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Mass Murderer Kim is dead....but few obits go into details.
and filling in the details by GetReligion....
“Mercurial and enigmatic longtime leader,” eh? Is that how they spell “murderous Communist dictator” these days? I guess so...I’m reminded of this old piece in The Guardian about the torture chambers Kim’s regime ran:
In the remote north-eastern corner of North Korea, close to the border of Russia and China, is Haengyong. Hidden away in the mountains, this remote town is home to Camp 22 - North Korea’s largest concentration camp, where thousands of men, women and children accused of political crimes are held.
Now, it is claimed, it is also where thousands die each year and where prison guards stamp on the necks of babies born to prisoners to kill them.
The piece goes through the first-hand testimonies from defectors about execution and torture, including gas chambers with chemical experiments run on humans. It tells of whole families put in glass chambers and gassed while scientists take notes.
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StrategyPage comments on Russia and the Chinese cyberwar.
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Mother Marianne who nursed lepers in Hawaii, and Kateri Tekawitha are okayed to be declared official saints.
Kateri is Native American, and was one reason that many Native Americans are Catholic...factoid of the day: The first mass in Idaho was said for the Native Americans there.
And I remember when I lived in New Mexico, and a local woman woke up shortly after her family made a novena to Kateri for her recovery...the doctors said it was the influenza medicine, not the prayers, but never mind...
Our Oklahoma church had a shrine to Kateri,
Mother Marianne is a minor character but a memorial one in this movie about Father Damien and the leper colony...it's a commercial, not a religious movie, so is actually worth watching...and yes, that is Faramir, and Peter O'Toole is in it too...
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also in the list is Cebu native Peter Calungsod, a Pinoy catechist who was martyred in the Marianas. more HERE.
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