27.8.11

«Pío XII salvou mais judeus que Schindler», assegura o historiador judeu David Dalin

Aos poucos, a caluniada figura de Pio XII vai sendo resgatada da mentira, muito por acção de investigadores judeus.

A pesar de las polémicas, historiadores judíos siguen certificando con documentos en la mano la gran labor de Pío XII y de la Iglesia católica en la salvación de miles de vidas de judíos perseguidos por los nazis. Así lo demuestran los estudios de «Pueblo Elegido».
Nada menos que 700.000 hebreos fueron salvados por la acción caritativa de la Iglesia son las cifras que manejan los historiadores del «Pueblo Elegido» para demostrar la gran altura moral y humanitaria del Papa Pacelli. Una declaración de un prestigioso historiador hebreo ha sacudido de nuevo el debate sobre la actuación de la Iglesia durante el Holocausto: «Durante el siglo XX el pueblo judío no tuvo un amigo más grande», ha declarado David Dalin (en la foto), para a continuación afirmar: «Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Pío XII salvó más vidas de judíos que cualquier otra persona, incluso más que Raoul Wallenberg o Oskar Schindler».
- Usted ha calificado de revisionistas a los historiadores que han criticado al Papa Pío XII, ¿por qué?
- Hoy día existe una nueva generación de periodistas empeñada en desacreditar los documentados esfuerzos de Pío XII por salvar a los judíos durante el Holocausto. Esta generación se ha inspirado en la obra teatral «El Vicario», de Rolf Hochhuth, que no tiene valor histórico, pero que lanza polémicas acusaciones contra este Papa. Sin embargo, los detractores de Eugenio Pacelli ignoran o eliminan el estudio iluminador de Pinchas Lapide, quien fue cónsul general de Israel en Milán y que había se había encontrado con muchos judíos italianos que sobrevivieron al Holocausto. Lapide documenta cómo Pío XII favoreció la salvación de al menos 700.000 judíos de manos de los nazis. Ahora bien, según otro cálculo, esta cifra se eleva a 860.000.
- ¿Qué es lo que hizo el Pío XII a favor de los judíos?
- Tenemos mucha documentación que demuestra que no se quedó ni mucho menos en silencio, es más, habló en voz alta contra Hitler y casi todos vieron en él a un opositor del régimen nazi. Durante la ocupación alemana de Roma, Pío XII dio secretamente instrucción al clero católico para que salvara a todas las vidas humanas posibles, con todos los medios. De este modo, salvó a miles de judíos italianos de la deportación. Mientras el 80 por ciento de los judíos europeos murieron en aquellos años, el 80 por ciento de los judíos italianos fueron salvados. Sólo en Roma, 155 conventos y monasterios ofrecieron refugio a unos cinco mil judíos. En un cierto momento, al menos tres mil se salvaron en la residencia papal de Castel Gandolfo, librándose así de la deportación en los campos de concentración alemanes. Siguiendo las directas instrucciones de Pío XII, muchos sacerdotes y monjes favorecieron la salvación de centenares de vidas de judíos, poniendo en peligro su misma vida.
- Pero el Papa nunca denunció en público las leyes antisemitas.
- Su silencio fue una eficaz estrategia orientada a proteger al mayor número posible de judíos de la deportación. Una denuncia explícita y dura contra los nazis por parte del Papa hubiera sido una invitación a la represalia, y hubiera empeorado las disposiciones hacia los judíos en toda Europa. Ciertamente podría preguntarse: ¿qué podía ser peor que el exterminio de seis millones de judíos? La respuesta es sencilla y terriblemente honesta: el asesinato de otros centenares de miles de judíos. Los obispos católicos que procedían de los países ocupados aconsejaron a Pacelli que no protestara públicamente contras las atrocidades cometidas por los nazis.

Tenemos pruebas de que, cuando el obispo de Münster quiso pronunciarse en contra de la persecución de los judíos en Alemania, los responsables de las comunidades judías de su diócesis le suplicaron que no lo hiciera, pues hubiera provocado una represión más dura contra ellos».
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23.8.11

Mujahideen (guerreiros islâmicos) impedem ajuda humanitária a cristãos

Amplify’d from olhonajihad.blogspot.com
Uma organização de advocacia está chamando por uma ação da comunidade internacional em resposta à crise humanitária na Somália.
A fome na Somália custou a vida de milhares de pessoas e continua a deixar milhões na necessidade desesperada do básico. Entretanto, apesar da crise, um grupo islâmico está interrompendo a distribuição de alimentos. O International Christian Concern (ICC) relata que o al-Shabaab está trabalhando para remover o cristianismo do país e está impedindo que alimentos e ajudas alcancem as pessoas. O sul da Somália é especialmente duramente atingido por causa da influência opressora do grupo na região.

Jonathan Racho, diretor regional do ICC para a África, diz ao OneNewsNow que pelo menos 18 cristãos morreram de fome nos últimos três meses.

"Nossas fontes cristãs estão nos dizendo que o Al-Shabaab está usando sua influência e seu controle da área para parar as pessoas de quem ele suspeita de pertencer à igreja subterrânea", relata ele. "Essa é a área de fome onde a maioria das pessoas não estão relatando".

Racho chama a situação uma das piores crises humanitárias do mundo, mas ele diz que milhares de somalis conseguiram atravessar a fronteira para países vizinhos. Assim, ele está pedindo à comunidade internacional para estar ciente da situação do sofrimento e agir.

"Queremos que a comunidade internacional tome medidas decisivas para aliviar o sofrimento dos cristãos na Somália", o porta-voz da ICC diz.
 

Ele prossegue para acrescentar que o Al-Shabaab está permitindo que a fome fique fora de controle, perseguindo os cristãos e tirando ajuda alimentar dos crentes e cidadãos.

Fonte: One News Now  
Tradução: Mente Conservadora


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22.8.11

Depois de Kadafi, o que virá começa a vislumbrar-se

Amplify’d from www.jihadwatch.org

Libyan draft Constitution: "Islam is the Religion of the State, and the principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence (Sharia)"

"Libyan Draft Constitution: Sharia is ‘Principal Source of Legislation,’" by Lachlan Markay for The Foundry, August 22:

The dust has not yet settled over the Libyan capital of Tripoli since rebels took control over the weekend. But already, a draft constitutional charter for the transitional state has appeared online (embedded below). It is just a draft, mind you, and gauging its authenticity at this point is difficult. There is also no way to know whether this draft or something similar will emerge as the final governing document for a new Libyan regime.

As both the Morning Bell and Washington in a Flash noted today, Heritage Fellow Jim Phillips recently pointed out that Islamist forces “appear to make up a small but not insignificant part of the opposition coalition,” and must be prevented “from hijacking Libya’s future.” Parts of the draft Constitution allay those fears, while others exacerbate them.

Much of the document describes political institutions that will sound familiar to citizens of Western liberal democracies, including rule of law, freedom of speech and religious practice, and a multi-party electoral system.

But despite the Lockean tenor of much of the constitution, the inescapable clause lies right in Part 1, Article 1: “Islam is the Religion of the State, and the principal source of legislation is Islamic Jurisprudence (Sharia).” Under this constitution, in other words, Islam is law. That makes other phrases such as “there shall be no crime or penalty except by virtue of the law” and “Judges shall be independent, subject to no other authority but law and conscience” a bit more ominous.

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Depois de Kadafi, o que virá?

Amplify’d from www.nationalreview.com

Many are ready to party about the political demise of the hated, eccentric, and foul Moammar Qaddafi as rebel troops move into Tripoli. I am not partying. Here’s why now.

The NATO intervention in March 2011 was done without due diligence as to who it was in Benghazi that it was helping. To this day, their identity is a mystery. Chances are good that Islamist forces are hiding behind more benign elements, waiting for the right moment to pounce, as roughly happened in Iran in 1978–79, when Islamists did not make clear their strength nor their program until the shah was well disposed of. Should that be the case in Libya today, then the miserable Qaddafi will prove to be better than his successors for both the Libyan subjects of tyranny and the West.

I hope I am wrong and the rebels are modern and liberal. But I fear that a dead-end despotism will be replaced by the agents of a worldwide ideological movement. I fear that Western forces will have brought civilization’s worst enemies to power. 

Read more at www.nationalreview.com
 

21.8.11

«Caça ao peregrino nas Portas do Sol» (2)


«Caça ao peregrino nas Portas do Sol»

Leia-se a descrição da tomada das Portas do Sol na passada 4ª feira pelos «indignados», ditos laicos, na verdade agitadores cheios de ódio:

Caceria contra el peregrino en sol

Fernando Lázaro. Publicado en el periódico El Mundo .
Por su interés reproducimos aquí el artículo de Fernando Lázaro del periódico El Mundo

TESTIGO DIRECTO

Cuando tengo que ocuparme de informar sobre manifestaciones acudo con mucha antelación para empaparme del ambiente. El miércoles no fue una excepción. Cogí el Metro. Y vi un Metro tomado por jóvenes, muy jóvenes. Y vi un ambiente festivo, desde Cibeles hasta Sol. Madrid era peregrino y multicolor. Pasé por el kilómetro 0 y vi una plaza repleta de peregrinos-turistas. Y me acerqué hasta Tirso de Molina, lugar de donde arrancaba la manifestación laica, anti Papa y, por lo que se vio, anti peregrinos.

Inicialmente el despliegue policial era discreto, quizá demasiado. Apenas una veintena de agentes de las Unidades de Intervención Policial acompañaba a la cabecera de la manifestación. Y, como era de esperar, el punto caliente fue Sol, con la llegada de los manifestantes al cruce con la calle Carretas. La Policía había abierto un pasillo de anchura suficiente para que la manifestación atravesara la zona. Fue allí donde los más radicales de la manifestación y los peregrinos cruzaron gritos: «Pederastas», «nazis» e «hijos de puta» era contestado por los pocos jóvenes que había en la zona con gritos a favor del Papa. Que nadie me lo cuenta, que yo estaba allí.

La Policía puso un leve cordón de separación en esa esquina, pero poco más. Y los manifestantes iban ganando metros. Su intención era clara. Los más radicales querían tomar la plaza. «Esta es nuestra plaza» y gritos de «fuera, fuera; menos rezar y más follar». El tono fue adquiriendo un aire amenazador tremendo. Las caras de los radicales estaban completamente desencajadas, fuera de sí. Había a quien la vena del cuello ya no se le podía agrandar más. Llevo más de 20 años haciendo información sobre seguridad y terrorismo, pero hacía muchos años que no veía tanta inyección de sangre en ojos de manifestantes. No eran todos, ni mucho menos, pero algunos daban miedo. Muchos estaban fuera de sí. «Os vamos a quemar como en el 36», gritaban a los jóvenes de la JMJ. Que nadie me lo cuenta, que yo estaba allí.

En el esquinazo de la polémica no habría más de un centenar de peregrinos. No era para nada una contramanifestación. No ocupaban la zona por la que tenía que atravesar la marcha laica. Esos peregrinos eran extranjeros. Allí había italianos, belgas, australianos, franceses, italianos, egipcios… Y algún español, sobre todo voluntarios. La media de edad, menos de 18 años. Que nadie me lo cuenta, que estaba allí y lo vi en primera persona.

El Ministerio del Interior ya estaba avisado de que era una zona de riesgo, que no era recomendable autorizar esa marcha y menos por ese recorrido. Los informes apuntaban a que podía haber una importante infiltración de radicales en la manifestación de laicos.

Porque, eso sí, el grupo de radicales, violentos, que se comportaron como energúmenos, no superaría el millar en una marcha que congregó a varios miles de asistentes. La visceralidad de los ataques de esos radicales fue intensa. Poco a poco fueron tomando la Puerta del Sol. Bordearon el cordón policial por derecha y por izquierda. La siguiente maniobra, ante la inicial pasividad de los agentes, fue rodear a los pequeños grupos de peregrinos y, mediante empujones, gritos, insultos y patadas, sacarlos de la plaza. También tuve que sufrir esos empujones y patadas. Peregrinos, periodistas… qué más les daba, la plaza tenía que ser suya. Sobrábamos los demás. Que nadie me lo cuenta, que yo estaba allí.

Primero actuaron contra un grupo de apenas media docena de australianos. Después les tocó a los franceses. Los italianos no se quedaron al margen. A los egipcios también les tocó.

Algunos peregrinos, veteranos, hacían frente a los insultos de los autodefinidos como indignados, que buscaban el cuerpo a cuerpo. Y así, al grito de «ésta es nuestra plaza», los radicales que participaron en la manifestación ocuparon de nuevo la Puerta del Sol. Durante estas maniobras de desalojo de peregrinos la pasividad policial fue total. No pude evitarlo. Ya al cuarto incidente de acoso, hostigamiento y empujones contra peregrinos me acerqué a los policías, que permanecían en los alrededores del edificio de la Comunidad de Madrid, para advertir de que la situación estaba tomando un sesgo extremadamente peligroso. Silencio. Que nadie me lo cuenta, que yo estaba allí.

Una vez expulsados de la plaza, los radicales dirigieron sus esfuerzos a controlar el Metro. Por allí salían decenas de jóvenes peregrinos que se dirigían a cenar. No menos de 500 personas se concentraron en la puerta del suburbano. Allí se montó la mundial. Este grupo, de nuevo incontrolado, comenzó a arremeter contra todos los peregrinos. Insultos, coacciones (ya sabéis, eso de gritarte a la cara a menos de 15 centímetros), escupitajos… La escena era dantesca. Auténticos cafres lanzando gritos y amenazas a los jóvenes (por cierto, la mayoría mujeres) que salían del Metro.

Vi mucho pánico en los ojos de los peregrinos y vi a muchas, digo bien, a muchas que al ver el espectáculo rompieron a llorar de puro miedo. Aún tardó la Policía en llegar a la zona. Abrió un pasillo para que los peregrinos salieran de Sol. Los radicales eran los dueños del kilómetro 0. Se envalentonaron más y arremetieron contra la Policía. Y un radical con numerosos antecedentes dio el pistoletazo de salida a los incidentes.

Una botella contra los agentes y la Policía cargó. Antes, las mochilas naranjas, los crucifijos y hasta los alzacuellos eran una «provocación» para esos radicales. «Es que nos están provocando», «es que están rezando», se justificaba uno de los empujadores profesionales. Y se me ocurrió preguntar por qué les provocaban. «Porque están aquí, porque existen, porque les vamos a prender fuego otra vez, como en el 36». Madrid era hasta ahora una ciudad donde cabían todos los pensamientos. En Sol, eso se acabó.

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4.8.11

Jesus nasceu mesmo a 25 de Dezembro

aquilo que é (ou, melhor, que era) pacificamente aceite por todos os estudiosos: a colocação litúrgica do Natal é uma escolha arbitrária, sem ligação com a data do nascimento de Jesus, a qual ninguém estaria em condições de poder determinar. Ora bem, parece que os especialistas se enganaram mesmo; e eu, obviamente, com eles. Na realidade, hoje – graças também aos documentos de Qumran* – estamos em condições de poder estabelecê-lo com precisão: Jesus nasceu mesmo num dia 25 de Dezembro. Uma descoberta extraordinária a sério e que não pode ser alvo de suspeitas de fins apologéticos cristãos, dado que a devemos a um docente judeu, da Universidade Hebraica de Jerusalém.

Procuremos compreender o mecanismo, que é complexo, mas fascinante. Se Jesus nasceu a 25 de Dezembro, a sua concepção virginal ocorreu, obviamente 9 meses antes. E, com efeito, os calendários cristãos colocam no dia 25 de Março a Anunciação do Anjo S. Gabriel a Maria. Mas sabemos pelo próprio Evangelho de S. Lucas que, precisamente seis meses antes, tinha sido concebido por Isabel, João, o precursor, que será chamado o Baptista. A Igreja Católica não tem uma festa litúrgica para esta concepção, mas a Igreja do Oriente celebra-a solenemente entre os dias 23 e 25 de Setembro; ou seja, seis meses antes da Anunciação a Maria. Uma lógica sucessão de datas, mas baseada em tradições não verificáveis, não em acontecimentos localizáveis no tempo. Assim acreditávamos todos nós, até há pouquíssimo tempo. Mas, na realidade, parece mesmo que não é assim.

De facto, é precisamente da concepção do Baptista que devemos partir. O Evangelho de S. Lucas abre-se com a história do velho casal, Zacarias e Isabel, já resignado à esterilidade – considerada uma das piores desgraças em Israel. Zacarias pertencia à casta sacerdotal e, um dia, em que estava de serviço no Templo de Jerusalém, teve a visão de Gabriel (o mesmo anjo que aparecerá seis meses mais tarde a Maria, em Nazaré), o qual lhe anunciou que, não obstante a idade avançada, ele e a mulher iriam ter um filho. Deviam dar-lhe o nome de João e ele seria grande «diante do Senhor».

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3.8.11

Xariá no Reino Unido

Rua a rua se constrói um emirado:

Amplify’d from www.minutodigital.com
Los británicos están horrorizados por la nueva iniciativa que han puesto en marcha los musulmanes de aquel país, que se cuentan en casi 3 millones de personas.

‘Islam4UK’ (Islam para el Reino Unido) ha lanzado una campaña de cárteles en varias áreas del Reino Unido, proclamando que en estos barrios la ley Sharia es la ley primordial.

Algunos barrios al este de Londres, donde hasta el 30 % de la población es musulmana, los representantes del ‘Islam4UK’ están colocando cárteles y pegatinas en las farolas, que dicen: “Usted está entrando a una zona controlada por la Sharia – aquí, la ley islámica debe ser observada”

Los mensajes de color amarillo brillante se colocaron también en las paradas de autobuses. El mensaje informa, que dentro de la “zona Sharia” no se permite el consumo del alcohol ni casinos. Además el cartel prohíbe música y conciertos, pornografía o la prostitución, así como el consumo de estupefacientes.

Anjem Choudary, el líder de ‘Islam4UK’, ha admitido que la responsabilidad por esta campaña es suya. Según Choudary, su plan es inundar a las comunidades musulmanas y no musulmanas en el Reino Unido y “poner las semillas para un emirato islámico a largo plazo”.

En la última semana, decenas de ciudadanos en los distritos londinenses de Waltham Forest, Tower Hamlets, Newham han sido atacados, provocando temores entre los residentes locales por no obedecer “las reglas islámicas”.

Choudary también advirtió: “Ahora tenemos cientos, quizá hasta miles de personas en todo el país dispuestos a salir a patrullar las calles para nosotros. Hasta 50 mil pegatinas han sido impresas para la distribución.” “Hay 25 zonas en todo el país que el Gobierno ha calificado como áreas en las que el extremismo violento anti musulmán es un problema. Así que nosotros iremos a todas estas áreas e implementaremos nuestras propias zonas, controladas por la Sharia. Esto significa que esta es un área donde la comunidad musulmana no va a tolerar las drogas, el alcohol, la pornografía, los juegos de azar, la usura, y también la mezcla libre entre los sexos – ‘los frutos’ de la civilización occidental”, declaró el líder de ‘Islam4UK’.

Esta última campaña de ‘Islam4UK’ viene sólo meses después una iniciativa de otro tipo de carteles y pegatinas, que proclamaba que algunos barrios al este de Londres eran ‘zonas libres de homosexuales’.

Además, una docena de mujeres en partes de estos barrios de Londres se han quejado con la policía por haber sido amenazadas con violencia e incluso la muerte por los extremistas islámicos si no llevan velo.

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Encontrado sepulcro do Apóstolo S. Filipe na Turquia

Via 1ºs cristãos:


Descubren la supuesta tumba de SAN FELIPE en Turquía

Hallan una tumba en el lugar del martirio del apóstol Felipe

 Eusebio de Cesarea dejó escrito que Felipe "descansa en Hierápolis"


CIUDAD DEL VATICANO, 28 de julio de 2011 (ZENIT.org).-
Los arqueólogos aseguran que se trata de la tumba del apóstol Felipe, uno de los 12 discípulos que acompañaron a Jesús de Nazaret.
El descubrimiento ha tenido lugar en Pamukkale, la antigua Hierápolis, en Anatolia Occidental (Turquía), ciudad en la que murió Felipe, tras haber predicado en Grecia y Asia Menor.
El descubrimiento ha sido realizado por la misión arqueológica italiana emprendida en 1957, compuesta hoy por un equipo internacional, dirigido desde el año 2000 por Francesco D’Andria, profesor de la Universidad de Salento.
Un resultado importante en la búsqueda de la tumba de san Felipe, recuerda “L'Osservatore Romano”, ya se había logrado en 2008, cuando el equipo sacó a la luz la calle procesional que recorrían los peregrinos para llegar al sepulcro del apóstol. Ahora se ha logrado esta nueva meta.
“Junto al Martyrion (edificio de culto octogonal, construido en el lugar en el que fue martirizado san Felipe), hemos encontrado una basílica del siglo V de tres naves”, explica el director de la misión.
Esta iglesia fue construida entorno a una tumba romana del siglo I, que evidentemente gozaba de la máxima consideración, si más tarde se decidió edificar a su alrededor una basílica. Se trata de una tumba en forma de nicho, con una cámara funeraria”.
Poniendo en relación éstos y otros muchos elementos, “hemos llegado a lacerteza de haber encontrado la tumba del apóstol Felipe, que era la meta de la peregrinación a ese lugar”, afirma D'Andria.
San FelipeEn el siglo IV, Eusebio de Cesarea escribió que dos estrellas brillan en Asia: Juan, sepultado en Éfeso, y Felipe, “que descansa en Hierápolis”.
La cuestión ligada a la muerte del apóstol ha suscitado controversia. Según una tradición antigua, de hecho, no murió martirizado, mientras que los evangelios apócrifos cuentan que sufrió el martirio bajo los romanos.

São Filipe, rogai por nós.

17.7.11

Bispo do Sudão morre enquanto celebrava a eucaristia

Deixou, antes de mais, o exemplo do que é ser missionário: dar a sua vida pelos outros em nome de Cristo.
Deixou ainda palavras sábias sobre as ONGs que actuam em África e sobre as relações com os muçulmanos.
Leia tudo

Hace poco más de un mes ReL recogía en una entrevista las esperanzas de Cesare Mazzolari, obispo de Rumbek desde 1998 (de facto, como administrador apostólico, desde 1990), ante el nacimiento de Sudán del Sur, nuevo país católico de África segregado de la intolerancia islámica de Sudán del Norte.
Este sábado, festividad de la Virgen del Carmen, monseñor Mazzolari, comboniano italiano de 74 años, que era parte de esa misma esperanza, ha muerto en su tierra de acogida mientras celebraba la misa dominical. Llegado el momento de la consagración, las fuerzas le fallaron y se derrumbó en una silla. Inmediatamente fue trasladado al hospital público de Rumbek, donde ya no pudieron evitar su fallecimiento a consecuencia de la enfermedad que padecía.
La muerte de este misionero ha causado estupor y dolor no sólo en Sudán del Sur, sino también en África. Y se valora su condición de misionero "a la antigua", en el sentido de valorar por encima de todo la sobrenaturalidad de su misión, más allá del bien que pudiese hacer en el plano meramente material.
Así lo expresa en su blog Sandro Magister, quien lo llama por eso un misionero "verdadero" y reproduce un esclarecedor texto, correspondiente al libro-entrevista con Lorenzo Fazzini que acaba de publicarse en Italia.

Especialmente sobre tres puntos.
Misiones, ONG, la realidad musulmana
Primero, la naturaleza del misionero: "Nuestro sustrato auténtico es la fe... La gente sabe que cogemos la malaria como ellos, y que sin embargo nos quedamos aquí. Creo que el hecho de permanecer con ellos y de intentar ayudarles, aunque sea de manera limitada, significa algo muy concreto para los africanos: ´¡También vosotros sois importantes!´... A los misioneros no nos gusta hacernos las víctimas. Todo procede de una vocación que no nos hemos dado a nosotros mismos y que ni siquiera se mantiene por nuestra inclinación o nuestra buena voluntad. Es algo que Dios nos ha dado. Y que no vale de una vez para siempre, hay que pedir cada día la perseverancia. No es la rutina la que te impulsa a seguir, sino la gracia del Señor".

Segundo, su diferencia con las ONG: "Gente que hace el bien hay mucha. Algunos incluso nos pasan por las narices lo que hacen cuando llegan con muchos medios. Pero esos ´benefactores´ que vienen aquí no garantizan la continuidad. Vuelven a casa y escriben un gran libro sobre lo que han hecho... pero la gente de aquí no mejora. Lo que buscamos los misioneros no son sólo obras externas, porque no es eso sólo lo que representa la promoción humana ni lo que constituye un auténtico desarrollo. Lo que cambia las cosas es el sacrificio de la persona que viene aquí, se olvida un poco de sí misma y se dedica a los demás... Por eso muchos donantes nos confían sus obras, porque saben que la Iglesia se queda, permanece, lo desafía todo, está con la gente de a pie".

Por último, unas observaciones interesantes sobre el problema musulmán en Italia, válidas para cualquier otro país de Europa: "No es fácil tratar con un pueblo como el islámico. Deberíamos haber conocido mejor su historia y haber dispuesto una legislación más selectiva para ver si teníamos posibilidades de convertirlos en ciudadanos italianos de forma que se integrasen de verdad. Algo, por cierto, nada fácil. Aun sin conocerles, en algunos casos hemos llegado a ofrecerles nuestras iglesias como mezquitas. No hemos comprendido que los musulmanes son posesivos e invasores, y crean jaleo y confusión hasta el final. No tienen ningún respeto por quien no sea de los suyos. Hemos hecho un pacto con los ojos cerrados, hemos practicado una acogida a ciegas, no informada".
Read more at www.religionenlibertad.com
 

16.7.11

A situação desesperada do católicos no Vietnemane

Esta história mostra várias coisas: que o cristianismo é o principal inimigo do comunismo, historicamente e no presente, não porque os cristãos o desejem, mas porque os comunistas o afirmaram múltiplas vezes e porque tratam os cristãos como tal. Mostra também que o comunismo global não está morto e continua a espalhar o seu terror intrínseco e a miséria pelos locais onde se instala.

The desperate plight of Catholics in Vietnam – one priest’s story
By Alan Holdren and David Kerr

Rome, Italy, Jul 15, 2011 / 05:53 am (CNA).- “If I return now, they will throw me in jail and kill me.” These are the frank words that mark an encounter with Father Peter Nguyen Khai, a 41-year-old Vietnamese priest living in Rome.

His crime? Not hiding his Catholic faith.

Father Peter Nguyen Khai

“My parents taught me how to pray daily and keep the faith in our home, but we never went to church,” says Fr. Khai who grew up in the predominantly Catholic village of Phuc Nhac in the Ninh Binh province of northern Vietnam.

“I learned that the government did not allow the parishioners to gather for worship at the church. Attending Holy Mass, therefore, was a special treat for me.”

It is a situation that many Vietnamese Catholics simply had to learn to live with. For Fr. Khai, though, any thoughts of quietly co-existing with the regime evaporated following one particular boyhood experience.

“One day, I saw a mentally ill woman who used to wander around the village. She came to the church in tears, banging on its front door with her skinny hands and crying out with great anguish: ‘The church is still here, but where is Father?’”

“Father” was a local pastor, Fr. Matthew Hau, who a few years before had been arrested, tortured and killed by the local communist authorities. A vicious persecution of all the Catholics in the village then ensued – the Khai family included.

“After learning the story of Fr. Matthew Hau and his heroic acts to the end of his life in order to protect the faith of his people, especially the accounts of his arrest, torture and senseless murder, I suddenly had a strong desire to become a priest—a “Father” like him,” says Fr. Khai. 

And so began 12 years of clandestine formation with just one aim – to become a Catholic priest.

Initially he sought out the only surviving Redemptorist priest in northern Vietnam, a member of his extended family, Fr. Joseph Bich. Under the pretense of being the old man’s caretaker, Fr. Khai studied at Fr. Bich’s home in Hanoi.

“Unfortunately, the police in Hanoi suspected my real reason. They summoned me repeatedly to the local precinct for interrogation and put all kinds of pressure on Fr. Joseph Bich.” 

And so, Fr. Khai set off for the relative safety of Saigon in the south of the country. It was here after years of secret studying, says Fr. Kwai, “I was secretly ordained to the priesthood in a small room on the night of September 25, 2001.”

Thus began a decade of priestly ministry to the Catholic population in both north and south Vietnam, often playing a game of cat-and-mouse with the communist authorities.

However in 2010, “after a few years of leading the faithful,” says Fr. Khai “in highly publicized quests for justice and truth against the oppression of the communist government,” his superiors decided to send him to Rome.

Unable to leave the country legally, he made a dangerous trek across the Vietnamese border into Laos and on to Thailand.

“After many perilous days during which I had more than once confronted the fear of death, I arrived in Bangkok,” the Thai capital.

“Throughout these escape episodes I knew that St. Joseph was protecting me in a special way. His own story of leading Mary and the baby Jesus to safety remained my constant hope and inspiration,” says Fr. Khai.

In Rome, his campaign for the Catholics of Vietnam continues. He shares photos of peaceful protest and prayer being suppressed by riot police, images of tear gas being used and women being beaten. He even shows prints of babies who, he claims, were forcibly aborted by the authorities. Fr. Khai says he carried out proper burials on each one.

He says the past few months spent “at the heart of the Church” has only deepened his “love and devotion to the causes of my Catholic brothers and sisters back home who still struggle and suffer every day for their faith in a ruthless regime.”

That suffering, he says, is “systematic” and “cunning” and comes in many guises from interference in episcopal appointments down to everyday discrimination in politics, the law and freedom of worship.

“The government uses all forces at their disposal, including the state media, the political apparatus, the laws and the public education system to stop the growth of the Catholic Church at all costs.”

“Catholics in every part of Vietnam are considered second-class citizens, deserving discrimination in legal treatment” he concludes.

His key message is that he not only wants the outside world to protest but also to pray for Vietnam, a country he believes is ripe for the message of Jesus Christ and the Gospel.

“Vietnamese society as a whole is thirsty for truth and justice and their result which is peace. They are tired of living under a regime full of lies, corruption and unjust treatment.”

“When the Catholic leadership is strong in promoting these fundamental values, they earn the respect and loyalty of the poor, the educated and the young people who are seeking.”

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14.7.11

Greenfield: «A permanente guerra civil islâmica »

O problema dos artigos de Daniel Greenfield é que são grandes e compostos apenas de chicha, sem gorduras que se possam extirpar. Há que lê-los integralmente:

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What the misreading of the Arab Spring as a revolutionary wave of democracy, rather than an explosion of existing tensions and longstanding civil wars, points to most is how thoroughly the 21st century Middle East expert has unlearned everything that his 19th century predecessor knew about the Muslim world.
The 19th century expert understood the Muslim world as essentially unchanging, seething with revolts and dynastic struggles, but still shackled to the chains of its cultural and moral limitations. But the 21st century expert insists on a progressive version of history, in which humanity is always moving upward. Where each event, good or bad, is a phase in historical development.

A 150 years ago, a Western observer reporting on a Muslim ruler being driven out of power by an alliance of oligarchies and an angry mob would have said that it was the same sort of thing that had been going on in the region forever. His conclusion might have been cynical, even bigoted, but it would have also been realistic.

The 21st century expert is too busy looking to the future to notice the past. The only history in the Muslim world that he is concerned with is colonial history, the tale of wrongs inflicted by Europeans on the noble inhabitants, and of the tremendous culture and great achievements of the locals. This mishmash of history informs him that the advancement of the Muslim world was aborted by Western imperialism. And when Western imperialism is finally and utterly destroyed, then the Muslim world will resume its high standards of civic culture.

The Arab Spring, with its violent overthrow of Western backed rulers, seems promising to him. Finally progressive organizations like the Muslim Brotherhood will have their chance to restore an advanced civilizations to the noble principles of the Koran.

There is nothing wrong with this formulation that he can see. "Everyone" knows that Islam is better, kinder, nobler and more technically advanced than Christianity or Judaism. It may have its fundamentalists lurking in dark caves, but what of abortion clinic bombers and settlers. When the Islamists are in charge-- surely a new era of freedom and enlightenment will follow.

Even the secularists are no better. Democracy is their idol, and the ballot box their altar. But what does democracy mean to nations divided by ethnicity, tribe and religion. And how does one negotiate a consensus through such irresolvable identities?

Lebanon is a demonstration of what multiculturalism mixed with Islam looks like in even a modern area with heavy European influence. A permanent civil war that can never be peacefully resolved. The Muslim world is no more peaceful, only more pacified by tyrants and tanks. Take away the tyrant and his tanks, and the civil war resumes, until it is pacified by another tyrant. The cycle repeats itself endlessly.

The Soviet Union was once referred to as a "Prison of Nations". But then so are all empires. The Muslim world is a broken empire, a vast collection of scattered pieces, subjugated peoples, wrecked cultures, sullen tribes and rival families crowded together into one Muslim identity. With nothing in common but their hatred of the infidel.

The Muslim world can never be at peace, because Muslims are not at peace with themselves. And their governments are built on some form of negotiated alliance, just as can be seen in its crude form in Afghanistan where warlords pledge allegiance in exchange for bribes, between tribes, communities and powerful families. When the alliance shifts or a ruler shows weakness, the infrastructure of government comes tumbling down.
The Arab Spring is an unglamorous as all that. Not any different at its base than an Afghan warlord changing his loyalties. For all that it's dressed up in Twitter activism, posed photos and banners-- it's the same game with a better logo. Mobs didn't begin overthrowing Arab rulers when Twitter was invented. They won't stop when everyone has forgotten what Twitter was.

Without progress, the future can only be an imperfect continuation of the past. And progress comes from self-doubt leading to reform. Reform is not a matter of denouncing politicians, but of denouncing yourself. The Muslim world is full of denunciations, but they are strictly partisan and external. The family blames the tribe. The tribe blames the party. The party blames the government. The government blames the Turks, the English, the Zionists or the Americans. Thus the problem is exorcised and immortalized.

Blame is assigned to a foreign scapegoat. And the 21st century expert pursues the scapegoat whether it's American foreign policy or Israeli settlements or the price of wheat or the World Trade Organization. And this is what makes him, with his Kindle displaying the latest issue of The Economist, his watch set to three time zones, and his Flickr page full of photos of him posing with native boys, so much dimmer than his 19th century predecessor. It's not so much what he knows, as what he doesn't know, and has no idea that he doesn't know. And wouldn't listen to if he were told.

Eventually the scapegoat is corralled, kicked and beaten. A revolution ensues. The crowds cheer. Photos are taken of protesters heroically tossing Molotov cocktails through the air at the police. A decade later the protesters are wearing police uniforms and torturing protesters in hidden cellars. Whatever freedom there was under the previous regime has dissipated. Everyone lives in fear and blames the 21st century experts and their foreign policy for it.

This Groundhog Day is so difficult to dismiss because it is embedded in the very fractures that caused all this to come about. The Islamic conquests did not bring forth a golden age, but an age of slaves. Millions of peoples had their culture partly or wholly destroyed. Then after the caliphates fell, the Western democracies came in, colored in their borders and expected everything to go alright so long as there were regular elections.

The Muslim world only has Islam as its common consensus, and the only means of governance that it offers is rule by conquest, and authority through Quranic scripture. Neither of those represent any sort of enduring consensus. The kings who trace their lineage back to Mohammed and the Imams who shout for democracy, so long as it puts them in power, are the pathetic end of this fractured philosophy.

There are high minded ideals aplenty, but no way to implement them. Muslims soothe each other with stories of their own nobility and greatness, useless substitutes for the real thing. But a government that isn't composed of a handful of powerful families, an army colonel or an oligarchy of clerics is a rare thing. And none of these can last.

The Hashemites went from ruling three countries, to ruling a small kingdom under Israeli and American protection. The Saudis who replaced them may fall just as quickly when the wheel turns. Egypt may be headed toward clerical rule, just as Iran is headed away from it. And if not that, then military rule. One old mistake will do as well as another.
Tellingly what doesn't work is democracy. Democracy didn't keep the Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq from killing each other. Or the Kurds from carving out their own separate state. And it didn't keep the Christians from being hounded out. These divisions are adequate testimony to the cultural inadequacy of trying to build a national consensus on so thin a soil.

The Muslim world prides itself on its wisdom, but its wisdom is futility. It can see conspiracies in a grain of sand, but not redeem its own flaws or treat its own wounds. Mohammed and his successors did not unite the peoples who fell under their rule, they retarded them. They made it impossible for them to develop and then wrapped that retardation in the banner of Islam. And out of that has come the permanent Muslim civil war.

What boils in the streets of great cities is the same pattern of violence and betrayal, aspiration and disintegration, that played out long ago on the hot desert sands. The conflicts of cultures unable to move past their own tribalism. Unwilling to leave behind the chains of their past and become true peoples and nations, rather than the slaves of Islam.
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13.7.11

O Pe. Botros, Flagelo do Islão, está de volta

É árabe e cristão. Lê o Alcorão e discute-o com quem tem coragem de o fazer. Fala aos corações e às mentes e às almas dos muçulmanos. É considerado instrumento de milhões de conversões de muçulmanos a Cristo. Por isso, é o Inimigo nº 1 do islão e sob ele pende uma fatwa que promete 60.000.000 de dólares a quem o matar.
É o Padre Zakaria Botros. Que Deus o assista!

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Father Zakaria Botros, also known as Islam's "Public Enemy #1," is back.

Scourge of Islam; Lover of Muslims

From around 2005-2010, this 76 year-old Coptic priest was Islam's bane. Appearing weekly on Arabic satellite, where he was viewed by an estimated 60 million people worldwide, mostly Muslims, he meticulously exposed any number of theological problems with Islam—all from Islam's own books—while simultaneously evangelizing from his own book, the Bible.

His mission "is to attack Islam, not to attack Muslims but to save them because they are deceived. As I love Muslims, I hate Islam."

And he has been effective: Mass conversions to Christianity, open and clandestine, have resulted. Indeed, years back al-Jazeera aired a segment complaining about Fr. Zakaria's "unprecedented evangelical raid" on the Muslim world; similarly, one Sheikh Ahmad al-Qatani lamented that as many as six million Muslims annually "apostatize" to Christianity.

Unsurprisingly, Fr. Zakaria's exploits caused al-Qaeda to proclaim him "one of the most wanted infidels in the world," putting a $60 million bounty on his head; undeterred, the priest kept going, his viewers and converts multiplying by the week.

Then, in May 2010, after a particularly graphic episode on Muhammad, his shows inexplicably stopped airing. His enemies exulted. Muslim leaders, preachers, and sheikhs appeared on TV, gleefully announcing that Allah had silenced the great enemy of Islam.

Yet, over a year after his many foes—external and internal, Muslim and non-Muslim—have managed to stifle him, Fr. Zakaria is back on satellite, now with his own station Fady TV (Redeemer TV), "a channel for those searching for the truth."

Though other Islam-critics and evangelists have appeared on Arabic satellite since, many with a good following, it is clear that people have not forgotten the priest, the original trailblazer of open and honest talk on Islam—the original scourge of Islam.

Watching the first episode of his new show, "Knowledge of the Truth," was like witnessing a reunion between a lost flock and its spiritual shepherd. Viewer after viewer—Christians and Muslims, much more of the latter—called in to express how much they had sorely missed the evangelist, and how happy they were to see him again, some in tears, others in joyous laughter.

And while their words were full of sincere and enthusiastic praise—many insisted that he is a living saint, others a modern day St. Paul—it was only when an elderly-sounding woman asserted that everyone must support Fr. Zakaria, not for his sake, but for the sake of his work liberating Muslims from bondage, that the normally stoic Zakaria broke down in tears.

Why is Fr. Zakaria so loved—and hated? For starters, as a native Arabic-speaker, he takes his message straight to the heart of the Islamic world; as a man of God, he takes his message straight to the heart of Muslims—something the Western approach cannot achieve.

You see, while Western critics are limited to making secular arguments against specific aspects of Islam—for instance, that it is illiberal, intolerant, sexist—he makes spiritual arguments against the very foundations of the religion.

This is not to say that Western polemics are not beneficial; they are, in that they awaken Western peoples to the nature of Islam. However, arguing or even proving that Islam falls short of Western/secular standards has little impact on Muslims—except perhaps to make them more tenacious of their faith (the inevitable result of comparing apples and oranges).

But an attack on the veracity of the religion itself—an attack articulated through a spiritual as opposed to a secular paradigm—must be confronted by Muslims.

In short, Fr. Zakaria's success rests in the fact that he fights fire with fire; that he speaks the same language Muslims do—not just literally, Arabic, but more importantly, figuratively, the language of religion and faith, the language of God. He cannot simply be ignored.

For example, during this, his first episode, he discussed Sheikh Huwaini's recent assertions that Islam advocates plundering, enslaving, buying, and selling infidels. Many have written about this anecdote either to show that Islam is intrinsically violent, or that "radical Islamism" is spreading, or that Islamic teachings are incompatible with the West.

But Fr. Zakaria takes it a step further—takes it right to the heart of the matter. After asserting that "God created mankind in his image," he sincerely addressed his Muslim viewers: "Would God truly want you to kill your neighbor, to enslave him? Would the Almighty truly want believers to buy and sell other human beings like animals? Think people! Use your minds, listen to your hearts—for your souls are at stake!"

The same reason the secular mindset may find this approach too simplistic or "unsophisticated" is the same reason it is far from comprehending Islam.

Still in its early stages of development and financially challenged, Fady TV has yet to reach the Middle East, where the real battle for souls is waged, though the priest is hopeful. The station is set to air entire programs dedicated to examining various topics in depth, including the Koran, the Hadith, Muhammad, and Allah.

As I previously did, I plan on following and summarizing Fr. Zakaria's programs. See for example "The Perverse Sexual Habits of the Prophet" and "Was Muhammad a Messenger from God or Satan?" for a sampling.

For more information on this singular priest, read his exclusive 2009 FPM interview, wherein he discussed his life story, including the torments he experienced for preaching to Muslims in Egypt. Also, to get a feel for his very "non-dhimmi" approach, watch his famous "Ten Demands of Islam."

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10.7.11

Austrália: consultor despedido por ler o Alcorão, citá-lo e tirar conclusões lógicas

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What did Joseph Adams say that was inaccurate? What did he say that was false? If Muhammad was not "the first terrorist of Islam," did he not say that he was, according to Islamic tradition? "I have been made victorious through terror" (Bukhari 4.52.220).

"Lib adviser sacked after anti-Islam web posts," by Heath Aston for the Sydney Morning Herald, July 10:

THE O'Farrell government has been embarrassed by a Liberal adviser who posted anti-Islamic comments online, including a description of the Prophet Muhammad as ''the first terrorist of Islam''.

Joseph Adams, who worked in the electorate office of the Smithfield Liberal, Andrew Rohan, was sacked on Friday. Mr Adams, pictured, had angered some of his 1000 Facebook friends - which include 15 state government MPs and four ministers - with selected excerpts from the Koran which he said prove Islam promotes killing, not love.

He was labelled a ''bigot'' and the ''biggest f---ing racist ever'' by shocked friends.

What race is Islam again?

A record of his posts between March 24 and June 17, obtained by The Sun-Herald, show the criticism only spurred him on to make more offensive remarks.

''The religious babble you refer to is Islam,'' he commented on June 4. ''There was no war. It was terrorism. Muhammad was the first terrorist in the name of Islam.''

He followed up with: "Why are you getting upset? I'm not the one who is teaching others to kill in the name of Islam. Mohommed is not my hero.''

Do Islamic jihadists not kill in the name of Islam? They consistently and unanimously explain and justify their actions with references to Islamic texts and teachings.

On March 24, he taunted ''friend'' Faten Dabs with the comment: ''If you leave Islam it is HALAL for you to be EXECUTED. Lol. No wonder people are afraid to leave Islam.''

Does Islam not have a death penalty for apostasy? Do not all the sects of Islam and schools of Islamic jurisprudence teach this? Did not Muhammad say, according to Islamic tradition, "Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him" (Bukhari 9.84.57)?

After being branded a bigot on Facebook , he responded: ''Your biblical quotes are as ridiculous as your comparisons. I guess you never paid attention at Sunday school. Jesus spoke in parables. Mohommed on the other hand gave orders to kill.

Did not Muhammad say, according to Islamic tradition, "If you gain a victory over the men of Jews, kill them" (Sunan Abu Dawud, 19.2996)?

''You seem to like standing up for killers and murderers. Is Ivan Milat a good person too? Perhaps you think Hitler was a great Prophet too? After all he did put a book together called Mein Kampf. Don't waste our time here Aaron. The only bigot here is someone with an uninformed view.''

Indeed.

Mr Adams, who identifies himself as an Australian of Assyrian Christian descent, told The Sun-Herald on Friday that he was not ''thinking politically'' when he made the remarks.

''Rather than listen to what people say about the Koran I decided I would read it myself,'' he said.

''It was nothing political, it was out of pure emotion. I didn't think it would be used against me and people would accuse me of being racist.

''What I did was a mistake, I did not think it would be used for political purposes. In my mind I was living in a free society where we value free speech. Why should religion be a taboo subject?''

Indeed.

But the Premier, Barry O'Farrell, did not agree. Late on Friday a government spokesman said in a statement: ''The comments were totally inappropriate and the staff member has already been terminated.''

Gutless dhimmi.

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