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Italian Politicians to Meet With Kevin Annett and ITCCS to Plan `Comprehensive Campaign to De-Secularize` the Vatican

"Spiritual Assembly" to convene on September 22 in Rome and twenty one countries.

(ROME) - The campaign for justice by victims of the Roman Catholic Church took a major step forward this past weekend when two political parties in Italy agreed to meet with ITCCS officials in September.

The meeting will plan what an internal statement calls "a comprehensive political and legal campaign to de-secularize the church and bring it under the rule of law and democratic control".

Hilarious: Aljazeera & MB Duplicity Caught on Camera

We didn’t oust Morsi for his diplomatic or economic failures- you’ll be surprised to find out how adaptively everyday Egyptians, over the heavy years, learned to live with such failures. We ousted him, by a revolution, for his loyalty to the MB was far more than to the state of Egypt.

(ALEXANDRIA, Egypt) - Though we live in the so called world of information, yet we are soaked to the eye brows in total deception and misinformation.

We need, more than ever, to know what’s really happening next door and everywhere on the globe.

Pakistan: Renew Death Penalty Moratorium, Then Abolish Capital Punishment

According to official figures, Pakistan has more than 7,000 prisoners on death row, one of the largest populations of prisoners facing execution in the world.

(YORK, UK) - Pakistan’s government should revoke its decision to resume executions and renew its moratorium on the death penalty, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com said in a letter to the Pakistani government today.

Pakistan has had a moratorium on the death penalty since June 2008, with only the execution of Muhammad Hussain in November 2012 following a court martial.

The Divine Right of Kings and Generals

Revolutions succeed, flourish and prosper by persuasion not coercion, compulsion or demonization.

(LONDON) - Ever since religion as we know it was brought unto man, kings, queens and generals assumed divine power as being the representative of God on this earth.

They waged wars in the name of God, they dispersed largesse in the name of God and they meted out injustices and untold horrors in the name of the same God.

Insensitivity of Pakistani Christian Politicians and Civil Society Leaders

There have been many wake-up calls, but Pakistani Christian politicians/religious leaders have gone into a long snooze.

(ISLAMABAD) - The PPP government had declared August 11 as minorities’ day in 2009 by the effort of then minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti, who was assassinated in the country’s capital in 2011.

The day signifies Quaid-e-Azam’s speech to the Constituent Assembly on August 11, 1947 in which he had said, “You may belong to any religion, caste or creed – that has nothing to do with business of the State.”

Happy Eid?

For the Zionist occupiers of our land fair and open negotiation is not in their game plan. What they have in mind and have planned for decades is expansion, intimidation and war by all means available.

(LONDON) - I doubt it. How could it be a happy Eid when we, Arabs and Moslems, cannot even agree on the sighting of the crescent moon at the beginning or at the end of Ramadan? A sorry state of affairs indeed.

I stopped celebrating any Eid in June 1967 when Israel defeated the inept and ill-prepared Arab armies, mainly from Egypt, Jordan and Syria and usurped the remainder of the historical land of Palestine, plus a large chunk of the Sinai Desert and the Golan Heights.

Between Heaven and Hell

More than 25 million Pakistani Christians are living below poverty line.

(ISLAMABAD) - The Bible shows that there are two great commandments. The first commandment is to love God with all our being. The second commandment is to love our neighbors as ourselves. So how do we show that we love our neighbors?

Jesus said, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

Transparency in Rome and The Confession of Jamie Dimon

(The following should be sung to the tune of "Diamonds are a girl's best friend")
A Pope who's a pauper may hardly seem proper,
But Dimon is the Street's worst friend. - Larry Kudlow, CNN

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - Not long after the anointing of Francis I as "The Pope Without Pomp" (Time Magazine), there was a news event so brief that it escaped the notice of our ambulatory news cycle.

The Vatican's luxurious helicopter, "Swiss Guard One," descended like the Second Coming into the palatial court yard of Castel Gondolfo, the traditional papal summer home.

Let the Spin Begin!

How Black becomes White, and Wrong Becomes Right - Recent Lessons from the Insane Asylum called Church and State.

(NANAIMO, Vancouver Island) - It's touching, at first, when the psychopaths in power seem to dabble in sentimentality and profess a sudden concern for their victims.

Or maybe it just seems touching to all of those battered and cringing multitudes who so need their masters to show a bit of compassion towards them between all the blows.

A Special Appeal from The International Tribunal into Crimes of Church and State (ITCCS)

Please help us strike a blow for survivors of church terror in September, when elders and survivors will gather in Genoa and Rome for the First International Convergence to Stop Crimes against Children.

(BRUSSELS) - Last March, we made a special appeal for help in funding a major trip by our Field Secretary Kevin Annett to several European countries, to coordinate the work of the ITCCS and the International Common Law Court.

Your response was overwhelming, and your financial and moral endorsement made possible that journey, as well as the expansion of the ITCCS to 21 countries.