The pope stands up for illegal aliens and terrorists, but won’t stand up for murdered Christians.
On Feb 14, 2025, Muslim terrorists kidnapped 70 Christians in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, took them to a church, tied them up and beheaded them. Their bodies were left there to rot by the Muslim killers who did it to show the supremacy of Islam over Christianity.
Pope Francis made no mention of this bloody massacre of Christians in a church, instead in a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic, he spoke about “the serious humanitarian emergency in Gaza.”
The fake Muslim famine in Gaza somehow had priority over the mass killing of Christians.
Two days later there was still not a word about the mass murder of Christians, but in a message to the Jubilee of Artists and the World of Culture, Pope Francis urged them to pray for “pray for peace in tormented Ukraine, Palestine, Israel and all the Middle East, Myanmar, Kivu and Sudan.” The mention of Kivu, the general region in the DRC where the massacre took place, was the closest he came to mentioning the recent atrocity toward the very end of the long list.
Several weeks later, Pope Francis issued a statement from the hospital urging, “let us pray for martyred Ukraine, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Myanmar, Sudan and Kivu.”
Apart from Ukraine and Kivu, the rest of the pope’s list consisted of non-Christian countries, even more tellingly the list was skewed toward Muslim terrorist groups in Israel, ‘Palestine’, Lebanon and Sudan, along with the Communist ‘People’s Defense Forces’ in Myanmar.
Those Christians who were actually martyred for their faith in a church came last and were still not being mentioned directly by Pope Francis. The pope supposedly makes daily calls to Gaza, but there was no record of such daily calls to the beleaguered Christians of the DRC.
“It is silent genocide that has not been told. It reminds of what happened in Rwanda in 1994,” an anonymous priest said “It has been occurring for the last 30 years, but the international community has been silent.” The silence was coming just as strongly out of the Vatican which left one frightened priest to speak out about a generational genocide.
Pope Francis had accused Israel of genocide, but had asserted that, “I want to say clearly that I do not like it when people speak of a ‘genocide of Christians,’ for example in the Middle East”.
To say nothing of Africa.
In 2023, Pope Francis visited the DRC and blamed the violence on ‘capitalism’ and “’economic colonialism”. Using purple prose like the “poison of greed has smeared its diamonds with blood,” he warned ‘rich countries’ “Hands off the Democratic Republic of the Congo! Hands off Africa!”
Rather than preaching Christian teachings, the pope was propounding Marxist dogma.
The DRC’s problem wasn’t ‘colonialism’ and ‘capitalism’, but regional tribal and religious fighting, and the outside money being used to kill Christians was coming from Islamic ‘Hawala’ money exchange operations in Iraq, Jordan and around the Muslim world.
A few months later, the Islamists behind the latest massacre, killed 35 Christian villagers with machetes. Next year, Pope Francis issued yet another statement calling for peace and the protection of civilians without mentioning the Islamic Jihadists who were killing Christians.
Pope Francis isn’t too discreet about directing blame when he chooses to. Days before the church massacre in the DRC, he had dispatched a letter to American bishops, blasting the Trump administration, comparing illegal alien migrants to the “People of Israel”, and to “Jesus, Mary and Joseph”, and urging American Catholics to stand up for illegal aliens.
When it comes to defending Muslims, Pope Francis has the courage of a lion. The pope has falsely accused Israel of genocide for fighting against Hamas in Gaza. When Israel took out Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the pope complained that “defense must always be proportionate to the attack” and that Israel was “immoral” for bombing the Islamic terrorist leader.
Pope Francis has repeatedly advocated for the Muslim insurgent Rohingya, but has failed to single out fellow Christians suffering from Islamic terrorism across Africa in the same way.
Why can’t Pope Francis even mention 70 Christian men, women and children massacred in a church?
The church was Protestant, but surely fellow Christians, including murdered children, should take priority over the pope’s other Islamic pet causes from Nasrallah to the Rohingya.
When Muslim terrorists carry out massacres in churches or synagogues, or strike on Christian or Jewish holidays, they are doing it to assert the message of ‘Allahu Akbar’ that Islam and its bloody deity ‘Allah’ are superior to that of the religion and god whose worshipers they are massacring. Silence in the face of these Islamist crimes only gives Muslims cause for glee.
So why does Pope Francis remain silent? For the same reason as much of our establishment.
When Pope Francis last visited the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he described its problems in Marxist terms of “colonialism” and ‘capitalism’. Despite cloaking his rhetoric in Catholic theology, he suffers from a leftist worldview that leaves him unable to grapple with world events except through the Marxist analysis of power relations in which the more powerful side is always wrong and the less powerful side is always right. The Christian world is forever guilty (along with the Jewish world) while the Muslim world consists of innocent victims.
This twisted liberation theology makes even Christian children murdered in an African church into oppressors because they are an extension of the colonialism of the Western world.
Reducing Christian morality to the secular oppressor/oppressed paradigm drives Pope Francis and other leftist clerics to call for the destruction of Europe and America for Islam. The figure of the ‘oppressed’ becomes sacred while the ordinary American becomes a sinful oppressor. Only when the west has been entirely destroyed will the great burden of guilt finally be removed.
This suicidal creed has been embedded throughout western culture, not only in its entertainment and universities, but also in the liberal streams of its religions. Countless churches and synagogues preach mass suicide through mass migration, they pray for Gaza, instead of for the survival of their own parishioners and countries who are next on the list.
CommonSenseChris says
Daniel Greenfield.
Thanks for calling out this Pope for what he is. I’m embarrassed that he leads the Catholic church.
He’s on the side of the devil.
The total opposite of John Paul…
Left Coast says
The Pope is a product of the revolutionary Liberation Theology, common in South America.
Today one needs to find a Church with like minded Christians that Read the Entire BIBLE.
PRCS says
There is much about the Catholic church to criticize, of course. But I do remember JPII kissing a Qur’an “as a sign of respect”.
somehistory says
The evil creature doesn’t ‘preach Christian teachings’ because he doesn’t know Christian teachings.
Just about every human past the age of babyhood, has heard of Jesus. Even those who don’t have the belief that He actually lived and did what the Bible says, have heard of Jesus. mozlums speak about Jesus in their many lies.
So this creature who pretends to serve Christ, and even to be a *replacement* for the Apostle Peter, may use the names of Jesus, Mary and Joseph in order to make Christians feel guilt, but he doesn’t know any more about the teachings of Christ than the most rabid atheist or the most murderous mozlum.
The goon doesn’t *know* Jesus, or God and he has absolutely no understanding of “Christian teachings.”
This snake, whitewashed grave, dirty cup, wolf in sheep’s clothing, false shepherd, is a **user**. He uses the Name of Christ to further his evil propaganda.
His concern, his care for Christians is on a par with the ghouls of hamas, the mullahs of iran, the leaders of hezbollah, isis, al queda, boko haram, al shabab….and all of the other mozlums lusting to murder more and more Christians.
When he croaks, his lies will cease. Gehenna calls to him. Will he continue on the” broad and spacious road” to that place?
PRCS USN (ret) says
Given the intentionally snarky assertion that you’ve “never celebrated Ash Wednesday”, childlishly labeling a Cardinal’s position in its hierarchy as “that bird thing”, and the many other spiteful slurs you’ve made over the years, your hatred of Catholicism is so obvious.
This site’s name is Jihad Watch not My Version of Christianity is Superior to Yours.
Yes, calling out the Pope and other members of his “flock” for their ignorance of Islam is appropriate.
But that’s not what you’re doing.
RegT says
There is nothing that can be said about, or used to describe, this sick piece of Marxist filth posing as a man of God that would be excessive. A vile creature such as “Francis” who can tend lovingly to the feet of muslims and yet ignore the vicious, horrendous deaths of innocent men, women, and – especially – children by members of the death cult of islam deserves the same treatment as the thousands of victims in the Middle East and Africa.
It would be poetic justice to clothe the fat, fatherless, scum in street clothes and dump him in the worst part of Somalia or the DRC with a cross tattooed on his forehead. Then he would – briefly – understand the suffering he has ignored, or made light of, for many thousands of Christians he literally has never given a damn about.
Don’t even get me started on the number of pedophile priests he has protected during his disgusting life.
PRCS says
“Yes, calling out the Pope and other members of his “flock” for their ignorance of Islam is appropriate.
But that’s not what you’re doing.”
That he’s fat is irrelevant.
Mike says
This idiot said ‘Anyone who thinks they can talk to Jesus, is delusional’
He’s no Christian, he’s an evil abomination. He’ll be going down below when he finally dies.
somehistory says
Jesus said, “Come to me, all you who are toiling and loaded down, and I will refresh you.” If Jesus can’t hear our cries, how could He refresh us?
You are right, Mike, This idiot is no Christian….not even close.
PRCS USN (ret) says
Given the intentionally snarky assertion that you’ve “never celebrated Ash Wednesday”, childlishly labeling a Cardinal’s position in its hierarchy as “that bird thing”, and the many other spiteful slurs you’ve made over the years, your hatred of Catholicism is so obvious.
This site’s name is Jihad Watch not My Version of Christianity is Superior to Yours.
Yes, calling out the Pope and other members of his “flock” for their ignorance of Islam is appropriate.
But that’s not what you’re doing.
PacosMojo says
The Catholic Church is a hopelessly corrupt Marxist organization surviving off the grift of rich nations (primarily the US) that routinely engages in promoting liberation theology across the planet. The church has aided in the destruction of states such as MN via the importation of 100’s of thousands of Somali thugs and pocketed millions in the process. But, good people can take solace in the fact that Pope Marxists I is only moments away from releasing his mortal coil. And, oh yes, the church remains chock full of pedophiles. That’s what I’m doing sailor!
PRCS USN (ret) says
“That’s what I’m doing sailor!”
All that faith’s well-known problems aside, nothing in your post refers to the Catholic church’s failure/refusal to stand against the horrors committed by Muslims—particularly against its fellow Christians.
I do note from the following article: it isn’t the only NGO involved in the immigration scam:
Meet The NGOs Facilitating Mass Immigration Under The Banner Of Religion
“The NGOs, which on their face represent Jewish, Catholic, and protestant Christian faiths, rake in millions of taxpayer dollars as they create a pipeline from Central America to the Rio Grande and the Sonoran Desert — the doorstep of the United States. The conservative Heritage Foundation has called it a “corrupt money-changing circle,” in which taxpayers are funding “migration weaponization used against America’s interests.””
https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-ngos-enabling-mass-immigration-under-the-banner-of-religion
There’s much guilt to share.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
At this point, the cynical side of me is forced to ask: were all those massacred Christians, whether in Nigeria or Congo or wherever (I’ve lost track of the countries in which these jihad massacres happen w/ impunity: it’s worth checking out Lesotho while we’re at it) Catholics? Given that this Vatican expresses more solidarity w/ muslims than Christians of other sects, and maybe even Catholics
somehistory says
Not all of them. Many churches affected have “Baptist” in their name and some have “Church of Christ” affiliation. I don’t know if anyone has ever said what percentage are Catholic.
But, the pope doesn’t seem to care about any of them.
Left Coast says
There was a time when the Roman Church didn’t treat Baptists, Heuganaughts or other Christian Sects any better than the moslims do today.
The persecuted J*w for centuries as well . . . going back to the Crusades.
Read the 15th Century Classic “Foxes Book of Martyrs”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Very true! Catholics today are fine, but if one checks out the Renaissance period, they were pretty brutal. The Thirty Year War (1618-1648) started when the Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna decided to crack down on a Protestant uprising in Prague, which succeeded. That snowballed into a way b/w Catholics and Protestants in Europe, that lasted a good 30 years. Granted there were exceptions – like Catholic France fighting on the Protestant side due to their rivalry w/ Spain, and Protestant Denmark siding w/ the Catholics due to their rivalry w/ Sweden
In fact, a good deal of effort was spent in the German states, Holland and England in establishing the freedom of the Protestants to practice their religion freely during that period
somehistory says
Yes, they were behind a lot of the persecution of Witnesses in the U.S. during WWII. and there are thousands of Witnesses in all parts of Africa.
There are also other churches there….many which have branches here in the U.S…Episcopalians are often mentioned in the names of their burned church buildings.
The pope doesn’t care; so the average Catholic may follow his terrible example, or they may be truly Christian.
PRCS USN (ret) says
“Very true! Catholics today are fine.”
IMO, the “flock’s” great failure today, re: Islam, is ongoing group ignorance about Islam. A problem those with a computer, internet access, and the desire to learn the truth could easily resolve.
Getting the church’s hierarchy to follow suit, however….
࿗Infidel࿘ says
PRCS, I was talking about rank & file Catholics, the flock, if you will. In the 17th century, they were pretty bigoted, as I pointed out, but today, they are fine. Not sure what percentage of the Catholic population at large thinks positively of muslims, but if it’s over 50%, then you’d be right – it would be hard to disagree w/ you
PRCS USN (ret) says
Not so much that they think positively about Islam/Muslim, rather clerics they respect are either (1) not telling them the ugly truth or (2) they just can’t believe it once told.
Robert Spencer had several tense discussions with Catholic clergy who I’m sure were in group 1.
This 2016 JW post documenting but one:
“Is there room in the Catholic Church for those who don’t believe Islam is a religion of peace?”
https://jihadwatch.org/?s=is+there+room+in+the+catholic+church+for
“Msgr. Swetland argued not only that Islam was a religion of peace, but that to believe otherwise was to place oneself in opposition to the teaching of the Catholic Church.”
Wellington says
A foolish most certainly. A bad man quite arguably.
PacosMojo says
Francis is evil. He’s probably too stupid to comprehend the damage he’s caused to the church and society at large, but he’s evil nonetheless.
RegT says
I do not believe he sees what he is doing as damage, although I feel certain he is quite aware of the effect he is having upon not just the Catholic Church, but Christianity in general. I think his journey through the hierarchy of the Church has been strictly political, with no actual religious belief involved. He may have studied the Church and its precepts in depth, but only to arm himself with the ability to see where applying Marxist ideology could do the most damage, affect the quickest, most significant change toward a God-less, wealthy, elitist member of globalist organizations.
Kevin Kraemer says
Apostate at best and those who support him are equally at fault for not standing up to what is right.
Kepha says
Pope Francis was shaped by the liberation theology prevalent among Latin American Jesuits during the SIllier ‘Seventies. This system of thought demands standing on the side of the “poor and oppressed”; and the Western elites have decided that Hamas and Fatah leaders living in lavish surroundings on the Persian Gulf or Riviera and pocketing oodles of humanitarian aid cash are the “poor and oppressed”. This liberation theology is Christianity getting in bed with Marxism, and, as a result, getting justifiably screwed.
Every Leftist I know approves of Islam for its supposed “stand against imperialism”, while failing to ask how it spread from Sindh to Spain in its early centuries; replaced Aramaic, Coptic, and Amazigh languages with Arabic; de-Christianized and de-Hellenized Anatolia; and could be excised from the Balkans only by violence. Pope Frankie Boogaloogaloo is of the same mindset.
Much of the poverty and oppression suffered by Islamic masses worldwide is not the result of Western capitalism and imperialism (or Zionism, for that matter), but of the deep defects in Islamic culture. Islam is a boastful religion declaring its adherents “the best of men”, justifying the basest lusts of powerful and lustful men via polygamy, concubinage, and cultural practices such as bacha bazi; and encourages its migrants in wealthier countries to live as leeches and predators. Its “golden ages” ended not from the incursions of the Turks or Crusaders, but when sufficient numbers of productive Dhimmi decided to escape onerous jizya taxation and varied petty humiliations imposed by Sharia by conversion to Islam.
Uncle Kepha is sickened not only by the Pope’s callousness towards other Christians, but also by those Protestant leaders who allow Islamic observances inside their church buildings and who speak of Muslims as “fellow people of faith” and other such boilerplate. While I will treat my Muslim students, colleagues, and neighbors with the respect implicit in Paul’s admonition to seek peace with all men as much as it is up to us. I refuse to be blind to the violence which Islam both justifies and imposes.
Compared to what the Islamic world forces on itself and others daily, the absolute worst the Israelis have ever done is less than a fig’s worth–and the “Poope” (as a Canadian friend of mine once pronounced it) is one of the enablers of Islamic violence.
somehistory says
I generally agree with you, Kepha. But your sentence: “This liberation theology is Christianity getting in bed with Marxism, and, as a result, getting justifiably screwed.” is something with which I must disagree.
“Chrisitainity’ didn’t get ‘in bed’ with any such thing. Christianity stands alone.
False, fakers, pretenders at being Christian may support all kinds of evil, but saying they are Christian doesn’t make them so. Their actions and words prove that they are false and do not follow Christ. Those ones you mentioned in your comment, are not followers of Christ.
And that definitely includes the present ‘pope.’
A glass of fresh water is not a glass of fresh water if it has a spoon of poison added. Calling it a glass of fresh water won’t make it so.
RegT says
Kepha, as you likely are aware, “mohammed” built his religion around his sexual perversions, not simply to justify his own sick behavior, but in order to draw the scum of his world to his banner, to form his army. Even today, young males (certainly not “men”) from America and elsewhere gravitate to islam in order to indulge their desire to own, rape, and otherwise abuse women they are too timid, ugly, or perverted to obtain in normal social context, women they can obtain as “war brides”, children female and male (as in bacha bazi), and even through their purchase. Our military men in FOBs in the Middle East were commanded by their brass to ignore the sounds of rape of young boys by muslim “soldiers” in shared barracks, or in nearby barracks within audible range.
The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini wrote a two-volume book (back in the late ’80s, IIRC) titled, “Tahrirolvasyleh” in Farsi. A book delineating proper, acceptable muslim conduct. In it he stated it was not acceptable to have intercourse with a child, but it WAS acceptable to sodomize a child, even an infant. If he did thusly injure an infant or child, he was to provide its subsistence (not CARE, merely subsistence) for the rest of its life – which was likely to be nasty, brutal, and short, of course.
He further stated that if a man sodomized the son, brother, or father of his wife, the marriage remained valid. There are sections on acceptable sex with animals and other perversions. You can imagine what might be found within such a two-volume book.
Kepha says
@Reg T and Some History
Of course. I do not hold a candle for Islam, Liberation “theology” [?], and certainly not perversion. As for Ayatollah Khomeini, barring some last minute conversion (cf. Lk. 23:39-43) of which I know nothing, he burns in Hell (and I do not take that lightly).
I suppose that one thing that makes Islam extremely repulsive for me is its frank blessing on every sin of dominant males. What a frightful contrast to the Westminster Larger Catechism (an artefact of supposedly “harsh” and “authoritarian” 1647 Puritanism) on the sins of superiors!
@RegT: Christians differ from worldlings only in that a Christian is a forgiven sinner. While I believe that the Holy Spirit progressively sanctifies believers, we still stand only by the grace God has poured out in Jesus’ righteousness, atoning sacrifice, resurrection, and ascension. One can be a truly saved person, yet still, for a time, go astray. I’m a confessional Evangelical and Reformed Christian, not a Roman Catholic (or a liberal Protestant, for that matter).
James Lincoln says
Of all the Catholic Popes, Francis is down toward the bottom of the barrel…
PRCS USN (ret) says
Questions:
Why is he not standing against Islam/Muslim violence against Christians–in particular.
Do his actions regarding “the flock” comply with Catholic teachings?
James Lincoln says
PRCS USN (ret) says,
Why is he not standing against Islam/Muslim violence against Christians–in particular.
He is a Marxist globalist – and a Christian in name only.
Do his actions regarding “the flock” comply with Catholic teachings?
No.
PRCS USN (ret) says
I’ve seen those answers from others, but they seem more opinion than facts/citations.
Being a Marxist/globalist, if he is that, is not–IMO–the reason he isn’t standing against the ongoing, open slaughter of dirt poor, very oppressed black Christians in, say Nigeria.
Ditto the Liberation ideology meme.
What’s the bottom line?
Hrb says
This pope is.and has been a.failure. If.he meets God he will accountable.
Sister Alberti says
Die, foot-kisser of Muslims.
Frank Kana says
Islam is evil religion, it was invented from nothing,
Kepha says
Re the Catholic bishops and Pope supporting illegal immigration into the USA, I wonder what their tune might be in this hypothetical scenario:
In the wake of independence, the Latin American countries turn Protestant, especially of the “God Bless King Billy” Irish Presbyterian sort. Then again, in such a scenario, Latin America might have become a competitor for the moral capital of the Old World along with the USA rather than a source of desperate migrants.