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January 22 - January 28, 2007 
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 Vol 2, Issue 4
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The Weekly News In Review Newsletter is a compilation of the news articles that have appeared on the Understand The Times website during the previous week.

We have chosen the 15 most important articles for 2006 in our "Year In Review 2006" . You can read these by clicking on the link below:

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 January 23, 2007 - Iran: Israel, US will soon die
 Article: Wars And Rumors Of Wars

Ahmadinejad: Be assured that the US and Israel will soon end lives
 
Yaakov Lappin
 
Israel and the United States will soon be destroyed, Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday during a meeting with Syria's foreign minister, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) website said in a report. Iran's official FARS news agency also reported the comments.
 
"Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... assured that the United States and the Zionist regime of Israel will soon come to the end of their lives," the Iranian president was quoted as saying.
 
"Sparking discord among Muslims, especially between the Shiites and Sunnis, is a plot hatched by the Zionists and the US for dominating regional nations and looting their resources," Ahmadinejad added, according to the report.
 
...Syria's Foreign Minister, Wailed Mualem, accused the US of attempting to carry out a "massacre of Muslims" and of sowing "discord among Islamic faiths in the region."
 
Mualem called on "regional states to pave the ground for the establishment of peace and tranquillity... while preventing further genocide of the Muslims," the IRIB website said.


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 January 23, 2007 - Nun's The Word
 Article: Roman Catholic Church And The Last Days

Italy's surge in women religious hints at a wider renewal. Cardinal praises the "vitality and dynamism" and "profound faith and fervor" of Italian convents.
 
BY EDWARD PENTIN
Vocations to female contemplative orders in Italy are booming, according to the Italian bishops' conference.

In 2005, 300 women took their solemn profession of vows, bringing the number of contemplatives in the country to 6,672.

..."The number of contemplative religious sisters is growing throughout the world, but - and this is more significant - this is also happening in Europe and in our own Italy, which often seems so hardest hit secularization," he said.



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 January 29, 2007 - "Lectio Divina" Is Central to Ecumenism, Says Pope
 Article: Ecumenical Movement - Misc.

VATICAN CITY, JAN. 26, 2007 (Zenit.org).- Listening to the word of God is a priority for ecumenism, said Benedict XVI at the close of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

"The Church does not 'make' herself and does not live of herself, but of the creative word that issues from the mouth of God," the Pope said Thusday at the ecumenical celebration of vespers, held in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls.

The Holy Father suggested that to proceed on the path to Christian unity it is necessary to "listen together to the word of God; to practice 'lectio divina' of the Bible," and to "allow oneself to be surprised by the novelty, which never grows old and is never exhausted, of the word of God."
Comment from Understand The Times:
 
Lectio Divina defined: An ancient form of meditation on scripture where one reads very slowly through a text until a word or phrase lights up and attracts the reader. The text is then laid aside and the phrase is repeated in the heart...without analysis.
 
Lectio divina, is a form of eastern mysticism. This is what Pope Benedict believes will assist in bringing about ecumenism. Lectio divina is also being promoted by leaders of the Emerging Church movement as a means of getting closer to God. Rooted in the occult, such methods open the door to the gods (the fallen spiritual dimension).


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