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Lightning Strikes Famous Christ The Redeemer Statue In Rio de Janeiro (Video)

Friday, January 17, 2014 23:14
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O Globo broadcast helicopter images of the statue on its G1 web portal, showing part of Christ’s right thumb missing.

Brazil’s national space institute INPE counted more than 40,000 lighting flashes during the three-hour storm which felled dozens of trees and flooded streets.

Winds gusting at 87 kilometres per hour (52 miles per hour) forced one of Rio’s airports to close and brought a halt to boat trips across the city’s Guanabara Bay.

Pope Francis, Petrus Romanus, was the Archbishop of Rio before his appointment to Pope.  Could this be a sign that Bergoglio/Francis fulfills Saint Malachy’s prophecy?  Is Francis the last Pope?  -Mort

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  • Be the largest steel reenforced structure towering high on a mountaintop in a tremendous thunder and lightening storm and you’ll be lit up too!

  • angelfood

    Doesn’t God say that we should not make Graven images of Him in His commandments? I am sure He struck it for just that.

  • Any tall object positioned on top of a high hill will be a prime target for lightning. I suspect it has been struck many times before, and I don’t know that I’d put any kind of spiritual significance to this particular time.

  • God obviously chose this time to show the world just what He thinks of the catholic churches* misrepresentation of who Jesus was and did. I have been warning them for years that God really does NOT like anybody to put words in His mouth. Timothy covered that.

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