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Something is happening in Ireland People across the country are flying the Immaculate Heart Flag for the month of August

🚨Reservations for Pope Leo XIV's Youth Vigil at the Stade de France opened today at noon and were completely FULL within an hour Over 80,000 tickets in 60 minutes @CatholicArena

COLOMBIA 🇨🇴 Cathedral of Manizales after today's powerful EARTHQUAKE @CatholicArena

August marks the 90th anniversary of Communist terrorists in Spain staging an 'execution' of Jesus Christ The Monumento al Sagrado Corazón was blown up by the Communists as a demoralisation tactic against the country's Catholics @CatholicArena

This coming Sunday. Let's have a big turnout @CatholicArena

IRELAND 🇮🇪 Politician Norma Foley has declared WAR on 'tradwives' The state is planning to roll out a multi million euro plan to convince Irish young people that being a work at home mother is a NEGATIVE thing The state is seeking REVENGE after being HUMILIATED in defeat in 2024 in failed efforts to remove a mother's right to work at home with her family @CatholicArena

A group of Dominican Nuns in Mexico have spent the last 25 years rescuing a rare breed of Salamader from extinction @CatholicArena

August 9th, 1945 The home of Christianity in the East was obliterated in seconds when an Atomic Bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. The city had a long and mystical relationship with the Catholic faith since 1549, since Saint Francis Xavier arrived at Kagoshima in Japan. The great Jesuit brought with him teachings of Christ and the Catholic faith. The initial years of Japanese Christianity were a success and brought many baptisms and conversions. The Jesuits continued the success they experienced in other areas into the city of Nagasaki. So prolific were they in inspiring the Nagasaki people to follow Christ that the area became known as 'Little Rome' The Japanese converted to Catholicism in droves, estimates state that 130,000 had converted by 1579 It was at that time the largest non European ruled Christian nation. The Jesuits, joined by Franciscans and Dominicans, won over locals Domestic tensions would soon impinge upon this success A ban on the Jesuits in 1587 arose from Japanese native Toyitomi Hideyoshi, hoping to stamp out the influence of Christianity and the Jesuits in particular, upon the Japanese. Incidents like the San Felipe, where it was alleged Jesuits were a precursor to invasion, only made the situation worse In 1597, the Japanese church began the first of its many sufferings, when executions took place of the men who became the 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki. Like Our Lord, these men were crucified and pierced with spears In 1615, Christianity was completely prohibited from Japan and missionaries were ordered to leave. Many stayed, even though persecutions followed. On September 10th 1622, 56 Christians were burned alive or beheaded at Nagasaki The following centuries were equally bleak for Christians in Japan Many tried to live their faith in secret but were forced to trample on an image of Christ or Mary once a year to prove that they were not secret Christians Despite their great suffering and lacking priests to say Mass, the underground Church of Nagasaki saw Christians keep their faith from generation to generation In 1865, after Japan had been reopened to non natives, a French priest named Bernard Petitjean was approached by some of those remnant Christians One of them whispered that she believed as he did and asked to see an image of the Virgin Mary. The priest was stunned to find that they'd baptised their children for centuries and kept the faith Most of the hidden Christians of that area were from the Village of Urakami In thanksgiving for the Lord's presence, they decided to build a Cathedral on the grounds of the land where they had been forced to trample on Our Lady's image. The Church of the Immaculate Conception that was built there was the biggest in East Asia The Cathedral was completed in 1925, a sign of hope for Christians leading in to the future. By 1945, the majority of Japan's blossoming Catholic Church lived in Nagasaki After 250 years of exile, Japanese Christians finally had reasons for optimism August 9th 1945, as local Catholics prepared for the Feast of the Assumption, the pilots of the Boxscar were instructed to look for the spire of the Urakami Cathedral as they dropped the 'Fatman' bomb Under orders from Harry Truman, a Freemason, the 2nd Atom Bomb in 3 days dropped. The destruction was unimaginable Fulton Sheen would later associate the viciousness of the atomic bomb attacks with the moral disorder of the world afterwards, seeing it has having opened up a new system where ends justified the means in all circumstances and man was capable of using technology to inflict hell on Earth The bombing in Nagasaki happened at 11.02 am as many attended Mass In the death toll -8,500 of the 12,000 Christians - 3 separate orders of nuns - An entire Catholic school There were stories of nuns singing as they made their way through the streets after the blast, many dropping dead on the street as they did so Christians now make up less than 1% of the Japanese population @CatholicArena

USA 🇺🇸 Archbishop José H. Gomez leading adoration after a Eucharistic Procession on Skid Row in Los Angeles 📸 Angelus News @CatholicArena

IRELAND 🇮🇪 The Irish government is set to declare WAR on those who promote traditional ideas of masculinity and feminity to Irish people The state are worried that women will choose to become mothers rather than workers,with a national plan to oppose such views ready to launch @CatholicArena

'Hiroshima founded American superpower and with that the subsequent supremacy and prosperity of the West. The contemporary West is not - despite our constant calling of them to memory- built on Auschwitz and Treblinka, to which we have said 'no'. It is built on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to which we have said 'yes'.  Once the 'Yes' had been uttered and with it the way opened to the West's nuclear superpower and all that has followed from it. It was absolutely necessary to dismiss Hiroshima from mind. For the fact is that Westerners generally and Americans in particular have always felt a deep uneasy about these massacres. An American book I quote speaks of them having a 'raw nerve'. As a consequence, any retaining Hiroshima in mind or memory would have a subversive effect. It would at least lead to a wobbling that of the fundamental and founding judgement that Hiroshima was a morally legitimate act' Desmond Fennell @CatholicArena

'I have great love for America' Pope Leo XIV @CatholicArena

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USA 🇺🇸 A video has emerged of Bishop Joseph Brennan saying that Charlie Kirk told him that he was 'very close' to becoming Catholic before his assassination

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MEDJUGORJE The first images of the anti Catholic terrorist who set fire to an altar and covered statues in anti Catholic graffiti at Medjugorje last night @CatholicArena

MEDJUGORJE Footage of last night's anti Catholic terrorist attack in Medjugorje In this clip you can see the altar being SET ON FIRE by the terrorist who also covered the area in black paint on statues and anti Catholic graffiti @CatholicArena

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On August 15th, Poland will officially inaugurate Europe's LARGEST statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary, standing at 55 metres @CatholicArena