Reporting of Federici Studies Center
Let's start with some good news
(26/3/2018) Mosul (Fides Agency) – More than four thousand Christian refugee families have returned to Mosul and Nineveh Province in recent months, after that last 9 December, Iraqi President Haider al Abadi proclaimed the defeat of the jihadists of the self-proclaimed Islamic State throughout the country (Daesh). He declared this on Sunday 25 March Nawfal Hammadi, governor of the Province of Nineveh. Hammadi also specified that most of them had found refuge in the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan, after that – between June and August 2014 – the conquest of the region by Daesh jihadists had pushed Christians to flee their homes. According to Hammadi – who made his statements to Press TV, the English-language television network linked to Iran - the flow of Christian refugees returning to their homes is destined to resume with intensity when the current school and academic year ends.
The only democracy in the M.O.
(28/3/2018) Two days from Good Friday, Israel has not yet issued permits for Palestinian Christians from Gaza to travel to Jerusalem to celebrate Easter, as declared by the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem. The ecclesiastical authorities say they have applied for approx 600 permits for the Palestinian faithful in Gaza, but that none were received. The Gaza Strip, which is under Israeli control, lives under the strict restriction of mobility managed by the Israeli army. While in the occupied Palestinian territories the Israeli military authority has maintained its policy of denying access to the city of Jerusalem to those who request it, issuing the permit only to people from 55 completed years. (…)
Moroccan coffee
(29/3/2018) A man ended up in hospital after a brawl in via Paggi, in front of the Primavera bar restaurant. Police investigations are underway into the incident, intervened on site yesterday evening (Wednesday 28). According to some witnesses, the man who ended up in hospital was of Moroccan origin. After consuming inside the restaurant he would have gotten up to leave without paying. One of the bartenders followed him to ask him to settle the bill, but in response the man allegedly put his hands on her. This provoked a reaction from other witnesses at the scene: the man was hit with a punch that knocked him out on the pavement. Beyond the police, an ambulance intervened and transported him to the emergency room.
Once upon a time there was Catholic Ireland
(30/3/2018) Dublin – For the first time since 90 years, rivers of Guinness flow in Irish pubs even on Good Friday. In very Catholic Ireland, a law of 1927 had in fact so far prohibited the opening of the premises on the day in which the Church celebrates the passion and death of Jesus Christ and prescribes abstinence and fasting to the faithful. The law has now been canceled from the country and queues of people were reported in the pubs as soon as they opened. A novelty welcomed by the trade organization of pub managers, which they estimate in 40 million euros in total earnings deriving from the extra day of sales. The closure had often surprised tourists arriving in Ireland for the Easter long weekend. Previously the opening ban also covered St Patrick's Day, patron saint of Ireland. In this case the ban was revoked already in 1962.
Acute rabbinitis in the only democracy of the M.O.
«The idea that there are armed guards who seize the bread, mostly at the entrance to hospitals, it's pure madness", dice Itai Shavit, a young thirty-two-year-old doctor from the Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv. Today begins the week of Passover and in Israel the homes of religious people are emptied of any leavened food. To remember the escape from Egypt, when in their haste the Jews could not turn unleavened bread into bread, it is tradition to respect the same food deprivations. But that public hospitals must instruct their security personnel to seize the “chametz”, that is, forbidden dishes, at the entrances, It's a request that has caused a lot of discussion. At the entrance to the Ichilov hospital in Tel Aviv there are posters with images of matzah, the unleavened bread of the feast, with the words "we wish you a happy and kosher Easter". «It is a kind invitation not to introduce prohibited foods», says doctor Shavit. «These types of warnings have always been there: public hospitals are cleared of bread and leavened foods under the supervision of the rabbi in charge before the holidays, and it is a form of common sense not to violate the rules during the Easter period. Secular Israelis are respectful: during the Yom Kippur fast they don't go around eating or driving a car (another prohibition on the day of atonement ed. ». But this year the "Grand Rabbinate of Israel" guidelines did not rely only on common sense. «Without exception – they recite – the security staff at the entrance must check that non-certified foods are not brought into the hospital, and if there are any, confiscate them until the owners leave the facility". The request is not binding on hospitals, but whoever violates it risks losing the "kashrut certificate" issued by the rabbinate, and therefore become an unusable hospital for a religious public. (…)
The crimes of the earthquake victims
The obstinacy of the Italian judicial system in attacking the weakest to avoid hitting the strongest is truly impressive. The last example (last one just for now, they can do worse) it is the war waged against the earthquake victims who, abandoned by the government and the State in general, they built temporary homes in which to continue living. Criminals! The houses must be demolished and the owners sent to trial. Maybe in shackles, to satisfy the thirst for justice of those who launched themselves into this heroic battle against illegal construction. Right, perhaps before sending to trial the earthquake victims who built the shacks in which to survive, action could and should have been taken against those who built villas and palaces on the seashore in tourist resorts. But economic resourcefulness certainly cannot be penalized. While if the law is the law, the shameful affront of temporary housing in earthquake-hit areas cannot be overlooked. Because it's an affront. Towards the State and the government. DIY houses are a challenge to public inefficiency, they are proof that the promises of Gentiloni and his ministers were just lies, they are the denial of the commitments made by the extraordinary commissioners. Therefore they must be demolished and the owners condemned with exemplary punishments not so much for illegal activity (widespread and tolerated throughout almost all of Italy) as for the offense against the State. But if such rigorous magistrates really want to respect the law without looking anyone in the face, they can start dealing with toxic fires in Roma camps, they can deal with the failure to comply with the expulsion decrees of illegal immigrants who commit crimes and who are left free to continue crime. Too difficult? Too tiring? Beh, undoubtedly it is easier to attack earthquake victims.
Race cancelled
(9/4/2018) The Grand Orient of Italy did it first: Today, the Grand Lodge has definitively eliminated the word race from its regulations. “We are on the side of life senator Liliana Segre, who wants to remove this terrible term from the Italian Constitution", said Bisi, proudly announcing the initiative, also taken in honor, he explained, of brothers who experienced the tragedy of the Holocaust, “like the Honorary Grand Master Nedo Fiano and like Gianfranco Baroni, sitting here among us". A decision that the Grand Master made official during the debate entitled "Free from prejudice", which was held in the temple open to all at the conclusion of the second day of work of the highest Masonic assembly underway in Rimini and in which moderated by Umberto Cecchi took part, Paolo Mieli and Annalisa Chirico. (…)
