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Jesus hitler has been ejected and banned from the region for flamebaiting. I believe its nation name, national motto ("Two sides of the same coin."), and the post above this ("I think everyone has a right to be born. I just don't think they have a right to live afterwards.") all are intended to provoke anger. I consider this nation's conduct disorderly and potentially harmful to the welfare of the region. Also, Jesus hitler already has been banned by at least one of our allies (Christian).
Article III, Section 2 of the Constitution authorizes my action: "In accordance with this Constitution and the statutory laws of the region, the president may exercise any and all powers of a regional founder at his discretion."
Jesus hitler may appeal my decision to the Regional Assembly, which can reinstate it by a simple majority vote. If Jesus hitler wishes to appeal, then it can telegram me.
Culture of Life
President of Right to Life
Hmmm. Quiet, much?
*waves*
The Regional Assembly has passed a law regarding the regional delegacy. This law has been codified as Chapter 1 of the region's legal code. The laws of the region can be found here:
http://nsrighttolife.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=legislation
Culture of Life
President of Right to Life
Sorry but the URL you provide does not work. It produces a 404 error. Any other URLs to try?
That's funny, I'm having about the same error. Try later, I guess?
Anyway. As Prime Minister I'm generally supposed to be delegate. However, my duties in Unknown claim my WA for raiding most times, so going by recent legislation, and with the concurrence of The Christian Socialist Republic of Culture of Life, I'm going to appoint New grong as Delegate Pro Tempore. He's attentive to the World Assembly and, I feel, will represent us well. Please endorse him.
~Lady
Hmm . . . the URL is working fine for me.
The World Factbook Entry and the header on the offsite forums have been updated to reflect the new office. Good luck, New grong!
Culture of Life
President of Right to Life
URL working now. Must've been a bit of temporary downtime at proboards.
:-)
Post by Imam baba suppressed by Culture of Life.
Insha'Allah! Greetings!
I am the Imam of the Middle Way Imam baba, the current World Assembly Delegate in the region of Islam and I am undertaking a significant initiative to raise our region out of the depths of despair by attempting to stabilize the government, increase our number of nations and develop significant diplomatic relationships with internationally respected regions around the world.
Your region currently has an embassy with the region of Islam however in order to maintain this embassy we politely request that you extend us diplomatic assistance in the form of one WA nation to help solidify our region and assist in the process of change and transformation. Presently the region of Islam needs more than supportive sentiments, we humbly ask that you consider sending one WA nation to endorse the delegate and provide tangible assistance to the region of Islam for a short period of time to enable us to develop a capacity to self-govern.
Our region has not been able to develop in any way since before the World Assembly Security Resolution #25 of May 2010 and we are determined that with the help of supportive international partners and a willingness from our own nations to join the WA, coupled with an ambitious recruitment drive and diplomatic outreach, that the region of Islam will once again stand proudly as an equal and respected member of the international community.
Please consider this sincere request for help. However you decide, I hope that our regions can remain friends into the future.
Thank you and may peace be upon you all.
As-Salāmu 'Alaykum.
World Assembly Delegate
Islam
On the advice of the prime minister, I have suppressed the preceding post. We support Islam and have its best interests at heart; however, the Regional Message Board primarily is meant for intraregional, not interregional, dialogue. In the future, all such messages concerning foreign affairs should telegrammed to me, the president; or they should be posted in an appropriate area on the region's offsite forums.
After this difficult transitional period in Islam has ceased, we hope to resume normal diplomatic relations with Islam, including the possibility of re-exchanging embassies.
Culture of Life
President of Right to Life
We should not associate with such corrupt entities. They have a Mugabe Relativity Rating of 46! That's more than double the world average. What an outrage!
I would like to join please if you are accepting new members?
Hugh. Wait up, Hugh. We don't know if they are accepting new members yet.
Second thoughts. Hugh doesn't like it here, sorry for the inconvenience. Good wishes for your campaigns and all that.
Wave goodbye when you leave Hugh. Where are your manners?
We're always accepting new nations. :)
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The head of the Virtual Roman Catholic Church (Vatican II), Gregorius I of Catholic cornwallis, will be coming here in the near future on a state visit. He's visiting because Christmas is only about a week away. Everyone be sure to greet him and show courtesy. Vatican II has the second oldest embassy in this region and is an important ally in the battle to protect unborn human life.
Culture of Life
President of Right to Life
The Christian Bikers would like to escort his Holiness Gregorious I's motorcade through our great region.
Approved so long as VRCC security agrees. ;)
If the Swiss Guard does not approve, then I shall override it! I would be honored to be escorted by the Christian Bikers.
Thank you for the shout-out, Culture of Life. I know that I have not personally been very well connected to this region, but any region which so proudly and adamantly proclaims its opposition to abortion is aces in my little white book. You are all doing something which many do not have the courage to do, and I applaud you for it.
Anyway, on with my official message of greeting:
The blessings of Christ to my brothers and sisters in Right to Life!
I am Gregory, Prelature Pope of the Virtual Roman Catholic Church, Vatican II.
I would like to thank you for granting me permission for this visitation, and it is my humble prayer that our two regions may continue to grow in mutual closeness and love for God through our pursuit of the Christian life. Every year the Prelature Pope embarks on a Christmas visitation to allies and friends of the Church and of Vatican II. This is my first such visitation, and likely my last, but it is my prayer that these visitations continue after I have left this most esteemed Office.
As we enter this Christmas season, may you keep Christ in your hearts and on your minds, being sure to thank God for all of the things he has blessed you with: family, friends, and relative luxury. Bask in the peace which can only be found through purity of heart and mastery of the flesh, and with the grace granted you through the Graciousness of God, be sure also to be charitable, faithful, loving, and hopeful.
"The Lord bless you, and keep you;
The Lord make His face shine on you,
And be gracious to you;
The Lord lift up His countenance upon you,
And give you peace."
In nomine + Patris, et + Filii, et + Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
-Gregorius PP
Christmas Message, Advent 2011
Given by HH Prelature Pope Gregory
Prelature Pope of the VRCC
Sovereign Pontiff of Vatican II
Every year, for as long as I can remember and have been on NS, the Prelature Pope has given a Christmas message to not only the VRCC, but the world as a whole and to those regions which were gracious enough to grant the Holy Father stay. As I now am tasked with giving this greeting, I find that I am unsure about what I want to write.
A lot has happened in the last year. In the VRCC, I returned from retirement to assume the Prelature Papacy, essentially as an interim Prelature Pope. In the NS world, regions have grown and fallen. The UKB, a region with which I was intimately connected, a cycle of inactivity and metamorphosis has altered the nature of the region, I cannot say whether for the better or worse, but certainly a change which has made the core region, that in which I ‘grew up,’ unrecognizable. In the world as a whole, we have seen the fall of tyranny in the Middle East and in Northern Africa, the triumph of freedom being felt with the rise of the Arab Spring. The ‘Occupy’ movement has moved to the fore-front of news and of jokes. The EU faces and economic crisis which could quite literally shake it apart. Natural disasters continue to affect us. I could conceivably write on any of these, but they are not very much in the spirit of Christmas.
What is the spirit of Christmas? This question draws to mind movies and stories, characters like the Grinch whose ‘heart’ grows several sizes upon his realization of the meaning of Christmas, or like Scrooge who learns a lesson on proper love and charity. These things certainly touch on what one considers to be the meaning of Christmas, but the spirit and essence of Christmas? Certainly, but I would like to submit another aspect of the spirit of Christmas: hope.
Why hope? Hope is born of faith, faith that things will be better or that something will happen or that something good will continue to happen, investing these feelings as we do in the love of God and our faith that He will protect us or guide us on the proper path. While faith is usually placed in something that cannot be seen, it is nice to have affirmations of one’s faith from time to time to remind us of our vocation. Though they should be unnecessary, because we are human, fickle and prone to losing faith when we feel abandoned by God, these affirmations of faith help us to persevere. In the Christmas season, we have a solid affirmation of faith: Christus natus est, Christ is born. What more solid affirmation of faith—assurance of God’s presence, if you will—is there than the birth of God amongst us, Emmanuel?
The presence of God among us, both God and man, is quite inspirational. Through the joy of His nativity, we are inspired to spread this joy to those of us who are less blessed than us: the elderly curmudgeon who is angry because he is lonely, the pauper on the corner who needs a meal more than a dollar, the child who goes cold because his or her parents cannot afford to heat their home. Our joy, brought on by the affirmation of faith through the birth of our Lord, begets charity, and this righteous charity, and this charity begets hope in those who are the beneficiaries of our charitable acts. The curmudgeon sees the happiness he can regain by companionship, the pauper, full, gets to live another day, perhaps one that might change his life, and the child looks toward the warmth of spring and summer when oil for heat is no longer necessary. The charitable, too, receive a boost of hope. In their charitable act, the presence of God in their hearts is more faithfully acknowledged, sought after, and heard. Our hope for ultimate salvation is made firmer, and our faith becomes a bastion and stronghold to resist all manners of evil.
Christmas is about new beginnings. With the birth of the Christ, a new beginning of its own right, the Catholic Church begins a new liturgical year. The year itself begins anew as we set for ourselves New Year’s Resolutions which we hope to follow and fulfill. We begin the year full of optimism and hope: “This year will be different! This year will be better!” In our hopefulness, we take chances, inviting long-lost family members to our celebrations or celebrating the holidays with family members who irk us. We seek to mend relations, rebuild burnt bridges, extending the hand of fellowship to all in our joy and with hope.
This is the essence and purpose of the Prelature Papal Christmas message: to extend the hand of fellowship to all in the hope of another year of peaceful relations (or a year of mending relations) through the peace of Christ our Lord. In prosperity and need, faithfulness and unfaithfulness, happiness and sadness, we must always cling to the hope inspired by this season. An irony, writing of hope, it was only through my hope that God would guide me in what I wrote that I ended up writing this. Preserve hope always, keeping faith in God that He is guiding you on your discerned path, even with great trial, and you will persevere. I guess I knew what to write about after all.
May God bless and keep you and yours in this Christmas season, and may you never despair.
Merry Christmas!
Nations of Right to Life,
I've started a discussion on the offsite forums about the possibility of creating new government offices:
http://nsrighttolife.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=regionalgovernment&thread=34
Please make your thoughts known either here or on the forums (preferably on the forums).
Also, are any citizens interested in creating political parties? There is a subforum on the offsite forums dedicated to regional political parties. (Currently, we have no parties.)
Thank you,
Culture of Life
President of Right to Life
I am afraid that I must leave. Lots of regions to visit yet. May God bless you all in this Christmas season!!!
Attention all Member States of Right to Life: A new constitution for the region is currently being written and will soon be voted on
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