Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Diocese of Lancaster is suppressing information about the Catholic Church and misrepresenting Vatican Council II

Is there not ONE priest or Deacon who could cite text from Vatican Council II and prove me wrong ? Is there no one who is willing to dare say that I am correct and RISK his reputation and may be official stay in the diocese ?
There are so many critical reports and the public relations department at Lancaster has nothing to say ?

The Diocese of Lancaster is suppressing information about the Catholic Church.It is also providing wrong information, even after being informed.No one is commenting on these blog posts sent to them.The bishop has also placed restrictions on Deacon Nick Donnelly and has suppressed free discussions about  the Catholic Faith, on Donnelly's Protect the Pope blog.
On the official website, there is a  section titled The Church. Bishop Michael Campbell makes no mention of the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation and the need for all people to enter the Church with 'faith and baptism' (AG 7) to go to Heaven and avoid Hell.This is an omission.
 
Like the Conference of Bishops of England and Wales website he could be assuming that Nostra Aetate 2 refers to known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
There is no reference in Nostra Aetate to known cases saved with 'a ray of that Truth'. That a person can be saved as such is hypothetical. It is a possibility known only to God. Nostra Aetate does not suggest that this is a known reality.So NA 2 does not contradict the traditional teaching on other religions and Christian communities.If this is inferred by Bishop Campbell then it is wrong.The text of Vatican Council II does not make this claim.
 Benediction
To infer that NA 2 contradicts the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus is irrational. It implies we can see the dead- saved with 'a ray of that Truth' and these cases are explicit exceptions to Tradition.
I have mentioned this in quite a few blog posts with reference to the Diocese of Lancaster and neither the bishop nor any one else responds.
They are suppressing information on this issue and misrepresenting the Catholic Church and us Catholics.The Diocese of Lancaster is not providing honest information about the Catholic Church and their priorities could be politically motivated.For political reasons they are promoting an obvious falsehood.
There have been so many reports critical of the website statement on other religions and ecumenism, including the work of Deacon Nick Donnelly and the Catholic Truth Society - and the Bishop has nothing to say ?
 
I have been saying that Vatican Council II does not contradict the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. So the Council does not contradict the traditional teaching on other religions.The bishop is using a false premise in the interpretation of Nostra Aetate.Vatican Council II appears to contradict the traditional teaching on exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church with the use of the visible-dead premise.This irrationality is also taught by the priests and Deacons of the diocese.It is approved by Bishop Michael Campbell.
 
Is there not ONE priest or Deacon who could cite text from Vatican Council II and prove me wrong ? Is there no one who is willing to dare say that I am correct and RISK his reputation and may be official stay in the diocese ?
There are so many critical reports and the public relations department has nothing to say ?
 
Usually Feeneyism is a scapegoat.Perhaps the diocese is also ready to use this  propaganda. Does the bishop consider being saved with the baptism of desire as being a known exception to the literal interpretation of Fr.Leonard Feeney ? Is being saved in invincible ignorance (LG 16) an explicit exception to the literal interpretation of Fr.Leonard Feeney ? If it is ,then did the Letter of the Holy Office 1949 make an objective mistake, for the Diocese of Lancaster?The Magisterium made a mistake in thinking the baptism of desire was relevant to the traditional interpretation of extra ecclesiam nulla salus?
 
If Fr. Leonard Feeney was correct or wrong, Nostra Aetate does not contradict extra ecclesiam nulla salus.If Fr.Feeney was correct or wrong ,'imperfect communion with the Church(UR 3) is still not an exception to the traditional teaching on other religions.
The Diocese of Lancaster is providing false information about the Catholic Church by (1) not citing Ad Gentes 7 which states all need faith and baptism for salvation and (2) not mentioning that Nostra Aetate 2 etc do not contradict Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II.The Catechism of the Catholic Church 846 is not contradicted by CCC 847 and 848 as is suggested in Lancaster.
-Lionel Andrades

Bishop Michael Campbell of Lancaster closes Protect the Pope news service and forum

 Bishop Campbell, the Bishop of Lancaster, has refused Deacon Nick Donnelly's  request to resume news posting on Protect the Pope. Bishop Campbell has also stated that he does not want anyone posting on Protect the Pope on Nick’s behalf.

















According to Mrs.M.Donnelly, Protect the Pope will close as a news service on Sunday 4th May, the Feast of the English Martyrs to allow a short period for readers of Protect the Pope to say goodbye to each other.
-Lionel Andrades


http://protectthepope.com/?p=10373

Bishop Michael Campbell and the Lancaster diocese interprets the Catechism of the Catholic Church with an irrationality 



 

 

 

If Lancaster Diocese did not use this irrationality Bishop Michael Campbell would have to affirm extra ecclesiam nulla salus in accord with the Catechism (1993) and Vatican Council II http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2014/04/if-lancaster-did-not-use-this.html#links

Bishop Michael Campbell and the Lancaster diocese interprets the Catechism of the Catholic Church with an irrationality

http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2014/04/bishop-michael-campbell-and-lancaster.html#links
 
From Protect the Pope

The SSPX do not deny any doctrine of the Catholic faith – so please name what exactly these ‘heretical preconceptions’ are ?

http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2014/03/the-sspx-do-not-deny-any-doctrine-of.html#links

Once again all the comments on 'Lionel Andrades and Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus' are there on the Protect the Pope Blog

http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2014/03/once-again-all-comments-on-lionel.html#links

From Protect the Pope, 'Lionel Andrades and Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus' : The leaders of the SSPX are not being condemned here

http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2014/03/from-protect-pope-lionel-andrades-and.html#links
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2014/04/deacon-nick-donnelllys-ccrs-course.html#links
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2014/04/vatican-council-ii-in-its-text-is-not.html#links
 
 

Bristol University had a discussion on Vatican Council II using the false premise

There is still no reply from the University of Bristol to these blog posts which I have sent them. The professors designated as 'experts' for the students to consult, are not replying.Neither is there a denial from the Offices of the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor. The professors of theology also will not defend the university.
 
If the video on the websites of the University of Bristol and the Conference of Catholic Bishops of England and Wales did not promote an irrationality and cite alleged text in Vatican Council supporting this irrationality,then Prof.Gavin D'Costa would have to say that the Catholic Church teaches,according to Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7), that all the members of  the Bristol University Islamic Society and all the Protestant members of the university's Christian Union are on the way to Hell, unless they convert into the Catholic Church.
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On October 1, 2013: Gavin D’Costa spoke on The Second Vatican Council: A Disputed Question Examined (Chair: Jon Balserak) presumably using the irrational premise. Then on February 25, 2014: Carmody Grey spoke on the subject Towards a Catholic Environmental Ethics, (Chair: Gavin D’Costa).Is it ethical to promote a false premise and lie about the Catholic Faith ?
 
 
1) The video irrationally infers there are known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and the traditonal teaching on all non Catholics needing to enter the Catholic Church for salvation.
It is common knowledge that we humans ( and residents at Bristol) cannot see the dead-saved in Heaven for them to be known exceptions to all needing to enter the Church.The dead who are saved are not visible to us.Prof.Gavin D'Costa and the Bishops of England and Wales cannot name any exception in 2014.However by promoting this false premise of the visible-dead, they are presenting the traditional Catholic teaching on this subject as confusing,vague and mysterious.They are saying all non Catholics need to convert into the Church for salvation (AG 7) and all non Catholics do not need to convert (NA 2 which refers to the visible-dead).
2) In the video Gavin D'Costa indicates Nostra Aetate, Vatican Council II mentions an exception to the traditional teaching on salvation in the Church. There is no such text in Vatican Council. Nostra Aetate 2 refers to the possibility of a non Catholic being saved in his religion.It does not state that this is a defacto, known case.So how can it be an exception to extra ecclesiam nulla salus? (1)
 
The video on the websites of the University of Bristol and the Conference of Catholic Bishops of England and Wales are presenting Nostra Aetate as referring to an exception to all needing the baptism of water for salvation in the Catholic Church. The video is saying that Nostra Aetate refers to cases that are visible  in our reality.In other words they can meet the dead and personally know them.

There is no mention of Ad Gentes 7 on the video.According to Vatican Council II (Ad Gentes 7),  all the members of the the Bristol University Islamic Society and all the Protestant members of the university's Christian Union are on the way to Hell unless they convert into the Catholic Church.This is also the teaching of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. Vatican Council II does not contradict the dogma on exclusive salvation in the Catholic Church
-Lionel Andrades

Tuesday, April 29, 2014

University of Bristol and Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales video alleges Catholics in general can see the dead-saved

The video on the websites of the University of Bristol and the Conference of Catholic Bishops of England and Wales can cite no reference text in Vatican Council II to support their irrationality.
1) The video infers there are known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus and the traditonal teaching on all non Catholics needing to enter the Catholic Church for salvation.
Yet it  is common knowledge that we humans cannot see the dead-saved in Heaven for them to be known exceptions to all needing to enter the Church.The dead who are saved are not visible to us.Prof.Gavin D'Costa and the Bishops of England and Wales cannot name any exception in 2014.
 
2) In the video Gavin D'Costa indicates Nostra Aetate, Vatican  Council II  mentions an exception to the traditional teaching on salvation in the Church. There is no such text in Vatican Council. Nostra Aetate 2 refers to the possibility of a non Catholic being saved in his religion.It does not state that this is a defacto, known case.So how can it be an exception to extra ecclesiam nulla salus? (1)
Gavin D'Costa  and the Catholic bishops  may reject the traditional teaching on Catholic salvation but they have no right to claim as follows:
 
1. We Catholics allegedly can see the dead-saved on earth.
2.These deceased visible to the naked eye  are exceptions to all needing 'faith and baptism' (Ad Gentes 7, Vatican Council II) for salvation.
3.Nostra Aetate, Vatican Council II alleges that Catholics can see the dead who were saved with that 'ray of Truth' etc.
4. Nostra Aetate and Vatican Council II allege there are known exceptions to the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus.So there is known salvation outside the Church.
5.Since there are personally visible exceptions and Nostra Aetate allegedly states there are defacto, known exceptions there can be a Catholic Theology of Religions!?.
-Lionel Andrades

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Nostra Aetate does not state there are defacto, known cases saved in other religions
http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2014/04/nostra-aetate-does-not-state-there-are.html#links

Common deception among educated Catholics : University of Bristol promotes a falsehood http://eucharistandmission.blogspot.it/2014/04/common-deception-among-educated.html

Common deception among educated Catholics : University of Bristol promotes a falsehood

The issue is not whether Prof.Gavin D'Costa can have an opinion or profess a personal religious belief. The issue is (1) how can the professor of theology infer that the dead(now saved in Heaven) are visible to us on earth and so are an exception to the traditional Catholic teaching which says all need to enter the Church for salvation and (2) how can he suggest that there is text in Vatican Council II which states or indicates that the deceased-saved are visible to us or are exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus. In both cases he is asserting a falsehood.Firstly he cannot name any one saved without 'faith and baptism'(AG 7) in 2014.Secondly he cannot cite any text in Vatican Council II which states there are explicit exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus or the traditional Catholic teaching on other religions and salvation.
 
So it is not a question of one theology or another .The issue is : can a Catholic professor of theology at the University of Bristol teach something which is contrary to common sense and then cite text in Vatican Council II which does not support his irrationality ?
 
 
I mentioned in the last post that the University of Bristol awards a B.A degree to students of theology who assert that the Catholic Church teaches that the dead-saved in invincible ignorance, seeds of the Word etc, are physically visible in England and these cases  are exceptions to the traditional Catholic teaching on salvation. Students have to affirm an irrationality, something contrary to common sense.
 
According to a promotional video on the university website the Catholic theology professor Gaven D'Costa states every one does not need to enter the Catholic Church for salvation since there could be exceptions saved with 'seeds of the Word', or 'a ray of that Truth', implying that these cases are visible to him in the U.K, so they are exceptions.This is a basic philosophical issue. How can someone be an exception to all needing to enter the Church for salvation, when that person does not exist in our reality ? For someone or something to be an exception it must not only be different but it must exist. When there are no cases of someone saved with 'a ray of that Truth'(NA 2) or 'seeds of the Word'(AG 11) or 'elements of sanctification and truth'(LG 8) then how can Gavin D'Costa consider them exceptions to the traditional interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. How can he imply that Vatican Council II contradicts extra ecclesiam nulla salus ? He cannot personally name any exception in 2014.

Students studying theology at the university have to accept this irrational premise of there being explicit exceptions and then build a new theology on salvation and other religions and claim it is the teaching of the Catholic Church. When students accept this irrationality of being able to see the dead on which is built a fantasy theology they are eligible to get a B.A degree.
How can Gavin D'Costa state that Nostra Aetate 2 is an exception to the traditional teaching on outside the church there is no salvation? How can he infer that NA 2 is an exception unless he can personally know or see these cases who are saved or going to be saved without 'faith and baptism'(AG 7).
No one from the unversity has responded to queries to explain their educational policy on this subject. This is not an issue of different opinions or theologies but of an irrational premise be accepted intellectually as being rational. Then claiming that this is the teaching of the Catholic Church after Vatican Council II.There is no response from the Chancellor's office or that of the Vice Chancellor.Neither are any of the professors who teach thology responding.
The university is promoting a falsehood and no one can deny it. Since no where in Vatican Council II is it stated that there are known exceptions to the traditional teaching on other religions and salvation as D'Costa alleges.Nostra Aetate  2 does not mention any defacto, known cases saved with a 'ray of that Truth'.
Gavin D'Costa is unable to deny that he has used an irrational premise for a new theology and that there are no references in Nostra Aetate, Vatican Council II to explicit exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus. May be his error is innocent. Since this seems a common deception among educated Catholics.
-Lionel Andrades

Monday, April 28, 2014

University of Bristol awards a B.A degree to students of theology who assert an irrationality, something contrary to common sense

University of Bristol logo.svgThe University of Bristol awards a B.A degree to students of theology who assert that the Catholic Church teaches that the dead-saved in invincible ignorance, seeds of the Word etc, are physically visible in England and they are exceptions to the traditional Catholic teaching on salvation.They have to affirm an irrationality, something contrary to common sense.
According to a promotional video on the university website Catholic theology professor Gaven D'Costa states every one does not need to enter the Catholic Church for salvation since there could be exceptions saved with 'seeds of the Word', or 'a ray of that Truth', implying that these cases are visible to him in the U.K, so they are exceptions.This is a basic philosophical issue. How can someone be an exception to all needing to enter the Church for salvation, when that person does not exist in our reality ? For someone or something to be an exception it must not only be different but it must exist. When there are no cases of someone saved with 'a ray of that Truth'(NA 2) or 'seeds of the Word'(AG 11) or 'elements of sanctification and truth'(LG 8) then how can Gavin D'Costa consider them exceptions to the traditional interpretation of the dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus. How can he imply that Vatican Council II contradicts extra ecclesiam nulla salus ? He cannot personally name any exception in 2014.
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Students studying theology at the university have to accept this irrational premise of there being explicit exceptions and then build a new theology on salvation and other religions and claim it is that of the Catholic Church. When they accept this irrationality of being able to see the dead on which is built a fantasy theology they are eligible to get a B.A degree.
How can Gavin D'Costa state that Nostra Aetate 2 is an exception to the traditional teaching on outside the church there is no salvation? How can he infer that NA 2 is an exception unless he can personally know or see these cases who are saved or going to be saved without 'faith and baptism'(AG 7).
No one from the unversity has responed to queries to explain their educational policy on this subject. This is not an issue of different opinions or theologies but of an irrational premise be accepted intellectually as being rational. Then claiming that this is the teaching of the Catholic Church after Vatican Council II.
This is also a falsehood. Since no where in Vatican Council II is it stated that there are known exceptions to the traditional teaching on other religions and salvation.NA 2 does not mention any defacto, known cases saved with a 'ray of that Truth'.
Gavin D'Costa is unable to deny that he has used an irrational premise for a new theology and that there are no references in Nostra Aetate, Vatican Council II to explicit exceptions to extra ecclesiam nulla salus.
 
The Chancellor of the University of Bristol is Baroness Hale of Richmond.
-Lionel Andrades
 
 
 

UK: Liberty GB’s Paul Weston, arrested for quoting Churchill, could face two years in jail

UK: Liberty GB’s Paul Weston, arrested for quoting Churchill, could face two years in jail

By on Apr 27, 2014 
Weston arrested2Paul Weston faces two years in prison for quoting Winston Churchill’s less than glowing remarks about Islam. How long would the Cameron government lock away Churchill himself for? After all, a man walking around talking like that could hardly be “conducive to the public good,” now, could he?
An update on this story from Supine Britannia: “Liberty GB’s Paul Weston, Arrested in Winchester for Quoting Churchill, Could Face 2 Years in Jail,” Liberty GB, April 27, 2014:
The leader of the Liberty GB party Paul Weston, who was arrested yesterday for breaching a Section 27 Dispersal Notice, is now possibly facing imprisonment for 2 years.
Mr Weston, a candidate in the 22 May European Elections in the South East, was arrested on 26 April in front of Winchester Guildhall for quoting in public a passage critical of Islam written by Winston Churchill, using a megaphone.
He spent several hours in a cell at Winchester Police Station, after which the original charge of breaching a Section 27 Dispersal Notice was dropped and Mr Weston was “re-arrested” for a Racially Aggravated Crime, under Section 4 of the Public Order Act, which carries a potential prison sentence of 2 years.
He was then fingerprinted and obliged to submit to DNA sampling, following which he was bailed with a return date to Winchester Police on May 24th.
Had the woman who complained to the police made an official statement, Mr Weston would not have been released last night, but fortunately for him she did not.
The case is now being presented to the Crown Prosecution Service. If the CPS decides to prosecute, then Mr Weston will be arrested, awaiting trial, when he presents himself to the police on May 24th.
https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4007409004435288027#editor/target=post;postID=5043867635282144998

Nigeria: Islamic jihadists murder 2,596 people in first three months of year

Nigeria: Islamic jihadists murder 2,596 people in first three months of year

By on Apr 27, 2014
boko-haramDespite this, Obama envoy Samantha Power did not refer to Nigeria when she spoke about religiously motivated violence in Africa. It doesn’t matter to Obama or to the world “human rights community” unless the victims are Muslims. Christians getting killed in Nigeria? Pah! Who cares? At least there wasn’t an outbreak of “Islamophobia”!
“Terrorism: Over 2,596 Nigerians killed in three months,” by ‘Tunde Ajaja, Punch, April 19, 2014 (thanks to Creeping Sharia):
When the onslaught by Boko Haram began sometime in 2009, not many had thought that the attacks would assume such a murderous dimension as it is today.
Of all the attacks perpetrated by suspected members of the dreaded Islamic sect, Boko Haram, in the North Eastern part of the country, one that has remained in the minds of people is the February 25, 2014 attack on the pupils of Federal Government College, Buni Yadi in Yobe State.
In the attack that lasted several hours, no fewer than 59 students were slaughtered by the sect members while some of the victims were burnt to ashes.
In what appeared as the height of cruelty, the Islamic sect members arrived the College at about 2am and set the locked hostels, where the students slept, on fire, before shooting and slitting the throats of those who tried to climb out of the windows.
A teacher in the school was reported to have said that the sect members hurled explosives and fired guns into one of the hostels. When the pupils were trying to climb out of the windows, they were caught and slaughtered like sheep by the terrorists while some had their throats slit. Those who attempted to run away were gunned down.
The insurgents burnt down all the 24 buildings and staff quarters in the school before attacking the students. Reports had it that the onslaught lasted several hours.
A Junior Secondary School 3 student, Aliyu Ayuba, who fled the scene with a bullet in his back, said the assailants who were young men and boys in military uniforms and plain clothes, ordered the students to gather in one room and started shooting sporadically. Aliyu added that his roommates were killed and some burnt inside the hostel.
The continuous killing of residents in the North Eastern part of the country by Boko Haram members has left no fewer than 1,614 persons dead in series of attacks by the Islamic group during the first quarter of the year.
The series of attacks by the sect have left many people dead, lives shattered, houses burnt with many rendered homeless, many are still missing and many people are living with varying degree of injuries. Notably, many Nigerians, including those in other parts of the country now live with the unpleasant memory.
The victims of the attacks are of no particular age group, as infants, adolescents, teenagers and adults have all been massacred, alongside the aged.
While the onslaught lasted, there was no intervention by security forces that were deployed on emergency rule declared in the three most affected states; Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states.
A few days ago, commuters who were waiting to board buses going to the city centre at the popular Nyanya park, the border community between Abuja and Nassarawa State, were hit by a bomb blast detonated by the suspected Islamic sect.
No fewer than 89 lives were lost in the attack with over 200 severely injured.
Boko Haram, which means ‘No to western education,’ has shunned several moves by the government to broker peace with it. The group had demanded for, among other things, the enforcement of Sharia law in the Northern part of the country and the Islamisation of Northern Nigeria.
When in May 14, 2013, President Goodluck Jonathan declared a state of emergency in the three affected Northern states, namely; Adamawa, Borno and Yobe, and the subsequent deployment of military personnel to the states, he expressed optimism that the violence perpetrated by the group would soon end.
However, the onslaught has continued in increasing proportion in spite of the emergency rule. It is worthy of note that not even the state of emergency, appeals, threats and ultimatums given to the sect could tame the brutal attacks on the residents of the affected areas.
In continuation of their reign of terror, on February 15, gunmen believed to be Boko Haram Islamists, attacked and killed not less than 106 persons in Izghe village in Borno State. Reports had it that some of the residents were shot dead, others were slaughtered, as their throats were slit while the attackers chanted ‘Allah is great.’
Two days later, the number of casualties had risen to 146 when more corpses were recovered from nearby bushes.
Four days after the incident, the Chief of Army Staff, Maj. Gen. Kenneth Minimah, on February 19, visited Bama community in Borno State, and a few hours after his departure, the Boko Haram sect killed 98 persons in the community at about 9pm.
This year’s attacks started on Thursday, January 2, when gunmen, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, invaded the Church of Christ of Nations in Maiakworigold Maikatako village in Plateau State, and killed three worshippers, leaving 16 others wounded.
In further attacks on places of worship, on Sunday, January 28, suspected Boko Haram insurgents cut the throats of some worshippers during a church service, and they killed about 30 people in all in Waga Chakawa in Adamawa State.
Later in the evening, 51 persons and a soldier were killed in Kawuri area of the state, leaving several others with injuries. Eye witnesses added that some of the villagers went missing after the incident.
Also, the father of the Governor of Kano State, Alhaji Musa Kwankwaso, escaped death when unidentified gunmen attacked and killed three worshippers and left many others with injuries at a mosque in Kwankwaso town, Madobi Local Government Council of the state.
On Tuesday, February 11, 25 pupils of Government Girls Secondary School and Ashigar School of Business Administrative Studies were abducted when about 200 Boko Haram gunmen attacked and killed 67 residents of Konduga town in Borno State. More than two months after, the whereabouts of the students remain unknown.
On Wednesday, January 17, the onslaught by the Boko Haram members continued at Banki, a border town in Bama LGA of Borno State, where about 10 people were killed. Eye witnesses reported that the sect members went from house to house slitting their victims’ throats.
No fewer than 350 persons were killed on Friday, March 14 in a clash between Boko Haram insurgents and the Special Forces in Maimalari, Borno State. Saturday PUNCH learnt that the dead included insurgents and their members who were in detention at the military premises.
Findings by Saturday PUNCH revealed that apart from the onslaught by the Boko Haram, not less than 630 persons have been killed in attacks by suspected gunmen and Fulani herdsmen in the northern part of the country.
On January 7, no fewer than 33 people were reportedly killed and 25 others injured when gunmen suspected to be Fulani cattle herdsmen struck at Shonong in Bachit District, Plateau State. The incident also left about 40 houses torched.
Still on the gunmen’s visit, on February 6, more than 22 persons were also feared killed around 2am when unknown gunmen, suspected to be Fulani herdsmen, attacked Mavo village, in Wase LGA of Plateau State.
In another development, February 20 witnessed another bloodbath as 13 people were killed when unknown gunmen launched an attack on Rapyem village in Plateau State around 1am.
On February 22, no fewer than 29 people were killed by suspected Fulani herdsmen in Barkin Ladi LGA of Plateau State.
Findings by our correspondent also revealed that many other deaths have put the death toll, on record, in the first three months of the year at 2,596.
Not less than 95 people have died of cholera, 23 died in fire incidents, at least five persons reportedly committed suicide, about 46 water-related accidents, eight persons, including a pregnant woman and her child, died of electrocution in Lagos and Kwara States respectively while 18 graduates lost their lives in a recruitment exercise conducted by the Nigeria Immigration Service.
Of the total deaths from attacks by Boko Haram in the first quarter of the year, about 1,262 persons have been killed in Borno State. Also, not less than 177 persons have been killed in Adamawa State, while the recent bombing of Nyanya park in Abuja-Nassarawa border claimed 89 lives with scores injured.
Yobe State, within the specified time, has had 79 deaths, out of which 59 were slaughtered and burnt alive while some were shot dead. Jigawa State also had a total of seven deaths.
Findings also showed that hundreds of people sustained varying degrees of injuries; some residents of the affected areas went missing and had not been found till date while the remaining ones alive are living in fear.
However, the Special Task Force claimed that it had killed about 149 suspected members of the Boko Haram sect in series of raid and attacks.
Till date, so many lives could not be accounted for, as some people went missing, some dead bodies were lost in bushes, some others were abducted and some were burnt beyond recognition.
The recent abduction of over 100 students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, on Monday April 14 is another attack on innocent lives which has been condemned by national and international bodies and individuals.
With over 2,596 deaths in the first three months of the year, security experts and a cross section of Nigerians who spoke to our correspondent called on the government to put in more efforts to bring an end to the insurgency in the North Eastern part of the country.
 http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/04/nigeria-islamic-jihadists-murder-2596-people-in-first-three-months-of-year

Pakistan: Mob that burnt houses and churches set free.Sawan Masih sentenced to death for blasphemy


http://papastronsay.blogspot.it/2014/04/blessed-are-they-that-suffer.html


A chilling report on persecution in Pakistan   
http://veneremurcernui.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/a-chilling-report-on-persecution-in-pakistan/

Ahmadi jailed for “posing as a Muslim” in Pakistan: “If I go back, I will be put in prison or murdered”

Masud Ahmed
 
 Yet in the West, Ahmadi spokesmen like the oleaginous Harris Zafar, nauseatingly brimming with ostentatious, showy piety, and the arrogant Qasim Rashid, hiding the emptiness and fallaciousness of his Islamic apologetics behind a furious contempt for anyone who dares question him, carry water for the same Islamic supremacists who would cheerfully destroy their homes and places of worship if they were in Pakistan. Instead, Zafar and Rashid target those who stand up for the Ahmadis and decry their persecution, carrying water for their own oppressors.

“Briton jailed in Pakistan for ‘posing as Muslim’ tells of ordeal,” by Athar Ahmad, BBC, April 25, 2014 (thanks to Twostellas):
A British man jailed for “posing as a Muslim”, has spoken for the first time since returning to the UK.
Masud Ahmad, 73, was arrested in Pakistan in November under blasphemy laws but fled while on bail.
The 73-year-old is part of the minority Ahmadiyya sect, who are considered heretics in Pakistan.
They were declared non-Muslim in 1974 by the Pakistan government because of their belief in a subservient prophet after Muhammad.
One of the restrictions on their religious freedom is that they cannot publicly recite the Koran.
Late last year, a young man posing as a patient visited Mr Ahmad at his homeopathy clinic in Lahore, before asking questions about religion.
“I have no business talking about religious beliefs when I am working, I am only here to help people. But he kept pushing the topic into matters about Islam”, Mr Ahmad said.
The man then used a mobile phone to secretly film Mr Ahmad reading the Koran and called the police to have him arrested.
Educated in Britain, Mr Ahmad first came to the UK in the 1960s, where he set up his own watch repair business, before returning to Pakistan in 1982.
The grandfather-of-nine, now living with his children in Glasgow, was placed in a jail with other prisoners also charged under the country’s blasphemy law.
He said: “It was a small cell, 8ft by about 12ft and within it a toilet. We had to sleep on the floor. The temperature was almost minus one degree in the night.”
About 400 people protested outside the police station in which Mr Ahmad was being held, demanding to see him.
He said: “They were shouting and chanting, ‘let us kill him, let us kill him’. But I wasn’t scared.”
Members of the Ahmadiyya community helped Mr Ahmad flee the country after he was granted bail at a third attempt.
It is understood no travel restrictions were put in place by police and as a dual Pakistani-British national, he was able to return to the UK.
Escaping the country quickly meant he was only able to take one small suitcase and the prayer hat he was wearing when arrested.
“I’m still a wanted man in Pakistan as I was only given bail. Ahmadis are treated like animals, I can’t go back. The Mullahs (religious clerics) are grinding their teeth, wondering how I could escape them,” he said.
“Ahmadis can be jailed for up to three years in Pakistan for referring to their faith as Islam, preaching or “outraging the religious feelings of Muslims.”
The country has a history of taking claims of blasphemy particularly seriously.
Last month, a Christian road sweeper was sentenced to death after being convicted of using derogatory remarks against the Prophet Muhammad in a row with a Muslim friend.
In 2011, the governor of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was killed after being shot by one of his bodyguards.
Many were angered by the 66-year-old’s defence of Asia Bibbi, a Christian woman sentenced to death under the country’s blasphemy law.
As a result of such incidents, Mr Ahmad’s 20-year-old granddaughter, Madiha, was concerned about how her grandfather had been coping in prison.
She said: “He’d been recovering from cancer, he’s 73 years old. A jail like that is no place for someone like him to be. We were over here and so didn’t know how he was.”
The university student said she had also suffered discrimination in Pakistan because of her religious beliefs, but believed that things would one day change.
“They are going to pay for this, of course they are. Because they are just doing bad to people who have done nothing to them. We have never said one word of hatred to them,” she said.
Having returned to the UK after 32 years, Mr Ahmad is now trying to establish a new life for himself in Scotland.
“Glasgow’s nice. The weather’s sometimes hard to get used to – it rains, then it’s sunny, then it rains again. But it is a very nice place”, he said.
“Pakistan is my motherland and you will always love your mother. But I have a freedom here which is very essential. I love my country but I can’t go back. If I go back, I will be put in prison or murdered.”
The university student said she had also suffered discrimination in Pakistan because of her religious beliefs, but believed that things would one day change.
“They are going to pay for this, of course they are. Because they are just doing bad to people who have done nothing to them. We have never said one word of hatred to them,” she said.
Having returned to the UK after 32 years, Mr Ahmad is now trying to establish a new life for himself in Scotland.
“Glasgow’s nice. The weather’s sometimes hard to get used to – it rains, then it’s sunny, then it rains again. But it is a very nice place”, he said.
“Pakistan is my motherland and you will always love your mother. But I have a freedom here which is very essential. I love my country but I can’t go back. If I go back, I will be put in prison or murdered.”
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