✞ Romanians
flock to a new cathedral that is the world´s largest Orthodox church
after 15 Years of Construction.
Thousands of
pilgrims turned out Sunday in Romania´s capital for the consecration
of religious paintings inside the world´s largest Christian Orthodox
church that was being opened after 15 years of construction.
Worshippers and
officials arrived in droves at the People´s Salvation Cathedral,
known as the National Cathedral, which at its highest point stands
more than 125 meters (410 feet) and has an inner capacity for 5,000
worshippers in the deeply Orthodox country. The cathedral's opulent
interior is covered with frescoes and mosaics depicting saints and
icons.
Proposals for a
national cathedral in the country of about 19 million people had been
put forward for more than a century, but its fruition was hampered by
two world wars and the decades of communist rule, which sought to
suppress religion. The Romanian Orthodox Church has called the
cathedral "a symbol of national identity."
Romania is one
of the most pious countries in the European Union, with around 85% of
the population identifying as religious.
Situated behind
the hulking Palace of the People built by the late communist leader
Nicolae Ceausescu, construction for the cathedral finally began in
2010, and its altar was consecrated in 2018. It has so far cost a
reported 270 million euros ($313 million), with a majority drawn from
public funds, and some works are yet to be completed.
Traffic was
restricted for Sunday´s service, which was attended by President
Nicusor Dan and Prime Minister Ilie Bolojan. Many worshippers watched
via TV screens set up outside the cathedral.
The cathedral´s
mosaics and iconography cover an area of 17,800 square meters
(191,000 square feet), according the cathedral´s website.
Daniel
Codrescu, who has spent seven years working on the frescoes and
mosaics, told The Associated Press that much of the iconography has
been inspired by medieval Romanian paintings and others from the
Byzantine world.
"It was a
complex collaboration with the church, with art historians, with
artists, also our friends of contemporary art," he said. "I
hope (the church) is going to have a very important impact on society
because ... it´s a public space."
With one of the
largest budget deficits in the EU, not everyone in Romania was happy
about the cost of the project. Critics bemoan that the massive church
has drawn on public funds, which could have been spent on schools or
hospitals.
Claudiu Tufis,
an associate professor of political science at the University of
Bucharest, said the project was a "waste of public money"
but said it could offer a "boost to national pride and identity"
for some Romanians.
"The fact
that they have forced, year after year, politicians to pay for it, in
some cases taking money from communities that really needed that
money, indicates it was a show of force, not one of humility and love
of God," he said. "Economically, it might be OK in the long
term as it will be a tourist attraction."
Rares
Ghiorghies, 37, supports the church but said the money would be
better spent on health and education as "a matter of good
governance."
"The big
problem in society is that most of those who criticize do not follow
the activities of the church," he said.
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Vatican has now given Muslims a prayer carpet, and a dedicated
prayer.
Muslims
have been given a carpet for praying at the Vatican Apostolic
Library, its vice prefect said Wednesday.
“Of
course, some Muslim scholars have asked us for a room with a carpet
for praying and we have given it to them,” Giacomo Cardinali, vice
prefect of the Vatican Apostolic Library, told La Repubblica.
“Incredibly
old Korans” can be found in the Vatican library, Cardinali added.
“We are a universal library, there are Arabic, Jewish, Ethiopian
collections and unique Chinese items.”
The
awe-inspiring collection includes around almost two million printed
books along with 80,000 manuscripts, 50,000 archive items, 100,000
engravings and prints and 100,000 coins and medals, Cardinali said.
The
disclosure that Muslims can pray at the Vatican Apostolic Library has
sparked an outcry from Catholic commentators, who have suggested that
the permission signals religious indifferentism, ambivalence about
its own Catholic identity, and ideological surrender to Islam. room,
at the Vatican Library. Muslims visiting the library can now more
comfortably curse the Christians and Jews, as they recite the Fatiha
(Sura 1) of the Quran, seventeen times a day. Welcome, Muslims, curse
away, and add to the thickness of your pious zebibah right inside the
welcoming Vatican.
“Haven’t
they read what the Quran says about our most holy doctrines – their
insults about the Most Holy Trinity, the Incarnation, Our Lord’s
redemptive death on the Cross?” remarked Deacon Nick Donnelly, who
called the move “a total betrayal of Our Lord Jesus Christ.”
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✞ Makeshift scaffolding set
up at a church in Ethiopia collapsed Wednesday, killing at least 36
people and injuring more than 200, state media said. The incident
occurred at around 7:45 a.m. local time in the town of Arerti, about
40 miles east of capital Addis Ababa, when a group was visiting for
an annual Virgin Mary festival.
District police chief Ahmed
Gebeyehu said: "The number of dead has
reached 36 and could increase more", adding "more than 200
people have suffered injuries" and were receiving treatment at a
local hospital.
Some people remained under the
rubble.
He said some of the more
seriously hurt were taken to hospitals in the capital.
Images showed a mess of
collapsed wooden poles, with crowds gathering amid the dense debris.
Other pictures appeared to show
the outside of the church where scaffolding had been precariously
constructed.
A government statement shared
by EBC expressed condolences, and added that "safety must be
given priority."
Health and safety regulations
are virtually non-existent in Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous
nation, and construction accidents are common.
The sprawling country is a
mosaic of 80 ethnic groups and has one of the world's oldest
Christian communities.
Its predecessor, the Axumite
Empire, declared Christianity the state religion in the fourth
century.
Another
Human Sacrifice In Witchcraft Ritual, on The Annual Feast day
of The Blessed Virgin Mary – and on the
eve of the Satanic Oromo Ireecha festival?
In 2016, 55 people were
sacrificed in a stampede triggered by clashes between police and
demonstrators at the Satanic Ireecha festival in Debrezeit or
Bishoftu town – where in 2019 Ethiopian
Airlines Boeing 737 Dreamliner Flight wemt Down, Killing All 157 On
Board.
The 911 Code
The
crash occurred a span of 9 months, 11 days before the
anniversary of the founding of Ethiopian Airlines: 9 Months, 11 Days.
When that particualr blood
sacrifice occured, the genocidal Oromo Prime Minister of Ethiopia
Abiy Ahmed had been in office for 11 months, 9 days:11 Months, 9 Days
"Prime Minister Abiy
Ahmed" = 119 (Full Reduction)
Ethiopia
celebrates New Year’s Day on September 11th, or 9/11
Eternal
rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let
perpetual light shine upon them. May the
souls of all the faithful departed,
through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Posted on March 10, 2019,
Ethiopian Airlines Flight Goes Down, Killing All 157 On Board
No survivors in Ethiopian
Airlines Boeing 737 crash near Addis Ababa
This crash occurred on March
10th in Ethiopia March tenth & Ethiopia = 47
The flight number was 302
302 represents 32 in
numerology
"Crash" = 32
(Reverse Full Reduction)
The 32nd Prime number is 131
"Tenth of March" =
131 (English Ordinal)"Ritual human sacrifice" = 131
(Reverse Full Reduction)
This crash occurred on a
date with a Life Lesson number of 25(3) + (10) + 2+0+1+9 = 25
The 25th Prime number is 97
Ethiopian & Plane crash
= 97 & 52
Today’s date also has Full
numerology of 52(3) + (10) + (20) + (19) = 52
Ethiopian Airlines was
founded on a date with 97, 52, and 25 numerology:(12) + (21) + (19) +
(45) = 97, (12) + (21) + 1+9+4+5 = 52, 1+2 + 2+1 + 1+9+4+5 = 25
This crash is
heavily-related to the LionAir Flight 610 crash from October 29th of
last year, which was a span of 133 days ago:133 Days
