#catholic persecution

[wolfsoulpath]

Nicaragua is living a Cristiada.

And, as usual, nobody is talking about it.

[internetcatholicism]

[cervinae-canine]

okay im kinda stupid but I don't think selfshipping with Judge Claude fucking Frollo from Hunchback of Notre Dame, is a good idea

[azures-grace]

I joked that it'd be funny if Celeste and Benny were siblings.

well shit.

hi this is Benny, Celeste, and their mom Maria they're certainly something.

[protestantworkthatethic]

Really tired of going to Protestant/non denom Christian subs forums Tumblr posts YouTube videos spaces and seeing Catholics make it all about themselves and how mean we are to them for existing

[smhalltheurlsaretaken]

not me typing a whole rant about some catholics being insufferably smug about their "better looking churches" while ignoring the history behind the barebone austerity of protestant churches and then deleting it all because my seething anger isn't christ-like either

*gnaws on wood* God help me love your children even when they are absolute prigs

[lostmymarblesstuff]

A famous Christian priest has recently been stabbed while preaching. Mar Mari.

He has asked for prayers not only for his health but also for the person who stabbed him.

This hurts.

Christianity persecution is getting worse.

Thousands of Christians have been killed, and almost 10k churches were attacked last year. (From what ive heard)

But we still dont lose faith. Pray for those who hurt you, leave the revenge for God.

“The only thing evil hates is forgiveness.”

[cat-a-holic]

"The inhabitants of Kaymakli expanded their living spaces vertically, creating a multi-layered community that could be sealed off with large rolling stone doors, ensuring protection from invaders. During times of religious strife, Kaymakli served as an important refuge for Christian communities, protecting their faith and way of life."

[angeltreasure]

Nigerian seminarian burned alive in attack on rectory

[littleliongod]

The grand deception.

[myremnantarmy]

[demonic-shadowlucifer]

by the way i kinda want to talk about the whole "christians arent oppressed" and "oooh christians wanna be oppressed so bad" stuff because i do feel strongly about it because of how much history it ignores lmfao ...because, yes. but actually no. Long ago, the Romans... actually did not like Christianity! Oh no. They despised them, especially Nero, who hated them so much he called for their execution. Eventually though Rome decided "actually yeah Christianity is cool". And that's not all!

Christians, especially Jehovah's Witnesses, weren't safe during WW2 neither! Oh no. Jehovah's Witnesses, while not persecuted as badly as Jewish folks, were still targeted and faced discrimination by the Nazis. And many were also unlucky enough to end up in concentration camps as well. Not to mention the fact that Christians are currently being targeted in other countries, such as North Korea. Oh yeah! Don't think America's getting out of this one neither! Black Christians especially aren't safe. In 2015, a black church in Charleston, South Carolina (particularly Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal) was shot up, killing 9 African Americans, including state senator Clementa C. Pinckney. And going further back in 1963, 15th Street Baptist Church, the first black church in Birmingham, Alabama, was bombed by members of the KKK, with four children, the youngest being 11, killed as a result.

So yes, Christians *have* been oppressed before. ...Just not in the way evangelicals want you to believe.

[theawkwardvirgin]

Doing an Early Church study and they casually hit us with “the ten thousand martyrs [from a single city/location]” and “So many were killed on a single day that the axe, blunted and worn out by the slaughter, was broken in pieces, while the exhausted executioners had to be periodically relieved.”

Then you look it up and learn that, yes, the martyrdom of ten thousand people in Nicomedia is supported by historical documents and they can actually specify it likely happened in the year 303 A.D. under the beginning of Diocletian’s reign.

Historians estimate that between 250 and 311 A.D, 60,000 Catholics were martyred. That’s around 1,000 a year, or three a day, for SIXTY YEARS.

“✨We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn’t burn.✨” Oh yeah? Well we’re the descendants of the Catholics you couldn’t kill. Of people who stood firm in the face of horrors beyond comprehension, who knew that hours or days of pain was nothing compared to the ecstasy that awaited them. I pray that I can have a fraction of their courage and dignity, a hint of their resolve and charity.

Holy martyrs, pray for us.

[likeabxrdinflight]

Thinking about that time I told my therapist that we were taught in school that in the event of a school shooting it is better to take the bullet than to deny your belief in God and she just stared at me in abject horror