Investigations still running > therefore every information has to be handled with extreme care
By now the balance of victims mentioned in this posting has been upgraded to more deaths and more wounded.
explosions at Zaventem airport in Brussels + Maelbeek Metro Station triggered by Kamikazes brothers Ibrahim + Khalid El Bakraoui, close to Salah Abdeslam, main actors of the attacks in Paris
The two indentified terrorists (source: rtl.fr)
atmosphere at the European Parliament: General consternation.
Let us hope those who survived will not spend the rest of their life with physical or/and psychological consequences.
Using violence to get one’s way is never acceptable!
After Paris, Ankara, Istanbul, Ouagadougou, Abidjan or Garissa, it is now the turn of Belgium’s capital to be the victim of a murderous terrorist attack. The investigations are still running and therefore every information has to be handled with extreme care. But some things are known.
Concerning the explosions at the Zaventem airport in Brussels and the Maelbeek Metro Station: They have been triggered by Kamikazes. Two of them have been identified as being brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui. One of them blew himself up at the Airport and the other one at the station. Both of them were close to Salah Abdeslam, who was one of the main actors of the attacks in Paris, in which the brothers were probably also involved. They have helped Abdeslam to escape from the manhunt following the Paris attacks, which ended with Abdeslam finally getting arrested on March 19th. There…
A joint effort of several authors who do find that nobody can keep standing at the side and that “Everyone" must care about what is going on in today’s world.
We are a bunch of people who do not mind that somebody has a totally different idea but is willing to share the ideas with others and to be Active and willing to let others understand how "today’s decisions will influence the future”. Therefore we would love to see many others to "Act today".
Vandaag is het een donderdag met een speciale betekenis, waarvoor het ook een feestdag is in het hele land. Als reden voor de bijzonderheid van deze dag, of officiële feestdag, wordt opgegeven dat het speciaal is om te herdenken dat Jezus Christus opgestegen is naar de hemel, vandaar “Hemelvaartsdag“. In veel landen is Hemelvaartsdag een […]
Originally posted on The Curious Mag: What is climate change and isn’t it a natural process? The ‘climate crisis’ refers to global climate change that is happening too rapidly for the world to adapt. Climate Change means rising average temperatures which cause extreme weather events, shifting wildlife populations and habitats, rising sea levels, and a…
The Times, May 2, 2022 Event Ukraine, one of the most fertile and productive countries in the world, has been known historically as the “bread basket of Europe”. Now it is facing a complex and unprecedented agricultural crisis, in which landmines are only one of numerous interlinked problems. The United Nations estimates this year’s harvest […]
BBC, April 22 + Audit of antisemitic incidents Event The number of anti-Semitic incidents around the world dramatically increased last year, a study by Tel Aviv University has found. The report identifies the US, Canada, the UK, Germany and Australia as among countries where there was a sharp rise. This was fueled by radical left- […]
The Times, April 16 Russia’s setbacks could prompt President Putin to use tactical nuclear weapons, William Burns, the CIA director, has said. Moscow has a stockpile of about 2,000 tactical nuclear weapons, also known as low-yield or battlefield munitions, that can be deployed by air, sea or artillery. These are generally less potent than the […]
Event: The United Nations general assembly has voted to suspend Russia from the human rights council after images of atrocities apparently showing civilians left dead in the streets with their hands bound emerged following Russian troops’ withdrawal from around Kyiv. The call for Russia’s removal from the UN’s top human rights body was led by […]
Originally posted on Seeking Redemption: To those now deep into biblical scripture you are probably aware of the difference between reading the bible and meditating on the world. Naturally, like many young Christians, I had assumed that once you read the bible, and you knew God’s words and it was enough. But I kept hearing…
Originally posted on EttingerWriting.com: By David Ettinger A Fruitful DiscussionI recently had a nice discussion with a blogging friend regarding the Bible version I use. This fruitful dialogue led to this post, which won’t analyze the many English versions of the Bible, but serve merely as my commentary on the issue. This is one…
“The Bible is indeed the greatest book ever written. It has shaped the cultures of the world in countless ways, and it contains the words of everlasting life. But for so many today, it is largely opaque, indecipherable – at best a puzzling text from a prescientific age.” Bishop Robert Barron, The Word on […]
We admit that the Bible is not easy for everyone to follow. But usually, this is because the person does not believe in himself enough and is too much weighed down by entrenched human doctrines or dogmas that obscure the Biblical text.
The inability of Christians to grasp the meaning and message of both Genesis and Revelation create a great divide in America. Christians struggle with both the beginning and culmination of the Scriptures — the Alpha and the Omega as they might be called. Both Genesis and Revelation bring a lot of baggage with them to […]
Turkey has positioned itself with great care to be the go-between with Russia and Ukraine – and this seems to be paying off. On Thursday afternoon, President Vladimir Putin rang the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and told him what Russia’s precise demands were for a peace deal with Ukraine. The Russian demands fall into […]
by: Alex Cervantes It is so important to make time in our lives to feed our faith. Alex advocates how faith grows when it is exercised, when it is stretched and challenged. Much like how we grow physically and mentally through day-to-day work, our faith grows the same way. Whether it’s through reading our Bible […]
The Times, May 3, 2022 Event The European Union is moving towards a ban on Russian oil by the end of the year amid divisions over the speed of phasing out imports and the impact of the embargo on the cost of living in the West. EU energy ministers held emergency talks in Brussels yesterday before European […]
Originally posted on The Curious Mag: As published on Happinez Magazine -The Morning newspaper, Sri Lanka – 8th May 2022. Link to article here What if what we consider to be “evil” is something that is quite ordinary? The phrase “banality of evil” was coined by the German-Jewish philosopher Hannah Arendt. She received a lot of…
Originally posted on This, That, and The Other: “No one has ever doubted that truth and politics are on rather bad terms with each other.” Hannah Arendt, political philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor Written for Linda G. Hill’s One-Liner Wednesday prompt.
Originally posted on Heeearing With Heart: My sheep hear My voice, and the path that I take,They follow wherever I go;My sheep know My voice and come at my call,But a stranger’s voice do they not know. Refrain:My sheep know My voice, and day by dayThey abide in the fold and go not astray,They love…
Quote of the day “I don’t think there is a woman alive, not just in politics but in any walk of life, who will not have experienced, somewhere on the spectrum of misogyny and sexism, behaviour that is unacceptable. In some ways, I think it is worse today than it was when I was […]
Originally posted on Gifford MacShane, Author: #trivia #NativeAmerican #boardingschool #votingrights The U. S. Department of the Interior just released a study of the almost 500 “Indian Boarding Schools” that operated from 1819 to 1969, including the Carlisle Indian Industry School here in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Over 7,000 children attended this school; its most famous student was…
Originally posted on Heeearing With Heart: God’s voice > Satan’s voice stills you . . . . . rushes you leads you . . . . . pushes you reassures you . . . . . . . frightens you enlightens you . . . . . . . . confuses you encourages you .…
How many times did not change the impact of a word used. One time you had to use a word because a previous word was considered not right. But later than new word or other words became also considered wrong. As such in our lifetime we had to change already four times the word to […]
Met de hoge brandstofprijzen en het milieu in acht nemend moet men er eens goed over na denken welke afstand en hoe men deze wil afleggen om de nodige boodschappen te doen.
Gedachte voor vandaag 26 mei: Er voor zorgen dat we Gods Woord van de waarheid op de juiste manier leren, uitleggen… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago
Gedachte voor vandaag 26 mei: Er voor zorgen dat we Gods Woord van de waarheid op de juiste manier leren, uitleggen… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…1 day ago
Pingback: Internet meeting 2016 March 30, Tuesday – Belgian Ecclesia Brussel – Leuven
Pingback: Spring playing hide and seek | From guestwriters
Pingback: Silence, devotion, Salafists, quietists, weaponry, bombings, books, writers and terrorists | Marcus Ampe's Space
Pingback: Evil wins when the good does not act. | From guestwriters
Pingback: Mountains of information, disinformation and breaking away | From guestwriters
Pingback: Darkest just before dawn | From guestwriters
Pingback: From Guestwriters 2016 in review | From guestwriters
Pingback: 2016 in review Politics #1 Year of dissonance | Marcus Ampe's Space
Pingback: Questiontime 2016-2017 report – Questiontime – Vragenuurtje