Middle East – The Iranian regime has banned access to the WhatsApp messaging site, a popular site for many to communicate both inside and outside the country, stating that a Jewish “American Zionist” owns the site.
The announcement came some two months after Facebook bought the company for a stunning $19 billion, and a regime official connected the move directly to the founder of Facebook.
“The reason for this is the assumption of WhatsApp by the Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, who is an American Zionist,” Abdolsamad Khorramabadi, head of the country’s Committee on Internet Crimes, stated.
One Iranian blogger told FoxNews.com the regime in Tehran is terrified of the power of social media.
“The Revolutionary Guard sees these social sites as a major threat because there’s an appeal for young people and the government worries about the exchange of information,” said the blogger, who asked not to be identified. “(Supreme Leader) Khamenei and his cronies, caught on to the power and potential of these sites after the (Green Revolution) uprisings.”
Facebook officials could not immediately be reached for comment. (continue reading)
And look what happens in Syria to someone wearing the “WhatsApp” T-Shirt:
Catholic Herald – Pope Francis said he cried when he recently saw images of Christians allegedly killed by crucifixion.
“Still today there are people who kill, who persecute in the name of God,” he said during a homily at early morning Mass in the chapel of his residence. And still today there are Christians who, like the Apostles, are “happy to be judged worthy of suffering dishonour for Christ’s name”.
“I cried when I saw in the media” photographs allegedly showing “Christians crucified in a certain non-Christian country”, he told those at the Mass, according to a report by Vatican Radio. In late April, a number of news outlets reprinted photographs showing what were described as crucifixions in Syria.
New outlets that reprinted or posted the images online said they could not confirm that the bodies hung on crosses died by crucifixion or that they were Christians. (read more)
