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Italy: Populists block Muslim group’s bid to turn chapel into mosque

Oct 31, 2018 9:47 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

In an effort to protect Christianity in Italy:

Lombardy’s populist League-led local government has blocked plans to turn an old chapel into a mosque after an Islamic group outbid Christians at the auction of a church in Bergamo, northern Italy.

Italian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior Matteo Salvini named Islam as “one of the greatest threats to Italy” and stated months ago:

Centuries of history are at risk of disappearing if Islamisation, which has been underestimated until now, finally wins.

Before the rise of Salvini’s “populist” movement, a scenario was reported two years ago that demonstrated the direction that Italy was taking with respect to mass migration. Christians at the Church of St. Anthony in Ventimiglia were ordered to “pray in silence” by the Catholic charity Caritas, which  facilitates mass migration to Europe, so as not to disturb Muslim migrants who were living there. The faithful were told by Caritas that they could not recite the rosary. The organization even boasted “that it contributes to and seeks to influence European Union (EU) asylum policies.”

“Italy: Populists Block Muslim Group’s Bid to Turn Chapel into Mosque,” by Virginia Hale, Breitbart, October 30, 2018:

Lombardy’s populist League-led local government has blocked plans to turn an old chapel into a mosque after an Islamic group outbid Christians at the auction of a church in Bergamo, northern Italy.

The region’s president, Attilio Fontana, announced at the weekend that the council had utilised a 2004 law which allows regional government to halt a sale in the name of safeguarding cultural sites.

According to local media, the auction for the former hospital chapel was won by the Muslim Association of Bergamo which sought to turn the building into another mosque in the city after outbidding the Romanian Orthodox Church, which had used the site for worship since 2015.

Lombardy “will exercise our right of preemption and there will be no room for an appeal” regarding the sale of the church, said Fontana, stating that the council intends to “protect” Christianity in Italy.

“I would never have put a church up for sale and I am amazed that the hospital management did not understand how sensitive this issue was,” the League politician said.

“I have already contacted Father Gheorghe Valescu, head of the Romanian Orthodox community in Bergamo, to reassure him and illustrate the actions that are being taken to ensure the community does not lose their place of worship,” added Fontana.

League leader Matteo Salvini, who has served as Italian Interior Minister since June, had vowed ahead of national elections earlier this year his party would “put a stop to any irregular or abusive Islamic presence in Italy”,….

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  1. Phil Copson says

    Oct 31, 2018 at 10:03 am

    That any church authorities anywhere would ever consider selling a church to an organisation dedicated to the overthrow of Christianity, beggars belief.

    • Carol the 1st says

      Nov 6, 2018 at 1:07 am

      Regardless of country isn’t it likely that once a seller lists with an agent they probably forfeit the right to pick and choose the buyer?

  2. Olufemi says

    Oct 31, 2018 at 10:07 am

    Thanks be to God, Europe seems to be awakening from its slumber of death.

    • Anne Smith says

      Nov 1, 2018 at 6:24 am

      Thanks to a few brave politicians who have withstood the onslaught from the leftists and the name calling and the defamation met by anyone who stands up for our Christian values and traditions.

      Unfortunately Mrs Theresa May is not one of this ilk, she is more than happy to take the Saudi shilling.

  3. Ernie says

    Oct 31, 2018 at 10:40 am

    Bravo !

  4. balam says

    Oct 31, 2018 at 11:27 am

    Would the MUSLIMS ever allow a MOSQUE to be turned into a CHURCH? Never ever!!!

  5. Nigel Leak says

    Oct 31, 2018 at 11:52 am

    Pleased to see the Italians have found their balls. France looks like it might just be starting to. We need the UK to rediscover the spirit of Churchill and King Arthur.

  6. Marina says

    Oct 31, 2018 at 12:37 pm

    No more mosques. Europe please fight back and revive the spirit of Charles Martel and King Sobieski

  7. Clare says

    Oct 31, 2018 at 12:57 pm

    The sad truth of the matter is that if Italians, or Canadians for that matter truly valued their heritage and faith this church and all churches which have never been demolished, turned into brothels, nightclubs and now mosques; then Islam could never get a foothold. Secularists may lament the loss of a building but the real loss is Masses with no one in attendance.

  8. FYI says

    Oct 31, 2018 at 1:36 pm

    A mosque is NOT like a Church or Synagogue.

    a mosque is dedicated to allah “the best of deceivers” koran 3:54

    The islamic koranic allah is NOT the Jewish/Christian Biblical God.

    This is important to know that:remember,in these mosques,20 times a day muslims “pray” to allah the deceiver,the fatihas which CURSE Jews and christians.

    You may as well have temples to satan in your midst!

    allah the deceiver:-

    a god who CURSES Jews and Christians k9:30

    a god who says to muslims{in violation note of God’s 2nd chief commandment}
    “Oh ye who believe! Take not the Jews and Christains for friends:they are friends to one another”
    koran 5 v 51
    [and you can see WHY islamic immigration won’t work:the koran OPPOSES assimilation!}

    a mosque represents islam’s fake god:a Loveless god of hate and violence.

    These mosques have NO place in the civilized world:they are temples to baal
    {the true nature of “allah the best of deceivers”}of the religion of antiChrist{the true nature of islam koran 9:30}

    Good to see people are waking up{although we’ll have to forget about the “pope” in Rome standing up for Christendom:he’s too much pro-islam,too much a politician-businessman to be a spiritual leader in these times}

  9. eduardo odraude says

    Oct 31, 2018 at 2:46 pm

    Thank you for the good news!

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 31, 2018 at 8:11 pm

      Yes! This is some of the good news you–and I–have been looking for.

  10. Lydia Church says

    Oct 31, 2018 at 4:54 pm

    Great!!!

    And NEVER agree to pray in silence (or whatever else) to appease unbelievers!
    Never curb anything so as not to offend them, if they are offended, TOO BAD!
    They offend us as well anyway!

    Never retreat, but only advance.
    That is modus operandi numero uno!

    May the church bells ring, and ring loudly!

  11. gravenimage says

    Oct 31, 2018 at 8:11 pm

    Italy: Populists block Muslim group’s bid to turn chapel into mosque
    ………………..

    *Good*!

  12. Kay says

    Oct 31, 2018 at 10:10 pm

    This makes me think of another story, some time in the last year, that didn’t end as happily where the Mohammedans outbid a Jewish group, if I remember correctly, and they had to carry their holy items out.

    What kind of people try to take away a worship space that is in active use !

    • Mr. Maxwell S. J. Fenton says

      Nov 1, 2018 at 7:06 am

      Kay,
      The same people’s ideology that destroyed the 360 idols of the Kabba in Mecca, they love destroying houses of worship, especially ones being used today. They’re sick people.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 2, 2018 at 10:53 pm

      Yes, Kay–I remember this ugly story. Here it is:

      “Netherlands: Muslim building owner evicts Jewish community from synagogue to open a restaurant”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/08/netherlands-muslim-building-owner-evicts-jewish-community-from-synagogue-to-open-a-restaurant

  13. Mr. Maxwell S. J. Fenton says

    Nov 1, 2018 at 7:01 am

    Ever since the Dome on the rock, Muhammadans revel in malicious, pernicious posturing by seizing or acquiring Christian properties and obliterating them to become Islamic.
    Thank God the true church is invisible.

  14. gordon miller says

    Nov 1, 2018 at 8:46 am

    It looks like the Italians have taken a stronger stance against the Islamization of its country than we have. BRAVO!

  15. UNCLE VLADDI says

    Nov 1, 2018 at 5:03 pm

    Strangely good news for once!

  16. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Nov 2, 2018 at 6:18 am

    denying muslim bid to buy the mithraist church and convert it to mosque to worship only One God could not save pagan mithraist christianity from dying from the west. Fools!!

    • terry bare says

      Nov 2, 2018 at 9:05 am

      Saudi money?

    • terry says

      Nov 2, 2018 at 9:21 am

      “denying muslim bid to buy the mithraist church and convert it to mosque to worship only One God could not save pagan mithraist christianity from dying from the west. Fools!!”

      Yet another classic example of the political totalitarianism under the guise of religion, as well as condescending arrogance.

      Not one verse in the koran or hadith that speaks of Love from your manmade god or it’s “profit”.

      • gravenimage says

        Nov 2, 2018 at 10:54 pm

        So true.

  17. Olufemi says

    Nov 2, 2018 at 10:29 am

    It is not enough to block a Muslim group from turning a chapel into a mosque. That is not the real issue. The fact remains that the church in the West and particularly in Western Europe, like the Church in Sardis, is dead. It is time for the West to rise up from its slumber of death, and reconcile with the Living God against whom they are rebelling.
    Hence a great revival, a return from backslidden position is what is urgently need at this point in time. Most people in the West are nominal Christians, which means they have zero relationship with Christ. More strictly, they are not disciples of Christ. Western legislators often derive pleasure legislating unrighteous laws, thereby giving the enemy the leeway to destroy their own people.
    Remember whenever the children of Israel rebelled against God’s precepts, He would get them punished by their enemies. The West is on the threshold of such calamity. Those who have ears, let them hear.

    • terry bare says

      Nov 2, 2018 at 11:11 am

      “It is not enough to block a Muslim group from turning a chapel into a mosque”

      It’s not only a start, but continuation of the Love Freedom and good that is overcoming violence, subjugation, misogyny, hate, bigotry, intolerance, racism, inhumane, dictatorial fascist totalitarianism which are the calling cards of the most destructive ideology in the history of mankind, …. islam.

      Its destiny is the inevitable implosion in process as we speak as the adherents are finding the courage to shed the shackles in spite of the threat of death if they dare to escape.

      Out of the dark, into the wonderful light they have been deprived of since birth.

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