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Remember: Religion. Of. Peace.

Islamist Holiday Video Calls for Jihad and Slaughter of “Crusaders”
This ten-minute video titled “Rise Up,” was posted on Islamist websites on October 22, 2006, and was described as “a gift for ‘Eid Al-Fitr.” Produced by an individual identified as “Abu Osama” (whose real identity is unknown), it calls on the Muslims to wage jihad against the “Crusaders.” A caption in the film explains that Abu Osama produced the film on the occasion of the establishment of the Islamic State of Iraq. …full article from MEMRI

From the WashTimes:

An Episcopal congregation in Woodbridge whose members were unhappy with liberal trends in the Episcopal Church suddenly dissolved itself last week, leaving the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia with a $420,000 bill from the property’s mortgage.
The members of Christ Our Lord Episcopal Church, a mission congregation founded in 1992, has since reconstituted under the Anglican Diocese of North Kigezi in Uganda as Christ Our Lord Anglican Church. It is the third mission to leave the diocese because of the 2003 consecration of New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson as the world’s first openly homosexual bishop, but the first to abandon its property. …full

It’s doubtful there will be a negative financial impact since land in Northern VA is getting harder and harder to come by. The diocese could sell the land for a tidy profit if they so choose.
Too bad the congregation couldn’t make the big leap back to Rome. Because – how much more of a leap would that be, when you get down to the brass tacks of Scripture & Tradition?

The story comes from Texas after all.
Baptists renounce speaking in tongues

FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Trustees at a Baptist seminary have put it in writing: They will not tolerate any promotion of speaking in tongues on their campus.
The 36-1 vote Tuesday came nearly two months after the Rev. Dwight McKissic of Arlington, Texas, said during a chapel service at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary that he sometimes speaks in tongues while praying.
Mr. McKissic, a new trustee at the Fort Worth school, cast the lone dissenting vote on the resolution.
It states: “Southwestern will not knowingly endorse in any way, advertise or commend the conclusions of the contemporary charismatic movement including private prayer language. Neither will Southwestern knowingly employ professors or administrators who promote such practices.” …full

St. Joseph, in the graveyard at St. Mary’s Church, Charleston, SC. St. Mary’s was the first Catholic parish on the peninsula, established in 1789.