Tomasi told Crux that in the first instance, he hopes the statement will galvanize nations around the world to provide humanitarian aid to Christians and other groups suffering at the hands of ISIS, “so they can survive and stand up for their own rights.”

Beyond that, Tomasi said, the crisis requires “more coordinated protection, including the use of force to stop the hands of an aggressor.”

“It will be up the United Nations and its member states, especially the Security Council, to determine the exact form of intervention necessary,” he said, “but some responsibility [to act] is clear.”

福知山廃線のハイキングのビデオを御覧下さい。

The video I made of it is here:

On Tuesday I was eating lunch along a stream/big ditch down in the town, and a woman walking her dog stopped and talked with me for a while, and after hearing i was vegetarian, told me to wait while got something. Well, she came back with around a dozen apples, dozen oriental pears, and two dozen super-nice tomatoes! Wow!

Thursday, somebody’s dog came to our house and stayed around 6 hours until we could find the owner. It is very rare to see a dog not on a leash in the town or in the subdivision here, so it was quite interesting.

Then Friday, while stopped at a stop light on my bicycle, a biggish, youngish man holding a cup of coffee and some papers called out to me in a loud voice: “gaijin!” (furreigner). I thot he might be mentally unstable, so kind of backed up. He started coming closer and still calling out loudly and asking where i was from. I got off my bike and backed it up quickly. He started coming towards me quicker, and just then the light changed, and i got on my bike and made a wide berth around him while he was shouting at me to obey traffic rules. Weird.

On the Sabbath i went to see my best SDA friend in Japan. I’ve known her for around 18 years. We worked closely to help the homeless, and she is the one who put a lot of energy and effort into helping me spread the 5,000 Japanese editions of the 1858 Great Controversy book. She has always been very powerful and active, so it was a shock to see her barely able to walk or hold a dish this Sabbath. She said she can’t grasp dishes etc., and her left leg has shooting pains. She had her husband call the ambulance two nites prior, and they couldn’t get a reading on her pulse. They called around to a few hospitals to take her to, but since the ER people didn’t have a good grip on her condition, all the hospitals refused to take her. She got upset with that, and just had them drive her back home. It is getting close to my time too, i’m afraid. No, not really afraid of going downhill, just that i recognize where i am in life, and see myself going down too.

What was nice, was that her husband (non-christian) seems to have his heart softened by all this, and he studied Mark 9 with us where we read “Help increase my faith”. He has mentioned he wants to become Christian, but i think he is afraid of what his father would say, so is holding off. I just hope he makes up his mind before it’s too late.

Then he recently went to Jerusalem, trying to do his part obstensibly for peace, but more likely to get respect to be the “king-maker” in future negotiations, and probably also to get some of that land in Jerusalem, as Satan has always wanted to put his headquarters there. Daniel 11:45 And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.

Yesterday he called for people to take Sundays off work. He said: “that spending Sundays with family and friends is an “ethical choice” for faithful and non-faithful alike”. “Francis said the priority should be “not economic but human,” and that the stress should be on families and friendships, not commercial relationships. He added: “Maybe it’s time to ask ourselves if working on Sundays is true freedom.””

http://news.yahoo.com/pope-no-sundays-good-not-just-faithful-130300599.html