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Catholic bishop stabbed to death in Turkey
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Posted on 06/03/2010 6:27:05 AM PDT by fabrizio

Istanbul - A top Catholic Church official in Turkey was stabbed to death in his home on Thursday, Turkish television broadcasters reported.

The reports said Vicar Apostolic for the Anatolia region, Bishop Luigi Padovese, was killed by a driver in the bishop's home in Iskenderun.

Further details were not immediately known.

In recent years, nationalist extremists in Turkey on several occasions have attacked or kidnapped Christian clergymen in the country.

Luigi Padovese took up his post in Iskenderun in southern Turkey in November 2004.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: anatolia; anticatholic; antichristian; bishoppadovese; catholic; hatecrime; islam; islamicimperialism; islamicsupremacist; islamonazism; murder; padovese; persecution; rop; terror; turkey
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To: fabrizio

21 posted on 06/03/2010 6:55:11 AM PDT by Bean Counter (Stout hearts...)
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To: Grunthor
He was killed by a devotee of the "Religion of Peace".

Said devotee would just as happily kill you, "Infidel".

22 posted on 06/03/2010 6:56:45 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: HOYA97

Among the Muslim nutjobs of the world, Turks have unfairly been given a break from the west.

But they are just like the burnoose covered bastards from Saudi Arabia, and indeed all Muslims. First, last and always, a Muslim is a Muslim wherever they come from and I hope the west finally “gets it.”

This is another article for my ever growing collection of Islam as the Religion of Peace file.


23 posted on 06/03/2010 6:58:09 AM PDT by ZULU
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To: fabrizio

Anima eius et animae omnium fidelium
defunctorum per Dei misericordiam
requiescant in pace.

May his soul and the souls of all
the departed faithful by God’s mercy
rest in peace.


24 posted on 06/03/2010 6:59:55 AM PDT by pgkdan (I Miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Well it doesn’t give a motive. I mean, yeah it’s a muslim country and he was a Catholic but was there some other reason? Surely this was not justifiable, it’s just that I read no motive in the article, it was kind of dry and “matter-of-fact.”


25 posted on 06/03/2010 7:00:19 AM PDT by Grunthor (In Christ Alone, not man.)
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To: fabrizio

Amish again, eh?


26 posted on 06/03/2010 7:01:27 AM PDT by b4its2late (Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?)
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To: Grunthor
One wonders why he was killed.

Why did Constantinople get the works?

27 posted on 06/03/2010 7:01:35 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I don’t get it.


28 posted on 06/03/2010 7:03:16 AM PDT by Grunthor (In Christ Alone, not man.)
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To: HOYA97

Sorry to hear that. :( Glad she got out OK!


29 posted on 06/03/2010 7:04:51 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I don't have a 'Cousin Pookie'.)
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To: Grunthor

Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it’s Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That’s nobody’s business but the Turks.


30 posted on 06/03/2010 7:05:06 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

Ok.


31 posted on 06/03/2010 7:05:53 AM PDT by Grunthor (In Christ Alone, not man.)
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To: Grunthor

It’s nobody’s business but the Turks!


32 posted on 06/03/2010 7:06:48 AM PDT by Moose Burger
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To: fabrizio
"I HAVE SWORN UPON THE ALTAR OF GOD ETERNAL HOSTILITY TO EVERY FORM OF TYRANNY OVER THE MIND OF MAN"
--Thomas Jefferson
 
Every form.   Especially the religionist kind.
 

33 posted on 06/03/2010 7:09:02 AM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: fabrizio

When the messiah Yeshua returns that false, rot-gut religion of darkness and death will be done away with and exposed for the fraud that it is and has blinded millions through the centuries of time. ROD-—’Religion of death’ needs to meet it’s end for the benefit of all humanity.


34 posted on 06/03/2010 7:09:13 AM PDT by tflabo (Restore the Republic)
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To: Grunthor
From the article:

"In recent years, nationalist extremists in Turkey on several occasions have attacked or kidnapped Christian clergymen in the country."

For some of these clowns ROP is sufficient motive for killing an infidel.

35 posted on 06/03/2010 7:11:15 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

“In recent years, nationalist extremists in Turkey on several occasions have attacked or kidnapped Christian clergymen in the country.”

The above quote is a history lesson, not necessarily a motive for this horrible crime.


36 posted on 06/03/2010 7:13:31 AM PDT by Grunthor (In Christ Alone, not man.)
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To: fabrizio

May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the Mercy of God, rest in peace.


37 posted on 06/03/2010 7:13:49 AM PDT by pbear8 (the Lord is my light and my salvation)
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To: Feline_AIDS

They were “nationalist extremists”. Certainly not Mohammedans.


38 posted on 06/03/2010 7:16:21 AM PDT by ecomcon
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To: fabrizio

MARTYR PRO FIDELIBUS REQUIEM EIS DOMINE


39 posted on 06/03/2010 7:20:49 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
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To: AU72

Wonder if the military of Turk would step up again, or if they’re compromised too.

Not sure this shadow war is going very well right now.


40 posted on 06/03/2010 7:21:52 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
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