Pope Francis Condemns “Complicit Silence” on Slaughter of Christians
Meanwhile, ISIS is stricken with a “plague”
This Holy Week, we reported that Islamic fanatics made a dawn raid of a Christian university in Kenya. Currently, the death toll is 147 and looks like it will increase.
The event, as well as the massacre of the Coptic Christians in Libya, were the focus of an address Pope Francis gave during his Good Friday service.
Pope Francis has condemned the “complicit silence” about the killing of Christians during a Good Friday service in Rome.
Tens of thousands of pilgrims joined him for the Way of the Cross ceremony, recalling Jesus’ crucifixion.
Among the cross bearers were Syrian and Iraqi refugees, and Nigerians who had escaped Boko Haram persecution.
…Earlier, he condemned the attack in Kenya, where Christians were singled out and shot, as an act of “senseless brutality”.
In another Good Friday ceremony, Pope Francis listened as the Vatican’s official preacher Raniero Cantalamessa denounced the “disturbing indifference of world institutions in the face of all this killing of Christians”.
He too mentioned the Kenya attack, as well as the beheading of 22 Egyptian Coptic Christians by Islamic State (IS) militants in Libya in February.
Pope Francis has spoken out against the persecution of Christians before, saying that the world would be justified using military force to combat the “unjust aggression” by IS[IS].
Pope Francis was installed just two years ago, and made tolerance for other faiths a priority. That he seems now to be applying the Catholic “Just War” principles to today’s events is an indication that the Pope is taking the ISIS threats about targeting Rome, the Vatican, and other Christian communities extremely seriously.
The Pope’s response seems appropriate, given that the current crop of ISIS militants is resurrecting crucifixions as a means of executions.
- Last May, two more victims were crucified there and left to rot in the sun for three days. “This man fought Muslims and detonated an IED here,” read the placard around one victim’s neck.
- ISIS crucified nine men last June, according to London’s Telegraph. Eight, from Deir Hafer, Syria, were killed and displayed in the village square for three days. A man from Al-Bab survived, despite being nailed to a cross for eight hours.
- Last October, London’s Daily Mail reports, ISIS crucified a 17-year-old boy in Raqaa. His crimes? Selling his photos of ISIS military bases and “apostasy” — converting from Islam.
As National Review contributor Deroy Murdock notes, “The only way to top this would be to feed Christians to lions this evening at Rome’s Colosseum.”
It does not look like the attacks on Christians will be ending anytime soon. Somali militants from the Al Queda branch are threatening to turn Kenyan cities “red with blood.”
Yet, as we recall the events of Holy Week and Passover, the are reports that divine retribution for the butchery of innocents has been delivered.
The self-declared Islamic State capital is currently in the throes of an epidemic and a number of members of the Islamic State have reportedly been infected.
Efforts are reportedly being made to prevent the further spread of the Leishmaniasis skin disease, which is highly virulent, in the IS stronghold.
Although organisations began work to combat the disease, this became impossible after IS is claimed to have closed down their city offices.
They also confiscated equipment and arrested officers trying to help fight the condition which can be deadly.
Who would have thought that in 2015, a Pope would be calling for military aid while crucifixions and plagues were occurring? Welcome to the era of hope and change.
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Maybe not as eloquent as the Popes entreaties but a reminder.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt8y18YFH70
The problem is the Cardinals and leaders of the of other Churches are too PC to inform their congregants of the dangers of Radical Islam. Combined with the misinformation campaign by the current administration Christians along with other faiths including some Muslims will be slaughtered.
And, classy as always, The Boy King failed to mention “Christians” being the young victims of the slaughter by Islamists when he made his ‘condolence’ call to Kenya’s president yesterday. The moral compass of a maggot.
Pope Francis, relatively speaking, is the most silent of them all!
If he keeps spending all his time and energy on ‘progressiveness’ he’ll soon find out he’s the Pope of no one, most of his flock being wiped out by Muslim genocide.
I noticed an entirely different kind of “burning cross” at the end, with an entirely different meaning.
Spread the word: Vaccines and antibiotics are made from pork and alcohol.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/04/04/pope-francis-presides-over-easter-vigil-service-amid-concern-for-martyrs/
I’d like to like this Pope, but he won’t let me.
Impossible to take Francis seriously. He’s a Communist tyke.The Vatican, as a state, can declare war. Francis does not need to wait for any government to do that.
As for his “tolerance for all faiths” BS, how can you be serious and say that? That’s like saying all faiths lead to salvation.
Unity (as impossible as it may seem) with Judaism and conversion of the rest.
“How many battalions does the Pope have?”
‘8-18-2014 Pope Francis on Monday endorsed the use of force to stop Islamic militants from attacking religious minorities in Iraq but said the international community — and not just one country — should decide how to intervene.
On Iraq, Francis was asked if he approved of the unilateral U.S. airstrikes on militants of the Islamic State who have captured swaths of northern and western Iraq and northeastern Syria and have forced minority Christians and others to either convert to Islam or flee their homes.
“In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor,” Francis said. “I underscore the verb ‘stop.’ I’m not saying ‘bomb’ or ‘make war,’ just ‘stop.’ And the means that can be used to stop them must be evaluated.”
But, he said, in history, such “excuses” to stop an unjust aggression have been used by world powers to justify a “war of conquest” in which an entire people have been taken over.
“One nation alone cannot judge how you stop this, how you stop an unjust aggressor,” he said, apparently referring to the United States. “After World War II, the idea of the United Nations came about: It’s there that you must discuss.’
They took your advice, Francis. Once the UN finishes discussing and comes to an agreement, they’ll let you know.