Author: yreape

Peter and Paul were both recognised as early church leaders. Peter is known as the first pope in the catholic and eastern orthodox churches. He shared the leadership with Paul according to Coptic Christian writings. Peter’s papacy is not recognised by the protestant churches.

Peter and Paul were seemingly poles apart. Peter along with James, brother of Jesus, known as James the just was socialist; Paul suzeraine. The book of the Acts of the Apostles document the mysterious deaths of people who sold their property and failed to donate all the proceeds to the poor during Peter’s reign. Did the early Christian socialists go too far?

Peter and Paul share a feast day on June 29. Might be indicative of today’s trend of centralist governments which include both right and left wing politicians.

There are three months to go before the German general election and according to a report many germans are ready for a change. An alternative to the Christian democratic union is the Social Democratic party. One election issue will be the pandemic debt, similar elsewhere, and reportedly a german digital transformation which the Christian democratic union manifesto is keeping quiet about. Digital transformation is a connection between the public and private sector. Everything will be overseen. Seemingly it has been delayed.

According to a report north Korean leader Kim Jong-un is encouraging agricultural production as the country tries to cope with stringent u.n. security council sanctions. Reportedly, various trade bans have been put into action because of north Korea’s nuclear program, though the uk, us and various others have nuclear programs. Some have been accused of performing nuclear tests in the Pacific.

According to a report the results of the Peruvian general election earlier this month were made known yesterday with the relatively unknown Pedro Castillo 44, 058 votes ahead of his rival Keiko Fujimori, first lady of Peru who claims the results are fraudulent.

According to a report, despite an estimated 75% backing, Edwin Poots nominated Paul Givan as northern Ireland’s first minister at a meeting in Stormont today.

Meanwhile, on Tuesday Leo Varadker spoke about the prospect of a United Ireland being possible within his lifetime. Brexit protocol means a natural separation must occur.

A new Israeli government consisting of eight parties, two rotating prime ministers and including an arab party was voted in last night. Naftalie Bennet who will serve as prime minister until September 2023 has promised to end years of hatred in Israel. Yair Lapid will be prime minister for the two years following.

A later Saint of the carmelite order was the french Thérèse of the child Jesus of Lisieux. She was born Marie Frančois Thérèse Martin reportedly of devout parents who visited the sick. Thought to be one of nine siblings. Many didn’t survive. As a baby her survival was uncertain. She was sent to the country to live with a wet nurse and returned at fifteen months of age. Her mother Zèlie made lace. According to her mother, on her return, each morning whilst climbing downstairs she would stop at every step and call, ‘mama’ only continuing when her mother answered. She was four and a half when her mother died of a tumour, and became withdrawn.

Thérèse who was bullied at school was traumatised when her older sister, Pauline a second mother to her, joined the carmelite nuns. In the absence of jobs for many women, the convent was somewhere to go. According to Thérèse she began to recover when a statue of Jesus’ mother Mary smiled at her. She was unable to be sure about this for more than four years. Another sister, Marie also joined the carmelite nuns in Lisieux leaving only Céline and her father. Another period of grief followed. She is thought to have suffered from extreme anxiety for a year and a half before developing a calm. Two books made an impression on her. ‘The Imitation of Christ’ and ‘The End of the World and the Mysteries of the World to Come’.

When Thérèse told her father she was joining the carmelite nuns he picked her a flower. To Thérèse the flower seemed like herself, destined to live in another soil. She was an innocent in the area of conversion, praying for the conversion of a man who murdered two women and a child. In November 1887 she met pope Louis XIII and refused to leave his side. She asked to be a carmelite nun and he replied it was the superiors decision. In 1888 she made an official request.

Reportedly the convent was austere, food sparse and heating in only one room. There were twenty six nuns including her sisters. Marie taught her the prayers. Convent life was one of silence and solitude but also work and relaxation. Father Pichon, a Jesuit was chosen as her spiritual director. That year her father went missing for days, turning up at the post office at Le Havre. He died in 1894. Reportedly, during the 1890’s Thérèse’s poems and prayers spread devotion to the holy face. She died at the age of twenty seven in 1897 of tb. Approved by pope Pius XII the feast of the holy face is shrove Tuesday.

Saint Teresa of Ávilla, 1515-1582, reportedly a writer, poet and mystic became a carmelite nun. The carmelites were ascetics of mixed gender who adhered to a life of poverty, often travelling or living in urban areas.

Teresa was said to be instrumental in the catholic reformation, a response to the protestant reformation. It began with the council of Trent or Trento, 1545-1563 which according to documentation consisted of seventeen decrees on disputed aspects of the catholic church, which disassociated from protestantism in areas such as scripture; the catholic bible includes books not regarded by the jewish or protestant faith as sacred. Reportedly Luther called them the apocrypha. The Trent decrees included traditions such as the creed and other Christian prayers, the sacraments and saints. When passed away saints were often missed for their friendly nature, and canonised in remembrance.

Reportedly, the catholic reformation was innitiated to address the effects of the protestant reformation which began with Martin Luther, and ended with the conclusion of the religious wars in europe in 1648. Eighty million people lost their lives. The peace of Westphalia ended the wars, and Westphalian sovereignty was the documented reference to the inviobility of state sovereignty and the importance of non-interference in matters of state. Charles V abdicated. Catholic France reportedly allied with protestants against Charles V, a Habsburg. The dynasty, most influential, split into parallel branches many times, reportedly most consequentially in Spain and Austria during the 16th Century.

Joe Biden embarks on a trip to europe today. He will be visiting Britain followed by a nato meeting in Brussels and a meeting with the eu. He is reportedly meeting Vladimir Putin and Recep Erdoğan.

The u.n. Yugoslav war crimes tribunal have refused an appeal from former Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, reportedly for his part in the systematic executions in Srebenica of muslim Bosniacs, said to have occurred during an 11 day period, for which he is serving a life sentence. Victims were said to be men who were fighting.

Mladic reportedly joined the Yugoslav people’s army in the 1960’s and left after the war ended. Similar to Russia following the uprising against imperialists, there were reports of sexual abuse. The 1995 Dayton accords was a peace agreement supposedly agreed by Serbs, Croats and Bosnians but the lengthy nato organised format was thought to have discriminated against socialist serbs.