Religion of Peace kills >6 dozen in Somalia. "Allahu akbar!"

While (some) Christians were celebrating the birth of our Saviour, life... and death.. went on as usual in the Muslim shitholes of the Middle East and North Africa. An explosion today at a busy checkpoint in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, killed at least 72 people and wounded dozens, including women and children.

Rescuers carried dead bodies past the twisted wreckage of a vehicle and minibus taxis smeared with blood. The director of a private ambulance service told the meeja, "The number of casualties we have confirmed is 76 dead and 70 wounded, it could still be higher." Witness Mohamed "the Inevitable" Abdi said, "I saw many dead bodies lying on the ground. Some of those dead were police officers, but most of them were students."

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast. The al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab often carries out such attacks. The Islamic extremist group was pushed out of Mogadishu several years ago but continues to target high-profile areas such as checkpoints and hotels in the seaside city. Today's blast took place at the Ex-Control checkpoint, a "tax" collection (read: extortion) centre in Mogadishu.

Al-Shabaab was blamed for the truck bombing in Mogadishu in October 2017 that killed more than 500 people. The group never claimed responsibility for the blast that led to widespread public outrage. Another witness told AP, "This explosion is similar like the one...in 2017. This one occurred just a few steps away from where I am and it knocked me on the ground from its force."

Earlier this year a spokesthingy for the Disunited Nations said the jihadis are now able to make their own explosives -- their "weapons of choice. The followers of the Prophet previously relied on military-grade explosives captured during assaults on an African Union peacekeeping force. Today's attack again raises concern about the readiness of Somali forces to take over responsibility for security from the AU force, which is scheduled to withdraw in 2020.

Christians, Christian culture attacked across Europe, world

On Christmas Day in the Year of Our Lord 1000 (or New Year's Day of 1001 AD, depending on which calendar you use) Stephen I (aka King Saint Stephen) established Hungary as a Christian Kingdom. On that day he was crowned king with a crown sent by Pope Sylvester II.

Over 1000 years later, the government of Hungary, unafraid to call the country "Christian", has warned that Christians are increasingly being persecuted around the world, and driven out of public life in Europe, more viciously than any people of any other faith.

So concerned are the Hungarians about the persecution -- even to the point of death -- of Christian minorities that they have created Hungary Helps, an assistance programme for persecuted Christians and other victims of humanitarian crises, particularly in the Middle East and Africa.

The aim of the programme is not to help Christian minorities migrate to the West -- a process which has seen the Christian populations of countries like Syria and Iraq collapse at an alarming rate -- but to help them where they are, in order to preserve their ancient communities and way of life for posterity. According to Hungary's ambassador to the Disunited Nations, Hungary Helps has so far spent $35 million supporting Christian communities, and helped 70,000 refugees to return to their ancestral homes.

According to a report on Breitbart News, Tristan Azbej, the Hungarian state secretary with particular responsibility for Hungary Helps, recently tweeted some examples of the ongoing attacks on Christians and Christianity. "There are places where it's illegal to display a Nativity scene and you can get fired for wishing 'Merry Christmas'", he wrote, "and this happens in the name of  'liberalism, inclusivity and freedom.'

"Some years ago, at the Brussels City Hall, it was decided not to set a Christmas tree, and in Santa Monica, California, a ban on nativity screening was made on the grounds of world neutrality," he wrote. "Meanwhile, in Germany, Christian songbooks have been burned, and in France, churches have been attacked every year, and Christian symbols and religious objects, such as crucifixes, have been damaged."

"Christianity is the most persecuted religion, with about a quarter of a billion Christians worldwide being persecuted or discriminated against, and thousands of people killed last year because of their Christian beliefs," the minister continued. But, he added, "The Hungarian Government stands with Christian values and communities. [We are] committed to the protection of Christian culture and strengthens it in the world by, inter alia, combating migration. [We] hope that over time, Europe will realize the importance of this."

Now there's a declaration we haven't heard lately -- if ever -- from any Western government. Sadly, we don't even hear it loud and clear from Pope Francis. Today, December 26th, if the feast day of the first Saint Stephen, the protomartyr or first martyr of Christianity. Saint Stephen was a deacon in the early church at Jerusalem who aroused the enmity of members of various synagogues by his teachings.

Accused of blasphemy at his trial, he made a long speech denouncing the Jewish authorities who were sitting in judgment on him, and was then stoned to death. Let us ask him to help all those who today are being discriminated against, persecuted and even martyred for their Christian Faith.

BEATAM NATIVITATEM!

Walt and Poor Len [and Ed.!]
wish all our readers
A HAPPY AND HOLY CHRISTMAS!
BEATAM NATIVITATEM!

and for the New Year 2020
PEACE AND HAPPINESS

William-Adolphe Bouguereau: Virgin Mary with Angels

VIDEO: Faith Goldy talks about the de-Christianization of Québec

Faith Goldy (who is not Jewish, by the way), reports on a letter sent by a group of young French-Canadian Catholic men to their bishops, asking them to teach the traditional Catholic Faith -- the faith of our fathers -- and give the spiritual leadership they say is essential to combat the nihilistic culture that tempts many to despair. That includes allowing access to the traditional Latin Mass.

Twenty-nine men between the ages of 18 to 44, including university students, a doctor and two lawyers, calling themselves "The Disinherited", signed the open letter titled "We Ask for Faith: Open Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church in French Canada". Ms Goldy says the message of the letter "will stir your soul." It stirred mine, and so I share it here.



If God has spoken to you through this message, please pass it on by sharing the link to this post. And do it quickly, before YouTube takes the video down! Saint Joseph, patron of Canada, pray for us.

Thanks to Poor Len Canayen for alerting us to the publishing of this fine video.

UPDATED: "Believe It Or Not!" for Catholics

Under the headline "Pope Francis warns Christianity is becoming 'increasingly irrelevant' and targets 'rigid' conservative Catholics for creating a 'minefield' of hatred in Christmas address", the UK Daily Mail reports on another essentially anti-Catholic utterance from the mouth of Jorge Bergoglio, giving traditional Catholics yet another reason to doubt the validity of his election.

The supposed head of the Roman Catholic church spoke today in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace, reminding cardinals, bishops, priests and members of staff that the Church no longer enjoys the authority it once did. "Today we are no longer the only ones that produce culture, no longer the first nor the most listened to," he said. "The faith in Europe and in much of the West is no longer an obvious presumption but is often denied, derided, marginalised and ridiculed."

This year, on Francis' watch, the papacy has been rocked by historical sex abuse claims and financial scandals this year. And the Pope's leadership has been challenged after he called for married men to be ordained as priests, and was seen with the Pachamama, a pagan statue of a pregnant woman ("Mother Earth"?) while in the Amazon.

Walt wonders how these things could have come to pass, if not for the apparent derangement of he who sits in the Chair of Peter. But alas, there is no impeachment process in the Catholic Church. Only God can take the necessary corrective action, for which let us pray.

FURTHER READING, added 22/12/19: "Pope Francis's Hermeneutic of Anti-Continuity", by Peter Kwasniewski, in The Remnant newspaper, 22/12/19. Devastating commentary on the massive scandal of Francis' Christmas address of December 21 (the traditional feast of the doubting Thomas the Apostle). Could anyone need more evidence that the Church is being ruled by someone who is barely, or not at all, Catholic? He wouldn’t even make a good Muslim!

Canadian joke of the year [CBC please copy]

The "year-end round-up" season is almost upon us, so I thought I'd beat the Canadian controlled media (Hello CBC!) by declaring Justin Trudeau the Canadian joke ["newsmaker", shurely! Ed.] of the year. The joke is on the stupid Canucks who voted this oleaginous, metrosexual, narcissistic fraud into office for the second time. Are you frostbacks masochists or what?

Dear Canadian readers, I wish you a wonderful winter solstice and a politically correct new year. And may your border remain open to the flood of refugees, asylum-seekers, and dispirited never-Trumpers who will be coming your way in 2020.

Footnote: What you're just read is something you won't read or hear or see anywhere on the CBC, the state-owned Canadian Broadcorping Castration. The CBC is publicly funded, which means that the taxpayers of Canuckistan are paying for the steady stream of politically correct, leftie drivel than emanates from studios high above the common people of downtown Toronto.

I refer in particular to The National, the CBC's nocturnal emission which passes off propaganda as a newcast. This is not just my opinion, but that of the Financial Post's William Watson. Check out "CBC's The National brings Canadians all the news that's woke", published today. Subhead: "There are four essential components to The National: something climate, something anti-Trump, something Lefty-heroic and something Indigenous".

The alternatives -- the national newscasts of CTV and Global -- are still part of the Canada's lamestream media, but better than the Canuck version of the Clinton News Network. Adjust your watching accordingly. You're welcome.

UPDATED: Impeachment: Democrats afraid to take the next step?

Those readers (especially foreigners) who think that anything major happened in Washington yesterday are advised to review "How the impeachment process is supposed to work", WWW 24/9/19. What you witnessed yesterday [Walt was watching "Judge Judy". Ed.] was merely the end of Act I of the pantomime. Donald J. Trump is still President of the Excited States of America, and likely to remain until 3 November 2020... and likely for another four years after that!

That the House of Representatives voted to impeach the President is hardly news. What is interesting is Speaker Nancy Pelosi's statement at a presser this morning that before raising the curtain on Act II -- the trial in the Senate -- she will wait to see what procedures will be adopted for the trial. Ms Pelosi (D-CA) said this was because she fears that the Republican-controlled Senate may be incapable of holding a "fair trial".

That's a loaded term that she and her Dumbocrat colleagues in both housess have been throwing around a lot lately. On Wednesday evening she was noncommittal about whether she would ever transmit the articles of impeachment to the Senate. After last night's vote, she told the meeja, "We'll make that decision as a group, as we always have, as we go along. So far we haven't seen anything that looks fair to us."

A "fair trial"??? What a steaming load of horseshit. The real reason for Ms Pelosi's reluctance to get on with the next act of this farce was stated by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who denounced the impeachment vote and blasted the Speaker for being "too afraid" to send "their shoddy work product to the Senate."

Speaking on the floor of the Senate, Mr McConnell said, "The framers built the Senate to provide stability, to keep partisan passions from boiling over. Moments like this are why the United States Senate exists." Mr  McConnell is meeting today with his counterpart, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), to establish the parameters for the trial in the upper chamber.

Nancy Pelosi, Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), and Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) have now all floated the idea of freezing the House vote where it is, rather than sending the impeachment articles to the Senate, where President Trump would undoubtedly go down in history as being vindicated.

This morning, President Trump took aim at Ms Pelosi for not sending the impeachment articles to the Senate right away. He tweeted, "The Senate shall set the time and place of the trial. If the Do Nothing Democrats decide, in their great wisdom, not to show up, they would lose by Default!"

UPDATE ADDED at 1710 (scraped from Breitbart News): During a press conference on Thursday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) stated that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is "admitting defeat" by not sending articles of impeachment over to the Senate.

McCarthy said, "Now, we have the own speaker of the House who is so embarrassed that she admits the failure of this impeachment that she will not even send it to the Senate.… She's admitting defeat by not sending it, by refusing to send the impeachment over, she knows this outcome is not good. She knows the facts are not there. There's no basis for it."