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.
Stabbings of Catholic priests in ‘secular’ Turkey is rather common given the small population of priests there.
Turkey has become quite the inhospitable place for Christians. I give your wife plenty of credit for trying to help anyway. Praise God that she came home in one piece!
Shouldn’t it translate to “and with Lazarus who once was poor”?
Either way, thanks for posting.
The lights are going out (again), all over the world. What was it we were told about Turkey when they wanted to get into NATO?
1) ISTANBUL, December 17, 2007 - A 19-year-old Muslim youth stabbed an Italian priest in the stomach yesterday after Sunday services outside a Catholic church in Turkey.
Father Adriano Franchini, 65, was hospitalized overnight in the Aegean city of Izmir, and hospital authorities expected to discharge him today, the Anatolia News Agency reported.
2) The attack comes amid a growing climate of violence against Turkey’s Christian minority population. In February 2006, Italian priest Andrea Santoro was killed while praying in his chapel in Trabzon by a 16-year-old. The attacker was reportedly motivated by anger over Danish cartoons of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad.
3) In April, two Turkish converts to Christianity and a German citizen were tortured and killed with knives by five young men at a Christian publishing house in Malatya, in southeastern Turkey. Although the confessed murderers were arrested at the scene and went on trial in late November, the two widowed plaintiffs have appealed to the Turkish judicial authorities to identify and prosecute the perpetrators behind the killers.
4) A Syrian Orthodox priest who was kidnapped in southeastern Turkey in late November managed to escape his captors – days later. Several of his captors have reportedly been arrested by Turkish authorities.
Don’t worry, the west will “get it”. It’s only a question of how many atrocities it will take.
Much as our own Islamist leaders declare, the violent offenders are "extremists" but we aren't allowed to discuss just WHAT that extremist ideology IS.
Nationalist of Islam.
And where the hell is Obama on all of this? When will the American Catholic clergy and laity stop this ecumenical nonsense? This stupid diversity and respect for other mentally deranged religions?
History lessons are to be learned from.
He was stabbed by his driver, who also happens to be a Catholic.
Not this time.
He was stabbed by his driver, who also happens to be a Catholic.
TROP=BS BS BS
*ping*
Article mentioned “National Extremist” attacks. The ideology of that extremism is not mentioned.
It never worked because it never happened. That is the myth.
Do not succumb to the myth.
This happens a lot in the west, too, what with those Christian extremists killing muslim clerics and all...no wait, actually...I don’t think that happens....
My bad.
Turkey is now past the point of no return.
Radical Mohammedism is there to stay until zapped out by radiation.
Where did you learn that his driver is Catholic?
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