-letter advice some of you had for them.
Craziness!
Article excerpt taken from MSBNC.com Click on text to view whole article.
Our readers intervene
We picked 7 celebs who need help; --you had a long list of others. We had our own list, but Tara Reid was one of many on your list of celebs who could use some help. And a very long list it was.
When we picked seven celebrities who need some intervention, we considered the possibility (for about 10 seconds) that maybe we just needed to cut them some slack.
As you'll see below, what we thought about Katie (and by extension, Tom, since they are now a fused pair) paled in comparison to the bold-faced, capital-letter advice some of you had for them.
Terri revisited???
I wonder if this is going to trun into another type of Terri Schiavo type of case?
Article excerpt taken from CNN.com
Click on text to view whole article.
Parents in refused chemo case sue Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- The parents of a boy once at the center of a fierce battle over orders to treat his cancer with chemotherapy are suing the state, its child welfare system and a hospital where he was treated.
Daren and Barbara Jensen are asking for unspecified damages for emotional distress in the case, which prompted them to temporarily flee the state with the child. The lawsuit filed late Monday also names four doctors who diagnosed their son, a state social worker and a lawyer.
The Jensens claim they had the right to direct care for their son and to refuse medical treatments. They contend the state violated those rights when it sought custody of then-12-year-old Parker to force medical care under the guidance of physicians his parents had not selected.
Article excerpt taken from CNN.com
Click on text to view whole article.
Parents in refused chemo case sue Utah
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (AP) -- The parents of a boy once at the center of a fierce battle over orders to treat his cancer with chemotherapy are suing the state, its child welfare system and a hospital where he was treated.
Daren and Barbara Jensen are asking for unspecified damages for emotional distress in the case, which prompted them to temporarily flee the state with the child. The lawsuit filed late Monday also names four doctors who diagnosed their son, a state social worker and a lawyer.
The Jensens claim they had the right to direct care for their son and to refuse medical treatments. They contend the state violated those rights when it sought custody of then-12-year-old Parker to force medical care under the guidance of physicians his parents had not selected.
Death of a soldier...
Article excerpt taken from CNN.com Click on text to view full article.
Vietnam-era commander Westmoreland dead
Retired Army general was 91
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) -- Retired Gen. William Westmoreland, who commanded American troops in Vietnam -- the nation's longest conflict and the only war America lost -- died Monday night. He was 91.
Westmoreland died of natural causes at Bishop Gadsden retirement home, where he had lived with his wife for several years, said his son, James Ripley Westmoreland.
The silver-haired, jut-jawed officer, who rose through the ranks quickly in Europe during World War II and later became superintendent of West Point, contended the United States did not lose the conflict in Southeast Asia.
"It's more accurate to say our country did not fulfill its commitment to South Vietnam," he said. "By virtue of Vietnam, the U.S. held the line for 10 years and stopped the dominoes from falling."
Vietnam-era commander Westmoreland dead
Retired Army general was 91
CHARLESTON, South Carolina (AP) -- Retired Gen. William Westmoreland, who commanded American troops in Vietnam -- the nation's longest conflict and the only war America lost -- died Monday night. He was 91.
Westmoreland died of natural causes at Bishop Gadsden retirement home, where he had lived with his wife for several years, said his son, James Ripley Westmoreland.
The silver-haired, jut-jawed officer, who rose through the ranks quickly in Europe during World War II and later became superintendent of West Point, contended the United States did not lose the conflict in Southeast Asia.
"It's more accurate to say our country did not fulfill its commitment to South Vietnam," he said. "By virtue of Vietnam, the U.S. held the line for 10 years and stopped the dominoes from falling."
20050717
Update on London bombing...
~This article is taken from WHDH-TV(channel 7 news-Boston, MA) web site. Copyright laws apply.~
This article gives an update of what is going on in the investigation of the recent bombing in London. My prayers go out to everyone in London and Great Britian.
Search For Evidence In London Attacks Widens As Blair Warns Of `Evil Ideology'; Suspected Bomber Has Family In Dorchester
LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister Tony Blair warned on Saturday that an "evil ideology" of Islamic extremism was bent on spreading terror through the West, and authorities on three continents widened investigations into the London terrorist bombings. The number of people confirmed dead rose to 55.
Police in the northern city of Leeds searched an Islamic shop, the home of an Egyptian biochemist and a third address for more evidence after investigators reportedly found traces of explosives in the Egyptian's bathtub.
Also, police moved the twisted wreckage of the double-decker bus where one of the bombers and 13 other people died. The bus became a symbol of the capital's worst attack since World War II. Londoners and tourists stopped to watch as police used a flatbed truck to haul away the tangled wreckage for forensic testing.
Police also released an image captured by surveillance cameras showing all four bombers with backpacks entering the train station in Luton, north of London, on the morning of the July 7 attacks. Investigators say the four took a train from Luton to London's King's Cross station, where they split up to carry out the bombings.
The Sunday Times reported that one of the suspected attackers, 30-year-old Mohammad Sidique Khan, was scrutinized last year by the MI5, Britain's domestic secret service, but was not regarded as a threat to national security or put under surveillance. The scrutiny came during an inquiry into an alleged plot to explode a truck bomb outside a target in London, the paper said. The inquiry looked at hundreds of potential suspects, it said.
The Metropolitan Police declined to comment on the report, and spokesmen at the Home Office, which deals with queries about national security, were not immediately available Saturday night.
The hunt for clues pointing to those who recruited, financed and supplied the four suicide bombers who blew up three underground trains and the bus focused on the men's ties to Pakistan. Authorities in Islamabad said they questioned students, teachers and administrators at one of two religious schools believed visited by one of the suspects.
Asad Farooq, a spokesman for the school, told The Associated Press that intelligence agents had been there Saturday but denied that the suspect, Shahzad Tanweer, had ever been at the school. British investigators say Tanweer, 22, carried out the bombing of the London Underground's Aldgate station.
Senior Pakistani intelligence officials said authorities were examining a possible connection between Tanweer and two al-Qaida-linked militant groups.
ABC television reported Saturday that the FBI was looking into possible ties between unidentified people in New Jersey and a Jamaican-born Briton, whom British authorities formally identified for the first time Saturday as Germaine Lindsay, 19. The Jamaican-born Lindsay has family in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Police said he died in the worst of the suicide attacks -- a subway bomb that killed at least 26 people between the King's Cross and Russell Square stations.
FBI spokesman Ed Cogswell said Saturday the agency had no comment on any pending investigations.
Authorities raised the death toll from 54 to 55 after an injured victim died overnight at a hospital. About 700 people were injured in the morning rush-hour attacks, and police said more than 40 people remained hospitalized, at least six of them in critical condition.
In a speech in central London Saturday, Blair said authorities were facing an "evil ideology" in their struggle against Islamic terrorism.
"The greatest danger is that we fail to face up to the nature of the threat that we're dealing with," he said. "And what we are confronting here is an evil ideology. ... It is a battle of ideas, of hearts and of minds, both within Islam and outside it."
Police began searching a property in Leeds a few streets away from Tanweer's home Saturday afternoon, posting guards outside the entrance and wrapping the building to block the view to outsiders. West Yorkshire police declined to comment on the raid.
Investigators also continued searching a shop called Iqra Learning Centre in the Leeds neighborhood of Beeston. The shop appeared to sell Islamic books and DVDs and offered seminars and lectures.
Two investigators wearing white protective suits could be seen inside the store before officers covered the windows with gray plastic sheeting.
The shop is about four miles from the town house of the Egyptian biochemist Magdy Mahmoud Mustafa el-Nashar, where British media reported that police had found evidence of the explosive TATP in a bathtub. Police continued searching the house on Saturday.
TATP was used by Richard Reid, the shoe bomber thwarted in an attempt to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001. Reid pleaded guilty to U.S. charges and is serving life in prison.
Egypt's Interior Ministry said Egyptian authorities were interrogating el-Nashar, 33, who had studied for a semester at North Carolina State University and the University of Leeds. It said el-Nashar denied having any connection to the attacks.
Egypt is not prepared to hand el-Nashar over to Britain, Egyptian security officials said Saturday as British investigators arrived to observe the questioning. The two countries have no extradition treaty.
Britain's Labour Party, meanwhile, disclosed Saturday that bombing suspect Khan visited the Houses of Parliament last year as the guest of Labour lawmaker Jon Trickett. It said Trickett alerted security officials when he realized Khan was one of the bombers.
West Yorkshire police released a statement from Khan's family saying he must have been "brainwashed" and calling on people to "expose the terror networks which target and groom our sons to carry out such evils."
Samantha Lewthwaite, the wife of the Jamaican suspect, told The Sun newspaper she refused to believe her husband was involved "until they have his DNA."
"He wasn't the sort of person who'd do this," she said. The newspaper said Lewthwaite is pregnant and under police protection.
The family of Hasib Hussain -- the 18-year-old believed to have blown up the bus -- said in a statement issued Friday it was unaware of his activities.
"We would have done everything in our power to stop him," the statement said.
This article gives an update of what is going on in the investigation of the recent bombing in London. My prayers go out to everyone in London and Great Britian.
Search For Evidence In London Attacks Widens As Blair Warns Of `Evil Ideology'; Suspected Bomber Has Family In Dorchester
LONDON (AP) -- Prime Minister Tony Blair warned on Saturday that an "evil ideology" of Islamic extremism was bent on spreading terror through the West, and authorities on three continents widened investigations into the London terrorist bombings. The number of people confirmed dead rose to 55.
Police in the northern city of Leeds searched an Islamic shop, the home of an Egyptian biochemist and a third address for more evidence after investigators reportedly found traces of explosives in the Egyptian's bathtub.
Also, police moved the twisted wreckage of the double-decker bus where one of the bombers and 13 other people died. The bus became a symbol of the capital's worst attack since World War II. Londoners and tourists stopped to watch as police used a flatbed truck to haul away the tangled wreckage for forensic testing.
Police also released an image captured by surveillance cameras showing all four bombers with backpacks entering the train station in Luton, north of London, on the morning of the July 7 attacks. Investigators say the four took a train from Luton to London's King's Cross station, where they split up to carry out the bombings.
The Sunday Times reported that one of the suspected attackers, 30-year-old Mohammad Sidique Khan, was scrutinized last year by the MI5, Britain's domestic secret service, but was not regarded as a threat to national security or put under surveillance. The scrutiny came during an inquiry into an alleged plot to explode a truck bomb outside a target in London, the paper said. The inquiry looked at hundreds of potential suspects, it said.
The Metropolitan Police declined to comment on the report, and spokesmen at the Home Office, which deals with queries about national security, were not immediately available Saturday night.
The hunt for clues pointing to those who recruited, financed and supplied the four suicide bombers who blew up three underground trains and the bus focused on the men's ties to Pakistan. Authorities in Islamabad said they questioned students, teachers and administrators at one of two religious schools believed visited by one of the suspects.
Asad Farooq, a spokesman for the school, told The Associated Press that intelligence agents had been there Saturday but denied that the suspect, Shahzad Tanweer, had ever been at the school. British investigators say Tanweer, 22, carried out the bombing of the London Underground's Aldgate station.
Senior Pakistani intelligence officials said authorities were examining a possible connection between Tanweer and two al-Qaida-linked militant groups.
ABC television reported Saturday that the FBI was looking into possible ties between unidentified people in New Jersey and a Jamaican-born Briton, whom British authorities formally identified for the first time Saturday as Germaine Lindsay, 19. The Jamaican-born Lindsay has family in Dorchester, Massachusetts.
Police said he died in the worst of the suicide attacks -- a subway bomb that killed at least 26 people between the King's Cross and Russell Square stations.
FBI spokesman Ed Cogswell said Saturday the agency had no comment on any pending investigations.
Authorities raised the death toll from 54 to 55 after an injured victim died overnight at a hospital. About 700 people were injured in the morning rush-hour attacks, and police said more than 40 people remained hospitalized, at least six of them in critical condition.
In a speech in central London Saturday, Blair said authorities were facing an "evil ideology" in their struggle against Islamic terrorism.
"The greatest danger is that we fail to face up to the nature of the threat that we're dealing with," he said. "And what we are confronting here is an evil ideology. ... It is a battle of ideas, of hearts and of minds, both within Islam and outside it."
Police began searching a property in Leeds a few streets away from Tanweer's home Saturday afternoon, posting guards outside the entrance and wrapping the building to block the view to outsiders. West Yorkshire police declined to comment on the raid.
Investigators also continued searching a shop called Iqra Learning Centre in the Leeds neighborhood of Beeston. The shop appeared to sell Islamic books and DVDs and offered seminars and lectures.
Two investigators wearing white protective suits could be seen inside the store before officers covered the windows with gray plastic sheeting.
The shop is about four miles from the town house of the Egyptian biochemist Magdy Mahmoud Mustafa el-Nashar, where British media reported that police had found evidence of the explosive TATP in a bathtub. Police continued searching the house on Saturday.
TATP was used by Richard Reid, the shoe bomber thwarted in an attempt to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami in December 2001. Reid pleaded guilty to U.S. charges and is serving life in prison.
Egypt's Interior Ministry said Egyptian authorities were interrogating el-Nashar, 33, who had studied for a semester at North Carolina State University and the University of Leeds. It said el-Nashar denied having any connection to the attacks.
Egypt is not prepared to hand el-Nashar over to Britain, Egyptian security officials said Saturday as British investigators arrived to observe the questioning. The two countries have no extradition treaty.
Britain's Labour Party, meanwhile, disclosed Saturday that bombing suspect Khan visited the Houses of Parliament last year as the guest of Labour lawmaker Jon Trickett. It said Trickett alerted security officials when he realized Khan was one of the bombers.
West Yorkshire police released a statement from Khan's family saying he must have been "brainwashed" and calling on people to "expose the terror networks which target and groom our sons to carry out such evils."
Samantha Lewthwaite, the wife of the Jamaican suspect, told The Sun newspaper she refused to believe her husband was involved "until they have his DNA."
"He wasn't the sort of person who'd do this," she said. The newspaper said Lewthwaite is pregnant and under police protection.
The family of Hasib Hussain -- the 18-year-old believed to have blown up the bus -- said in a statement issued Friday it was unaware of his activities.
"We would have done everything in our power to stop him," the statement said.
20050713
Milk and...got honey?
I found this story in the wierd news section and I thought it was interesting. I never heard that bees would do anything like this. Gives new meaning to the land of milk and honey. Can you imagine how much honey would have to be behind a wall to leak through the wall itself? Whoa boy!
~This article is property of the Associated press and Copyright laws apply~
Church Has 1 Million Bees, Honey in Walls
KNOX, Pa. (July 8) - One could say that St. Mark United Church of Christ is bee-deviled. The church in Clarion County, about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, has been infested with bees in its walls for about seven years. The church tried an exterminator and that didn't work. Now the problem has gotten so bad that honey oozes through its walls.
The church has hired McCool's Wildlife Removal of Rocky Grove to remove the honey, seal the damaged walls — and relocate an estimated 1 million bees to a local bee keeper.
Eric McCool, who owns the business, said it typically takes about a day to remove bees from an infested building, but the church is so badly infested it will take three or four days.
The bees aren't crazy about the move. McCool has been stung more than 100 times this week.
"I ended up going to the emergency room. Even though I'm not allergic, any time you have a large amount of venom, you have a toxic reaction," McCool told The Derrick of Oil City for Thursday's editions.
Church maintenance man Lee Stroup said the congregation plans to worship as normal Sunday.
"We've never had to hold church elsewhere. We'll have church this Sunday," said Stroup. "We just wanted them gone so no one gets stung."
~This article is property of the Associated press and Copyright laws apply~
Church Has 1 Million Bees, Honey in Walls
KNOX, Pa. (July 8) - One could say that St. Mark United Church of Christ is bee-deviled. The church in Clarion County, about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh, has been infested with bees in its walls for about seven years. The church tried an exterminator and that didn't work. Now the problem has gotten so bad that honey oozes through its walls.
The church has hired McCool's Wildlife Removal of Rocky Grove to remove the honey, seal the damaged walls — and relocate an estimated 1 million bees to a local bee keeper.
Eric McCool, who owns the business, said it typically takes about a day to remove bees from an infested building, but the church is so badly infested it will take three or four days.
The bees aren't crazy about the move. McCool has been stung more than 100 times this week.
"I ended up going to the emergency room. Even though I'm not allergic, any time you have a large amount of venom, you have a toxic reaction," McCool told The Derrick of Oil City for Thursday's editions.
Church maintenance man Lee Stroup said the congregation plans to worship as normal Sunday.
"We've never had to hold church elsewhere. We'll have church this Sunday," said Stroup. "We just wanted them gone so no one gets stung."
20050712
Thoughts that wake you up in the middle of the night...
One of my favorite parts of the Bible, comes from Saint Paul's letter to the Ephesians. There is a lot going on in this small epistle. What appeals to me the most is the outline in chapter 6 of the epistle, where St. Paul explains spiritual warfare.
You see, it is against other worldly powers, with which we must contend. Yet, there is something more here, that I believe St. Paul is pointing the Ephesians [and us today] towards; that being, the war has already been won for us by Christ! (For even the dead have heard the Good News!) Now this doesn't mean that we will not be assailed by "renegades" (St. Paul calls them the sons of disobedience) who will attempt to take us from our Lord. What it does mean is that the fighting for us is over. What we need only to do now is to surrender our will to God's (let God do the fighting for us) so that we may live the type of life which St. Paul is speaking about in his epistle.
The most difficult part for me is in surrendering my will. I am sure that many would say the same thing. I had a strange thought, but it fits here, so please bear with me. (Not to mention that it is 05:42 and I am trying to make sense of this thought since it woke me up in the middle of the night :-)
When I was growing up I watched a lot of TV. What can I say I am a product of the 70's and 80's television era. One of my more favorite shows when I was small, was Gilligan's Island; which today has some how turned into reality TV? Even when I was a kid, I could figure out that it was too silly to be true. Yet, I digress, forgive me. In one of the episodes of Gilligan's Island, I remember they showed a Japanese mini-sub and her crew, which never got the word that the war was over. They kept on fighting even when there was no war to fight.
Now I know this is a really silly example, but I do this all the time. I charge off on to the battlefield, ill prepared and unaware of what I am up against. Yet Christ already fought this battle and won. Christ took all this [sin, death, and corruption, etc...] upon Himself, and bore them upon the Cross, descended into hell, shattered its gates, and loosed the bonds of those trapped by death. He then rose from the dead for all people. The word was announced to all the world, even the dead got the news! Yet, somehow...I didn't hear the news? Actually, I did hear the news, we all heard [hear] the news, during Pascha, but we grow lazy and forget the message; at least I do that is for sure. Somehow though, I presume to continue forward, wading into the depths of the battlefield crying, "let loose the dogs of war!" Somehow not realizing what Christ has already done for me; and then I wonder when I wind up on my butt --or in some other compromising position.
Before I came to seminary my spiritual father told me that I needed to learn how to surrender not fight. He told me that I had been fighting the whole of my life, whether or not I knew it, and hasn't gotten me anywhere. Yet when I surrender my will to God's the results are incontrovertible and things in life all 'click' if you take my meaning.
So I guess the moral of the story is to surrender your will. Boy I could have just typed that one line and this would have been a short post....Ah what fun would that have been. ;-) Everyone have a great day!
You see, it is against other worldly powers, with which we must contend. Yet, there is something more here, that I believe St. Paul is pointing the Ephesians [and us today] towards; that being, the war has already been won for us by Christ! (For even the dead have heard the Good News!) Now this doesn't mean that we will not be assailed by "renegades" (St. Paul calls them the sons of disobedience) who will attempt to take us from our Lord. What it does mean is that the fighting for us is over. What we need only to do now is to surrender our will to God's (let God do the fighting for us) so that we may live the type of life which St. Paul is speaking about in his epistle.
The most difficult part for me is in surrendering my will. I am sure that many would say the same thing. I had a strange thought, but it fits here, so please bear with me. (Not to mention that it is 05:42 and I am trying to make sense of this thought since it woke me up in the middle of the night :-)
When I was growing up I watched a lot of TV. What can I say I am a product of the 70's and 80's television era. One of my more favorite shows when I was small, was Gilligan's Island; which today has some how turned into reality TV? Even when I was a kid, I could figure out that it was too silly to be true. Yet, I digress, forgive me. In one of the episodes of Gilligan's Island, I remember they showed a Japanese mini-sub and her crew, which never got the word that the war was over. They kept on fighting even when there was no war to fight.
Now I know this is a really silly example, but I do this all the time. I charge off on to the battlefield, ill prepared and unaware of what I am up against. Yet Christ already fought this battle and won. Christ took all this [sin, death, and corruption, etc...] upon Himself, and bore them upon the Cross, descended into hell, shattered its gates, and loosed the bonds of those trapped by death. He then rose from the dead for all people. The word was announced to all the world, even the dead got the news! Yet, somehow...I didn't hear the news? Actually, I did hear the news, we all heard [hear] the news, during Pascha, but we grow lazy and forget the message; at least I do that is for sure. Somehow though, I presume to continue forward, wading into the depths of the battlefield crying, "let loose the dogs of war!" Somehow not realizing what Christ has already done for me; and then I wonder when I wind up on my butt --or in some other compromising position.
Before I came to seminary my spiritual father told me that I needed to learn how to surrender not fight. He told me that I had been fighting the whole of my life, whether or not I knew it, and hasn't gotten me anywhere. Yet when I surrender my will to God's the results are incontrovertible and things in life all 'click' if you take my meaning.
So I guess the moral of the story is to surrender your will. Boy I could have just typed that one line and this would have been a short post....Ah what fun would that have been. ;-) Everyone have a great day!
20050711
Chinese Martyrs...
This article come from the Orthodox news website.
I have this icon in my room at home and when I saw this story I wanted to post it on the blog. Enjoy
Published by Orthodoxy in China, June 24, 2005
Holy Chinese Martyrs
English Translation by Nina Tkachuk Dimas
For the First Time in Decades a Service Honoring 222 Chinese Martyrs
Took Place in Beijing
For the first time in over than half a century in Beijing in the former bishop's quarters of the the Russian Spiritual Mission in China (RSMC) which since 1956 are located on the territory Russia's Embassy in the Peoples Republic of China services were conducted to honor the 222 Chinese martyrs executed in 1900 for the Orthodox faith during the Yihetuan Rebellion. On the morning of June 24th - on the day for observing the memory of the Chinese martyrs, priest Dionisy Pozdniaev of the Dept. of External Church Relations/MP served the Divine liturgy, according to Patriarchia.Ru.
The Yihetuan Rebellion, also known as the "Boxer" Rebellion due to a mistranslation by English sinologists, left a terrible bloody mark on history of the beginning of the XX century. Among those brutally killed and tortured by the rebels were not only foreign preachers and technical experts, merchants and scientists, but also Chinese officials, soldiers and officers, peasants.
Special cruelty distinguished the rebels when they killed Chinese who professed the teaching the Christ. Churches were pillaged and fell to ruins. The courtyard of Russian Orthodox Mission was turned to ashes. Yihetuan killed all without discrimination - women, children, old men; their victims were subjected to the most refined tortures. The night of June 23 to June 24th (on new calendar), 1900 entered history as "Bartholomew's night of Beiping" (as Beijing was known until 1949).
In May 1902 decree No. 2874 of the Most Holy Synod established a day for celebrating the 222 Chinese martyrs. Their holy relics were placed under the altar of the temple of All Holy Martyrs which was built in the center of Mission territory. In the temple constructed in an old Russian tent-style, together with holy relics of the Chinese flock, were later buried archpastors of the Russian Orthodox Church: Metropolitan Innokenty
(Figurnovsky), the chief of the XVIII Mission who built the temple of the All Holy Martyrs, Archbishop Simon (Vinogradov), the chief of the XIX Mission.
Next to the temple there was the tomb of general Dmitry Leonidovich Horvat, the last Russian managing director of KVZHD. A monument to the 222 Chinese martyrs also stood near the temple. According to some sources, in the Chinese martyrs monument in Beijing, in the right side addition to the temple, were also secretly buried in 1947 the remains of victims of the Alapayevsk murders, members of the Imperial family. In 1956 after the property of the RSMC was transferred to USSR authorities, the temple was
destroyed.
Remembering at the All Night Vigil and at Divine Liturgy the Christian feats of endurance of the of 222 Chinese martyrs, the Russian Orthodox, who assembled for the service in what were previously the bishop's quarters, prayed before festal icons that the Lord grant them to re-discover the relics of "Chinese martyrs who, for Christ, fell victim
in the city of Beijing".
Moreover, recent investigations carried out with special equipment on the territory of Russia's Embassy to the PRC, at the foundation of the temple of All Holy Martyrs do not exlude the possibility of finding the holy relics in the destroyed temple's altar section.
"O, holy martyrs of China, pray to God for us."
I have this icon in my room at home and when I saw this story I wanted to post it on the blog. Enjoy
Published by Orthodoxy in China, June 24, 2005
Holy Chinese Martyrs
English Translation by Nina Tkachuk Dimas
For the First Time in Decades a Service Honoring 222 Chinese Martyrs
Took Place in Beijing
For the first time in over than half a century in Beijing in the former bishop's quarters of the the Russian Spiritual Mission in China (RSMC) which since 1956 are located on the territory Russia's Embassy in the Peoples Republic of China services were conducted to honor the 222 Chinese martyrs executed in 1900 for the Orthodox faith during the Yihetuan Rebellion. On the morning of June 24th - on the day for observing the memory of the Chinese martyrs, priest Dionisy Pozdniaev of the Dept. of External Church Relations/MP served the Divine liturgy, according to Patriarchia.Ru.
The Yihetuan Rebellion, also known as the "Boxer" Rebellion due to a mistranslation by English sinologists, left a terrible bloody mark on history of the beginning of the XX century. Among those brutally killed and tortured by the rebels were not only foreign preachers and technical experts, merchants and scientists, but also Chinese officials, soldiers and officers, peasants.
Special cruelty distinguished the rebels when they killed Chinese who professed the teaching the Christ. Churches were pillaged and fell to ruins. The courtyard of Russian Orthodox Mission was turned to ashes. Yihetuan killed all without discrimination - women, children, old men; their victims were subjected to the most refined tortures. The night of June 23 to June 24th (on new calendar), 1900 entered history as "Bartholomew's night of Beiping" (as Beijing was known until 1949).
In May 1902 decree No. 2874 of the Most Holy Synod established a day for celebrating the 222 Chinese martyrs. Their holy relics were placed under the altar of the temple of All Holy Martyrs which was built in the center of Mission territory. In the temple constructed in an old Russian tent-style, together with holy relics of the Chinese flock, were later buried archpastors of the Russian Orthodox Church: Metropolitan Innokenty
(Figurnovsky), the chief of the XVIII Mission who built the temple of the All Holy Martyrs, Archbishop Simon (Vinogradov), the chief of the XIX Mission.
Next to the temple there was the tomb of general Dmitry Leonidovich Horvat, the last Russian managing director of KVZHD. A monument to the 222 Chinese martyrs also stood near the temple. According to some sources, in the Chinese martyrs monument in Beijing, in the right side addition to the temple, were also secretly buried in 1947 the remains of victims of the Alapayevsk murders, members of the Imperial family. In 1956 after the property of the RSMC was transferred to USSR authorities, the temple was
destroyed.
Remembering at the All Night Vigil and at Divine Liturgy the Christian feats of endurance of the of 222 Chinese martyrs, the Russian Orthodox, who assembled for the service in what were previously the bishop's quarters, prayed before festal icons that the Lord grant them to re-discover the relics of "Chinese martyrs who, for Christ, fell victim
in the city of Beijing".
Moreover, recent investigations carried out with special equipment on the territory of Russia's Embassy to the PRC, at the foundation of the temple of All Holy Martyrs do not exlude the possibility of finding the holy relics in the destroyed temple's altar section.
"O, holy martyrs of China, pray to God for us."
20050707
Summer language program in Greece this summer!
This information was sent to me by a friend of mine who is a priest in Greece. If you are interested there is contact information below.
LEARN GREEK IN A NEW REVOLUTIONARY WAY………FOR FREE ON LOCATION IN GREECE THIS SUMMER!
Tired of learning languages by rote?
The Organization "Thrace Treasury" sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Culture and directed by Professor Georgios Pavlos of the University of Thrace, Organizes a Revolutionary way of getting to know the Greek Language by being submerged in Greek culture.
Greek is taught through delving into Greek history, Music, Philosophy, Classical Theater, Traditional Greek Dances, Poetry, Literature, Classical Athletics as well as an analytical etymological examination of the language. Environmental and Laographical studies are also included.
All this is done in the context of a 5 hour lesson period every during the period of the program. However, the learning of Greek continues after class also through swimming, field trips and daily evening celebrations.
All is free…(room, board, etc.), all you have to do is pay your ticket and show up there on time! Attendance at the classes and full program are mandatory. Students from all over the Balkans, Europe, America and Australia participate and meet in this context while experiencing the Greek language together.
This summer the program is at Kastelorizo from July 20 – August 10th 2005 so hurry….
For all information and applications contact:
THRACE TREASURY –
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOLS
ON GREEK CULTURE 2005
INFOS:
Panayiotis Pavlos
cell: 01130-6939-530-480
tel. / fax +30-210-33 90 520
or e-mail to
ppavlos@edlit.auth.gr
LEARN GREEK IN A NEW REVOLUTIONARY WAY………FOR FREE ON LOCATION IN GREECE THIS SUMMER!
Tired of learning languages by rote?
The Organization "Thrace Treasury" sponsored by the Greek Ministry of Culture and directed by Professor Georgios Pavlos of the University of Thrace, Organizes a Revolutionary way of getting to know the Greek Language by being submerged in Greek culture.
Greek is taught through delving into Greek history, Music, Philosophy, Classical Theater, Traditional Greek Dances, Poetry, Literature, Classical Athletics as well as an analytical etymological examination of the language. Environmental and Laographical studies are also included.
All this is done in the context of a 5 hour lesson period every during the period of the program. However, the learning of Greek continues after class also through swimming, field trips and daily evening celebrations.
All is free…(room, board, etc.), all you have to do is pay your ticket and show up there on time! Attendance at the classes and full program are mandatory. Students from all over the Balkans, Europe, America and Australia participate and meet in this context while experiencing the Greek language together.
This summer the program is at Kastelorizo from July 20 – August 10th 2005 so hurry….
For all information and applications contact:
THRACE TREASURY –
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOLS
ON GREEK CULTURE 2005
INFOS:
Panayiotis Pavlos
cell: 01130-6939-530-480
tel. / fax +30-210-33 90 520
or e-mail to
ppavlos@edlit.auth.gr
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My friend Bryan took the quiz and he came out as.....'drum roll please.....'
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I thought this was kinda cool. I found the link on James' page.
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