Martyrdom for Christ’s sake and the mission of Islam in Europe

                                                                                                                                                                                    Letter to Cardinals and Bishops of the Catholic Church

Your Eminence, Your Excellence,

in February 2006 a Catholic priest Andreu Santora was murdered in Turkey. When the 16-year-old boy who killed him was put in prison for it, his mother said before the TV cameras: “He will serve his term for Allah.” In January 2007 in Turkey a journalist Hrant Dink was murdered for Christian faith. In April 2001 the Security Council of Turkey began to consider Christians a threat to national security similarly as terrorism of Al Kayda or PKK (Party of Kurdish Workers). Since December 2005 in Turkey a campaign started in mass media and at meetings with an aim to engage the attention of the public against the “threat of the Christians”.

On Wednesday 18th April 2007 in the town of Malatya, north-east of Antioch (Turkey), five young men from the group of “faithful believers” of Islam – so-called tarikat – tortured to death two Protestant pastors (missionaries) and one Christian believer. The names of the martyrs are: Tilmann Geske – a German missionary and father of three children, Necati Aydin – a pastor of Turkish nationality, father of two children, and Ugur Yuksel – a Christian of Turkish nationality. The torturers stabbed Tilmann 156 times, Necati 99 times and Ugur’s stabs were too many to be counted. The torturers slit their bellies and cut their bowels right before their eyes. They were castrated and these parts of their bodies were cut before their eyes. Their fingers were cut off, noses, mouths and rectums were slit. In the end their throats were slit from ear to ear and thus their heads were practically cut off. This inhuman and brutal act was planned and prepared in advance by the “brotherhood” of tarikat. As the instrument in committing this sadistic murder served young men under 20 because the public is forbearing towards the youth.

In an official TV reaction from Ankara the Turkish Minister of the Interior smiled self-confidently at these hideous attacks on Christians. The media and the official statements say: “We hope you’ve got a lesson, we don’t want Christians here!”

When Susanne, Tilmann’s wife, wanted to bury her husband in the town of Malatya, the governor tried to prevent it, and thus it spread that “it is a sin to dig a grave to a Christian”.

Necati’s wife Shemsa said: “His death had sense because he died for Christ and lived for Christ… Necati was a gift from God. I feel honoured that he was a part of my life. I feel crowned by honour. I want to be worthy of this honour.”

As one could expect, during the burial an anti-terroristic police unit appeared and its officers made videorecords of everyone who came there – for prospective future use (in the persecution of Christians).

In connection with the act which appeared on the title pages of the widest spread newspaper in Turkey, Susanne, Tilmann’s wife, said to the reporters in a TV-interview: “O God, Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do.” (Lk 23:34) Thereby she forgave the murderers, following the example of our Saviour who, when His hands and feet were being nailed on Golgotha, was forgiving. In this region of blood feud a number of testimonies got into the centre of attention how this statement of Susanne changed the lives of people. One editor wrote about her statement: “Through one sentence she did what a thousand missionaries did not manage to do in the span of a thousand years.”

Last year the Holy Father Benedict XVI pronounced on Islam that it is a religion founded on violence. He then quoted a familiar statement of the emperor Manuel II Palaeologus: “Show me what Mohammed brought new and you will see that these are all bad and inhuman things.” The whole Islamic world demanded the Pope’s apology, threatening with terroristic attacks. Regrettably to say, even some of the Catholic hierarchy and especially HCT liberal theologians were putting psychological pressure on Benedict XVI that he should apologize to Moslems. The Holy Father, deprived of the support from among his own, was forced to make certain “diplomatic steps”.

It did not take long and it appeared that the statement of the emperor Manuel II Palaeologus quoted by Benedict XVI is now in full accord with reality.

However, the appalling acts of Moslems towards Christians in Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Iraq etc., as The Voice of the Martyrs regularly informs about it (www.persecution.com; www.persecution.net), are from the point of view of their religion “understandable” – for killing a Christian the Moslem is said to obtain paradise from Allah. This is the question of physical murder, which is a mortal sin. But how much more terrible is a spiritual murder which causes eternal perdition of soul. Therefore absolutely incomprehensible is the acting of the Catholic theologians – adherents of HCT (historic-critical theology) – and of the Catholic hierarchy, who with the same cynicism and fanaticism are spiritually killing all that is living in the Catholic Church, and their victims are above all the students of theology! The disrupted Catholic Church and rotten Christianity of the Catholics is no longer able to do a mission and to preach Christ as the only Saviour. Today one could hardly find a Catholic theologian or hierarch who would be willing to die for Christ’s sake. For the current opinion in the Catholic Church is such that Christianity, Islam, buddhism etc. are equal religions leading to salvation! And this is a big heresy, because “there is no communion of light with darkness” (2Cor 6:14).

Your Eminence, Your Excellence, who is responsible for the present state of the Catholic Church?

In Islamic countries Christians are persecuted and killed, and here in Europe so-called Catholic Christians are opening the door for Moslems and giving them space for their mission.

Within 30 years in Germany (the homeland of Tilmann Geske, martyred by Moslems) there have been more than 2000 mosques built! Within 10 to 15 years Netherlands, Germany and other states of Europe will have turned into Moslem states where everyone who will not confess Allah will be persecuted and killed!

We ask who bears the blame for it if not the Catholic Church because she has betrayed Christ and is not preaching the Gospel?

Rotten Christianity in Europe cannot exist any more! Actually Europe is now being captured without fight by Islam and by oriental religions (buddhism, hinduism)! The mission of buddhism through martial art has spread so much that in Europe there is practically no more school in which the youth in the afternoon hours would not practise martial art tied with oriental philosophy and thus with apostasy from Christianity. Unless the Catholic Church and above all her hierarchy and theologians repent and return to Christ, the Catholic Church on this territory will become extinct. In this case they falsely console themselves with the words of the Gospel: “… the gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Mt 16:18). Unless cardinals and bishops are willing again to sacrifice their lives for Christ’s sake, unless they see about a true reform in their dioceses, the Church on their territory will become extinct just as we can see it today in Turkey which once was the cradle of Christianity.

The Mystical Body of Christ – the Church – will exist only there where Christians will repent, preach the living Gospel in the power of the Holy Spirit and where they will be ready for Christ’s sake and for the sake of the Gospel to suffer even a martyr’s death.

Your Eminence, Your Excellence, we believe that there still are cardinals and bishops in the Catholic Church who have at heart the salvation of souls and who sincerely are in internal unity with the Pope Benedict XVI. Therefore we ask You, support the Holy Father Benedict XVI and help him to make a reform of the Church leading to an internal awakening and to the renewal of Christian faith. Do away with the heretical teaching of HCT in Your seminaries as well as with the syncretism with pagan religions actualized through the false interpretation of Nostra aetate and the gesture of Assisi. Support the Holy Father in a radical reform of the Vatican dicasteries. Likewise break with the spirit of the world, with the spirit of Freemasons and with the spirit of the New Age. Recommend the Holy Father orthodox Catholic personalities whom he could appoint to the key posts. Together with the Holy Father prepare the Church for a spiritual resurrection!

Your Eminence, Your Excellence, be not afraid, Jesus Christ is with You. This true and real reform of the Church is the question of life and death.

            Yours in Christ,

                                    Fr. Metod?j R. Špi?ík ThD. OSBM

                                    Fr. Cyril J. Špi?ík Ing. ThD. OSBM

                                    Fr. Markian V. Hitiuk ThLic. OSBM

                                    Fr. Eliáš A. Dohnal ThD. OSBM

Pidhirtsi 27th June 2007

Copy to: His Holiness Benedict XVI