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AnnCrystal
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This post covers 4th of July and highlights three stories about a child and two women based on news reports.

This post in no way covers all the the stories happening in Los Angeles County NOR across California.

Please do further research to fact-check or if you would like to know more or want updates on the people highlighted here.

Please Note: I didn't include updates.

🙏🏼✊🏼🐻✌🏼.

AnnCrystal It feels like everyone in Los Angeles County has been rejuvenated by the start of a new month.

More protests:

“Rallies to be held across LA Tuesday as part of citywide day of action against immigration raids.“

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass is expected to hold a press conference.

Laws and bills that prohibits U.S. agents from being unidentifiable continues to be pushed.

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AnnCrystal As for the 4th of July, many celebrations are being cancelled to protect people from agents.

In any cave, it doesn't seem like a holiday to be celebrating during these dark days in America. Where Freedom and The Constitution of the United States along with the Bill of Rights is bluntly being challenged.

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AnnCrystal Story One:

A boy, his mother and his 9-year-old sibling, originally from Honduras, were seized after the three attended their May 29 immigration hearing in Los Angeles. Attorneys try to challenge this immigration arrest of this family, who are now being held in Texas.

“The Guardian“ identified this mother as “Ms Z.“

I was unable to find any further updates.
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AnnCrystal Story Two:

Earlier in June 2025
In Huntington Park, CA a 28-years-old U.S. citizen, pregnant with twins, encountered ICE agents who were looking for her undocumented husband.

The woman, who is due in November, said the agents busted into her bathroom while she was in the shower, demanding that she come out without giving her any privacy.

“I feel like a criminal now,” she said. “I felt humiliated. I‘m pregnant. I‘m scared. I‘m shaking.”

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AnnCrystal Note, I did not highlight the woman's name in story two due to the disrespect she experienced.

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AnnCrystal Story Three:

Immigrant, Yuriana Julia Pelaez Calderon, who goes by the name Juli,
was taken by “POSSIBLE“ federal agents, who were masked and unidentifiable, on Wednesday, June 25. She was brought down to the U.S. border at San Ysidro and is now being held in a warehouse of both male and female captives until she agrees to self-deport.
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GingerAntics OH MY GOD, ALL OF THIS IS DISGUISING!!! 10h
AnnCrystal Sourced from CBS, NBC, KTLA, ABC, and The Guardian.
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AnnCrystal @GingerAntics ✊🏼😢🙏🏼🐻🙏🏼🦅. 10h
GingerAntics @AnnCrystal I‘m not sure which story is worse. All I can say, is this administration is giving kidnappers of any persuasion the perfect cover to kidnap people and do who only knows what to them. 10h
AnnCrystal @GingerAntics that is the terrifying truth ✊🏼🦅 And the way they treat the girls/women during sweeps and protests. It's enraging ✊🏼🐻🙏🏼💝. 10h
AmyG It is only going to get worse. Concentration camps in FL, DHS is terminating protected status for Haitians so 500,000 people could be deported, talk of revoking Mamdani‘s citizenship because he won a NY primary. Insanity. (edited) 10h
Susanita Horrible 10h
AnnCrystal @AmyG I haven't been keeping myself updated on immigration news from across America but I did take note about that camp in Florida... that's terrifyingly inhumane. And there are deadly storms there?! I even read that the administration will cut hurricane forecasters out of key satellite data in a about a month. What?!

500,000 Haitians! Oh no, no, no 🙏🏼🦅💝.

Wait, revoke citizenship? That can happen?!?! Then again, non of this should happen.

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AnnCrystal @Susanita true! This is insanity ✊🏼🐻✊🏼🦅🙏🏼✌🏼💝. 10h
Amiable Thank you for continuing to bear witness and shine a light on the dark ugliness that is being inflicted upon our country by those in the White House. 9h
TheBookHippie Thank you for posting these. I appreciate it so very much. 9h
TheBookHippie @AnnCrystal last I heard they are not together and people are trying to free the kids at least without results… I‘m trying to keep track there are so many. 9h
dabbe Thanks for sharing these ugly truths. The daily fight goes on. ✊🏻💙✊🏻 8h
Deblovestoread Thank you for taking the time to share these personal accounts. I think it is so important for people to read individual stories. I cannot imagine the terror the pregnant woman must have felt. For each of these individuals to be terrorized is inhumane, and for those of you that don‘t get it they deserve the exact same rights, dignity and freedom you do! 6h
AnnCrystal @Amiable I'm hoping for change, I continue hoping 🫂✊🏼🐻🙏🏼🦅💝. 4h
AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie Thank You for the update 🫂 I couldn't find any more info. 🙏🏼 I know what you mean, everything is happening at lightening speed. There are stories I cannot even find a second time. Imagine those who are alone, even Americans, who have no one fighting for them or telling their stories...Thank you for trying to keep track ✊🏼🐻✌🏼🙏🏼🦅💝. 4h
AnnCrystal @dabbe Absolutely. Together we can inspire change ✊🏼🐻✊🏼🦅🙏🏼💝. 4h
AnnCrystal 😘 @Deblovestoread Inhumane is the right word, utterly, unjustly inhumane ✊🏼🐻🙏🏼🦅💝. 4h
TheBookHippie @AnnCrystal we have a meeting here soon with our immigration nonprofit I think it‘s the 17th. I‘ll let you know how it goes. They generally have a ton of info etc 4h
Eggbeater Thank you for posting. Sometimes, it feels like the only thing I can do is bear witness to atrocities. I will not turn away. 💔 4h
AnnCrystal 🫂 @Eggbeater it is difficult to witness these cruelties happening in our reality, to witness these dark times without knowing when the hatred will end...but we must hold onto hope. Always remain Hopeful...once hope is lost, they will win ✊🏼🐻✌🏼🦅🙏🏼💝. 3h
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AnnCrystal
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From NBC Los Angeles

...she saw her sister being thrown to the ground before being arrested and forced into an unmarked car by unidentified officers near 9th and Main Street in downtown Los Angeles.

“We dropped off my sister to go to work like we always do, all of a sudden, my mom in the rearview mirror she saw how a man went on top of her. Basically, dropped her on the floor and started putting her in handcuffs and trying to arrest her,“ ...

AnnCrystal This American girl is 4'10, her kidnappers were said to be large men who stood around 6'...they came for her like masked thugs and kidnapped her...

But they are accusing this woman of assault!!

#californiananncrystal
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Eggbeater 💔😡 5d
AnnCrystal @Eggbeater truly 🙏🏼✊🏼🐻✌🏼💝. 5d
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AnnCrystal @Eggbeater & Litten Friends

Update
Andrea Velez was released at 6 p.m. on June 26, 2025 on a $5,000 bond.

The Department of Homeland Security said Velez “forcefully obstructed an ICE officer,“ and is charged with assaulting a federal officer.“

A charge that Velez and witnesses says is untrue.

Velez's lawyer is filing lawsuit in defense of his client.
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Eggbeater Thanks for the update. I'm glad she is back with her family now. If there was any justice, she'd become rich. 5d
AnnCrystal @Eggbeater True 👏🏼🐻✊🏼 i believe that she just may be the one who California needs to help us stop this insanity. In History, there always seems one (usually unexpectedly) who becomes the face in the fight against injustice. ✊🏼🐻✌🏼💝. 4d
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AnnCrystal
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Although this is based on a real life event, I didn't give real life details...I wanted to capture the sum of the scene.

I've caught the news coverage twice, and believe it was a Jacaranda that the poor woman held onto.

If a Jacaranda, it's strangely symbolic. Legend has said that this tree was blessed by a Goddess.

This Legend is in the next comment.

Then following the legend, there is an All Creator prayer. Creators Ancient and modern.

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AnnCrystal From the Webs

One Amazonian Legend tells about a beautiful bird named Mitu who landed on a jacaranda tree, carrying a lovely Goddess of the moon. She came to live among villagers and share Her knowledge and ethics.

When ready to leave, She adorned the Jacaranda with beautiful blooms so that every time the tree blooms, Her teachings will be remembered. She than returned to the sky worlds to be with Her soul mate, the Son of the Sun.

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AnnCrystal Let us Pray to the Creators of all people, asking the Creators to protect the Freedom of The United States Of America and the Rights and the Liberty of All Citizens of this Great Nation.

For the Nations of the World, that America will help them to Achieve Or Maintain Peace, Freedom, Justice, and Prosperity.

For the United States President, that he/she will be Guided to Act Wisely for the Common Good.
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AnnCrystal For those Elected to Serve Us, that they will Respect Our Liberties and Defend the Rights of the Unborn, the Aged, the Poor, and Racial Minorities.

Creators of all people, may you hear our cries and Grant these Prayers we make for Our Beloved Nation.
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AnnCrystal @Leftcoastzen 🫂✊🏼🐻✌🏼🙏🏼💝. 5d
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AnnCrystal
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I'm struggling a bit with staying calm 🥺🤬🤨 during all of June.

First my dad couldn't understand my mom. They had an argument because my dad couldn't understand why my mom or I wouldn't go into the neighboring town to pick up a non-necessary item for him.

My mom and I have been remaining local. Again, we're Americans. But these masked men are kidnapping Americans and immigrates and placing them in unmarked vehicles.

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AnnCrystal Then...

a text for my dad was sent to my mom by accident. It was Little t related.

This person is an old friend of the family, a family-like friend. He is a retired cop and someone whose number we were memorizing as part of our emergency contacts in case we accidentally get swept to another state/country. We figured he'd know how to help...the law lango...🤔🤨...

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AnnCrystal A note for my Litten friends. My own City has been invaded by unidentifiable, masked and armed kidnapping agents who are racially profiling.

Wild Life and Nature is under assault.

Native America (indigenously speaking) are struggling against the current administration, along with Girls, Women, and journalists/writers

...This list really does seem endless...

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AnnCrystal While I will continue posting book related posts, I have decided that my stance on current issues also needs to be shared more regularly.

I understand if you need to unfollow me to protect your own peace of mind or block me due to your own political standing.

I will not take offense.

✊🏼🐻✌🏼🙏🏼🦅🌟❤️🤍💙.
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Eggbeater 🫂 I hear you. There's no sugar coating it. This is really bad. 6d
Amiable Totally here for you! You have the right to express yourself here in a safe space. 💙💙 6d
AnnCrystal @Eggbeater 🫂🙏🏼 it's so scary strange ✊🏼🐻✌🏼💝. 6d
AnnCrystal 🫂 Thank You 😘@Amiable that means a lot ✊🏼🐻✌🏼💝. 6d
Deblovestoread This quote is on the shirt I‘m wearing today. Speaking your reality is never wrong. 💙 6d
KadaGul @AnnCrystal, it's hard to believe things could take such a turn in 2025. Just know that you, your family 👪 , and your amazing Latino community are in my thoughts and prayers🙏🤲.Dictators have a way of not lasting long or having happy endings. Stay strong 💪✊! We‘re all here for you. 6d
Amiable @Deblovestoread I have the same shirt! My husband calls it my “kicking ass and taking names” shirt. I wear it to all the protests. 6d
AnnCrystal @Deblovestoread 👕🆒🤩 “Speaking your Reality“ I like that! ✊🏼🐻👌🏼💝. 6d
AnnCrystal Thank You @KadaGul truly unreal! 🙏🏼 Let us hope for the best ✊🏼🐻👍🏼💝. (edited) 6d
AnnCrystal @Amiable 👏🏼🥳👕🆒 ✊🏼🐻👌🏼💝. 6d
kspenmoll We are here for you. I am sorry & angry for you that you live in fear. Sending love & hope. 💛💛 6d
dabbe Holding you and your family in my thoughts. 💙🩵💙 5d
AnnCrystal Thank You @kspenmoll now that I'm creating (writting and crafting) in protest, I'm feeling strangely empowered. My senior mom is a warrior women, she's being careful, but has and is ready to defend us...I really do have to keep an eye on her 😂. We don't allow each other to venture out alone. They try to lay a hand on my mom, they better be ready for my outrage ✊🏼🐻✌🏼🫂💝. (edited) 5d
AnnCrystal Thank You @dabbe 😘🫂✊🏼🐻👌🏼💝. 5d
Bette So many horror stories everyday. I‘m glad you are being thoughtful about safety. Take care. 4d
AnnCrystal Thank You 🫂😘 @Bette it's truly unreal. Even in this darkness, we're witnessing moments of Hope. Hopefully more and more 🙏🏼✊🏼🐻✌🏼💝. 4d
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AnnCrystal
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Prayers and Good Vibes Please for the expedite of a new California law that would:

Outlaw bounty hunters and citizens from joining in on immigration sweeps.

Only permit medical masks to protect health. Outlaw other masks on agents.

Require that agents identify their branch, and that they are indeed U.S. agents.

I do not know if this law requires vehicles to be marked.

Or if it protects Americans from being harassed/arrested for filming.

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AnnCrystal Photo from Pico Rivera Walmart, where a young American man was arrested for inquiring about his coworker who was detained. Agents claimed the kid punched an agent, security cameras proved that to be a lie.

My mom & I have NOT been stopped by agents. We do have a safety plan. We remain local. We've faced racist, but no agents yet 🙏🏼🐻.

I do believe there has been photos taken of us, not sure if there is a bounty app????

We are born Americans!
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Itchyfeetreader I find this chilling and feel helpless hearing people share experiences. Sending my thoughts feels meaningless but I do. (edited) 1w
Blueberry 😞 stay safe 1w
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kspenmoll Horrifying! Stay safe; prayers for you. 1w
AnnCrystal @Itchyfeetreader 🫂💖 it means a great deal, am I'm grateful 🐻✌🏼😘💝. 1w
AnnCrystal Thank you 🫂 @Blueberry ✊🏼🐻🙏🏼😘💝. 1w
AnnCrystal Thank you 🫂@kspenmoll ✊🏼🐻👌🏼😘💝. 1w
Deblovestoread I'm so sorry you must live in fear. Please be careful. 1w
AnnCrystal Thank You 🫂@Deblovestoread my mom and I are both born Americans, but these masked hoodlums don't seem to care when they encounter brown skins.

In Pasadena CA they jumped out of an unmarked car with guns drawn to ask a brown-skin senior citizen for his papers. Racial profiling!

It has also been reported that they may be buying GPS information to find targets!

And the way they treat young girls 🤬.

This is insanity 😢!

✊🏼🐻🙏🏼😘💝.
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Amiable I don‘t even recognize this country anymore. 🤬😖😢 1w
AmyG Horrifying. I have no words for people abducted by paid bounty hunters….and their families who are helpless. Welcome to fascism. I never thought I‘d see this here. (edited) 1w
AnnCrystal @Amiable I believed most of this hatred was history...we must have Hope 🫂✊🏼🐻🙏🏼😘💝. 7d
AnnCrystal @AmyG this American land has known this kind of hatred. They used to hunt my American Indigenous ancestors...to force on reservations, or boarding schools, or get paid for each kill of men, women, and children, etc. It is said that Hitler was stirred by what was done to Natives here.

Along the U.S./Mexican Border, they hung Mexicans just for being Mexican.

This hatred, I knew it still lived, I just hadn't realized by how much 😢🫂✊🏼🐻🙏🏼😘💝
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AnnCrystal P.s. there were also the Mexican sweeps during the great depression, and “operation wetback“ in the 1950s. 7d
AmyG @AnnCrystal Oh, I know. My in-laws escaped Germany before WWII, my mother-in-law on the last boat out of the country. We don‘t learn anything as human beings. Seeing it first hand, as opposed to “knowing” it…it‘s just soul crushing. And yes….you know it exists, just not how much. 😢 7d
AnnCrystal @AmyG 🫂 I'm so thankful your in-laws escaped those horrors 🙏💝💝💝. And you're absolutely correct, living this is feeling it firsthand. I'm hopeful. We need to hold on to hope that goodness and love will brighten this darkness 🐻🙏🦅✌🏼💝💝💝. (edited) 7d
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AnnCrystal
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“In Iroquois society, leaders are encouraged to remember seven generations in the past and consider seven generations in the future when making decisions that affect the people.“ -Wilma Mankiller

🐻🙏🏼🌍🫂🌎🌱🌏✌🏼🦅.

#californiananncrystal

kspenmoll Oh no! Nothing is sacred. 1w
IriDas Not surprised. Conservatives have long hated the NPS. I have my issues with it myself, due to impact on Native peoples, but this is going to be wholesale destruction. 1w
lil1inblue 😭 😭 😭 😭 😭 1w
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AnnCrystal @kspenmoll I know, at least these lands were protected for the wildlife for the natural world.

“It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.“ — Seneca

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AnnCrystal @IriDas the question is, who is going to buy these lands and what will be their plans.

Perhaps Native America should sue to try to regain these lands.

✊🏼🐻🙏🏼💝.
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AnnCrystal @lil1inblue 🫂🐻🙏🏼💝. I truly couldn't believe it. 1w
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AnnCrystal
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You know, when U.S. agents first began terrorizing our streets, there was one really chaotic day of protests in the city of Los Angeles.

But Mayor Bass and Governor Newsom immediately worked to deescalate the chaos.

The following days weren't pretty, but many agitators were arrested, and the days became better and better.

I fully expected for Hollywood and celebrities across the board to join the mostly peaceful “No king Protests.“

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AnnCrystal 👇

Admittedly, I'm not the best at following celebrities. Has anyone noticed social media posts by those of Hollywood?? Has the news just been too busy to cover Hollywood's opinion??

I have noted Cheech Marin & Nezza (Vanessa Hernández), speaking out.

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AnnCrystal
But agents, who are often masked and lacking unidentifiable uniforms, are stalking the streets of the Entertainment Capital of the World...

...and after the actions that Little t took yesterday...

Why isn't more of Hollywood using the power of their voice to speak out for their fans??

#unrelated2books

#californiananncrystal
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Bookwormjillk Celebrities, congress, where are they? 1w
AnnCrystal @Bookwormjillk right! I don't know about other states, but at least from California there are members of Congress who are speaking out. ✊🏼🐻👌🏼💝. 1w
TheBookHippie I do know Glennon Doyle& Abby Warmuth were at the protest as was the writer Juliet McDaniel and a lot of her cast from Palm Royal… actually a lot of writers were there also Conan O Brien got the Mark Twain award at Kennedy center and instead of canceling he used the night to denounce Trump and so did every guest he invited. It‘s on Netflix. I know there‘s more I will ask Juliet she‘s a friend of mine. Pussy Riot OF COURSE. (edited) 1w
AnnCrystal Thanks @TheBookHippie 🥳 that's grand info ✊🏼🐻👌🏼🎬💝💝💝. 1w
TheBookHippie @AnnCrystal oh JANE FONDA! Duh! Martin Sheen. Okay now to go ask if she knows of more. 1w
AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie this is great, thank you 👏🏼🥳✊🏼🎬💝💝💝. (edited) 1w
TheBookHippie Here‘s an article use reader view! Chicago had a ton of actors and the entire theater and jazz community my friend taped who he saw it was bonkers. https://www.buzzfeed.com/chelseastewart/celebrities-at-no-kings-protests 1w
AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie that's a gathering of Celebrity Power 👏🏼🥳✊🏼💝💝💝🇺🇲🦅🇺🇸. 1w
TheBookHippie @AnnCrystal we have to remember the media is refusing to report. Even in my town they report nothing. We had over 5000 ppl for NoKings. In a tiny town. Nada no news on TV, newspapers nothing… it‘s intentional they want you to feel alone. We aren‘t. 1w
AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie 5000! I LOVE hearing about these nokings protests numbers 👏🏼🥳✊🏼.

We've noticed that TV news coverage has seemingly become less and less informative, scary. Although here in LA they seem better than what I've read about in other states...

I'm incredibly thankful for your Hollywood/Celebrities insight here today. It is a relief knowing that many impactful people ARE indeed using their Star Power 👏🏼🥳✊🏼🌟💝.

✊🏼🐻✌🏼🌟❤️🤍💙.
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Bookwormjillk Thanks @TheBookHippie Happy to be proven wrong! 1w
TheBookHippie @Bookwormjillk it‘s part of why I push back so hard about I‘m allowed to post political things. We are the information. It‘s paramount. 1w
AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie “ We are the information.“ 👏🏼🦅✊🏼 I like this! (edited) 1w
dabbe @AnnCrystal @TheBookHippie It truly is up to us. 💙✊🏻💙 1w
AnnCrystal @dabbe ✊🏼🐻💙💙💙. 1w
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AnnCrystal
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CALLING All from All Faiths from Around The Globe!

I am now a link in a global Prayer chain. A Universal religion call for Prayers.

☀️Begins the start of Summer
☀️Continues all Summer
☀️Ends...when you feel the world is better.

No check-ins anywhere.
Pray or send good vibes from your religious prospective, from wherever you are, whenever you can. Just Believe.

#unrelated2books
#EarthHealingHopepostsbyanncrystal
#californiananncrystal

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AnnCrystal Extra note for Catholics,

Our Pope Francis showed us the Power of Prayer. He always asked for Prayers, and when he needed them most, even people from different faiths Prayed for our Pope. It was a Miracle that Pope Francis recovered enough to return to the Vatican in time to celebrate Easter with us.

Let us now Pray to Pope Francis, for him to ask our God for the Peace and Freedom Earth so desperately needs 🙏🏼🌍🌎🌏✌🏼.

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