Saving the monastery of Mor Gabriel (Muslims seek to close oldest Christian monastery)

Asia News ^ | January 26, 2009 | Geries Othman

[Republic]

This article made we want to hear ancient Aramaic.

Wasn't the movie 'The Passion (of Christ)' directed and produced by Mel Gibson, done entirely in Aramaic? Do you know? And also, if so, is it the same as ancient Aramaic? THANKS!

[dennisw]

It was definitely in Aramaic. Ancient I don’t know. All those were Christian lands conquered by Muslim imperialism

[NYer]

Of possible to your list.

[MoTiger]

“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.”

Couldn’t have said it better myself. Been thinking about this a good amount recently.

[Kolokotronis]

“Since that time, there has been a constant exodus of the community toward central and northern Europe, especially Germany (where there are 20,000 Syriacs) and Sweden (70-80,000). In the middle of the 1960’s, there were still about 130,000 of them in Tur Abdin; today there are just 3,000.”

Believe me, NYer, I understand this. The very cradle of Eastern Christianity, the 1st See of Orthodoxy, Constantinople, has been reduced to about 2500 Orthodox Christian people.The Turks are such dogs. And the United States is rightly condemned by Christians for its alliance with these vicious Mohammedans.

[Kolokotronis]

Orthodox/Catholic ping.

[RoadGumby]

Well then, perhaps we need to do as Jesus commanded in the Great Commissioning. Witness!!! Spread the Good News. Do not be ashamed.

Islam teaches ‘Submission’, Christianity teaches LOVE! What could be better?

[FormerLib]

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

And their history.

They've done quite a job of that in Kosovo, unfortunately they've done so with our help.

[SunkenCiv]

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[DieHard the Hunter]

It is long past time to close Mecca.

[SunkenCiv]

Before the Grand Mosque is demolished to make way for a processing plant for pork products, the black stone has to be pried out of the kaaba and converted into a urinal for the White House.

[DieHard the Hunter]

Hmmmmm... that sounds complicated. Maybe best start with Medina and a stern warning.

[Fiddlstix]

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[kosta50]

The whole western world in on an anti-Crusade, with the US being used as the driver, and the European Union as our lapdog in the driver's seat.

Most Christians in Europe are not very religious, but they are not anti-Christian, so all this counter-crusading is being planned someone where else and we are simply their useful fools.

Some countries are allowed to get away with a lot more than others. And Turkey os one of them. That country should be under a vacuum tight economic embargo until it ends its occupation of Cyprus, and establishes freedom of religion and freedom for Kurdish people to use their own names (they have ti use Turkish names, language etc. Turkey is an abomination).

But it has played its geopolitical position to the max and made sure it made friends with our friends so that we can look at the evil of Turkey and say, "yup, they are thugs, but at least they are our thugs." Sounds familiar?

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

The same has occurred in the "Turkish" half of Cyprus-- that is, the half of the island EU member which has been under armed occupation by the Turks for more than three decades since a violent assault and invasion... and not the first in the island's history. This gorgeous island, with its educated and friendly people, is the very crucible of Christianity and is peppered with churches and shrines dating to Paul's first ministry. On the Turkish side, these priceless sites are used as stables and for target practice. If you want to know what advancing Islam has in store for the world, just ask a Cypriot.

Infuriatingly, despite the Turkish initiative to join the EU, this topic is never raised by the cowardly EU, which depends on the Turks for much of their industrial labor.

[rdl6989]

Well said indeed!

[Freelance Warrior]

For every church (monastery) closed in Turkey close one mosque in the Western Europe.

[Traianus]

They won't DARE to do nothing....


(Syrian President ASSAD with Orthodox Patriarch....)
Look who IS their PROTECTOR......

[Traianus]

	Regional and International News>>Russian TV presenter praises religious tolerance in Syria

Russian TV presenter praises religious tolerance in Syria 

Feb 01, 2009

Moscow, (SANA)-Member of Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, TV Presenter Maxim Shevchenko said Syria extends to the whole world an example on the religious tolerance and coexistence among all people.

"I have visited Syria many times and saw how Muslims and Christians exchange congratulations during religious occasions and holidays," Shevchenko said during a TV Program tilted "A Russian Viewpoint" broadcast Sunday on Russian Channel 3.

He added that during religious feasts, Muslim scholars visit churches and, in turn, the patriarchs and archbishops visit the mosques, mainly the Umayyad Mosque in the middle of Damascus, the oldest inhabited city throughout history.

Mazen