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Saving the monastery of Mor Gabriel (Muslims seek to close oldest Christian monastery)
Asia News ^ | January 26, 2009 | Geries Othman

Posted on 02/02/2009 12:50:11 PM PST by NYer

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History of Mor Gabriel

1 posted on 02/02/2009 12:50:11 PM PST by NYer
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Catholic Ping
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2 posted on 02/02/2009 12:50:43 PM PST by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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To: Kolokotronis

Ping!


3 posted on 02/02/2009 12:51:48 PM PST by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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More evidence that islam is a pestilence that should be eradicated from the earth as the oppressive and reprehensible and evil belief that it is.


4 posted on 02/02/2009 12:52:43 PM PST by MahatmaGandu (Remember, remember, the twenty-sixth of November.)
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To: NYer
Founded in 397, it is the oldest functioning Christian monastery in the world.

Another attack by the Religion of Peace to wipe out all competing religions!

5 posted on 02/02/2009 12:53:41 PM PST by rocksblues (Sarah and Joe, Real Americans!)
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To: NYer

And these toad sucking bastages are whoring after protection for eye-slam through the united nations. I wish I could talk to a couple of them for a minute or two.


6 posted on 02/02/2009 12:55:09 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: NYer

More evidence that the devil is in full gear.


7 posted on 02/02/2009 12:59:47 PM PST by YOUGOTIT (The Greatest Threat to our Security is the Royal 100 Club)
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To: NYer

Yep, that picture clearly shows the traces of a mosque built about 100 B.C. Yeah, they need to tear down the place and rebuild the 3756th holiest site in Islam, The Mosque of the Holy Pork Chop.


8 posted on 02/02/2009 1:01:36 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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The EU should let all the Turks to settle in Germany and Holland and leave Asia Minor to the Christians.


9 posted on 02/02/2009 1:01:41 PM PST by annalex (http://www.catecheticsonline.com/CatenaAurea.php)
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To: NYer

Not without a fight


10 posted on 02/02/2009 1:02:15 PM PST by NowApproachingMidnight (Sell the left short this cycle.)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

And the two spires in the middle look a lot like minarets!


11 posted on 02/02/2009 1:03:05 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: MahatmaGandu

When a christian institution that has survived for more than 1600 years is threatened with violent destruction its more evidence that things are building to a climax, theologically speaking.


12 posted on 02/02/2009 1:03:46 PM PST by skeeter
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Those islamic troglodytes need a remedial course in history. This monastery predates the entire Islamic faith by 235 years.


13 posted on 02/02/2009 1:08:49 PM PST by skeeter
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To: 17th Miss Regt
rofl!!

Tooooooo funny!

Holy Pork Chops!

14 posted on 02/02/2009 1:08:57 PM PST by Republic (Jedem das Seine)
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To: NYer
According to the Muslim leaders, there used to be a mosque on the land where the monastery was built.

Uh....OK, give us back Hagia Sophia, that most beautiful example of Byzantine architecture which you Muslims desecrated!

Turkey is a sleeping giant, IMHO. One of these days it's going to do an "Iran, circa 1979". That is, it's going to rise up and overthrow its secular government and a Khomeini-like regime will be installed.

Furthermore, it's no use insisting that we won't and don't proselytise. It gets us nowhere, in the long run. It's a tacit admission that Islam is indeed the true faith and we're there only at their good pleasure. If we're ever to overcome the Islamic scourge, it will be through the spread of Christianity and the conversion of Moslems not through bombs and bullets. It will also likely involve many Christian martyrs.

Easy enough for me to say of course, sitting here on my butt, typing.

15 posted on 02/02/2009 1:10:40 PM PST by marshmallow ("A country which kills its own children has no future"- Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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“...The minority community hopes that the European Union will come to its defense with an appeal to Ankara...”

Good luck with getting the EU to do anything.....


16 posted on 02/02/2009 1:15:06 PM PST by PGR88
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To: skeeter

Lord, haste the day.


17 posted on 02/02/2009 1:28:52 PM PST by MahatmaGandu (Remember, remember, the twenty-sixth of November.)
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To: rocksblues
Another attack by the Religion of Peace to wipe out all competing religions!

And their history.

18 posted on 02/02/2009 1:34:57 PM PST by NYer ("Run from places of sin as from a plague." - St. John Climacus)
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To: NYer

BTT


19 posted on 02/02/2009 1:48:49 PM PST by Red Reign (Storm clouds gather. Fear not, it's a Red Reign that's coming.)
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To: skeeter

Those islamic troglodytes need a remedial course in history. This monastery predates the entire Islamic faith by 235 years.
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For them history begins when their false prophet was hatched. Every other religion is irrelevant


20 posted on 02/02/2009 2:37:46 PM PST by dennisw (white trash philosophizer)
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