Posted on 11/30/2015 9:43:08 AM PST by Jan_Sobieski
Pope Francis has told worshippers in a mosque in the Central African Republic that "Christians and Muslims are brothers and sisters". He was speaking to Muslims who had sought shelter in the capital Bangui after nearly three years of violence between Christians and Muslims. The mosque visit was seen as perhaps the most difficult part of his Africa tour, a BBC correspondent says. Pope Francis then held the final Mass of his Africa trip in Bangui. He was speaking in Latin, which was then translated into the local Sango language. His message of reconciliation appeared to have an immediate impact, as a reporter from the AFP news agency spotted a group of Muslim rebels turn up at the Mass wearing t-shirts with the Pope's image on them.
The Pope has now left the CAR at the end of his six-day visit to the continent. More than 100,000 Muslims fled the capital as a result of the fighting but 15,000 are left in an area called PK5, according to the campaign group Human Rights Watch. Imam Tidiani Moussa Naibi thanked the Pope for his visit and said it was "a symbol which we all understand", the AP news agency reports. There was tight security for the visit to the Koudoukou mosque and armed UN peacekeepers were stationed on its minarets watching the crowds who had come to greet the pontiff. On Sunday, the Pope called on fighting factions in the CAR to lay down their weapons. About half of CAR's population is Christian and 15% Muslim...
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This pope needs to study more.....he’s quite ignorant. You Catholics that get butt hurt...that’s just too bad...I am not concerned....You keep following this fool.
“Cain and Abel were brothers. ‘Nuff said.”
Apparently not enough HAS been said. There is a mistaken belief that Islam is an “Abrahamic” religion, springing from the same foundation as Judaism and Christianity.
The Arabs tell the story of Abraham, Isaac, and Ishmael a little differently than the ancient Hebrews. In the Hebrew version, it was Isaac who was offered up as the sacrifice, but spared by God. The version in the Koran pictures Ishmael as the offered sacrifice, but was the one spared by Allah. The Hebrew version says Ishmael and his mother, Hagar, were driven into the wilderness and became the foundation of the Arabs.
When a sun-crazed old sand hermit picked up and wrote his OWN version of what all the religious writings were supposed to mean, this little tidbit got slipped in, and to prevent any of his followers from discovering the sly substitution, Islamic scholars are FORBIDDEN to refer to the Torah, the original source of the account. This in effect denies just about everything else in the Torah or Old Testament. Certainly the Ten Commandments or the Golden Rule, for which there is no equivalent in the Koran.
So the Islamic “religion” ends up having about as much relationship to the antecedents in the Torah, the Old Testament, and the New Testament, as, say, Scientology has to Christianity. Irrelevant, therefore, meaningless.
That means Muslims can kill off all Jews and Christians, as they obviously cannot be “believers”.
Mohammed Ali said it was OK, and even imperative. We have his word that Allah told him so.
Sister keeps killing her brothers.
Pope Urban II really understood the threat of Islam.
Yep. And if Abel had it to do all over again, he would’ve steered clear of Cain.
The answer to that question is no longer as clear as it one was, is it?
Who wants to tell him that Jesus was jewish?.......
“Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.” John 8:44
Jews and Nazis were brothers too—see what happened there.
Ping!
Well said, Buckwheat.
I also like what another FReeper said on another thread I once read..... The god of Islam commands his followers to die for him. I have a God who died for me!
Hey pope-a-dope! the mooselimbs hate you! get it?
Esau and Jacob were brothers.
I don’t know who Frankie-boy worships, but as a Christian, I don’t worship a demonically-derived moon god and his murderous pedophile “prophet”, so no, muzzies aren’t my brothers.
For a pope, he seems to have zero understanding of Christianity.
Is this pope an atheist?
bttt
It might surprise people to learn just how many “pastors” actually are atheists, they’re just there for the gig.
Francis will rely on his posturing and speeches to win the day. Based on what comes out of his mouth, he doesn’t even read the Word of God.
Galatians 1:8 should have buried Islam back when it first started...
Not only reveres but emulates one.
Thats the problem, their book says they have to emulate him to be good muslims.
Sounds like he is trying to facilitate an UNEQUAL YOKE.
I am a Christian. I am not yoked to the unbelieving
Muslim. That is a big fat lie; as the Muslim will be
only too glad to inform him - and now, so will I!
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