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Thursday, February 14, 2013

Gaddafi didn't persecute Christians but the NATO created new Libya does


How wunderbar !!!
According to the second vid below, either some Christians in some areas are left in peace or else Reuters or the Christians themselves are trying to douse the flames of Muslim hatred towards them.   Poor souls ... don't they know by now that ... that has never worked.

Youssef Ba writing at News24:
"Not a day goes by without tombs being vandalised," says Dalmasso Bruno, caretaker of the Italian cemetery in the Libyan capital where Christians fear rising Muslim extremism.

"Human bones have been taken out of their tomb and scattered across the cemetery" in central Tripoli, he said. "The Libyan authorities came and took pictures. They promised to take measures but nothing has been done."

Since the 2011 fall of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime, the small Christian community's fears for its safety have increased, especially after a church bombing in December killed two people in the Mediterranean town of Dafniya.


But despite such fears, dozens of worshippers mostly from India, the Philippines and African nations attend mass each week at the Catholic church of Saint Francis near central Tripoli to pray for security to be restored in Libya.
"Look there are no security measures outside the church and the faithful can move around freely around," said Father Dominique Rezeau.


But elsewhere in Libya, Christians are not so untroubled.
"In Cyrenaica, pressure has been exerted on Christians, notably the nuns who had to leave their congregation ... in the east of the country," said Father Rezeau.

He said Libya had as many as 100 000 Christians before the 2011 revolution that toppled Gaddafi. "Now only a few thousand remain".
The main Catholic Church's clergyman in Libya told the Vatican missionary news agency Fides earlier this month that Christians are being driven out of eastern Libya by Muslim fundamentalists.

The Apostolic Vicar of Tripoli, Giovanni Innocenzo Martinelli, said the situation in that region was "critical" and the "atmosphere very tense".
Two religious communities in the east of the country - the Congregation of the Holy Family of Spoleto and the Franciscan Sisters of Child Jesus - were forced to leave "after being pressured by fundamentalists".........



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