Pope ‘Canonizes’ Abbas as ‘Angel of Peace’, Betraying Iraqi Nuns -As Leaders of State, Including the Vatican, Recognize the Illegitimate Claim of Palestinian Statehood, There Can Be No Peace as That Claim is Based Wholly on the Outright Destruction of Israel, the Jews, & the Subjugation of Christianity

A. Dru Kristenev / Canada Free Press

Abandoning his own constituents, Pope Francis has embraced the divisive, terror-backed Palestinian Authority with a treaty recognizing its (nonexistent) statehood and an open-armed welcome of Mahmoud Abbas, P.A. leader, as an “angel of peace.” With this action, the pope iced the cake of tumultuous Middle East politics by celebrating a condoner of ISIS that continues to persecute members of his own Catholic flock in Syria and Iraq.

Abbas stands with Hamas, an officially identified terrorist group that calls for Israel’s annihilation, the Palestinian National Charter iterating their same goal. How this warrants Abbas to be acclaimed an “angel of peace” is absurd when he, and the political entity he represents, quantifies the opposite sentiment. Church hierarchy may be canonizing two 19^thcentury nuns from the Holy Land that is now under Palestinian control, however, that hardly qualifies Abbas as a man of peace despite the pope’s gushing admiration. Even Abbas’comment praising the newly honored saints Mariam Bawardy and Marie Alphonsine Ghattas as “inspirational models for today’s Palestinians,” and asking Christians like them to remain in the region, seems to advocate Christians be submissive to Islam. Would sticking with the Palestinian Authority’s current attitude toward Christians “until we achieve liberty, sovereignty and human dignity” in a future state significantly improve the status of Christians in any way? Doubtful, if a past of anti-Christian riots and dishonored promises counts for much.

While Pope Francis rolled out the red carpet for Abbas, Sister Diana Momeka, a Dominican nun from Iraq, struggled to receive a visa in order to address Congress on ISIS’ massacres and destruction of the Church. Other members of the delegation representing Yazidis and Turkmen Shia had been granted visas, yet the State Department felt compelled to initially decline her entrance (and still is not commenting on the blockage). Upon finally receiving permission to come to the United States, Sister Diana gave compelling testimony before Congress of the devastation, stating that believers’ faith is increasing amid ISIS’ horrific rampage.

It hasn’t been reported whether Pope Francis made a personal appeal to the State Department for Sister Diana, whose hindered entry could be construed as discrimination, if one had a mind to view it in that light. What makes discrimination a possibility are other actions being taken by the Administration to ease the admission, including clandestinely, of displaced Muslim refugees from war-torn regions. Yet no effort, that can be found, is being made to bring Christian refugees into the United States, just Muslims.