From now on, police officers in Chechnya will have to write reports on the number of prayers they say on a weekly basis. All the prayers in each precinct will be summed up and sent to the police headquarters. The Ministry of the Interior will keep track of the number of prayers performed at every precinct and take measures if the praying policemen fall behind the quota.
Nothing is funnier than post-Soviet people who discover religion.
Speaking of religion today is the anniversary of Pope Urban II’s speech at the Council of Clermont in France on November 27, 1095 which precipitated the crusades and some things don’t seem to change.
“Although, O sons of God, you have promised more firmly than ever to keep the peace among yourselves and to preserve the rights of the church, there remains still an important work for you to do. Freshly quickened by the divine correction, you must apply the strength of your righteousness to another matter which concerns you as well as God. For your brethren who live in the east are in urgent need of your help, and you must hasten to give them the aid which has often been promised them. For, as the most of you have heard, the Turks and Arabs have attacked them”
http://www1.cbn.com/spirituallife/calling-for-the-first-crusade
Pope Frances is in Africa today so I suspect that President Hollande will have to give the sermon.
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