(AsiaNews) – A further outrage was committed last night against the Franciscan church adjoining the Cenacle on Mount Zion, next to the Room of the Last Supper (pictured, Benedict XVI’s visit in May 2009).
Obscene graffiti on the doors leading to the church read “We killed Jesus", "Christians out" (in English and Hebrew) and "F... off", which were adorned with a "Star of David", apparently so as to leave no one in doubt about the religious affiliation of the perpetrators.
To make the point further, the assailants had urinated on the door and left a long trail of urine leading to it.
According to churchmen at the site, the urination on the door of the shrine has become an almost daily event....
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Thursday, December 17, 2009
Christians Persecuted In Holy Land By Muslims And Jews
THE CATHOLIC KNIGHT: This Christmas pray for our Catholic brethren in the Holy Land, the REAL victims of all the violence in the middle east. Yes, I said it. The REAL victims. Yes, there are Muslim victims, and yes, there are Jewish victims, but both parties are in perpetual war with each other, each committing their own atrocities. What of the Christians however, the forgotten victims of the middle east. How many atrocities did they commit this year? Answer = zero. When was the last time you heard of a Palestinian Christian blowing himself up in a crowded marketplace, or an Israeli Christian authorizing the demolition of a residential neighborhood? Answer = never. Yet Christians suffer at the hands of both Muslims and Jews in the Holy Land, for no other reason than just existing...
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Anti-Catholicism,
Israel,
Persecution
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this disgusts me...I never thought of the middle east problem from the Christian perspective and reading this...makes me so angry. Why is there so much hate in the hearts of the perpetrators? I'll be praying for our brothers & sisters!
"When was the last time you heard of a Palestinian Christian blowing himself up in a crowded marketplace"
Ever heard of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine?
And some Catholics in the region are not so innocent Catholic Knight. I am sure you are familiar with the fascism that shapes the ethos of the Maronite Phalangists who had no problem slaughtering 2500 Palestinians in 1982, right?
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine was a Socialist/Marxist group. Granted there were members who claimed the name Christian, but these were nonpracticing liberals who had nothing in common with the Christian religion since Christianity an Marxism are incompatible.
As for the Marionite Phalangists, you're talking about a faction of the Civil War in Lebanon. That war had multiple groups fighting each other, Muslim and Israeli Jews, plus Christians fighing for the preservation of their homeland. This has nothing to do with Catholics and their shines in Israel/Palestine.
Curious however is the religious affiliation of those who commited this latest act of vandalism and desecration. They are clearly Jewish, probably young men. I've seen this before. Unlike the previous generations, the generation of young Jewish men rising up in Isreal today are militant, supremicist and in many ways racist. They regard the land is theirs, given to them by God, and have repeatedly expressed a willingness toward violence to get what they want. Ironically, it reminds me of the activities of the Brownshirts during the early days of the Third Reich, though they don't seem to be nearly as organized. Perhaps this is just isolated gang activitiy and nothing more than that. We can only hope. But increasingly it becomes appearent that Christians, particularly Catholics, have no friends in Israel/Palestine, so it would seem, they are universally hated by all.
and the Pope keeps "dialoging" with Jews!! an exercise in futility. Pete Frey
I disagree Pete. I really don't think there is any harm in "dialogue" in and of itself. I do think there is harm when one religion starts dictating religious precepts to another.
Sadly, this has happened in Catholicism's "dialogue" with Judaism, in the sense that the pope, and various bishops, have at times felt pressure to compromise long standing Christian traditions in the hope of gaining the favor of Jews. I understand their rationale to remove all unnecessary obstacles, but in experience we find that rather than appreciation, what we get is defamation and further demands for more compromise. In this sense, there is no evidence of reciprocity, and because of that, these compromises in the name of "dialogue" must be stopped and questioned.
Dialogue yes, compromise no. That's the lesson we should learn in our dealings with the Jews. You'll find that some rabbis have been just as much disturbed by Catholicism's compromises as traditional Catholics have. In fact, some conservative orthodox rabbis have warned Catholics that many of the people they're pursuing dialogue with are more Zionist than Jewish, and because of this their motives for "dialogue" should be questioned.
What we need to remember is that Judaism is not a monolith. Some Jews are Zionists, others are not. Some Jews are anti-Catholic, others are not. There really needs to be a distinction between different Jews so that Catholics can get a better idea of who their dealing with. Personally I think that distinction runs along the lines of Zionism, and to be quite honest with you, I've encountered more Christian Zionists in my life than Jewish Zionists, of which the anti-Catholic vitriol is just as venomous.
neverthelss, Mr Knight, it DOES seem that the church HAS compromised its teaching by flatly rejecting the need for Jews to convert to the true religion, and has abandoned all efforts at evangelization.
I agree that many fundamentalists still see secular Israel as "prophetic" for the end times, and as such, as you alluded, another means for anti-catholicism. Pete Frey
and of course it never occured to any of you that MUSLIMS frequently lie and make pretend they are JEWS to make Jews look like the offenders
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