Just after midnight of June 6, 1968, Senator Robert Kennedy was assassinated in a backroom of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. He had just been celebrating his victory at the California primaries, which made him the most likely Democratic nominee for the presidential election. His popularity was so great that Richard Nixon, on the Republican side, stood little chance. At the age of 43, Robert would have become the youngest American president ever, after being the youngest Attorney General in his brother’s government. His death opened the way for Nixon, who could finally become president eight years after having been defeated by John F. Kennedy in 1960.
BY ADAM GARRIE – The authorities have pinned the blame for the attack on an obscure group called National Thowheeth Jama’ath (NTJ). NTJ is reportedly an Islamist terror group that as noted by Sri Lankan authorities, has multiple links to foreign countries. The links to foreign countries appears to hold the key to determining who is really behind the attacks. Notably, it has been reported by journalists that the group trains in Chennai in Tamil Nadu – the same location where LTTE had previously trained. Others yet claim that NTJ is such a small and obscure group that even if it wanted to pull off such an attack, it did not have the capacity to do so. Continue reading →
Το απόγευμα της Μεγάλης Τετάρτης τελείται το μυστήριο του Μεγάλου Ευχελαίου.Κατά τη διάρκεια του, διαβάζονται επτά Ευαγγέλια και επτά Ευχές. Με αυτό τον τρόπο ευλογείται το λάδι με το οποίο ο ιερέας «σταυρώνει» τους πιστούς στο μέτωπο, στο πιγούνι, στα μάγουλα και στις παλάμες.