I am always asking for prayers for my son jakeb so here I am again. Please pray that God heals him. That Jesus holds him and heals him and that he can have joy in his life. Please pray that everything will fall into place medically. I'm mentally exhausted. Please ask God if my son can have a long thriving happy life and that the doctors can help him with that. I'm so sad and I feel broken. Please ask God to touch our lives. I also ask God for his forgiveness for letting fear fill my head. I ask in the name of Jesus. Thank you and God bless you. Carmen.

According to sworn statements filed in those cases, the FBI agents were investigating a shooting by an Immigration Customs Enforcement Officer on Jan. 14 when protests made the area unsafe and they had to flee on foot, leaving behind two of their vehicles. The vehicles were vandalized and broken into, and several things were stolen including guns, FBI identification cards and documents that included addresses, phone numbers and other personal information of some FBI employees.
That personal information was then posted on social media, according to the court documents, and that’s when the officers began receiving threatening phone calls, text messages and emails.

In other incidents their spouses and children have been threatened as well. Also this was not the only report of a woman biting an officer. I wish there was more reporting on the "mostly peaceful" protesters.

Chelsea Clinton's decade-old claim that she left a Baptist church as a child because they were talking to her about abortion in Sunday school when she was 6 years old has prompted fresh backlash.

On Thursday, pro-life news outlet LifeNews drew more than 1 million views on X for reposting its 2016 story about the only daughter of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pushing back against those who question her family's faith.

“My mother is very deeply a person of faith," Chelsea is quoted as saying in her reported comments at the 2016 fundraiser for her mother, which first came second-hand in the "Page Six" gossip column of the New York Post. "It is deeply authentic and real for my mother, and it guides so much of her moral compass, but also her life's work."

Chelsea, whose mother was raised Methodist, reportedly claimed she joined her mother's denomination after leaving the Baptist church over abortion, even before her father. She said she found it "quite insulting sometimes when people say to my mom, my dad or me ... that they question our faith."

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Hello, I just had a job interview earlier today. Please pray that I did well enough that they will offer me a position, or that I will soon find another job that will.

Thanks!

Judge blocks Hegseth, Pentagon bid to punish Mark Kelly over ‘illegal orders’ video

I've been going around with this for a while--for instance, my copy of the Manual for Courts-Martial is right here at my right elbow. I got ChatGPT to format it for me and do some legwork, but this is what I knew weeks ago, just waiting for a judge to bear it out.

This roadmap summarizes why every plausible path to punish Senator Mark Kelly — whether via court-martial or administrative action — was legally blocked. Citations to U.S. Code, DoD regulations, and case law are included for reference.

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A. Court-Martial Route​

Steps Attempted / Hypothetical:

1. Recall to Active Duty
   • Needed because retired officers are generally outside court-martial jurisdiction unless recalled.
   • Roadblock: Kelly is a sitting U.S. Senator → involuntary recall would violate Separation of Powers (Article I protections).
2. Court-Martial Charges / Military Trial
   • Charges would be based on participation in a politically controversial video.
   • Roadblock: First Amendment protects political speech by retired officers and elected officials.
3. Conviction
   • Roadblock: Grand jury already refused to indict; likelihood of conviction extremely low.

Outcome: Court-martial path blocked.
Citations:

• 10 U.S.C. § 1402–1413 – Jurisdiction over retired officers
• U.S. Const. Art. I – Separation of powers

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B. Administrative Punishment Route​

Steps Attempted / Hypothetical:

1. Reduce Retired Rank / Pension
   • Attempt to use administrative corrections to “punish” speech.
   • Roadblock: 10 U.S.C. § 1552 allows corrections only for errors or injustices, not punishment.
2. Administrative Censure / Reprimand
   • Roadblock: DoD Instruction 1332.14 and DoD Directive 1320.04 prohibit using administrative mechanisms to punish.
3. Enforce Penalty
   • Roadblock: Federal courts can enjoin improper administrative actions; Judge Richard Leon blocked Pentagon enforcement (Feb. 12, 2026).

Outcome: Administrative path blocked.
Citations:

• 10 U.S.C. § 1552 – Correction of military records
• DoD Instruction 1332.14 – Administrative correction authority
• DoD Directive 1320.04 – Limitations on administrative punishment
• Bickley v. United States, D.C. Cir. 1986 – Administrative corrections cannot serve punitive purposes

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C. Hybrid / Creative Approaches​

• Any combination of administrative threats plus coercion (e.g., recall threats) is blocked by:
  1. Separation of powers
  2. First Amendment protections
  3. Judicial review

Outcome: No feasible hybrid path exists.

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D. Summary​

• Court-martial: blocked by recall requirement, constitutional protections, and grand jury refusal.
• Administrative: blocked by statutory/regulatory limits and judicial review; cannot punish for speech.
• Overall Conclusion: The Pentagon had no legal path to discipline Senator Kelly without violating statutory, regulatory, and constitutional law.

Bottom Line:

“No Viable Path to Punish Kelly — Legal Barriers Prevented Discipline From Every Angle.”

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Of course, Kelly's own lawyers would have worked out these likelihoods before the Group of Six even made their video.

According to the Journal, President Donald Trump and his advisors are “uncomfortable” with Noem and Lewandowski’s “close relationship.”

“Lewandowski had initially wanted to formally serve as Noem’s chief of staff, but Trump rejected the idea due to reports of a romantic relationship between the two—which he has continued to bring up, officials say,” it reported. “After tabloid photos of Lewandowski showed him going back and forth between his apartment and Noem’s across the street last year, the secretary moved into a government-owned waterfront house on a military base in Washington that is provided to the leader of the U.S. Coast Guard. ... Lewandowski also spends time at the house. ... Lewandowski and Noem, who are both married, have publicly denied the reports of the affair, but people said they do little to hide their relationship inside the department.”

Per the Journal, the White House Counsel’s office “opened an inquiry into Lewandowski’s potential abuse” of his position last year, and officials say his involvement in awarding government contracts while still being employed in the private sector [Corey is a special government employee like Musk was] ... “has raised alarm bells inside the White House and DHS.”

“Noem routinely berated staff if she saw Homan on TV and kept track of both their appearances to make sure she was on TV more than him, according to people familiar with the matter."

In one instance, Noem “had to switch planes after a maintenance issue was discovered, but her blanket wasn’t moved to the second plane.” She is alleged to have tried to fire the Coast Guard pilot responsible for flying her, who was told to take a commercial flight home. The pilot was reinstated, though, after Noem and her team realized that they didn’t have another pilot to fly them home.

In an incident last year that rankled some senior staff at the agency, Lewandowski made it known to top ICE officials that he wanted to be issued a law-enforcement badge and a federally issued gun, according to people familiar with his push. Officials are typically only issued a badge and a gun after undergoing law-enforcement training.

[One guy interviewed to be head of ICE, but when he wouldn't make with the gun, he was not selected. A top ICE lawyer also declined to sign off on it. He was put on leave, demoted, and shipped to FEMA. Ultimately Corey got his gun, with Noem's autopen finishing the paperwork.]

Todd Lyons, the acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, accused two federal agents of lying under oath regarding the mid-January shooting of a Venezuelan national in Minneapolis.

The two officers have been placed on administrative leave and an internal investigation is underway, Lyons said in his statement.

"Video evidence has revealed that sworn testimony provided by two separate officers appears to have made untruthful statements. Both officers have been immediately placed on administrative leave pending the completion of a thorough internal investigation. Lying under oath is a serious federal offense," Lyons said. "The men and women of ICE are entrusted with upholding the rule of law. ... Violations of this sacred sworn oath will not be tolerated."

The announcement comes a day after the Department of Justice abruptly dropped charges against Alfredo Alejandro Aljorna and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis, who had been federally charged with assaulting ICE officers. The filing entered by U.S. Attorney in Minnesota Daniel Rosen cited "newly discovered evidence" that was "materially inconsistent" with the charges against them.

An ICE officer shot Sosa-Celis in the leg on Jan. 14 near North Sixth Street and North 24th Avenue, inciting anger in a city where just a week before, an agent had shot and killed Renee Good.

In the hours after the shooting of Sosa-Celis, two dueling narratives emerged. Cellphone video shared by Democratic state Sen. Erin Maye Quade shows a woman calling 911 shortly after the shooting. The woman says her husband was chased by ICE agents before he reached his home, and was shot in front of his family.

The Department of Homeland Security, however, said that Sosa-Celis fled and crashed into a parked car, and then tried to flee on foot.


When an officer caught up to him, Sosa-Celis "began to resist and violently assault the officer," the original statement says. According to DHS, two other men then came out of a nearby apartment and attacked the officer with a snow shovel and broom handle. The officer feared for his life, the DHS said, and "fired a defensive shot" at Sosa-Celis, who was hit in the leg.

The government's account of the shooting has since changed; in an affidavit to support charges against Aljorna and Sosa-Celis, the FBI said that Aljorna — not Sosa-Celis — had fled the scene in a car. It goes on to say that Sosa-Celis was the one who initially struck the ICE officer with a broom stick while he tried to arrest Aljorna.

The FBI alleged that Aljorna then broke free and started attacking the ICE officer with the same broomstick. The affidavit also says that the officer "had poor or sporadic lighting" and "had difficulty seeing the assailants."

Attorney Frederick Goetz, who represents Aljorna, said, "It is my understanding that the video surveillance evidence that captured the incident was materially inconsistent with the federal agent's claims of what happened; i.e. the agent's claims of being assaulted were not backed up by the video evidence."

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Donald Trump has nominated the hospitality executive Scott Socha – whose company once sued to claim trademark rights to the name “Yosemite National Park” – to lead the National Park Service.

The nomination of an outsider with business ties to the agency he’d oversee comes at a pivotal moment for the service, which lost a quarter of its staff under the so-called “department of government efficiency” civil sector purge and which has been the subject of the Trump administration’s aggressive efforts to erase mention of historical events from its sites that portray Americans in an unfavorable light, such as regarding slavery.

[This is an obvious ethical monstrosity.]

[Socha's company] Delaware North is well-known in conservationist circles for a trademark lawsuit involving Yosemite national park. After the company lost a $2bn bid to renew its contract to operate Yosemite’s hotels and restaurants to competitor Aramark in 2016, Delaware North sued, arguing that the company held intellectual property rights to various names used at the park worth more than $50m – including the terms “Yosemite National Park”, “Ahwahnee Hotel” and “Curry Village”.

The two landmarks were briefly renamed, until the lawsuit was settled in 2019.

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Jobs report recap: US added 130,000 jobs in January, beating expectations​

"It was a January job surge. The surprisingly strong job gains in January were driven mainly by health care and social assistance," Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, said in a statement. "But it is enough to stabilize the job market and send the unemployment rate slightly lower.

‘Um…Lemme Think’: Trump’s Pick For Top State Department Post Sputters When Challenged On His Belief in the ‘Erasure of White Culture’​

In the video, [Senator] Murphy asked, “Tell me how you define white identify and white and what you think is being erased about white identity.”

--later--

CARL: I would say the white church is very different from the Black church in terms of its tone and style, on average. Um, food ways can often be different. Um, music —

MURPHY: And those are being erased?

CARL: Music can be different, if you look at the Super Bowl halftime show that was not in English this year.

MURPHY: So, our ability to access white churches or white food or white music is being erased?

Sen. John Curtis (R-UT) said in a statement Thursday, “After reviewing his record and participating in today’s hearing, I do not believe that Jeremy Carl is the right person to represent our nation’s best interests in international forums, and I find his anti-Israel views and insensitive remarks about the Jewish people unbecoming of the position for which he has been nominated.”

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In the past, Carl has appeared to endorse the “great replacement theory,” slammed the Juneteenth holiday and called for the execution of American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten, according to CNN. He deleted nearly 5,000 social media posts since before his nomination, the outlet reported in September.

“We are essentially moving,” he told conservative media commentator Tucker Carlson in April 2024, “to what is effectively, a post-White America.”

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Ephesians 2:19-22 Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone, in whom the whole building, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in whom you also are being built together for a dwelling place of God in the Spirit.

1 Peter 2:4-6 Coming to Him as to a living stone, rejected indeed by men, but chosen by God and precious, you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. Therefore it is also contained in the Scripture, "Behold, I lay in Zion A chief cornerstone, elect, precious, And he who believes on Him will by no means be put to shame."

How did God's dwelling evolve to become what it is today? What happened?

Dave

Pope Leo XIV urges Catholics to listen more closely to God and others — and to “disarm” their language by fasting from words that wound — in his message for Lent 2026.


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NAYEREH ARJANEH​

IRAN​

On July 7, 2025 Nayereh Arjaneh and her husband Qasem Esmaili were arrested at their home for attending a Christian seminar in Turkey. She was initially released on bail and later convicted of “promoting deviant propaganda and teachings contrary to Islamic law” and “providing financial and material support to groups affiliated with Zionist Christianity.”

Nayereh received five years in prison for each offense, plus two years internal exile in Kerman province and a two year travel ban. She is serving both sentences concurrently. Her husband received a prison sentence of three years and six months but has been given permission to delay his prison term as he is currently undergoing chemotherapy.

Nayereh began serving her 10-year sentence in December 2025.

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SAMPLE LETTERS TO PRISONERS


Please DO
Write in English and write as neatly as you are able to. Your letter must be legible to be translated (Many people study English, so there will often be someone to translate your letter).

• Express your Christian love and tell them that you are praying for them (then do!) They, in turn, will be praying for you!
• Keep your letter brief and loving – one page is enough.
• Include Bible verses.
• Hand write the address on envelopes accurately and mark it AIRMAIL; make sure the postage is correct.
• You may include a snapshot of yourself, your family or your prayer group if you want to make your letter even more personal and special.

Please DON'T
Do not write about politics or criticise the government.

• Never mention the source of your information or the name of any organisation such as Voice of the Martyrs. It is not dangerous for a prisoner to receive letters from an individual, but if an organisation is mentioned, they may be accused of links with “foreign organisations” and receive even harsher sentences.
• Use words that might imply some kind of hidden activity e.g. “thank you for the Christian work that you have done in Vietnam” might imply that the prisoner had done some covert work for a foreign organisation to subvert the government.
• Build up hopes and expectations of prisoners – and likewise, don’t make any offer of help unless you intend to act on it!
• Use religious jargon, sermonize, or be presumptuous about the prisoner’s situation, needs or feelings.
• Quote verses which refer to war, fighting, armour, weapons (eg ‘the sword of the spirit’, ‘fighting the good fight of faith’, ‘the armour of God’ etc).

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President of all Americans my foot.

• The Trump administration is seeking to cut $600 million in federal grant funding for HIV programs in California and three other states.
• The cuts targeted a slate of programs aimed at tracking and curtailing HIV and other disease outbreaks.

A federal judge on Thursday blocked a Trump administration order slashing $600 million in federal grant funding for HIV programs in California and three other states, finding merit in the states’ argument that the move was politically motivated by disagreements over unrelated state sanctuary policies.

U.S. District Judge Manish Shah, an Obama appointee in Illinois, found that California, Colorado, Illinois and Minnesota were likely to succeed in arguing that President Trump and other administration officials targeted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention funding for termination “based on arbitrary, capricious, or unconstitutional rationales.”

"plaintiffs have made a sufficient showing that defendants issued internal guidance to terminate public-health grants for unlawful reasons; that guidance is enjoined as the parties develop a record.”

The White House said the cuts were to programs that “promote DEI and radical gender ideology,” while federal health officials said the programs in question did not reflect the CDC’s “priorities.”

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Target has been a focus of protest since they pulled some of the LGBTQ+ Pride items displayed prominently in their stores a few years ago. Parents complained their children should not have to see that stuff and once Target scaled back it did not go well with that community. The anti-ICE people are very much the same crowd.

Pray Bangladesh's Newly elected Prime Minister, Tarique Rahman, views Christians in favorable light, & appoints Christians to government positions:

Pray The Holy Spirit Protects "Righteous" protesters in Iran Against Digital Surveillance by the oppressive Islamic Iranian government:

Let’s break this down biblically. Who is God? He is Father, Son Jesus Christ, and Holy Spirit, our triune God. He always was and he always will be. And Jesus Christ always was God, and he was with God in the beginning, and all things which were made were made by him. Jesus is our creator God. And Jesus Christ left his throne in heaven, came to earth, was born as a human baby to a virgin woman (Mary), but was conceived of the Holy Spirit, so he was not born with a sin nature as we are. And all the time Jesus lived on the earth he was God incarnate (God made flesh) who lived among the people.

[Genesis 1:26; Genesis 3:22; John 1:1-36; John 8:24,58; John 10:30-33; John 20:28-29; Romans 9:5; 1 Corinthians 10:1-4; Philippians 2:5-11; Colossians 2:9; Titus 2:13; Hebrews 1:8-9; 1 Peter 1:20-21; 2 Peter 1:1]

God so loved.. This word “love” means “to prefer,” “to choose,” “to prefer to love,” which is centered in moral preference and in what God prefers, which is all that is holy, just, morally pure, righteous, godly, honest, faithful, and obedient to his commands. This is the kind of love he had/has for the people of the world, that they/we would, by faith in Jesus Christ, live holy lives, pleasing to God, living morally pure and upright lives for the glory of God. From the source of this love he sent Jesus Christ to put our sins to death with him so by faith in him we will now die to sin and obey our Lord.

God gave us his only begotten Son (conceived of the Holy Spirit, birthed of a virgin woman), in his life, death, resurrection, and ascension back to heaven, where he then sent the Holy Spirit to indwell his followers, that whoever believes in him… that whoever (actively, ongoing) believing in him…which is continuous, active faith, ongoing to the very end… a faith which means to be persuaded, i.e. to be persuaded by God. And God persuades us as to his righteousness, and of our sinfulness, and of our need to die to sin and to now walk in obedience to our Lord, empowered by God.

So God – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – loved us humans enough to send himself, in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ, into the world, in order that he would put our sins to death with him so that, by obedient (ongoing) faith in our Lord, and in the teachings of his word, via submission to him as Lord, we would now die with Christ to sin, and be raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as servants of the Lord in holy living in walks of obedience to him and to his commands. This is what it means to believe in Jesus, to have our lives belonging to God.

For Jesus Christ taught that to come to him we must deny self, take up our cross daily (die daily to sin), and follow (obey) him. For if we hold on to living in sin and for self, we will lose our lives for eternity. But if we deny self, die daily to sin, by the Spirit, and we walk in obedience to our Lord and to his commands, in his power, then we have eternal life with God. For not everyone who calls him “Lord” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one DOING (obeying) the will of God (see Luke 9:23-26; Matthew 7:21-23).

For by God-gifted faith in Jesus Christ, which is not of our own doing, we are crucified with Christ in death to sin and raised with Christ to walk in newness of life in him, no longer to live as slaves to sin but as slaves to righteousness in walks of obedience to God’s commands. We are no longer to permit sin to reign in our mortal bodies to make us obey its desires. For if sin is what we obey, it results in death. But if obedience to God is what we obey, it results in sanctification, and its end is eternal life with God (see Romans 6:1-23).

[Matthew 7:13-14,21-23; Luke 9:23-26; Romans 6:1-23; Romans 8:1-14; Galatians 5:16-24; Ephesians 2:8-10; Ephesians 4:17-32; Ephesians 5:3-6; Titus 2:11-14; 1 John 1:1-10; 1 John 2:1-6; 1 John 3:4-10; Acts 26:18]

Unless You Are Born Again

Based off John 3:1-21
An Original Work / November 3, 2013
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Nicodemus came to Jesus.
He acknowledged God was with Him.
Jesus said, “You can’t see heaven
Unless you are born again.”

“How can a man be born when he’s old?
Can he enter into his mother’s womb?”
Jesus answered, “Flesh is flesh,
So of the Spirit, you must be.”

Jesus said to Nicodemus,
“You’re a teacher, and yet you don’t
Understand of what I tell you,
Because you will not believe.

“For God so loved the world that He gave
His one and His only Son for your sin.
So, whoever believes in Him
Has eternal life in heav’n.

“Light has come into the world,
But human beings love the darkness,
Because their deeds are so evil,
So in truth, they stand condemned.

“Everyone who practices evil
Fears that the Light will expose his sin.
Yet, whoever lives his life by the Light
Does so through his God.”

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Whoever Believes in Him
An Original Work / February 13, 2026
Christ’s Free Servant, Sue J Love

Can someone help me with the difference between Theism and Pan-en-theism, usually defined as All is in God. Pan-en-theism is different from Pantheism (everything is God and therefore no Creator / creature distinction). Does Pan-en-theism recognise a Creator / creature distinction.

Any help appreciated.

Just a brief introduction about myself. I am not sure if I was a previous member or not? But anyways I was saved at the age of 19 - but have attended Sunday school since I was about 6 years of age. I first acknowledged God at the age of 12 when I beheld his creation one morning walking along the footpath with my sibling brother. From there I held bible studies at home at the age of 17 but realized they were JW's and stopped them from coming in time. The Jesus facto however became reality a few years later! and I am now approaching 63 years of age. By the grace of God I still stand today; and my background is i have served in evangelism, and on the the mission field, and have openly preached behind pulpits in Sunday services and prayer meetings also, I have conducted open air evangelism on the streets and in high schools to the unsaved. I am a graduate ✔️ of full-time Bible college and graduated with paper in hand and I feel by Gods grace i have somewhat to contribute and share my experiences and also my current understanding of the scriptures. Sometimes I write with great sharpness, but that is intended for edification and never to anyone's destruction! Anyways a brief introduction and hello to every one

Please pray for our church's finances, we have very little money left, and 2 more bills to pay . Our high cost of fuel is our biggest expense. We just paid over $3500 for fuel and in about 3 weeks they will fill up the church and rectory again (fuel is for heat) Last year an organization who used our property gave us a credit at the fuel company but this year they did not as they are no longer using our property. Thank you for your prayers. God bless.

I'm trying to figure out the lettering on this icon.
It's an icon of St. Christos, but the lettering looks like it says ΧΡΗςΟς. From Wikipedia it looks like the Greek spelling is Χρήστος, so what looks like an ending-form sigma in the middle must be a ligature of Σ and Τ, but I just can't see it.

Police identified 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar as the suspected shooter

A 12-year-old girl is clinging onto her life after one of the deadliest mass shootings in Canadian history in the small British Columbia town of Tumbler Ridge.

“We were warned that the damage to her brain was too much for her to endure, and she wouldn't make the night,” her mother wrote in a post on Facebook. “Our baby needs a miracle.”


The girl was reportedly trying to lock the door when she was shot by 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar, who police say killed six people at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, after killing her 39-year-old mother and 11-year-old stepbrother at a nearby home.

Six people were killed at the high school: a 39-year-old female educator, three12-year-old female students, a 12-year-old male student and a 13-year-old male student.

Students and staff spent hours barricaded inside classrooms and other corners of the school after the principal directed everyone to lock their doors.

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