Report: Pope’s secretary says Islam danger to Europe

From The Muslim News:
In an interview with a German newspaper, Monsignor Georg Gaenswein gave a warning against the spread of Islam in Europe, emphasising that political correctness must not blind the West to the threat to its Christian roots.
“We cannot deny the attempts to spread Islam in the West,” the private secretary, who is [...]

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Report: Bethlehem ‘Nativity terrorists’ allowed to return

From World Net Daily:
In a meeting today with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert granted permission for terrorist leaders expelled from Israel after seizing Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity in 2002 to return to Bethlehem, top Palestinian sources told WND.
The terrorists, members of Abbas’ Fatah militias, long have been accused [...]

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Article: Goodbye, Christendom. Hello, Caliphate

Don Feder / FrontPageMag:
An October 25, 2006 article published in The Brussels Journal quotes German author Henryk M. Broder, who told the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant that young Europeans who don’t want to live under a Caliphate should leave while they still can. Sitting on a balcony in Berlin, pointing to passersby, the author sadly [...]

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Scene: Don Pelayo at the cave of Covadonga

Proclamación de D. Pelayo – L. Madrazo (1855), Basílica de Covadonga – source
As Pelayo and his men looked down from the cave of Covadonga they saw a massive Muslim horde. Alkama and his men jeered, sure of an easy victory. A chill of fear compounded the chill of the cave but the indomitable leader, pointing [...]

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Report: Preserve Christian presence in Holy Land, Franciscan leader pleads

From Catholic World News:
Christians all around the world must support their fellow believers in the Holy Land, a Franciscan leader told the “Meeting for Friendship among Peoples” in Rimini, Italy, on August 21.
Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the head of the Franciscan Custody of the Holy Land, pleaded for support as he spoke to the tens [...]

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Report: Chinese bishop arrested: to silence Pope’s message?

From Catholic World News:
A prominent bishop of the underground Catholic Church in China was arrested on August 23, apparently to prevent him from distributing the Pope’s message to the Church in China.
Bishop Jia Zhiguo of the Zheng Ding diocese was taken into custody on Thursday morning, the US-based Cardinal Kung Foundation reports.
The bishop’s [...]

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Report: Spain: 36 percent claim to be practicing Catholics

From Catholic News Agency:
According to a survey conducted by the Investiga research firm, although 73.8 percent of Spaniards say they are Catholic, only 36 percent admit that they are practicing.
The study on “religious practice” surveyed 1,600 people over the age of 15. Of those interviewed, 73.8 percent said they are Catholic, 10.2 percent said [...]

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Report: Over 150,000 join in annual Vietnamese pilgrimage

From Catholic World News:
More than 150,000 Vietnamese, including Buddhists as well as Catholics, joined in the annual pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of La Vang for the feast of the Assumption, the AsiaNews service reports.
Well over 100 priests concelebrated Mass at the famous Marian shrine on August 15. The sanctuary at La [...]

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Article: Liberality, the Basis of Culture

Fr. Hugh Barbour / Chronicles:
“It is better to give light than merely to burn.” This is Aquinas’ tag to introduce his rationale for the life of the apostle being higher in dignity than that of the mere contemplative, since the apostle not only gazes lovingly at the Good but bestows it on others. This is [...]

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Report: Gaza Christians under Islamic threat

From Catholic News Agency:
The Christian minority in Gaza are under increasing pressure by Hamas to become Muslims, submit to Islamic law or leave the Gaza Strip, says a report by the Cybercast News Service.
Hamas, an Islamic terrorist group that won last year’s Palestinian parliamentary elections, completed a military takeover of the Gaza Strip in June, [...]

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