In a twitter message, Francis wrote: "I ask that the entire international community to protect all of the victims in Iraq." -- Pope Francis otherwise named Cardinal Fernando Filon as a special ambassador for Iraq.
Vatican City (kath.net/KNA) Pope Francis has called upon the international community to protect Christians, Jezidis, and Shi'ites persecuted by the Islamic State." "I ask the international community to protect all victims of violence in Iraq," it said in a report from the abbreviated news service Twitter on Saturday. On Friday, Pope Francis called for prayer for persecuted Christians in Iraq.
On the se day the previous nuncio to Iraq, Cardinal Fernando Filoni was named to a special diplomatic mission to Iraq. It is determined that Filoni will be dispatched in the coming days to the Kurdistan region in Northern Iraq where most of the Christians are located seeking help. Rome has also said that an emergency meeting of diplomats active in the Middle East which will foreseeable take place in September. Francis had appealed last Thursday on the international community to bring an end to the violence.
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The Pope appeals through a... Twitter message...?
Francis was the one who invited that Muslim into the Vatican itself where he prayed for the destruction of those who aren't Muslims, while Francis just sat there. Well well well.
When will people wake up and see that Francis the Humble is a disaster. I don't think it's too much to expect the pope to actually believe in the teachings of the Catholic Church.
Crazy. This is not how one uses one's worldwide platform and access to national and international government, etc. to demand action to save those being persecuted for their Faith. Reparation.
Pope Benedict encouraged Catholics to use the social media in the cause of the New Evangelization.
I think that's plenty obvious to more people than u think.
We would use Twitter. A pope should not. It is small...and tacky.
What will the 'people' do when they wake up?
Calm down, faithful. We need to find a way to give our voice some weight. I think certain clerics are cowardly and are a bunch of Chamberlains towards muslims.
The great insult is to mask it behind "Charity" -where is the charity for the suffering Christians? None. A little statement here and there.
Well Cyril, for a valid election of a pope the male elected must be a Catholic. Since Cardinal Bergoglio is anything but Catholic he would be denounced a heretic and another conclave held and a real pope chosen. Or Pope Benedict could just say he felt forced to resign and never gave full consent which immediately puts old Jorge back on that bus.
What would you all do if you were Pope?
A real pope would ask all the Christian nations on earth to unite and send adequate protection to fellow Christians now being ethnically cleansed en masse in Iraq.
That is the pope job.
But has made no such appeal .
It would appear that the bishop of rome is indifferent to the plight of thousands and thousands of fellow Christians being driven from their homes by fanatical murdering heathens.
I must add that sending twitter messages is not the way to do this.
The catholic pope Francis must make a public appeal at the UN to send adequate military protection to the victims of these religious persecutions.
I would definitely start organizing the 10th Crusade with the limited goals of creating a haven for Catholics in the Middle East, cooperating with the governments of the West, including relief organizations like the Hospitalers.
Catholics could receive plenary indulgences from working in the Crusade, imagine that.
Anon said:
"Francis was the one who invited that Muslim into the Vatican itself where he prayed for the destruction of those who aren't Muslims, while Francis just sat there."
In 1990, Lefebvre was convicted in a French court and sentenced to pay a fine of 5,000 francs when he stated that, as a result of Muslim immigration into Europe, "it is your wives, your daughters, your children who will be kidnapped and dragged off to a certain kind of places as they exist in Casablanca".
“And he said: Amen I say to you, that no prophet is accepted in his own country.” Luke 4:24 (Douay-Rheims Bible)
Excuse me for sounding ignorant, but at the moment, the USA is flying to the aid of the Yazidis, trapped on a mountain in Iraq in Kurdistan.
The Yazidis are basically pagans, 500,000+ in Iraq and another 750,000+ elsewhere mostly in the Middle East. They have always been hated by Muslims who regard them as pagans. Their history is a combnation of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and parts of the old pagan religion of ancient Mesopotamia (pre Christian times). They are considerd by many as devil worshippers in that they honor the name of the fallen angel.who we know as the devil. The symbol outside their temples is a black serpent. Very creepy.
But these are the people the USA is rushing to save from slaughter....not the Ortohdox and Catholic Christians.
I was astonished to see they were still around in such numbers.
Very true. It is estimated that during the period of Barbary Pirate activity, ca. 1620 - 1780, at least 250,000 Christian captives were taken from the coasts of Spain, Italy and even as far as Cornwall and Ireland. Those that could be ransomed,such as Miguel de Cervantes, were lucky. Most endured the unspeakable horrors of Muslim slavers in Morocco and Algiers. This part of our history has been deliberately flushed down the historical memory hole. Nobody dares speak of it, or more correctly we are not 'permitted' to speak of it in this age of false brotherhood.
The Holy Father has not limited his appeal to Twitter - he has also made it in public appearances and through the media office of the Holy See. It is quite astounding that he is criticised for asking the world to pray for peace!
Peace, man!
Anonymous Aug 10, 2:50.
If you are so sure of your ground here, are you prepared to make a formal delation of Cardinal Begoglio - asserting that he is not a Catholic - to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and to the Dean of the College of Cardinals?
No doubt you will keep the readership informed of your representations.
Yes, the Yazidis are more numerous than one might think. They are not "devil worshippers" in the sense we think of....I don't think. However, they honor one called "The Peacock Angel", which is a very old term for the angel whom we know became the devil.
I read about Iraq/Iran this morning, when I was feeling very angry that the USA is getting involved again. Islam has always persecuted minority religious. Fully one half of Iran, and a smaller portion of Iraq was solidly Buddhist before the onslaught of Islam in the 7th-8th centuries. There were great centers of learning, and vast Buddhist temples and monasteries. Afghanistan was, until the 10th century, a Buddhist nation. But the whole region was forced to convert to Islam by the Muslim invading armies between the 8th and 10th centuries. There was mass slaughter and exile of Buddhists then, as there of Catholics and Orthodox and Yazidis now.
They slaughtered tens of thousands of Buddhist monks in Afganistan,Iran, and to a lesser degree, in Iraq. Others were forced into exile, and physically herded out of the country and back to China or India.
Just think, if Afganistan, Iran, and Iraq had stayed Buddhist, as they were before the 7th and 8th centuries, what a peaceful and beautiful land the Middle East would be today. A real tragedy what happened then....as now..
Great comment, Tancred.
Indeed, the media has tried for a long time to not mention the word 'Christian' to describe those victims who are Christian and have been slaughtered, raped or slaved. Even now it seems to be a throw-away mention as though they can't avoid mentioning the word 'Christian'.
""The Peacock Angel", which is a very old term for the angel whom we know became the devil."
I read this in yesterday's paper and well, almost couldn't believe it. I don't think they're quite the same as the classical Satanist, though (or am I misguided here?). But, Satan didn't save them....
"Father, forgive them for they know not what they do", Jesus said.
Poor people. I hope they all get off the mountain to safety. Maybe the Christians could get to Russia?
It's interesting how much coverage a tiny, ancient sect is receiving from the media compared to the tens of thousands of suffering Christians that have suffered under ISIS yoke recently and currently that has generally been glossed over.
I wish to make clear that in no way do I wish to belittle the suffering endured by the Yazidis and especially their children at the moment.
The Yazidis believe that the one we know as the devil (I don't even like to type his name....it gives me the creeps ), actually had a change of heart and was forgiven/reconciled with God. We know as Catholics that this is not true.
Therefore, they honor this angel as someone who is good.
They also have elements of Zoroastrianism in their religion (followers of Zoroaster or to give him his Persian name, Zarathustra), who as part of their faith worship fire (which isn't as bad as honoring the "Peacock Angel" !
To them, fire is holy. IN Iran and India (where most Zoroastrians are), they have temples with huge altars to worship the fire. They even have priests.
But they were/are persecuted in Iran and Iraq too, by the Muslims...and Zoroastrians (which until Islam was the dominant religion in Iran together with Buddhism) are a much smaller group that the Yazidis....less than 300,000 world wide. Zoroastrianism is fascinating, but the Yazidis beliefs are too bizarre for me. But I do feel sorry for what they are going thru right now.
We can only 'judge', (but since we can't use that word, 'appraise' or 'assay' will have to suffice), pope Francis by his utterances and actions or lack thereof. On that basis he appears to be a committed Zionist.
Thanks for the info, Anon at 6:20.
Why isn't he holding a prayer service or calling upon the church for prayer? How funny that FSSP or bishops have to call the church to prayer while the 'holy father' prances around giving out body wash, twittering, and to hell w/him only being the bishop of Rome --over-ruling another bishop to insist a 'personal friend' of his whom he advised NOT to convert to Catholicism (where said personal friend would immediately have to cease and desist calling himself 'father' let alone bishop) be buried as a bishop in the CATHOLIC church - which Bergoglio doesn't believe in - 'there is no Catholic God'. What a disgusting farce. I expect his popularity has plummeted along w/Obama's - what with the Hispanic invasion of U.S., Muslim invasion of Europe and the Christian slaughter in Middle East and Africa -- I guess it's on to Seoul to wreak havoc on the Asians.
Which so called "Holy Father" are you referring to?
There are two of them now in the Vatican.
The German one is shtum lest anybody accuse him of militancy.
The Argentinian one will never rock any boat lest it upset his Islamic buddies.
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