New Pope Mysteries

On 13.3.13, as the date is written at the Vatican, at 7:06 pm (local Roman time), which adds up to another 13, the Roman Catholic Church picked a new Pope.
Information is streaming in quickly, along many lines of inquiry, about Jorge Mario Bergolio,who has named himself Pope Francis,or to some, Pope Francis I.
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2013/03/Pope-Francis.html?m=1
... when the old landmarks have been submerged by the flood of change and the old rules of tradition and precedent no longer avail. During these pontificates the world has changed and the conditions of the Christian apostolate have been changed with it. A new world has come into existence, though it often seems not a world but a formless chaos, and the Church has had to find a new language in which to speak the creative word to the new nations that are being born or renewed.
http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?recnum=7013
let us look at Pope Francis' birth name:
Jorge - "farmer" ("earth-worker"); variant of George (Greek) "farmer".
Mario –Italian, "bitter, rebellious," "bitter"; associated with the Virgin Mary by acting as a masculinized form of “Maria.” Mary means "bitter, rebellious, be disobedient." Spanish, Mario, "Hammer," "Mars" (Roman god of war).
Bergoglio - berg = "mountain" + oglio = "oil"; oglio is also seen as a "collection of miscellaneous pieces;" a "hotchpotch;" a "mixture;" a "medley;" specifically, from 1648, "of various religions."

Is Pope Francis actually a Pope from the Global South? Is he the world's first "New World Order" Pope?
Is he really an Argentine? His last name Bergoglio is Italian. His dad emigrated from Piamonte, Italy.
M.Bell passes along this quote,as translated by Bill Barrett from the Umbrian text of the Assisi codex:
St. Francis is not only the most attractive of all the Christian saints, he is the most attractive of Christians, admired by Buddhists, atheists, completely secular, modern people, Communists, to whom the figure of Christ himself is at best unattractive. Partly this is due to the sentimentalization of the legend of his life and that of his companions in the early days of the order. Many people today who put his statue in their gardens know nothing about him except that he preached a sermon to the birds, wrote a hymn to the sun, and called the donkey his brother. These bits of information are important because they are signs of a revolution of the sensibility —which incidentally was a metaphysical revolution of which certainly St. Francis himself was quite unaware. They stand for a mystical and emotional immediate realization of the unity of being, a notion foreign, in fact antagonistic, to the main Judeo-Christian tradition. “I am that I am” —the God of Judaism is the only self-sufficient being. All the reality that we can know is contingent, created out of nothing, and hence of an inferior order of reality. Faced with the “utterly other,” the contingent soul can finally only respond with fear and trembling.

With the unsuspected resignation of Pope Benedict XVI many people waited with high expectations as to who the next Pope would be.  The reason for this was because a Catholic seer known as St. Malachy prophesied about the final 112 Popes.  The successor of Pope Benedict XVI would be the 112th but would he be Peter the Roman?

Many people have done research about him and they are persuaded that he is the False Prophet.  However we must be careful of making this claim when the prophecies of St. Malachy are not scripture.  There could still be other Popes to come.  So we need to see what the Bible says.

Revelation 17 shows us that the Roman Catholic Church will be a major player in the Endtime world government.  The Pope during that time will actually team up with the Antichrist.  We see this union in Revelation 13.  So the Pope at the time of the Antichrist will be the False Prophet.  So we need to wait for the revealing of the Antichrist to know for sure who the False Prophet is.

There is an interesting trait about the world government revealed in Revelation 17 though.  The woman sits on a scarlet covered beast representing communism or socialism.  An article was published titled Pope Francis: Liberation Theologian?

In the article it questioned whether or not he was a liberation theologian.  The reason this is interesting is because this belief is very socialistic.  It calls for a redistribution of wealth and a socialist agenda.  So if the current Pope has that mentality it would made him a great match for the coming world government of the Antichrist.  Many are saying he has the vigor and the tenderness to help the Roman Catholic Church and to bring in a new spiritual world.

PRO GAY POPE?

New pope supports gay marriage according to activist.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/03/20/world/americas/argentina-pope-civil-unions/index.html?c=mobile-homepage-t

Obama promises help to Israel

http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/PM-hopes-Obamas-trip-helps-turn-page-in-Mideast-conflict-307141

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday he was "absolutely convinced" that US President Barack Obama was determined to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon.

Obama, speaking beside the prime minister at a joint news conference in Jerusalem, said "there is not a lot of daylight" between the allies' individual assessments of the status of Iran's nuclear program.

Obamas LIMITED Israel Tour

Yad Vashem but not the Knesset, the Church of the Nativity but not the Western Wall, the Israel Museum but not Masada. In a visit as high-profile as US President Barack Obama’s Wednesday-to-Friday stay in Israel, every stop on the itinerary is laden with political significance. So, too, every location left out.

So why is Obama doing what he’s doing, going where he’s going, and avoiding what he’s avoiding? Here’s a chronological guide.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/where-obamas-visiting-in-israel-where-he-isnt-and-why/

The REAL ID “Kill-Shot”…Fired from OK.

Oklahoma mother and business woman Makes a stand against Real ID in her state.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/38063

Check out more about biometrics and National ID.
https://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Writer-Bio-Page.htm?EditNo=326

I was concerned when I first heard about the push for a national ID card which preceded the REAL ID ACT of 2005. At the time I didn’t know much about biometrics but what I did know is that a national ID is the hallmark of a totalitarian society and despite our government’s denials, REAL ID without a doubt qualifies as a national ID.

“We are, after all, for the first time in our history actually creating a national identification card with all the ramifications of that. That is what the Real ID law did.”– Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)

I later found it is actually much worse. REAL ID is an international biometric ID.

For the crash course in biometric ID read Biometrics 101-Your Body IS Your ID

Shortly before REAL ID had actually been passed into law states, including Oklahoma, in anticipation of its passage had already purchased biometric capturing technology. I was shocked when the DMV clerk told me that I must submit to a finger scan. Who doesn’t associate being fingerprinted with criminality? I balked but was told no scan-no drivers license. At the time I had a small child, my own business and countless tasks to accomplish every day that would be very difficult if not impossible to meet without a valid license so I grudgingly complied. I had no idea that it wasn’t just my fingers that they were scanning. The old cameras had been replaced with high resolution digital cameras that capture, map and digitize our facial features for use with facial recognition technology.

My good friend, Howard Houchen, speaks to our natural and healthy gut reaction to ID schemes like Real ID in an article he wrote called the The Id Passes on Pass ID. He’s talking about instinct. My first reaction to Real ID was an instinctive one but after several years of studying the scheme and biometric identification in general, I have come to oppose it intellectually, practically, philosophically, morally and spiritually as well. It is simply a terrible idea and a dangerous imposition on any nation. It is worth noting that this plan is, right now, being imposed around the globe, in every nation.

When you know something is dead wrong what do you do? Well, if you are like me you do everything you can. You lobby. You try to educate others and especially your elected representatives. You support good, protective legislation and oppose the bad. You write letters, organize rallies and events, you talk till you are blue inthe face. You do everything you can think of and you give it everything you got.

http://axiomamuse.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/my-real-id-reckoning/

Bergoglio Has Ties To A Dark Period For The Catholic Church

New Pope Francis isn't a Hitler Youth like the last guy, but he has his own troubled history.

Francis I along with the whole Argentine Catholic Church have faced criticism for their silence or complicity during the post-1976 military dictatorship — a failure for which the Church apologized in 2012.

Known as the Dirty War, this period saw a brutal battle between the ruling military elite and leftist guerrilla fighters, in which up to 30,000 Argentines were "disappeared" and others were raped or killed.

Argentine journalist Horacio Verbitsky chronicled how the Church and Bergoglio were involved in this dark era. As described by Hugh O'Shaughnessy of The Guardian in 2011:

[Verbitsky] recounts how the Argentine navy with the connivance of Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio, now the Jesuit archbishop of Buenos Aires, hid from a visiting delegation of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission the dictatorship's political prisoners. Bergoglio was hiding them in nothing less than his holiday home in an island called El Silencio in the River Plate. The most shaming thing for the church is that in such circumstances Bergoglio's name was allowed to go forward in the ballot to chose the successor of John Paul II. What scandal would not have ensued if the first pope ever to be elected from the continent of America had been revealed as an accessory to murder and false imprisonment.

Bergoglio contended to writer Sergio Rubin that he hid these people to keep them from the violent military junta, not the Human Rights Commission — even as his Jesuit order and Church leaders publicly endorsed the dictatorship

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/pope-francis-has-links-to-dirty-war-2013-3#ixzz2NeKxQKG2

Obama Overestimates Timeline on Iran Nuclear Bomb

Ahead of Israeli Visit, U.S. Leader Says Tehran Is a Year or More Away from Atomic Weapon; Netanyahu Has Different View

WASHINGTON—Barack Obama said it would take Iran a year or more to build a nuclear weapon, an assessment that sets up a potential area of discord with Israel's leader days before the U.S. president visits the Middle East.

Mr. Obama, who will travel to Israel and Palestinian territories next week in his first presidential visit, told Israel's Channel 2 television that an Iranian atomic weapon was a "red line" that threatened Israel and the U.S.

But in setting a timeline for development of an Iranian nuclear weapon that is longer than the more urgent one usually cited by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr. Obama appeared to be tamping down any expectations for pre-emptive action against Iran while aiming to assure its closest Mideast ally of U.S. support. It was the first time Mr. Obama had himself publicly stated a timeline. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323393304578360771653810446.html?mod=fox_australian

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President Obama on Capitol Hill on Thursday.

Who are the Jesuits?

Pope Francis is the first-ever Jesuit to lead the Catholic Church. Formed nearly 500 years ago, the ancient religious order has often clashed with the more dogmatic Vatican.

http://news.msn.com/world/jesuit-order-has-often-clashed-with-the-vatican

The Jesuits are a Military Religious Order of the Roman Catholic Church

"When a Jesuit of the minor rank is to be elevated to command, he is conducted into the Chapel of the Convent of the Order, where there are only three others present, the principal or Superior standing in front of the altar. On either side stands a monk, one of whom holds a banner of yellow and white, which are the Papal colors, and the other a black banner with a dagger and red cross above a skull and crossbones, with the word INRI, and below them the words IUSTUM, NECAR, REGES, IMPIOUS. The meaning of which is: It is just to exterminate or annihilate impious or heretical Kings, Governments, or Rulers. Upon the floor is a red cross at which the postulant or candidate kneels. The Superior hands him a small black crucifix, which he takes in his left hand and presses to his heart, and the Superior at the same time presents to him a dagger, which he grasps by the blade and holds the point against his heart, the Superior still holding it by the hilt, and thus addresses the postulant:"

MORE ON THE OATH: http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/jesuits.htm

THE FOLLOWING IS EXCERPTED FROM THE INTRODUCTION PAGE OF THE BOOK THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE JESUITS BY EDMOND PARIS.

Publisher's Introduction
There is no other person more qualified to introduce Edmond Paris' book, "The Secret History of the Jesuits," than Dr. Alberto Rivera, a former Jesuit priest under the extreme oath and induction, who was trained in the Vatican and briefed on the history of the Jesuits.

The information in this book is factual and fully documented, and it should be read by every Bible-believing Christian in the United States and Canada. The Bible says, "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge." (Hosea 4:6)

Dr. Rivera's Introduction
The most dangerous of men are those who appear very religious, especially when they are organized and in a position of authority. They have the deep respect of the people who are ignorant of their ungodly push for power behind the scenes.

These religious men, who pretend to love God, will resort to murder, incite revolution and wars if necessary to help their cause. They are crafty, intelligent, smooth religious politicians who live in a shadowy world of secrets, intrigue, and phony holiness. This pattern, seen in "The Secret History of the Jesuits," spiritually speaking can be seen in the Scribes, Pharisees and Sadducees at the time of Jesus Christ. This same evil spirit directed the Roman emperors to issue the ten murderous decrees to persecute the early Christian church.

The "Early Fathers" observed most of the ancient Babylonian system plus Jewish theology and Greek philosophy. They all perverted most of the teachings of Christ and His apostles. They paved the way for the Roman Catholic machine that was to come into existence. Piously, they attacked, perverted, added to and took away from the Bible. This religious anti-christ spirit working through them is seen again when Ignatius de Loyola created the Jesuits to secretly accomplish two major goals for the Roman Catholic Institution: 1) universal political power, and 2) a universal church, in fulfillment of the prophecies of Revelation 6, 13, 17 and 18.

By the time Ignatius de Loyola arrived on the scene, the Protestant Reformation had seriously damaged the Roman Catholic system. Ignatius de Loyola came to the conclusion that the only way his "church" could survive was by enforcing the canons and doctrines on the temporal power of the pope and the Roman Catholic institution; not by just destroying the physical life of the people alone as the Dominican priests were doing through the Inquisition, but by infiltration and penetration into every sector of life. Protestantism must be conquered and used for the benefit of the popes. That was Ignatius de Loyola's personal proposal, among others, to Pope Paul III. Jesuits immediately went to work secretly infiltrating ALL the Protestant groups including their families, places of work, hospitals, schools, colleges, etc. Today, the Jesuits have almost completed that mission.

The Bible puts the power of a local church into the hands of a Godly pastor. But the cunning Jesuits successfully managed over the years to remove that power into the hands of denomination headquarters, and have now pushed almost all of the Protestant denominations into the arms of the Vatican. This is exactly what Ignatius de Loyola set out to accomplish: a universal church and the end of Protestantism.

As you read "The Secret History of the Jesuits," you will see there is a parallel between the religious and political sectors. The author, Mr. Paris, reveals the penetration and infiltration of the Jesuits into the governments and nations of the world to manipulate the course of history by setting up dictatorships, and weakening democracies such as the United States of America, by paving the way for social, political, moral, military, educational and religious anarchy.

Full Article :  http://www.angelfire.com/on/3angels/vaticannazis.html

Obama won't trip over Netanyahu's Iran "red line"

(Reuters) - President Barack Obama visits Israel next week at the onset of spring - the "red line" previously drawn by his host, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, to trigger an attack on Iran's nuclear sites.


But an Israeli-Iranian war, Washington's nightmare as it tries to scale back defense commitments abroad and avoid a draining Gulf oil crisis, does not appear trip-wire imminent. Officials and analysts say Iran has warded off the Israeli threat by calibrating its mid-level uranium enrichment so that it does not accrue enough fuel for a potential first bomb - the threshold Netanyahu warned about in a United Nations speech in September. He was presenting a worst-case extrapolation from U.N. nuclear inspector reports.

 The most recent of those, however, found a slowdown in the stockpiling of the 20 percent fissile uranium that Iran, in the face of mounting Western suspicions, says is part of an entirely peaceful program. Netanyahu has not publicly revised the spring-to-summer 2013 dating for his "red line". But several Israeli officials privately acknowledged it had been deferred, maybe indefinitely. "The red line was never a deadline," one told Reuters.

FULL STORY
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/15/us-usa-israel-obama-iran-idUSBRE92E06Q20130315

Iran hopes to prolong life of Assad regime

Israeli military intelligence chief says Iran hopes to prolong life of Assad regime and maintain influence after his fall...

Iran and Hezbollah have built a 50,000-strong parallel force in Syria to help prolong the life of the Assad regime and to maintain their influence after his fall, Israel's military intelligence chief has claimed.

Defence officials say they are focused on Assad's sizeable arsenal of chemical weapons and missiles and they are prepared to carry out more air strikes to stop such arms being transferred to Hezbollah, even at the risk of what a senior official predicted would be an ugly new war in Lebanon.

Western and Israeli governments have long alleged that members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards are advising Assad's generals, and that Hezbollah guerillas are fighting alongside Syrian government troops. Israeli officials say the commander of the Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, Qassem Suleimani, has been in Damascus to oversee operations.

In his speech on Thursday, Kochavi went much further and claimed that since last June Tehran had been using Hezbollah to build up a large Syrian militia that would be Iranian-controlled even in the event of Assad's fall from power.

"The damages of the imminent fall of Syria are very high for both Iran and Hezbollah. Iran is losing a sole ally in the region surrounding Israel. It will lose the ability to transfer weaponry through Syria to Hezbollah. Iran and Hezbollah are both doing all in their power to assist Assad's regime.

FULL STORY :  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/14/iran-hezbollah-force-syrian-regime

So why does this matter? First of all, when Assad falls, it will likely create a domino effect which will adversely affect terrorist entities Hamas, Hizbullah, and even the Iranian regime. God could use that event to align for the fulfillment of end-times Bible prophecy. How?

Click to learn more! Russia, Syria, Iran & End-Times Prophecy

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/14/iran-hezbollah-force-syrian-regime

New Pope has Been Chosen!

The white smoke, accompanied by the pealing of bells to eliminate any confusion, billowed from a flue on the roof of the Sistine Chapel, prompting the huge gathered in the square to erupt in applause and cheers.

The election came after two rounds of balloting in a morning session. The 115 voting cardinals reconvened about 4:30 p.m. (11:30 a.m. Eastern) to vote up to two more times before either electing a new pope or adjourning for the day.

To be chosen, a candidate had to win the support of at least two-thirds of the 115 voting-age cardinals. Reported front-runners included Cardinals Angelo Scola of Italy, Marc Ouellet of Canada, and Odilo Pedro Scherer of Brazil.

Because no one bloc of cardinals — organized around passport or priorities — was large enough on its own to generate the requisite 77 votes, a candidate needed to consolidate support from a cross-section of electors. And if consensus remained elusive, the cardinals could look to the less familiar names in their college, which is what happened when John Paul II was chosen in 1978.

“Today is the fundamental day,” said Marco Politi, a papal biographer and a veteran Vatican watcher with the newspaper Il Fatto Quotidiano. “It is a referendum on Scola and whether the papacy will go back to an Italian or cross the Atlantic. For the first time there is a real possibility to have a pope from the Americas.”

FULL STORY: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/on-day-2-of-papal-conclave-alliances-should-take-shape/2013/03/13/5d88b616-8bba-11e2-9838-d62f083ba93f_story.html

NOW THE NEW POPE MUST CHOOSE HIS NAME. GREAT LENGTHS WERE TAKEN AS TO NOT PICK A NAME RESEMBLING "PETER THE ROMAN", THUS FULFILLING THE PROPHECY.

well..it's been called. 

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina elected pope, takes name Pope Francis

Non-Roman   Non-European...so was the prophecy fulfilled? St. Malachy said it would be a "black pope" so does that mean skin color-demeanor? Bergoglio is the first Jesuit Pope (they wear black)...we will see how...if at all...this fits in the prophecy. Remember...this blog is concerned with Biblical prophesies...but this has been a lot of fun speculatiing and i look forward to seeing it unwravel in the future. No one thought Pope Benedict fulfilled the spot at first either. Then it became clear. So we shall see!

(RNN) - Once elected by the papal conclave, the prospective pope is asked two questions: Do you accept? and then: What name will you take?

In early times, the first popes would keep their baptismal names. But John II, whose birth name was Mercurius, and served as Pope from 533 to 535, was the first to change his name.

"In the Bible, when you get a new job from God, you pick a new name or you're given a new name, and that's the idea - they feel they've been chosen to do this very weighty job and they need a name that will sort of help them and inspire them,"said William Porter, chair of Catholic theology at the University of Daytontold CTV News. "It's also a signal to the rest of the church and the world."

http://www.wafb.com/story/21586028/how-do-popes-choose-their-name

Mr. Obama Goes to Israel

In Israel, Obama has been regarded as the least friendly U.S. president ever, and in the region the United States is perceived as having lost both interest and clout. The result has been a power vacuum and, with that, a dangerous escalation of tensions.

It may be that Obama will have an unexpected triumph, comparable to President Nixon's opening to China when he had been the vehement red-baiter. The chances of the Palestinians achieving a state of their own look remote, but the Israelis are in a mood to compromise if guaranteed the political, emotional, and military support of the United States. And the Palestinian people, if not the leadership, are more eager than ever to escape the confines of occupation and rule by leaders who take huge sums of international aid and invest them in bombs rather than books, in fear rather than food, and in elaborate mansions for their own families.

The United States is the only force capable of moving the parties to resolve their differences. But that won't happen, yet again, unless the hard and brutal facts on the ground are recognized. This first of two reports will describe the arena, and next week's report will examine what it is that has so long frustrated the best of plans.

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/mzuckerman/articles/2013/03/12/why-middle-east-peace-is-so-elusive

Nearly Half of All States Now Deemed Compliant with REAL ID

“There is a prophecy in the Bible that foretells a time when every person will be required to have a mark or a number, without which he or she will not be able to participate in the economy,” states the Christian website NoNationalID.com. “The prophecy is 2,000 years old, but it has been impossible for it to come to pass until now. With the invention of the computer and the Internet, this prophecy of buying and selling, using a number, can now be implemented at any time. Has the time for the fulfillment of this prophecy arrived?”







                                                                                                  Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2006/05/36029/#PJ2YBFzZApMWSpAv.99

The site asks visitors to sign an online petition vowing not to vote for any candidate who does not commit to repealing the Real ID Act. The goal, states the site, which is sponsored by Endtime Ministries, is to get 100,000 signatures on the petition. On the site is a link to purchase a DVD entitled “666 – How Close? Will the National ID Become the Mark of the Beast?” Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2006/05/36029/#PJ2YBFzZApMWSpAv.99

At the end of February, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) certified that another six states are REAL ID compliant. Nearly eight years after Congress first passed the REAL ID Act—which calls on the states to implement minimum security standards in issuing driver’s licenses and state IDs—progress is finally being made.

In 2004, the 9/11 Commission released its final report, citing the fact that 18 of the 9/11 terrorists had a total of 30 driver’s licenses and state IDs between them, six of which were used to board planes on the morning of the attack. The finding not only startled many throughout the country, but also inspired Congress to take action to help ensure that bad actors would never again be able to so grossly abuse our state IDs. Less than a year later the REAL ID Act would become law.  http://blog.heritage.org/2013/03/11/its-about-time-nearly-half-of-all-states-now-deemed-compliant-with-real-id/

For more on Real ID and Implants Watch this Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEUUmy-FG_g

Is Real ID a step toward ‘mark of the beast’?

Is the Real ID a precursor to the end-time world dictator known in Bible prophecy as the Antichrist?

A Randolph County school teacher is convinced there is an eventual link, and wants West Virginia lawmakers to grant anyone with a religious conviction an exemption from the license that employs biometrics.

“If we as Christians comply with the Real ID act, we would be enrolled into a global system of identification that directly links our body through biometrics to our ability to buy or sell,” Philip Hudok told the Senate Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Tuesday.

http://www.register-herald.com/local/x2136341434/Is-Real-ID-a-step-toward-mark-of-the-beast

Is Israel really going to attack Iran?!

As we are approaching spring, it reminds us of Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu theatrical gesture at the United Nations General Assembly last September, while holding up a cartoon-like drawing of a bomb with a fuse as he drew the famous “red line” for Iran’s nuclear program. That red line represents this spring and is just below a presumed “final stage” to a bomb.

Drills to prepare for the prospect of war have terrified not only the Israeli people, but people across the Middle East and the rest of the world. Surveys in Israel show that most Israelis oppose launching unilateral attack on Iranian nuclear facilities.

Whilst Israeli and International newspapers have been recently consumed by reports that Israel has decided to launch an attack on Iran, the remarks of Israeli officials have also increased speculation that Israeli action is imminent. "It's no longer a question of if but when," an Israeli analyst replied when asked if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would respond militarily if Iran crossed his "red lines" and acquired a nuclear bomb, according to CNBC news.

http://www.news24.com/MyNews24/Is-Israel-really-going-to-attack-Iran-20130311

Israel president tells Europe to do more to pressure Iran (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres urged the European Union on Tuesday to step up pressure on Iran over its ballistic missile program, as well as trying to curb its nuclear ambitions. 

 In a speech to the European Parliament that touched on the Jewish state's foreign policy goals, the Nobel peace laureate sought to persuade European lawmakers to act quickly on Iran, which Israel regards as an existential threat. As well as its efforts to enrich uranium, which the West suspects Iran wants for a nuclear weapon, Peres said Europe needed to be worried about Iran's ballistic missile capabilities, which could allow it to deliver a bomb. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/12/us-iran-nuclear-eu-israel-idUSBRE92B0S220130312

New Pope Conclave Commences

(Reuters) - Roman Catholic cardinals chanted and prayed for divine guidance in the Sistine Chapel on Tuesday as they prepared for a conclave to elect a pope who will face one of the most difficult periods in the Church's history.

The 115 red-hatted and red-caped cardinals gathered in the Pauline Chapel and walked in procession along the frescoed halls of the Vatican's Apostolic Palace into the Sistine, where they could remain closeted for several days of balloting.

FULL STORY: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/12/us-pope-succession-idUSBRE92808520130312

Conclave to elect a new pope: Interactive video

Step inside our "virtual Sistine Chapel" as the BBC's Philippa Thomas explains what happens in the conclave, the centuries-old process of electing a new pope which begins on Tuesday.

BBC News video on how the Pope is elected: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21631398

Watch Irvin Baxter's report on this monumental proceeding.

http://www.endtime.com/podcast/conclave-commences-tomorrow/

Huckabee: Israelis Have Made Many Sacrifices

“The nations that bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed,” said Huckabee. “It is time we recognize that you don’t negotiate with people who do not believe you have the right to even exist, much less live next to you.”


Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee spoke at the Gush Katif Museum Dinner which was held on Saturday night at the Razag Ballroom in Brooklyn, New York. Huckabee, who brings groups to Israel on a regular basis, said during his remarks that “it is impossible to be Christian and not have a complete relationship with Judaism, because it is the foundation upon which every Christian believes and understands that Israel is G-d’s chosen land.”


Addressing recent reports that President Barack Obama, during his upcoming visit to Israel, intends to ask Israelis “to make sacrifices for peace,” the former governor said, “If that is the case, I would love to escort him personally to the Gush Katif Museum and say, ‘Mr. President, the Israelis have made many sacrifices for peace. Can you show me one sacrifice that the Palestinians have made for peace?’”

 Full Story: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166081#.UT4pQhw3uIh

 Obama visits Israel this month:  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166074#.UT4sRBw3uIg

but will avoid the "Dome of the Rock" as it would be perceived as an act of war:

A Hamas representative in the Al-Aqsa mosque, Mushir al-Masri, even called for a third intifada (uprising) and for Egyptian assistance in the "resistance" if Obama chooses to visit the Temple Mount.

According to the Bethlehem-based Ma’an news agency, the Gaza-based terrorist organizations made the threats during a protest march on Friday over the riots that broke out earlier in the day on the Temple Mount.

According to the report, Khalid al-Batash, a senior Islamic Jihad member, also called to prevent Obama from visiting the compound.

Obama will be arriving in the region later this month, and PA media has been widely speculating that he plans to visit the site of the Al-Aqsa mosque. However,Washington is not planning such a visit.

Political and religious leaders in the Palestinian Authority have stressed that Obama should not visit the Al-Aqsa mosque compound in a way that might compromise what they called its "Muslim sovereignty."

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166024#.UT4sdBw3uIg