The Independent Grand Lodge of France (GLIF) was consecrated in the Temple of the Grand Lodge of France

Monday, 14 January 2013

Paris, France. The ceremony took place in GLdF's Franklin Roosevelt Temple. The sole Grand Master who attended the ceremony was Jean Dubar (GLTSO), the other Grand Masters being represented only by a delegation. LNF's Grand Master apologized for absence, and GL-MPA's leader was represented by the Grand Expert.

Marc Henry was represented by Alain-Noël Dubart (GLdF's Immediate Past Grand Master) and a delegation composed by the Grand Chancellor Jean-Jacques Zambrowski and Grand Orator Hugues Febvay.

Jean-François Buherne was installed as MW Grand Master, and Alexandre Douenias will hold GLIF's office of Grand Chancellor for Foreign Affairs.

Barack Obama will be sworn in on January 21, 2013

Thursday, 10 January 2013

Washington, United States of America. On January 21, 2013 Barack H. Obama will be sworn in as President of the United States of America for a second term. The event will be a special one because the U.S. President will be sworn in by using two symbolic Bibles (it is said that a third Bible, a personal one, will be placed also). The Bible of Abraham Lincoln and the Bible of Martin Luther King Jr.

January 21 marks the federal celebration in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. The first American President to be sworn in having his hand on two Bibles was MW Grand Master Harry Truman 33° (the 33rd President of the United States of America), in 1949.

Grand Masonic Temple of Oaxaca desecrated and robbed

Oaxaca, Mexico. The Grand Temple of Oaxaca, belonging to the Grand Lodge "Benito Juárez García" was devastated and plundered by Jesús Alfredo López García (President of the Mexican Protectorate of Human Rights). López García was arrested and later released after paying a bail of 30,000 pesos (about $ 3000).

The Grand Temple is located in the historic center of the city, being an architectural monument visited over the years by various personalities, including President Porfirio Díaz, informs Mariano Arista Lodge #2 (APMR's state collaborator in SLP, Mexico).

Grand Master Felipe Moisés Pérez Cruz and the President of the National College of Lawyers Freemasons, Jaime Alejandro Velasco Martínez, expressed their dissatisfaction regarding the court decision to release the offender.

Conference of Grand Masters of North America

Monday, 7 January 2013

Kansas, United States of America. From 17 to 19 February 2013 will take place the Conference of Grand Masters of North America and the Conference of Grand Secretaries. The event will be held at Sheraton Hotel and will be hosted by the Grand Lodge of Missouri.

Among the topics to be discussed are the new social media (Conference of Grand Secretaries) and the Masonic situation in France (Conference of Grand Masters). It should be noted that last year's report evoke the hope that after the elections within GLNF a solution will be forthcoming.

The biggest Romanian filmmaker of all times, Sergiu Nicolaescu dies at age 82

Thursday, 3 January 2013

Bucharest, Romania. Nicolaescu died earlier today at Elias Hospital. According Mediafax, 82 years old Nicolaescu died at 8.20 A.M., following severe cardiac and pulmonary complications, which did not respond to intensive treatment applied.

 

Sergiu Florin Nicolaescu was a film director, actor and Romanian politician. Three of the most popular films of the Romanian director were The Dacians (Dacii - 1966), Michael the Brave (Mihai Viteazul - 1970) and Mircea (1989). Michael the Brave film was broadcast worldwide by Colombia Pictures.