The Protestant "Reformation" was worse than you thought

The Young Yearn for the Immemorial Mass of All Ages

by Young Catholic Girl 

Whenever I find an “petition book” in a church, I like to leaf through it. Then my gaze may get caught on a clumsy children's handwriting that simply tells us that the child went on a nice excursion with their parents and wants to share this joy. There is the elderly lady who prays for her grandchildren or people who pray for their sick parents. There is a lot of thanks to our Lord, sometimes a little cross or a few little hearts from the hands of children for God. But there is also a lot of worry and sorrow that is brought before the Lord in a few words.

I read how people tried to deal with life with the virus and the required restrictions in faith by writing and bringing their concerns to God. And in a pilgrimage church I found a very special testimony of great clarity that speaks for itself:

Sad that…

... there is hardly any trust in God (therefore such measures as no epidemic or war have ever seen before)

... people are dominated by fear (this does not come from God, but from the other one)

... even in such a holy and beautiful place there is not even a Latin Mass in the traditional Rite on Sacred Heart Fridays (quote from Pope Benedict XVI: which has never been abolished).

All God's blessings and healing in their hearts

PS I am not old. The Latin mass is sought after by young people

Link... 

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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"Former" East German Government Demands Parents Fill Out "Health Certificate" Form or Risk Losing Custody

Edit: It looks like the German government of Saxony is threatening to take children away from those who don't comply with filling out a "health certificate" form for their children and handing it in to the Commissar. If parents forget or just don't want to do this, the state can take action, including taking the children from their custody. This is a new level of Communist level non-sense. It wouldn't be surprising to see things like this in Saxony, which was part of East Germany. Is the East German State feeling nostalgic for days of yore? 

 Thanks to my reader who sent this to me, and Eyore at Vlad Tepes.  Originally from RAIR Foundation.

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Half of Seminarians and All Priests at Wigratzbad Have Corona

ABy Martin Bürger

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OPFENBACH, Germany, March 20, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) – Almost all priests and roughly half of the seminarians currently at a German seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter (FSSP), a traditionalist community of priests and seminarians, have been infected by the coronavirus.

On the evening of March 13, the seminary had first announced that a priest, who stayed at the seminary as a guest, had contracted the virus. At the time, the community, which is dedicated to the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass, had stated that all Masses in Wigratzbad would take place without the seminarians joining.

“With the powerful help of faith, hope and charity, we do not let ourselves be discouraged. In a few days, the first healed ones will be able to take over from the newly sick, to maintain the spiritual and material life of the house,” the seminary community wrote.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/all-priests-half-of-seminarians-at-traditional-catholic-order-infected-by-coronavirus

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Another Interfamily Quarrel in Baden-Würtenberg — 15 Year Old Stabbed to Death

A youth dies in the Heilbronn district, and his father and brother are found seriously injured: the police assume this is an act within the family.

[Spiegel] After the death of a young person near Güglingen in Baden-Württemberg, the police investigated. Stabbing injuries were found on the body of the 15-year-old, the officials said. His 17-year-old brother and 54-year-old father were taken to hospital with stab wounds.

"Many things are still unclear, but we currently assume that the crime took place within the family," said a police spokesman. "According to our investigations, the father and brother are the only people who were present during the crime."

Whether the stab wounds led to the 15-year-old's death will only be known after an autopsy. Investigators have so far not commented on murder weapons.

The 15-year-old was therefore killed on Saturday night in a residential building on an Aussiedlerhof in the Heilbronn district. The father and brother are currently not available for questioning because of their serious injuries, the police said. The investigators now wanted to interview family members and acquaintances.

According to the police, a family member made an emergency call

The teenagers and the father lived together on the property. No information has so far been given on the mother of the dead boy. Shortly after one o'clock, the emergency services were informed by an emergency call that there had been a dispute in the relatively secluded house and that there were several injuries. According to the police, the emergency call was made by one of the three family members.

Numerous officials secured the traces at the crime scene in Güglingen. The investigators let a drone circle over the Aussiedlerhof. According to the police, between 40 and 50 officers are working on the case.

The act took place just hours after a serious crime in Rot am See, just over 100 kilometers away. Six people were killed there on Friday. A marksman [The authorities still haven’t released the names of the perpetrator.]  is suspected of shooting his father, mother and four other relatives in the small town in north-east Baden-Württemberg. According to the investigators, the man is said to have killed his victims with a pistol and then reported himself to the police.

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Aachen Bishop Receives Large Sum From Mentally Incompetent Person

Aachen Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Bündgens today closed all offices  because of criminal investigations against him

Aachen (kath.net) The Catholic Church in Germany is shaken by a new scandal.  According to media reports today, Aachen Auxiliary Bishop Johannes Bündgens has closed all his offices because of a criminal investigations against him.  According to Cologne's Domradio, the Auxiliary Bishop is accused by the prosecutor of having accepted a six-figure sum from a person who may not have been mentally competent at the time the payment was agreed.  Since 2006, Bündgens has been Auxiliary Bishop and Canon and is also the head of the administrative council of the Catholic relief organization missio in Aachen.

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Two Violent Muslims Summon Gang to Attack Police Station to Free Them

By Jürgen Fritz, Fri 01. Nov 2019, cover picture: icon image, ZDF screenshot

As reported by the Federal Police Inspectorate Stuttgart, two young people of Afghan and Iraqi nationality triggered a police operation at Ulm Central Station during the night from Wednesday to Thursday around 00:30. After the train attendant had called the federal police, the two had been seized and taken to the police station. It was then that a group of about five to eight people stormed the police station and free the two suspects.

First riding the train without a ticket, then insulting an official

The two foreign 16-year-olds were initially noticed by their aggressive behavior. A train attendant had to find out that the two in a regional express from Stuttgart to Ulm were traveling without a ticket. The train attendant then informed the Federal Police, who seized the two young people at Ulm Central Station and then on to the local police station.

They wanted to reach the parents of the two minors, but this did not succeed. So they tried to transfer the two to a youth center. As a result, the Iraqi began insulting the officials. He also made image and sound recordings of the federal police and sent these, according to the current investigation, probably to a friend (who then probably contacted others again, who then tried together to storm the area later).

Punching and kicking against the police a group tried to release prisoners in front of the police station

Now the Afghan tried to injure himself. Therefore, in order to prevent this, he had to be restrained. Here he resisted the police measures. He defended himself against the officers with punches and kicks.

In the meantime, a group of about five to eight people had gathered in front of the police station. This group was now trying to force its way into the police station, probably with the intention of freeing the two friends. The federal police were obviously unable to ward off the attack on their own and had to request reinforcements from the state police.

Not a single attacker caught, the Afghan is "known to police”

Only after the arrival of supporting patrols of the state police, the attackers fled towards the city center. Despite an exhaustive search, the police, federal and state police, were unable to seize even one of the attackers.

As part of the resistance action one of the federal police officers was injured in the knee. The Afghan youth, who fiercely resisted, beat and kicked after the officers grazed his lower lip. He was treated by rescue workers. The Afghan, although allegedly only 16 years old, is already "known to police". Due to his self-harming actions, he was subsequently taken to a specialist clinic.

The Iraqi was released immediately

The police have released the Iraqi after consultation with his guardians. So he was on the loose again. The Federal Police have now begun investigations into allegations of insult, resistance to law enforcement officials and the attempted release of prisoners (§ 120 StGB).

Whether any of the two immigrants from the Islamic culture will receive any significant punishment at all, and if so, to such an extent and in what severity that they will be able to associate this with their deeds at all and become such a painful experience that it causes them to understand  their behavior and change their attitudes even minimally, remains to be seen.

What, if not five to eight, but 20 to 30 people had come?

What the federal police would have done if it had not been for five to eight people storming the police headquarters, but twenty to thirty, is hard to imagine. What the former President of the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution Hans-Georg Maaßen says about immigrants from just this culture, you can read here.

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Sassy Pants Hamburg Archbishop Wishes His Flock, “Could Have Done This Shit Alone” as Catholic Education Collapses

Planned school closings in the Archdiocese continue to cause fierce debate among Catholics and beyond. Archdiocese does not want to transfer schools threatened with closure to Fundación Arenales, which is supposed to be close to Opus Dei

Hamburg (kath.net/rn) In the archdiocese of Hamburg, the planned school closings among the Catholics and beyond continue to cause heated debate. This is reported by FAZ. After the diocese had determined that its own school association barely formed pension provisions and the schools were not operating while covering costs, the emergency brake was pulled and eight school closures decided upon. Because of the over-indebtedness of the budget in the amount of 83 million euros in 2017, the debt would rise in the next five years, according to the diocese to 350 million euros. The nerves in the archdiocese of Hamburg are likely to have been pushed to the edge by the diocesan administration. The FAZ quotes the Hamburg Archbishop Heße as follows: If he had known what to expect in Hamburg, "then they could have done the shit alone.”

It is also interesting that the Archdiocese of Hamburg offered schools that were to be closed to establish new sponsorship associations. A director then founded an Edith Stein School, which since January 1, 2019, a daughter of Diakoniewerk New Bank Ramp, a non-profit Christian carrier from the region. Another school has already taken similar steps.

According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, however, six out of a total of 21 archdiocesan schools are still to be closed, and two more are subject to a moratorium of one year.

An explicitly Catholic school would like to avoid the Archdiocese of Hamburg, however. An offer of school takeover by a Spanish foundation called Fundación Arenales, which according to the FAZ is close to Opus Dei and the Neocatechumenate, was rejected. The Fundacion already runs a kindergarten in Munich. The Archdiocese said that the Foundation does not want to transfer any schools.

Incidentally, the number of students at the Catholic schools in Hamburg has fallen from more than 10,000, and since 2013 it is presently around 8,500.

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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ISIS Planned a Major Attack in Germany for 2016

"Picture": The Federal Prosecutor's Office has confirmed the planning of a terror attack by IS for 2016. "For us, the facts in this case were very concrete and also reliable," said Attorney General Peter Frank for the media.

Berlin (kath.net) The "Islamic State" (IS) had planned a major terrorist attack in Germany. This was reported by “BILD". According to this, an ISIS supporter has revealed details about the planning of the attacks in an interview with German reporters. The attack should have taken place in 2016, with three teams of assassins traveling to Germany to prepare and conduct a mega-attack. One of the possible goals was a music festival. The Federal Prosecutor's Office confirmed the terrorist plans. "For us, the facts in this case was very concrete and reliable," Federal Attorney General Peter Frank told media.

No word as to why it was aborted.

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Afghan Inmigrant Attacks Pregnant Woman with Knife

In Bessheim, Hesse, there jas been a bloody attack between two relatives. A 23-year-old Afghan injured a pregnant woman with a knife.

A heavily pregnant woman was attacked in Bischofsheim in the district of Groß-Gerau in Hesse with a kitchen knife and seriously injured.

As a police spokesman told FAZ.NET, the quarrel between a 23-year-old Afghan and his 38-year-old niece escalated. The alleged perpetrator is supposed to Have then fled, but was be arrested a short time later by the alarmed officials.

The background of the dispute is still completely unclear. The victim was taken to the hospital with serious injuries. According to the latest information, her condition is stable. The unborn child was unharmed by the knife attack. 

http://m.faz.net/aktuell/rhein-main/region-und-hessen/familienstreit-in-bischofsheim-schwangere-mit-messer-schwer-verletzt-15589564.html

 Trans: Tancred vekron99hotmail.com

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3 Dead in Latest Islamic [?] Attack in Germany

Edit: now it looks like the perp was a German native without an immigration background, according to authorities. Still, the authorities have a stake in him not being so, don’t they? It also appears he had connections with right wing extremism.

Germany Terror: Van ploughs into 30 people in street - fatalities reported

A VAN has rammed into crowds of pedestrians in the western German city of Munster killing four people (Now it’s 3)  and leaving dozens injured. The driver is believed to have killed himself in the seconds after the incident which police officials have suggested could have been a terror attack.

According to reports the vehicle, described by some witnesses as small truck, rammed into crowds of people who were sitting near the Kiepenkerl statue in the old town.

Many of the victims were sitting outside the restaurant enjoying the sun when the van ploughed into them. 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/942757/Germany-news-Cottbus-van-attack-police-alert

Germans Have Little Faith in the Catholic Church -- Pope's Popularity Declines

Edit: Imagine my shock. You would think that Marx's big push to legitimize mortal sin would make him and his confreres MORE, not less popular.

Germans consider television more trustworthy than the Catholic Church. In a survey, it is only in the rear midfield among 26 institutions. Trust in the pope also decreases.

Statistics | Bonn - 04.01.2018 According to a survey, Germans do not trust the Catholic Church with great confidence. Among 26 "non-political institutions," the Catholic Church in a study by the opinion research institute forsa for the television station RTL and ntv is only ranked 18th At 27 percent, however, it improved compared to the previous year by one percentage point. Here, the perception in West and East Germany deviates strongly from each other. For example, only 13 percent of East Germans give their trust to the Catholic Church; by contrast, 30 percent among the West Germans.

The Protestant church increased by two percentage points to 48 percent, ranking it in 13th place. In West Germany, 50 percent of the respondents trust them, in eastern Germany 34 percent.



Confidence in the pope, on the other hand, declined significantly last year. He is trusted by 54 percent of the respondents, which represents a decrease of 6 percentage points compared to 2016 and means 9th place in the current ranking. Here too, West and East Germany deviate strongly from each other. The pope enjoys, according to the data, 40 percent of the East Germans' trust, but 57 percent of West Germans.

Islam lost the most confidence

The strongest loss of confidence was recorded by Islam. It fell in the "trust ranking" from 25 percent in the previous year to 9 percent. That means rank 24. Behind it lie only managers with 6 per cent and advertising agencies with 5 per cent. Forsa boss Manfred Güllne believes Islamist attacks are responsible this low value for Islam.

37 percent of the respondents trusted the Central Council of Jews, three percentage points less than in 2016. The "trust ranking" is headed by the police, universities, doctors and their own employers. The media in the form of radio, press and television had each suffered 4 percentage point losses. According to the poll, 56 percent of Germans trust in the radio (8th place), the press comes to 40 percent (15th place), the television 28 percent (17th place).

The survey took place between December 15 and 20, with 2,307 people polled. (Well / KNA)

AfD-Faction Threatened With Anthrax

Hamburg Parliament: picture alliance/dpa

HAMBURG. Allegedly left-wing extremists have threatened the AfD faction in the Hamburg Parliament with an anthrax attack. On Wednesday, the faction received a threatening letter with a bag containing flour. The letter read: "G20. Bag content today: Flour. On July 7th, And 8.7. 2017 Anthrax. "According to information from JUNGE FREIHEIT, other factions in the Parliament have also received similar threats.

On the two days, the G20 summit will be held in Hamburg, where US President Donald Trump will also be expected in Germany for the first time. The President of the AfD Group, Bernd Baumann, sees the threat as a new dimension in political debate and a low point of political culture." Extreme Left terrorists are afraid of those who think differently and threaten them with the deadly substance Anthrax," he complained.

The police are switched on

The red-green Hamburg Assembly proposed to promote left-wing extremism through financial donations and the provision of premises. Baumann is calling for a change of course: "It is absolutely absurd to foster enemies of democracy, who are partly fighting our state by force." A faction spokesman told the JF: "We handed the parcel in question to the police now. We are convinced that they will take the incident seriously. "(Tb)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Protestant Theologian: Conservative Party Has Capitulated to the Zeitgeist on Abortion

Rector of the Freie Theologische Hochschule Gießen: "It is not conceivable that the CDU has nothing to say" - although abortion is punishable, the actual handling of the population leads to the impression that abortion is legal

Cologne (kath.net) In the topic of abortion, Stephan Holthaus has charged politicians and especially the CDU of a "capitulation before the Zeitgeist". Holthaus is a rector of the Freie Theologische Hochschule in Giessen and a professor of Christian ethics and apologetics. He spoke at a discussion in an Lutheran Freikirche in Cologne, which was also attended by deputy CDU chairman Armin Laschet. The Protestant "pro media magazine" reported on this. "100,000 abortions a year are an ethical catastrophe. I can expect that a political system that inscribes a Christian human image on the flag will protect life. "For him," it is not conceivable that the CDU has nothing to say." Although abortion is a punishable offense, the actual impression among the citizenry is that abortion is legal.

Holthaus demanded that politicians should speak more clearly about the fact that only a small percentage of abortions would be carried out because of problematic pregnancies. In addition, said Holthaus, according to the "pro media magazine", they should support the policy initiatives that accompany women in conflicts during pregnancy. Laschet replied that his state did exactly that, he then criticized the fact that the Lutheran Church did not have a clear position here.

Laschet had previously appealed to the participants to participate politically: "There are too few Christians in politics. It is good for the entire political spectrum that Christians engage. "It is conceivable to actively participate or at least choose to go."


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A Program for Civil War

[Junge Freiheit] One and a half years after the escalation of the refugee crisis, more and more books appear, illuminating the background and consequences of the events. Robin Alexander just landed with his book "Die Getriebenen" the political bestseller of the year. In this book, he succeeds in chronically reevaluating the dramatic sequence of the opening of the border in September 2015, thereby laying bear the motives and failures of political leaders.

Now another book catches attention: "Inside Islam". Here the ARD journalist Constantin Schreiber went to the Friday prayer in 13 mosques to find out what is actually preached to Muslims in Arabic or Turkish. Schreiber summed up anxiously, the Imams preached against the integration efforts of the German state. At the same time, to be Muslim and Democrat were to be completely ruled out. And it was partly "harshly agitating against the Yezidis, the Armenians and the Jews," writes Schreiber.

"School without racism" bully Jewish students

A recent incident at a community school in Berlin confirms the massive problem of anti-Semitism rampant among Arab and Turkish youths. A Jewish family, after repeated verbal and physical attacks on her 14-year-old son, saw no choice but to take her child from school. Three quarters of the pupils at this institution, which is engaged in the project of a "School without racism", have a migration background.

The fact that anti-Semitism is nowadays no longer "from the midst of German society" but from Muslim immigration, is a dilemma for leftist politicians and journalists. Some media, such as Spiegel Online, conceal the ethno-religious backgrounds of the perpetrators in their reports about crimes.

The call to hatred of unbelievers is dangerous

But we do not get any further. The facts must be on the table. Some of what Constantin Schreiber excavates in "Inside Islam" sounds alarming. That Christians have forgotten to see themselves committed as believers to a mission is a problem of Christians, not the Muslims. The fact that sermons  invoking fervor of the faith, is sorely lacking among pastors. What is dangerous is the call to hatred for the other believers and the state.

Here in Germany, half a millennium ago, in the Thirty Years' War, we had to learn secularization through bloody religious conflicts, constitutions, and the rule of law. It has taken centuries to live with confessional opposition among Christians. Uncontrolled immigration of Muslims makes integration into a task that is no longer manageable in a quantitatively simple manner and is thus a program for civil war. Finally, politics should take heed.

JF 15/17

https://jungefreiheit.de/debatte/streiflicht/2017/ein-programm-zum-buergerkrieg/

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Immigrants Beat Man Trying to Defend His Daughters

Schwerte. Several unknowns have attacked a family father in a train in Schwerte, North Rhine-Westphalia, after he was trying to protect his two little daughters. The attackers were "two to three men with an obvious migration background," said a police officer to a query by Junge Freiheit.

The father, with his wife, his son and his two daughters, were on a Saturday afternoon excursion on the regional railway 53 in the direction of Schwerte, when an unknown attacker tried to place his two little daughters on his lap.

Offenders also attack son and wife

When the 39-year-old Schwerte resident was talking to the men, they beat him abruptly. Even as he was lying on the ground, they beset him, according to the police. "When his 13-year-old son and his wife guarded him, they were also injured," the police said on Monday.

The perpetrators could flee unidentified. The father received a wound on the nose, lip, and has injuries to his ear and temple. "We've made a video review," the spokesman said. There are inquiries because of  dangerous bodily injury. (Ls)

https://jungefreiheit.de/politik/deutschland/2017/einwanderer-wollen-toechter-auf-schoss-setzen-vater-verpruegelt/

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Munich Priest Speaks of the "Natural Disobedience" of the Priest

Controversial Munich priest Schießler praises the DBK statement "free decision of conscience" for the remarried divorced and now calls for the "blessing of homosexual people", Catholic-Evangelical liturgy and abolition of priestly celibacy

Munich (kath.net) The German bishops have written "a word for renewed marriage and family pastoral in the light of Amoris Laetitia,"  the "individual, personal and free conscience of the person concerned" ... "finally!" Praised the Munich priest Rainer Maria Schießler in a guest commentary in the "Zeit" - entitled  "Christ & Welt". Then he went on to explain that the Church was "far from the end of this path." It is important to see, to formulate and to put into practice "many things: the blessing of homosexual people who simply have to realize that they are not capable of a heterosexual partnership; The communion with our evangelical sisters and brothers, because it is not about equality, but about the unity that we already possess in Christ; Or the free choice of life for all those who also aspire to the higher, that is, the priestly ministry, in the Church, because the priestly proclamation of the gospel can also be entrusted with good faith, even in people who live in a loving relationship."

In addition, Schießler warned "of a verbal disarmament in the tone". This was addressed to those whom he described as "the ultra-conservatives in our Church." Supposedly, they would speak of the "Communion of adultery." But those who were "concerned with statements of a Communion of adultery or other conceptions" would not "just injure men," but "inflict a considerable harm on the Eucharist". For "the Eucharist community of Jesus of Nazareth is not a body of perfects, as we would like to see. They are the unsaved, the broken, who have just been given a new (higher) life perspective through the communion with Christ."

At last, Schießler wrote in "Christus & Welt", "this ruthless rejection of the seeker is no longer valid," "finally the individual believer decides, in his own personal freedom, what he is called to." According to Schießler  "the former reward and punishment mentality on this subject" had nothing to do with the Church of a Jesus of Nazareth, who deliberately sought the failed and the stranded."

Schießler is incardinated in the Archdiocese of Munich as a pastor, TV personality and author of the bestseller "Himmel - Herrgott - Sakrament: auftreten statt austreten. [Heaven - Lord God - Sacrament: encounter instead of leaving.] He openly acknowledgesy "Gunda", who has been at his side for 20 years. According to his self-understanding, he does not violate his promise of celibacy, because "the sexual act is definitely excluded", but "tenderness" is "important", kath.net has reported. In other respects, too, he tends to be a media-active celebrity. For example, he had aroused anger when, in the summer of 2011, he built a beer table in front of the altar steps of his church and demonstratively enjoyed a liter of beer during an interview with "Munich.TV" (photo above), kath.net has reported. He once even expressed the wish to make a restaurant with a beer garden from a side chapel of St. Maximilian.

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com
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Live Streaming From the Chapel of the Sacred Heart Seminary of the Priestly Society of St. Pius X

The Sacred Heart of Jesus Seminary of the Priestly Fraternity St. Pius X  now transmits Holy Mass and the daily Breviary Prayers as an MP3 stream to the Internet.

Between the prayer times, there will be  pre-recorded lectures. For a rough orientation when and what is downloaded, the pages help:  Mass times and life in the seminaryy of the seminary web page.

It would be helpful if a program of the channel were on the home page of the seminary.

The address of the MP3 tag is: http://horbau.no-ip.org:8000/rhj .

Picture: Private / Text: LS

The talks will be in German.

Link...

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The Asylum Crisis is Costing Germany Almost 21.7 Billion Euros in 2016

BERLIN. [Junge Freiheit] The asylum crisis cost the Bundesrepublik 21.7 billion euros last year. This is evident from the monthly report published by the Federal Ministry of Finance on Friday. For this year, € 21.3 billion has been earmarked for the national budget.

For the reception, registration and accommodation of asylum seekers, the federal government spent 1.4 billion euros, for integration services 2.1 billion and for combating the causes of flight 7.1 billion.

Social benefits of the federal government cost another 1.7 billion euros. As a direct relief, the federal government also provided the federal states and municipalities with 9.3 billion euros.

" Huge stimulus package"

"More than 90 percent of the federal expenditures," says Ferdinand Fichtner, the economic researcher of the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW), have, however, continued into the economy, such as the spending of refugees for foodstuffs and other consumer goods, rental payments or construction investments. "This can also be described as a huge economic stimulus program," Fichtner told the news agency Reuters.

In 2015 about 890,000 asylum seekers had come to Germany, 2016 about 280,000. According to the report, "high entry rates" were limited to the year 2015.

"Into the black" could be held

The Ministry points out that on paper, in 2016, the Bundesrepublik could, for the third year in a row forgoing new debts and still keeping in the "black" with the budget. A surplus of 6.2 billion euros had even been achieved. This was due above all to the high tax revenues and low interest rates.

At around EUR 289 billion, the Federal Government achieved a 2.6 percent increase in tax revenues in 2016 compared to the previous year. At EUR 288.6 billion, the increase was 7.7 percent for the federal states. At the same time, the government had to pay 17.5 billion euros interest last year - 2.8 billion euros less than expected. In 2015 the interest payments amounted to more than 21 billion euros. (Gb)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

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Mass Raids Against Organized Crime in Germany

LEIPZIG. The police in Leipzig on Thursday proceeded with a large operation against the organized crime. More than 500 police officers and revenue officials searched offices and apartments throughout the city. Roads were blocked because of the bust. The mission lasted until the evening.

Because of the measure was a decision of the district court of Leipzig, said Bild citing the State Criminal Office of Saxony representative, Tom Behrend. The proceedings were concerned with the infringement of weapons violations and the suspicion of tax evasion.

"United Tribunes" Clubhouse Searched

One of the main points of the raid is at Eisenbahnstraße. There, at the noon, the clubhouse of the so-called street gang "United Tribun" was searched. The Leipzig vice-chief of the associated rock group from Baden-Württemberg is an Iranian. [United Tribune is involved in white slavery, and prostitution.]

The searches were not related to a shooting in June 2016 on Eisenbahnstraße. At that time, there was one dead and three seriously injured, all four belonged to "United Tribunes". 14 persons, excluding members of Hells Angels, were later arrested for the time being. (Mec)

https://jungefreiheit.de/kultur/gesellschaft/2017/grossrazzia-gegen-organisierte-kriminalitaet-in-leipzig/
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