Laici e non in piazza contro la legge sull’omofobia. Vescovi non pervenuti
La Manif pour tous Italia, nata in esplicito gemellaggio con l’omologo movimento francese che si oppone al matrimonio gay, ha dato appuntamento per sabato 11 gennaio a Roma (piazza Santi Apostoli, ore 15,30), a tutti coloro che considerano semplicemente liberticida la legge “contro l’omofobia” – il cosiddetto “ddl Scalfarotto” – già approvata alla Camera a settembre e ora al vaglio del Senato.
La manifestazione di sabato prossimo (ne parla anche Francesco Agnoli nella sua rubrica in questa stessa pagina) è stata preparata da una miriade di iniziative che da qualche tempo vedono protagoniste sia la Mpt Italia, sia le “Sentinelle in piedi”. Queste ultime sono soprattutto ragazze e ragazzi che si danno appuntamento nelle piazze italiane – in più di venti città, negli ultimi cinque mesi – per testimoniare, tenendo in mano un libro o un cero acceso e rimanendo in silenzio e in piedi per un’ora, la volontà di difendere la libertà di espressione attaccata da una legge che vuole introdurre il pretestuoso reato di omofobia.
Leggi penali a tutela della persona e della sua integrità già esistono e sono sufficienti e valide per tutti, ma introdurre il reato di omofobia serve ad altro. Lo si capisce se si leggono le risibili “Linee guida per un’informazione rispettosa delle persone Lgbt”, pubblicate da qualche settimana sul sito del ministero per le Pari opportunità. Dove si dice, per esempio, che va eliminata l’espressione “utero in affitto” (per non offendere chi usa le donne povere come incubatrici?), oppure si diffida dal sostenere e dallo scrivere che il bambino “ha bisogno di una figura maschile e di una femminile come condizione fondamentale per la completezza dell’equilibrio psicologico”. Guai anche a chi usa l’espressione “matrimonio gay”, perché la formula corretta è “matrimonio tra persone dello stesso sesso”.
Quelle opinioni e quelle espressioni potrebbero diventare reati, se passasse la legge Scalfarotto. Ed è comprensibile che di fronte a questa prospettiva vogliano far sentire il proprio dissenso sia un mondo cattolico non dimentico di una questione antropologica che ha tenuto banco negli ultimi trent’anni di pontificato, sia un mondo di non credenti laicamente affezionati alla libertà di espressione e al rifiuto di qualsiasi pensiero unico, compreso quello ispirato dalla teoria del gender.
Da tutto questo nasce la manifestazione nazionale di sabato. Della quale, va detto, si stanno facendo carico realtà che più di base non potrebbero essere, mentre in casa dei vescovi la parola d’ordine nemmeno troppo sommessa è: non ci riguarda. E’ singolare, per non dire incredibile, che una mobilitazione che fino a oggi ha coinvolto migliaia di persone e che riguarda il “cuore” antropologico del messaggio cristiano, non possa contare sull’appoggio esplicito dei pastori. E non può nemmeno contare sulle associazioni cattoliche che solo sette anni fa – nell’ormai remota era nella quale Camillo Ruini era a capo della Conferenza episcopale italiana – costruivano il Family Day. A scorrere la lista delle adesioni all’appuntamento dell’11 gennaio (lo slogan è: “Non imbavagliate le coscienze”), leggiamo per esempio il nome di Francesco Belletti, presidente del Forum delle associazioni famigliari. Il quale però partecipa a titolo personale, così come altri esponenti del mondo cattolico. Fanno eccezione il Movimento per la vita, l’Associazione giuristi per la vita e un’altra decina di sigle, mentre i politici che hanno annunciato la loro presenza sono i soliti, quelli più impegnati sui temi legati ai “valori non negoziabili”: Laura Bianconi, Maurizio Gasparri, Carlo Giovanardi, Lucio Malan, Massimiliano Fedriga, Giorgia Meloni, Nicola Molteni, Alessandro Pagano, Eugenia Roccella, Maurizio Sacconi, Mario Sberna.
Tornando al mondo cattolico, l’impressione è che stia accadendo anche in Italia quello che è successo in Francia un anno fa, dove il movimento contro il matrimonio e le adozioni per le coppie gay ha dovuto fare e tuttora fa a meno dell’appoggio di un episcopato intimidito e assente. Nonostante il Papa fosse Benedetto XVI e non ci fosse ancora Bergoglio a parlare d’altro.
Agnoli Famiglia e natura
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Jack Salloum who was killed by shrapnel when two mortar rockets, fired by rebels, fell close to where he and other boys were waiting for a bus to collect them and bring them to catechism lessons. Several children were injured.
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A page on Facebook “The lions of Sunni’s in Tripoli” claimed that they burned down a house of infidals. The library was one of the oldest and historical libraries in Lebanon.
Photo via Yeghig Tashjian, Facebook group The New Eastern Politics
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LA NOSTRA CIVILTà CHE SCOMPARE
Aleppo Devastated [1]
Letter from Archbishop Jean-Clément Jeanbart Melkite Archbishop of Aleppo.
Translated from French from the website of the French Catholic NGO L’Œuvre d’Orient
Dear friend,
I don’t know if the city of Aleppo has or has not been declared a “Disaster city” by international bodies! What I can say myself is that it is indeed a disaster. A humanitarian, material and economic disaster!
The residents of this great seven thousand year old metropolis are found after three years of senseless war, in a disastrous situation. The prosperity that distinguished Aleppo to place it among the most cities prominent in the region has lost all its brilliance. The incalculable damage that destroyed factories and thriving industry, its infrastructure, social and administrative institutions, commerce and its legendary souks, its ancient houses, schools and hospitals have been reduced to poverty and depleted the population in a worrying and dramatic way.
Can we now talk about all the annoyances that make the Aleppins suffer these days due to the unprecedented siege that the rebels have imposed for almost two months? The lack of supplies has created a shortage of food and a large number of necessities…
In a Word, our population suffers and innocently suffers the after-effects of an unjust and devastating war.
A before and after view of St. Gevorg’s (George) Armenian Orthodox Church in Aleppo which was petrol bombed by FSA (“Free” Syrian Army) rebel terrorists last October 2012. The church library was also destroyed in the attack. Click to enlarge.
Am I allowed to speak of our Archdiocese which has been these last months the target of projectiles of all kinds which have damaged our buildings and that put us, my clergy and myself in great danger. I lament then a great misfortune which has hit a good number of the inhabitants of this city we all love. On several occasions our apartments have suffered extensive damage, but I consider it insignificant, seeing what the city has endured… May the Lord have mercy on us and allow peace to be established in the country.
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Is this a good way to contact friends on the occasion of the festivities of Christmas and new year? Who other than you, my beloved, I entrust my concerns and tell my suffering in these days which leads the world each year to joy and comfort but unfortunately give suffering and bitterness. Christmas for the faithful of Aleppo, brings hope and consolation with the coming of the newborn Savior, it remained still a feast that we celebrate with joy and one that softens our bitterness. I would like on this occasion to say to all those who believe in us, continue to support us and to pray with us and to stop this destructive scourge, which reminds us of the great barbarian invasions of the middle ages and that the greed of the big nations will be settled. This will allow, without any doubt, the poor Syrians to find tranquility and serenity necessary for dialogue, which alone is capable of carrying out a most needed agreement and national reconciliation!
I wish, dear friend, to tell you here that I love you with all my heart, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a good new year, without forgetting to thank you for your kindness and for the generosity with which you kindly help us. With my gratitude and my deep gratitude, please accept the expression of my best feelings. Original in French here [3]
+ J- C.JEANBART
Aleppo: public flogging for failure to observe Friday prayers
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Member of the Islamist Ahrar ash-Sham publically lash two men in Aleppo, the punishment for those who trade (buy or sell) in the city while Friday Prayers are in progress. Ahrar ash-Sham is a part of the Islamic Front grouping of rebels, which was formed in November 2013 and is defacto lead by Saudi Arabia. Western media attempts to portray these militants as “more moderate” because they are not directly connected with Al Qaeda although they share the same ideology. The Islamic Front is a merger of seven rebel groups announced on 22 November 2013. Harakat Ahrar ash-Sham Al Islami means “Islamic Movement of the Free Men of the Levant” and is itself a collection of Islamist and Salafist -Takfiri [5] armed groups whose units combined to form one brigade.
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Lebanon Loses 78000 Books To Terrorism: Tripoli’s “Al Sa’eh” Library Burned [6]
A decades-old library owned by an Antiochian Orthodox priest, Father Ibrahim Surouj, in Lebanon’s northern city of Tripoli was torched late Friday.
Note: Lebanon’s northern City of Tripoli has been polarised as a result of the Syrian Conflict. The city has long become a centre for radical Salafi Islamist activity and many takfiri fighters from the city have gone to fight with the opposition in Syria.
2014 is off to a horrible start in Lebanon. The explosion that took place in Beirut yesterday, in the year’s first few days, has been paralleled by another act of terrorism in Lebanon’s northern capital, where extremist gunmen torched the city’s biggest library, Lebanon’s second, burning it to the ground.
They accused the priest running the library, a man who has been fighting to keep that place alive against contractors who worked to dismantle the building in which it resided, of publishing an article that offends Islam. I guess offenses are in the eye of the beholder. In this case, the eyes are for illiterate people who can’t read and who don’t know the value of a book.
The country is burning, let’s not worry about a library. A lot of people might say that. But the library in question was a true national treasure, containing 78000 books, many of which exist in very few copies and many of which are, ironically, books about Islam. I’m also sure the library contained Qurans. Father Ibrahim Sarrouj, the library’s curator, has lived in Tripoli all his life and is known to being an encompassing person of the city’s diversity.
Father Ibrahim Surouj and his library
Tripoli cannot sit out the ongoing tragedies blowing through Lebanon lately. We just lost 78,000 books. We have lost many innocent lives as well over the past few days. And for the sake of what? Wars that we have nothing to do with, being fought over our territory, by people who have gone through a few cycles of brain washing in order to get them to believe that killing innocent people whose lives are well ahead of them or burning down a library will bring them favors with their own version of god and prophet.
Then you have those who believe that the actions of those gunmen reflect what the people of Tripoli believe in and who proclaim things as such to the ears that would listen. The fact of the matter is, however, is that the people of Tripoli are more afraid of those gunmen than we are. They are more afraid of the havoc they are bringing to their city than we are. They are more worried about the repercussions of their actions on the fabrics of their society than we give them credit for. They are wary of how their city has changed in such few days. They are terrified of the cultural demise that their home city is witnessing. They care about these books, the library and the priest who ran it. They are people who are worthy of having such a library to their name. They are the people whose city just lost its biggest library and who are gathering around its remnants crying their eyes out at how things turned out for the place they call home: a pile of rubble of a place that was once great.
I’m not Muslim but I’m more Muslim than the lunatics who torched that library and so are most of the people of Tripoli that many Lebanese love to dismiss so easily.
Tonight, I have been robbed of being able to visit such a place again and again by men who know no religion, no god and no alphabet.
Antiochian Orthodox Archbishop Efram Kyriakos said if the criminals are not arrested similar attacks will take place against Christians in the region.
Tonight, the entire country was robbed of a wealth of knowledge that we had probably taken for granted. Who ever thought a library would be targeted in a terrorist attack?
Tonight, I’m livid and you should be. It’s not just about books. It’s about living in a place where two explosions taking place within a week, followed by such an act, are now considered normal. It’s about living in a place where you’re expected to move on from everything like it was nothing because that’s the only way forward. It’s about living in a place where you’re forced to forget about the lives lost, the books burned and the cities ruined just because it’s what we do.
Tonight, my thoughts go to Tripoli, the city that I miss and to its people that I hold dear. May they rebuild the library, restock its shelves with what they can and get rid of their streets of the infestation springing out and about. I try to be optimistic because that’s the only thing I can try to do. Tonight has been a sad night indeed. Original here [7]
No one intervened to stop it
From the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar: “Sources told Al-Akhbar that Salafi young men in the library’s neighborhood spread a rumor about finding a book insulting Prophet Mohammad that Sarrouj was intending to reprint. Unknown assailants later shot an employee working for Sarrouj in the foot. Then, during the night, the library was set on fire, and no one intervened to stop it”. Read the full article here [8]
People of Tripoli donating books to the library which was burnt by the radicals.
Tripoli’s Scouts launch a campaign to help replace the lost books
The CJC group “Les Scouts du Liban- Groupe CJC Tripoli” based is St. Maron Church- Tripoli, is launching a campaign to collect books and donate them to Père Sarrouj, the owner of the library, so that this historical library opens again as soon as possible.
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For Some Syrian Christian Refugees, Christmas a Sorrowful Time [9]
Article by Dale Gavlak from the Catholic Near East Welfare Association
AMMAN, Jordan (CNS) — Some Syrian Christian refugees taking shelter in neighboring Jordan did not have a happy Christmas, fearful for their uncertain future as the violent conflict in their homeland grinds on past 33 months with no end in sight.
“Just see how Christians in Iraq were targeted on our sacred holiday, Christmas Day, in Baghdad,” said Abu Reda, referring to bomb blasts that left at least 37 dead.
The 30-year-old Catholic entrepreneur once ran a successful beverage business in a suburb of the Syrian capital, Damascus, but now collects plastic containers from the streets to sell just to feed his family in exile.
He and his family of four huddled in front of a TV that broadcast Christmas programs over a Christian satellite channel in a cold, sparsely furnished apartment in the Jordanian capital. He used a familial name, rather than his given name, to protect relatives still in Syria.
A pair of calendars for the coming year with pictures of Jesus and the Holy Family adorned the otherwise bare living room walls. There was no Christmas tree in sight.
“Christians are being targeted in Syria. I was one and that’s why we fled here,” said Abu Reda. Islamist extremists’ repeated threats of kidnapping and death forced Abu Reda and his family to flee about a year ago. The final straw was the killing of a cousin by extremists and the destruction of a family home. Fighters from the Nusra Front, an Islamist militant group linked to the al Qaeda network, began putting messages on his shop’s door and later on his home. “Selling alcohol is forbidden,” the messages read. “We consider your money to be ours and we’ll turn your wife and children into our slaves.” Shortly afterward, Islamist rebels kidnapped his father and held him for 15 days until the area where he was being held was overtaken by the Syrian government military, which released him. Later, a cousin was kidnapped. The family was given too short a time to collect the ransom money, he said, and the man was killed.
Although Abu Reda discovered that at least two men threatening him were former employees, reports to the Syrian government security services did nothing to stop the threats. “The men warned me, ‘We will follow you wherever you go in Syria,’ “ he said. “We knew we had to leave because of the lack of central control and chaos now reigning in the country,” he added. Abu Reda’s wife sobbed as she recalled the events. “We are far away from our family at this Christmas. It is difficult. We want Christians to return to Syria as well as peace to come again to our homeland,” she said.
Unlike in other Middle Eastern countries, in Jordan, Christians from Western and Eastern traditions tend to celebrate Christmas together on 25 December, according to the Gregorian calendar. Likewise, Jordanian Christians from both traditions celebrate Easter together, according to Julian calendar.
“It’s my hope and that of other Syrian Christians in exile to be allowed to settle in the West, at least for the sake of our children’s future.
Abu Reda said he was grateful to the international Catholic charity Caritas and several Jordanian priests for practical help, including a space heater and other household basics. He praised the Franciscan Sisters for educational assistance to his 8-year-old daughter, Angie, and for providing his family with some basic furniture and a rug to help ward off the bitter winter cold in the apartment.
“My daughter refused to go to a Jordanian public school after they tried to make her wear the hijab,” he said, referring to the headscarf worn by women in the Islamic tradition. “I appealed to our priest and now she attends a Roman Catholic school in Amman and is much happier. “As with other Syrians, I am used to working hard for a living. My money is running out. I am not permitted to work legally in Jordan,” Abu Reda said. “It’s my hope and that of other Syrian Christians in exile to be allowed to settle in the West, at least for the sake of our children’s future. “Still as Christians, our hope is always in Jesus Christ, whom we trust will give us the strength to get through these very tough times,” he said. Original here [10]
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[1] Aleppo Devastated: http://orontes.jimdo.com/2014/01/04/aleppo-devastated/
[2] Image: http://u.jimdo.com/www38/o/se2cb21d5404807b5/img/i5ef8be2b00e1d2ae/1388880862/orig/jack-salloum-who-was-killed-by-shrapnel-when-two-mortar-rockets-fired-by-rebels-fell-close-to-where-he-and-other-boys-were-waiting-for-a-bus-to-collect-them-and-bring-them-to-catechism-lessons-several-children-were-injured.jpg
[3] here: http://www.oeuvre-orient.fr/2014/01/03/alep-ville-sinistree/
[4] Image: http://u.jimdo.com/www38/o/se2cb21d5404807b5/img/i80dd109faae689d6/1388867362/orig/image.jpg
[5] Takfiri: http://orontes.jimdo.com/further-reading/
[6] Lebanon Loses 78000 Books To Terrorism: Tripoli’s “Al Sa’eh” Library Burned: http://orontes.jimdo.com/2014/01/04/lebanon-loses-78000-books-to-terrorism-tripoli-s-al-sa-eh-library-burned/
[7] Blog: http://stateofmind13.com/2014/01/04/lebanon-loses-78000-books-to-terrorism-tripolis-infamous-al-saeh-library-burned/
[8] here: http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/lebanon-tripoli-library-torched-owner-relocates-monastery
[9] For Some Syrian Christian Refugees, Christmas a Sorrowful Time: http://orontes.jimdo.com/2014/01/04/for-some-syrian-christian-refugees-christmas-a-sorrowful-time/
[10] here: http://www.cnewa.org/default.aspx?ID=2208&pagetypeID=8&sitecode=US&pageno=1
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