MARIA GLORIA MACARAEG MACAPAGAL~ARROYO: The relationship between China and the Philippines is very important for our countries. One reason is geography. Good relations between neighbors is always priority. A second reason is that, China is increasingly involved, not only in bilateral dealings, but collectively, such as through ASEAN. Third reason is that China’s economy is the most dynamic among the neighboring nations. A fourth factor is that domestically, the Philippines has a vibrant Filipino~Chinese community for whom increased business dealings with China is very natural. And fifth, infrastructure will be very important for the Philippines in the coming years. And there is no country in the world that matches China’s recent track record and capability in this area. Going forward, implementation will now be the key to maximizing the benefits of growing economic trade and investment relations between our two countries.
ARTYOM YUKIN: It will be the current big three who dominate, with an informal alliance between Russia and China crucial to reining in American ambitions.
ARTYOM YUKIN: Speaking of historical continuity, in the late nineteenth century Tsarist Russia formed an alliance with republican France to prevent Germany from dominating Europe.
Mundane Work Day is finished in the West I guess.
China has appointed a hardliner, who is known for removing hundreds of crosses from churches in the eastern province of Zhejiang, to take charge of its office overseeing matters in #HongKonghttps://t.co/mu8hAb8wsI— The Christian Post (@ChristianPost) February 15, 2020
"Italian Jesuit priest Paolo Dall'Oglio and British journalist John Henry Cantlie remain unaccounted for."
SHIITE FOR BRAINS
Pastor Xiang (pseudonym): We just listen, we cannot speak out loud, we cannot sing out loud, and we cannot gather in outdoor spaces to worship.
DAVID BENTLEY HART: Just as we Americans have succeeded in turning “Christianity” into another name for a system of values almost totally antithetical to those of the Gospel, I have every confidence that we will find a way to turn “socialism” into just another name for late-modern liberal individualism. I still support most of the genuinely communitarian aims of the democratic-socialist movement. But, in the end, it is that tradition of Christian socialism mentioned above to which I remain loyal. And I do not know if it could now flourish here.
DIANA CHANDLER: The multimedia team records a file and distributes it daily.
JOHN ROSS: China’s outperformance of the US in both 2008 and 2020 will see a geopolitical shift in Beijing’s favor. The longer the US continues with its disastrous response, the greater the shift will be. This disastrous US and Western European failure will have profound geopolitical consequences. The geopolitical consequences of this situation are both immediate and long term.
- 34 percent of churches reported giving had fallen by 10-20+ percent
- 22 percent reported a decline of 30-50+ percent
- 9 percent said they’d seen a drop of 75 percent or more in their church offerings
Yaakov Mollin: the Maaser (tithe) belongs to the poor.
Abba bar Kahana: give a tithe to those who labor in the Torah.
JIAN ZHU: eliminate Christianity from public life.
VICTOR DAVID HANSON: the West and the rest of the world are more likely to become Sinicized.
1. Pastors must submit every sermon to authorities before preaching
2. The Communist anthem must be sung at the beginning of every worship service
4. Facial recognition cameras facing the audience must be installed in the church
2 Catholic churches in Gates to close in 2020 https://t.co/3Kzqp56Qut— news10nbc (@news10nbc) December 30, 2019
These young children were more mature than the thugs berating them and their mother as they walked into church.— Grace Baptist Church (@realgbctroyny) July 3, 2020
Hear as pastor asks them multiple to stop blocking the church entrance.
GBC men form a line to protect children. pic.twitter.com/iZYJaxH1sH
REVEALED: Trump owes tens of millions of dollars to a state-owned Chinese bank - “The debt includes $211 million from the state-owned Bank of China — its first loan of this kind in the US”And the loan is due soon.https://t.co/VqLB8oy9v8 pic.twitter.com/X1w4z8emgo— Bryan Dawson (@BryanDawsonUSA) April 24, 2020
I make all things Old.
SANHARAB BARSOUM: In contrast, the future of Christians in North and East Syria if the international community does not intervene to stop the Turkish invasion is bleak.
CBCP NEWS: He expressed hope that the police institution would continue its efforts for moral and spiritual conversion among its ranks.
WILLY LAM: CCTV cameras and other surveillance equipment are installed in every church so that the state knows what the pastor or the priest might be talking about in their sermons.
JOHN ROSS: The most fundamental issue was that China started from a real understanding of human rights as they affect the real lives of people ~ not the artificial constructs of Western, purely formal ‘human rights.’ Its strategy was strictly logical once this starting point was understood. The nonsense of the formal Western concept of human rights ~ its subordination of human lives to the economy ~ will be demonstrated to billions of people. This will inevitably produce a geopolitical shift in China’s favor.
