Will the Vatican cede its territory to the Muslims?
The answer is absolutely not.
Why is the Vatican pressing Israel to surrender its Jewish holy sites which precedes the Christians sites to the Muslims?
Why the lack of outcry? The Arabs/Muslims after terrorizing and expelling millions of Jews from their countries and now there is very little Jews or no Jews at all. The Arabs/Muslims are persecuting and forcing all Christians to leave the Arab/Muslim countries.
It is amazing the muted outcry by the Christian community for such despicable behavior by the Arabs/Muslims against the millions upon millions of Christians. It seems the Vatican has no power or will to protest vehemently of such treatment. Why are they not taking a much more forceful action to stop such horrific treatment of Christians by the Muslims.
YJ Draiman
In Pakistan, a Muslim suicide bomber murdered 74 people -- mostly Christians -- and injured nearly 400 more, on Easter Sunday, March 27, 2016.
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. and British governments knew the exact location of many of the Nigerian Christian girls captured by Boko Haram, but failed to launch a rescue mission, according to Andrew Pocock, the former British high commissioner to Nigeria.
In Uganda, Amina Napiya's 13-year-old daughter was raped while fetching firewood near their home. The rapist told the girl, "this is the second warning to your mother for disgracing the faith of the Muslims." Napiya, a 42-year-old widow, converted to Christianity in 2014.
Approximately 700 Christian girls are kidnapped and forced into Islamic marriages every year in Pakistan.
Arab Christians in Bethlehem have been suffering from human rights abuses and economic hardships for years. But some are trying to bring a message of hope into their lives.
ReplyDeleteIt could be described as a modern day exodus: Christians are leaving Palestinian Arab-controlled areas like Bethlehem in great numbers.
"It's my prediction that if the remaining Christians in the West Bank and Gaza -- Gaza only has maybe a thousand, two thousand Christians," human rights lawyer Justus Weiner told CBN News. "If their needs are not addressed in 10 or 15 or at most 20 years, there won't be any Christians in the cradle of Christianity. This will be a kind of memorial, a museum."
Weiner said the threat of persecution, including beatings and forced marriages between Christian women and Muslim men, are some of the reasons Christians have left.
Although tourism and the economy picked up last year, uncertainty still prevails.
Lebanon was specifically created as a refuge for Christians from the Muslim infested French controlled Syria in 1922. Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the League of Nations mandated the five provinces that make up present-day Lebanon to the direct control of France. Lebanon was handed its independence in 1941. Since many Muslims continied to exist in Lebanon powers were shared between Muslims and Christians:
ReplyDeleteThe president was required to be a Christian (in practice, a Maronite), the prime minister a Sunni Muslim. On the basis of the 1932 census, parliament seats were divided according to a six-to-five Christian/Muslim ratio. The constitution gave the president veto power over any legislation approved by parliament, virtually ensuring that the 6:5 ratio would not be revised in the event that the population distribution changed. By 1960, Muslims were thought to constitute a majority of the population, which contributed to Muslim unrest regarding the political system.
For many years Lebanon was known as the ‘Switzerland of the Middle East’ and was an oasis of peace and prosperity in the Arab world.
Then after Black September, Palestinians began to pour into Lebanon from Jordan…and the PLO and others brought their weapons (including tanks) and wars with them. The place has been a smoking ruin ever since, and Christians flee a nation created for them. The Black September Organization was a Palestinian terrorist organization founded in 1970. Palestinians are created from terrorism and Palestine is a terror state created to wage jihad towards Jewish genocide.
Lebanon should have merged with Israel, which could have been a reality as Israel came to Lebanon’s rescue. But international pressures are responsible for today’s state of Lebanon and pushed Lebanon back into the hands of the Muslim occupiers by refusing to accept Israel’s liberation of the country from Muslim occupation.
Just looking at the headline you know that Lebanon has been FORCED by powers like the EU and Saudi influenced UN to take in Muslim “refugees” from Syria at the cost of their entire safety, economy and existence.
A senior bishop has issued a warning of an exponential spiralling of attacks on Christians in Egypt, home to three-quarters of all Christians in the Middle East.
ReplyDeleteBishop Angaelos, head of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, said in a statement that Egypt had become more vulnerable to a disturbing wave of radicalism because of recent events.
"It is regrettable that the time has come yet again to speak of heightened, targeted attacks against Coptic Christians in Egypt. Tensions against Egypt's indigenous Christian community have again escalated over the past few months, and will spiral even further if not immediately addressed," he warned.
The main catalysts were inflammatory false rumours of affairs between Christians and Muslims, of new churches being built and a growing trend of directly targeting priests and their families.
"At their most brutal, these recent attacks have culminated in the burning of churches and places of worship, the stripping and public parading of 70-year-old Souad Thabet, and the senseless murder of Father Raphael Moussa," he said.
Thabet was paraded naked through the streets by a mob in Menia, Egypt and a number of Christian homes looted and destroyed in May. No charges have been brought against perpetrators.
In June, a Christian home in Baidaa village was torched by a mob of 5000 men and women, after unsubstantiated rumours that it would become a church.
Also in June, Coptic Priest Father Moussa shot and murdered in Al Arish, Sinai.
This month alone, a 33-year-old Coptic pharmacist, Maged Attia, was stabbed and beheaded in Tanta.
Five private Christian homes torched in Abu Yacoub, Minya, after rumours spread that a church was being built.
The Archangel Mikhail Coptic Church was torched in the village of Naj al-Nassara in Madamoud.
And a 27-year-old Coptic Christian man was stabbed to death, priests' families attacked and others wounded in the village of Tahna al-Gabal in Minya.
Bishop Angaelos told Christian Today: "There has been a spiral of attacks in the last three months. They are almost weekly now. Egypt is in a very vulnerable position. People are frustrated and vulnerable to radicalisation."
He said the lack of effective local law enforcement was interprted as a sign that attacks would go unpunished.
"People will continue to suffer at a greater rate. We have already seen people humiliated, forced out of their villages, churches attacked and sometimes burned."
Christians no longer felt safe in their own communities.
"They feel vulnerable and targeted. And the worse it gets, the more polarised communities will become."
Egypt is home to 13 million Christians, 15 per cent of the population and and 75 per cent of all Christians in the Middle East. Bishop Angaelos said this was not the worst persecution Christians had faced in the last two millennia, however, and he was confident there was still a good future for the Copts in Egypt.
In his statement he emphasised that the Egyptian law is not one for Christians, Muslims or any other individual group of people, but it is for all Egyptians.
"So when violated this violation is against all."