The Diocese of Bergamo, citing Pope Francis’ directives on interreligious dialogue, issued a communiqué on Monday urging priests to seek out opportunities for interreligious dialogue during the “holy month” of Ramadan by invite the faithful to join in praying with Muslims and joining in the Iftar ritual meal.
Catholic Herald The letter from the northern Italian diocese asks the faithful to pray for “a continuous realisation of all the dimensions that make up humanity desired by the Creator” and for “continuous growth in the dialogue between peoples and different faiths.”
Fr Massimo Rizzi, director of the diocese’s Office for Interreligious Dialogue who signed the directive, upset local Catholics for dating the letter according to the Islamic calendar (23 Sha’ban 1445).
Rizzi explained that Ramadan was “a strong time (for Muslims) to promote their religious practice” as well as a month of fasting and prayer and a time of feasting and sharing. Fr Rizzi wrote that Pope Francis had emphasised “the importance of interreligious dialogue in order to give a future to a society like ours, increasingly characterised by cultural and religious pluralism.”
Church MilitantIn comments to the Catholic Herald, Islamic scholar Robert Spencer explained that “the idea of Ramadan providing a possibility of outreach to Muslims is a tragicomic display of the failures and inherent limitations of the ‘dialogue’ imperative”.
Islamic scholar Robert Spencer said he was disturbed by the Vatican’s “assumptions that arise from Vatican II declarations about Muslims together with us adoring the God of Abraham.”
“By participating in iftars, Christians are helping celebrate an imperative to conquer and subjugate them,” he noted. “Iftar is not just a meal. It is the breaking of the Ramadan fast every evening. Ramadan is a month devoted to intensifying one’s observance of Islam and growing more righteous.”
“In Islam, the most righteous deed of all is jihad, which most prominently involves warfare against and the subjugation of non-Muslims. A hadith has a Muslim asking Muhammad: ‘Instruct me as to such a deed as equals Jihad (in reward).’ Muhammad replied, ‘I do not find such a deed’ (Bukhari 4.52.44),” Spencer explained.
Author of the bestselling The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS, the historian told Church Militant he was also shocked by the Vatican drawing a parallel “between the destruction of churches and mosques in this age or any age.”
“Such equivalence demonstrates historical illiteracy as throughout history thousands, if not tens of thousands, of churches have been turned into mosques in order to demonstrate the superiority of Islam over Christianity, and the victory of Muslims over Christians,” Spencer observed.
He continued:
The foremost example of this is the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul. Also the Umayyad Mosque, formerly the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Damascus. The mosque of Cordoba might seem to be an equivalent example of a mosque that was converted into a church, but it is just a single example against a mountain of examples on the Islamic side. Islam explicitly proclaims that it is the true embodiment of Christ’s teachings, and that Christianity is illegitimate. This has worked out for 1,400 years in the destruction or conversion of churches.
In a 2020 Ramadan greeting to “Muslim brothers and sisters” Friday, the Vatican dicastery called upon Christians and Muslims to “protect together” mosques and churches and quoted the prophet Isaiah 56:7 affirming that “a place of worship of any religion therefore is ‘a house of prayer.'”
The Christian God Yaweh sees what the Pope is trying to do. Allah is and always has been in ancient times a pagan god. I would never ask a true Christian to celebrate any Muslim holiday. The Koran tells them to kill the infidels, namely us christians. Shame on the Pope for staying from God Yaweh and leading Christians away from God.
When you go to the mosque to join the mooselimes in prayer, make sure you have your chain-mail underware on.
What do Jews, muslims & christians(catholics+some orthodox) have in common?! (Not a joke!)They kiss like a homo/pedophile!
No different than Pope JP 2 kissed the koran. The Catholic Church likely has ties to islam
I’ve told Catholics that this is just the beginning. More coming so watch out. First, it was the legalization of gay marriages in catholic churches , then Pope Francis also said Catholics should Worship Satan and now Catholics are going to join muslims to reject Christ as Lord. Catholic – Muslims
Wonder why the Pope does not simply revert and be done with it! He is more Ayatollah than Pope. The man actually took in quite a few Muslim refugees to settle in the Vatican a few years ago. Muslim families in a City-State filled with celibate men and women! All that these families need to do is to continuously be fruitful and multiply and achieve critical mass! The Vatican has no chance!
THE CHURCH, has allways sided with the socialist or why did the catholic church help the nazis to run after the war.The church here in germany has a problem, the followers are leaving the party because of all of the gay shit in it and the wanting of our enemies. Germany has and gives away our churches so that a mosque can be built. The church is crawling up xsses trying to please and by doing that they shit on their own religion and laws. That is why.
When the pope leads by example and houses refugees in the vatican!
Is the Pope making out with that guy?
Ugh!
Pretty much!
I wish that I had read BNI and Jihad Watch before I went to work at the Embassy in Abuja. During my second year there in 2004, I was requested to serve food on a couple of occasions at the central mosque which I did. Knowing what I know now, I would have told the management officer no. I have read three of Robert Spencer’s books and I have nothing but good things to say about them.
I said fifteen years ago that the moslem and Christian clergy would circle the wagons against Christendom and Jews. Nobody believed me.
Youre not alone here and there are many like you that warned but no one heard so now all must feel the warning.
Fun filthy mooslime fact….
The walls around the Vatican were put there to stave off the muslim hordes….. And yet here we have this IDIOT Pope inviting them in to, AGAIN, rape murder and pillage…
This, from a former Alter Boy
20-foot walls!
No wonder the Pope won’t ex-communicate evil leaders who profess to be Catholic!
Taqiyya at its best LOL!
Vatican thought “Ram-A-Dan” meant something else…
Did the Imam get the Pope in the rectory?
No doubt about it, they both bend over backwards to help each other out.
As I read the title to this article my, blood pressure exceeded my cranial capacity and sprayed my entire ceiling.
That rotten old skank of an evil incarnate corpse should rot in hell for his blasphemous regurgitations.
He makes me puke-sick!
The only way both are praying to the same entity…
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LOL!
The revolting photo of Poop Fransoros kissing the Muzzie sheikh reveals it all. Fransoros and his woke Vatican betray Christ with a kiss, just as Judas did. Robert Spencer has it right, and so does Church Militant.
Yet at the same time, some employers and schools are advising their non-Muslim employees NOT to eat or drink in front of fasting* Muslims during Ramadan.
*Fasting as in skipping lunch
It’s disgusting that these employers and schools are so woke. Girl Scout cookies are halal, too!
I didn’t know that. Glad I didn’t buy any last week when the Girl Scouts were in front of the supermarket.