Migrant drowns in Venice canal as witnesses heard yelling let him die
An investigation has been launched by Italian authorities over a video which appears to show a migrant man drowning in a Venice ca- nal as onlookers laugh.
VICTIMS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH
Listed
are only events that solely occurred on command or participation of
church authorities or were committed in the name of Christianity. (List
incomplete)
Ancient Pagans
Mission
Crusades (1095-1291)
Heretics and Atheists
Witches
Religious Wars
Jews
(I feel sick ...) this goes on and on, century after century, right into the kilns of Auschwitz.
Native Peoples
"I certify to you that, with the help of God, we shall powerfully enter in your country and shall make war against you ... and shall subject you to the yoke and obedience of the Church ... and shall do you all mischief that we can, as to vassals who do not obey and refuse to receive their lord and resist and contradict him." [SH66]
Of course no different were the founders of what today is the US of America.
More Glorious Events in U.S. History
20th Century Church Atrocities
"Individuals considered dangerous to the national defense and common security may be confined by executive order, to a concentration camp."
Supposedly
to fight communism, thousands of Buddhist protesters and monks were
imprisoned in "detention camps." Out of protest dozens of Buddhist
teachers - male and female - and monks poured gasoline over themselves
and burned themselves. (Note that Buddhists burned themselves: in comparison Christians tend to burn others).
Meanwhile some of the prison camps, which in the meantime were filled
with Protestant and even Catholic protesters as well, had turned into
no-nonsense death camps. It is estimated that during this period of
terror (1955-1960) at least 24,000 were wounded - ; mostly in street
riots ; - 80,000 people were executed, 275,000 had been detained or
tortured, and about 500,000 were sent to concentration or detention
camps. [MW76-89].
To support this kind of government in the next decade thousands of American GI's lost their life.
"Anglican
as well as Catholic priests and nuns are suspect of having actively
participated in murders. Especially the conduct of a certain Catholic
priest has been occupying the public mind in Rwanda's capital Kigali for
months. He was minister of the church of the Holy Family and allegedly
murdered Tutsis in the most brutal manner. He is reported to have
accompanied marauding Hutu militia with a gun in his cowl. In fact there
has been a bloody slaughter of Tutsis seeking shelter in his parish.
Even two years after the massacres many Catholics refuse to set foot on
the threshold of their church, because to them the participation of a
certain part of the clergy in the slaughter is well established. There
is almost no church in Rwanda that has not seen refugees - women,
children, old - being brutally butchered facing the crucifix.
According to eyewitnesses clergymen gave away hiding Tutsis and turned them over to the machetes of the Hutu militia.
In
connection with these events again and again two Benedictine nuns are
mentioned, both of whom have fled into a Belgian monastery in the
meantime to avoid prosecution. According to survivors one of them called
the
Hutu killers and led them to several thousand people who
had sought shelter in her monastery. By force the doomed were driven out
of the churchyard and were murdered in the presence of the nun right in
front of the gate. The other one is also reported to have directly
cooperated with the murderers of the Hutu militia. In her case again
witnesses report that she watched the slaughtering of people in cold
blood and without showing response. She is even accused of having
procured some petrol used by the killers to set on
fire and burn their victims alive..." [S2]
More recently the BBC aired:
Priests get death sentence for Rwandan genocide
BBC NEWS April 19, 1998
A court in Rwanda has sentenced two Roman Catholic priests to death for their role in the genocide of 1994, in which up to a million Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed. Pope John Paul said the priests must be made to account for their actions. Different sections of the Rwandan church have been widely accused of playing an active role in the genocide of 1994...