ISIS terrorists slit throat of elderly priest at Mass

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It's bad enough to be killed by terrorists, but it's sad that this priest was killed while practicing his false religion.



First picture of one of ISIS knifemen who forced elderly priest, 84, to kneel at altar before they slit his throat on camera after invading Mass - then gave 'Arabic sermon' before they were shot dead by police

Priest had throat cut while another hostage is fighting for life after knifemen burst into Normandy church at 9am
Reports that one of the attackers shouted 'Allahu Akbar' as they launched assault at Gambetta Church near Rouen
Vatican has condemned the 'barbaric' killing of the 84-year-old priest and an anti-terror investigation is underway
ISIS claim responsibility for the atrocity while Francois Hollande says France is 'at war' with the terror group
One attacker named as 19-year-old Adel Kermiche, known to police for twice trying to join the terror group in Syria
He was jailed but released on bail - under conditions that allowed him to roam free in the morning and kill the priest

French authorities revealed this afternoon that they have arrested a third man in connection with the attack
Nicolas Sarkozy calls for 'merciless' response as ex-PM said 'everything is being done to trigger a war of religions'

By Peter Allen In France and Julian Robinson and Imogen Calderwood For Mailonline

Published: 03:55 EST, 26 July 2016 | Updated: 15:28 EST, 26 July 2016



One of a pair of ISIS knifemen who stormed a church in Normandy before slitting the throat of an elderly priest has been named as known terror threat Adel Kermiche.

The 19-year-old 'ISIS soldier' was being monitored with an electronic ankle tag after he was arrested for twice attempting to flee France to join the terror group in Syria.

Despite having been released early from prison, Keriche's bail conditions allowed him to roam unsupervised between 8.30am and 12.30pm, leaving him free to murder the priest in the attack which was carried out between 9am and 11am.

Kermiche and his accomplice - also known to French police - forced 84-year-old Father Jacques Hamel to kneel before filming themselves butchering him and performing a 'sermon in Arabic' at the altar of the church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, according to witnesses.

Both were shot dead by police marksmen as they emerged from the building shouting 'Allahu Akbar' following the attack that also left a nun critically injured.

French President Francois Hollande, who visited the scene today, said the country is now 'at war' with ISIS after the terror group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Full story with pictures and video at link.

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Want to bet Frankie nominates this guy for "sainthood?"  


Martyred Priest’s Last Words to Jihadists: ‘Be Gone, Satan!’




A picture of Father Jacques Hamel, the 85-year-old priest who was murdered by two jihadists is on display during Hamel's funeral at the Rouen cathedral in northern France on August 2, 2016. A section of pews was set aside for residents of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, the nearby industrial town where the two jihadists, both 19, slit Hamel's throat while he was celebrating mass in an attack that shocked the country as well as the Catholic Church.CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty


by THOMAS D. WILLIAMS, PH.D.4 Aug 20161,030


Just before having his throat slit by two Islamic terrorists in northern France last week, Father Jacques Hamel told one of his assailants, “Be gone, Satan!”, according to the priest’s bishop.

In his homily at the martyred priest’s funeral Mass on Tuesday, Rouen’s Archbishop Dominique Lebrun gave details of the last moments of the priest’s life as he was slaughtered for his Christian faith.



“Evil is a mystery that reaches summits of horror beyond what is human,” the Archbishop said. “Is that not what you meant, Jacques, by your last words? Falling to the ground after the first stab, you try to push away your attacker with your feet saying, ‘Go away Satan!’”



The archbishop said that the priest then repeated a second time: “Be Gone, Satan!”



During the same homily, with members of the Muslim community present, Archbishop Lebrun explicitly addressed those who may be tempted by jihad.



“You who are tormented by diabolical violence, you who are drawn to kill by a demonic, murderous madness, pray to God to free you from the devil’s grip,” he said. “We pray for you, we pray to Jesus who healed all those who were under the power of evil.”



Many thousands attended the two-hour funeral Mass held at the Rouen cathedral, despite the rain and unprecedented security, to pay a final tribute to the priest killed in the attack in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.



Symbolically, a stole was placed on a large cross, because the priest’s death was “similar to that of Christ, unjustly condemned and put to death,” according to a statement from the archdiocese.



In a separate memorial Mass celebrated for the French priest, Paris Cardinal André Vingt-Trois told the Christian faithful that jihadists “wrap themselves in the trappings of religion” while announcing a “God of death,” whom the cardinal compared to the ancient pagan god “Moloch”—a demon who demanded live human sacrifices as a tribute.



“Those who wrap themselves in the trappings of religion to mask their deadly project,” Vingt-Trois said, “those who want to announce to us a God of death, a Moloch that would rejoice at the death of a man and promise paradise to those who kill while invoking him, these cannot expect humanity to yield to their delusion.”



The comparison between the “Allah” of the Islamists and the monstrous “Moloch” of ancient pagan peoples was especially forceful, since Christians have generally understood Muslims to be an Abrahamic religion, and a “people of the book.” Moloch, on the contrary, was a demon who demanded infant sacrifices, often identified with the Carthaginian god Baal.



Cardinal Vingt-Trois ended his homily by urging the faithful to be courageous and to find their strength in the Lord.



“Though they fight against you, they shall not prevail, for I am with you, to save and rescue you, says the Lord. I will rescue you from the hand of the wicked, and ransom you from the power of the violent,” the Cardinal said, quoting the Prophet Jeremiah.


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