Israeli researchers from Tel Aviv University’s School of Science have developed a computer tool that could facilitate the complex study of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls. The 2,000-year-old scrolls were written in Hebrew and were first discovered by chance in 1947 in caves close to the Dead Sea.

“Scholars have been studying the Dead Sea Scrolls for 70 years,” Prof. Nachum Dershowitz, one of the researchers behind the new computer tool, said in an interview with The Times of Israel.

“One of the great unsolved challenges has been comparing and matching handwriting across different fragments or scrolls. This remains one of the field’s giant questions,” he explained.

The innovative computer application integrates multispectral imaging with conventional computer vision methods. This cutting-edge system is designed to facilitate more accurate analysis of ancient texts and comparison of handwriting. While still in its initial development phase, the researchers are optimistic that the technology will eventually improve the understanding of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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New Zealand has temporarily blocked overseas adoptions of its children after revelations that some convicted sex offenders were able to adopt, prompting swift government action and strong backing from Christian organizations and child protection advocates who say reform is long overdue.

Lawmakers are speedily progressing an Adoption Amendment bill through parliament to deter overseas adoptions under current citizenship and immigration channels, reports RNZ.

It follows news announced on Sept. 16 by the government that Section 17 of the Adoption Act is urgently suspended, following reports of children suffering exploitation after international adoptions.

The NZ Ministry of Justice confirmed the government’s position in a website announcement.

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Bishop Edir Macedo Bezerra, the billionaire founder of the neo-Pentecostal Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, who Brazilian authorities once accused of using church funds to enrich himself, has sold his luxury condo unit in the Porsche Design Tower in Sunny Isles Beach, Florida, for $13 million.

The sale, which was made on Sept. 10, was reported by the real estate firm Redfin.

Macedo’s condo, which was previously sold brand new in 2016 for $9.65 million, is described by Redfin as “the height of coastal luxury.”

It’s a “one-of-a-kind duplex penthouse” boasting 6,121 square feet of space and the Dezervator — a private car elevator that goes directly to the condo’s four-car sky garage. The condo, which has four large bedrooms, high ceilings and floor-to-ceiling glass windows, also has a private balcony pool with ocean views.

Macedo and his family are proponents of the prosperity gospel, which teaches that "believers have a right to the blessings of health and wealth and that they can obtain these blessings through positive confessions of faith and the 'sowing of seeds' through the faithful payments of tithes and offerings."

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A Denver judge has ordered online pastor Eligio "Eli" Regalado and his wife, Kaitlyn, who sold some $3.2 million in worthless cryptocurrency to their Christian followers, to repay nearly $3.4 million in restitution.

A press release from the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies said Denver District Court Judge Heidi L. Kutcher made the order last Friday after ruling in a civil lawsuit that the couple and INDXcoin LLC committed securities fraud in violation of the Colorado Securities Act. They are still facing 40 counts of fraud in a separate criminal case filed in July.

"The Regalados are 21st century false prophets who leveraged the new and promising technology of cryptocurrencies to run an old-fashioned scam, victimizing their own congregants and others,” Colorado Securities Commissioner Tung Chan said in response to Kutcher’s ruling.

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Hopefully well. Are you guys ready for fall?

What's the latest at your parishes and in your lives (if you care to share)?

It seems like there haven't been many pointed discussions about the economy down in the US right now.
Seems that the DOW continues to improve.
Unemployment is at BEST, underwhelming.
The inflation on foods is becoming quite untenable for many.
Farming, as an American industry is on the brink of complete disaster (if we are to believe American farmers)

But I don't live there.

What are you passionate about here? What are the really GREAT things you see happenning? What are the troubling things?

I'm curious.

Thank you, Senator Grassley for revealing the truth about Biden's weaponized FBI.

It's the classic pattern: Muslims appear to be open and democratic, until they outnumber the non-Muslims. Once that happens, it's back to the 9th century, with Shar'iah law and dhimmitude.

The Islamic faith is incompatible with modern Western countries, particularly the United States.

MSN

No matter how much gaslighting the Trump admin and the right may invoke, that is the reality.
I mean exactly how many liberal radicals militias are out there in the woods playing army in preparation of a revolution?
But kind of like climate change and science itself, anything the Trump admin doesn't like gets deleted from government websites.
They are literally whitewashing reality.

I have been suffering immensely recently but it is not because of my belief in Christ. This has lead me to believe I am being punished rather than having my faith cleansed through fire. Is this a fair belief?

https://tomsdigest.com/2025/09/15/t...-divine-offices-in-the-roman-catholic-church/​

The pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Orlando, Florida, loading the thurible before incensing the altar at the Magnificat. Choral Vespers for the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, Sep. 14. 2025.

“Pastors of souls should see to it that the chief hours, especially Vespers, are celebrated in common in church on Sundays and the more solemn feasts. And the laity, too, are encouraged to recite the divine office, either with the priests, or among themselves, or even individually.” (Sacrosanctum Concilium 100.)

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A friend of mine who is a music director at a suburban Orlando Catholic parish in Florida just organized a successful organ concert coupled with Choral Vespers in honor of Holy Cross Day on September 14, 2025.

As someone who has been doing what feels like shouting into the great void about the importance of restoring regular, public divine offices with robust congregational participation, this was of course of great interest to me.

Here is a complete video of the event, courtesy of my friend Steven who organized it, played the organ and conducted the choir:

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Peace in Christ.

When His life is made manifest in our mortal flesh, then we appear with Him in glory.

We receive the promise of His presence….and with His presence, we shine His light to the people of the outside world who are sitting in deep darkness (the “west”).

They will then see the Light of Christ shine through us. The blind shall see the light that they had not seen before as the man-based churches were not shining His glory light to them previously.

It will be as the lightening that comes out of the “east”…the rising of light within our hearts…..and shines unto the “west”….the place where the sun had set and is darkened. The people of the outside world are in the “west” (the dark place where the sun had gone down) and we, His people, are the “east.”

Mat 24:27
(27) For as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west; so shall also the coming (Greek: “parousia” = PRESENCE) of the Son of man be.

Isa 45:5-6
(5) I am the LORD, and there is none else, there is no God beside me: I girded thee, though thou hast not known me:
(6) That they may know from the rising of the sun (the east), and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the LORD, and there is none else.

The lightning from His presence ….that will be made manifest in our mortal bodies in this earth (“under Heaven”)…. shines to the “other” ….the other person who is sitting in deep darkness.

Luke 17:24-25
(24) For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one under heaven, shineth unto the other under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

But as our Lord first suffered many things and was rejected by “this generation” in order to be raised to glory….we also must first suffer with Him (being made partakers of His sufferings) and also be rejected by “this generation” (the unbelievers in the man-based churches) before we are to receive His glory so that we may then shine His light to the people of the outside world who are sitting in darkness….the “west.”

(25) But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

“This generation” shares certain attributes. They curse their father and does not bless their mother. This is in a teacher/pupil capacity. They do not hear His Word of Truth as spoken by those who were appointed overseers of them. They reject what they have to say to them and behave badly towards them.

Pro 30:11-14 KJV
(11) There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother.

The unbelievers in the man-based churches will think of themselves as “clean” in their own eyes.

They will stay in their congregations and will not depart from them which would purify them.

They will stay put in their churches because of unbelief in the Word of Truth that they will hear. They become the evil and “adulterous” generation who will not depart their unclean gatherings. They commit “fornication” by continuing to sit together in their unclean congregations.....they are not washed from their filthiness.

(12) There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthiness.
(13) There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
(14) There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

Before we shine to the people of the outside world,(the west), first we must suffer many things by “this generation” who will persecute us for believing and leaving their churches. They will reject His words and us who will believe in them and behave badly towards us. They will persecute us and label us as “evil doers” for leaving them.

Before we shine with His glory to the people of the outside world, we are made partakers of Christ’s sufferings (as the unbelievers in the man-based churches will persecute us) so that when His glory shall be revealed, we may be glad also with exceeding joy as our souls were once put in great tribulation by those we had left behind..

1Pe 4:12-14 KJV
(12) Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you:
(13) But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
(14) If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye; for the spirit of glory and of God resteth upon you: on their part he is evil spoken of, but on your part he is glorified.

It will be the trial of our faith as those we leave behind in the man-based churches will persecute us in their unbelief of the Word of Truth that we will receive in faith.

It will be tried with “fire” so that we might be found unto praise and honor and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ whose presence shall be made manifest in our mortal flesh in this earth so that we might shine His light to the people of the outside world (the west) who will then see His light (and believe) and praise God above.

1Pe 1:6-7 KJV
(6) Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:
(7) That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:

We are not to be terrified by the persecutions by the unbelieving man-based churches which is an evident sign of their perdition but to us our salvation. They will experience the “fire” of the second death as they will die in their sins without His mercy….as no sacrifice shall be available to them any longer.

It is given to us in the behalf of Christ not only to believe on Him but also to suffer for His sake. Before we are to shine as lightning to the people of the outside world, we must "suffer many things" on His behalf. We must "bear His reproach."

Php 1:28-29 KJV
(28) And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that of God.
(29) For unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake;

Heb 13:13 KJV
(13) Let us go forth therefore unto him without the camp, bearing his reproach.

When Christ, who is our life, shall appear (in our mortal body), then we shall also appear with Him in glory. Then the people of the outside world shall see His glory by looking at us.

Col 3:3-4 KJV
(3) For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.
(4) When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

When we leave the man-based churches ( our church family who will not believe in the Word of Truth when they will hear it) for His sake and the gospel’s, we shall receive persecutions by them.

Mar 10:28-30 KJV
(28) Then Peter began to say unto him, Lo, we have left all, and have followed thee.
(29) And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,

Those who will partake of His sufferings will also be made partakers of His glory. We shall receive much more.

(30) But he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.

When He appears in us, we are then “married” with Him…we are the bride.

We receive the promise of His presence in our mortal bodies. The bride readies herself (by mortifying our members which are upon the earth) for this great event to happen: His appearance in our mortal flesh. His glory is revealed through us. We do not return evil for those who will persecute us in evil.

Col 3:5-6 KJV
(5) Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
(6) For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

We are to receive the promise….the promise of His presence in our mortal bodies NOW in this mortal life.

His life shall be made manifest in our mortal flesh ( 2nd Corinthians 4:11 ) so that a “great multitude” of the people of the outside world shall see His light through us and believe.

Heb 10:36-37
(36) For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

For yet a little while, He that IS COMING (now) shall arrive and will “not tarry”…that is, NOT DELAY.

The man-based churches are all preaching that He is delaying His coming in the spirit of error and not of the spirit of the Truth. We die while we await His coming if we listen to them. According to their “understanding,” Jesus delays His coming. This is an error in ignorance of the Truth.

(37) For yet a little while, and he that shall come (IS COMING) will come (ARRIVE) , and will not tarry (NOT DELAY).

This is why the unbelievers who will hear this (among the man-based churches) will persecute those who will preach it: they will continue to think that their Lord DELAYS HIS COMING. They will react with evil towards those who will preach it and those who will believe it.

Luk 12:45 KJV
(45) But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;

“Surely I come quickly”…that is, He comes WITHOUT DELAY. And we are to be like John and affirm this: “Even so (an affirmation of this Truth), come Lord Jesus.”

Rev 22:20
(20) He which testifieth these things saith, Surely I come quickly (without delay). Amen. Even so, come, Lord Jesus.

The bride = those who have manifested the life of Jesus in their mortal flesh…being “married” so-to-speak with Him.

The Spirit and the bride preaches….lays forth the discourse…that the Lord comes WITHOUT DELAY.

The Spirit and the bride “say” (Greek: “legō” - properly to “lay” forth, that is, (figuratively) relate (in words [usually of systematic or set discourse) come.

And let him that HEARS this discourse that is preached by the Spirit and bride affirm this by saying (different Greek word here: epō) come.

And let him that is athirst come and whosoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

The living water flows from the Spirit and the bride towards them: His people and the people of the outside world.

Rev 22:17
(17) And the Spirit and the bride say (lego), Come. And let him that heareth say (epo), Come. And let him that is athirst come. And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely.

I don’t get it.

Preface: I am catching up on videos of Charlie Kirk on college campuses. I didn’t watch them before. He was amazing.

However, as I see in these videos… what’s with all the girls with face hardware? And the mostly cringeworthy boys?

They have either a ring through the side of a nostril. Or both. Or through the nasal septum. Disgusting.

The bridge of the NOSE?

WHAT IS THAT?!?

Is it just narcissism? Immaturity? Both? Something more pathological? Something darker? Is this some sort of demonic Eastern religion thing?

I honestly do not know.

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The Righteous Anger Of A Man Who Just Buried His Assassinated Friend​

If you did not get to watch J.D. Vance’s closing remarks as he guest-hosted The Charlie Kirk Show, sit down, strap in, and listen to one of the most powerful political speeches you will ever hear. I have cued the video to the right point:

Vance spoke with incredible passion — the passion of a man who just had to bury a friend who had his throat blown out by a 30.06 rifle bullet in front of his wife and children. I have zero doubt — none — that he and this administration are going to break these leftist lunatic networks. Note well that he many times praised decent Democrats, and distinguished them from the crazies. And he admitted that there are some crazies on the Right. But he cited statistics showing that, in his words, “this is not a both-sides thing.” Far, far more people on the American Left believe that political violence can be justified than on the Right (for example).

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Men on motorcycles murdered a father and injured a 16-year-old boy while they were taking part in a pilgrimage to the national Marian shrine of the Virgin Mary in Mariamabad in Pakistan, an incident that has shocked Christians in the Muslim-majority country.

According to the Vatican news agency Fides on Sept. 12, Afzal Masih, a married father of four, was murdered on Sept. 7 while he was on a pilgrimage to the shrine located in the Archdiocese of Lahore.

“We are deeply saddened by the murder of Afzal Masih. He was a devout Catholic who was participating in a Marian pilgrimage to venerate and pray to the Virgin Mary. Today, we express our deepest condolences to his family,” Father Tariq George, rector of the shrine, told Fides.

The murder occurred while Afzal Masih was traveling with 15 other members of the faithful and several young men on motorcycles approached the minibus and began to provoke the group.

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Every gift from the Holy Spirit is meant for the edification of the community of believers, Pope Benedict XVI said in a general audience back in 2010 when he focused his catechesis on the life of St. Hildegard of Bingen, whose feast is celebrated Sept. 17 in the universal Church.

Benedict praised her as a model for modern women religious and noted that she benefited the faithful by her willingness to submit her supernatural visions to the interpretation of the Church.

Referring first to St. John Paul II’s apostolic letter Mulieris Dignitatem on the role of women in the life of the Church, Benedict XVI noted that the letter “gives thanks for all the manifestations of the feminine ‘genius’ which have appeared in the course of history.” He then highlighted the figure of St. Hildegard of Bingen as one of the saintly women who stood out nearly a millennium ago.

Born into a noble German family in the year 1098, Hildegard began her studies in human and Christian formation at a Benedictine convent in the town of Bingen, took her vows to cloistered life and, 30 years after she began her formation, became a mother superior.

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Catholic priests around the country have discussed the assassination of Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk during their homilies in the last week.

Kirk, 31, was shot during a campus event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10. The alleged shooter has since been apprehended and identified as 22-year-old Tyler Robinson. Kirk is survived by his wife, Erika, and their two young children.

“So many times it seems almost surreal how the Gospel passage for the day fits … a situation that we face as Christians in our daily lives,” Father Chris Alar at the National Shrine of the Divine Mercy in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, said during his homily on Sept. 11, referencing the day’s reading from the Gospel of Luke, when Jesus instructs his disciples to love their enemies.

“That is what Charlie Kirk did. I was watching some of his videos last night, and he was saying of murderers that they are still children of God, and he prayed for them,” the priest reflected, noting that though Kirk was political, he had not been a politician.

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Four members of the Missionary Sisters of St. Thérèse of the Child Jesus (MCST) in Tanzania are among five people who lost their lives in a tragic road accident in the country’s Archdiocese of Mwanza on Monday.

The Sept. 15 accident in which the MCST superior general and secretary died alongside two other sisters and a driver happened in the Kaluluma-Bukumbi area.

One sister survived the tragic accident and was admitted to Bugando Hospital, where she remains in critical condition.

In a statement obtained on Tuesday by ACI Africa, CNA’s news partner in Africa, Archbishop Renatus Leonard Nkwande of the Mwanza Archdiocese announced the passing of the four Carmelites, “who were serving at Bukumbi Girls’ Secondary School, together with their driver.”

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President Donald Trump called Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar a “disgraceful person” and a “loser” when asked if the Minnesota congresswoman should be stripped of her committee assignments following her remarks about Charlie Kirk’s murder.

While addressing reporters from the Oval Office on Monday, the president responded to a question about Omar, saying that he believes the congresswoman should lose her committee assignments.

“I think she's a disgraceful person. Loser. It's amazing the way people … I know it's people [maybe] from her area of the world, I don't know,” Trump stated. “They got here and they voted her in. It's hard to believe, but I think she's a disgusting person."

Omar’s office did not respond to The Christian Post’s request for comment in response to the president on Tuesday.

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The Oklahoma Supreme Court has blocked the implementation of new social studies standards in Oklahoma, which critics claim advance a “Christian Nationalist” agenda.

The Oklahoma Supreme Court released its ruling Monday prohibiting the Oklahoma State Department of Education and the Oklahoma State Board of Education from implementing and enforcing the 2025 Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies as litigation involving the matter continues.

Several Oklahoma parents filed a lawsuitagainst the standards, which include multiple references to the Bible and Christianity, over the summer.

The lawsuit maintained that the new standards violated the Open Meeting Act because the public was not given adequate notice that the new standards that would be adopted at a Feb. 27 State Board of Education meeting would be drastically different than the ones approved at a December 2024 meeting. Additional claims in the complaint allege that the standards violate state laws requiring curriculum to be “accurate and age-appropriate” as well as religious freedom provisions of the Oklahoma Constitution.

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Actress Jamie Lee Curtis was driven to tears this week while talking about Charlie Kirk's death, noting she disagreed with him but hopes he found comfort in his faith as he died.

"I mean, I disagreed with him on almost every point I ever heard him say. But I believe he was a man of faith, and I hope in that moment when he died, that he felt connected to his faith," Curtis said on the "[bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse][bless and do not curse] With Marc Maron" podcast Monday.

“Even though I find what his ideas were abhorrent to me, I still believe he's a father and a husband and a man of faith, and I hope whatever 'connection to God' means, that he felt it," she added.

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[NRSVUE 2tim 3:1-5] 1 Godlessness in the Last Days You must understand this, that in the last days distressing times will come. 2 For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 unfeeling, implacable, slanderers, profligates, brutes, haters of good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, 5 holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them!

What do you think about that?

In Luke 13:22-30, Jesus was asked a simple yes-or-no question, “Lord, will only a few people be saved?” He did not give a direct answer but called each of us to strenuously and continuously strive for heaven, “Strive to enter through the narrow gate.”

There are five deadly assumptions that we must never make in this life if we are going to strive for heaven successfully.

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https://catholicexchange.com/five-deadly-assumptions-to-avoid-for-our-salvation/

DOJ Quietly Deletes Study After Charlie Kirk's Death That Says Right-Wing Extremists Engage in 'Far More' Political Violence

The U.S. Department of Justice appears to have quietly removed information online regarding right-wing violence following the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

As of Friday, Sept. 12, a 2024 study titled “What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism” no longer appears on the DOJ website under President Donald Trump's administration. However, it is still viewable as an archived post on Wayback Machine.

“Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism,” the first two lines of the study read.


It doesn't fit their current narrative, so of course they would delete it.


What NIJ Research Tells Us About Domestic Terrorism

Militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States. In fact, the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism. Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists, including 227 events that took more than 520 lives. In this same period, far-left extremists committed 42 ideologically motivated attacks that took 78 lives. A recent threat assessment by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security concluded that domestic violent extremists are an acute threat and highlighted a probability that COVID-19 pandemic-related stressors, long-standing ideological grievances related to immigration, and narratives surrounding electoral fraud will continue to serve as a justification for violent actions.

Four times a year, the Church sets aside three days to focus on God through His marvelous creation. These quarterly periods take place around the beginnings of the four natural seasons.

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