US State Dept Calls on Russia to Help Deliver Aid to Syrian Rukban Camp

The US Department of State on Monday called on Russia to help facilitate deliveries of humanitarian aid to the Rukban refugee camp in Syria.

"The United States has […] called for many months for the Syrian regime [government headed by President Bashar Assad] to allow rapid, safe, and unhindered UN access to the Rukban encampment. The recent humanitarian convoy was a positive step, and we call upon Russia to help facilitate continued, regular humanitarian deliveries," US Department of State deputy spokesperson Robert Palladino said in a press statement.

Palladino praised the recent delivery of humanitarian aid to the Rukban camp by the United Nations and Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC).

"The delivery, complete with careful distribution to all groups and UN/SARC monitoring, ensured that aid reached all those who needed it. We urge that access for humanitarian assistance must continue to Rukban and to all areas in Syria where people are in need," Palladino said.

The deputy spokesperson pointed out that the United States was not preventing people who live in the Rukban camp from leaving the facility.

"The United States has long advocated and will continue to advocate for freedom of movement for internally displaced persons (IDPs). It has not impeded and will not impede the movement of any IDPs who wish to depart from the Rukban encampment. Nor will it force anyone to leave. The United States fully supports a process that is free from coercion and allows for safe, voluntary, and dignified departures for those wishing to leave Rukban," Palladino added.

On Monday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov noted that the US and militants under its control had forbidden internally-displaced persons from leaving the Rukban camp.

On Saturday, the Russian and Syrian Joint Coordination Committees on repatriation of Syrian refugees said that US-sponsored militants were likely to gain the majority of goods delivered by the UN and SARC humanitarian convoy to the Rukban camp.

The situation in the Rukban camp, situated within a US-controlled zone surrounding its military base in At-Tanf, has become increasingly dire as refugees residing there have not been receiving sufficient amounts of humanitarian aid.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201902191072544601-usa-rukban-refugee-camp-russia/

The true story of how Oprah Winfrey helped promote a mass rapist who ran a child slave farm

Back in 2010, talk show guru Oprah Winfrey dedicated an entire episode of her show to a self-professing “faith healer” with whom she claims she had a “blissful” encounter. But as we recently reported, this “faith healer” has since been exposed as a serial rapist who had actually been operating a massive child “sex slave farm” and “birth factory” behind his religious facade.

At the time, Oprah was convinced that Joao Teixeira de Faria, more popularly known as “John of God,” was the real deal. She contends that she almost fainted upon first meeting him, as his presence was apparently too much for her to handle, causing her to feel “an overwhelming sense of peace.”

Entitled, “Leap of Faith: Meet John of God,” this particular episode of Oprah’s show is said to have generated interest in John of God. Because of Oprah, in other words, tens of millions of people who had previously never heard of John of God were quickly introduced to the many “amazing miracles” of this “faith healer,” which include tales of him healing a woman of cancer simply by slicing into her breast without anesthesia and removing a tumor.

John of God is also said to have healed many other people simply by touching them and saying a succinct prayer, which would seem to make him a modern-day miracle worker, of sorts, with supernatural healing powers – or so his followers were led to believe.

Fast-forward to 2019 and hundreds of women have come forward with claims that John of God raped them. The “faith healer” is also being accused of recruiting young girls to his many “child slave farms,” where they were repeatedly impregnated as part of a “birth factory,” before eventually being killed off and discarded.

One of these women, Zahira Lieneke Mous of Holland, reportedly told The New York Times that she first heard about John of God “from a friend and had seen Oprah Winfrey’s documentary.” A victim of previous sexual assault, Mous confided in John of God, believing him to a righteous and spiritual man – only to learn the hard way that he, too, is a sexual predator.

“I really hope I can help other women out of this shadow, because we do not need to feel ashamed,” Mous told the hosts of TV Globo, a Brazilian media network. “He has to feel ashamed, and all the people who protect him so he can continue to do what he does.”

https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-02-17-true-story-of-how-oprah-winfrey-helped-promote-a-mass-rapist-who-ran-a-child-slave-farm.html