Wednesday, February 3, 2021

BISHOPS DERIDE BIDEN’S HYPOCRISY NEWS: VIDEO REPORTS...by Paul Murano • ChurchMilitant.com • February 2, 2021 83 Comments Secular media take notice

 

BISHOPS DERIDE BIDEN’S HYPOCRISY

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Joe Biden's anti-life agenda is becoming obvious, despite his administration's claim.

Archbishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas, who chairs the U.S. bishops' pro-life activities, stepped up to the plate Thursday evening. In his homily in the annual March for Life vigil Mass, Naumann mentioned that abortion is not simply a theological issue but a scientific and factual one. The archbishop emphasized the unique humanity of each unborn child.

The prelate called out the apparent contradiction of Catholic politicians (like Biden) who support prenatal murder while claiming to be personally opposed.

In an interview with EWTN on Thursday, Naumann bemoaned the anti-life executive orders signed by the so-called Catholic president. As a true shepherd, Naumann fears for Biden's salvation, owing to the president's support for killing the unborn.

As Church Militant reported, Cdl. Raymond Burke chastised Biden's plan to codify abortion, and the U.S. bishops issued a stern warning to Biden.

While the Luciferian media clings to its pro-death agenda, and while most bishops remain silent, at least some secular news outfits are reporting on the blatant hypocrisy.

 

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EXPORTING ABORTION NEWS: VIDEO REPORTS...by David Nussman • ChurchMilitant.com • February 3, 2021 Africans call out Biden

 

EXPORTING ABORTION

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"We all deserve the right to live," said Matthew, a operations professional.

"Abortion is murder. And funding it makes you an accessory. Please, don't do it," said Mary Esther, a banker.

Africans are pleading with Joe Biden to keep his pro-abortion policies out of their homeland.

"I'm against abortion because abortion is about killing innocent babies in the womb of their mothers," said Ellen, a student.

This is from a recent video produced by pro-life group Culture of Life Africa featuring comments from ordinary people across the continent.

"Funding abortion in Africa may sound like a good idea, but it's not. Save life, don't kill us," said Michael, an entrepreneur. 

Obianuju Ekeocha, Nigerian-born founder of the pro-life organization, has often warned Western countries use foreign aid as leverage to thrust abortion, contraception and more onto African countries.

"Why is it that, at this time, when countries and communities find themselves in the most vulnerable situation, should the abortion movement be moving to take advantage of these communities?" Ekeocha asked.

Last week, Biden overturned the Mexico City Policy — a rule that blocks federal funding from going to abortions overseas.

Obama canned the pro-life rule at the start of his first term in 2009. But Trump brought it back — and strengthened the rule — when he took office four years ago. Biden repealing the Mexico City Policy means renewing the flow of taxpayer dollars to pro-abortion groups around the world.

"Please, we don't want abortion clinics here, and we are pleading on the incoming government to not fund abortion in Africa," said Vivian, a teacher.

In addition to abortion, Biden's administration is also promoting homosexuality overseas. Biden's secretary of state says the LGBT rainbow flag can again fly over U.S. embassies — reversing a Trump policy that halted the practice.

Gay pride flags were displayed at many U.S. embassies during the Obama years, while Obama repeatedly pressured African countries to embrace homosexuality. Biden is poised to follow in Obama's footsteps by spreading baby-killing and homosexuality all over the world.

 

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: FOREIGN MINISTER DAVIT BABAYAN NEWS: VIDEO REPORTS...by Church Militant • ChurchMilitant.com • February 3, 2021 Aftermath of Turkish aggression

 

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: FOREIGN MINISTER DAVIT BABAYAN

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His Excellency, the Minister of Foreign Affairs for the Republic of Artsakh, describes the history of aggression between the historically Muslim-Turkish neighbors in Azerbaijan and Turkey and the world’s first Christian nation, Armenia.

 

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HOW SHOULD WE TREAT THE ELITES WHO CLEARLY HATE US? NEWS: US NEWS...by John Zmirak • ChurchMilitant.com • February 3, 2021 3 Comments Don't flee the bullies, fight 'em

 

HOW SHOULD WE TREAT THE ELITES WHO CLEARLY HATE US?

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Don't flee the bullies, fight 'em

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Half the people in America know that the other half pretty much hates them. This half (the upper half, with control of most of the wealth and virtually all the power) considers their neighbors who own guns, go to church and voted for Donald Trump hateful and dangerous — atavistic and violent, irrational and RACIST (even if they're not white.) That's the favorite hate term, the trump card, the smear that's meant to silence each critic.

Anti-racism (defined in a Marxist way almost unrelated to genuine prejudice, injustice or even race) has now replaced a vague Christianity as our nation's civic religion. As we watch the Biden regime consolidate power, the woke cult assumes the status of state religion, and not a tolerant one. The heresy trials started decades ago on college campuses. Then they spread to our media and corporate board rooms. The purge proved complete, so now the witch hunt will extend to the general population. It's coming soon to an HR department near you.

The most obvious, powerful instance? Fake racism charges (along with COVID panic) served the Democrats beautifully in dismantling election security. As you read these words, Congress is bruiting a new law, HR 1, that will enshrine 2020-style ballot box stuffing in all federal elections, forever. If passed, that bill will mean the end of fair, free, honest votes in our lifetimes.

Building the Berlin Wall Around Us

So one-party rule would slide seamlessly into place. The Hive would mortar it in, alongside one-viewpoint news media, and heavily censored social media, and intolerant woke education, and a corrupt, politicized secret police in the form of the FBI. The left has already cemented politicized hiring and HR policies all through the economy. But institutionalized ballot fraud, using Venezuelan methods to get Venezuelan results? That might prove the last, decisive brick in the Berlin Wall our enemies are building all around us.

Read the rest at The Stream.

John Zmirak is a senior editor at The Stream, and author or co-author of 10 books, including The Politically Incorrect Guide to Immigration and The Politically Incorrect Guide to Catholicism. He is co-author with Jason Jones of "God, Guns, & the Government."

 

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ARABIC EXPERT UNMASKS POPE’S MUSLIM ALLY NEWS: WORLD NEWS...by Jules Gomes • ChurchMilitant.com • February 3, 2021 'Kafir' Francis celebrates anniversary of 'Human Fraternity' concordat

 

ARABIC EXPERT UNMASKS POPE’S MUSLIM ALLY

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'Kafir' Francis celebrates anniversary of 'Human Fraternity' concordat

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VATICAN CITY (ChurchMilitant.com) - A top Arabic scholar is exposing the "two-facedness" of Pope Francis' Muslim dialogue partner and the failure of the pontiff's Human Fraternity pact to stem the escalating persecution of Christians in the Islamic world.

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Islamic historian Raymond Ibrahim is blasting grand imam of al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayyeb for "repeatedly contradicting all the lofty sentiments in the document he signed with the pope," as the Holy See marks the anniversary of the Abu Dhabi deal, which was signed Feb. 4, 2019.

On Thursday, Francis and al-Tayyeb will participate in a virtual event hosted in Abu Dhabi to celebrate the International Day of Human Fraternity — a day now set apart by the United Nations General Assembly as an annual event.

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres and ruler of the United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Zayed will lead the celebrations marking the controversial Catholic-Muslim concordat, Vatican media announced.

At his Wednesday public audience, Francis said he was pleased that "the nations of the entire world are joining in this celebration, aimed at promoting interreligious and intercultural dialogue."

In an exclusive interview with Church Militant, Ibrahim called out the "doublespeak" of Sheikh al-Tayyeb "if only when speaking in Arabic and appearing on Arabic media, as opposed to when 'dialoguing' with naïve Western leaders who are all too eager to believe what they want to hear."

"For instance, the Document on Human Fraternity signed by al-Tayyeb emphatically insists on religious freedom, stating that 'the fact that people are forced to adhere to a certain religion or culture must be rejected,'" Ibrahim noted.

Ibrahim, author of recent bestseller Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West, explained that al-Tayyeb is on record quoting "those learned in Islamic law [al-fuqaha] and the imams of the four schools of jurisprudence" saying that apostates [converts from Islam] should be punished. To underscore the point, the top Islamic cleric cited a hadith [tradition], saying, "Whoever changes his Islamic religion, kill him."

If al-Tayyeb is a wolf in sheep's clothing, Francis is a starry-eyed shepherd leading — or at least leaving — his flock to the slaughter.Tweet

"So much for religious freedom," Ibrahim lamented, elaborating on how the grand imam "is renowned for turning a blind eye to the ongoing persecution of Egypt's most visible non-Muslim minorities, the Coptic Christians."

Despite the well-documented fact that Muslim mobs attack Christians almost "every two to three" days, al-Tayyeb told Coptic Pope Tawadros II, "Egypt represents the ultimate and supreme example of national unity" between Muslims and Christians, according to Ibrahim.

Some examples include the burning of churches and Christian homes, the coldblooded murder of a Coptic man defending his grandchild from Muslim bullies and the stripping, beating, and parading in the nude of a 70-year-old Christian woman, he added.

"The Grand Imam doesn't have a single word for the persecution and displacement of the Copts — his own Egyptian countrymen," remarked Ibrahim. "Instead, he claims that 'the Copts have been living in Egypt for over 14 centuries in safety, and there is no need for all this artificial concern over them,' adding that 'true terrorism was created by the West.'"


Ibrahim, who has acted as a consultant for the U.S. Strategic Command and the Defense Intelligence Agency, was born to Egyptian parents and has studied under renowned military historian Victor Davis Hanson.

Ibrahim told Church Militant that "far from speaking up for Egypt's Christian minorities," al-Tayyeb "has confirmed that they are 'infidels.'"

The Grand Imam is renowned for turning a blind eye to the ongoing persecution of Egypt's most visible non-Muslim minorities, the Coptic Christians.Tweet

Ibrahim clarified:

While al-Tayyeb used the label in a technical manner — correctly saying that, as rejecters of Muhammad's prophecy, Christians are infidels [kafir] — he also knows that labeling them as such validates all the animosity they feel and experience in Egypt, since the mortal enemy of the Muslim is the infidel.

To demonstrate al-Tayyeb's duplicity, Ibrahim showed Church Militant an Arabic statement from the Cairo Institute for Human Rights, which reads: "In March 2016, before the German parliament, Sheikh al-Tayyeb made unequivocally clear that religious freedom is guaranteed by the Koran, while, in Cairo, he makes the exact opposite claims."

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Egypt’s president Abdel Fattah al-Sisi with Pope Tawadros II

Ibrahim also named other Muslim commentators in Egypt who noted how al-Tayyeb had refused to denounce the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadists as "un-Islamic," despite al-Azhar's dogmatic position on "infidels" and "apostates."

Summing up his verdict on the futility of the Human Fraternity document, Ibrahim said:  "While secular Western talking heads who don't know the first thing about Islam continue squealing about how it is being 'misunderstood,' here is arguably the Muslim world's leading authority confirming many of the cardinal points held by ISIS."

He continued:

Al-Tayyeb believes that Islam is not just a religion to be practiced privately but rather is a totalitarian system designed to govern the whole of society through the implementation of Sharia; he supports one of the most inhumane laws — punishment of the Muslim who wishes to leave Islam; he downplays the plight of Egypt's persecuted Christians, that is, when he's not inciting hatred against them by calling them "infidels" — the worst category in Islam's lexicon — even as he refuses to denounce the genocidal Islamic State likewise.

Al-Tayyeb's signature on the Human Fraternity pact "does not seem to be worth much —certainly not the fanfare surrounding it," the academic observed. "If al-Tayyeb is a wolf in sheep's clothing, Francis is a starry-eyed shepherd leading — or at least leaving — his flock to the slaughter."

"It's past high time he stopped playing 'harmless dove' and became 'wise as a serpent' — if only for the sake of millions of Christians being persecuted under Islam," Ibrahim urged.

Egypt is home to the largest Christian community in the Middle East. Officially, about 10% of the population of 95 million are Christian, although many believe the figure is significantly higher.

 

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