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Palestinian and Jordanian officials praised the visit by the Vatican’s cardinal for eastern churches to Al-Aqsa Mosque saying that the meeting was historic. The Vatican’s delegation was welcomed by the director-general of Jerusalem’s Waqf department, Sheikh Azzam Khatib, members of the Waqf council and an assortment of Palestinian leaders. Wasfi Kailani, director of the Royal Hashemite Fund for the Restoration … Read More

Israel wants to “share the land and find a way to live together” with the Palestinians. This is what Israeli President Rivlin told Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, one of the highest-ranking Vatican diplomats, when they met at the President’s Residence in Israel. Sandri, who is the Prefect of the Congregations for the Oriental Catholic Churches, had came with a delegation that … Read More

Where is the Fall of 2019? Instead of wearing cozy sweaters and drinking pumpkin spice, as we have experienced in our past history at this time with normal seasons of weather, we are experiencing a heatwave that is breaking records. Even though it’s technically autumn, large areas of the US are currently feeling historic heat. Weather.com reported that this fall … Read More

Mysterious “fireball”-like objects were spotted blazing through the sky over Chile. And the Chilean officials have been investigating the several bizarre burning objects that crashed into the country. The fiery UFOs descended on Dalcahue City on the Chilean island of Chiloé and the tumbling objects crash-landed in seven locations, setting off fires that were put out by volunteer firefighters. Chilean … Read More

Just at summer’s end, an unusual winter storm began blasting parts of the West with up to 3 feet of snow, smashing records with low temperatures, heavy snow, strong winds and blizzard conditions. The National Weather Service called the storm historic, and said temperatures in some areas would drop as much as 30 degrees below normal. The weather service said, … Read More

Hurricane Lorenzo, thankfully churning away in the eastern Atlantic far from any shores, over the weekend still became historic. When Lorenzo for a brief stint became a Category 5 hurricane over the weekend, smashing a record for the easternmost Atlantic hurricane to attain such a strong intensity. Meteorologists have never recorded such a strong hurricane so far east in the Atlantic … Read More

Record-breaking rainfall from tropical storm Imelda was devastating to southeastern Texas. As areas were swamped with up to 4 feet of rain over just three days, causing catastrophic flooding that is among the worst in U.S. history. To put a storm like Imelda into perspective, storms that drop this much rain are estimated to appear once in a millennium, according … Read More

When Tropical Storm Imelda was devastating Southeast Texas last week, there were six named storms whirling at once in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which hit the record. The Weather Channel reported that while Humberto and Kiko were spinning in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific, then Imelda and Jerry formed in the Atlantic Basin, and Mario and Lorena in the … Read More

An earthquake has shaken northern Pakistan destroying buildings, cracking roads, and killing 22 people while injuring nearly 200 more, government and police officials said. Photos and video carried by local media showed dozens of collapsed buildings and homes, uprooted trees and cracks in roads large enough to swallow cars in Mirpur, a town on Pakistan’s side of the disputed territory … Read More

A 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck near Puerto Rico rousing and scaring many from their sleep in the US territory. The US Geological Survey said the quake struck 49 miles off the island’s northwest coast at a shallow depth of 6 miles. Three aftershocks, of magnitude 4.7 and 4.6, also hit within less than an hour in the same region at the … Read More