An update on this story. "Turkey: Catholics Feel Threatened After Priest's Stabbing, Bishop," from AKI, with thanks to all who sent this in:
Istanbul, 3 July (AKI) - Turkey's Catholic apostolic vicar said on Monday that the country is no longer safe for Catholics, a day after a French Catholic priest was attacked in the northeastern city of Samsun. "I live in Iskenderun [on the borders with Syria], but what I say is valid for the whole country - I do not feel safe anymore, and Catholic religious personnel living in other towns don't either," Italian bishop Luigi Padovese told Rome daily La Repubblica. Father Pierre Brunissen celebrated mass once a month at the church in the northeastern city of Trabzon where Italian priest Andrea Santoro was killed by a young Muslim man five months ago.Brunisse was stabbed on Sunday by a 47-year-old man who was immediately arrested. Police have not revealed his identity yet. The French priest, 74, is in hospital in Samsun and is not reportedly in serious condition.
"There have not been other very serious episodes, at least not as serious as father Santoro's killing and the latest attack to father Brunissen, but there have been a number of minor episodes which, taken altogether, give an idea of the situation," Padovese said. "Priests at Izmir and Mersin have been threatened directly or through phone-calls and father Brunissen himself had received threats through phone calls not long ago."
Although the Catholic church tries to promote inter-faith dialogue in Turkey through conferences and meetings, he said, following the killing of father Santoro "the atmosphere has not improved." "TV channels offer a bad image of Catholic missionary priests and cinema does not do better," he concluded.
Yet, sadly, the Catholic Church continues to mostly ignore the Muslim jihad against Catholics, except to call for more inter-faith meetings. In my diocese, a number of Africans, from Sudan and Somalia, all with Muslim names, were resettled thanks to the US Catholic Conference of Bishops.A Muslim family of six from Afghanistan was also resettled. I recently learned that thousands of Muslim Somalians are resettled in the US, thanks to Catholic refugee programs, which also is a money-maker for the sponsor (in this case, the US Catholic Conference of Bishops.) Helping starving people with food or medicine, regardless of faith, is a good thing to do. For Catholic agencies to resettle Muslims in the US, when there are millions of Catholics/Christians, in Turkey and elsewhere, suffering under the yoke of Islam is wrong, at least in my book.
The Church of England isn't merely ignoring the Islamic threat, they are rolling over and dying for Islam...
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Tell me, isn't Islam offensive? What about beheadings, suicide bombs, stoning women, female genital mutilation, sexual abuse of six year old children? Foreign? St George it is said never set foot in England. How many times, tell me, did Mohammed go to England?
There are too many do gooders in the CofE who want to scuttle the ship to please their Muslim masters, why don't they just eff off and join the Muslims instead?
I suggest that a school of European Catholic karate students rent priest costumes and take a nice Eurail trip to some Turkish resorts for a little weekend fun.
Stars of David worn along with their crucifixes may be necessary for maximum effect.
Let the empty hands meet the empty heads.
Gee, I wonder why? Don't they know that islam is a religion of peace and the terrrorists do not represent the majority of good, peaceful muslims? But then crocodiles sunning themselves on the bank of a river are peaceful too, so it is ok to walk among them, right? I mean the crocs who eat the occasional human do not represent the vast majority of peace loving crocs who never eat anyone, right? What a croc!
Yes, that's it. Hold another round of inter-faith dialogues. That will solve everything. Ecumenism - the scourge of the post-Vatican II Church.
Father Pierre Brunissen celebrated mass once a month at the church in the northeastern city of Trabzon where Italian priest Andrea Santoro was killed by a young Muslim man five months ago.
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This is not the first atrocity in the city of Trabzon. This was largely a Christian city until the Armenian massacres of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
And they felt safe with after a century of genocide against christians. Gees what tipped them off Turkey is dangerous.
What would El Cid make of all this?
I wonder what those great soldiers of yesterday think when they gaze down from Heaven at all this great display of pusillanimousness?
It must stagger their imagination to think of all the scars they received preventing Europe going muslim, only to see their descendants delivering Europe over without so much as a fight, with nothing more than some effeminate whimper.
It's difficult not to conclude their story is told.
But whether it be told or not, whether it be written in the stars or otherwise, our duty is clear.
Fiat Voluntas Tua....
If there are any web sites about the persecution of Catholics in the Islamic world, they should be posted on Jihad Watch.