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Pope Francis prays for an end to the violence in the Holy Land, especially in Gaza where a humanitarian catastrophe has unfolded, as well as for the ...

Pope Francis prays for an end to the violence in the Holy Land, especially in Gaza where a humanitarian catastrophe has unfolded, as well as for the …

  • fiat_lux@kbin.social
    91·
    1 year ago

    Catholic extremists haven’t stopped at non-Christians before. CW: extremely heavy including pictures Ethnic and religious persecution during WW2 by the Croatian Ustaše

    Large numbers of Serbs, Jews, Gypsies, communists, and Croatians hostile to the regime were interned in concentration camps, while countless others were massacred in towns and villages. The Ustasha were directly involved in the administration and in the orchestration of the killings. In addition, some 200,000 Serbs were forcibly converted to Catholicism. According to the Ustasha blueprint, one-third of Serbs were to be killed, another third expelled, and a final third converted to Catholicism.
    - “Genocides by the Oppressed: Subaltern Genocide in Theory and Practice” (2009) Ed. Nicholas A. Robins, Adam Jones

    For clarity, Serbs are historically usually Eastern Orthodox Christians.

    • PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml
      65·
      1 year ago

      And church loved that. Pius XII was very chummy with Ustase and after war helped a lot of them avoid justice, and that include Alojzije Stepinac, head of croatian church who was very close with ustase and organized church to support them. He even make Stepinac cardinal after war. Pope John Paul II even beatified Stepinac as a martyr (his “martyrdom” was 5 years in prison and then being confined to one town) and wanted to make him full saint, the process was stopped only by Francis.