French church attacked during Mass, priest murdered [CC]

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Complete insanity.

May the soul of the priest RIP, and prayers for all those injured.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3708394/Two-men-armed-knives-people-hostage-French-church.html

*BREAKING NEWS: Priest is butchered by knifemen who cut his throat after bursting into French church and taking hostages before being shot dead by police

A priest had his throat cut after two knifemen burst into the church at 9am

Two sisters from a local order and two churchgoers were also held hostage

Both of the hostage takers have since been shot dead by police marksmen

Raid happened at Church of the Gambetta in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, Normandy*
 
Remember, Lord, those who have died and have gone before us marked with the sign of faith, especially those for whom we now pray. May these, and all who sleep in Christ, find in Your presence light, happiness and peace. Through Christ our Lord.
Amen.
 
Very shocked and saddened.

May dear Fr. soul be taken straight to be the Lord.

It was during a Mass. 😦

MJ
 
Two men with knives entered a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France, during Mass and took a priest and several worshippers hostage, according to media reports.

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Two men with knives entered a church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, France, during Mass and took a priest and several worshippers hostage, according to media reports.

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The priest who has been murdered was Fr Jacques Hamel, and he was 84 years old.
 
telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/26/two-men-with-knifes-take-hostages-in-normandy-church/
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The men shouted “Daesh” and cut the priest’s throat before being “neutralised,” police said.*

*"The unspeakable has happened"
“The unspeakable has happened,” the archbishop of Rouen Dominique Lebrun said in reaction to the attack in Normandy.

Pope 'shares in grief and horror of this violence’

Father Federico Lombardi, head of the Vatican press office, has issued a statement about the attack.

“It’s terrible news that comes unfortunately after a number of violent attacks in recent days that have already upset us and created immense grief and concern,” he said.

"The Pope has been informed and shares in the grief and horror over this perverse violence, condemning in the most dramatic way every form of hatred and offering prayers for the people affected.

"We are particularly struck because this horrible violence, with the barbaric killing of a priest and the involvement of the faithful, happened in a church, a sacred place which stands for the love of God.

“We express our closeness to the church in France, the archdiocese of Rouen and affected community and to the French people.”*
 
And this, kids, is why Brexit happened.

Cardinal Burke seems to be one of the few in the Church who has his head screwed on straight.
…the American cardinal criticised Christian leaders who “simply think that Islam is a religion like the Catholic faith or the Jewish faith.”
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“That simply is not objectively the case,” he claimed. “When they become a majority in any country then they have the religious obligation to govern that country,” the cardinal added. “If that’s what the citizens of a nation want, well, then, they should just allow this to go on. But if that’s not what they want, then they have to find a way to deal with it.”
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He also said that areas of France and Belgium have become “no-go zones” that are effectively “little Muslim states”.
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When asked how the West should respond to increasing Islamisation, Cardinal Burke said: “I think the appropriate response is to be firm about the Christian origin of our own nation, and certainly in Europe, and the Christian foundations of the government, and to fortify those.”
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breitbart.com/london/2016/07/23/top-cardinal-islam-wants-govern-world/
 
It’s just going to keep happening. And if Poland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, etc open there borders it’s going to happen to them too.
 
Francois Hollande says France is at war with ISIS after two Islamist knifemen butchered a French priest and left a nun fighting for her life before they were both shot dead by police in Normandy.

One of the men who stormed into the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray near Rouen during mass was a 19-year-old French national, who was being monitored by electronic tag after being jailed for trying to join fanatics in Syria.

The 86-year-old priest, named as Jacques Hamel, was beheaded while a nun is critically injured in hospital following the raid which saw five people held hostage by ISIS assailants shouting Allahu Akbar.

This afternoon it emerged that the murdered clergyman was deputising while the parish priest was on holiday. French authorities say they have arrested a third man in connection with the attack.

The two killers were ‘neutralised’ by marksmen as they emerged from the building, which is now being searched for explosives. French president Hollande said France is ‘at war’ with ISIS while the terror group has claimed responsibility for the killing.

It comes as it emerged that the building was one of a number of Catholic churches on a terrorist ‘hit list’ found on a suspected ISIS extremist last April.

There are also reports that one of the attackers was a local resident who was under electronic tag surveillance having been jailed in France for trying to travel to Syria in 2015. His bail terms allowed him to be unsupervised between 8.30am and 12.30pm - the attack happened between 9am and 11am.

Read more: dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3708394/Two-men-armed-knives-people-hostage-French-church.html#ixzz4FWTu8jRF
 
This is so sad. I just wonder if this makes the priest a martyr or not.
 
Saddened but obviously this good priest was summoned home.
He is now happy and my eyes are in tears as I type.
 
Just awful . … perhaps it is time for France to let citizens own guns for self defense and concealed carry

Rip father Jacques. He is truly a martyr
 
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