Conclusion from Peru and Mexico

email from Randall Easter | 25 January 2008 | Randall Easter

[Quix]

WOW.

Impressive report.

Thanks.

Thankfully, Holy Spirit is having HIS way in South America in the lives of millions formerly bound by such ideologies and idolatries.

Praise God.

[Quix]

Ping.

Praise God for a first person report.

[ScubieNuc]

Thanks for the Ping.

As a bit of a side note, I had seen somewhere that christianity/Catholicism in the Caribbean and South America is very much infused with pagan practices such as voodoo.

That’s what happens when we stray from the Bible.

[Quix]

TRUE. TRUE. TRUE.

Christ’s response even to satan was repeatedly . . .

“IT IS WRITTEN . . .”

If Christ would not stray from The Scripture . . . especially in that situation . . .

what cheek He must consider it when we do for the silliest, most UNBiblical . . . as well as evil reasons.

[WileyPink]

Quix, I thought about you tonight as I read of one of Paul encounters in Acts...

Acts 18:9 Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
10 For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.
11 And he continued there a year and six months, teaching the word of God among them.

Keep preaching it, and stay...

In Christ...Alone!

[bboop]

hahahah, good retort.

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

If Christians quit proselytizing the Catholics, we would be disobedient to the Lord Jesus.

[Manfred the Wonder Dawg]

Got it, although I prefer to start with verse 18 and continue through verse 20. Verse 18 declares the sovereignty of the Lord Jesus and verse 20 completes the revelation of this Great Commission.

And since the Lord alone knows the condition of a man’s heart, we assume too much at too high a price if we fail to declare the gospel of Jesus Christ to even those who belong to a church - any church. 1 John 2:18 - 19 reveals that evil people are in the church. Many evangelical churches spend untold dollars to attract worldlings to their weekly gatherings and all there assume everyone is born again - Joel Osteen’s church comes to mind, as do many others.

No church can be assumed to have only Christians in membership, because man cannot determine which human is a sheep and which is a goat. So we should declare the gospel to all men. He will save whosoever He has chosen.

[OpusatFR]

“What are the options?”

“Quit proselytizing the Catholics.”

Related news to ‘Catholic priest killed in Kenya violence’:

Slain Filipino “martyr” praised by Pope, bishops, friends
01/21/2008 - 01:24 am

Armed attackers kill priest in Philippines school chapel
01/17/2008 - 01:12 am

Missionary priest killed in Sri Lanka
10/01/2007 - 10:22 am

Kenyan official concludes priest’s death was murder
08/27/2007 - 11:14 am

Suicide ruling reversed by Kenyan court in case of American priest
08/02/2007 - 09:56 am

Sentence of Guatemalan bishop’s killers ratified
04/26/2007 - 08:09 am

Investigation continues in case of Ghanaian Catholic Priest Killed In Kenya
04/10/2007 - 09:24 am

Archdiocese of El Salvador commemorates anniversary of death of Archbishop Romero
03/22/2007 - 09:42 am

Ghanan Priest killed by unknown assailants in Nairobi
03/14/2007 - 06:50 am

N.Y. church arsonist allegedly attacks priest with cane
03/07/2007 - 12:59 pm

Cardinal Ruini celebrates memorial Mass for murdered priest in Turkey
02/05/2007 - 03:23 pm

Fides news agency presents report on missionary deaths in 2006
01/08/2007 - 03:00 pm

Kidnapped Iraqi priest released
12/01/2006 - 12:00 am

Priest attacked in robbery attempt
11/23/2006 - 12:00 am

Iraqi priest’s beheading linked with Pope’s comments re Islam, says family
10/13/2006 - 12:00 am

Turkish court sentences Muslim teenager to 18 years for murder of Italian priest
10/11/2006 - 12:00 am

Bishop condemns killing of Salvadoran priest and demands investigation
09/29/2006 - 12:00 am

Gang members assassinate priest in El Salvador
09/27/2006 - 12:00 am

Death threats force priest to abandon parish in Colombia
09/14/2006 - 12:00 am

Colombian priest killed on the island of Curacao
08/28/2006 - 12:00 am
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/related.php?not_id=11593

It’s easier posturing for the Kingdom than actually sacrificing.

[OpusatFR]

Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A. Bishop Han Dingxiang 韓鼎詳, the underground Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Yong Nian 永年 in Hebei Province 河北省, died at 11 pm (Beijing time) on September 9 yesterday at the end of his almost 8 years imprisonment by the Chinese authority. --------------------------------- Stamford, Connecticut, U.S.A. Bishop Jia Zhiguo 賈冶國, the underground Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Zheng Ding 正定 in Hebei Province 河北, was arrested again by the Public Security and Religious Bureau at approximately 9:00 in the morning of August 23, 2007 (Beijing time). We do not know the reason of the bishop's arrest, nor do we know his current location. ------------------------------------------------ In addition, another priest, Father Wen Daoxiu of Beiwangli Village Qingyuan County Hebei, was also arrested on August 15, 2007 by the Public Security Bureau after the priest had just finished offering a Holy Mass. We do not know his whereabouts and the reason of his arrest. -------------------------------------------------------- In the afternoon of July 24, 2007, at the home of a Catholic faithful in the Ximeng region of Inner Mongolia three underground Roman Catholic priests from Xiwanzi Hebei were arrested by eight civilian-clothed policemen because they refused to join the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association. ---------------------------------------------------- That's just a few of the thousands priests, nuns, laity, seminarians, postulants who have disappeared.------------------------------------------------------------------------- Grace isn't cheap.

[OpusatFR]

“The Americas saw the greatest bloodshed among Catholic missionaries in 2005. (The Vatican treats North and South America as a single continent.) There were 8 priests, 2 nuns, and 2 monks killed in Latin America. Colombia, where 4 priests and 1 nun died violently, was the single bloodiest country. But Church personnel also died in Mexico, Brazil, and Jamaica.

Africa also saw considerable violence against Catholic evangelists, with 1 bishop, 6 priests, and 1 lay evangelist dying, in Kenya, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, and Nigeria.

In Asia there were 3 priests killed in India, and 1 in Indonesia.

Nor was Europe spared: 1 priest was killed in Brussels, and 1 in Moscow. The Americas also furnished the greatest number of “martyrs for the faith” on the Fides list, with 10. Colombia and India each saw 5 natives killed.

The complete list includes:

Father Thomas Richard Heath, an American Dominican priest, killed by gunmen during a robbery in Kisumu, Kenya on January 13.

Father Thomas Harsidiyono, killed in another apparent robbery attempt in Java, Indonesia, on January 14.

Father Jan Hermanovsky, a Slovakian priest serving in Russia, killed by intruders at his parish in Brjansk on January 20.

Father Manuel Delgado, a Franciscan priest, whose badly beaten body was found outside Cuidad Juarez, Mexico, on February 6.

Sister Dorothy Stang, and American sister of Notre Dame and naturalized Brazilian citizen, was killed at Anapu, Brazil, on February 12. An outspoken defender of indigenous tribes, she had received several death threats before her assassination.

Father Mathew Uzhuthal, an Indian priest, died on May 1 as the result of multiple stabbing wounds he had received 19 days earlier when he was assailed by a young man with a long criminal record at his rectory in Patna, India.

Father Rene de Haes, a Belgian Jesuit priest who had served in Africa since 1959, was killed by gunfire as he drove north of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, on May 7.

Father Robert De Leener, a Belgian priest, was killed on June 5 by a homeless man whom he had invited into his rectory in Brussels.

Bishop Luigi Locati, an Italian native who was preparing to retire after 40 years in the missions, was killed on July 14 near the office where he worked as apostolic vicar of the Isiolo diocese. Msgr. Luis Enrique Rojas, died on July 21, three weeks after being fatally wounded by robbers at the cathedral rectory in Barranquila, Colombia. Msgr. Rojas had survived another assault in December 2004.

Father Paulo Henrique Machado, a Brazilian priest, was killed by unknown assailants near Rio de Janeiro on July 25. Although money and a wristwatch were taken from his body, police believe that the killing was prompted by his active denunciation of human-rights abuses and drug trafficking.

Father Godwin Okwesili, a Nigerian priest, was killed by intruders at his parish in Lago on August 2.
Father Vicente Rozo Bavona, a Colombian priest, was killed along with Father Jesus Emilio Mora on August 15, when rebel guerrillas ambushed the car in which they were driving to celebrate Mass.

Father Jesus Emilio Mora, a Colombian priest, died witih Father Bavona (above) on August 15.

Father Jesus Adrian Sanchez, also a Colombian priest, was killed on August 18 by a rebel guerrilla who burst into a classroom where he was teaching religious education, in the Chaparral region.

Father Francois Djikulo, was killed sometime in August by rebels in Mutendele, in the Democratic Republic, as he attempted a personal peace initiative. He died alongside his lay associate, Simon Kayimbi, apparently after brutal treatment.

Simon Kayimbi, a Congolese lay catechist, died with Father Dikulo (above) in August.

Father Mathew Nellickal, an Indian priest and vicar general of the Tezpur diocese, was found dead at his home on September 3.

Father Giuseppe Bessone, an Italian missionary priest, was killed by a young robber at his parish in Blumenau, Brazil, on September 2.

Father Angelo Redaelli, an Italian Franciscan priest serving in Africa, was killed by a mob in Owando, in Congo-Brazzaville, on September 12.

Father Ignazio Bara, an Indian priest, was killed on September 12 when he tried to intervene during an attack by Hindu fundamentalists on Christian villagers in Simdega, India.

Father Luis Velasquez Romero, a Mexican priest, was killed by gunmen in Tijuana on October 25. The killers are believed to have been involved in drug trafficking.

Sister Suresh Barwa, an Indian nun of the Miissionaries of the Poor, was killed alongside Brother Marco Candelario Lasbuna in Kingston, Jamaica, on October 27.

Marco Candelario Lasbuna, a native of the Philippines who was also a member of the Missionaries of Charity, died with Sister Barwa (above) on October 27. The two were killed by a single bullet, shot by an unknown attacker, as they worked in the kitchen of a community residence.

Sister Margarita Vásquez Sandino, a Colombian nun, was killed on November 11 in Medellin as she was traveling to visit a sick relative. The motive was believed to be robbery.

Father Philip Valayam, a Salesian priest from India, was killed by intruders in the rectory of the parish where he was serving in Nairobi, Kenya, when he returned home after celebrating midnight Mass for Christmas.

[OpusatFR]

Grace isn’t cheap.

[conservonator]

If Randall ever runs into a real Catholic, he just might experience first hand the fullness, the bounty and profound depth of all Christ provides for His Church. It's a pity he appears to spend so much time running into cartoon characters. It would be interesting to see how Randall would deconstruct the Catechism, seeing as how it must be the source of all the idolatrous inclinations of the neo-pagan idol mongers he saw all over the south.

[OpusatFR]

Rail at us, condemn us, call us names and all manner of blasphemy because persecution will always be the road of those who follow Christ in His church.

I said a joyful rosary today for those who dispise us in ignorance.

[OpusatFR]

Add to that list the eight nuns in China who were arrested and beaten and held for weeks without treatment even though they suffered many broken bones.

Father Whang Zao who was arrested at Mass.

The Bishop forcibly arrested leaving his orphanage without him.

[OpusatFR]

“And it always comes back to love, doesn’t it?”

Yes it does. I’m in awe of those who truly give all.