“Silence. The world is silent. While in Nigeria a massacre has taken place.
These are not numbers. These are entire families being exterminated.”
Powerful speech today from MEP @SardoneSilvia on the persecution of Christians in Nigeria 🇳🇬
I’m standing in Vilvoorde Prison dungeons, built on top of the ruins of Vilvoorde Castle, located six miles north of Brussels in Belgium. The original fortress became the site of William Tyndale’s imprisonment after his betrayal and capture in Antwerp on May 21, 1535. Once imprisoned in Vilvoorde, Tyndale occupied one of the castle’s foul dungeons, surrounded by dampness, rats, and the sounds of the moat outside. The significance of this prison to Tyndale’s legacy lies not merely in his confinement there, but in what he accomplished during his captivity. Rather than despair, Tyndale continued writing and translating while imprisoned. After spending 18 months in the castle, Tyndale faced trial and was condemned as a heretic in early August 1536. In his last few months of life he wrote a letter, entreating the local lord commissary to allow him warmer clothes and, “a leave to use a lamp in the evening for it is tiresome to sit alone in the dark. But above all, I beg and entreat your clemency earnestly to intercede with the lord commissary, that he would deign to allow me the use of my Hebrew Bible, Hebrew Grammar, and Hebrew Lexicon, and that I might employ my time with that study.” Tyndale was strangled and then burned not far from the Castle, on October 6, 1536. His final words were, “Lord, open the king of England’s eyes.” A prayer answered, when in 1538 — only two years after his death — Cromwell issued injunctions on King Henry’s behalf requiring every parish church to purchase a complete English Bible by Easter and keep it accessible to all parishioners. The Great Bible was issued in April 1539 to fulfill this mandate. It’s been estimated that as much as 90-95% of the Great Bible’s New Testament was derived from Tyndale’s translation.
"Tonight I suffered with Argentina..."
He immediately then catches himself and then adds: "...but I'm neutral."
This is the FIFA President.
Classic quick backtrack after nearly admitting he wanted Argentina to win.
What a shameless useless biased mofo.