Muslims Attack Gaza Church: “The Days of You O Worshipers of the Cross”

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Palestinian Muslim control over territory has always led to the flight of Christians. Ramallah was founded by Christians fleeing Muslim persecution. Like so many other Christian strongholds, it became Muslim. Bethlehem is majority Muslim and its Christians report incidents of persecution and intimidation.

Leftist churches still blame Israel for this, but there is a reason that Christians are vanishing in the Muslim world. And the issue is Muslim intolerance.

Palestine Press Agency reports that two nights ago people attacked a Latin church in Gaza City, and they spray painted slogans against attacks on Muslims in the Central African Republic.

The attackers tried to blow up a car belonging to the pastor, Father Jorge Hernández, but their Molotov cocktail failed to ignite.

Before they left the scene the attackers wrote that they vowed revenge for the Muslims in the Central African Republic, writing “The days of you O worshipers of the cross, in revenge for the Muslims in Central Africa.”

Gaza has about a thousand Christians remaining after a series of attacks in the early days of Hamas rule.

Soon there will be none left.

  • jerry webber

    I was not able to find the story on the Palestine Press Agency website (English translation). Can you provide a link or at least a date? My skeptical friends are more impressed when I can cite to an Arab source. Thanks.

    • tickletik

      An Arab source probably wouldn’t run it,

      Instead, why don’t you hunt down the name of the church and try to contact them directly?

    • Veracious_one
      • jerry webber

        @Veracious: Thank you for the cite to IMEMC. I had not come across that site, and it looks pretty good.

  • It is what it is

    Is it muslim intolerance that’s the problem or christian failed doctrine? Christianity has produced nothing but lambs for the slaughter. No one’s lifting a finger, because no one except christians are surprised. There is no self defense where there is no self. Better learn this.

    • Harry Binn

      Considering that Christianity was built on the blood of those willing to suffer violence and death instead of retaliate I think you miss the point of the call that Jesus put on their lives. People would see the faith of those dying as well as the love they had for those who persecuted them and many times see the enemies converted, not by violence, but by love. Jesus indicated that God will be the final judge of mankind and that those who kill and persecute others will be held to account at the end of their life. The apostle Paul is a good example of this scenario; he started as an enemy persecuting Christians and then became one when confronted with Jesus on the road to Damascus.

      • Drakken

        Jesus did not teach let yourself and others be slaughtered, so if you want to turn the other cheek and be slaughtered, you go right ahead, the time for standing up and being counted is now at hand, otherwise you and others like you will perish. Islam isn’t going to give you a choice.

  • nopeacenow

    Leftist churches don’t care about Muslim intolerance toward Christians unless it can be blamed on Israel/Jews. No one stands up for Christians who are the most persecuted religion in the world mostly at the hands of Muslims. But you would never know it because you cannot read about it in the main stream media. Islam is given a free pass. Islam as it is practised in the Middle East is no different than fascism and communism. It is a political movement that desires world domination. With the help of leftists they stand a good chance of doing so.

    • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYRtmMxB5yw CrossWinds

      True……..they even put Christians and the Taliban in the same grouping………what excuses they will give to escape the Cross of Christ……..

  • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYRtmMxB5yw CrossWinds

    Islam is the enemy of everything good and decent. A man made religion with roots of envy and hatred……Their true colors are shown when they get any power…….

    Revelation 12:17……..17 And the dragon (Satan) was angry at the woman (Israel) and declared war against the rest of her children—all who keep God’s commandments and maintain their testimony for Jesus.

  • Walter Sieruk

    When Muslin attack a Christian Church and then make such statements as given in that above article like “you O worshipers oft he cross…” They are , in fact, only exposing their real the real ignorance of the true essence of Christianity. For true Christians should not worship the cross. Such materialism is not necessary in the spirit of real Christian worship. For Jesus taught “God is a Spirit: and they that worship Him must worship Him in spirit and in truth.” John 4:24. [K.J.V.] Furthermore it much be the the imams and mullahs in the mosques have a hand in this extreme ignorance of Christianity. For these Islamic clerics keep telling the people in the mosques many untrue, unfounded and evil things about Christians and Christian doctrines, such as the myth of cross worship, so the people in those places get all worked up against Christians and what they believe to be Christians teachings. The Bible explains about such men as theses Muslim clerics. For the Bible in Second Peter 2:12 that they “speak evil of things they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption.” [K.J.V.]

    it also need to be made clear that in this just sited bible verse ,as well as in John 3:16 “the word ‘perish’ does not mean loss of being but loss of well being. As in perish meaning “going to ruin’ as in ending up suffering forever in the Lake of fire.

    • CaoMoo

      Well Mohammed was an illiterate hate monger jealous of christians and jews so all the wrong things the Imams teach started with him.

    • Drakken

      Christians don’t worship the cross, they use it as a symbol to identify themselves.