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THE SAINTS AND THE WICKED

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The reflection that inspires me about the conflict between the djihadists and the West will surely bring upon me a shower of rotten eggs. Some will sentence me to be burnt at the stake or to be locked up in a psychiatric hospital. Most will call me a lunatic and fool; before all else, I would be treated as a traitor to the Christian and occidental civilization. Anyway, I am sticking to my guns! Cain and Abel by Bild Kuns   Even though light years separate us, I am addressing myself to the Islamic State:     « You, men and women of the DAESH, you are relatives of mine. Much before being terrorists or fools of Allah, Muslims belonging to one or other race or school; before being mercenaries, rapists, head choppers, sick people or enemies, you are human beings just like me.    Even if you consider me as an avatar of the great Satan, a pervert, an oppressor of humanity, a plunderer of the planet; even if I am for you an idolater, a peddler of weapons, of drugs,

Patuca

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  From the barren lands of South Honduras towards the paradise of the Patuca.     With  Jean-Louis Nadeau  and  Normand Landreville About a hundred of peasants of Honduras and two Quebec missionaries relive as a miniature the great feat of Exodus   with which the Bible initiates the salvation history.                                                                                                     By : Eloy Roy Turning their backs to the misery of their mountains of rocks, a group of peasants of South Honduras, 90 men and 15 women are preparing themselves to leave for a better life. Jean-Louis and Normand, young and daring missionaries in the face of God, leave with them. They are aware that four hundred kilometers in the north, somewhere in the jungle, a land where « flow milk and honey » is waiting for them. Scouts have preceded them to locate a place that, in their imaginary, already has the aura of a new « promised land ».