Pope warns of 'a desert of godlessness' in Good Friday address
By Daily Mail Reporter
Good Friday address: Pope Benedict warned that religious sentiments are
increasingly being held up to ridicule in the West
Pope Benedict XVI last night attacked the rise of aggressive secularism in
Western societies, warning them that they risked drifting into a 'desert of
godlessness'.
He used his Good Friday meditations to compare deliberate attempts to remove
religion from public life to the mockery of Jesus Christ by the mob as he was
led out to be crucified.
'Religious sentiments' were increasingly ranked among the 'unwelcome leftovers
of antiquity' and 'held up to scorn and ridicule', he added.
'We are shocked to see to what levels of brutality human beings can sink,' said
the Pope at an evening ceremony at the Coliseum in Rome.
'Jesus is humiliated in new ways even today when things that are most holy and
profound in the faith are being trivialised, the sense of the sacred is allowed
to erode.
'Values and norms that held societies together and drew people to higher ideals
are laughed at and thrown overboard. Jesus continues to be ridiculed.'
The German-born Pope, who turns 82 later this month, prayed Christians would
respond by growing in faith.
Khmer New Year Greeting from Poet Sam Vichea
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Sacrava's Political Cartoon and Greeting: Happy Khmer New Year 2553
Cartoon by Sacrava
ENJOY THE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION BUT ALSO REMEMBER THAT CAMBODIA REMAINS OCCUPIED
BY VIETNAM AGAINST 10 UN RESOLUTIONS (1979-2009)
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UN Passes Strong Resolution on Cambodia Human Rights Abuses
Feb. 27, 1982 : UN Commission on Human Rights meeting in Geneva adopted a
resolution condemning Vietnam��s occupation of Cambodia as a violation of
Cambodian human rights. The vote was 28 in favor, 8 against, and 5 abstentions.
Vorn Yoeun died with her unborn child still in her stomach because her husband
did not have money to pay what a journalist of the Koh Santepheap called the
"animal-doctors" who refused to give her the surgery she needed to deliver her
baby (Photo: Koh Santepheap)Children sleep outdoors in Phnom Penh. A recent
report says economic hard times may lead to instability. (Photo by: AFP)
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Oct. 21, 1986 The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution A/RES/41/6, by vote
of 116-21 with 13 abstentions, calling for a withdrawal of Vietnamese forces
from Cambodia.
SEE THE PICTURE OF KING SIHAMONI, FORMER KING SIHANOUK, QUEEN MONIQUE SIHANOUK
AND THEIR VIETNAMESE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS , HOR NAM HONG. between two
Cambodian flags .
THE VIETNAMESE TRICKS IN CAMBODIA OCCUPIED BY VIETNAM.THE VIETNAMESE WEARING
THE LABEL "CAMBODIAN"
Khieu Kanharith, the minister of Information, during a press conference held
on 04 January 2009. KHIEU KANHARITH , A VIETNAMESE WEARING THE LABEL"CAMBODIAN"
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Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch, was arrested in 1999. According to the Morphology
study on race and forensic data nalysis ,Kaing Kek Iev, aka Duch is A
VIETNAMESE.
100 TORTURE CENTERS across CAMBODIA.
Vietnam's occupation of Cambodia 1979-1989 under Le Duc Tho rule.
An estimated 460 000 innocent Cambodians died , killed , tortured, etc...
100 Torture centers were established across Cambodia. (Methods of torture
described to Amnesty International).
Methods of torture described to Amnesty International as being used by the
Vietnamese forces of invasion and occupation of Cambodia under Le Duc Tho's
rule, from 1979-1989, through the CPP/HUN SEN regime.( an estimated 460 000
innocent Cambodians died during that period)
1. Beatings with truncheons, sharp-edged wooden staves, and iron bars and
whippings
with chains and rubber hoses.( Methods of torture described to Amnesty
International)
2. Near-suffocation with plastic bags,( Methods of torture described to Amnesty
International)
3. Near-drowning in vats of water,( Methods of torture described to Amnesty
International(Methods of torture described to Amnesty International)
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