GAZA—Parish priest, Father Gabriel Romanelli photographed saying mass, this evening, inside Holy Family Catholic Church in Gaza. Despite early reports circling on social media, the church was not destroyed. But hey, who cares about facts ?
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Posted on 07/17/2025 7:02:17 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Saudi Arabia on Thursday condemned an Israeli strike on a church in Gaza, denouncing Israel’s attacks on civilians and places of worship.
“These repeated assaults in the region require a serious international stance to end the crimes of the Israeli occupation, which threaten regional security and stability,” the Saudi foreign ministry said in a statement.
The Kingdom called on the international community – particularly the UN Security Council – to hold Israel accountable and to “activate international accountability mechanisms for these violations.”
(Excerpt) Read more at english.alarabiya.net ...
The Sunnis are not the really bad guys.
They are just the bad guys.
Because muslims in Saudi (the source of absolutely everything 9/11) are so protective of Christians.
The Saudis would murder you for opening a church:
“ Legal Context: Public worship of any religion other than Islam is illegal, enforced historically by the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Mutaween), though their powers were curtailed in 2016. Proselytizing by non-Muslims or any attempt to establish public non-Muslim religious institutions, such as a church, can be interpreted as apostasy or blasphemy, both of which are serious crimes under Saudi law.
• Potential Penalties:
• Apostasy: Conversion from Islam to another religion or promoting another religion publicly is considered apostasy, which can carry the death penalty if the accused does not recant. However, there have been no confirmed reports of executions for apostasy in recent times.
• Blasphemy or Proselytizing: Actions seen as promoting non-Islamic faiths, such as attempting to build a church, could lead to large fines, long prison terms, public floggings, or, in extreme cases, the death penalty, though the latter is rarely applied in modern times.”
As I stated....bad guys.
The Shiites are the REALLY bad guys.
That’s why I like a good game of “let’s you (Sunnis) and him (Shiites) fight”
The Allies in WWII did the same, many times. Most memorable is the siege of Monte Cassino in Italy.
An Iraq War veteran with deep knowledge of local motivations told me:
“If you stood the President of the United States and a 10 year old Sunni girl against the wall and gave the Shiite one bullet, he’d shoot the girl.”
There used to be 82 churches in Gaza. Now there are 3...barely. At least 20 have been destroyed by Hamas and their supporters since 2006 alone.
Here's a good article - from just yesterday - on how "Palestinians" have treated Christians in Gaza and the "West Bank":
PALESTINIAN ETHNIC CLEANSING OF CHRISTIANS IN THE HOLY LAND
Some low-lights:
In June 2007, the Sahwa Rosary School in Gaza was bombed and ransacked and copies of the Bible were burned.
Reverend Hanna Massad, pastor of the Gaza Baptist Church said at the time, “There is pressure and discrimination on all levels for all of the Christians in Gaza. Christians can’t openly wear their crosses outside."
His church was firebombed in the September 2006 riots.
Out of Gaza, in the Palestinian town of Jenin Reverend Tomey Daoud, head of the Greek Orthodox Church said, “The Islamic people want to kill us. That’s their principle and belief. They don’t want Christians in this country. They don’t want to hear our names. They don’t want to see us. That’s the reality.”
this hypocritical statement from an anti-Christian nation 50 times Israel’s size and which essentially outlaws, does not allow Christianity in its borders
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expresses “deep sorrow”......
“apologizes” for the killing and maiming from Israel’s bombing a Catholic Church in Gaza.
And here we are gaslighted by Israel that all those Gazans need to be annihilated because they’re nothing but hate-filled Muslim terrorists. No mention of Gazan Catholics....... and other Gazan Christians........
On 24 October this year, Joe Biden, then-President, said that the US supports Israel based on “our principles, ideals, [and] values. They are the same values,” Biden emphasized.
He is talking about “values and ideals,” giving the sap-happy impression that the US and Israel “share the noble ideals and principles of freedom and equally value democracy, where human rights and law are highly regarded.........even for Christians. “
This is a far-from-reality comment, and it makes Biden, as President, complicit in what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip and to Gazans.
When Hamas Resistance fighters attacked Israel, Mr. Biden made it his sacred mission to step up his support for Israel by offering the Occupation State unprecedented financial, political and expertise support.
Biden first announced, and got Congress approval for $14.5bn foe Israel. The colossal sum of money gives the impression that tiny Israel is fighting another superpower, not “terrorists”, as it calls Hamas.
Of course, this is aside from the annual $4bn that Israel gets in military aid from the Christian American taxpayers. Some of the extra windfall came in the form of military equipment, including the top line bombs from Christian American defense weapons that are being used by Israel to kill, maim and displace Palestinians across the Gaza Strip.
The idea of “shared” values between Tel Aviv and Washington raises questions:
<><>what is the shared noble values that both capitals have in common?
<><>What US interests compel it to support Israel?
<><>What is the single US interest in the death of more than 15,000 Palestinians
<><>what kind of shared US interest is served by repeatedly displacing over 1 million Palestinians after denying them food, medicine, water, medical care and safe shelter?
Over the last 75 years of its bloody history, Israel has not only enjoyed, as Mr. Biden said, “iron-clad” military commitment of Christian US, but its Christian-financed political protection on any international stage wherever Israel is called out, for whatever disaster it has committed.
Israel never stops committing the kind of ugliness unimaginable in the 21 century, like what it is doing in Gaza, always counting on “Christian America’s” help.
The Sunnis are the REALLY bad guys, and the Shiites are the bad guys.
The only reason the Shiites are bad is because of Iran and Hezbollah.
However, the Sunnis have Al Qaeda, ISIS, the Taliban, Boko Haram in Nigeria, Al Shabaab in Somalia, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Al-Nusra Front; Abu Sayyaf on the Philippines, Ansar Bayt in Egypt, Ansar Al Sharia in Libya, AG Maghreb in Algeria and Mauritania, AQAP in Saudi Arabia, Jemaah Islamiyah in Indonesia, Jaish-e-Mohammed in Pakistan, and a whole list of other players!
All of them Sunni, all with Saudi financial support.
There is also Hamas, which is Sunni, but partially supported by Iran (one of the interesting cases of an Shia group supporting a Sunni outfit) …unlike the others above that are all supported by our ally, Saudi Arabia.
I strongly believe the only reason some FReepers think Shia are worse is because of decades of Saudi propaganda and such. Even in movies, the terrorists are Shia, which I’ve always found interesting. Not because the Shia are good …a pox on both houses …but because of how the Sunni terror networks are always in the news, but are almost always ignored because they are supported by Saudi Arabia (an ally) whereas the Shia networks are supported by Iran (an enemy). The Sunni networks only come into play when they cause 9/11, or attack the USS Cole, or blow up American embassies.
Such stuff.
Otherwise it is always the ‘very bad’ Shia in the movies and the news, with the Sunni/Saudis/Pakistanis mostly ignored …
…yet, in real life, if you are ever killed by a terrorist it is almost certainly going to be a Sunni terrorist that had some Saudi money involved somehow that will be holding the bomb.
*: Because there are none!
Mad Mo is very jealous and tolerates no competition.
Only muslims may oppress catholics. You butt out.
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