Tiburtius

Counter-terrorism, counter-intelligence and terrorism; history of Crusades/Templars; MENA; Christians in Middle-East; Traditional Catholicism. Retweets only.

[Tiburtius @FraterTiburtius]

@BarefootJewess CE...

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

The Christian village of Taybeh has honored Bernard Baudoux, mayor of Aulnoye-Aymeries, France, who was attacked by Israeli settlers yesterday while visiting with a diplomatic delegation. Taybeh also announced a twinning partnership with his town. 🇫🇷🇵🇸

[Mark Lambert @sitsio]

Yesterday, Israeli settlers attacked European diplomats, a French mayor and Catholic representatives who had travelled to the West Bank to help Palestinian Christians harvest their olives. The incident took place near Taybeh, the last entirely Christian Palestinian village, where local families have endured years of increasing intimidation, restrictions and attacks upon their agricultural land. Bernard Baudoux, the mayor of Aulnoye-Aymeries in northern France, was reportedly knocked to the ground by masked settlers. The delegation also included French, Belgian and Polish diplomats and Archbishop Vincent Dollmann of Cambrai. Belgium's foreign minister has condemned the attack, while Israel's foreign minister, Gideon Sa'ar, has also condemned the violence and confirmed that police are investigating. But there is something particularly revealing about this incident, it has attracted international attention because European diplomats were attacked. Yet the Palestinian Christians they had come to support face this insecurity as part of their ordinary lives.

I have previously spoken with Fr Bashar Fawadleh, the parish priest of Taybeh, and his determination to preserve the Christian presence in this ancient community has stayed with me. For these families, the olive harvest is not simply an agricultural activity. It represents their livelihood, their attachment to land cultivated for generations and their determination to remain in the place they call home.

Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa has repeatedly warned about the deterioration of security in the West Bank, particularly the theft of olives, restrictions on access to farmland and the absence of effective legal protection. There is a profoundly troubling contradiction in Christians living in the land where Christianity was born being made to feel increasingly unable to remain there. None of this requires us to minimise Israel's legitimate security concerns or the suffering inflicted by terrorism. But those concerns cannot justify attacks upon civilians, intimidation of farmers or the failure to protect people going peacefully about their lives.

The protection of innocent people is not a concession to one side in a political conflict. It is a fundamental obligation of justice. If European diplomats can be attacked while accompanying Palestinian Christians to harvest their olives, what protection can those families expect when the diplomats have gone home?

That is the question which deserves an answer.

[Tiburtius @FraterTiburtius]

@osha3264 @JoeMegalith @grok May I ask the title of the book, pls?

[Joseph Shaw @LMSChairman]

The great @guildofstclare has a fundraiser for the @OxfordHalf a week from now: click to support her project to make a humeral veil to go with this cope! https://t.co/cxTfYSI1hZ

[Tiburtius @FraterTiburtius]

@GlaucoSchettini On Kindle, pls?

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@DrHelenFry Szabo? Hungarian origin? 🤔

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RT @LPJerusalem: 📢 Press Release | “Within Your Gates”
Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa, Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, will launch “Within…

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@TaylorRMarshall Elitist, but I understand

[The Aramaic Wire ܣܘܪܝܐ @AramaicWire]

Lebanon does not belong to Hezbollah.

Lebanon is not Iran's playground.

Lebanon does not belong to the IDF.

Lebanon is not Israel's buffer zone.

Lebanon belongs to Jesus Christ.

Lebanon belongs to every single Christian in the world.

Every dot on this map is a Church 🇱🇧✝️

[Tiburtius @FraterTiburtius]

@IntegritySy Cherry-picking

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@castles7997 @shadikhalloul No, he wouldn't; absolutely not

[Eduard Habsburg @EduardHabsburg]

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[Bishop Joseph Strickland @ Pillars of Faith @BishStrick]

A STATEMENT ON LEBANON: A CRY FOR THE INNOCENT

My dear brothers and sisters in Christ,

My heart is heavy as I look toward Lebanon – a land long marked by faith, suffering, and perseverance.

Lebanon is not merely another nation in conflict. It is home to one of the oldest and largest Christian populations in the Middle East, where the name of Jesus Christ has been professed continuously since the earliest centuries of the Church. In that sacred land stands the shrine of St. Charbel Makhlouf, a humble monk whose life of prayer, penance, and Eucharistic devotion has borne extraordinary fruit. Known as the “miracle monk of Lebanon,” countless souls have testified to God’s healing through his intercession – a sign that even in suffering, God has not abandoned His people.

And yet today, Lebanon bleeds.

Reports continue to emerge of relentless bombardment in densely populated civilian areas – families, children, the elderly – lives shattered without warning. What we are witnessing is not simply warfare, but a grave assault on human dignity. The deliberate targeting or reckless endangerment of innocent life is never justified. NEVER.

The Church has always been clear: War itself is a tragedy – but the intentional harming of civilians is a moral evil that cries out to Heaven.

We must not grow numb to images of destruction. We must not allow political narratives to dull our conscience. Every child killed, every home destroyed, every mother weeping over her son – this is not abstract. This is human suffering. This is Christ crucified again in His people.

Lebanon has already endured decades of instability, economic collapse, and the exodus of Christians from the region. To strike this nation again – especially in ways that devastate civilian life – is to deepen wounds that may take generations to heal.

I call upon all leaders involved to remember this: power does not grant moral permission. Military strength does not justify the loss of innocent life. There can be no lasting peace built upon the graves of the defenseless.

And to the faithful, I say this: do not remain silent in your hearts. Pray. Fast. Offer sacrifice.

Pray for the people of Lebanon. Pray for the conversion of those who wield power without mercy. Pray for true peace – not the fragile silence of ceasefires, but the peace that comes from justice rooted in truth.

Through the intercession of St. Charbel Makhlouf, may God bring healing to the wounded, comfort to the grieving, and repentance to those who act without regard for the sanctity of life.

And may we never forget: Every human life is sacred, from conception to natural death, in every nation, without exception.

In Christ Our Hope,

Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
Bishop Emeritus

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[☧ Milad ܝܠܕܐ @PalCatholic]

Jerusalem

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Guild of St Clare https://t.co/qwjV8gE2ir

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@TaylorRMarshall Oh no....

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@Xiruermuzi One of the few accounts I liked to follow is leaving... Why, Lord, why always the good ones? :-(

[MonasticOrder @Monastic_Order]

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