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poche · « **on:** November 28, 2013, 03:12:54 AM »

FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia), the Marxist rebel group that has fought the Colombian government for five decades, has limited access to the sacraments in the southwestern department (state) of Putumayo, the Fides news agency reported.

Bishop Luis Alberto Parra Mora of Mocoa-Sibundoy said that FARC banned the celebration of Mass but now is permitting Mass to be said on Saturdays and Sundays in two towns.

Father Pedro Mercado, deputy secretary of the Colombian bishops’ conference, said that the rebels’ anti-Catholic hostility has increased in recent months.

“We view with concern the security issues of our priests and our bishops, who are denied the freedom to preach the Word of God,” he said.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=19809

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #1 on:** November 28, 2013, 09:20:47 AM »

viva Christo Rey!

Viva Cristo Rey · « **Reply #2 on:** November 28, 2013, 09:22:22 AM »

Same with the Mass here in America but they were alot slicker with the novus ordo.

poche · « **Reply #3 on:** December 29, 2013, 03:39:12 AM »

For the first time since 1991, Somalia’s ministry of justice and religious affairs announced that any celebration of Christmas in the Sunni Muslim nation would be banned.

The director general of the ministry said that “all security and law enforcement agencies had been instructed to counter any such celebrations,” the Kenyan Broadcasting Corporation reported.

Located in the Horn of Africa, the Sunni Muslim nation of 10 million has one parish, three priests, four sisters, and 100 Catholics, according to Vatican statistics.

:devil2: :devil2: :devil2:

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=20059

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #4 on:** December 29, 2013, 04:36:40 AM »

“We view with concern the security issues of our priests and our bishops, who are denied the freedom to preach the Word of God,” he said.

Catholic priests in the US Military are denied the freedom to preach the Word of God.

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poche · « **Reply #5 on:** December 29, 2013, 05:31:45 AM »

Last summer they told one priest that if he said mass they would arrest him. While at the same time they were allowing Protestant worship services to go on.
What do you expect?

poche · « **Reply #6 on:** January 04, 2014, 04:18:37 AM »

Malaysia’s largest political party, the United Malays National Organization, has planned Sunday protests outside churches in Selangor, one of the nation’s 13 states, according to Malaysian media reports.

Selangor is governed by a sultan who has decreed that non-Muslims may not use the term “Allah” to address God. Christians in Malaysia have been using the term since the seventeenth century, and Father Lawrence Andrew, the editor of the nation’s Catholic newspaper, said that Catholic parishes in Selangor would continue to use the term – prompting the planned protests.

Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin stated that the protestors would not be acting illegally.

Protestors are “not doing anything against the law because even though we hold true to the Federal Constitution, when it comes to religious matters the power of the state resides in the Sultan,” he said.

Protestors have already burned Father Andrew in effigy, and police are providing him with protection.

The nation of 29.6 million is 60% Muslim, 19% Buddhist, 6% Hindu, 6% Protestant, and 3% Catholic; Islam is Malaysia’s official religion.

http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=20096