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Jézus Krisztus születésének ez a története: Anyja, Mária, Józsefnek a jegyese, még mielőtt egybekeltek volna, úgy találtatott, hogy gyermeket fogant a Szentlélektől. Férje, József, igaz ember volt, nem akarta a nyilvánosság előtt megszégyeníteni, ezért úgy határozott, hogy titokban bocsátja el. Míg ezen töprengett, megjelent neki álmában az Úr angyala, és így szólt hozzá: „József, Dávid fia, ne félj magadhoz venni feleségedet, Máriát, hiszen a benne fogant élet a Szentlélektől van! Fiút szül, akit Jézusnak nevezel el, mert ő szabadítja meg népét bűneitől.” Lk 1,18–21

A Szentírás nem túl sok emberre használja ezt kifejezést. A teljesség igénye nélkül, de valószínűleg nem sok személyt kihagyva Szent Józsefen kívül, Noéra, Ábrahámra, Tóbiásra, Jóbra, Zakariásra és Erzsébetre, Simeonra és Keresztelő Szent Jánosra. Ezért azt gondolom, érdemes egy kicsit elgondolkodnunk azon, hogy mit is jelent ez, miben is áll Szent József „igaz embersége”.

József tudni véli, hogy mi történt Máriával, hogy miért születik gyermeke, ezért már nem akarja feleségül venni, mert ő egy tiszta lánnyal szeretett volna egybekelni és boldoggá tenni. De nem is akar rosszat tenni vele, nem szándéka, hogy tovább rontson az egyébként is rossznak vélt helyzetén. Inkább csendben szeretné útjára bocsátani Máriát, elítéli a bűnt, amit feltételez, hogy jegyese elkövetett, és azért valljuk be őszintén, következtetése alapvetően nem hibás. Persze tudjuk, hogy nem szabad elhamarkodottan ítélkezni, de azt is, hogy Márián kívül még nem volt olyan nő, aki szüzességét megőrizve került volna áldott állapotba. Így ezért, a helyesnek látszó, de kivételesen rossz ítélet miatt, azt hiszem, nem ítélhetjük el Szent Józsefet. Ámbár azért, ahogy el akarja Máriát bocsátani, annál nagyobb tiszteletet érdemel. Elítéli a bűnt, de megértéssel és segíteni akarással fordul hozzá. Nem akarja átadni a zsidó bíráskodásnak, ugyanis az akkori zsidó törvények szerint akár meg is kövezhették volna ezért Máriát, ehhez képest az, hogy csendben, mindenféle perpatvar nélkül elküldeni, lényegesen szeretetteljesebb tett. Úgy érzem, ebben a kettősségben mutatkozik meg József igaz ember mivolta. Elítéli a bűnt, de nem a bűnöst, és bűne ellenére sem akar neki rosszat.

Vajon én tudok-e, így Karácsony felé közeledve, az engem hasonlóan szerető Isten példáját követve, szeretettel fordulni embertársamhoz? Bűnét nem kikürtölve, még akkor sem, ha esetleg ellenem is követte el? Magunk között megfeddni, de nem elítélni? Vajon tudok-e megbocsátani és tovább lépni?

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„A tehetség Isten ajándéka nekünk, és a mi ajándékunk Istennek az, ha élünk a tehetségünkkel” – ezzel a gondolattal nyitotta meg dr. Váradi Natália, a „GENIUS” Jótékonysági Alapítvány igazgatója a 2015-ös Soós Kálmán-ösztöndíjprogram átadó ünnepségét december 18-án.

Dr. Váradi Natália portálunknak elmondta, hogy a Soós Kálmán-ösztöndíjprogram fő célja a Kárpátalján működő magyar nyelvű felsőoktatási szakok és intézmények együttműködésének elősegítse. Az ösztöndíjprogramban három kategóriát hirdettek meg: Kárpátaljai Vándoregyetem, illetve kárpátaljai vonatkozású kutatások támogatása, valamint magyar nyelvű oktatási jegyzetek és magyar nyelvű szaknyelvi szótárak készítése.

2015-ben 79 személy nyújtotta be pályázatát, ebből 56 pályamunka kapott pozitív elbírálást. A díjazottak között közel bruttó 3,2 millió forintnak megfelelő hrivnyát osztottak ki.

A Kárpátaljai Vándoregyetem kategóriában 5 fő vehetett át pénzjutalmat, fejenként 3500 hrivnyát kaptak. Magyar nyelvű oktatási jegyzetek és magyar nyelvű szaknyelvi szótárak készítése kategóriában 17 személyt részesítettek ösztöndíjban – fejenként 5 ezer hrivnya volt a jutalmuk. A kárpátaljai vonatkozású kutatások támogatása kategóriában 34 pályázó kapott pozitív elbírálást, fejenként 2 ezer hrivnya összeget vehettek át.

Erdei Péter, Magyarország Beregszászi Konzulátusának konzulja gratulált a győzteseknek, s további sikeres szakmai előmenetelt kívánt nekik.

A rendezvényt megtisztelte jelenlétével Kléger Zsolt, a Bethlen Gábor Alap pénzügyi referense. Beszédében köszönetét fejezte ki a „GENIUS” Jótékonysági Alapítványnak és a Rákóczi-főiskolának a töretlen együttműködésért.

A program a Bethlen Gábor Alap támogatásával valósult meg.

A Kárpátalja.ma szerkesztősége gratulál a pályázat győzteseinek.

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Mindenki azt találgatja Latin-Amerikában, hogy melyik lesz a következő ország, ahol elbukik, vagy jelentősen meggyengül a (radikális) baloldali hatalom. A sort Argentína nyitotta meg novemberben, majd decemberben következett Venezuela. Előbbiben az államfőt, Cristina Fernández de Kirchnert váltották le a szavazók, utóbbiban a radikális baloldali tömörülés uralta parlamentet menesztették. Venezuelában ráadásul elsöprő győzelmet aratott a 2009-ben alakult, harmincpárti (!) ellenzéki koalíció (MUD), megszerezve a kétharmados törvényhozási többséget. A pártszövetségben megtalálni a mérsékelt baloldal és a (szélső)jobboldal képviselőit is.

Crimean Tatars condemn the anti-Russian policy of the Turkish government and demand urgent moves to resolve the conflict between the two countries, a public movement of the ethnic Tatars living on the Black Sea peninsula said in a resolution on Saturday.

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Se disant très préoccupé par l'escalade continuelle de la violence au Burundi, le Conseil de sécurité des Nations Unies a appelé samedi à l'intensification d'urgence des efforts de médiation par les Etats d'Afrique de l'Ouest et a exhorté toutes les parties prenantes à la crise burundaise à coopérer pleinement avec la future mission de maintien de la paix de l'Union africaine (UA).

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Les électeurs espagnols se rendent aux urnes pour renouveler leur Parlement ce dimanche. Les bureaux de vote fermeront à 20h TU. Le scrutin, bousculé par l’arrivée des jeunes mouvements Podemos et Ciudadanos, est très incertain et s’annonce particulièrement serré. Le Parti populaire de Mariano Rajoy pourrait bien perdre sa majorité.

December 19, 2015 (JUBA) – An alliance of 18 South Sudanese political parties claim majority of South Sudanese have now discovered the idea behind the creation of the 28 new state states and have joined voices objecting to President Salva Kiir's directive.

President Salva Kiir addresses the nation at the South Sudan National Parliament in Juba, November 18, 2015. (Photo Reuters/Jok Solomun)

“This government, the present government has been living in a different world and behalves differently. It has been adopting a strange policy, a policy of acting first and think later in order to fool the people of South Sudan. Now the very people have discovered that the government was no longer working for the interest of the very people it purports to represent”, Martin Aligo, the secretary general of the alliance told Sudan Tribune.

Aligo said the way people reacted when exchange rates were floated was a demonstration that government cared less about policies which would harm ordinary people, but rather utilized it to maximise their interests at all cost.

“People have been coming to us at the alliance to say thank you for standing for truth and we told them congratulation for discovery. Now if they care about the people, let them do a survey and see what the reaction would be about these economic reforms. The result would certainly be embarrassing for them. And I challenge them to do so and let us see what happens if they deny. People are fed up”, said Aligo.

"Some of the people who initially supported the creation of 28 states are now regretting and they are the ones now championing the reverse of the decision because they have now discovered the reason", he added.

In October President Salva Kiir criticized his current governance system which he said had been holding the people's power in the center within Juba and proposed the need to adopt a federal system of governance in the world's youngest nation.

“Over the last ten years, the power which was given to you by the CPA [Comprehensive Peace Agreement] has remained in the center,” Kiir told the state-owned SSTV, referring to the peace deal signed in January 2005 with Sudan.

The CPA granted South Sudanese a referendum on self-determination which resulted to overwhelming vote for secession from Sudan in 2011. He said his rationale for delaying creation of more states in devolution of powers to the people was because he was allegedly busy preparing for referendum from 2005 to 2011.

“My administration in the center was busy with issues to do with your self-determination such that you become free and sovereign state. Now, indeed you are free, therefore, there is no reason for me to retain your constitutional right for self-governance, self-reliance, self-development and determine your through free, fair and democratic elections in three years to come,” said the South Sudanese leader.

According to President Kiir, the creation of the 28 states, which was meant to come into effect within 30 days, would provide an opportunity to “develop your locality, your home villages through mobilization of local and states resources.”

“We should therefore abandon culture of war and embrace culture of peace, co-existence and hard work such [that] you and I together develop our country because our country is a country of opportunities,” stressed the president.

The order number 36/2015 AD for creation of new states of South Sudan stated that the president would now have the chance to nominate more state governors and additional members of the state assembly in his newly created states.

The sitting state members of parliament (MPs) will be maintained at 21 members in each state and there will be no more than 21 lawmakers.

The president acknowledged that his administration has been facing economic declines, surging unemployment as a consequence of the war which erupted on 15 December 2013.

It is not clear where more resources will be mobilized to fund the development of the states as the creation of 18 more states, which came as a surprise to the nation and the international community.

THE NEW STATES

In the breakdown of the states, Kiir created 8 states for greater Equatoria which included Imatong, Namurnyang, Maridi, Budi, Amadi, Jubek, Terekeka and Yei river.

For greater Bahr el Ghazal he decreed into being 10 states namely, Wau, Aweil, Ngor, Aweil East, Twic, Gogrial, Tonj, Eastern Lakes, Western Lakes and Gok.

In greater Upper Nile he decreed 10 states to include Leer, Northern Guit, Ruweng, Eastern Nile, Jonglei, Western Nile, Eastern Bie, Lajor, Buma and Western Bie.

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December 19, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - A passerby in the streets of Khartoum can see hundreds of Syrian families who fled the devastating war that swept most of the Mediterranean nation's territories.

Sudanese and Syrian protesters demonstrate against the continued violence in Syria outside Sudan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Khartoum November 23, 2011. (Reuters)

As a result of that carnage, millions of civilians were scattered around the world in search of safety. Like many other countries, Sudan had had its share of these asylum seekers.

In the elite Riyadh and New Extension suburbs of Khartoum, one can see a lot of small businesses run by Syrian nationals. Some of these shops sell delicious Syrian food substances that range from candy to fast food, attracting noteworthy numbers of customers.

Some of these refugees have also opened a lot of crafts shops.

These small businesses provide lots of Syrian refugees with what can be described as scratchy livelihoods , given the harsh economic conditions of Sudan.

An estimated 105 thousand Syrian refugees now live in Sudan. The Government has given them the rights of residence , movement, work, free education and medication . Some philanthropic Sudanese families have hosted Syrian families who cannot afford the high house rents.

Compared to the many Syrian refugees who found a means of bread winning, hundreds of Syrian asylum seekers who failed to be classified as refugees depend on handouts from local charities and from Sudanese and Syrian traders .

Some of these refugees beg in the City streets or around mosques and marketplaces.

Mazin Abul Khair , an official of ‘the office for serving Syrian families in Sudan' said just about 100 Syrian nationals live on begging.

“The office has tried to help these but they declined to accept food baskets and financial aid we offered them, because they feel begging is far more lucrative than what we give,'' Khair told Sudan Tribune.

He said in the year 2012 some Syrian traders living in Sudan had set up a committee to take care of the refugees .The committee, that started with six families , now aids 700 families .

He said his office is run on voluntary basis and depends , primarily, on Syrian traders and some Sudanese businessmen. The office also receives some assistance from local charities.

The office offers a food basket for each of the registered families. It also provides job opportunities to the youth and pays house rents for the poor families.

Khair lamented the fact that many Syrian children could not continue with their education though the Sudanese Government had exempted all Syrian refugee children from school fees. "This is because of the difference in dialect and the difficult educational environment here," he said.

To secure the future of these children , the office has embarked on the establishment of a Syrian school , he said, adding that the office has already obtained all the required paper work and is now looking for funding for the school.

Sudanese refugees commissioner al-Mardi Salih said they strive to find lodgings to the Syrian refugees.

He said the Government of Sudan had accorded the Syrian refugees all the rights of citizenship enjoyed by any Sudanese national.

Salih also said his commission has embarked on the registration of these Syrians , giving them ‘'guest IDs'' that allow them access to free education and medical care.

‘' In the long run we can provide these people with housing in the form of camps in Khartoum. We can also give them sums to rent homes,'' he said.

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December 19, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) - The rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N) has dismissed media reports Saturday in Khartoum claiming that the movement would participate in the final session of the dialogue conference.

A SPLA-N fighter holds up his rifle near Jebel Kwo village in the rebel-held territory of the Nuba Mountains in South Kordofan on 2 May 2012 (Photo: Goran Tomasevic/Reuters)

The government-led national dialogue conference was inaugurated in Khartoum on October 10th amid large boycott from the major political and armed opposition.

In a press release Saturday, SPLM-N peace file spokesperson, Mubarak Ardol, dismissed as “untrue” press reports that a delegation from the movement would participate in the final session of the dialogue conference in Khartoum.

He stressed that those reports has nothing to do with the informal discussions that took place between the SPLM-N and the government in Addis Ababa.

In a press conference Friday, member of the dialogue body known as 7+7 Faisal Hassan Ibrahim expected that several members of the SPLM-N would soon join the dialogue conference.

However, Ardol pointed in his statement that the SPLM-N is negotiating with the Sudanese government not the 7+7 mechanism, saying the latter should refrain from issuing inaccurate statements.

“Unless its [the 7+7 mechanism] objective was to spoil the unremitting efforts made by the conflicting parties to achieve comprehensive solutions and equitable dialogue with the participation of all parties in order to end the war in the Two Areas and Darfur and to achieve national consensus and to bring Sudan's political and economic isolation to an end,” he said.

Last November the government and the SPLM-N failed to reach cessation of hostilities and humanitarian access agreements in the Two Areas, as the five-day talks showed that important gaps persist in the positions of the two sides.

On Friday, the two sides wrapped up a three-day informal meeting organized by the African Union High Implementation Panel (AUHIP) in Addis Ababa to explore ways to overcome their differences.

The two sides were not able to reach an agreement on the main outstanding issues but agreed to resume discussions soon.

The rare appearance of the SPLM-N chief negotiator Yasser Arman on the government-owned Sudan TV channel following the end of the informal discussions has prompted speculations that a political settlement was imminent, particularly as security services prevents local newspapers and official TV channels from mentioning any statements or remarks by rebel leaders.

The SPLM-N calls for a comprehensive peace agreement in Sudan including the political opposition, saying they refuses to repeat the 2005 peace agreement that led to the separation of South Sudan. They say the issue of the Two Areas should be resolved within a national approach.

The Sudanese army has been fighting SPLM-N rebels in Blue Nile and South Kordofan since 2011.

December 19, 2015 (JUBA) – A senior leader of the ruling Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), Majak Agot, has called on the people of greater Dinka Bor community in general and his Twic clan in particular to exercise calm over the recent abusive attack on Rebecca Nyandeng, widow of the founder of the SPLM, John Garang de Mabior, in a church in Juba.

Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior (ST File Photo)

Sudan Tribune two weeks ago published the report of the attack on the lady whom many South Sudanese referred to as the ‘mother' of the newly founded nation.

Nyandeng was disrespectfully insulted only two days after her return to the national capital, Juba, from Nairobi, Kenya, where she had been in exile for two years following the eruption of the war on 15 December 2015.

Due to her condemnation of the war, blaming it on the South Sudanese president, Salva Kiir, whom she accused of dictatorship and massacre of thousands of members of the Nuer ethnic group in Juba by his presidential guards, she was criticized by those who disapproved of her stance.

A woman, who allegedly hails from Dinka Bor county, uttered insults at Nyandeng while on attendance of a church service at Emmanuel Jieng Parish church in Juba, and reportedly approached her with the intention to slap her before she was restrained by other church leaders and members.

The attack also prompted reactions from members of the Twic East community, where she and her late husband hail, with those mainly in the diaspora publishing condemnation articles in the media, describing it as an attack on Twic East community in general by the Bor community of Bor county.

However, on Saturday, Agot, who was deputy minister for defense and veterans affairs before the country's crisis, appealed to the people of the three greater Bor community of Bor, Twic East and Duk counties to let go the anger generated by the attack on Nyandeng.

Agot, who was accompanying Nyandeng to the church when the insults were uttered at her, confirmed the incident which he said he witnessed despite attempts by some quarters to bury the truth of what transpired in the church, but added the incident was a normal occurrence in the culture of politics in the country.

“I know there are some people here in this country who do not want the truth to be said but we have to break that circle and try to be honest to our people,” Agot told his community gathering at Kush Resort during Duk County fundraising ceremony on Friday in Juba.

“In politics 10 people may like you whereas other 10 people will not like you and that is politics,” a Juba-based The Nation Mirror quoted him as saying on Friday.

Agot, who is a member of the 10-person group known as the ‘former detainees' who together returned to Juba with Nyandeng last month however said the incident was bad because it happened inside a church.

The recent appeal by the political leader from the greater Dinka community came as the church incident seemed to have continued to linger in the minds of those who condemned it.

Nyandeng is being blamed by a section of her Bor community for being vocal about the weaknesses of president Salva Kiir's government and for allowing her eldest son, Mabior Garang, to join the armed opposition faction led by former vice-president, Riek Machar.

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December 19, 2015 (NYALA) - Police in South Darfur said that it has burned more than five thousands hectares of cannabis and seized 60,870 weed heads in Sango and Al-Radoom areas in the largest anti-drug operation in the area.

Photo showing amounts of Sudanese Cannabis or Bango as called by locals

South Darfur's police director Ahmed Osman Mohamed, who addressed the national police day celebration Saturday in the state's capital, Nyala, said the police managed to destroy 5,000 hectares of cannabis, pointing to fierce clashes with the drugs traffickers.

He noted the police arrested several drugs traders and seized large amounts of cannabis which were in their possession, underscoring the perpetrators would be brought before trial following the completion of the investigation.

Mohamed added the police also seized large quantity of weapons from the drugs traders, stressing they intend to eradicate drugs cultivation in the state besides monitoring drug trafficking from neighboring countries.

Last week, 12 people were killed in clashes between gunmen and drug traffickers in Balbala area in the locality of Al-Fardous, East Darfur state.

Drug trade is spread in the southern localities of East Darfur state due to its close proximity to areas where cannabis is grown such as Al-Radom and Sango in South Darfur state.

Meanwhile, the police director pointed they put in place a precise plan to achieve several objectives including securing primary and high schools exams next March, protecting the planting season and reducing tribal clashes.

For his part, the governor of South Darfur state Adam al-Faki said the regular forces managed to crush rebellion and is currently fighting against drug traders, noting that illegal drugs is a major source of destabilization in the state.

He underlined that the regular forces would make every possible effort to dry out sources of drugs production, saying that illegal drugs pose the same danger as rebellion and tribal conflicts.

South Darfur state is considered one of the major sources of illegal drugs production in Sudan. Cannabis is being cultivated in three main areas in the state including Sango, Al-Radom and East Jebel Marra.

Drug traders usually use small and heavy arms to protect their farms against police raids which led to the killing of several police officers.

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