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Titles For Latest LCCC Bulletin analysis & editorials from miscellaneous sources published On March 11-12/17
The Bleeding Women: Faith & Hope/Elias Bejjani/March 12/17
European Parliament Censors Its Own Free Speech/Judith Bergman/Gatestone Institute/March 11, 2017
Why Is General Mattis Nominating the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’s Stooge’/Raymond Ibrahim/PJ Media/March 11/17
Jihadis Living on Support Payments from the Europe They Vowed to Destroy/Giulio Meotti//Gatestone Institute/March 11, 2017
The development of music and historical transformations/Fahad Suleiman Shoqiran/Al Arabiya/March 11/17
The two-sided problem of Muslims/Abdulrahman al-Rashed/Al Arabiya/March 11/17
Who governs and manages a world of chaos/Ghassan Imam/Al Arabiya/March 11/17
Titles For Latest Lebanese Related News published On March 11-12/17
The Bleeding Women: Faith & Hope
Yemeni Officer: 4 Lebanese ‘Hezbollah’ Members Caught in Ma’rib
Aoun to attend his first Arab League summit
Estonia ready to promote digital sector in Lebanon: president
Rahi: Hizbullah’s Involvemnet in Syria Divided the Lebanese
Syria’s Assad Says Priority is Capturing IS Capital Raqqa
Sami Gemayel: Palestinian Arms Must be Controlled, State’s Sovereignty Uncompromising
Hariri Determined to Approve Budget Plan on Monday
Travel Ban Challenge Puts Hawaii’s Few Muslims, Lebanese in Spotlight
Rifi: Rahi’s View on Hizbullah Reflects Positions of Believers in Sovereignty
Lebanese-Palestinian Clashes Erupt in Bourj al-Barajneh
Hariri meets with alFakha delegation, promises to study their demands
Meeting in Blida with UNIFIL, agreement on transferring surveillance control points
Hizballah denounces Damascus explosion, calls to unify efforts to get rid of terrorism gangs
Hizballah denounces Damascus explosion, calls to unify efforts to get rid of terrorism gangs
Minister of Environment denies differences during cabinet sessions
Khoury: To control illegal labor
Kenaan: Salary scale does not meet ambitions but it’s the best we can provide currently
Spanish Ambassadress honors Conservatory of Music Director
Elie Aoun: Lebanon’s sacrifices for the Palestinian cause led to civil war
Bou Assi: We insist on new electoral law
Titles For Latest LCCC Bulletin For Miscellaneous Reports And News published On March 11-12/17
At Least 40 Killed in Twin Bombings against Pilgrims in Damascus
Iraqi Foreign Ministry : 40 Iraqis Dead, 120 injured in Damascus Bombings
Syrian Foreign Ministry urges UN to condemn terrorist attack in Damascus, not to cover up perpetrators and those who stand behind them
Iraq paramilitaries find mass grave of hundreds executed by ISIS
Netherlands cancels landing permission for Turkish minister
US Ambassador to Turkey Targeted by Russian Ambassador’s Assassin
Erdogan Compares Dutch Rally Ban to Nazism as Row Spirals
Turkish Coast Guard: 48 Syrian Migrants Stopped at Sea
World Faces Worst Humanitarian Crisis Since WWII
German shopping mall shut on police fears of an attack
Narendra Modi’s party claims victory in four Indian states
Syrian family’s asylum is first setback for Trump’s revised travel ban
Links From Jihad Watch Site For March 11-12/17
Brampton, Ontario mayor: Criticism of Muslim prayers in public schools “hate speech”
Toronto imam says Muslims will eventually kill all Jews
Judge refuses to halt Trump’s new immigration order
UK: 5,500 cases of FGM in 2016 alone, not a single prosecution
Harvard smears virtually all sites that aren’t hard-Left, including Jihad Watch, as “fake news”
Orlando judge revokes bond for widow of Pulse nightclub jihad mass murderer
More citizens of Saudi Arabia have joined the Islamic State than from any other country
Time for Reza Aslan to tell the truth about Islam after brain-eating stunt
Nineteen U.S.-based Muslims inspired or directed by the Islamic State since 2014
Just one in five foreign rapists in Sweden are ever deported to their home countries
Australia: High school students “bullied into attending Muslim prayers, lectures on the Koran”
Video: BDS supporter does Nazi goosestep, makes Hitler salute on South Africa campus
Links From Christian Today Site On March 11-12/17
Crowd-Pleasing Kong: Skull Island Has An Important Christian Theme
Trump’s New Travel Ban Challenged By Court
Tomb Of Jonah In Mosul Shows ISIS Preserving Artifacts To Sell For Loot
World Council Of Churches Voices ‘Grave Concern’ Over Israel Clampdown On Boycott Support
‘It Is Devastating For Families’: How Compassion International Is Being Forced Out Of India
Philip North ‘Hounded’ Out Of Role, Claims Key Conservative Bishop
Australia’s Third Largest Denomination Has Paid Out 17m Dollars To Child Abuse Victims
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The Bleeding Women: Faith & Hope
Elias Bejjani/March 12/17
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(John 6:68): “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life”
Whenever we are in real trouble encountering devastating and harsh conditions either physically or materially, we unconsciously react with sadness, anger, confusion, helplessness and feel abandoned. When in a big mess, we expect our family members and friends to automatically run to our rescue. But in the majority of such difficult situations, we discover with great disappointment that in reality our heartfelt expectations do not unfold as we wish.
What is frustrating and shocking is that very few of our family members and friends would stand beside us during hardships and endeavour to genuinely offer the needed help. Those who have already walked through these rocky life paths and adversities definitely know very well the bitter taste of disappointment. They know exactly the real meaning of the well-know saying, “a friend in need is a friend indeed”.
Sadly our weak human nature is driven by inborn instincts that often make us side with the rich, powerful, healthy and strong over the poor, weak, needy and sick. Those who have no faith in Almighty God find it very difficult to cope in a real mess.
Meanwhile, those whose faith is solid stand up with courage, refuse to give up hope, and call on their Almighty Father for help through praying and worshiping. They know for sure that our Great Father is loving and passionate. He will not abandon any one of us when calling on Him for mercy and help because He said and promised so. Matthew 11/28-30: “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart; and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
One might ask, ‘Why should I pray?’ And, ‘Do I have to ask God for help, can’t He help me without praying to Him?’ The answer is ‘no’. We need to pray and when we do so with faith and confidence God listens and responds (Mark 11/:24): “Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them”
Yes, we have to make the effort and be adamant and persistent. We have to ask and knock in a bid to show our mere submission to Him and He with no doubt shall provide. (Matthew 7/7 & 8): “Ask, and it will be given you. Seek, and you will find. Knock, and it will be opened for you. For everyone who asks receives. He who seeks finds. To him who knocks it will be opened”.
On this second Sunday of Lent in our Catholic Church’s Eastern Maronite rite, we cite and recall the miraculous cure of the bleeding woman in Matthew 9/20-22, Mark 5/25-34, and Luke 8/43-48. As we learn from the Holy Gospel, the bleeding woman’s great faith made her believe without a shred of doubt that her twelve years of chronic bleeding would stop immediately if she touched Jesus’ garment. She knew deeply in her heart that Jesus would cure her even without asking him. Her faith cured the bleeding and made her well. Her prayers were heard and responded to.
Luke 8/:43-49: “A woman who had a flow of blood for twelve years, who had spent all her living on physicians, and could not be healed by any, came behind him (Jesus), and touched the fringe of his cloak, and immediately the flow of her blood stopped. Jesus said, “Who touched me?” When all denied it, Peter and those with him said, “Master, the multitudes press and jostle you, and you say, ‘Who touched me?’” 8:46 But Jesus said, “Someone did touch me, for I perceived that power has gone out of me.” When the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared to him in the presence of all the people the reason why she had touched him, and how she was healed immediately. He said to her, “Daughter, cheer up. Your faith has made you well. Go in peace.”
The woman’s faith cured her chronic bleeding and put her back in the society as a normal and acceptable citizen. During that era women with uterus bleeding were looked upon as sinners, defiled and totally banned from entering synagogues for praying. Meanwhile, because of her sickness she was physically unable to be a mother and bear children. Sadly she was socially and religiously abandoned, humiliated and alienated. But her faith and hope empowered her with the needed strength and perseverance and enabled her to cope successfully against all odds.
Hallelujah! Faith can do miracles. Yes indeed. (Luke17/5 & 6): ” The apostles said to the Lord, “Increase our faith.” The Lord said, “If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you would tell this sycamore tree, ‘Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you”. How badly do we today need to have a faith like that of this women?
Let us all on this second Lent Sunday pray with solid faith.
Let us ask Almighty God who cured the bleeding women, and who was crucified on the cross to absolve our original sin, that He would endow His Holy graces of peace, tranquility, and love all over the world. And that He would strengthen the faith, patience and hope of all those persecuted, imprisoned, and deprived for courageously witnessing the Gospel’s message and truth.
