War of words between Rome and Islam escalates

"While Christians respect Islam and desire to dialogue with Muslims," Pope Benedict XVI's private secretary says, "[we] must act to protect the Christian identity of Europe."

Msgr. Georg Ganswein, the Bavarian Pope's secretary, was interviewed in Friday's edition of Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazine.

Attempts at the 'Islamification' of the West cannot be denied," he said, according to an English translation in the Catholic Explorer. "And the associated danger for the identity of Europe cannot be ignored out of a wrongly understood sense of respect... The Catholic side sees this clearly and says as much."

Another Islam-Christian Blow-Up on the Horizon?
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Bible prophecy reveals the growing antagonism and rivalry between the Roman Catholic Church and Islam - both bloody religions - will come to blows and result in a staggering defeat for Muslims.

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