Pope Channels His Inner John Kerry -- Appeasement Time!

[ScottL]

[h=1]For the first time in history, Islamic prayers and readings from the Qur’an will be heard at the Vatican[/h] Robert Spencer Jun 8, 2014 at 1:42pm Catholic Church, dhimmitude, dialogue, Useful idiots 138 Comments
When will there be Christian prayers and readings from the New Testament at the Grand Mosque in Mecca?


Will the Qur’an readings at the Vatican feature these verses?


Christians have forgotten part of the divine revelations they received: “From those, too, who call themselves Christians, We did take a covenant, but they forgot a good part of the message that was sent them: so we estranged them, with enmity and hatred between the one and the other, to the day of judgment. And soon will Allah show them what it is they have done.” — Qur’an 5:14


Jesus is not the Son of God: “O People of the Scripture! Do not exaggerate in your religion nor utter aught concerning Allah save the truth. The Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, was only a messenger of Allah, and His word which He conveyed unto Mary, and a spirit from Him. So believe in Allah and His messengers, and say not “Three” – Cease! (it is) better for you! – Allah is only One Allah. Far is it removed from His Transcendent Majesty that He should have a son. His is all that is in the heavens and all that is in the earth. And Allah is sufficient as Defender.” — Qur’an 4:171
“It is not befitting to (the majesty of) Allah that He should beget a son. Glory be to Him! when He determines a matter, He only says to it, ‘Be,’ and it is.” — Qur’an 19:35


Those who believe that Jesus is God’s Son are accursed: “The Jews call ‘Uzair a son of Allah, and the Christians call Christ the son of Allah. That is a saying from their mouth; (in this) they but imitate what the unbelievers of old used to say. Allah’s curse be on them: how they are deluded away from the Truth! ” — Qur’an 9:30
Jesus was not crucified: “And because of their saying: We slew the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, Allah’s messenger – they slew him not nor crucified him, but it appeared so unto them; and lo! those who disagree concerning it are in doubt thereof; they have no knowledge thereof save pursuit of a conjecture; they slew him not for certain.” — Qur’an 4:157


“Islamic prayers to be held at the Vatican,” Al Arabiya, June 6, 2014

For the first time in history, Islamic prayers and readings from the Quran will be heard at the Vatican on Sunday, in a move by Pope Francis to usher in peace between Israelis and Palestinians.


Francis issued the invitation to Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during his visit last week to Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority.


Abbas, Peres, and Francis will be joined by Jewish, Christian and Islamic religious leaders, a statement released by Peres’s spokesperson said, according to the Times of Israel.


Holy See officials on Friday said the evening prayers would be a “pause in politics” and had no political aim other than to rekindle the desire for Israeli-Palestinian peace at the political and popular level, according to the Associated Press.


Low expectations
The Vatican will broadcast a live feed of the event to viewers across the world.
However, expectations for the event should be kept low, according to Rev. Pierbattista Pizzaballa, the custodian of Catholic Church property in the Holy Land.


[No-one should think] “peace will suddenly break out on Monday, or that peace is any closer,” AP reported him as saying.


On Friday, the Pope met with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, and discussed ways of promoting peace and stability in Asia the Vatican said in a statement.
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[ScottL]

Added to the ticket, special guest appearance by Boko Haram!

 

[SheriffJoe]

This is a joke, right?

The Onion maybe?

 

[Willie99]

I'm not sure I like this Pope, or at least I should say I have mixed feelings. Like some new blood and new approach, but he may be over the top politically and he doesn't seem to understand either the economy or terrorists very well

in those two areas, he essentially espouses the policies that are screwing us today

 

[ScottL]

Verified!
[h=1]First ever Jewish, Muslim, Christian prayers at Vatican[/h] By Reuters

June 8, 2014 | 10:34am
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Pope Francis has arraigned an unprecedented meeting where Jewish, Christian and Islamic prayers will be held in the Vatican. Photo: Pope Francis has arraigned an unprecedented meeting where Jewish, Christian and Islamic prayers will be held in the Vatican.

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Israeli and Palestinian presidents meet in an unprecedented prayer meeting with Pope Francis on Sunday, a gesture he hopes will “re-create a desire, a possibility” of eventually relaunching the Middle East’s stalled peace process.
The Vatican has played down any expectations that the Sunday evening meeting between Shimon Peres and Mahmoud Abbas – billed as a “pause from politics” – will lead to any immediate breakthroughs in the region’s tortuous problems and says it is not meddling in regional issues.
“No one is presumptuous enough to think peace will break out on Monday,” said Father Pierbattista Pizzaballa, a Church official in charge of Catholic sites in the Holy Land and a key organiser of the encounter.
“The intention of this initiative is to re-open a road that has been closed for some time, to re-create a desire, a possibility, to make people dream,” he said, adding that the pope does not want to get involved in details of issues such as borders or settlements.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the key Israeli decision-maker, is not attending and he refuses to deal with the Palestinian unity government, backed by Hamas Islamists, that Abbas swore in last Monday. Peres is due to leave office next month.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has refused to attend the prayer meeting.Photo: Getty Images

But the fact that Francis’ bold move has managed to bring the two presidents together shows his desire to engage political leaders on global issues, offering inter-religious dialogue as a building block.
The meeting is taking place more than a month after U.S.-led peace talks collapsed amid bitter mutual recrimination. The pope, in his weekly Sunday address in St. Peter’s Square, said he hoped faithful of all religions “will unite themselves spiritually to our plea”.
The pope made his surprise invitation to the two heads of state while he was in the Holy Land last month.
[h=3]“Neutral Ground”[/h] The minutely orchestrated event on a small lawn in the Vatican gardens – a space the Vatican has called “neutral” because it is bereft of religious symbols – will be the presidents’ first public meeting in more than a year.
It will also mark the first time that Jewish, Christian and Islamic prayers will be held in the tiny city state that is the headquarters of the 1.2 billion member Roman Catholic Church.
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Israeli President Shimon Peres arrives in Rome on Sunday.Photo: EPA

Both the Palestinian and Israeli delegations will include religious leaders of various faiths. The delegations will pray separately in each others’ presence in the chronological order of the founding of the three religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
At the end of the ceremony, held in Italian, English, Hebrew and Arabic and expected to last about two hours, the pope, Peres and Abbas will make individual addresses, which the Vatican has called “invocations” for peace.
Peres’ office said he will “call upon leaders of all faiths to work together to ensure that religion and the name of the Lord will not be used to justify bloodshed and terror”.
In an interview with the Italian newspaper La Repubblica published on Sunday, Abbas said: “Nothing should stop the search for solutions so that each of our peoples can live in a sovereign state.”
The three will plant an olive tree that the program calls “an enduring symbol of the mutual desire for peace between the Israeli and Palestinian peoples”.
Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual head of the Orthodox Church, is also attending. Francis invited him to show that the two main branches of Christianity that split in 1054 can work together for peace.

 

[The Guesser]

I applaud the Pope for trying. That's in his job description, Peace. So what if he's an idealist? The world needs more idealists who hope, pray, and believe in peace.

 

[SheriffJoe]

I'm not sure I like this Pope, or at least I should say I have mixed feelings. Like some new blood and new approach, but he may be over the top politically and he doesn't seem to understand either the economy or terrorists very well

in those two areas, he essentially espouses the policies that are screwing us today

I'm with you Willie...this Pope sucks. :>(

 

[ScottL]

Term limits for the Pope!!! '-)

 

[Willie99]

lol

 

[Willie99]

I'm not opposed to the prayer sessions, I'm opposed to his economic policies and his naive positions on how to handle Muslim jihads

but his overall body of work is actually pretty good

 

[Ricboff]

I applaud the Pope for trying. That's in his job description, Peace. So what if he's an idealist? The world needs more idealists who hope, pray, and believe in peace.

indeed, he does try. And courageous.


great picture