Jordan Perry

An Assyrian boy in Iraq singing a rare Aramaic hymn called “O’ Gannana”. It translates to “O Gardener”, recounting the story of Mary Magdalene encountering the empty tomb. She thought He was the Gardener, before realizing He Lives. We must rescue this dying language.

The Israeli Army continues to advance around Bint Jbeil

🌿☦️ Palm Sunday from Bethlehem بيت لحم, Palestine.

Wishing friends, colleagues and followers a very happy and restful Easter

Nothing will stop us from publicly celebrating the Resurrection of our Lord. المسيح قام حقًا قام

#Hezbollah says targeted Israeli warship with cruise missile #Lebanon

The UK condemns Hizballah’s attacks against Israel. But Israel’s expansion of ground operations threatens Lebanon’s sovereignty and undermines work to disarm Hizballah. Negotiations between Israel and Lebanon are needed to secure peace for those on both sides of the Blue Line.

A cutting reflection from Cardinal Ratzinger, Good Friday 2005: "Pilate is not utterly evil. He knows that the condemned man is innocent, and he looks for a way to free him. But his heart is divided. And in the end he lets his own position, his own self-interest, prevail over what is right. Nor are the men who are shouting and demanding the death of Jesus utterly evil. Many of them, on the day of Pentecost, will feel "cut to the heart," when Peter will say to them: "Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God... you crucified and killed by the hands of those outside the law." But at that moment they are caught up in the crowd. They are shouting because everyone else is shouting, and they are shouting the same thing that everyone else is shouting. And in this way, justice is trampled underfoot by weakness, cowardice and fear of the diktat of the ruling mindset. The quiet voice of conscience is drowned out by the cries of the crowd. Evil draws its power from indecision and concern for what other people think."

TV reporter tells David Bowie the internet is "hugely exaggerated" David Bowie's response is the closest thing to perfection about the future.

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I so deeply admire and respect this man. After being denied entry to the Holy Sepulchre, Cardinal Pizzaballa prayed at Gethesmane, blessing Jerusalem, this city where I was born and that I love so much: “Today Jesus weeps once more over Jerusalem. He weeps over this city, which remains a sign of both hope and sorrow, of grace and suffering. He weeps over this Holy Land, still unable to recognize the gift of peace. He weeps for all the victims of a war that seems without end: for divided families, for shattered hopes. But the tears of Jesus are never fruitless. They open our eyes, challenge us, and reveal the truth.” Amen.

The right to worship is a fundamental freedom. Israeli Police should not have blocked the Latin Patriarch from the Holy Sepulchre on Palm Sunday. Israel must work with religious communities to facilitate worship in line with the status quo.

#Syria: army units discovered a tunnel in W. Qusseir countryside, on the border with Lebanon, which was being used for smuggling by Hezbollah and affiliated militias. The tunnel was shut down - this is a first.

I see a lot of people saying that the IDF is struggling because of terrain and Hezbollah fighters. While both are true, it is important to remember that in the past, the IDF did cross the South very fast, with far less technology. They are not ready to do so at the moment for the following reasons: 1/ Iran is taking most of its focus and intelligence. 2/ The IDF is tired and stretched between Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Lebanon, and Iran. 3/ Occupying the South will be costly (financially and in terms of human lives). 4/ Occupying the South without an exit plan will be disastrous (a peace plan needs to follow). 5/ Giving a chance to negotiations with Lebanon.

For the first time, Hezbollah successfully used an FPV attack drone to target an Israeli armored vehicle, hitting a Merkava MBT.

Hezbollah’s Wafic Safa: we will demand the government rescind its decision to proscribe Hezbollah’s military activities, and it will do so like a former rescinded the two decisions related to May 7 [2008].”

Qasmiyeh bridge that Israel targeted Sunday

“This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather.”

Ali Larijani’s successor, Hossein Dehghan, holds a PhD in Management. He was one of the students who occupied the US embassy in Tehran. He also commanded the IRGC forces in Lebanon and was among the orchestrators of the 1983 bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut. The look on his face says it all.