Don’t abrogate the responsibility to prevent radical Muslims from murdering Christians.
Western people and institutions could do more to prevent the slaughter of Christians, a Vatican cleric implied on the day after al-Shabaab’s Muslim militants besieged a university in Garissa, Kenya, and discriminately killed Christians.
“We risk, all of us, the institutions and the people of the Western world, to be Pontius Pilate who wash their hands of [these events],” warned Raniero Cantalamessa, the Vatican’s preacher of the pontifical household. Speaking during the Vatican’s Good Friday service in Rome, Cantalamessa referenced the early first-century Roman procurator who failed to use his authority to prevent the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and urged people not to “ignore that in many countries [Christians] are the most frequently targeted victims.”
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In a later Good Friday ceremony, the pope echoed similar concerns. He bemoaned, “We still see today our persecuted brothers, decapitated and crucified for their faith in [Jesus Christ], before our eyes and often with our complicit silence.”
On Thursday, the al Qaeda-linked, Islamic al-Shabaab militant group stormed Garissa University and killed nearly 150 people. The attack became one of the worst school shooting ever. The militants laid siege on the university for 15 hours, during which they separated Muslims from Christians. As was the case with the Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2013, the Christians were killed and some of the Muslims were spared.
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Following the siege at Garissa, al-Shabaab warned: “No amount of precaution or safety measures will be able to guarantee your safety, thwart another attack or prevent another bloodbath from occurring in your cities.” Kenyan cities, said the Islamists, “will run red with blood.”
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The history of the Roman Catholic Church’s crusades reminds us of the Vatican’s tendency to address its religious grievances politically and militarily—either directly or via proxies.
The Catholic Church’s penchant for military expeditions against Muslims (and other antagonists), and radical Islam’s seemingly unstoppable barbarism, will inevitably lead to yet another crusade.
Bible prophecy informs us that it will be the last “holy” war that Catholics and Muslims will ever fight. To understand why that is such good news, read Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry’s article “The Last Crusade.” ▪
Full article: Vatican Warning: Don’t Be Pontius Pilate (The Trumpet)
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