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Israel Prepares for Memorial Day, Independence Day

Back-to-back holidays drive home a clear message: freedom costs dearly.

By Gil Ronen First Publish: 4/13/2013, 9:30 PM-Israelnationalnews

Independence Day approaches-Israel news photo: Flash 90

Israel is preparing for one of the most emotionally charged weeks of the year: the week in which the Memorial Day for the IDF's Fallen Soldiers and Independence Day are marked, back-to-back.Memorial Day (Yom Hazikaron) will be marked from Sunday evening until Monday evening.Independence Day (Yom Haatzmaut) will begin Monday evening, and end Tuesday evening. This is in keeping with Jewish tradition, in which sunset – and not the hour of midnight – marks the beginning of the new day.Both holidays are relatively new ones; the 65 years in which Israel has existed are a short time, from the perspective of Judaism's history, which goes back almost 4,000 years. They are not religious holidays.The Jewish state was founded, in large part, by socialist, secular Jews like David Ben Gurion, who had received a Torah education in their childhood and youth but later broke off with tradition. For them, the Jewish state itself was sacred, as was the military, and the holidays they instituted reflect this approach.The religious-Zionist Mizrachi movement – currently represented in the Knesset by Bayit Yehudi – sees the Jewish state as a step in the direction of the redemption of the Jewish people, as predicted by the Torah. The members of the movement therefore ascribe deep meaning to Independence Day and Memorial Day, and Deputy Religions Minister Rabbi Eliyahu Ben-Dahan's instruction to religious councils to fly the flag on the upcoming holidays reflects this approach.Memorial Day for the IDF's Fallen Soldiers is gaining more profound meaning for the religious Zionist sector from year to year, as an increasingly large share of the IDF's combat ranks is filed by religious Zionists.

Canada's FM Meets Livni in Eastern Jerusalem, PA Fumes

Canada’s Foreign Minister meeting Justice Minister Livni in her eastern Jerusalem office is a "slap in the face", says PA official.

By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 4/12/2013, 10:33 PM-Israelnationalnews

Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird-AFP photo

The Palestinian Authority is fuming after Canada’s Foreign Minister, John Baird, met Israel’s Justice Minister Tzipi Livni in her eastern Jerusalem office this week.Such a move is normally avoided by visiting diplomats since world countries do not recognize Israel’s sovereignty over eastern Jerusalem, which it liberated during the 1967 Six Day War."The visit is a slap in the face to the Palestinian people," former Palestinian Authority foreign minister Nabil Shaath wrote in a commentary published by Canada's daily Globe and Mail on Friday.Shaath, a Fatah Central Committee member in charge of international relations, called Baird's visit an "unprecedented recognition of the illegal Israeli annexation of Palestinians' occupied capital," adding that it undermines U.S. efforts to restart negotiations between Israel and the PA.Shaath said the "unprecedented offense" would cause "severe" damage to Canada's relations with the PA, the Arab world and those committed to a two-state solution to the decades-old conflict.Canadian foreign ministry spokesman Rick Roth told AFP on Thursday that Baird "wanted to get Livni's view on the Middle East peace process, given her new responsibilities and important role in the new cabinet."In addition to being appointed Justice Minister, Livni has been placed in charge of the peace negotiations with the PA."This doesn't change our longstanding position that all final status issues must be negotiated between the two parties. As guests, we were pleased to meet our hosts where it was most convenient for them," Roth told AFP.Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor  told AFP that "It is not common that foreign officials meet Israeli officials in east Jerusalem.”"The Canadians have been making a name for themselves by speaking out on the international scene in a way which is all too rare," Palmor added, saying they were demonstrating an unusual "courage and moral stance"."There should be nothing unusual about meeting Israel's justice minister in east Jerusalem (where the ministry is based). What is strange is that this is the exception," he said.Baird, meanwhile, was unfazed by the criticism, saying that where he has coffee with someone is “irrelevant” to the larger discussion of Middle East peace and does not signal a shift in Canadian foreign policy.“I’m just not interested in getting into the semantic argument about whether you have a meeting with one person on one side of the street [and] it’s OK, and you have a meeting on the other side of street and it’s not,” he said during a news conference in London, according to the Canadian Press.“We’re focused on trying to have an impact on the difficult and serious challenges, that being security for Israelis, an end to the conflict and the legitimate aspirations for a state from those in the Palestinian side,” added Baird.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)

U.S. says agrees with China on peaceful North Korea solution

By Arshad Mohammed and Ben Blanchard | Reuters – 1 hr 19 mins ago APR 13,13

By Arshad Mohammed and Ben Blanchard

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States said on Saturday that China had agreed to help rid North Korea of its nuclear capability by peaceful means, but Beijing made no specific commitment in public to pressure its long-time ally to change its ways.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met China's top leaders in a bid to persuade them to push reclusive North Korea, whose main diplomatic supporter is Beijing, to scale back its belligerence and, eventually, return to nuclear talks.Visiting Beijing for the first time as secretary of state, Kerry has made no secret of his desire to see China take a more active stance towards North Korea, which in recent weeks has threatened nuclear war against the United States and South Korea.Kerry and China's top diplomat, State Councillor Yang Jiechi, said both countries supported the goal of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula."We are able, the United States and China, to underscore our joint commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula in a peaceful manner," Kerry told reporters, sitting next to Yang at a state guesthouse in western Beijing.But North Korea has repeatedly said it will not abandon nuclear weapons which it described on Friday as its "treasured" guarantor of security.Yang said China's stance on maintaining peace and stability on the peninsula was clear and consistent, repeating phrasing used by the Foreign Ministry since the crisis began."We maintain that the issue should be handled and resolved peacefully through dialogue and consultation. To properly address the Korea nuclear issue serves the common interests of all parties. It is also the shared responsibility of all parties," he said, speaking through an interpreter.

"China will work with other relevant parties, including the United States, to play a constructive role in promoting the six-party talks and balanced implementation of the goals set out in the September 19 joint statement of 2005."The United States and its allies believe the North violated the 2005 aid-for-denuclearization deal by conducting a nuclear test in 2006 and pursuing a uranium enrichment program that would give it a second path to a nuclear weapon in addition to its plutonium-based program.Six-party aid-for-disarmament talks, involving the two Koreas, the United States, Japan, Russia and host China, collapsed in 2008 when the North walked away from the deal.Kerry declined to comment on what specifically China may do to push for a peaceful solution on North Korea, saying only that they had discussed all possibilities.At a news conference in Seoul on Friday and in a U.S.-South Korean joint statement issued on Saturday, Kerry signaled the U.S. preference for diplomacy, but stressed North Korea must take "meaningful" steps on denuclearization."We don't want to get into a threat for threat or ... some kind of confrontational language here. There's been enough of that," Kerry said in Beijing.If North Korea got rid of its nuclear capabilities, then the United States would have no reason to maintain recently deployed defensive capabilities - such as a missile defense system sent to Guam - he said."Now, obviously, if the threat disappears, i.e. North Korea denuclearizes, the same imperative does not exist at that point in time for us to have to have that kind of robust, forward leaning posture of defense."The Pentagon has in recent weeks responded to the North Korean threats by announcing plans to position two Aegis guided-missile destroyers in the western Pacific and a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system to Guam.

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As the North's main trading partner, financial backer and the closest thing it has to a diplomatic ally, China had a unique ability to use its leverage against the impoverished, isolated state, Kerry said in Seoul before leaving for Beijing.China, which sided with North Korea in the 1950-53 civil war against the U.S.-backed South, has always been reluctant to apply pressure on Pyongyang, fearing instability if the North were to implode and send floods of refugees into China.It has also looked askance at U.S. military drills in South Korea.China's Xinhua news agency said in a commentary that Washington had itself been "fanning the flames" on the Korean peninsula with its shows of force."It keeps sending more fighters, bombers and missile-defense ships to the waters of East Asia and carrying out massive military drills with Asian allies in a dramatic display of preemptive power," it said.Chinese state television quoted Premier Li Keqiang as telling Kerry that rising tensions on the Korean peninsula were in nobody's interests, in apparent reference to both Washington and Pyongyang to dial down the war of words."All sides must bear responsibility for maintaining regional peace and stability and be responsible for the consequences," the television report paraphrased Li as saying."Disturbances and provocation on the peninsula and regionally will harm the interests of all sides, which is like lifting a rock only to drop it on one's feet."Still, U.S. officials believe China's rhetoric on North Korea has begun to shift, pointing to a recent speech by China's Xi in which - without referring explicitly to Pyongyang - he said no country "should be allowed to throw a region and even the whole world into chaos for selfish gain".Kerry's Asia trip, which includes a stop in Tokyo on Sunday before flying home on Monday, takes place after weeks of shrill North Korean threats of war since the imposition of new U.N. sanctions in response to its third nuclear test in February.North Korean television made no mention of Kerry's visit and devoted most of its reports to preparations for celebrations on Monday marking the birth date of state founder Kim Il-Sung.But Rodong Sinmun, the ruling Workers' Party's newspaper, issued a fresh denunciation of joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises, saying: "If the enemies dare provoke (North Korea) while going reckless, it will immediately blow them up with an annihilating strike with the use of powerful nuclear means."South Korea's Yonhap news agency, quoting a government source, said North Korea had not moved any of its mobile missile launchers for the past two days after media reports that as many as five missiles had been moved into place on the country's east coast. It said this suggested no launches were imminent.(Additional reporting by Terril Yue Jones in BEIJING and Ronald Popeski in SEOUL; Editing by Nick Macfie and Vicki Allen)

REVELATION 13:11-13
11 And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;(FALSE VATICAN POPE) and he had two horns like a lamb,(JESUS IS THE LAMB OF GOD) and he spake as a dragon.(HES SATANICALLY INSPIRED,HES A CHRISTIAN DEFECTOR FROM THE FAITH)
12 And he exerciseth all the power of the first beast before him,(WORLD DICTATOR) and causeth the earth and them which dwell therein to worship the first beast, whose deadly wound was healed.(THE WORLD DICTATOR CREATES A FALSE RESURRECTION AND IS CROWNED LEADER OF THE NEW WORLD ORDER).
13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

REVELATION 17:2,7-9,11
2 With whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication,(VATICAN IN POLITICS) and the inhabitants of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
7 And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou marvel? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns.
8 The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.
9 And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth.(THE VATICAN IS BUILT ON 7 HILLS OR MOUNTAINS)
11 And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition.

04/13/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Pope Francis sets up a group of eight cardinals to advise him

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Francis has taken a most significant decision by setting up a group of eight cardinals from all continents to advise him in governing the Catholic Church and reforming the Roman Curia

gerard o'connell vatican city   
In a highly significant and ground-breaking move, indicating a new, more collegial style of leadership, Pope Francis has chosen a group of eight cardinals, from all continents and the Roman Curia, to act as his special advisors in governing the Catholic Church and reforming the Roman Curia. The Secretariat of State broke the news in a press statement on April 13, exactly one month after his election.  It said “The Holy Father, Francis, taking up a suggestion that emerged in the course of the General Congregations preceding the Conclave, has set up a group of Cardinals to advise him in the government of the universal Church and to study a project of revision of the Apostolic Constitution “Pastor Bonus” on the Roman Curia”.The Apostolic Constitution “Pastor Bonus”  referred to in the Vatican statement was issued by Pope John Paul II in 1988 and introduced reforms in the Roman Curia, the civil service that assists the Pope in the government of the Church.
The Vatican revealed the names of the eight cardinals chosen by Pope Francis:  

• AFRICA: Cardinal Laurent Monswengo Pasinya, 73, archbishop of Kinshasha in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, former president of SECAM – the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (1997-2003) and co-president of Pax Christi International (2007-2009);
• ASIA: Cardinal Oswald Gracias, 68, archbishop of Bombay, India, the current President of the FABC, the Federation of Asian Bishops’ Conferences;
• EUROPE:  Cardinal Reinhard Marx, 69,  Archbishop of Munich and Freising, in the Federal Republic of Germany; Since 2012 he has been president of  COMECE - the Bishops Conferences of the European Community;
• LATIN AMERICA:  Cardinal Francisco Javier Errazuriz Ossa, 79, emeritus Archbishop of Santiago de Cile, Chile, he was president of  CELAM - the Council of Episcopal Conferences of Latin America ( 2003-2007);
• NORTH AMERICA: Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley, OFM, 66,   archbishop of Boston, US Bishops Conference;
• OCEANIA: Cardinal George Pell, 71, the archbishop of Sydney, Australia;
• ROMAN CURIA: Cardinal Giuseppe Bertello, 70, the Italian-born Holy See diplomat and currently President of the Governorate of the Vatican City State;
• COORDINATOR: Cardinal  Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga, S.D.B.,70, archbishop of Tegucigapla, Honduras, will coordinate the Group..
• SECRETARY: Bishop Marcello Semeraro of Albano diocese, Italy, will serve as the secretary of the group.

In the pre-conclave meetings, several cardinals spoke about the challenges the new pope would face in governing the Catholic Church and reforming the Roman Curia. Some suggested that it would be good if the new pope could develop a more collegial system of government by involving members of the College of Cardinals or of the Bishops Conferences to assist him in the monumental task of governance.  Pope Francis listened carefully and has taken the decision to establish a group of eight to act as his counselors.Pope Francis is a man of government. He knows how to take decisions, as his performance as Jesuit superior and later archbishop bishop in Argentina has shown.  Now he brings that skill to the Vatican, where it is much needed.An analysis of the eight cardinals chosen shows that seven have wide pastoral experience in governing dioceses and one is an experienced Holy See diplomat; they bring with them a rich and diverse field experience. They are not all like-minded men, and that too is a point in his favor. As in Buenos Aires, so too in Rome, he does not want to surround himself with ‘Yes’ men, he wants to avoid the ‘Groupthink” syndrome. He wants advisors who will tell him the truth, not simply tell him the things that they think or imagine he wants to hear. He wishes to listen to different points of view, so that he can reach good decisions for the benefit of the whole Church and of the wider world that it is called to serve. Pope Francis is already in contact with the cardinals, and the Group will meet for the first time on October 1-3, the Vatican said.

04/13/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Francis: A step towards collegiality

Pope Bergoglio during his first mass with cardinals

Pope Francis' reasons for deciding to appoint eight cardinal advisers

ANDREA TORNIELLI vatican city The decision, announced by Francis today, to set up a sort of “privy council” composed of eight cardinals from all five continents, represents the first concrete step in response to the pre-Conclave congregation discussions. The announcement comes on the day that marks a month since Francis was elected to the papacy. The eight cardinals have been given an open-ended mandate and their tasks will include making proposals for the long-awaited Curia reform and helping the Pope govern the universal Church.Theirs will not be a “commission”, just a work group with consultational powers. But it's an important sign as it shows that an attempt is being made to involve the group of cardinals, who – with the exception of the President of the Governorate, Giuseppe Bertello – are or were residential archbishops and held important roles in their respective bishops' conferences. Bertello was one of Bergoglio's big electors, he has extensive diplomatic experience, he was among the first to be received by the new Pope and he is one of the men tipped to gain leadership of the Secretariat of State. The other seven are the Archbishop Emeritus of Santiago de Chile, Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa; teh Archbishop of Bombay, Oswald Gracias; the Archbishop of Munich, Reinhard Marx; the Archbishop of Kinshasa, Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya; the Archbishop of Boston, Sean Patrick O'Malley; and the Archbishop of Sydney, George Pell. Finally, the second Latin American and workgroup coordinator, is the Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Oscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga. The bishop of Albano, Marcello Semeraro, will be the group's secretary.The work group will collaborate with Francis, “advise him on matetrs to do with the government of the universal church” and “prepare a project for the revision” of the apostolic constitution “Pastor Bonus”, which regulates the Curia's activities. Bergoglio's critics have already pointed out the peculiarity of this move given that a body to assist the Pope govern the Church already exists, in the form of the cardinals' consistory.It has become clear throughout the years that the consistory – the gathering of all cardinals – is not particularly active because of the number of its members. The Church could have put together a work group made up of Curia cardinals. The Pope, who appears intent on developing a stronger direct relationship with the heads of the Curia dicasteries, has chosen seven prelates out of eight who do not serve Rome, for this “privy council”. The work group is a way to involve local Churches more directly and at the same time have a flexible consultational tool that can meet a number of times a year or be consulted easily on urgent questions if the Pope deems it necessary. Church historian Alberto Melloni had mentioned this proposal a number of times.
The creation of the work group suggests the reform of the Curia will begin as soon as possible as cardinals clearly saw it as a priority in the discussions held before the conclave.

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JOHN 8:44
44  Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.

EXODUS 20:13
13 Thou shalt not kill.(Murder)(THAT INCLUDES ABORTION)


MATTHEW 18:6
6  But whoso shall offend (HURT) one of these little ones (CHILDREN) which believe in me,(JESUS) it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY FOLKS)

EXODUS 21:12
12 He that smiteth (MURDER)a man,(OR BABY) so that he die, shall be surely put to death.(THATS THE DEATH PENALTY PEOPLE)

REVELATION 9:20-21
20 And the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands, that they should not worship devils,(OCCULT) and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which neither can see, nor hear, nor walk:
21 Neither repented they of their murders, nor of their sorceries,(DRUG ADDICTIONS) nor of their fornication,(SEX OUTSIDE OF MARRIAGE) nor of their thefts.(STEALING)

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The Philadelphia (Horror) Story

By Karen Gushta , Op-Ed Contributor

April 12, 2013|6:42 pm

Horror stories have no appeal for me. Probably the last one I read was a required Edgar Allen Poe story in college. Since then I've assiduously avoided horror stories, novels, and movies-no Stephen King or Vincent Price for me!

There's one horror story unfolding in the news, however, that I think everyone should be following. That's the story of the trial of former abortionist, Kermit Gosnell. Gosnell is being tried for first-degree murder of seven newborn babies and murder in the third degree of a woman who died after a botched abortion.
The description of the conditions inside the building where Gosnell carried out his grisly trade read like the setting of a truly gruesome horror story. As Gary Bauer reported on a blog for The Weekly Standard (4/3/2013):When the FBI raided Gosnell's facility in February 2010, they found it littered with animal feces, blood-stained furniture, and unwashed and unsterilized medical instruments. According to an FBI agent, at one point during the search, Gosnell returned to the clinic office to resume being interviewed and have some dinner. "He came back and ate his food still wearing the bloody, torn latex gloves," the agent testified.Investigators also found baby body parts in bags in a freezer and a collection of baby feet in bottles.
Reading these reports staggers the imagination. But what is equally staggering is that Gosnell's "abortuary"-it certainly couldn't be called a clinic-had not been inspected for more than 17 years!

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According to the 281-page grand jury report prepared on his case in January 2011,After 1993…the Pennsylvania Department of Health abruptly decided, for political reasons, to stop inspecting abortion clinics at all. The politics in question were not anti-abortion, but pro. With the change of administration from Governor Casey to Governor Ridge, officials concluded that inspections would be "putting a barrier up to women" seeking abortions. (pg. 12) Tom Ridge was a popular governor and easily won re-election in 1998 with 57 percent of the vote in a four-way race. But in spite of being a Roman Catholic, he was known as a "pro-choice Republican" and during his two terms, no one from the state health department was checking on Kermit Gosnell.Apparently, until he was investigated, Gosnell had no fear that anyone would come in to see what condition his offices were in or check on whether he was abiding by Pennsylvania state law, which does not allow abortions after 24 weeks. As the grand jury report states:Gosnell routinely relied on unlicensed and untrained staff to treat patients, conduct medical tests, and administer medications without supervision. Even more alarmingly, Gosnell instructed unlicensed workers to sedate patients with dangerous drugs in his absence.... In addition, he regularly performed abortions beyond the 24-week limit prescribed by law. As a result, viable babies were born. Gosnell killed them by plunging scissors into their spinal cords. He taught his staff to do the same.

According to an Associated Press report (3/20/2013), on the second day of the trial a woman who had worked for Gosnell admitted that she carried out Gosnell's instructions to cut the necks of at least 10 babies after they were delivered. Gosnell and another employee would regularly "snip" the spines of babies "to ensure fetal demise," she said.The AP story reported that woman sobbed as she recounted that she took a cellphone picture of one baby (identified as "Baby A") that was bigger than any she had seen aborted before. She said that Gosnell later joked that the baby was so big he could have walked to the bus stop.
Nevertheless, Gosnell's defense lawyer, Jack McMahon, is disputing that any babies were born alive and is challenging the gestational age of the aborted babies. The grand jury's report, however, includes information from an ultrasound on Baby A done by Gosnell's employee, Kareema Cross, that "recorded a gestational age of 29.4 weeks," (about 7.5 months). The report states:After the baby was expelled, Cross noticed that he was breathing, though not for long. After about 10 to 20 seconds, while the mother was asleep, "the doctor just slit the neck," said Cross. Gosnell put the boy's body in a shoebox. Cross described the baby as so big that his feet and arms hung out over the sides of the container. Cross said that she saw the baby move after his neck was cut, and after the doctor placed it in the shoebox. Gosnell told her, "[I]t's the baby's reflexes. It's not really moving."But the report also includes testimony by a neonatologist who stated that this was false. Not only does movement indicate the baby was alive, he would feel a "tremendous amount of pain" when his spinal cord was severed. "So, the fact that Baby Boy A continued to move after his spinal cord was cut with scissors means that he did not die instantly. Maybe the cord was not completely severed. In any case, his few moments of life were spent in excruciating pain."The horror story of Kermit Gosnell's activities in his West Philadelphia abortion center should be getting major network news coverage. But it is not.In a column in USA Today (4/11/2013), Kirsten Powers noted, "A Lexis-Nexis search shows none of the news shows on the three major national television networks has mentioned the Gosnell trial in the last three months. The exception is when Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan hijacked a segment on Meet the Press meant to foment outrage over an anti-abortion rights law in some backward red state."
Nothing has changed since Media Research Center president Brent Bozell wrote in a March 26 column, "It's unbelievable that Dr. Gosnell's trial for his actions inside his 'house of horrors' haven't drawn one network story."It's hard to believe that media outlets are ignoring what investigators found at the now shuttered site. Troy Newman, president of Operation Rescue told LifeNews.com (4/8/2013), "What the police found inside Gosnell's building literally made them vomit." Newman says they found stacks of dead bodies reminiscent of Nazi-era horrors. "Except the dead bodies were not adults. They were precious little babies who were born alive."Newman is urging pro-life advocates to bring attention to the trial by whatever means they can including social media, letters to the editor, and radio call-in talk shows.Dr. Karen Gushta is a writer and researcher for Truth in Action Ministries (formerly Coral Ridge Ministries). Her most recent book is How Can America Survive? The Coming Economic Earthquake. She has also written The War on Children: How Pop Culture and Public Schools Put Our Kids at Risk (2009) and co-authored Ten Truths About Socialism (2010). Dr. Gushta is a former board member of the Broward County Right to Life and is Vice-President of Broward County Eagle Forum. Her doctorate is in Philosophy of Education.

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North Korea reportedly warns Tokyo would be first target of nuclear attack

DEBKAfile Special Report April 12, 2013, 9:00 PM (GMT+02:00)

Tokyo, Japan faces North Korean threat

US and Japanese sources reported Friday, April 12,  that North Korea has warned Japan that Tokyo would be the first target if Pyongyang decided to launch a nuclear attack. This was in response to Japan’s orders to its armed forces to shoot down any North Korean missile that heads toward its territory. Taking the threat seriously, Japan has deployed Patriot interceptors around its capital. Japanese defense officials refused to confirm reports about their naval alert saying they do not want to “show their cards” to North Korea.
On arrival in Seoul Friday, US Secretary of State John Kerry said: “We will stand with South Korea and Japan against these threats. And we will defend ourselves," he said. He rejected the Pentagon's assessment that Pyongyang had probably developed nuclear weapons which could be mounted on ballistic missiles, saying that North Korea had still not developed or fully tested the nuclear capabilities needed for this step.
The White House again insisted Friday that North Korea had not demonstrated a capability to deploy a nuclear-armed missile, evidently intent on having the last word in the debate with the Pentagon on this matter.
debkafile reported earlier Friday:Friday, April 12, the US raised its nuclear alert status to DEFCON 3, Condition Yellow (out of 5 levels), stating “There are currently no imminent nuclear threats against the United States at this time, however the situation is considered fluid and can change rapidly.” Many believe that North Korea will launch their test missile on or about April 15. Japan has instructed its armed forces to shoot down any North Korean missile that heads toward its territory.Contrary to comments from the White House Thursday, the Pentagon reported that “North Korea probably has nuclear weapons that can be mounted on ballistic missiles.” This is a very significant admission by the United States and a dangerous change to the Korean situation.China has mobilized its military and is massing near the border with North Korea. This step was taken after North Korea placed a mid-range Musudan missile ready to launch on its east coast and its “dedication of more facilities at the Yongbon complex to nuclear weapons work.”According to some sources in Washington, the Chinese military mobilization is not directed at deterring Pyongyang but as support for North Korea’s steps. Late Thursday, Representative Doug Lamborn, a Colorado Republican, made a disquieting disclosure. He quoted an excerpt from a Defense Intelligence Agency report expressing “moderate confidence” in the finding that North Korea has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles whose “reliability will be low.” This disclosure raised a furor in the United States, bringing forth a White House response. The director of national intelligence, James Clapper, released a statement saying that the assessment did not represent a consensus of the nation’s intelligence community [16 agencies in all] and that “North Korea has not yet demonstrated the full range of capabilities necessary for a nuclear armed missile.”Pentagon press secretary George Little backed him up by saying: “It would be inaccurate to suggest that the North Korean regime has fully tested, developed or demonstrated the kinds of nuclear capabilities referenced in the passage.”US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Seoul Friday. After meeting South Korean leaders, he travels next to Beijing and Tokyo.In his first comment on the Korean crisis, President Barack Obama said Thursday that now is the time for North Korea to end its belligerence. He said the United States will take ‘‘all necessary steps’’ to protect its people. But Obama also says that no one wants to see a conflict on the Korean Peninsula and would explore all diplomatic options for resolving the crisis.
Obama spoke alongside UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon after the two met in the Oval Office. 

Palestine Museum' Attempts to Expunge Jewish Rights to Land

PA officials joined a ceremony to lay cornerstone for a new museum of “Palestinian culture, history and society” in Bir Zeit near Ramallah.

By Rachel Hirshfeld First Publish: 4/12/2013, 10:52 AM-Israelnationalnews

The foundation stone of the “Palestinian Museum” in Bir Zeit-AFP file

Palestinian Authority officials joined a ceremony on Thursday to lay the cornerstone for a new museum of “Palestinian culture, history and society” in Bir Zeit near Ramallah, in yet another effort aimed at reconstructing history and attempting to strip the Jewish people from their rights to the Land of Israel.
Organizers told the AFP news agency that the museum would provide Arabs with "a valuable source of information on Palestine and its history".The museum is to be constructed in two phases, the first of which is slated for completion by the end of 2014. It is expected to cost some $20 million (15.2 million euros).
"The museum will not only be for Palestinians but will reach out to the whole world through an advanced digital network," project manager Omar al-Qattan said as ground was broken on the new venture.
"It will be more than a traditional building with archaeological relics. We are looking at an institution that will transcend all boundaries -- geographical and political," he added.Palestinian culture minister Siham Barghuti hailed the beginning of the initiative, calling the museum “a great achievement for the Palestinian people."
"The link between memory and everything related to it, to Palestinian history, and to having digital contact with Palestinians everywhere constitutes an important step," she added, according to AFP.Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas attempted to gain further legitimacy and international recognition by urging the United Nations in November to grant the PA an upgraded status of “non-member” observer state, which was ultimately approved by a vote of 138 to 9, with 41 abstentions.Upon hearing the results of the bid, the Anti-Defamation League issued a statement saying that European nations acted “without courage" and "capitulat[ed] to Arab intimidation and pressure" by voting in favor of, or abstaining from the vote.

Shots from Syria Fired at Golan Heights

A barrage of shots from Syria were fired near an IDF force in the Golan Heights. Soldiers responded by firing missiles at the source.

By Elad Benari, Canada First Publish: 4/12/2013, 8:40 PM-Israelnationalnews

Israel carries out a weapons drill in the Golan Heights-AFP photo

The ongoing civil war in Syria spilled into Israeli territory again on Friday evening.The IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said in a statement that , shortly after 8:00 p.m., a barrage of shots from Syria were fired near an IDF force in the Golan Heights.There were no casualties or damage, said the statement.The soldiers responded by firing missiles at the source of fire. A direct hit at the target was identified, said the IDF Spokesperson.
Ten days ago, a mortar shell fired from Syria fell on the Golan Heights. No one was injured and no damage was reported. IDF troops were on alert for additional firings.Officials said they did not believe that the shell was fired purposely at Israeli territory, but that it veered off course when it was fired either by Syrian rebels or Syrian army troops, who were engaged in a fierce firefight Tuesday.Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon warned recently that Israel will respond to any shooting or other attacks that cross the northern border with Syria.“Any violation of Israeli sovereignty and fire from the Syrian side will be answered immediately with the destruction of the source of fire when we identify it,” Yaalon declared.(Arutz Sheva’s North American Desk is keeping you updated until the start of Shabbat in New York. The time posted automatically on all Arutz Sheva articles, however, is Israeli time.)

DOCTOR DOCTORIAN FROM ANGEL OF GOD
then the angel said, Financial crisis will come to Asia. I will shake the world.

JAMES 5:1-3
1 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.

REVELATION 18:10,17,19
10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
17 For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,
19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.

EZEKIEL 7:19
19 They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

REVELATION 13:16-18
16 And he(THE FALSE POPE WHO DEFECTED FROM THE CHRISTIAN FAITH) causeth all,(IN THE WORLD ) both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:(MICROCHIP IMPLANT)
17 And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark,(MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the name of the beast,(WORLD DICTATORS NAME INGRAVED ON YOUR SKIN OR TATTOOED ON YOU OR IN THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT) or the number of his name.(THE NUMBERS OF HIS NAME INGRAVED IN THE MICROCHIP IMLPLANT)-(ALL THESE WILL TELL THE WORLD DICTATOR THAT YOUR WITH HIM AND AGAINST KING JESUS-GOD)
18 Here is wisdom. Let him that hath understanding count the number of the beast:(WORLD LEADER) for it is the number of a man; and his number is Six hundred threescore and six.(6-6-6) A NUMBER SYSTEM (6006006)OR(60020202006)(SOME KIND OF NUMBER IMPLANTED IN THE MICROCHIP THAT TELLS THE WORLD DICTATOR AND THE NEW WORLD ORDER THAT YOU GIVE YOUR TOTAL ALLIGIENCE TO HIM AND NOT JESUS)(ITS AN ETERNAL DECISION YOU MAKE)(YOU CHOOSE YOUR OWN DESTINY)(YOU TAKE THE DICTATORS NAME OR NUMBER UNDER YOUR SKIN,YOUR DOOMED TO THE LAKE OF FIRE AND TORMENTS FOREVER,NEVER ENDING MEANT ONLY FOR SATAN AND HIS ANGELS,NOT HUMAN BEINGS).OR YOU REFUSE THE MICROCHIP IMPLANT AND GO ON THE SIDE OF KING JESUS AND RULE FOREVER WITH HIM ON EARTH.YOU CHOOSE,ITS YOUR DECISION.
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HALF HOUR DOW RESULTS FRI APRIL 12,2013

09:30 AM -2.43
10:00 AM -7.27
10:30 AM -29.70
11:00 AM -57.77
11:30 AM -54.47
12:00 PM -32.33
12:30 PM -30.23
01:00 PM -27.52
01:30 PM -23.65
02:00 PM -27.71
02:30 PM -40.60
03:00 PM -32.12
03:30 PM -14.99
04:00 PM -0.08 14,865.06

S&P 500 1588.85 -4.52

NASDAQ 3294.95 -5.21

GOLD 1,485.00 -78.80

OIL 91.07 -2.44

TSE 300 12,327.07 -154.30

CDNX 1020.74 -27.80

S&P/TSX/60 705.95 -8.21

MORNING,NEWS,STATS

YEAR TO DATE PERFORMANCE
Dow -40 points at 4 minutes of trading today.
Dow -43 points at low today.
Dow -1 points at high today so far.
GOLD opens at $1,533.20.OIL opens at $91.26 today.

AFTERNOON,NEWS,STATS
Dow -79 points at low today so far.
Dow +0.80 points at high today so far.

WRAPUP,NEWS,STATS
Dow -79 points at low today.
Dow  +0.80 points at high today.

GOLD ALLTIME HIGH $1,902.60 (NOT AT CLOSE)

LIKE GOD TOLD PASTOR PAUL BEGLEY.PRAY THAT NORTH KOREAS ROCKETS FAIL.KIM JONG UN IS NO CRY WOLFER.HE WANTS TO DO SOMETHING.SO WE CHRISTIANS START PRAYING.THAT HIS ROCKETS-NUKES FAIL.THANKS

U.S. tells North Korea new missile launch would be "huge mistake"

By Arshad Mohammed and Jack Kim | Reuters – 1 hr 3 mins ago APR 12,13

By Arshad Mohammed and Jack Kim

SEOUL (Reuters) - Secretary of State John Kerry warned North Korea on Friday it would be a "huge mistake" to launch a medium-range missile and said the United States would never accept the reclusive country as a nuclear power.Addressing reporters after talks with South Korea's president and leaders of the 28,000-strong U.S. military contingent in the country, Kerry also said it was up to China, North Korea's sole major ally, to "put some teeth" in efforts to press Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear ambitions.Kerry, like other U.S. officials, played down an assessment from the Pentagon's intelligence agency that the North already had a nuclear missile capacity.The United States, he said, wanted to resume talks about North Korea's earlier pledges to halt its nuclear program, but would defend its allies in the region if necessary.
North Korea has repeatedly said it will not abandon nuclear weapons which it said on Friday were its "treasured" guarantor of security.Kerry's visit coincided with preparations for Monday's anniversary of North Korean state founder Kim Il-Sung's birth date, a possible pretext for a show of strength, with speculation focusing on a possible new missile launch.Kerry, who flies to China on Saturday and to Japan on Sunday, said that if North Korea's 30-year-old leader, Kim Jong-un, proceeded with a launch, "he will be choosing, willfully, to ignore the entire international community"."I would say ahead of time that it is a huge mistake for him to choose to do that because it will further isolate his country and further isolate his people, who frankly are desperate for food, not missile launches."
SHRILL RHETORIC
The North has issued weeks of shrill threats of an impending war following the imposition of U.N. sanctions in response to its third nuclear test in February. Kerry said the threats were "simply unacceptable" by any standard."We are all united in the fact that North Korea will not be accepted as a nuclear power," he said.
Kerry later told U.S. businessmen in Seoul that China, as an advocate of denuclearization, was in a position to press for a change in the North's policy."The reality is that if your policy is denuclearization and it is theirs as it is ours, as it is everybody's except the North at this moment... if that's your policy, you've got to put some teeth into it," he told the gathering.But North Korea showed little inclination for further talks.

Rodong Sinmun, the mouthpiece of the ruling Workers' Party, said Pyongyang would never abandon its nuclear program."The DPRK will hold tighter the treasured sword, nuclear weapons," it said, referring to the country by its official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
North Korean state television showed footage of newscasts from other countries depicting the trajectory a North Korean missile launch might take.It also showed preparations for the Kim Il-Sung birthday festivities, including floral tributes, and a stadium of thousands of schoolchildren of the Korean Children's Union, each wearing a red scarf and saluting and marching in unison.Speculation has mounted of an impending medium-range missile test launch in the North after reports in South Korea and the United States that as many as five medium-range missiles have been moved into position on the country's east coast.Officials in both countries believe the North is preparing to test-launch a Musudan missile, whose range of 3,500 km (2,100 miles) or more would put Japan within striking distance and may threaten the island of Guam, which houses U.S. military bases.The North has been angry about annual military drills between U.S. and South Korean forces, describing them as a "hostile" act. The United States dispatched B52 and B2 stealth bombers from their bases to take part.Hours before Kerry's arrival, a U.S. lawmaker quoted a report by the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency, one of the 17 bodies that make up the U.S. intelligence community, as saying it had "moderate confidence" that North Korea had developed a nuclear bomb that could be fitted on a ballistic missile.But Kerry poured cold water on the report said it was "inaccurate to suggest that the DPRK has fully tested, developed capabilities" as set down in the document.South Korea's Defence Ministry said it did not believe North Korea could mount a nuclear warhead on a missile.Asked about the U.S. report, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said Beijing sought "peace and stability on the Korean peninsula and (was) pushing for its denuclearization via talks and consultations. No matter what changes there are in the situation, we will uphold this direction."A U.S. official had earlier suggested that Washington's greatest concern was the possibility of unexpected developments linked to Kim Jong-un's "youth and inexperience". Asked if war seemed imminent, he replied: "Not at all."South Korean President Park Geun-hye, meeting officials from her ruling Saenuri Party before her talks with Kerry, struck a conciliatory note by suggesting Seoul should at least listen to what North Korea had to say."We have a lot of issues, including the Kaesong industrial zone," local media quoted her as saying. So should we not meet with them and ask: "Just what are you trying to do?'"The president was referring to North Korea's closure this week of the jointly run Kaesong industrial park, with the loss of 53,000 jobs.(Additional reporting by Ju-min Park in SEOUL, Sui-Lee Wee in BEIJING, John Ruwitch in SHANGHAI, and Patricia Zengerle, Mark Hosenball and Jeff Mason in WASHINGTON; Writing by Ronald Popeski; Editing by Nick Macfie)

French Senate passes gay marriage bill

Associated Press – 1 hr 9 mins ago APR 12,13

PARIS (AP) — The French Senate voted Friday to legalize same-sex marriage in France, putting a landmark bill on track to become law by summer.The vote in the upper house of Parliament — led by President Francois Hollande's Socialists — comes despite boisterous protests. Opponents, mostly conservatives and fervent Roman Catholics, have sought to defend traditional marriage.France's justice minister, one of the bill's loudest supporters, said the reform recognizes that many children are already living with same-sex parents and deserve the same protections afforded children of opposite-sex parents.
"These are children that scrape their knees, eat too much candy, don't like broccoli, drive you crazy... we protect them," Christine Taubira told senators following the vote.The justice minister said the reform will "move our institutions towards ever more freedom, equality and personal respect."Both houses of Parliament will now take up a second reading to consider minor Senate changes to the bill passed in February by the National Assembly, also controlled by a Socialist-led majority.Some conservative senators vowed to continue their opposition to the bill."The parliamentary process continues so we will keep talking with the French people who seem to change their position," said UMP party senator Jean-Pierre Raffarin. "So nothing is definitive and the debate continues."Polls have shown a narrow majority of French support legalizing gay marriage, though that support falls when questions about adoption and conception of children come into play.The bill would allow gay marriage and let same-sex couples adopt children. On the campaign trail last year, Hollande pledged to push through such legislation if elected.About a dozen mostly European nations already allow gay marriage.Opponents and supporters of the bill have staged loud demonstrations throughout the bill's passage through Parliament. In mid-January, at least 340,000 people swarmed on the Eiffel Tower to protest the plan to legalize gay marriage, according to police estimates. Two weeks later, about 125,000 proponents of the bill marched in the capital.French civil unions, allowed since 1999, are at least as popular among heterosexuals as among gay and lesbian couples. But that law has no provisions for adoption or assisted reproduction.

TOM HORN-CRIS PUTNAM ON SID ROTH TALKING ABOUT FINAL POPE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERmWcBdtBHk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPPOp1SyHjU

Guests: Tom Horn & Cris Putnam
Part 1 of 2
April 1-7, 2013

Tom Horn and Cris Putnam unveil a 900 year-old prophecy buried in the library of the Vatican. It describes a series of 112 Popes. Now the 112th Pope has been elected. Will the prophecy concerning him come true? Is he the final Pope?    

Want to learn more? Listen to my radio interviews with Tom and Cris here. Go to Part 2 of their TV interview here. Or watch a brief word from Sid about the debt of gratitude he owes to Catholic Charismatics. - See more at: http://www.sidroth.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=12879&news_iv_ctrl=0&abbr=tv_#sthash.jyjDJBOQ.dpuf

http://www.sidroth.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=12879&news_iv_ctrl=0&abbr=tv_
TRANSCRIPT OF THE SHOW
http://www.sidroth.org/site/DocServer/IS699Transcript_Horn-Putnam.pdf?docID=5901
VATICAN OBSERVATORY
http://vaticanobservatory.org/

Guests: Tom Horn & Cris Putnam
Part 1 of 2
April 1-7, 2013

Tom Horn and Cris Putnam unveil a 900 year-old prophecy buried in the library of the Vatican. It describes a series of 112 Popes. Now the 112th Pope has been elected. Will the prophecy concerning him come true? Is he the final Pope?    

Want to learn more? Listen to my radio interviews with Tom and Cris here. Go to Part 2 of their TV interview here. Or watch a brief word from Sid about the debt of gratitude he owes to Catholic Charismatics.
- See more at: http://www.sidroth.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=12879&news_iv_ctrl=0&abbr=tv_#sthash.jyjDJBOQ.dpuf

Pope meets Vatican administrators ahead of changes at top

Reuters – 20 mins ago APR 12,13

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis held his first meeting on Friday with staff of the Vatican department that was at the center of last year's scandal over leaked documents alleging corruption, ahead of expected changes to its leadership.The person he chooses to succeed Cardinal Tarciscio Bertone as head of the Secretariat of State will be among his most important decisions because he will be instrumental in helping Francis set the tone for a humbler Church following a period of scandals.Bertone has been widely blamed for failing to prevent the many mishaps and infighting in Church government during the eight-year pontificate of now-retired Pope Benedict.Francis inherited a Church struggling to deal with priests' sexual abuse of children; the alleged corruption and infighting in the Vatican's central administration, known as the Curia; and conflict over the running of the Vatican's scandal-ridden bank.Benedict left a secret report for Francis on the problems in the administration, which came to light when sensitive documents were stolen from the pope's desk and leaked by his butler in what became know as the "Vatileaks" scandal.The basic failings of the Curia were aired, sometimes passionately, at closed-door meetings of cardinals before they retired into the conclave that elected Francis.Anger at the mostly Italian prelates who run the Curia was one of the reasons cardinals chose the first non-European pope for 1,300 years and quashed the chances of one of the front runners, Milan Archbishop Angelo Scola.Francis greeted each of the Secretariat of State's 300 staff members individually and thanked them for their "priceless commitment" to the administering the 1.2 billion-member Catholic Church, a Vatican statement said.Benedict's butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested and sentenced by a Vatican court to 18 months in prison last year but Benedict pardoned him and he was freed just before Christmas.(Reporting by Philip Pullella; Editing by Alison Williams)

04/11/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Charismatic movement's role in ecumenical dialogue increases

Cardinal Kurt Koch, President of the Pontifical Council for the Promoting Christian Unity, comments on this rapidly-expanding phenomenon

Alessandro Speciale vatican city Since the Second Vatican Council kick-started ecumenical dialogue fifty years ago, the geography of Christianity” has “changed significantly”, with new “ecumenical partners” emerging, that are being grouped under terms such as “new religious movements” and “sects”.Terminological questions aside, according to the President for the Promotion of Christian Unity, Cardinal Kurt Koch, the “primary problem” faced by the Catholic Church in the southern hemisphere, is no longer engaging in dialogue with the historic Christian Churches – from the Orthodox, to the Lutheran to the Anglican Churches – but the relationship with this galaxy of movements :“evangelical, pentecostal and charismatic.” Said movements consider the century-old Christian divisions as a European and even “colonial” legacy – to the extent that these divisions are often ignored and dialogue rejected. In other cases, the “borders” between the various denominations are seen as permeable and not determining, leading to an active promotion of conversion and proselytism.Koch took part in a two-day conference on this underestimated but rapidly-expanding phenomenon, organised in Rome by Germany's bishops. Soem actually spoke of a “boom”: the phenomenon is certainly witnessed across-the-board, in all Christian Churches and is difficult to quantify. It is estimated that Pentecostal Churches have about 400 million throughout the world. As of the year 2000, Professor Philip Jenkins one of the biggest experts on the phenomenon, explained that the number of charismatics and pentecostals across the world is growing at a rate of about 19 million each year.The Centre for the Study of Global Christianity (United States) confirms that back in 2000, there were about 582 million charismatic/pentecostal believers in the world. It is estimated that by 2025 this number will rise to 800 million and that by 2050, there could be as many pentecostals as Hindus in the world. Pope Francis is very familiar with this problem since, in his native Latin America, these new movements are eroding – qite seriously in some cases – the traditional Catholic faith of the majority of the population.In the 90's, the German Bishops' Conference set up a reserach group to study the various existing sects and new religious movements. The idea came from the then President of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, Cardinal Walter Kasper. We still “follow the path marked out by Kasper,” today, Koch stated.The starting point of the study was the realisation that globalisation and secularisation had not led to the end of faith as had been predicted in the 60's and 70's. “The long awaited disappearance of religion which had been seen as a dead cert, never materialised. Quite the opposite in fact: there seems to have been a real “boom” in religions across the whole world,” Munster professor, Karl Gabriel, said. Gabriel presented a study carried out in four sample caountries, Costa Rica, Philippines, Hungary and South Africa.


For example, Gabriel underlined that pentecostal Churches in Latin America have been growing at a “breathtaking rate” for a number of years and even in Eastern Asia, including China, charismatic forms of Christianity are on the rise. There are a number of factors encouraging this growth: firstly, “the social and economic upheaval in the Southern hemisphere,” tìin the face of which, these movements give their followers an “identity and meaning,” boosting their self-confidence” and “making people feel at home.”According to Jenkins, this reality cannot be understood without taking into account one fundamental aspect of the new religious movements: they are a sort of “refuge” for people, a “family”, “whose members help each other to overcome difficulties and poverty.” The “miracle” and “healing” factor also plays an important role in contexts where poverty is a cause of deprivation, illness, hunger, pollution, drugs and prostitution.Engaging in dialogue with these new movements is not always easy. In 1972 the Catholic Church launched international dialogue between Catholics and pentecostals. According to Mgr. Juan Usma Gomez, a Pontifical Council pentecostal movement expert, the dialogue initiative helped not only to “overcome prejudices and preconceived ideas” but also to “deal with difficult subjects such as proselytism and conversion.” However, the phenomenon should be considered in broader terms: “The pentecostal and charismatic group is a cross-religion movement that is present in almost all Christian traditions. People have been talking about a pentecostalisation of Christianity for a decade now.”Mgr. Usma says we need to learn to decipher the positives of these new movements – such as their ability to communicate the meaning of God, renewed spirituality, an attractive style that is in tune with the times” - and their negatives - “proselytism, deceipt, promises of spiritual gifts and material prosperity” which sometimes takes advantage of people's “psychological weaknessed and naivety.” What is certain, is that this phenomenon “has hindered Catholics from realising their strength and has made them underestimate their power in attracting others to the faith.”The Catholic Church should not respond to this growth by simply turning its nose up the pentecostal movement, Cardinal Koch warned: “It needs to take this phenomenon seriously. I think this is the main challenge.” And he went on to ask a question: “What are we going to do about it? Why are the members of our Churches, not just the Catholic Church but the Protestant Churches as well, distancing themselves? This is a big question and a great challenge for us.”

04/11/2013 VATICAN INSIDER

Ratzinger's health gives cause for concern

The historic meeting between the two Popes at Castelgandolfo

Pope Francis is kept constantly informed about the state of his predecessor's health, while Fr. Lombardi has denied rumours about Benedict suffering from any chronic illnesses

Giacomo Galeazzi vatican city Concern has spread about Ratzinger's apparently rapidly deteriorating health. “Benedict XVI is not suffering from any specific chronic illness; his health problems are purely to do with old age,” the director of the Holy See Press Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi stressed. His statement, released to Catholic news agency Aci Prensa, came in response to rumours that have been circulating in the Spanish press about the Pope Emeritus suffering a serious illness. In recent pictures Ratzinger appears visibly thinner and physically weaker.According to information from within the Curia, Pope Francis was apparently also told about his predecessor's health conditions, by Georg Gaenswein, who reassured him. Benedict's increased general fragility is apparently not due to any specific illnesses, recent routine medical check ups confirm. Physical and nervous deterioration are normal consequences of the stressful period that ensued Ratzinger's resignation as Pope. He does not need to be hospitalised for the time being and as scheduled, the former Pope is to return to the Vatican next month, to enter the monastery that has been prepared for him, in the Vatican gardens.Spanish journalist Paloma Gomez Borrer, the Pope Emeritus' health has allegedly deteriorated significantly in this recent period. Meanwhile, Francis continues to show great consideration for his predecessor as he prepares to make changes to the Church's leadership. He is considering a number of candidates for the position of Secretary of State, but it is likely he will choose an Italian. Cardinal Fernando Filoni was Benedict XVI's favourite for this role, although he was always fervently opposed to Bertone's substitution during the Vatileaks storm. Ratzinger had apparently considered the current prefect of the all-powerful Propaganda Fide dicastery and previously (from June 2007 to May 2011) substitute for General Affairs in the Secretariat of State, as a possible candidate for the position of Secretary of State.The Pope Emeritus expressed this preference during his historic meeting with the new Pope on Saturday 23 March at the papal residence at Castel Gandolfo. Filoni, 67, has frontline international experience in very difficult situations given the role he held as Apostolic Nuncio to Iraq during the Iraq war and then as Apostolic Nuncio to the Philippines. Time will tell whether Bergoglio will take his predecessor's choice into account. As photographs attest, Benedict XVI handed a hefty pack of documents and two sealed envelopes to Francis which were clearly to do with his papal ministry.Bergoglio himself wanted the pictures of the box on the table to be taken: a symbol of the handover of the Church's leadership from one Pope to another. Ratzinger's word means a great deal to Francis. And he is naturally also concerned about his predecessor's health.

MATTHEW 24 END TIME SIGNS OF THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

END TIME SIGNS FROM THE BIBLE
WHAT SIGNS WILL BE SEEN ON EARTH SO WE KNOW THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE IS AT HAND.AND THE RAPTURE WILL OCCUR AND THE 7 YEAR TRIBULATION PERIOD WILL BE AT HAND.

MATTHEW CH 24:3
3 And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end (AGE OF GRACE,NOT THE END OF THE WORLD) of the world?

NEW AGE CULTS AND END TIME DECEPTIONS
MATTHEW 24:4-5
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many (MILLIONS) shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.(POSSIBLY MILLIONS)

WARS AND RUMOURS OF WARS-FAMINES,PESTILENCES,EARTHAKES IN DIFFERENT PLACES

MATTHEW 24:6-8
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:(ETNIC GROUP AGAINST ETHNIC GROUP) and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
8 All these are the beginning of sorrows.

LUKE 21:11
11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.

CHRISTIANS AND JEWS PERSECUTED-BETRAYAL

MATTHEW 24:9-10
9 Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name's sake.
10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.

FALSE PROPHETS DECIEVE MANY

MATTHEW 24:11,23-26
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
23 Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
25 Behold, I have told you before.
26 Wherefore if they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the desert; go not forth: behold, he is in the secret chambers; believe it not.

SIN ABOUNDS/LOVE WAXES COLD

MATTHEW 24:12
12 And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
13 But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

GOSPEL PREACHED WORLDWIDE

MATTHEW 24:14
14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end (OF THE AGE OF GRACE) come.

ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION SET UP IN THE REBUILT 3RD TEMPLE AT THE MIDPOINT OF THE TRIBULATION PERIOD AFTER THE WORLD DICTATOR HAS THE FALSE RESURRECTION AND GIVEN WORLD GOVERNMENT LEADER.

MATTHEW 24:15-22
15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house:
18 Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.
19 And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
20 But pray ye that your flight be not in the winter, neither on the sabbath day:
21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
22 And except those days (DAY LIGHT HOURS) should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's (ISRAELS) sake those days shall be shortened.

MARK 13:14
14 But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not,(POSSIBLY A ROBOT OF THE WORLD DICTATOR) (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judaea flee to the mountains:

LIGHTNING FROM EAST TO WEST-SIGN JESUS RETURNS BODILY TO EARTH

MATTHEW 24:27,29-31
27 For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
29 Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:
30 And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
31 And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.(THE RAPTURED CHRISTIANS WHO 7 YRS EARLIER WENT TO HEAVEN ALL COME BACK TO EARTH WITH JESUS AS HE RULES FROM JERUSALEM FOREVER)

MARK 13:30,37
30 Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things (SIGNS) be done.
37 And what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch.

DEATH FROM WARS

MATTHEW 24:28
28 For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.(WW3 BIGTIME DEATH)

ISRAEL REBORN - THE FIRST OF THE 2 HAPPENINGS THAT TELLS US ITS THE LAST GENERATION TILL JESUS RETURNS TO EARTH LITERALLY.THE 2ND AND FINAL SIGN WAS JUNE 6-10,1967 WHEN ISRAEL RECAPTURED JERUSALEM.THIS WAS THE FINAL COUNTDOWN OF THE LAST GENERATION.AND A BIBLICAL GENERATION IS 51 YEARS.SO WE KNOW JESUS WILL BE RETURNING ANY YEAR NOW.

MATTHEW 24:32-36
32 Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:(ISRAEL LITERALLY BORN JUST BEFORE SUMMER MAY 14,1948)
33 So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things,(ALL THE PROPHECIES LITERALLY BEING FULFILLED BEFORE OUR EYES) know that it is near, even at the doors.(THE RAPTURE)
34 Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.
35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
36 But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.

HOW DO I KNOW THE LAST GENERATION STARTS WHEN ISRAEL RECAPTURES JERUSALEM AND NOT JUST ISRAEL REBORN AS A NATION.BECAUSE IN DANIEL 9:24 GOD DEALS WITH HIS PEOPLE ISRAELIS AND JERUSALEM.THATS HOW I KNOW THE LAST GENERATION COUNTDOWN IS WHEN ISRAEL RECAPTURED JERUSALEM AS THEIRS AFTER SOME 2,300 YEARS.

DANIEL 9:24
24 Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people(ISRAEL) and upon thy(ISRAELS) holy city,(JERUSALEM) to finish the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up the vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.(JESUS ANNOINTED WITH HOLY OIL AS KING OF JERUSALEM FOREVER).

LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.(JERUSALEM RECAPTURED BY ISRAEL ON JUNE 7,1967)(THE FINAL COUNTDOWN OF THE LAST GENERATION)

SIGNS FROM NOAHS DAY/TODAY

MATTHEW 24:37-41
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.(TO GO INTO JESUS' KINGDOM)(1/2 EARTHS POPULATION DIE IN WW3)
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.

WATCH FOR THE SIGNS SO YOU KNOW WERE AT THE END OF THE AGE OF GRACE

MATTHEW 24:42-51
42 Watch therefore: for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
49 And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken;
50 The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

STORMS-TORNADOS-HURRICANES/SIGNS IN SUN,MOON,STARS

LUKE 21:25-26
25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
26 Men's hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

ISRAEL WILL RECAPTURE JERUSALEM AS THEIRS AGAIN

LUKE 21:24
24 And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.(JERUSALEM RECAPTURED BY ISRAEL ON JUNE 7,1967)(THE FINAL COUNTDOWN OF THE LAST GENERATION)

NORTH KOREA CAN PUT NUKE ON MISSLE

KING JESUS IS COMING FOR US ANY TIME NOW. THE RAPTURE. BE PREPARED TO GO.

NUCLEAR WEAPONS WILL BE USED.

JESUS SHED HIS BLOOD FOR US THAT WE CAN BE SAVED FOREVER.AND DURING WW3 PEOPLES BLOOD WILL BE SHED AS A JUDGEMENT FOR HATING HIM AND ISRAEL.GOD IS NOT MOCKED.

ZEPHANIAH 1:2-3
2  I will utterly consume all things from off the land, saith the LORD.
3  I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the LORD.

PSALMS 97:3
3 A fire goeth before him, and burneth up his enemies round about.

EZEKIEL 5:15-17
15  So it shall be a reproach and a taunt, an instruction and an astonishment unto the (ARAB/MUSLIM) nations that are round about thee,(ISRAEL) when I shall execute judgments in thee in anger and in fury and in furious rebukes. I the LORD have spoken it.
16  When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:
17  So will I send upon you famine and evil beasts,(WHEN RUSSIA/MUSLIMS GET DEFEATED THIER BODIES GET EATEN BY BIRDS,ANIMALS IN ISRAEL MIGRATION SEASON) and they shall bereave thee; and pestilence and blood shall pass through thee;(NUKES) and I will bring the sword upon thee. I the LORD have spoken it.

REVELATION 14:18-20
18 And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
19 And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
20 And the winepress was trodden without the city,(JERUSALEM) and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.(200 MILES) (THE SIZE OF ISRAEL)

ISAIAH 66:15-18
15 For, behold, the LORD will come with fire,(NUKES) and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the LORD plead with all flesh: and the slain of the LORD shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

ISAIAH 26:21
21 For, behold, the LORD cometh out of his place to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity:(GOD/ISRAEL HATE AND BRAKING OF HIS COMMANDMENTS) the earth also shall disclose her blood, and shall no more cover her slain.(WW3,1/2 earths population die - 3 BILLION).

ISAIAH 13:6-13 KJV
6 Howl ye; for the day of the LORD is at hand; it shall come as a destruction from the Almighty.
7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:(FROM FRIGHT)
8 And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
9 Behold, the day of the LORD cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate: and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.
10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
11 And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold; even a man than the golden wedge of Ophir.
13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

ISAIAH 24:17-23 KJV
17 Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
18 And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.
19 The earth is utterly broken down, the earth is clean dissolved, the earth is moved exceedingly.
20 The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.
21 And it shall come to pass in that day, that the LORD shall punish the host of the high ones that are on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.
22 And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.
23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.

2 TIMOTHY 3:1
1 This know also, that in the last days perilous (DANGEROUS) times shall come.

JOEL 2:3,30
3 A fire devoureth before them;(ATOMIC BOMB) and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and nothing shall escape them.
30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

ZECHARIAH 14:12-13
12 And this shall be the plague wherewith the LORD will smite all the people that have fought against Jerusalem; Their flesh shall consume away while they stand upon their feet,(DISOLVED) and their eyes shall consume away in their holes,(DISOLVED) and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.(DISOLVED)(BECAUSE NUKES HAVE BEEN USED ON ISRAELS ENEMIES)(GOD PROTECTS ISRAEL AND ALWAYS WILL)
13 And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the LORD shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.(1/2-3 BILLION DIE IN WW3)(THIS IS AN ATOMIC BOMB EFFECT)

EZEKIEL 20:47
47 And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.

ZEPHANIAH 1:18
18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

MALACHI 4:1
1 For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

REVELATION 8:7
7 The first angel sounded, and there followed hail and fire mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

REVELATION 9:18
18 By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

HALF OF EARTHS POPULATION DIE DURING THE 7 YR TRIBULATION.(THESE VERSES ARE JUDGEMENT SCRIPTURES NOT RAPTURE SCRIPTURES)

LUKE 17:34-37
34 I tell you, in that night there shall be two men in one bed; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other shall be left.
35 Two women shall be grinding together; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
36 Two men shall be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
37 And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.(Christians have new bodies,this is the people against Jerusalem during the 7 yr treaty)(Christians bodies are not being eaten by the birds).

MATTHEW 24:37-51
37 But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
38 For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,
39 And knew not until the flood came, and took them all away; so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.
40 Then shall two be in the field; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
41 Two women shall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,(IN WW3 JUDGEMENT) and the other left.
42 Watch therefore:(FOR THE LAST DAYS SIGNS HAPPENING) for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come.
43 But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.
44 Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.
45 Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?
46 Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.
47 Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods.
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

North Korea Can Put A Nuke on a Missile, U.S. Intelligence Agency Believes

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, second from right, stands with staff as he arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 11, 2013, to testify before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the Defense Department's fiscal 2014 National Defense Authorization Budget Request. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)

By LUIS MARTNEZ

April 11, 3013

The Defense Intelligence Agency has concluded with "moderate confidence" that North Korea might be capable of placing a nuclear weapon small enough that could be delivered by a ballistic missile. The DIA also says that if that is the case, the reliability of the missile would be low.The alarming assessment came near the end of a hearing before the House Armed Services Committee with Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey. It also came as North Korea has been issuing threats that range from nuclear war against the U.S. and South Korea to testing a new missile.Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., asked Dempsey if he agreed with a recent classified DIA report that contained an unclassified section that said, "DIA assesses with moderate confidence the North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles. However, the reliability will be low."Dempsey eventually admitted he had not seen this report so he couldn't answer the congressman's question.Moderate confidence is an intelligence term that signals plausibility. A definition found in a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear capabilities defined it as "generally means credibly sourced and plausible information, but not of sufficient quality or corroboration to warrant a higher level of confidence."A U.S. official said it's his understanding that the intelligence community as a whole has not made that determination and this might be just the DIA's assessment.A spokesperson for Lamborn's office says the congressman had recently visited his committee's reading room to read the unclassified portion of the report called "Dynamic Threat Assessment 8099: North Korea Nuclear Weapons Program (March 2013)."All he found was the following sentence that he read to Dempsey today. "DIA assesses with moderate confidence the North currently has nuclear weapons capable of delivery by ballistic missiles. However, the reliability will be low."At another Capitol Hill hearing, James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, had earlier testified that "North Korea has already demonstrated capabilities that threaten the United States and the security environment in East Asia." He listed North Korea's nuclear test in February, their plan to restart the nuclear reactor in Yongbyon and last year's display of the KN-08 missile which he said "appears to be a road-mobile intercontinental ballistic missile.""We believe Pyongyang has already taken initial steps towards fielding this system, although it remains untested," he said. Last December's launch of a Taepodong 2 missile that placed a satellite in orbit demonstrated its long-range missile technology."These developments have been accompanied with extremely belligerent, aggressive public rhetoric towards the United States and South Korea. We continue to carefully monitor developments in anticipation of North Korea's next provocative step."The world's attention has been drawn to what U.S. officials believe could be the imminent launch of a mid-range mobile ballistic missile called the Musudan. A U.S. official says possibly as many as two missiles have been located in the town of Wonsan along North Korea's eastern coast.The official says a Musudan missile or missiles have been spotted being moved out of the shed on their launchers and then being set up upright into the firing position. The missile has then been spotted by American satellites being lowered into the horizontal position and moved back into the shed. This has happened more than once.It is part of the reason why the U.S. can't fully ascertain that there are two missiles in the shed is that only one comes out at a time. The notion that there are two is because more gear than is necessary for one missile was spotted during the transport and possibly at the current location."They're teasing us," said a U.S. official. This same official offered the explanation that the repeated up and down of the loader into the firing position could be training on the part of the North Koreans to prepare for a launch on short notice.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/north-korea-put-nuke-missile-us-intelligence-agency/story?id=18935588&page=2#.UWdRh0p9kwo