Detailed LCCC English News Bulletin For March 05/17

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Detailed LCCC English News Bulletin For March 05/17

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Titles For Latest LCCC Bulletin analysis & editorials from miscellaneous sources published english On March 04-05.17
Elias Bejjani/The Leper’s Sold Faith Cured Him/March 05/17
Lebanon to get new military chief after 8 years/Joseph A. Kechichian/Gulf News/March 04/17
The Lebanese Army will fight alongside Hezbollah in a war with Israel’//Jerusalem Post/March 04/17
Lebanese president provokes outcry with Hezbollah comment/Haytham Mouzahem/Al-Monitor/March 03/17
Ya’alon announces intention to run for prime minister, form new party/Udi Shaham/Jerusalem Post/March 04/17
Trudeau rewards a terrorist with citizenship/Candice Malcolm/The Sun/March 04/17
The Objecting Enclaves in Saudi Arabia/Abdulrahman Al-RashedAsharq Al-Awsat/March 04/17
France’s Fatal Attraction to Islam/Giulio Meotti/Gatestone Institute/March 04/17
The Enlightenment Project/David Brooks/The New York Times/March/March 04/17
Mubarak’s innocence through the eyes of history/Abdulrahman al-Rashed/Al Arabiya/March 04/17
Why Trump’s Congress speech heralds his makeover/Trisha de Borchgrave/Al Arabiya/March 04/17
Entertainment is the army’s partner in this war/Fahad Suleiman Shoqiran/Al Arabiya/March 04/17
The Iraqi parliament does not deserve this/Adnan Hussein/Al Arabiya/March 04/17

Titles For Latest Lebanese Related News published On March 04-05.17
Elias Bejjani/The Leper’s Sold Faith Cured Him
Cabinet approves budget items except for salary scale
Berri Urges Two-Thirds Cabinet Approval on Electoral Law
Public School Teachers Go on Strike as Cabinet Finalizes Budget Discussions
Gunmen Open Gunfire at Residence in Akkar
UNRWA Condemns Violation of Its Ain el-Hilweh Installations by Gunmen
Druze Leader Heir Will Run in Parliamentary Elections
Tallawy windsup her visit to Beirut
Rifi: We shall create a resounding surprise in the elections, we reject any coalition not in harmony with our constants
Bou Assi: We are on the verge of a new electoral law, tending towards adopting ‘mixed law’
To disband Palestinian security joint force, to announce tomorrow about new force named ‘joint force’
Machnouk after meeting Berri: His Excellency commits to law and constitutional deadlines, wants to agree on new electoral law
Kahwaji, British Armed Forces Commander in Chief meet in Yarzeh
Khoury launches ‘Five Year plan of Cultural Development’ in Lebanon
Ogassapian: Positive ambiance within Cabinet
Justice Minister bans Klink’s music video
Abu Faour: Jumblatt’s proposal helps exit electoral crisis
Lebanon to get new military chief after 8 years
Lebanon: FPM Turns Page on ‘Cold War’ with Amal Movement
The Lebanese Army will fight alongside Hezbollah in a war with Israel’
Lebanese president provokes outcry with Hezbollah comment/Haytham Mouzahem/Al-Monitor/March 03/17

Titles For Latest LCCC Bulletin For Miscellaneous Reports And News published On March 04-05.17
Iran announces successful missile test
Egypt Police Kill 4 Terrorists in Shootout
Thousands Flee Syria Army Advance in North
Dispute Plagues Egypt on Amending Al-Azhar Law
Iran’s Russian-made S-300 air defense system ‘operational’
Jordan hangs 15 death row prisoners, mostly terror convicts
Bahrain uncovers ‘terrorist cell’, captures 25 members
Yemen forces shoot down drone belonging to Houthi militias in east Sanaa
US launches 30 airstrikes in two days against al-Qaeda in Yemen
Trump alleges wire tapping by Obama during campaign
Twelve treated for chemical weapons agents in Mosul since March 1

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The Leper’s Sold Faith Cured Him
Elias Bejjani/March 05/17
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Christ, the Son of God, is always ready and willing to help the sinners who seek forgiveness and repentance. When we are remorseful and ask Him for exoneration, He never gives up on us no matter what we did or said. As a loving Father, He always comes to our rescue when we get ourselves into trouble. He grants us all kinds of graces to safeguard us from falling into the treacherous traps of Satan’s sinful temptations.
Jesus the only Son Of God willingly endured all kinds of humiliation, pain, torture and accepted death on the cross for our sake and salvation. Through His crucifixion He absolved us from the original sin that our first parents Adam and Eve committed. He showed us the righteous ways through which we can return with Him on the Day Of Judgment to His Father’s Heavenly kingdom.
Jesus made his call to the needy, persecuted, sick and sinners loud and clear: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” (Matthew 11:28) The outcast leper believed in Jesus’ call and came to Him asking for cleansing. Jesus took his hand, touched him with love, and responded to his request.
The leper knew deep in his heart that Jesus could cure him from his devastating and shameful leprosy if He is willing to do so. Against all odds he took the hard and right decision to seek out at once Jesus’ mercy.
With solid faith, courage and perseverance the leper approached Jesus and begging him, kneeling down to him, and says to him, “If you want to, you can make me clean.” When he had said this, immediately the leprosy departed from him and he was made clean. Jesus extended His hand and touched him with great passion and strictly warned him, “See you say nothing to anybody, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing the things which Moses commanded, for a testimony to them.” But the leper went out, began to proclaim it much, and spread about the matter so that Jesus could no more openly enter into a city, but was outside in desert places: and they came to him from everywhere. (Mark 1/40-45)
We sinners, all of us, ought to learn from the leper’s great example of faith. Like him we need to endeavour for sincere repentance with heartfelt prayer, begging Almighty God for absolution from all our sins. Honest pursuit of salvation and repentance requires a great deal of humility, honesty, love, transparency and perseverance. Like the leper we must trust in God’s mercy and unwaveringly go after it.
The faithful leper sensed deep inside his conscience that Jesus could cleanse him, but was not sure if he is worth Jesus’ attention and mercy.
His faith and great trust in God made him break all the laws that prohibited a leper from getting close to or touching anybody. He tossed himself at Jesus’ feet scared and trembling. With great love, confidence, meekness and passion he spoke to Jesus saying “If you will, you can make me clean.” He did not mean if you are in a good mood at present. He meant, rather, if it is not out of line with the purpose of God, and if it is not violating some cosmic program God is working out then you can make me clean.
Lepers in the old days were outcasts forced to live in isolation far away from the public. They were not allowed to continue living in their own communities or families. They were looked upon as dead people and forbidden from even entering the synagogues to worship. They were harshly persecuted, deprived of all their basic rights and dealt with as sinners. But in God’s eyes these sick lepers were His children whom He dearly loves and cares for. “Blessed are you when people reproach you, persecute you, and say all kinds of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you”. Matthew(5/11-12)
The leper trusted in God’s parenthood and did not have any doubts about Jesus’ divinity and power to cleanse and cure him. Without any hesitation, and with a pure heart, he put himself with full submission into Jesus’ hands and will knowing that God our Father cannot but have mercy on His children. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God”. (Matthew5/8)
We need to take the leper as a role model in our lives. His strong and steadfast faith cured him and put him back into society. We are to know God can do whatever He wants and to trust Him. If He is willing, He will. We just have to trust in the goodness and mercy of God and keep on praying and asking, and He surely will respond in His own way even though many times our limited minds can not grasp His help.
Praying on regular basis as Jesus instructed us to is an extremely comforting ritual: “Therefore I tell you, all things whatever you pray and ask for, believe that you have received them, and you shall have them. Whenever you stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against anyone; so that your Father, who is in heaven, may also forgive you your transgressions. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your transgressions” (Mark 11/24-26)
The leper’s faith teaches us that God always listens and always responds to our requests when we approach Him with pure hearts, trust, confidence and humbleness. Almighty God is a loving father who loves us all , we His children and all what we have to do to get His attention is to make our requests through praying. “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”. (Matthew 7/8 -9)