No Mass in Sri Lanka

A nice thought, no doubt.

But rather, you should turn in your Jihadist brothers who plot and come and guard our churches during Mass.

Sri Lankan Martyrs - Intercedite pro nobis!

Islamist Terrorists strike Sir Lankan Catholics on Easter - over 200 now dead

Our Catholic brethren in Sri Lanka are suffering greatly today at the hand of radical Islamists. This is not something we expected to wake up to.

1.  Imam Mohamad Tawhidi Retweeted

   Imam Mohamad Tawhidi‏Verified account @Imamofpeace 32m32 minutes ago
   

   Compare the level of outrage with what happened in Sri Lanka with Christchurch, NZ. Triple the amount of casualties and triple the amount of injured people. It offends me and other likeminded Muslims that we get special treatment and other equal humans don’t. #SriLanka

(CNN) An ongoing series of bomb blasts struck luxury hotels and churches across Sri Lanka on Sunday. At least 140 people were killed and 560 have been injured in the coordinated terror attacks, which have put the entire country on lock-down.

The first wave of attacks struck at the heart of the country's minority Christian community during busy Easter services at churches in the cities of Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa on Sunday morning.

Additional blasts ripped through three high-end hotels, the Shangri La, Cinnamon Grand and Kingsbury Hotel, all in capital city Colombo. In a statement, the Shangri-La hotel in Colombo said that the hotel's Table One cafe was hit just after 9 a.m local time. The hotel is popular with foreign tourists and the country's business community.

A seventh and eighth blast, at a hotel in front of the Dehiwala Zoo in Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia and at a private house in Mahawila Gardens, in Dematagoda, occurred Sunday afternoon.

Here's the full list of blast sites reported so far:

St Anthony's Shrine, Kochchikade

St Sebastian's Church, Negombo

Zion Church, Batticaloa

Cinnamon Grand, Colombo

Shangri-La Hotel, Colombo

The Kingsbury Hotel, Colombo

Near Dehiwala Zoo in Dehiwala-Mount Lavinia

A house in Mahawila Gardens, Dematagoda

At least 20 foreigners are among the dead in Colombo, according to hospital Director General Anil Jasinghe. Hospitals have opened their doors to scores of victims.

Terrorism is terrorism. Period.

All comments closed and hidden. Enough!

One act of abuse by a priest is one too many. I recoil when people say, "Well teachers abuse and then what about the fact that most sexual abuse happens in the home?" I recoil because one act of sexual abuse by a priest be it natural with a woman, or always evil acts upon children or sodomitical perverted acts on young boys, teens or between each other as "consenting" adults, is one too many.

This is why we must firmly as followers of Christ state unequivocally that terrorism, is terrorism. Period.

Those poor souls slaughtered in Christ Church (of all places) were following God, as they understand Him. They were sincere in their beliefs. We know, that outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation for any soul. But we also know that God is love and mercy, as well as justice and that He will not disown anyone who seeks him sincerely and through no fault of their own, have not been able to find Him fully, as Catholics. Yet, it is through the love of Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Church that these souls may have found peace after this terrible tragedy. This must be our hope and our prayer.

One of my colleagues is a Muslim. I tell you now that this man is a better “Christian” than many or even most of those Catholics around him. I know this man. I see how he treats people. How he respects the Catholic faith even though he is not a Catholic. I see how he treats his staff and how he is dedicated to his work and family. This man, is closer to Jesus than some of those around him who were baptised and who profanely receive the Blessed Sacrament.

The issue of violence in the Koran and in history are very real and very complex. While on one hand there are the Medina commentaries, on the other, the Meccan. While on one hand we have my colleague and Imam Mohammed Tawidi @imamofpeace on the other we have the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Quaeda, ISIS, and more. The struggle in Islam is very real. The threat to the West is very real. But that threat is our fault. We have left the faith. We have left Christ. Nature abhors a vacuum. So does culture. 

We cannot deny Islamic persecution of Christians. My Lebanese ancestors left in the 1880’s over it. The French went in to save the Maronites. We can not deny that Islam wiped out Christianity throughout North Africa in less than a century. Slavery still goes on. Islamism and its evils are very real. The blame for this must be laid upon us. We have failed and our Popes and our Bishops have failed in the "great commission," and the world is darker for it.

We must move beyond these realities to the point where we can look at the sincerity and goodness of the person, such as my colleague. 

May God grant peace to those butchered. Yet, let us not forget, even though the media seems to, that anti-Christian slaughter continues unabated at the hands of evil men. 

We can only hope that Jesus came to them and said, “I am the one that Mohammed rejected, now that I come to you, will you come to me now that you know?” 

I pray their response was to embrace him.

Islamic terrorists intended to blow up Sagrada Familia

Holy Family was the main target of the terrorists

The cell planned to attack three emblematic and crowded places of the city. The explosion of the Alcanar estate on Wednesday left them without ammunition and forced them to improvise the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils.

August 19, 2017 05:00

1.  SPAIN
 
2. BARCELONA
 
3. ISLAMIST TERRORISM

David López Frías @lopezfrias 

The terrorists who perpetrated the Barcelona bombing had other, more bloodthirsty plans. The initial idea of ​​the attack consisted of filling three vans of explosives and detonating them in three very crowded points of the city. One of the objectives chosen was the Holy Family.

EL ESPAÑOL learned that the jihadists had planned three deflagrations , in an attack very different from the one they ended up committing. Three were the vans used for the massacre, and the three were loaded with explosives stored in a building in Alcanar (Tarragona).  The intention of the jihadists was to commit as much damage as possible, so they chose three of the places with the greatest agglomeration of people.

http://www.elespanol.com/reportajes/20170819/240225983_0.amp.html