BISHOPS' EXPERIMENTAL DRUG, EXPERIMENTAL MASS

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"Today’s external devices — from wearable computers to virtual reality headsets — will almost certainly become implantable in our bodies and brains."

No, that's not just another conspiracy theory; I'm afraid that prediction was made by one of the architects of 'The Great Reset', the boss of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab. Take a look at this guy, in all his lugubriousness:

Klaus Schwab - the stuff of nightmares

 “What the fourth industrial revolution will lead to is a fusion of our physical, digital and biological identity,” Schwab explained in a speech to the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. Four years ago, in his book Shaping the Future of The Fourth Industrial Revolution, this creep (that at least is undeniable) explained how looming technological changes will allow governments to “intrude into the hitherto private space of our minds, reading our thoughts and influencing our behavior.”

“Fourth Industrial Revolution technologies will not stop at becoming part of the physical world around us — they will become part of us,” continued Schwab. “Indeed, some of us already feel that our smartphones have become an extension of ourselves. Today’s external devices — from wearable computers to virtual reality headsets — will almost certainly become implantable in our bodies and brains.”

Among those technologies are “active implantable microchips that break the skin barrier of our bodies,” Schwab explained. These “implantable devices will likely also help to communicate thoughts normally expressed verbally through a ‘built-in’ smartphone, and potentially unexpressed thoughts or moods by reading brain waves and other signals ....

“As capabilities in this area improve, the temptation for law enforcement agencies and courts to use techniques to determine the likelihood of criminal activity, assess guilt or even possibly retrieve memories directly from people’s brains will increase.” 

https://thenewamerican.com/great-reset-transhumanism-merging-man-machine/

It's called 'transhumanism' . It involves 'cyborgs'.The 2018 'World Government Summit' was addressed by a self-proclaimed 'cyborg'.Neil Harbisson, co-founder of the 'Cyborg Society' and the 'Transpecies Society', which fight for people who “identify” as non-human.

“I have an antenna implanted inside my head which allows me to extend my perception of reality beyond the visual spectrum. I can sense infrared and ultraviolet, and I also have an internet connection in my head that allows me to receive colors from other parts of the world, or connect to satellites so I can send colors from space.” 

Truly. But how, you ask, can such a state of affairs come about? At base the answer is, as Alexandr Solzhenitszyn said way back in the '60s, that "man has forgotten God", and when man forgets God he loses sight of Truth, Who is the Son of God. 

Even the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church, under the pontificate of Jorge Bergoglio, appears to have forgotten or abandoned Her Spouse Jesus Christ, and instead has fallen into the embrace of that old whore, the world.

For example, at the Novus Ordo Mass this morning, we had a new 'hymn'. Dutifully following the lyrics (hah!) on the OHP, the congregation sang, "We drink wine on our knees".

That line perfectly encapsulates the tragic state to which the Novus Ordo has reduced the New Zealand Church today. She the Bride of Christ can sing of His Precious Blood as being merely wine, and not only that but unblushingly sing the lie that what is in reality His Precious Blood is drunk "on our knees" when in reality It is taken standing, into unwashed hands, most often from unconsecrated hands which very likely have just been laid on an unwashed head in blessing.

Father can base his homily on a mistranslation - "If today you hear the word of God" and so miss his opportunity to preach on desiring the word of God, on loving and cherishing the word which is available eternally to everyone who wants to hear it: That psalm response should read, "If today you would hear the word of God". But no. Like the rest of the 'Ordinary Form' (the New Mass) it's been boiled down and bastardised.

Parishioners yearning to bless themselves with of holy water are told they're denied it still, presumably by edict of Cardinal Call Me John Dew, and must be satisfied with the farcical substitution of a sacramental by a plastic bottle of 'sanitiser'. 

Lies of one kind or another, even and especially in the Catholic Church which is the Bride of Truth, have become the order of the day. So no longer knowing which side is up as it were, we are easily duped, we've become 'useful idiots' (to use Marx-speak). We went hook line and sinker for the Great Lie of Covid, told by socialist governments like Mass Murderess Ardern's in order to make us more amenable, to break us in to totalitarianism, and amplified by the inept, lazy (and bamboozled) MSM. 

I brought https://rumble.com/vamqd5-crimes-against-humanity.html to your notice in a previous blog post, but this is a reminder (I who hate videos sat through it all as in a trance). YouTube removed it but as you see, it's still on  Rumble.

Then as an antidote to the goofy propaganda on TvOne 'News' here's this very simple graph:

As a post script to Friday night's post - "Do try to keep up!" I say to myself, but it's hard - more from Dr Simone Gold of American Frontline Doctors, whose arrest for alleged involvement in the 'siege' (hah!) of the Capitol I've also covered. 

Dr Simone Gold at the Capitol
"Where I was, was incredibly peaceful"

“Definitely you should not be calling this the ‘COVID-19 vaccines,’” (Dr Gold) says. “The reason is, whatever you call it, it’s experimental. It’s not been approved as a vaccine. It’s currently in its investigational stage.”

According to the Food and Drug Administration, ‘An investigational drug can also be called an experimental drug and is being studied to see if your disease or medical condition improves while taking it.’  Dr. Gold called the massive “disinformation campaign” on these topics “a crime against humanity.”

(The Wuhan Flu) was massively “rebranded” to “COVID-19” due to the displeasure of the Chinese Communist Party with the original name.

The “(m)ost notable” disinformation regarding the pandemic, which “was selling the lie to the American and European people that hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is an unsafe medication.”

Both China and India mandated or recommended HCQ for its population early last year, and at least India, “continues to enjoy a death rate a fraction (~10 percent) of the USA even in the most densely populated slums.”

The data is unequivocal:

• COVID-19 kills very rarely and is mostly limited to the medically fragile,

• COVID-19 is less deadly than influenza in children,

• COVID-19 is similar lethality in the middle adult years and treatable.”

The (US) Centers for Disease Control’s (CDC) own “best estimate” to demonstrate that the infection fatality rate (IFR) is overall very low: 

• 0-19 years old: 0.00003 (99.997 percent survival rate)

• 20-49 years old: 0.0002 (99.98 percent survival rate)

• 50-69 years old: 0.005 (99.5 percent survival rate)

• 70+ years old: 0.054 (94.6 percent survival rate)

“Vaccine safety requires proper animal trials and peer-reviewed data,” the paper stated, “neither of which has occurred” with these experimental biological agents.

“(P)rior coronavirus (and other respiratory) vaccines have failed due to the scientific phenomena known as pathogenic priming that makes the vaccine recipient more likely to suffer a sudden fatal outcome due to massive cytokine storm when exposed to the wild virus.”

In layman’s terms, the vaccine may permanently interfere with a woman’s ability to maintain a pregnancy.”

... (A) former FDA official ...  said, “(w)e don't know if people can become infected and thus also transmit even with vaccination.” For this reason, “people can expect to still be wearing masks, still be asked to follow non-pharmaceutical public health measures that we've all come to know so well.”e've all come to know so well.

Yep. Like Communion on the tongue (don't get me started!) signing in, social distancing, no holy water - all in the house of God itself.

“What is super shocking is that there is no proof that this biological agent actually stops the transmission among people," says Dr Gold.

Such injections are “Prohibited for the young, Discouraged for the healthy middle-aged and Optional for the co-morbid and elderly.”

Current reports revealed that hundreds of individuals injected with COVID-19 experimental vaccines have been admitted to the hospital, and the shots have so far been linked to at least 181 deaths in the United States. 

As noted on this blog previously (she said smugly). 

(The label) on the vaccine bottle says: "it is unknown whether COVID-19 mRNA VaccineBNT162b2 has an impact on fertility.

As the first rule of the Hippocratic Oath is: do no harm, vaccine safety must be guaranteed. That has not yet happened.”

 “In medicine, the guiding principle is ‘First, do no harm.’ Widely distributing a COVID-19 experimental vaccine before adequately addressing and clinically evaluating the above concerns is reckless.”

 it is, in fact, “unethical to advocate for the vaccine to persons under 50. The risk and safety evidence based upon trials cannot be justified in younger persons. It is therefore prohibited.”https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/frontline-doctors-experimental-vaccines-not-safer-than-covid-19?utm_source=LifeSiteNews.com&utm_campaign=30a4bb2448-Daily%2520Headlines%2520-%2520U.S._COPY_962&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_12387f0e3e-30a4bb2448-402364845

So, Cardinal Dew, in your completely uncalled-for medical advice (make that prescription) for the faithful, telling them to take the jab, did you realise that what you and the NZ Bishops are advertising are not vaccines, but rather what Dr Gold (and others not cited here) call "experimental biological agents"? 

Have our pope, prelates and priests persuaded us so far towards believing this life is all there is, that we're willing to be experimented on in the hope that it will bring us a few more hopeless years?

The Traditional Latin Mass

It's perhaps the hubbub and the crowding at NO church doors that ensue, immediately the last 'hymn' is sung, which betray lack of faith in the source, summit and centre of the Catholic faith, the Eucharist. In the Novus Ordo Missae there are: 

• no Prayers during the Ablutions
• no Communion Verse
• an attenuated Blessing 
• no Last Gospel
• and no Prayers ordered by the Pope (3 Hail Marys, the 'Hail Holy Queen' and the Prayer to St Michael the Archangel, as recited after every Mass by the SSPX). So communicants are chatting and maybe out the church door before Our Lord has left their souls.

When St Philip Neri once saw a man walk out of the church immediately after Communion he sent two altar boys with lighted candles to accompany him. Fr Stefano Manelli tells us to "resolve to do everything possible so that thanksgiving after Holy Communion lasts at least 15 minutes and nothing takes precedence over it. These minutes in which Jesus is physically present in our souls and within our bodies are heavenly minutes in no wise to be wasted."

"O you deluded people, what are you doing? Why do you not hasten to the churches to hear as many Masses as you can? Why do you not imitate the angels, who, when a Holy Mass is celebrated, come down in myriads from Paradise and take their stations about our altars in adoration to intercede for us?”  

- St. Leonard of Port Maurice

Michelangelo's 'Last Judgment' - detail

MUSTERING HIS FLOCK FOR VACCINATION IS NOT CARDINAL DEW'S BUSINESS

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Treacherous yet farcical: in an utter betrayal and desertion of the cause of sanctity of life, NZ's Catholic Bishops are "strongly urging their faithful and everyone in Aotearoa New Zealand to get a Covid-19 vaccine when it becomes available."

So our shepherds have finally found the voice they lost during the Election 2020 campaign, when their silence amplified the 'useful idiots' ' hoorah for Mass Murderess Ardern which resulted in her re-election. 

Some time in the January doldrums, while the faithful were sunning themselves at the beach or the lake, the shepherds blew their whistles to lead all the flock into the fold - to muster them up for a vaccine which is debatably not a vaccine at all but rather a synthetic pathogen, to protect themselves against a disease no more serious than seasonal flu.

Many of us didn't hear them whistle. I mean, how many Catholics still read the Auckland Bishop Dunn's NZ Catholic? My mother presented me with a life subscription years ago but after its modernist revamp by editor Michael Otto I no longer read it and were my mother still alive she'd probably burn it. 

Having all due respect to their sacred office, the bishops should mind their own business. The bishops' business, for which they were ordained by the Church and Almighty God, is saving lives for eternity, most importantly their own - which are in very grave danger. In endorsing vaccines which may be based on cell lines collected from babies murdered by abortion, the bishops are compromising not only their own eternal life, but quite possibly their mortal life too, and the mortal lives of their people. 

The primary mechanism for reporting adverse vaccine reactions in the U.S., the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS), reported 181 deaths — a subset of 7,844 total adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination — as of January 15, 2021. 

There you go, dear bishops. 181 deaths from the vaccine in the US, so far. And the Government whose election you did nothing to prevent has granted a waiver to Pfizer and BioNTech, releasing these Pharma giants from any financial losses incurred by death or disease resulting from their insufficiently tested vaccines. So who will stump up for the inevitable medical care and compensation? The taxpayers. Your flock. They will pay, physically and financially, for any damage to their health resulting from this muster, of your making, for a dodgy vaccine.

And don't say, oh but the Pope's had the jab. "Morally," Bergoglio has said (hah!), "everyone must take the vaccine. It is the moral choice because it is about your life (and) the lives of others." 

Self-explanatory

At least Bergoglio is minding his own business - which seems to be promotion of  the New World Order, to be implemented largely by the imposition of the so-called vaccine on the entire planet, to the enormous financial benefit of Big Pharma. What sort of pressure, one wonders, was brought to bear on the 93 year-old Pope Benedict, whose capitulation would have been seen as essential to Bergoglio's propagandizing?

Cardinal Dew in his cathedral with his presider's chair in place of the tabernacle

In order to persuade his flock (or browbeat us) into taking the jab, Cardinal John Dew cites NZ's 2019-20 measles epidemic. Who does the cardinal think he's kidding? Comparing the highly-debatable effectiveness of the rushed COVID so-called vaccines with the proven measles vaccine is comparing apples and oranges.  And manufacture of the measles vaccine did not employ cell lines from babies murdered by abortion.The ends do not justify the means.

The bishops, the cardinal and the so-called pope could do worse than refer to the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Paragraph 1753 states, “A good intention (for example, that of helping one’s neighbor) does not make behavior that is intrinsically disordered, such as lying and calumny, good or just. The end does not justify the means."

Bishop Athanasius Schneider of Kazakhstan is a prelate who knows his catechism and lives by it. He states that "The crime of abortion is so monstrous that any kind of concatenation with this crime, even a very remote one, is immoral and cannot be accepted under any circumstances by a Catholic once he has become fully aware of it. One who uses these vaccines must realize that his body is benefitting from the “fruits” (although steps removed through a series of chemical processes) of one of mankind’s greatest crimes.

Any link to the abortion process, even the most remote and implicit, will cast a shadow over the Church’s duty to bear unwavering witness to the truth that abortion must be utterly rejected. The ends cannot justify the means."

  https://www.vanthuanobservatory.org/eng/covid-vaccines-the-ends-cannot-justify-the-means-bishop-athanasius-schneider/

In today's Novus Ordo Missae the Epistle was taken from the Letter to the Hebrews (Do not throw away your confidence. It will have a great reward) - which injunction would have meant, if anything, to NO Massgoers brainwashed into celebrating themselves rather than the Almighty, that they should continue to have confidence in their 'specialness'.

Were the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church still celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass, today we'd have celebrated the Mass In Medio of a Doctor of the Church for the feast of St Francis de Sales, who preached the word of God to the Calvinist heretics and brought sixty thousand back to the Catholic faith. 

The Epistle would have been II Timothy 4: 1-8, including the following verses. Ask yourselves which Epistle, in the Church and the world of today, would do its hearers more good. 

Preach the word: be instant in season, out of season: reprove, entreat, rebuke in all patience and doctrine. For there shall be a time, when they will not endure sound doctrine; but, according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears: And will indeed turn away their hearing from the truth, but will be turned unto fables. 

But be thou vigilant, labour in all things, do the work of an evangelist, fulfil thy ministry. 

2 Tim 4:2-5

WHAT TO DO ABOUT BIDEN AND OUR BISHOPS: PENANCE!

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The stuff of nightmares: the leader of 'the free world' and his consort, what's-her-name?

In the unlikely event that you're not already totally appalled by the US swapping Donald Trump the statesman for Joe Biden the CCP puppet, consider the following: 

• Although the US Bishops' Conference chairman found it 'deeply disturbing and tragic' that Biden has pledged to codify Roe v Wade, two days later he received Holy Communion at Mass. After Biden attended Mass at Washington’s Cathedral of St. Matthew on the morning of his inauguration,  Austin Ruse, outspoken president of the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-FAM), wrote:  

  Joe Biden ate and drank his own spiritual death. That he received the Holy Eucharist from the hands of a cardinal of the Church adds scandal upon scandal. One radio wag called it a Mass for Planned Parenthood. And so it was.      https://www.lifenews.com/2021/01/25/joe-biden-received-communion-at-catholic-church-despite-celebrating-abortion-two-days-before/

• Hysterectomies, breast augmentation, 'male reproductive' construction — all this and more, courtesy of American tax dollars, will be provided for the US military, after Biden upended the ban on transgender service on Monday.  https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/bidens-reinstating-gender-confused-military-members-will-cost-taxpayers-a-fortune
• Biden has stopped work on the border wall. 
• Biden has promised amnesty to 11 million undocumented workers.
• Biden is throwing the US borders open to Central American caravans. 
• Biden has shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline.
• Biden has issued an oil and gas moratorium for drilling on federal land — firing tens of thousands of workers in the process.
• Biden's chief medical advisor, the Faustian Dr Anthony Fauci, has changed his mind yet again on mask-wearing. Now he's saying we should wear not just one mask, but two. Maybe he needs one for each of his two faces ...
  
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  The Faustian Dr Fauci 
  
  

  Meanwhile, back here in Godzone, the Department of Education's new sexuality guidelines will teach your primary school children/ grandchildren that they can change their sex as easily as they change their clothes. https://www.familyfirst.org.nz/2015/11/parent-alert-sex-education-in-schools-youre-teaching-my-children-what
  
  And don't go crying into your pillow at night over Pfizer and BioNTech risking financial losses from any illness or death caused by their vaccines: Ardern's 'kind' Government has promised these pharma giants that you, the taxpayer, will stump up - quite a lot maybe, as 181 deaths have already been reported to the U.S. government as possibly related to COVID vaccines.  https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/435107/government-grants-vaccine-suppliers-indemnity-against-claims
  
  But it seems the evidence is mounting internationally for a case against the architects of the COVID plandemic for crimes against humanity. This video - which most unusually held my interest throughout - was pulled by YouTube but it's still on Rumble: https://rumble.com/vamqd5-crimes-against-humanity.html
  
  
  
  

  

  Our Lady of the Eucharist

  
  
  
  And having supplied you with all the above links to various news sources, now (just like a woman) I will do a volte-face, and refer you to Dr Peter Kwasniewski as a guide through the Bidden Biden-Bound beastliness of the months or even maybe years, ahead: 
  
  

  New prayer campaign will honor Eucharist, fight modern world’s unique evils

  The pledge for the Novena of the Eucharist includes daily Mass, fasting, and a concerted effort to abstain from media.
  
  It has become increasingly clear that the year 2020 was, by God’s providence, a wake-up call on many levels. Massive disruption was caused by civil and episcopal responses to COVID-19, and these may well worsen in 2021, as “Traitor Joe” takes up the reins of authority in the United States of America and begins to carry out, with Comrade Harris, the soft Bolshevik revolution, with the smiling complicity of most of the Catholic hierarchy. The errors of communism, which Our Lady of Fatima warned would spread throughout the world, have indeed spread over the decades, like a light rain that slowly saturates the ground — first winning over the intelligentsia, then percolating through the media and popular culture, and finally dictating the policies of the oligarchs who exercise power.
  
  

  Meanwhile, in the churches where they might have expected to find strength and consolation, the faithful have faced demoralization from liturgical tinkering, shortcuts, shutdowns, arbitrary rules, institutionalized abuses. They have internalized the message that Mass is totally optional and that, in fact, it’s “safer” to stay at home or to do something less crowded.
  
  The results are hardly surprising: what appears to be a permanent dramatic dropoff in Mass attendance. Crowdedness now seems to be a “problem” only at traditional Latin Masses, where, thanks be to God, many Catholics have found the reverence and orthodoxy for which they had been longing. This, indeed, is the silver lining on the otherwise dark cloud.

  Stepping back and taking the broad view, there is no doubt about it: we are witnessing an acceleration in the sinfulness of mankind — and this includes, alas, Catholics — whereby more and more extreme forms of evil are becoming more and more “normal.” Our sins are piling up in number and gravity, as if we want the inevitable divine reckoning to be as terrifying as possible.
  
  It seems that at least a few should “stay awake and watch” with Jesus in His agony in the garden, should unite themselves to His Cross, and should deny themselves in order to beg the Lord for His mercy. Abraham asked the Lord if He would spare a city where only a few just men lived, and the Lord said assuredly He would. Chastisement has come and will come, but our prayers and sacrifices will strengthen us in bearing the storm and bearing fruit for the eventual restoration of the Church and of the Faith. In some mysterious way, our involvement is part of the unfolding of God’s plan, and we should not stay on the sidelines when we can enter more deeply into that plan.

  This is why Sophia Institute Press has announced a “Novena for the Eucharist,” from January 24 to February 2. The website is https://eucharisticpenance.com. Those who sign up pledge to:

  • pray a daily rosary and Divine Mercy chaplet
  • attend daily Mass
  • fast by skipping one meal
  • give alms
  • abstain from media

What is important is not absolute perfection in this regard (one makes a promise, not a vow!), but doing all that one can to live the spirit of penance and reparation for sins committed against the Holy Eucharist.

The Novena of the Eucharist is linked with the release of my book The Holy Bread of Eternal Life: Restoring Eucharistic Reverence in an Age of Impiety. In Holy Bread, I take a no-holds-barred look at the evils committed daily against the Blessed Sacrament due to decades of liturgical deformation and abuse, and I argue for immediate and urgent concrete solutions. Not all of us are in a position to implement most of these solutions, yet we should do what we can. At very least, we should pray and do penance. 

Prayer and fasting will save us, and nothing else. 

And Jesus rebuked him, and the devil went out of him, and the child was cured from that hour. Then came the disciples to Jesus secretly, and said: Why could not we cast him out? Jesus said to them: Because of your unbelief. For, amen I say to you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you shall say to this mountain, Remove from hence hither, and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible to you. 

But this kind is not cast out but by prayer and fasting.

 -Mt 17:17-20

BEFORE ARDERN GETS HER HIJAB OUT AGAIN SOME FACTS ON ISLAM

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Mass Murderess Ardern in crocodile tears

Just nipping in with this piece 'ahead of'any tear-jerking and hand-wringing from the Prime Minister at photo-opps for the second anniversary on March 15 of the Christchurch mosque massacre.

Because before we know it, such a report as this, by Raymond Ibrahim of the Gatestone Institute, could be called hate speech. This blog could be cancelled.

Brenton Tarrant's 51 victims 

Brenton Tarrant's summary execution of 51 Muslims at prayer in their mosques was truly satanic, and justice would have demanded his execution as fitting punishment for such a heinous crime. But we all know there's no justice to be had in New Zealand now; not in a nation which every year kills 13,000 of its own children, led by a woman who wants even more child sacrifice by abortion to our selfish lifestyle.

But while we wax emotional over the cruel fate of those 51 pious Muslims and are treated to more whitewashing of certain Muslim practices and beliefs by the mainstream media, we need to wake up to what's happening to Christians at the hands of followers of Muhammad throughout the world. 

Just so that you know; the following are among the abuses inflicted on Christians by Muslims throughout the month of December, 2020:

The Slaughter of Christians

Nigeria: In a video that appeared on Dec. 29, Islamic terrorists executed five Christians.  The footage showed five armed members of the Islamic State (West African province) standing behind five men dressed in orange suits with their arms tied behind their backs and on their knees.  The terrorists order each of the men to say their names and the hostages oblige, each adding, “I am a Christian.”  One of the terrorists then says “This is a warning to Christians in all parts of the world and those in Nigeria….  Use the heads of these five of your brethren to continue with your ungodly celebrations,” a reference to Christmas.  The five Muslims then open fire into the back of the Christians’ heads and kill them.

A few days earlier, on Christmas Eve, and for several hours into the early morning of Christmas Day, Muslim raiders terrorized a Christian village, where they slaughtered between seven and 11 people, including a 5-year-old, and kidnapped 11 more (it is believed that the five Christians who were executed on video were from among these 11).  Riding on trucks and motorcycles, the jihadis opened fire indiscriminately, torched 10 homes and one church, and plundered the food supplies meant to be distributed on Christmas Day.  Although traumatized, some Christians remained defiant, as captured by a Christmas Day text by one Markus Bulus, a local:

Whatever Boko Haram planned against us has failed.  Whatever it is, we shall still celebrate Christmas. Jesus, we’re so grateful this day even with the bad experience we had last night. We have nothing to offer as our thanksgiving, but we offer our hearts in deep supplication to your majesty on this Christmas Day.

Elsewhere throughout the month of December, Muslim Fulani herdsmen “killed 33 Christians, destroyed 18 homes and displaced more than 2,500 people.” Moreover, according to a report released by the International Society for Civil Liberties & the Rule of Law (“INTERSOCIETY”), Muslims have massacred at least 2,200 Nigerian Christians between Jan. 2020 and Dec. 13, 2020.  Of this figure, “Jihadist Fulani Herdsmen,” it said, were responsible for about “1,300 Christian deaths, followed by Boko Haram and its splinter groups (ISWAP and Ansaru) with 500 Christian deaths….   In other words, Nigeria in 2020 has lost average of six Christians per day and 180 per month.”

Uganda: A Muslim mob attacked and killed a man “a few days after he renounced Islam to follow Christ.”  On Nov. 30, Yusuf Kintu, 41, then an imam at a mosque, converted to Christianity. “We had been talking on several occasions,” Pastor Andrew Nyanma explained, “but he was so argumentative when we touched on matters related to faith. He was a brilliant Muslim Imam but also respected other people’s faith. On this day [of his conversion], he was calm and receptive.”  Three days later, his wife divorced him and left the house with his two youngest children.  On Dec. 6, one week after his conversion—or, in Muslim eyes, apostasy—an angry Muslim mob rose up against him.  According to one source, “the local Muslim community was upset in [sic] Yusuf for leaving Islam and becoming a Christian. Yusuf was seriously beaten and left unconscious.”  Pastor Andrew found him in the morning and took him to a hospital, where Yusuf succumbed to his injuries on Dec. 7.

Egypt:  On Dec. 10, two Muslim brothers went on a stabbing spree targeting Christians in Alexandria; one man was killed and two others were severely injured and hospitalized.  According to authorities, they went on their murderous rampage because they were “upset” that their mother had died earlier that day.   “The matter began with insults and curses to the shopkeepers for being Christians,” explained Fr. Michael Gamil, whose nearby church was also targeted.  “The Copts present responded with patience.  Then, when one of them, Ramses, quietly went to close and lock his shop door, they lunged at and stabbed him with knives.” Ramses’ brother, who ran a grocery store nearby, saw what was happening, rushed to his brother’s aid, and was also stabbed.  The Muslim brothers then barged into the clothing shop of another Christian man and stabbed him in the torso, near his heart.  All three men were hospitalized with serious injuries in intensive care; Ramses died of his wounds.  The rampaging Muslim brothers then entered Fr. Michael’s church and cursed at a partially blind priest.  Discussing the alleged motive, Fr. Michael said:  “They [Egyptian authorities] say they started cursing the Copts because their mother died; and two years earlier, they cursed the Copts because their brother died: what do [familial] death and the Copts have to do with each other?”  He emphasized that the two brothers had been in the habit of verbally harassing and insulting Christians for years—though they clearly took their hate to another level on Dec. 10.

 Christians are scanned with a metal detector outside the Our Lady of Consolation church, in Garissa, Kenya which was attacked with grenades by militants. 

Artsakh: Muslim fighters tortured a 58-year-old Christian woman of Armenian descent by hacking off her ears, hands, and feet, before finally executing her.  According to the Jan. 14 report,

On the same day of talks between Erdogan and Putin, when Turkey’s leader said he would like to create conditions of ‘coexistence’ between Armenians and Azeris, officials located the body of an Armenian woman today who had been reported missing.

The woman has been identified as 58-year-old Alvard Tovmasyan who was a resident of Karin Tak village, near the Shushi region of Artsakh currently occupied by Azerbaijani forces.

Tovmasyan was a second degree intellectually disabled person killed and ‘tortured beyond recognition’ outside of her home with her hands, ears, and feet cut off, according to her brother Samvel Tovmasyan who confirmed her identity by recognizing the clothes she was wearing.

As to why she was mutilated before being killed, jihadis often cite the Koran’s calls to cut off the hands, feet, and throats of infidels (e.g., Koran 5:33, 47:4).

According to a separate Dec. 15 Church Militant news report, “Armenians are being brutalized” and have “lost territory to their jihadist neighbors before agreeing to a cease-fire enforced by Russia….  Prior to violating the so-called peace agreement, the Turkish Muslims of Azerbaijan did as Muhammad commanded in beheading Christians.”  The report linked to a video of camouflaged soldiers overpowering and forcing down a struggling, elderly Armenian man, and then casually carving at his throat with a knife: “Azerbaijan has accused Armenia of violating the peace deal first,” the report continues, “but observers note the only provocation Muslims need to attack Armenians is their continued existence.”

Democratic Republic of Congo:  Members of the Allied Democratic Forces, widely acknowledged as “an insurgent jihadist group,” slaughtered at least 30 Christians and raped ten women and girls in five villages between Nov. 20 and Dec. 3. One of the survivors, Tony Longi, managed to escape his home in time and hide in the outside bathroom: “through the ventilator of the latrine he saw the rebels killing 4 members of his family including his wife and 3 children.”  According to one local official, “We got information that as they killed the Christians the[y] were saying that they were killing them because they refused to convert to Islam.”  Another report describing these raids said there were “scenes of terrified Christians flooding into the streets as the jihadists surrounded churches in each of the five villages armed with guns, machetes, clubs, swords and axes.”

Attacks on Muslim Converts and Christian Preachers

Uganda:  A Muslim man beat and forced his wife to drink pesticide on learning that she had become Christian.   Three months after Zubeda Nabirye, a 38-year-old mother of three, had secretly converted, her husband discovered Bibles in her possession and demanded if she had apostatized.  She told him that  “a friend had given me the Bibles, and I was using it to compare it with what is written in the Koran, and after all religion is a matter of personal choice”; she added that “I was convicted and decided to embrace Christianity.”  In response, “My husband began reading verses in the Koran that allowed men to beat their wives if they disobey them, and after that he started beating me with slaps and sticks.  As if this was not enough, he forced me to take Dithane M-45,” a toxic pesticide.  He forced the poison into his wife’s mouth; though she managed not to swallow most of it, she “ingested some while he was trying to strangle her and hitting her leg with sticks… He also injured her chest, neck and thigh.” It was late in the night when “I regained consciousness and found myself surrounded by neighbors.” One of them later explained that “we heard groaning from a nearby banana plant, and there we found Zubeda Nabirye, who had just regained her consciousness but with vomit and blood all over her body.”  They took her to a nearby hospital. According to the Dec. 17 report, “she suspects her husband took her to the banana plants expecting she would die there.”  Even so, she did “not file charges with police over the assault as it could provoke further violence.  She still looks very weak and asks about the wellbeing of her three children,” who at the time were staying with her husband’s mother due to COVID-19 travel restrictions: “I am worried about my children [aged 9, 13, and 16], who are under the care of my mother-in-law,” Zubeda said. “I know it will be very difficult for me to see them and reunite with them.”

In Syria Muslims are fighting Muslims and Christians are afraid

In a separate incident in Uganda, on Dec. 21, Muslims gang-raped a female church pastor.  The widowed mother of five was walking home from Christmas preparations at her church when she heard someone crying for help in the dark. “When I stopped,” explained the 50-year-old whose name is withheld for security reasons, “I was surprised to see people coming from the bush, and one of them shouted in the Arabic language, ‘Allah is greater—we have warned you several times to stop converting Muslims to Christianity. Today we shall teach you a lesson that you will not forget.’”  One of the men covered her mouth with a chemical-doused handkerchief that caused her to lose consciousness.  She awoke three hours later and was found by her nephew.  “He saw blood on my torn skirt. He could not stop tears rolling from his cheeks, crying and shouting for help, and he took me to a nearby clinic for medical treatment.”  Two months earlier, a Muslim neighbor had complained to her:  “I am warning you not to come to our home. My children are now singing some Christian songs. I know soon they will come to your church. We as Muslims have no relations with infidels.”  A church member said the rape victim remains traumatized: “Sometimes she is quiet for about one hour; … she is having severe headache[s], swelling at her neck and severe pain in her private parts.”  “I am hurt,” confirmed the visibly emotional and tearful pastor from her hospital bed during an interview on Christmas Eve. “I will miss Christmas celebration with my church members….  I hope these Muslim rapists have not infected me with deadly diseases. I forgive them,” added the mother of five who was widowed five years earlier.

Attacks on Churches

Pakistan: On Christmas day, a mob consisting of as many as 60 Muslim men attacked a church during Christmas service.  According to the Dec. 30 report, “They aimed to kidnap and assault the women in attendance.”  However, the church’s security guards and male congregants “fought back with bare hands against the staff-wielding intruders, giving the women time to escape. Many Christian men suffered blunt trauma injuries and fractures in the fight.”  Before things got violent, the Muslim invaders had made derogatory comments about the Christian women, adding that they were “looking dashing today. Let us have all of them in our beds.”  When one of the Christian defenders angrily rose up, “The Muslims,” he said, “warned me never to stop them from doing whatever they wanted to do with Christian girls.”  On arriving, the authorities “helped the defeated Muslims escape, and blamed Christians for fighting back.”  According to a spokesman for the Christians,

They scolded and threatened the Christian community, the Christian church, saying it’s illegal to have their own security. Which is truly an unjustified and illegal action by the police, because it was announced by the government of Pakistan two years ago, that every church must have its own security. They must have their own CCTV cameras, barbed wires, and medical equipment.

Sudan:  A temporary church structure of the Sudanese Church of Christ has been burned down five times by what one pastor described as “radical Muslims.”  They also threatened to butcher the Christians if they dared erect another tent again. According to the Dec. 22 report, “Saying they didn’t want a Christian presence in the area, the extremists have burned down the structures on Jan. 19, 2019, and this year on Jan. 4, Jan. 19, Jan. 28, and Aug. 7…. The church decided to report the attacks to police after the Aug. 7 arson in spite of the threats.”  The original church building, which had been in operation since 1993, was first torched in 2019; since then the 150-member congregation have been setting up and worshipping inside tents, though all five have been “reduced to ashes along with Bibles and prayer books.”  Church members identified several of the assailants.  Police initially refused to file a case until an attorney got involved.  Five of nine suspects involved have been arrested.

Discrimination, Misogyny, and Violence against Christians

Egypt:  In what human rights activists described as an “egregious miscarriage of justice,” a court acquitted three Muslim men charged with assaulting a Christian grandmother, including by spitting on and beating her, stripping her naked and parading her in the streets of their village, on the accusation that her son was romantically involved with a Muslim woman.  Although this attack took place in 2016, and although video evidence and witnesses have identified the three Muslim men, the Egyptian courts refused to render a decision.  As a Dec. 21 press release from Coptic Solidarity explains:

After multiple delay tactics, including judges ‘recusing’ themselves and retrials by different court circuits, the case reached this sad conclusion. The Egyptian judiciary has revealed their true face of Islamist fanaticism and blatant bias against Coptic victims. This is indeed shameful for a country that has employed some form of a ‘modern’ justice system for 150 years.

Upon hearing news of the court ruling, Mrs. Thabet [the victim], burst into tears, simply saying “What shall I do after being so humiliated! My right is in the hands of my Lord who shall render me His justice.”

Pakistan/China: Christian and Hindu women in Pakistan are being marketed to China as concubines and forced brides, a Dec. 9 report revealed.  Due to China’s longstanding one-child only policy and cultural preference for boys, the nation suffers from an acute shortage of females, causing Chinese men to import women from abroad. Speaking on Dec. 8, the top U.S. diplomat for religious freedom, Samuel Brownback, said that “religious minorities, Christian and Hindu women” from Pakistan are “being marketed as concubines and as forced as brides [sic] into China.”  This is because “there’s discrimination against religious minorities that make them more vulnerable” in Muslim Pakistan, he added.

France: “Handwritten letters were mailed to seven black African priests with their names and the address of the rectory where they live,” reported the Vicar General of the Diocese of Avignon Pascal Molemb Emock: “The mail only says ‘Allah Akbar’ in French and in Arabic.”  Because violent Islamic attacks on clergymen and Christians in general have been escalating in France—five weeks earlier a Muslim man crying “Allahu Akbar” entered a church and slaughtered three Christians in Nice—an investigation was quickly opened. As a police source explained on Dec. 9, “These are not direct death threats, but in the context of a terrorist threat, this matter is taken very seriously.” “I am not afraid for myself,” commented one of the priests. “I will continue to live alone in my rectory. But I am responsible for a community, I must be careful for the parishioners.”

Iraq: At least 14 shops that sell alcohol in Baghdad—most of which are owned by Christians—were firebombed throughout November and December.  According to the Dec. 16 report, these escalating attacks have “terrified shop-owners who fear hardline Islamists are flexing their muscle against alcohol consumption.”  Discussing the situation, Andre, an Iraqi Christian, said the recent bombing of his shop has cost him thousands of dollars in repairs.  “These groups want the last of the Christians to leave the country,” he said of the attackers: “They’re targeting us.”  He also blamed security forces for leaving their post for hours, thereby providing the attackers with “time to place the explosives, take pictures before and after and publish them on Facebook.”  “Why doesn’t the government arrest them?” he added, pointing out that he had even provided authorities with the license plate number of the attacking vehicle as captured by the store’s surveillance camera.

Christmastime Terror

Spain: On Christmas day, a Muslim of Moroccan background, known only as Muhammad Q., stalked through a Christmas street celebration while brandishing a machete and crying out, “Allahu akbar, I’m going to kill you,” at random passersby. He lunged at police when they arrived and slightly injured them, though they managed to subdue and arrest him.  Subsequent investigations revealed that the 45-year-old had a criminal record relating to the sexual abuse of a minor and ties to the Islamic State.

France: A group of Muslims thrashed another Muslim for participating in a Christmas Day dinner.  After Nabil, 20, published pictures of the dinner online, a schoolmate expressed his “shock” via text that a fellow Muslim would celebrate Christmas, at one point texting, “I’ll show you what a real Arab is.”  Nabil and his scandalized Muslim schoolmate then agreed to meet and discuss the matter; but when Nabil arrived, the schoolmate and four other men ambushed and beat him, leaving him with a bloodied and bruised face and a warning not to report the incident to police or else.  Undeterred, he contacted local authorities who subsequently arrested the schoolmate.  During his trial, he continued to assert his “shock” that Nabil had posted such pictures, adding “It is not Muslim to celebrate Christmas.”

Western Europe: Some Christians celebrated Christmas under threat in a few nations:  According to a Dec. 3 report, British intelligence, relying on a former al-Qaeda bomb-maker, warned that “a senior Isis commander is plotting a Christmas terror campaign in European countries, including Britain.”  The Muslim terrorists had reportedly “decided to try and use the lifting of lockdown restrictions during the Christmas period to launch attacks in Europe, in particular against the UK, France and Germany.”

Germany: In a video that appears embedded in a Dec. 19 article, a Muslim cleric living in Braunschweig declares that “Christmas is an insult to Allah”

About this Series

The persecution of Christians in the Islamic world has become endemic.  Accordingly, “Muslim Persecution of Christians” was developed in 2011 to collate some—by no means all—of the instances of persecution that occur or are reported each month. It serves two purposes:

1)          To document that which the mainstream media does not: the habitual, if not chronic, persecution of Christians.

2)          To show that such persecution is not “random,” but systematic and interrelated—that it is rooted in a worldview inspired by Islamic Sharia.

Accordingly, whatever the anecdote of persecution, it typically fits under a specific theme, including hatred for churches and other Christian symbols; apostasy, blasphemy, and proselytism laws that criminalize and sometimes punish with death those who “offend” Islam; sexual abuse of Christian women; forced conversions to Islam;  theft and plunder in lieu of jizya (financial tribute expected from non-Muslims); overall expectations for Christians to behave like cowed dhimmis, or second-class, “tolerated” citizens; and simple violence and murder. Sometimes it is a combination thereof.

Because these accounts of persecution span different ethnicities, languages, and locales—from Morocco in the West, to Indonesia in the East—it should be clear that one thing alone binds them: Islam—whether the strict application of Islamic Sharia law, or the supremacist culture born of it.

Islamic State beheads Egyptian Christians in Libya 

Immaculate Heart of Mary, pray for us all, Muslim and Christian, now and at the hour of our death.
Amen.