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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

Stabbings of Catholic priests in ‘secular’ Turkey is rather common given the small population of priests there.


41 posted on 06/03/2010 7:24:11 AM PDT by WaterBoard
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To: HOYA97

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!


42 posted on 06/03/2010 7:24:38 AM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk
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To: PanzerKardinal

Shouldn’t it translate to “and with Lazarus who once was poor”?

Either way, thanks for posting.


43 posted on 06/03/2010 7:25:05 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
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To: CondorFlight
Lord, may you take this holy man's soul unto you and have him rest peacefully with you always.
44 posted on 06/03/2010 7:25:49 AM PDT by Mrs. Frogjerk
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To: HOYA97

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?


45 posted on 06/03/2010 7:26:04 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
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To: WaterBoard

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.


46 posted on 06/03/2010 7:27:06 AM PDT by WaterBoard
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To: ZULU

Don’t worry, the west will “get it”. It’s only a question of how many atrocities it will take.


47 posted on 06/03/2010 7:27:45 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Can around 25-30% moonbat base really steal the country from us and hold it?)
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To: fabrizio
In recent years, nationalist extremists in Turkey on several occasions have attacked or kidnapped Christian clergymen

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.

48 posted on 06/03/2010 7:36:03 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: ecomcon

Nationalist of Islam.


49 posted on 06/03/2010 7:36:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: PanzerKardinal

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?


50 posted on 06/03/2010 7:42:57 AM PDT by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Grunthor

History lessons are to be learned from.


51 posted on 06/03/2010 7:44:10 AM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: All

He was stabbed by his driver, who also happens to be a Catholic.


52 posted on 06/03/2010 7:47:50 AM PDT by morrandir
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To: a fool in paradise

Not this time.

He was stabbed by his driver, who also happens to be a Catholic.


53 posted on 06/03/2010 7:47:50 AM PDT by morrandir
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To: fabrizio

TROP=BS BS BS


54 posted on 06/03/2010 7:48:47 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: narses; wagglebee

*ping*


55 posted on 06/03/2010 7:49:30 AM PDT by hennie pennie
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To: morrandir

Article mentioned “National Extremist” attacks. The ideology of that extremism is not mentioned.


56 posted on 06/03/2010 7:51:51 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Throw the bums out in 2010.)
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To: AU72

It never worked because it never happened. That is the myth.

Do not succumb to the myth.


57 posted on 06/03/2010 7:53:12 AM PDT by eleni121 (For Jesus did not give us a timid spirit , but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline)
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To: fabrizio

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.


58 posted on 06/03/2010 7:55:39 AM PDT by henkster (A broken government does not merit full faith and credit.)
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To: fabrizio

Turkey is now past the point of no return.

Radical Mohammedism is there to stay until zapped out by radiation.


59 posted on 06/03/2010 7:58:47 AM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: morrandir

Where did you learn that his driver is Catholic?


60 posted on 06/03/2010 8:01:11 AM PDT by Hieronymus
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