Easter Monday Post

Let's start off with an Easter egg hunt.

There they are.



That was quick.



He has risen:

Dear brothers and sisters! If Jesus is risen, then – and only then – has something truly new happened, something that changes the state of humanity and the world. Then he, Jesus, is someone in whom we can put absolute trust; we can put our trust not only in his message but in Jesus himself, for the Risen One does not belong to the past, but is present today, alive. Christ is hope and comfort in a particular way for those Christian communities suffering most for their faith on account of discrimination and persecution. And he is present as a force of hope through his Church, which is close to all human situations of suffering and injustice.

 

The anti-thesis of a good Easter egg hunt find:

Many toddlers have hunted for Easter eggs in the past few days, but one in England found a live grenade while searching a field.

More than two dozen kids between the ages of two and five were searching a field in Holford, in southwest England, when a dad saw a boy standing on something, reports the Daily Mail.

"We were beginning to count up the eggs at the end of the hunt and I saw a boy of three standing on an object. It was brown and about four inches high. It looked like an Easter egg, but it was a hand grenade," said Stuart Moffatt, 34, to the British press. "I was shocked. The boy who was standing on it thought it was a rock."

Moffatt quickly told organizers who alerted the police and soon after the bomb squad arrived.

The police cordoned everything within 100 metres of the grenade, which included part of a road, and carried out a controlled explosion, reports This Is Somerset. The highway was reopened a few hours later.

"The EOD (Explosives Ordinance Disposal) has attended the scene and destroyed the object in a controlled explosion," said an Avon and Somerset Police spokesman.

The grenade is believed to be leftover from the Second World War.

Easter, 1916




The ninety-fifth anniversary of Vimy Ridge:

It was on Easter Monday in 1917 that the four divisions of the Canadian Corps, fighting side-by-side for the first time, captured Vimy Ridge.

By the fourth day, April 12th, Canadians controlled the entire ridge at a cost of almost 3,600 lives.

We know it's Easter because the "religion of peace" has taken out a whole swathe of worshippers just for fun:

A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives on a busy road after apparently turning away from attacking Nigerian churches holding Easter services, killing at least 38 people in a massive blast that rattled a city long at the center of religious, ethnic and political violence in the nation.

(with thanks)




It's time for Japan and South Korea to get their own nukes:

Recent satellite images show North Korea is digging a new underground tunnel in what appears to be preparation for a third nuclear test, according to South Korean intelligence officials.

The excavation at North Korea's northeast Punggye-ri site, where nuclear tests were conducted in 2006 and 2009, is in its final stages, according to a report by intelligence officials that was shared Monday with The Associated Press.

Its release comes as North Korea prepares to launch a long-range rocket that Washington and others say is a cover for testing missile technology that could be used to fire on the United States.

What's wrong with this picture?

Ban proponents argue distribution of the Bibles has no place in a secular school system, and that it potentially violates human-rights legislation.

And yet....

Since November 2008—with the, er, blessing of the Toronto District School Board—Muslim prayers have been matter-of-factly conducted within an Ontario public school’s walls every Friday afternoon. Which is against the law.

And now, let us enjoy Bunnies on Film.