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Let's offer one Hail Mary for all Catholic Priests. Please comment 'Amen' as a response. #OneHailMarycampaign

📢 One week to go. Public Lecture: “Dorothy Garrod and the Devil’s Tower Skull” by @DrAlexMenez. 🎟️ Free, pre-registration required (limited seating): 👉 gibmuseum.gi/news/dorothy-g…

Looking forward to the public lecture: “Dorothy Garrod and the Devil’s Tower Skull” by @DrAlexMenez on the discovery of Flint and the work of Dorothy Garrod. 🎟️ Free, pre-registration required (limited seating): 👉 gibmuseum.gi/news/dorothy-g… #Flint100 #Gibraltar #NeanderthalCity

📢 Public Lecture: “Dorothy Garrod and the Devil’s Tower Skull” A talk by @DrAlexMenez on the discovery of Flint and the work of Dorothy Garrod. 🎟️ Free, pre-registration required (limited seating): 👉 gibmuseum.gi/news/dorothy-g… #Flint100 #Gibraltar #NeanderthalCity

Missed our last #Gibraltar National Museum lecture? You can now watch Prof. @CliveFinlayson's talk: “#Neanderthals & #Hyaenas: Exploring the Natural History of the First Gibraltarians.” Watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=3kgDh4…

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Let's offer one Hail Mary for all Catholic Priests. Please comment 'Amen' as a response. #OneHailMarycampaign

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Let's offer one Hail Mary for those who have lost a child. Please comment 'Amen' as a response. #OneHailMarycampaign

🚨 Christians in Nigeria are being hunted like animals—gunned down in churches or burned alive. Islamic group massacred 200+ in Kwara village. Legacy Media silent! Should we defend Christians worldwide? A. Yes B. No

Zidane is still in prison for defending his Christian community against Islamic terrorists and he’s been sentenced to death. Self-defense is not a crime.. Free Zidane now !!!!

This is not getting the attention it deserves

These are the people massacred in the Orthodox Church Damscus Syria. Just an hour before they were killed. 1 in 7 Christians worldwide face persecution. It is hidden Genocide but no one seems to care except Trump. Europe when will you protect ✝️?

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Catholic priest Fr. Nathaniel Asuwaye has been kidnapped in Kaduna State, Nigeria, along with ten others. Info: Archdiocese of Kafanchan

Heartbreaking. Muslim extremists set fire to the Coptic Christian neighborhood in Cairo, Egypt. Entire buildings are burning. Christians in Muslim countries are the most Persecuted people in the world.

Gunmen abducted Rev. Fr. Nathaniel Asuwaye and ten others early Feb. 7, 2026, in Kaduna State, Nigeria. Three people were killed in the attack. No rage 😭 No media 💔 No protests 😭 No statement 💔

Fr. Isaac Achi was burnt to death He survived a previous bombing, a kidnapping and gun shot before he was gruesomely burnt alive by terrorists in 2023 in Nigeria 🇳🇬 We refused to forget 💔😭😭 May his soul rest in peace 💔😭🙏

📢 Public Lecture: “Neanderthals & Hyaenas: Exploring the Natural History of the First Gibraltarians” A public lecture by Prof @CliveFinlayson exploring the relationship between Neanderthals and hyaenas. 🎟️ Free event. Book here: 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/public-lectu…

Former Moorish Castle prison staff revisited the site on 31 January with Prof @CliveFinlayson to see ongoing restoration work and to share memories of their service, reinforcing the importance of living history in #Gibraltar’s #heritage. Full details here: gibmuseum.gi/news/former-pr…

💔💔😭😭 Catholic Priest Burnt Alive Inside His Car By Armed Islamist Terrorist In Taraba. Rev. Fr. David Tanko, who was ordained a Catholic priest in 2008 for the Catholic Diocese of Jalingo in Northeastern Nigeria, was burned alive by armed bandits together with his vehicle few years ago. This horrific attack took place in Kufai Amadu, Takum, Taraba State. He body was burnt beyond recognition. According to reports, the priest was on his way to a meeting to mediate and reconcile the Tiv and Jukun tribes when he was attacked. The residents who witnessed the urgly incident discribed his death as a martyr of the Church. A servant who offered his life to God and to the people. Some of the eyewitness offered prayers for repose of his soul like, rest now in peace, beloved servant of the Most High God indeed, the blood of the martyrs is one of the pillars of our Christian faith. For many years innocent souls have been killed and nothing is being done. Catholic priests have been targeted and killed yet the government is mute 🤫 May their souls rest in peace 🪦 💔😭

In medical school, we are taught a golden rule: "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." It is a reminder to look for the common explanation before the exotic one. But after decades in cardiology, I’ve learned that if a patient is still suffering after the "horses" have been ruled out, a doctor must have the courage—and the curiosity—to go hunting for the zebra. Sarah was a thirty-four-year-old marathon runner and a devoted mother who came to me after six months of being told she was "fine." She had been bounced from one specialist to another, each one pointing to her normal EKG and standard blood tests as proof that her crushing fatigue and racing heart were simply the result of "new mom stress." By the time she reached my office, she didn't just look tired; she looked invisible, as if the medical system had stopped seeing the woman and only saw the data. Instead of re-reading the normal test results that had already failed her, I asked Sarah to walk me through her life. We talked about her training and her family, eventually landing on a backpacking trip she took to the Mendoza province of rural Argentina. She described staying in a charming, rustic cottage made of sun-dried mud bricks. She mentioned waking up one morning with a strangely swollen, purple eyelid that she assumed was a simple spider bite. As she spoke, a memory surfaced from a biography I had read years ago about Charles Darwin. Most people know Darwin for his theories on evolution, but medical historians have long puzzled over the mysterious, debilitating illness that plagued him for decades after he returned from his voyage on the HMS Beagle. Darwin had written in his journals about being bitten by the "great black bug of the Pampas" while sleeping in mud-walled huts in South America. He spent the rest of his life suffering from heart palpitations and exhaustion that the Victorian doctors of his time could never explain. I realized then that Sarah wasn't suffering from stress; she was likely hosting the same "silent killer" that may have haunted Darwin: Chagas Disease. The "Kissing Bug" lives in the cracks of those mud-brick walls. It bites its victims—often near the eyes or mouth—while they sleep, passing a parasite called Trypanosoma cruzi into the blood. The danger of Chagas is that the initial symptoms disappear quickly, but the parasite can hide in the body for years, slowly weaving itself into the muscle and electrical "wiring" of the heart. To confirm this, I moved beyond the standard tests. I ordered a specialized "Strain Rate" ultrasound, which doesn't just look at whether the heart is pumping, but at how the individual muscle fibers are stretching. We saw that while her heart looked strong to the naked eye, the fibers were "stuttering," a sign of early parasite-induced scarring. A specific blood test for the parasite's antibodies confirmed the diagnosis. Treatment required a difficult, sixty-day course of anti-parasitic medication to stop the infection, paired with a protective heart regimen to keep her electrical system stable while the inflammation settled. Because we caught it before her heart was physically damaged or enlarged, the recovery was a success. Months later, Sarah returned to my office, her vibrant energy restored. She brought me a leather-bound copy of The Voyage of the Beagle with a note tucked inside. She wrote that while other doctors had looked at her charts, I had looked at her. This case remains a vital reminder for my memoir: in a world of high-tech scans and AI, the most sophisticated diagnostic tool we possess is still the human story. When we truly listen, we don't just find the disease—we find the patient. Good morning.