Please pray for all Christians in the Middle East to be safe this Ramadan

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Attacks seem to rise during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan on minority communities in the Middle East and in other Islamic areas. Please pray that our Christian brothers and sisters in Islamic areas during this time may be safe from Islamic extremist.
 
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Some people like praying for the unborn, others for the sick/dying… @thephilosopher6 just likes praying for endangered Christians. What’s your issue with that?
 
He seems to mention Muslims in a negative light in some past threads.
 
Well, Muslims have done negative things in the name of their religion. Your point being…?
 
I have nothing against Muslims. But Islam tends to promote violence, especially around this time of the year, and I wish to pray for all our Christian brethren in Islamic countries to be safe. I can’t do that?
 
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I pray for peace everywhere in the world and that all people live in harmony at all times of the year.

I also pray for all the Muslims to have a blessed Ramadan. I have worked with many Muslims who were going through Ramadan while still having to work a full time day job and I found it admirable that they made such a sacrifice, when I see Catholics whining over the measly two fast days (not even a real fast that they have to do per year.
 
It’s holy to them, and is meant to give thanks to God, a concept that we Christians can certainly relate to and should be doing more of ourselves. Perhaps you would like to fast yourself during the month in reparation for this supposed “unholiness” of our brethren.

Some Christian charity and tolerance would be nice.
 
On CAF, there’s not only an expectation that non-Catholics will be respectful of Catholicism, but we are also supposed to be respectful of other religions. I think you post falls short of that standard.
 
But it isn’t holy to us. If you were truly charitable, how about telling them about the Gospel instead of encouraging them to continue in their false religion? Would Jesus tell a Muslim happy Ramadan? I think not. I think instead he would call their religion out as man made and not based on God’s commandments. Jesus certainly wasn’t “tolerant” of the Pharisees in the way we typically think of tolerance today, and I don’t think he would be towards Muslims either.
“but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.” - 1 John 4:3
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And how am I being disrespectful to Muslims here? The fact of the matter is is that Ramadan is not a blessed or holy month. It is a holiday celebrated by a false religion that is not of God, that does not have the Son and thus does not have the Father. This is simple truth. The Church Fathers are turning in their graves at this nonsense. They were not kind to many of the heresies in their day, and I don’t think they would be too kind to Islam either.
 
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Sure, but this doesn’t mean their holiday is holy or to be worthy of any sort of honor from followers of Christ who Muslims deny is God in the flesh.
 
Among my intentions is often ‘‘peace between Christians and Muslims’’ which is one of the greatest needs of our time.
 
From Nostra Aetate:
  1. The Church regards with esteem also the Moslems. They adore the one God, living and subsisting in Himself; merciful and all- powerful, the Creator of heaven and earth, who has spoken to men; they take pains to submit wholeheartedly to even His inscrutable decrees, just as Abraham, with whom the faith of Islam takes pleasure in linking itself, submitted to God. Though they do not acknowledge Jesus as God, they revere Him as a prophet. They also honor Mary, His virgin Mother; at times they even call on her with devotion. In addition, they await the day of judgment when God will render their deserts to all those who have been raised up from the dead. Finally, they value the moral life and worship God especially through prayer, almsgiving and fasting.
 
You must be fun for people of other religions to work with and be around. Do you also tell Jewish people you meet that they need to become Christians because their religion is not of God and doesn’t have the Son and thus doesn’t have the Father?

I note that in addition to what Roguish posted, the Catechism of the Catholic Church states:
841 The Church’s relationship with the Muslims. “The plan of salvation also includes those who acknowledge the Creator, in the first place amongst whom are the Muslims; these profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, mankind’s judge on the last day.”
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So according to the Catechism they are adoring the same one, merciful God as us.
There is nothing wrong with me asking that God to bless them. Perhaps God’s “blessing” would include conversion.
 
Ok? And how does that add to anything? In truth though, perhaps Orthodoxy is the best route. They have not lost their way.
 
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