World Vision is believed by many to be a basically Christian organisation.

Unaware, no doubt, of an article appearing on WV’s website concerning “Improving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Papua New Guinea” (October 2011) — which says that, amongst other things, the provision of “safe abortion” is “very good” value for money.

The Salvation Army represents itself as a Christian group — but it’s a fence-sitter regarding the sanctity of human life.

It teaches that in cases of rape or incest “an abortion may be justified because . . . .”

Also that abortion “may also be justified where reliable diagnostic procedures determine that a foetal abnormality is present which is incompatible with life other than a brief post-natal survival . . . .”

And the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) in its recent policy platform recommends “protection and promotion of reproductive health, including . . . secure access to safe, affordable, Medicare-funded abortions . . . .”

Oxfam Australia, CARE Australia and Save the Children Australia jointly published a media statement praising President Obama’s 2009 decision to “abolish the rule that denies US taxpayer dollars to international family planning clinics that provide . . . abortion to women in developing countries.”

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Some well-meaning donors to the above groups might feel they’ve been recruited under false pretences if they ever learn what their agency really stands for.

US Secretary of State, H. Clinton, wants the UN Security Council to “send a clear message of support to the people of Syria”.

i.e. to get rid of President Bashar al-Assad and have him replaced by somebody else.

Who else?

Recent history shows that each time the US and its Western friends involve themselves in the internal affairs of Middle Eastern nations, things get worse.

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President Obama praised last year’s Egyptian uprising saying it reflected the people’s yearning for “a government that is fair and just and responsive.”

What did they get? A People’s Assembly dominated by the “Freedom and Justice Party” — the Muslim Brotherhood under another name.

15 million Coptic Christians live in fear — killed on the streets, their women abducted.

In Libya, thousands of NATO air strikes resulted in — what?

A National Transitional Council whose draft constitution states that “Islam is the religion of the state and the principal source of legisation is Islamic jurisprudence (i.e. Sharia Law)”.

Already polygamy has been re-legalised.

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If Bashar al-Assad goes, the Sunnis will take over Syria.

There will be a blood-bath.

(see this blog, 10 December 2011 and 13 June 2011)

Coles advertisement in today’s paper: “There’s no FRESHNESS like Coles FRESHNESS”.

Referring to fruit and vegetables.

When will we see them sloganise: “There’s no exploitation of addicts like Coles exploitation of addicts”?

If you want to buy anything in Coles, you must enter through the gate and exit through the check-out.

Anything?

Not quite . . . .

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If you’re buying cigarettes you don’t need to enter or exit at all.

Grab them at the footpath-fronting front counter, bypassing both gate and check0ut.

They know that half the people to whom they sell cigarettes are on the pathway to DEATH from cigarette-related disease.

They need lots of recruits to replace the dead ones.

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Impulse-buying by the weak-minded is what they love – what they live on and depend on.

How disgusting.

The money they make is BLOOD MONEY.

The money you save by shopping there is blood money.

Britain’s Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice has recently ruled that there is no justification for prohibiting private abortion clinics from advertising their services on television.

Private abortion businesses will be permitted to advertise themselves using terms such as “post-conception advice services”, with the emphasis on how they can arrange ultrasound scans etc.

They will not be obliged to state that they have a financial interest in aborting the babies of those who come seeking “post-conception advice”.

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The Committee requires that the adverts will be subject to a Code stipulating that such advertisements are not to be “harmful, offensive or misleading”.

Doesn’t everybody know that abortion is harmful to the baby?

And isn’t it also harmful to the whole society — in its cheapening of the sanctity of human life.

The small lives to be exterminated are children of God.

And therefore of infinite worth – a fact more important than the profit margins of Mary Stokes International etc.

Over 100 passengers on a Qantas plane that plunged hundreds of feet in mid-air over Western Australia in October 2008 have received compensation handouts of up to $400,000.

The plane plummeted 700 feet in less than half a minute, giving the customers a nasty fright.

Henry Bishop, 67, described the event to the media:

“It was horrendous. My wife and I thought we were going to die . . . .”

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He thought he was going to die?

Mr Bishop is 67 years old. He has known for about 65 years that he’s going to die.

He should have been thinking about his death, anyway, whether the plane dived or not.

We should all think about our death every day.

Isn’t it the one future event that we can be sure of?

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Every day we should pray this prayer, or something like it:

Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee.

Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.

Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners, now, AND AT THE HOUR OF OUR DEATH.

December 28: Feast of the Holy Innocents.

Commemorates the slaughter of innocent children by a jealous, insecure dictator about 2012 years ago.

Gospel of Saint Matthew:

An angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying, “Get up, take the Child and his Mother. Flee to Egypt, and remain there until I tell you; for Herod is about to search for the child, to destroy him.” Joseph took the Child and his Mother by night, went to Egypt, and remained there until the death of Herod . . . .

When Herod saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, he was angry. He sent and killed all the children in and around Bethlehem aged two years old or under, according to the time that he had learned from the wise men. Then was fulfilled what had been spoken through the prophet Jeremiah: “A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation; Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be consoled, because they are no more . . . .”

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Last Sunday, another slaughter of holy innocents.

At least 40 people have been killed in bomb attacks in central and northern Nigeria  — attributed to Muslims of the Boko Haram sect which seeks to impose Sharia law in Nigeria.

A bomb exploded at the end of Christmas Mass in St Teresa’s church, Madalla (near the capital, Abuja) killing an estimated 35 victims.

Pope Benedict XVI said: “I wish to express my solidarity with those who have been hit by this absurd act and invite prayers for the many victims.”

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The indispensable first step in making this a better world is to convert all Muslims to the Catholic Faith.

The first indispensable step in converting all Muslims is for all Catholics to put their Faith first in their lives.

And to do it cheerfully, humbly, non-judgementally, charitably, generously , enthusiastically . . . .

These victims may not have died in vain.