Posted on 06/08/2010 8:57:47 PM PDT by GonzoII
www.catholicnewsagency.com
Bishop Padovese canceled Cyprus trip to avoid assassination of Pope
The late Bishop Luigi Padovese and Pope Benedict.
Speaking to the Spanish daily El Pais, Fr. di Giacomo added that knowing this, Padovese canceled the tickets he had reserved to Cyprus for himself and Altun (his driver). He preferred to stay home rather than to make the trip because he feared that his driver would take advantage of his proximity to the Pope and make an attempt on his life. According to El Pais, the death of the Capuchin Franciscan bishop, known as an intellectual open to Islam, and who adored Turkey, occurred at a dramatic moment in the Middle East, right after Israel killed nine people (eight Turks and an American) in their assault on the humanitarian flotilla in international waters that attempted to pass through the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Another less-covered topic, which is nevertheless of concern to the Vatican, was the expulsion of 28 Christians from Morocco, El Pais added. The Spanish daily argued that the Moroccan government took advantage of the international chaos to deport the missionaries who worked with the poor because they perturbed the mentality of the good Muslim. In his interview with the Spanish daily, Fr. di Giacomo asserted that the expulsion was a consequence of the fatwa promulgated by 7,300 Moroccan Muslim doctors who recently declared that Christian charity ought to be considered religious terrorism. During the celebration of Bishop Padoveses funeral Mass, the Turkish TV station NTV announced that the 26 year-old driver, Murat Altun, had confessed to killing the bishop. He died after being stabbed 25 times, eight of them in his heart, and was almost completely decapitated by Altun, who said he murdered Bishop Padovese because he had received a divine inspiration. NTV added that Altun shouted Allahu Akbar a number of times after the murder, despite having presented himself as a Catholic.
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Ping.
A true Martyr for the faith....”greater love hath no man”
And Turkey slides deeper into the abyss of Islam bereft of modernity.
I hope this isn’t a stupid question, as I regard the man as heroic, but why couldn’t he pick his own driver, maybe a Catholic one?
BY that I mean KNOWN Catholic one.
Apparently they had their eye on him; to their credit.
fatwa promulgated by 7,300 Moroccan Muslim doctors who recently declared that Christian charity ought to be considered religious terrorism.
I’ve heard it all now.
Yeah, why didn’t he fire the suspected driver I wonder?
(May God bless him. He is a martyr who desires our respect.)
It would not surprise me at all to learn that the Turkish authorities knew that the driver they assigned was a Muslim, not a Catholic — and that the driver was a mole for the Turkish government, reporting every word and every movement.
Ping
Global jihad...never stops, never sleeps, focused on their cause.
Thanks for the ping Velveeta.
NTV added that Altun shouted Allahu Akbar a number of times after the murder, despite having presented himself as a Catholic.<<<<
There is no limit to their intent and actions.
Altun was, presumably, a Moose... how does a bishop end up getting stuck with a guy like that?
They need to be careful up there in Vatican Land. Moose can and do go under false flags for literally murderous purposes. It’s part of their religion (when we take a look at the previous pope kissing a Koran, I hope we keep that in mind).
Nothing seems to be too low for the Moose.
This sure jumped out at me.
They hijacked the word "martyr," changing it from "an innocent person killed for peacefully professing their faith," to "a terrorist who dies while in the act of assassinating others."
Now they've re-defined "religious terrorism" as "a Christian person giving food to the hungry, drink tpo the thirsty, medical care to the sick."
A dear friend at my parish, who often gives me a ride to and from Mass, has a Muslim cardiologist. I honestly worry about this. Islam --- fully developed --- is the systematic perversion of all good things, and the systematic false sanctification of evil.
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