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Isil want to assassinate the Pope, says Iraq's ambassador to Vatican
The Telegraph ^ | September 16, 2014 | Nick Squires

Posted on 09/16/2014 3:12:47 PM PDT by NYer

Pope Francis is at risk of an assassination attempt by the Islamic extremists of Isil, the Vatican has been warned, ahead of his first visit to a Muslim-majority country this weekend.

As the 77-year-old pontiff prepares to travel to Albania on Sunday for a one-day visit, Iraq's ambassador to the Holy See said there were credible threats against the pontiff's life.

The leader of the Roman Catholic Church could also be vulnerable when he travels to Turkey in November, the ambassador said.

Jihadists from Isil have in recent weeks boasted of wanting to extend their caliphate to Rome, the heart of Western Christendom, and have talked of planting the jihadist black flag on top of St Peter's Basilica.

Habeeb Al Sadr said there were also indications of a more specific threat against Pope Francis, who recently spoke out in favour of the US and its allies halting the advance of Isil in Syria and Iraq.>

"What has been declared by the self-declared Islamic State is clear – they want to kill the Pope. The threats against the Pope are credible," the ambassador told La Nazione, an Italian daily, on Tuesday.

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The ambassador said the Pope had made himself a target by speaking out against the human rights abuses committed against Christians in Syria and Iraq, as well as by his approval of attempts by the US to try to roll back Isil.


(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; Ministry/Outreach; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: catholic; isil; pope
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To: NYer

Isn’t The Telegraph a British rag anyway?


21 posted on 09/16/2014 4:37:54 PM PDT by piusv
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To: mlizzy

[ Many prayers for Pope Francis.

I heard ISIS say on Fox that the purpose behind their violence is to start up WWIII, to get rid of most of the population, so they can start up a world of their own. ]

Interesting take on WWIII:

http://www.barnhardt.biz/2014/09/14/octet/


22 posted on 09/16/2014 4:38:33 PM PDT by GraceG (No, My Initials are not A.B.)
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To: NYer

Obama has offered to provide cover... for the assassins


23 posted on 09/16/2014 4:52:20 PM PDT by Viennacon (ILLEGALS ARE VIRAL WEAPONS!!)
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To: NYer

Sometime I wish mafia was still in power just sayin


24 posted on 09/16/2014 4:53:01 PM PDT by SevenofNine (We are Freepers, all your media bases belong to us ,resistance is futile)
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To: GraceG
Thank you Grace. I think Ann may be correct in that war may never be declared yet millions will die all around us. I also agree with her that the beheadings are now taking a second to football, etc. I think we have become numb through 40 years of abortion. I also agree with her that abortion has to stop when "the war" is over. I contacted Pro-Life Action League regarding the 2014 March for Life, and asked them if there would be a Eucharistic Procession, and they said they did not think one was planned. I asked them why, and didn't really get much of an answer.

While their walk might be a great way for pro-life people to congregate and support one another and pray, they have failed [every year that I know of] to invite the most important "Speaker."

I see Ann is not a fan of Sarah Palin. We are huge Bobby Jindal fans, and see him (or someone just like him) as the only chance for our country.

Pray for the Pope, and Pray for Bobby J.

http://adorationrocks.com
https://www.facebook.com/adorationforbobbyjindal
25 posted on 09/16/2014 5:21:46 PM PDT by mlizzy ("If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended." --Mother Teresa)
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To: NYer
This is a good quote NYer:
"I firmly believe that if every one of the billion plus Catholics in the world spent an hour one day a week before the Blessed Sacrament, every major crisis, every major scandal, abortion and acts of international terrorism would stop!" -Fr. Louis Guardiola

26 posted on 09/16/2014 5:46:27 PM PDT by mlizzy ("If people spent an hour a week in Eucharistic Adoration, abortion would be ended." --Mother Teresa)
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To: Slyfox

Yes, he was.


27 posted on 09/16/2014 5:50:33 PM PDT by left that other site (You shall know the Truth, and The Truth Shall Set You Free.)
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To: vladimir998
Memo from the white hut:


28 posted on 09/16/2014 7:55:00 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Caipirabob

That’s not the kind of angry response I was talking about. I was thinking more along the lines of what happened in Brazil in the mid-1990s when a “bishop” from the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God ticked off tens of millions of Catholics for desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary on television,

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/1995/december11/5te64a.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chute_na_santa_incident : look at the quote from Dom Eugênio de Araújo Sales, then Archbishop of Rio de Janeiro: “unless we control our emotions, there is the risk of a holy war.”

This video doesn’t show anywhere near what he really did as detailed in the Christianity Today article above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=834hzXZgiL8


29 posted on 09/16/2014 8:23:50 PM PDT by vladimir998
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To: NYer

Pope Francis has spoken of the possibility of assassination:

“I am not afraid. I am reckless, but not afraid. .... When it happens, it will be as God wills. But, before the trip, I went to see the popemobile that was supposed to be sent to Brazil. It was all enclosed, with thick glass. If we want to be with the people we love, our friends, we want to communicate, not pay a visit in a glass house. No. I would not be able to see this big-heated people while shut up in a glass box.
And when I am in an automobile on the street, I open the window, so as to be able to stretch out my hand and greet the people. ... it’s all or nothing. ...
All the security forces ... know my lack of discipline in this sense. I came to visit these persons and I want to touch them.”
(Andrea Tornielli, “Fioretti: The Little Flowers of Pope Francis”, pp. 152, 153, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 2014.)

In his last book length interview with Seewald, Pope Benedict was asked if he feared assassination and he simply responded, “No.” So both the popes follow Luke 12:4,5, as did Pope St. John Paul who kept traveling after being shot and stabbed:

“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body but after that can do no more. I shall show you whom to fear. Be afraid of the one who after killing has the power to cast into Gehenna; yes, I tell you, be afraid of that one.”


30 posted on 09/17/2014 1:01:31 AM PDT by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: NYer

Pope Francis has spoken of the possibility of assassination:

“I am not afraid. I am reckless, but not afraid. .... When it happens, it will be as God wills. But, before the trip, I went to see the popemobile that was supposed to be sent to Brazil. It was all enclosed, with thick glass. If we want to be with the people we love, our friends, we want to communicate, not pay a visit in a glass house. No. I would not be able to see this big-hearted people while shut up in a glass box.
And when I am in an automobile on the street, I open the window, so as to be able to stretch out my hand and greet the people. ... it’s all or nothing. ...
All the security forces ... know my lack of discipline in this sense. I came to visit these persons and I want to touch them.”
(Andrea Tornielli, “Fioretti: The Little Flowers of Pope Francis”, pp. 152, 153, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 2014.)

In his last book length interview with Seewald, Pope Benedict was asked if he feared assassination and he simply responded, “No.” So both the popes follow Luke 12:4,5, as did Pope St. John Paul who kept traveling after being shot and stabbed:

“I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body but after that can do no more. I shall show you whom to fear. Be afraid of the one who after killing has the power to cast into Gehenna; yes, I tell you, be afraid of that one.”


31 posted on 09/17/2014 1:04:09 AM PDT by MDLION ("Trust in the Lord with all your heart" -Proverbs 3:5)
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To: John Robinson

Got to remember WHO the MUSLIMS really WORSHIP and IT IS NOT the SAME GOD as the Jews and Christians.


32 posted on 09/17/2014 4:26:57 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: John Robinson

Remember that the Muslim Allah is simply SATAN the DEVIL.


33 posted on 09/17/2014 4:29:39 AM PDT by Biggirl (“Go, do not be afraid, and serve”-Pope Francis)
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To: vladimir998
Yes, I'm just funnin' with what we can expect from DC types.

I'm aware of the type of response that Christians will be compelled to reply....

I look to the sample of the Catholics in Mexico fighting government socialist scum during the Cristiada

34 posted on 09/17/2014 4:43:01 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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