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Identify author(s)</copyright><itunes:keywords>Catholic,social,gay,marriage,Baptism,120,in,the,Upper,Room,Eye,has,not,Seen,pro,life,United,Nations,politics,LGBT,Devotion,to,Mary,philosophy,St,Teresa,St,Anthony,St,Bernadette,St,Philomena,Deposit,of,Faith,Virtue,Freedom,Divine,Mer</itunes:keywords><itunes:summary>A Catholic blog about politics, economics and social issues. We defend the Catholic faith, but print all opinions.</itunes:summary><itunes:subtitle>A Catholic blog about politics, economics and social issues. We defend the Catholic faith, but print all opinions.</itunes:subtitle><itunes:category text="Religion &amp; Spirituality"><itunes:category text="Christianity"/></itunes:category><itunes:author>Lawrence and Susan Fox</itunes:author><itunes:owner><itunes:email>testis.fidelis53@msn.com</itunes:email><itunes:name>Lawrence and Susan Fox</itunes:name></itunes:owner><item><title>The Adventures of Russian Cyborgs Boris and Natasha </title><link>http://christsfaithfulwitness.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-adventures-of-russian-cyborgs-boris.html</link><category>The Adventures of Russian Cyborgs Boris and Natasha</category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:01:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-1028320623561584392</guid><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 12px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;img alt="Mysterious Duo: Boris and Natasha" aria-hidden="false" class="sFlh5c pT0Scc iPVvYb" height="311" jsaction="VQAsE" jsname="kn3ccd" src="https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3e/a8/22/3ea82269104d1faf14090ef1c901a095.jpg" style="font-weight: 400; height: 670px; margin: 0px; max-width: 900px; text-align: start; width: 554px;" width="258" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;b style="font-family: Helvetica;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;I had a dream. No kidding. I dreamt all this.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;Boris and Natasha are Russian cyborgs that defected and work as free lance spies in the U.S. They do not look like the cartoon characters in Rocky and Bullwinkle. They look like normal Russians. She has rich long &amp;nbsp;black hair, wears a black dress off her shoulders and holds a cigarette holder at all times. Boris&amp;nbsp;has rust color hair and&amp;nbsp;chiseled features and&amp;nbsp;wears a suit. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;They were kidnapped by a Science&amp;nbsp;organization that wanted to turn them into cyborgs. But they already were cyborgs. They found&amp;nbsp;themselves at a science&amp;nbsp;conference with&amp;nbsp;scientists. During the festivities, the two were separated and were about to be grabbed by doctors in white coats who&amp;nbsp;planned on turning them into mindless cyborgs. They, of course, decided to dance together.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;They&amp;nbsp;waltzed in the middle of the room ignoring the scientists and their goons as they approached, and when the scientists got close, they&amp;nbsp;twirled and shot everyone in the room dead.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;Then they casually walked out of the building and went to the parking lot. Of&amp;nbsp;course, they didn’t have a car, but there were lots of cars in the lot.&amp;nbsp;However, Natasha immediately noticed that all the cars had bombs attached to them. Obviously the scientists didn’t want anyone to leave. She found one she liked and defused the&amp;nbsp;bomb wearing her sharp black heels,&amp;nbsp;kneeling on the ground. She didn’t tear her black nylons. Then she hot wired the car and Boris got in the passenger seat.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;She drove away very fast through the sea of cars all set to detonate. They had lunch by the ocean in Naples, Florida. They were drinking their martinis, she was smoking her&amp;nbsp;cigarette and Boris said very casually,&amp;nbsp;“You know there were scientists there I talked to that I really liked." He was eating the olive from the martini when he said that. Natasha didn’t say anything. She picked up her cell phone and ordered an SUV to pick them up at the restaurant.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;Then she drove Boris back to the science&amp;nbsp;facility where everyone was and parked on the hill overlooking the area. Boris and Natasha got out and&amp;nbsp;trudged through the woods back to the science building. They entered by the side door and found a jail cell with &amp;nbsp;10 &amp;nbsp;“nice” scientists that Boris had befriended earlier. They knocked out the guard, told the scientists to be quiet because they were quite excited to see them, and then led the group up the hill to the car.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;But somehow their escape was noticed and the main group of evil scientists sent out two airplanes and a helicopter to shoot at them. Natasha &amp;nbsp;didn’t hesitate. She took her arm cannon, which was part of her cyborg arm, and blew two planes and a&amp;nbsp;helicopter out of the air. Boris ignored the&amp;nbsp;fiasco and kept walking. But the good scientists stopped and stared in wonder.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;They got in the SUV, and Natasha drove them out of the complex. The scientists were a little nervous after seeing the powers of Boris’ girlfriend. They said,&amp;nbsp;“That’s quite a girlfriend you have there. Whose side are you guys on?” Boris looked back and said,&amp;nbsp;“Side? What sides are there?” The scientists explained that they were on the side of peace, while the other scientists were trying to destroy the world. They had all been recruited to this bogus conference because of their inventions.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;Boris, said,&amp;nbsp;“Well, we are on your side of course.” The scientists laughed in relief because they had been afraid they were kidnapped by other bad guys.&amp;nbsp;“What do you do for a living?”&amp;nbsp;The timid scientists asked Boris.&amp;nbsp;“Well, Natasha and I are free lance spies&amp;nbsp;available for hire.” They asked if they could hire them. And Boris said,&amp;nbsp;“Certainly, why don’t we go out to dinner to discuss the matter?” They all liked that idea and Natasha drove them to a fancy&amp;nbsp;restaurant in Naples.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;They were quite a jolly crowd after they all had a drink. Natasha, of course, didn’t drink. &amp;nbsp;Boris promised to get them all home and hire excellent body guards for their families. They were all taken home to their own houses near Naples, but one guy was from New York, so Boris and Natasha put him on an airplane and called his family to pick him up as he was quite drunk. His wife met him with the new body guard Boris had already hired.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;The next day, Boris went around the houses and checked on everyone in Naples. They he took a plane to check on Morgan the scientist living in New York. He got to his house and found the body guard frantically calling him from the front lawn. &amp;nbsp;There was a huge&amp;nbsp;spiracle&amp;nbsp;black space craft&amp;nbsp;hovering over Morgan’s front lawn. Morgan met him at the door and told him hysterically he’d invented the craft and the evil scientists &amp;nbsp;had stolen his plans. It had the power to suck up his wife and children. Boris made&amp;nbsp;Morgan and his family move into the basement. They he used his wrist communicator and called Natasha in their&amp;nbsp;private headquarters in Milwaukee. He asked her to blow up the black space craft with their personal&amp;nbsp;satellite because guns and his arm cannon hadn’t hurt it. It was destroyed&amp;nbsp;immediately.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;A U.S.&amp;nbsp;military plane showed up and Morgan was so&amp;nbsp;distraught that he had designed something that could be used as a weapon of mass destruction, he wanted to give his plans to the U.S. military.&amp;nbsp;Boris said,&amp;nbsp;“Whoa, wait, there is nothing to stop the U.S. from using the invention as a weapon of mass destruction too.” So he told Morgan to keep the plans, make&amp;nbsp;another one that would be defensive, give it a smiley face and make it a swirly pink and blue. But he must build it with a stronger hull to protect it. So the scientist did. No one was afraid of a&amp;nbsp;sphere that was pink and blue and it hovered outside Morgan’s house. Well, the scientists didn’t give up and sent five more black&amp;nbsp;spheres to Morgan's house to threaten his family.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;Boris had hired&amp;nbsp;contractors to strengthen his house and the smiley sphere destroyed the five ships. But the bad scientists tried to use their&amp;nbsp;satellite to destroy the smiley face. It repelled the attack and shot the evil scientists’&amp;nbsp;satellite out of space.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"&gt;Another satisfying case &amp;nbsp;for Boris and Natasha.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>testis.fidelis53@msn.com (Lawrence and Susan Fox)</author></item><item><title>The Mark of Cain: A Pro-Lifer’s Nightmare</title><link>http://christsfaithfulwitness.blogspot.com/2023/11/the-mark-of-cain-pro-lifers-nightmare.html</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Nov 2023 23:48:00 -0600</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-4840196701118318457</guid><description>&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;i style="font-family: &amp;quot;Times New Roman&amp;quot;; font-size: 14px;"&gt;(If you have had an abortion, please do not read this.Seek God’s forgiveness and live in His love.This is a journey that must be made by Americans who mourn the loss of our children.)&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBmZ5X57QmDenAyU8KwiWu1xqTLzIepWV4z5E1Qm8gE0PO0FM7gyTHC_HKetA5M3QT3BTAAjnNYL7cnRpKnFLFQdceZ0qjKzEqAQlroQ-ts_-5bqh7oMTvIXJssbVVcOGS7qnD69DraWQvSHL7jj2Ns6FJECTOIoJwzB0TC3NnIpEpFrrktmld5dV0hN4/s507/istockphoto-138090656-170667a.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="338" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBmZ5X57QmDenAyU8KwiWu1xqTLzIepWV4z5E1Qm8gE0PO0FM7gyTHC_HKetA5M3QT3BTAAjnNYL7cnRpKnFLFQdceZ0qjKzEqAQlroQ-ts_-5bqh7oMTvIXJssbVVcOGS7qnD69DraWQvSHL7jj2Ns6FJECTOIoJwzB0TC3NnIpEpFrrktmld5dV0hN4/s320/istockphoto-138090656-170667a.webp" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;By Susan Fox&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;I was in a large room full of metal buckets. I looked down.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;In the first bucket was a dead baby covered in cockroaches. I drew back in horror.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;The second bucket, the same. Third, fourth bucket — all dead babies with looks of sorrow on their little faces. All they wanted was to be loved. I thought this is our waste. We are like the Jews when they sacrificed their children to the god Moloch. Our guilt is choking us.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;I looked around. There were thousands of buckets. Surely, I did not need to look in every one? But there was whimpering in one of the buckets and it was clear that at least one baby still lived. So began a night of horror, where I was forced into staring into endless buckets of death…. “Dear Lord can You not spare me this dream?” I asked God while I was still asleep.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;Our Land is awash in blood.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2HVSYDHQMhbGacgXhEXWRjD4A07LV8XpPcV7A2dLrDYtI2EPeUGSknOF685L6DT5sIyTbtlwrT6owfWDF1YWhs37fjzPFKbvwUSW0YavQqmj4hCWTnOCxo58tMc5sxZPVsLrlnL66uOqfXHC5RfwZH96J4GLY3qJ0wRsv2QnKIsTPTngRtEauGN7LmyQ/s274/blood.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="274" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2HVSYDHQMhbGacgXhEXWRjD4A07LV8XpPcV7A2dLrDYtI2EPeUGSknOF685L6DT5sIyTbtlwrT6owfWDF1YWhs37fjzPFKbvwUSW0YavQqmj4hCWTnOCxo58tMc5sxZPVsLrlnL66uOqfXHC5RfwZH96J4GLY3qJ0wRsv2QnKIsTPTngRtEauGN7LmyQ/s1600/blood.jpeg" width="274" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;The voice of our children’s blood cries out from the ground to God. Is He offended? Oh yes. “62 million,” the sign reads at Church, “Never again.” But the killing fields stretch out still into several states, dooming their futures. Do you remember what happened to Ohio? Hawaii was a very pro-abortion state. Its children were sent home from school during a fire and unprotected they burned to death. Only the Catholic Church was spared.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;And you know what happened to Cain, a farmer. When he tilled the ground, it no longer bore fruit. He was terrified, and begged God for protection unless everyone seek to kill him. So God put a mark on Cain for protection.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC_p_L-I2lVWhmluWN8Ph-k5y8qVeq409tm1onW3JCNM1JKFFFJ_7DdG104lGhz8GEix3XKAs1fUO9C7_KUfiFuBqfhcpFwvNmACJ9kN9LGVDBXnV0EkZQ-RaRgWZAZWClexu6mp1sQP1EY5z3a5-0lIGoDdmeiO1ibkYY41dk5ZncFhqUY7fMrkW62Qs/s259/mark%20of%20cain.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC_p_L-I2lVWhmluWN8Ph-k5y8qVeq409tm1onW3JCNM1JKFFFJ_7DdG104lGhz8GEix3XKAs1fUO9C7_KUfiFuBqfhcpFwvNmACJ9kN9LGVDBXnV0EkZQ-RaRgWZAZWClexu6mp1sQP1EY5z3a5-0lIGoDdmeiO1ibkYY41dk5ZncFhqUY7fMrkW62Qs/s1600/mark%20of%20cain.jpeg" width="259" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;We must have forgot to pray for protection, and no mark was offered to us. Instead our borders bleed invaders. Everyone seeks to destroy the U.S.&amp;nbsp; In the Southwest, it’s not safe to stop at a gas station at night any longer. Our cities are infested with drug addicts living on the streets. It’s not safe for children to walk to school any longer.&amp;nbsp; The 10 commandments have been removed from the courthouse, leaving us with no instruction on how to act. It is a punishment to be ignorant of our sins. That’s why Moses threw down the first set of the 10 commandments when he witnessed his people worshipping the Golden Calf.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;We are threatened with war. China makes our drugs (I won’t even buy fish raised in China.) Rioting takes place in the streets. The government pays for satanic exhibitions down town. Children are exposed to indecency at the library and in public due to gay pride.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;The government is run by sociopaths who steal our money to feed it to war, leaving Ukraine with an entire generation of young men killed. Our children are trafficked by the same people. WHO tries to by-pass local government and take over the world themselves. Few in Britain are shocked. Innocent Jews are murdered in their homes after Joe Biden gives $6 billion to Iran. Israel will use this excuse to exterminate Christian Palestinians.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;God, we cry out to you like the Israelites did in the psalms. Mercy, Lord, Have Mercy!&amp;nbsp; We have spilled blood.The land seeks its revenge. At least give us a mark.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS5UHCI1N4tBygCWzrlLjPBAvJocF1uIBmo78JvuE6zHl-qepacG88czxw1A66IdKFHLXiGDwrGB0dI5RJkXy36cv8CG-WfDdPmw9zJuPlysvVhmvtnI539pXi-5dzA0a3tnK5DnJbGiG6vkOLJtmKViW_wpXP9p5Bs7dYs9AqkLbfeclJ5G1KzRRAlLM/s225/mercy.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="225" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS5UHCI1N4tBygCWzrlLjPBAvJocF1uIBmo78JvuE6zHl-qepacG88czxw1A66IdKFHLXiGDwrGB0dI5RJkXy36cv8CG-WfDdPmw9zJuPlysvVhmvtnI539pXi-5dzA0a3tnK5DnJbGiG6vkOLJtmKViW_wpXP9p5Bs7dYs9AqkLbfeclJ5G1KzRRAlLM/s1600/mercy.jpeg" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="font-family: &amp;quot;Helvetica Neue&amp;quot;; font-feature-settings: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBmZ5X57QmDenAyU8KwiWu1xqTLzIepWV4z5E1Qm8gE0PO0FM7gyTHC_HKetA5M3QT3BTAAjnNYL7cnRpKnFLFQdceZ0qjKzEqAQlroQ-ts_-5bqh7oMTvIXJssbVVcOGS7qnD69DraWQvSHL7jj2Ns6FJECTOIoJwzB0TC3NnIpEpFrrktmld5dV0hN4/s72-c/istockphoto-138090656-170667a.webp" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>testis.fidelis53@msn.com (Lawrence and Susan Fox)</author></item><item><title>From the Land of Martyrs, Young Catholic Refugee Lives in No-Man's Land</title><link>http://christsfaithfulwitness.blogspot.com/2023/07/from-land-of-martyrs-young-catholic.html</link><category>Alvera Tohi</category><category>Catholic Chaldean Refugee</category><category>future of Iraqi youth</category><category>living in Lebanon</category><pubDate>Mon, 3 Jul 2023 20:05:00 -0500</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7066465714745281883.post-6928958180223584517</guid><description>&lt;h1 style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Persecuted Christians Struggle in Lebanon&amp;nbsp;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;by Susan Fox&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="480" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQKxtRXnkeeebOr4ZTHSvVtW_vhgXUu05zc5urNxvMzWq0Tq5HgVy2h7axBwYVhQNgpgZTYwrxE2wbVMBJKCdIMWHIGMQVDlgbo7iuUtDiMDF6Ct-CZv3yrMVwNGXUsOWwdEYu55bmsDE/w266-h400/Alvera+the+artist+.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="266" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;An artist and a young lady&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQKxtRXnkeeebOr4ZTHSvVtW_vhgXUu05zc5urNxvMzWq0Tq5HgVy2h7axBwYVhQNgpgZTYwrxE2wbVMBJKCdIMWHIGMQVDlgbo7iuUtDiMDF6Ct-CZv3yrMVwNGXUsOWwdEYu55bmsDE/s721/Alvera+the+artist+.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;She is pretty, young, hopeful and works hard. She is a painter, a novelist, plays Volley Ball and piano. She is 24 years old, but legally in Lebanon, she doesn’t exist.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;She is forbidden to work and can’t go to school, and if she met with the Lebanese police they could put her in prison.&amp;nbsp; She is an Iraqi Catholic refugee, one of 50,000 who settled in Lebanon fleeing persecution from the Islamic State from 2014 to 2019. In Lebanon, the Iraqi refugees try not to travel. The Lebanese checkpoints are dangerous to their&amp;nbsp; freedom.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Her poignant face graces more than 100 bill boards in Germany with the words, “Are you for violence or people?” sponsored by the relief agency Misereor in Germany.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Her family lived in Telluskof&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;near Quraqosh on the Nineveh plain&amp;nbsp; in Iraq in 2015 when she was 17 years old. ISIS terrorists plowed into her town, giving her a choice: convert to Islam, pay a tax or leave all your possessions.&amp;nbsp; “Those minutes were ringing church bells, the sounds of crying children and the screaming of elders and mothers who did not have cars to escape!&amp;nbsp; Hunger, thirst, fear and crying!&amp;nbsp; No one felt us like God! He was our strength and He who gave us patience!” she said.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh05Qrc2RVlr9hFE-sQYenC60361Qex4M0b4Uh3mhq4Ebii2LWRT92Kz5tdOL7PcgBQTaLZluRDeIptD9KDWsfjQDCgZUyZ448MvySelArrosZop1pBVvb3FycYOWGkBt1zyTU4mMddfEI/s1200/alvera+tohi+in+billboard.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh05Qrc2RVlr9hFE-sQYenC60361Qex4M0b4Uh3mhq4Ebii2LWRT92Kz5tdOL7PcgBQTaLZluRDeIptD9KDWsfjQDCgZUyZ448MvySelArrosZop1pBVvb3FycYOWGkBt1zyTU4mMddfEI/s320/alvera+tohi+in+billboard.JPG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"&gt;Are you for violence or people?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: large;"&gt;Her name is Alvera Tohi, a Chaldean Catholic. She, her parents and three brothers moved to Lebanon and tried to immediately to join relatives in the United States. But they have waited six long years for an initial interview, and they are still waiting. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;She was no stranger to ISIS danger. Five ISIS terrorists invaded Our Lady of Salvation Syrian Catholic Church in Baghdad during the Mass on Oct. 31, 2010. Alvera’s cousin, her friend and 46 other ordinary Catholics were killed.&amp;nbsp; “My father’s cousin is Chaldean, but she happened to go to a Syrian Catholic Church&amp;nbsp; that Sunday.” Now all 48 are in the process of canonisation. It is said God chooses His martyrs, not the other way around.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;On March 5, Pope Francis entered the killing ground of Our Lady of Salvation Church. For his historic trip to Iraq, he&amp;nbsp; took what is called the path of the pearls of Babylon. The&amp;nbsp; riches of Iraq are its martyrs. He asked the Iraqi people to come home and save Christianity in the Middle East.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;The riches in Iraq are counted in dead, not jobs. Alvera says no, she won’t come home. “I love my heritage. I’m Chaldean. I’m proud I am from Iraq, but all my relatives are living in San Diego and we want to be together there.” Iraq is still dangerous. Witness the suicide bombings in Bagdad on Jan. 21, 2021 that killed 32 people and injured another 110.&amp;nbsp; Plus Iraq has a new government, which is unstable.&amp;nbsp; There is no work for young Christians there. There is no longer a future.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;“My dream was to study business because I always feel that I am a leader and strong, this dream was the right of every young man and woman in Iraq. In 2014 all my dreams&amp;nbsp; that I had built were destroyed, and everything evaporated.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2PmSGw4-WlnoT1fSbE9sbabEaM6X-h9xA5Ulpq8XQPHS-4EslAq5PyFIqVKFtaslm13J3-bx5zM4R-vM8jmh2dYvP0zdJTLxnQt4zqdUl65_qk_VD2wBmUhh4WBRr2tPS-STIhpKXudM/s720/Alvera+and+students+Angel+of+Peace.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" data-original-height="480" data-original-width="720" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2PmSGw4-WlnoT1fSbE9sbabEaM6X-h9xA5Ulpq8XQPHS-4EslAq5PyFIqVKFtaslm13J3-bx5zM4R-vM8jmh2dYvP0zdJTLxnQt4zqdUl65_qk_VD2wBmUhh4WBRr2tPS-STIhpKXudM/w400-h266/Alvera+and+students+Angel+of+Peace.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Alvera Tohi did not give up. She has impacted the lives of nearly 2,000 Iraqi children by giving them an education at&amp;nbsp; the Angel of Peace School in Beirut. Lebanon won’t let them go to school, so the Iraqis organised one for themselves. Currently she has 240 pupils. “About 4 years ago, I decided to dedicate my life to children and the needy, so I felt that Divine Providence always accompanies me. And because I am a refugee like them, I certainly know their suffering.”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 22px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; min-height: 23px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: line-through;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: arial; font-size: large;"&gt;Many Iraqis have moved on to Australia&amp;nbsp; (75 percent) and Canada (10 percent). But Alvera and her family held on for the United States, and so got left behind in a no man’s land of legal instability. About 900 Iraqi families are still waiting with her. They want to go to any country that is safe and offers a future.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" height="72" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQKxtRXnkeeebOr4ZTHSvVtW_vhgXUu05zc5urNxvMzWq0Tq5HgVy2h7axBwYVhQNgpgZTYwrxE2wbVMBJKCdIMWHIGMQVDlgbo7iuUtDiMDF6Ct-CZv3yrMVwNGXUsOWwdEYu55bmsDE/s72-w266-h400-c/Alvera+the+artist+.jpg" width="72"/><thr:total xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0">0</thr:total><author>testis.fidelis53@msn.com (Lawrence and Susan Fox)</author></item></channel></rss>