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| Subject: Pope’s Swiss Guards: It’s “Only A Matter Of Time” Before ISIS Fulfills The Prediction Made In The Book “The Final Roman Emperor” Tue Aug 29, 2017 6:54 am | |
| Pope’s Swiss Guards: It’s “Only A Matter Of Time” Before ISIS Fulfills The Prediction Made In The Book “The Final Roman Emperor”August 29, 2017 by SkyWatch Editor The chief of the Swiss Guards, the force that protects the Vatican, has said it is only “a matter of time” before an attack that is inspired or directed by the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) against the home of the Catholic church. Commander Christoph Graf, speaking to Swiss Catholic news website cath.ch, said that the security force for Pope Francis is prepared for any act of extremism. “Perhaps it is only a matter of time before an attack like that happens in Rome. The radical Islamist group has regularly used the imagery of the Pope and the Vatican in its propaganda output, and has claimed it will overthrow Rome, a symbol of the Roman Catholic religion, whose followers the group considers to be “apostates” and “crusaders.” In February 2015, ISIS released a video showing the beheading of 21 Egyptian Christians. It included a message to Italy that called the nation “signed with the blood of the cross.” It also released an issue of its now-defunct propaganda magazine Dabiq with the Vatican’s famous St. Peter’s Square on the cover, with the headline “The Failed Crusade.”(READ MORE) |
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