Posted on 11/01/2010 5:53:37 AM PDT by tcg
They gathered in Our Lady of Salvation Catholic Church for an evening Mass. They are members of an increasingly besieged and forgotten minority in Iraq, Catholic Christians. Their herosm and love for the Lord has inspired them to continue to practice the ancient faith in the midst of what is a steadily deteriorating situation for them in this land they have called home for centuries.
Our Lady of Salvation Church is no stranger to violence. Churches have been bombed before in Iraq, including Our Lady of Salvation. The Christian faithful have had to contend with an increasingly hostile culture. However, never before have they experienced the horror of what happened this past Sunday when terrorists invaded a Church as the Holy Mass was set to begin, killed the priest and held the worshippers hostage for four hours. It ended with at least 52 dead, others injued, and our brothers and sisters in Iraq devastated.
Reports confirm that 120 of the faithful had gathered to hear the Gospel proclaimed, participate in the Liturgy, and receive the Holy Eucharist. There were women, men and children. One eyewitness who had been inside the Church when the terrorists entered the sanctuary told European news sources that the armed terrorists "came into the prayer hall and immediately killed the priest". Out of fear the witness would not identify himself. However, he also attested to the brutality of the terrorists. He indicated that they beat the worshippers and then herded them into an inner hall...
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You’re welcome. Drudge doesn’t do much on the weekends, his site often seems to stay static.
“...It is time for an international outcry of catholics and other Christians. ...”
Yeah...an international cry...that’ll sure stop AK47s. That’s telling them, for sure!
What it’s time for is to supply these folks, in EVERY country where they’re threatened, with the proper weapons and training to defend themselves and start taking the war BACK to those instigating it.
Like that will ever happen.
The Amish are attacking Catholics now?
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He/she SAID it was his/her opinion. What more do you want?
I TOTALLY disagree! Show these Muslims as the savages they are.
That's a worthlessly stupid comment.
NBC4 News out of DC reported on it this morning.
Dear Lord, how could this not be preempting everything on the “news” networks? Prayers up for all these precious martyrs for Christ.
Today, God welcomes new martyrs to His Kingdom.
This story is beyond excruciatingly tragic and sad.
Vlad was Orthodox not Catholic and his nation is again Orthodox Christian today as well.
And yes, he was feared by Muslim Turks...rightfully as he impaled 40,000 of them at the Battle Nagyszeben.
They still pull back their tails over him.
Anyone who follows Muhammad is a lunatic. There was little good that Muhammad did in his life and when it did happen it happened when he was younger. When he made the Hejira (immigration) to Medina he because a mass murderer among other despicable features.
Sheer lunacy to revere Muhammad as a prophet. That’s calling a demon a prophet
I see you've never met our Founder. The tragic, criminal loss that we suffer today is consoled by the fact that these martyrs (genuine martyrs), are enjoying eternal bliss. So the winners and losers are not what they appear to be from our earthly perspective.
Later that year, in 1459, Mehmed sent envoys to Țepeș to urge him to pay the delayed tribute. Vlad refused to pay the tribute, of 10,000 ducats and 500 young boys, to the Ottomans. To provoke Mehmed, Vlad had the envoys killed, by nailing their turbans to their heads.[citation needed] Subsequently, the Ottomans attempted to remove him, and the Turks crossed the Danube and started to do their own recruiting, to which Țepeș reacted by capturing the Turks and impaling them.
Nasty sort of tribute the mohammedans were demanding ... I like the bit about nailing their turbans to their heads.
Of course it is. The silence in its wake speaks volumes. Our enemies hold the microphones.
As they say. How many Divisions does the Pope have.
Well anybody who doesn’t know this by now will never do so no matter what they see or hear in the news.
Other coverage of the Synod noted this:
"The Vatican's chief spokesman, Father Federico Lombardi, responded to the criticism by distancing the synod from Bustros' remarks. He said Monday that personal comments by individual synod participants "should not be considered as the voice of the synod in its entirety."
"The final "Message" was the only text that expressed the approval of the full synod, he said. The Message mainly dealt with the plight of Christians in the Middle East, but it devoted a section to Israel and Jews.
"Calling for a furthering of Jewish-Catholic dialogue, it also condemned anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism, noted "the suffering and insecurity in which Israelis live," and affirmed Israel's right to live at peace within its "internationally recognized borders."
Thanks for trying to patch together, from fragmentary and garbled reporting, an accurate view of what's going on. It's frustrating, I know.
| The bottom line is that Catholic doctrine affirms the "irrevocable" nature of God's gift and call to the Jews; and that the state of Israel has a right to exist within its internationally recognized borders, in peace, as the Jewish homeland. |
“Like I said.... I am waiting.”
LOL!
You’re in for an eternal wait if you think Obama cares about anyone but himself.
Good luck!
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