The brave trip that the Pope made to Iraq in 2021, the epicenter of the Christian genocide, could have been a magnificent opportunity for the media to denounce the extermination of Christians in that country. They didn’t, then or now.
We were able to see how the Pope visited the ruins of numerous Christian temples and places that have been destroyed by Islamists, including the Church of Saint George, the Chaldean Church of the Virgin Mary and the Armenian Church of Mosul.
What we have not seen and no media has counted are the more than 450,000 Christians exterminated in Baghdad alone, there were 600,000 Christians, today, there are barely 150,000 left. It has been, and continues to be, a campaign of extermination where there are mass murders, rapes, torture and all kinds of humiliation before massacring them. The burning of Christian houses is yet another barbarity. A full-fledged genocide, which no one, except Christians, wants to call genocide. It seems that it is only genocide when they are not Christians.
The most serious thing, the Western media, politicians and intellectuals, looking the other way. They are passive accomplices of what is happening.
What are international organizations for? I am referring to the UN and the European Parliament, fundamentally. The European Parliament has made some statements recognizing the Christian genocide, but in the face of an extermination of this nature, that is very little. He should have made proposals for protection of Christians, for sanctions against countries that are massacring them, etc. The UN, not even that, has not even made a statement.
Unfortunately, the Middle East is not the only geographic area where Christian genocide has been and continues to be committed. In many African and Asian countries, mainly where Islam prevails, Christians are persecuted and, many times, murdered.
We can point out as countries with extreme persecution, in addition to Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Yemen, Eritrea, Somalia, Libya and Nigeria. In most other African and Asian countries the persecution of Christians can be considered very high.
Why do the media silence Christian genocide? What explanation does the media have for hiding this atrocity? You have to think that someone with a lot of power is not interested in this being known. He will be an enemy of Christians. I can’t find another explanation.
Despite being the Land of Mary, in Spain we also have our persecution of Christians.
The ban on demolishing crosses has been opened and, there, we have city councils and councils sharpening the radial to demolish crosses left and right. The Provincial Council of Cáceres is winning. It seems that there is someone there who is very upset about “loving your neighbor as yourself” and wants to destroy all Christian signs.
Speaking of crosses, of course, they have had La Santa Cruz del Valle de Los Caídos between their eyebrows for a long time. It is very big and its enemies don’t like to see it from everywhere.
There is no legal argument to tear them down, quite the contrary, there are legal reasons to declare the tearing down of crosses as a Christian sign contrary to law. It is a clear attack against religious freedom.
Progressivism’s attacks on Christian principles and values are continuous.
Appealing to that rubbish that is the law of historical memory, a supposed association of friends of historical memory, come on, the Government has requested the eviction of the Benedictine monks from the Valley of the Fallen. Both the Abbey and the Basilica are sacred places in which only the Church can make decisions. The government has no power to order this eviction.
I know that the exhumation of Franco’s coffin was a tremendously complicated situation for The Church due to the political connotations that its position on this issue could have had.
Regarding the eviction of the Benedictine monks that the government intends, here there can be no political connotation in the position of the Church, consequently, it cannot allow the government to interfere in its powers and, therefore, it should not allow such an outrage. .
It is striking that progressivism is radically against Christianity, which only advocates good, and yet they see Islamist totalitarianism as their ally. It will be because they are also totalitarians.
Don’t worry, as I said before, we are in Mary’s Land and that is why we count on her Love and that of her Son.
José Ignacio Echegaray, collaborator of Fundación Enraizados
