Posted on 03/24/2023 7:07:24 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Vatican Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue praised the Muslim period of Ramadan as 'important' to Christians in a message which contained no mention of Jesus Christ.
VATICAN CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The Vatican has issued Ramadan greetings to Muslims, writing that the Islamic period of Ramadan is important also to “Christians.”
In a message released March 24, the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue addressed the Muslim world via a “congratulatory message” under the title “Christians and Muslims: promoters of love and friendship.” Dated March 3, the message was signed by the Dicastery’s prefect, Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot, M.C.C.J, and its secretary.
“The month of Ramadan is important for you, but also for your friends, neighbours and fellow believers of other religions, in particular Christians,” wrote Guixot.
“Existing friendships are reinforced and others are built, paving the way for more peaceful, harmonious and joyful coexistence. This corresponds to the divine will for our communities, and indeed for all the members and communities of the one human family.”
Ramadan, the annual month-long event by which Muslims commemorate Mohammed’s “reception” of the Koran, is marked by fasting during the daylight hours. At the close of the month, a major celebration is kept to conclude the fast.
Addressing the Muslim world, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue highlighted the “challenges and threats” to “peaceful and friendly coexistence,” listing them as “extremism, radicalism, polemics, disputes, and religiously motivated violence.”
Citing a “culture of hate” as the fuel for this, Cardinal Guixot called on Muslims and Christians to enhance “love and friendship … due to the bonds that unite us.”
“This is why we deemed it opportune to share some thoughts with you in this regard, hoping to receive yours as well,” he said.
Drawing from the Second Vatican Council’s Nostra Aetate, Guixot argued that “[d]ifferences can.......
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Revelation 18:4
Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,
“Come out of her, my people,
lest you take part in her sins,
lest you share in her plagues;
I’ve been listening to Ram-A-Lam-A-Ding-Dong all day.
Such insanity
Ramadan means nothing to me
I can’t imagine why the Vatican would know what is, and isn’t, important to Christians.
Of course it doesn’t.
People don’t cherish others’ traditions.
Fine Muslims can have Ramadan, I don’t care.
Hindus can have Diwali, go have fun, it’s none of my business.
But don’t say we can’t have Easter or Christmas.
Years back, I worked with a man from Bangladesh. He was a muslim.
I came to work early one morning, and when I walked into the construction site office trailer, he was taping up newspaper and tin foil over all the trailer windows.
I asked him what ta heck he was doing. He then commenced to telling me that it was the start of Ramadan and that IF the windows were all taped up, Allah couldn’t see in, and we’d be good to eat anything that we wanted without fear of being killed.
I asked him if he was serious....he was serious.
I wasn’t living for the Lord back in those days, but I still told him that I didn’t fear some piss ant god that couldn’t see thru newspaper and that the real God could, and that the real God didn’t care what we ate.....
The office manager made him take all the newspaper down except for the small office room window where the muslim guy actually worked. It was crazy.
Huh???????
False religions, false prophets, and false gods are to be shunned, not praised.
A lot of people of faith look to Daniel and Revelations for what’s going on now. But don’t forget Thessalonians 2:3–12 esp 5-7. Link (not the best translation but decent): https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2%20Thessalonians%202%3A3-12&version=NIV
Really esp 7: “For the secret power of lawlessness is already at work; but the one who now holds it back will continue to do so till he is taken out of the way.”
Acts 4:12
Amen 🙏🏻!!!!
My bad. Left off the 2 at the front. It’s 2 Thessalonians.
Yup.
Bring back Charles the Hammer...
For those who don’t know it, Acts 4:12 says, “And there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
Charles Martel the Hammer?
It’s Lent and Bergoglio’s Vatican is pimping Ramadan.
Congratulations for going to Hell?
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