Urges Europeans to accept Muslim mass migration. Fails to mention churches being attacked by Muslims in Nigeria.
Even as Christians continue to suffer in Nigeria, Pope Leo chose to exclude them from his “Urbi et Orbi” message in which he claimed that “Jesus took upon himself our fragility, identifying with each one of us: with those who have nothing left and have lost everything, like the inhabitants of Gaza; with those who are prey to hunger and poverty, like the Yemeni people; with those who are fleeing their homeland to seek a future elsewhere, like the many refugees and migrants who cross the Mediterranean or traverse the American continent.”
The majority of those he’s specifically invoking in national contexts are Muslims in Gaza, and Yemen Muslims and other Muslim mass migrants trying to “cross the Mediterranean” to reach Europe.
But he also spares a thought for the non-Muslim illegal aliens trying to invade America.
What’s interesting about the international prayers in the pope’s message is that the nations and territories that he mentions, “Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Syria”, “Sudan, South Sudan, Mali, Burkina Faso and the Democratic Republic of Congo”, Haiti, Burma, Cambodia, Thailand, Yemen, Gaza, are mostly non-Christian. Apart from Haiti and Congo, they’re non-Christians areas.
And Pope Leo can’t help but exclude Nigeria, where Christian churches continue to be attacked by Muslims. Out of all that benevolence and all the prayers for peace in Muslim countries, he can’t seem to find the time to express anything for Nigeria’s Christians.
Attackers opened fire as they entered Aiyetoro Kiri in the Kabba-Banu Local Government Area on Dec. 14, disrupting worship at First Evangelical Church Winning All. They subsequently abducted at least 13 worshippers, Christian Solidarity Worldwide reported.
The Dec. 14 abductions marked the second attack on a church in Kogi State within two weeks. On Nov. 30, militia disrupted services at the Cherubim and Seraphim Church in Ejiba, abducting the pastor, his wife, a visiting preacher and several church members.
Pope Leo is happy to advocate for Muslims in Yemen, Gaza and anywhere else, but he refuses to talk about Muslims killing Christians. When he’s forced to, he blames everything except Islam.
“I think in Nigeria, in certain areas, there is certainly a danger for Christians, but for all people. Christians and Muslims have been slaughtered,” he said.
“There’s a question of terrorism. There’s a question that has to do a lot with economics, if you will, and control of the lands that they have.”
It’s not Islamic terrorism, it’s economics. And Europe is supposed to accept Muslim mass migration with “the Yemeni people; with those who are fleeing their homeland to seek a future elsewhere, like the many refugees and migrants who cross the Mediterranean” who surely won’t do to Christians in Europe what they’ve already been doing to Christians in Africa.
