Larry Colburn and My Lai villager. (Photo Credit: Chitose Suzuki/AP)
I met Larry Colburn in 1998 when he and Hugh Thompson returned to Viet Nam for the first time since the war. They met with victims of the My Lai Massacre, including survivors whose lives they helped to save during those awful hours of March 16, 1968.
Giêsu ơi,
Sinh nhật của Giêsu sắp đến rồi,
Giêsu muốn em tặng quà gì?
Jesus,
Thank you for calling us friends,
your friends.*
You are our God,
Christ the Lord,
Lord of all creation.
And you are our friend. Continue reading Prayer 29
CSIS AMTI – Published: December 13, 2016
China appears to have built significant point-defense capabilities, in the form of large anti-aircraft guns and probable close-in weapons systems (CIWS), at each of its outposts in the Spratly Islands. AMTI began tracking the construction of identical, hexagon-shaped structures at Fiery Cross, Mischief, and Subi Reefs in June and July. It now seems that these structures are an evolution of point-defense fortifications already constructed at China’s smaller facilities on Gaven, Hughes, Johnson, and Cuarteron Reefs.
Gaven Reef
DEC. 7, 2016
YOU HEAR A MURDER SCENE before you see it: The desperate cries of a new widow. The piercing sirens of approaching police cars. The thud, thud, thud of the rain drumming on the pavement of a Manila alleyway — and on the back of Romeo Torres Fontanilla.
Jesus,
Thank you for teaching us.
You know us.
You know that
for us loving God is difficult. Continue reading Prayer 28
HANOI – Vietnam has begun dredging work on a disputed reef in the South China Sea, Reuters news service reported Thursday, a move that will likely anger China, which claims virtually the entire sea.
A filing cabinet broken into in 1972 as part of the Watergate burglary sits beside a computer server that Russian hackers breached during the 2016 presidential campaign at the Democratic National Committee’s headquarters in Washington. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times
WASHINGTON — When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.
Giêsu ơi,
Sinh nhật Giêsu sắp đến.
Sinh nhật Giêsu gợi em nhớ về hiện diện của Giêsu trên trái đất.
Giêsu đã ở trong tâm trí người Do Thái và các nước láng giềng ít nhất 4.000 năm trước.
Nhưng cho đến 2.000 năm sau,
Giêsu mới đến trong hình dạng Giêsu
để dạy con người cách kết nối lại với Chúa,
sau khi Ađam và Êva mất kết nối với Chúa. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 27 – Prayer 27
Posted 12 Dec 2016 15:32 ChannelNewsAsia
Tổng thống đắc cử Mỹ Donald Trump. Ảnh:ABC News
BEIJING: Beijing is “seriously concerned” by US president-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that he could drop Washington’s One China policy unless the mainland makes concessions on trade and other issues.
It issued its first clear warning Monday (Dec 12) over Donald Trump’s fiery rhetoric, as state media said the Asian giant could back “forces hostile to the US” if the president-elect follows through with threats to drop Washington’s One China policy.
MORE THAN 6 BILLION PEOPLE LIVE IN COUNTRIES WITH A SERIOUS CORRUPTION PROBLEM
This nine-year-old girl is one of them.
She lives in Dhaka, Bangladesh – one of 114 countries that scores below 50 out of 100 in our 2015 Corruption Perceptions Index, indicating serious levels of public sector corruption.
Instead of going to school, she spends her days sorting bottles at a recycling factory. Officially child labour is illegal in Bangladesh. Unofficially a bribe paid to the right official can mean exceptions are made.
Giêsu ơi,
Em nhớ Giêsu đã nói:
“Tôi biết mình từ đâu đến và sẽ đi đâu”*.
Lời Giêsu thật thú vị đối với em.
Những lời thú vị hơn cả là:
“Tôi biết mình từ đâu đến”. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 26 – Prayer 26
ALJAZEERA – As isolationism is sweeping through the West, China is to become the unlikely champion of globalisation.
![Workers assemble mobile phones on a product line at a factory in Sichuan Province, China [Getty]](https://i0.wp.com/www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2016/12/11/1ee213531fd04a5eb37a90502181dd06_18.jpg "China: The vanguard of globalisation")
Workers assemble mobile phones on a product line at a factory in Sichuan Province, China [Getty]
Richard Javad Heydarian is a specialist in Asian geopolitical/economic affairs.
“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent,” Chairman Mao Zedong wrote in a letter to his wife on July 8, 1966. This was the height of the Cold War, as Moscow and Washington vied for global supremacy, and massive protests swept across the West, from Europe to the United States.
Giêsu ơi,
Xin giúp chúng em hiểu rằng
chúng em đã có Chúa ở trong chúng em,
chúng em đã có tình yêu vô điều kiện ở trong chúng em.
Xin giúp chúng em sống cuộc đời mình với sự hiểu biết đó. Continue reading Lời cầu nguyện 25 – Prayer 25
INDONESIANEWS11 HOURS AGO ALJAREEZA
Indonesians rally for unity after blasphemy protests
Crowds waved ‘We Are Indonesia’ signs and held a giant red-and-white national flag [Reute
Tens of thousands of Indonesians have rallied in Jakarta, the Indonesian capital, calling for tolerance and unity after massive protests were held against the city’s Christian governor.
Đọt Chuối Non 