الفاتيكان: قس كبير يستثير النصارى لمواجهة سيطرة المسلمين القادمة على أوروبا

أعرب "بيرو جيدو" المسؤول عن معهد الإرساليات الخارجية عن مخاوفه من السيطرة الإسلامية المستقبلية على أوروبا، في ظل ارتفاع الكثافة السكانية الإسلامية في "إيطاليا" وحدها، التي تقدر بمائتي ألف مسلم سنويًّا، في حين لا تعدو الزيادة السكانية المحلية 120ألف.

وأكد "جيدو" في تصريحاته أن المجتمع الأوروبي أصبح يعيش فراغًا روحيًّا وحالة من المجون وتخلي عن العقائد النصرانية، وهو ما يدفعه لاعتناق الإسلام لملء الفراغ الروحي.

وتأتي هذه التصريحات في ظل انقسام الخط الكنسي الأوروبي بين المطالبة بدعم حق المسلمين في ممارسة العقيدة، وبين المطالبة بإحياء الموروث النصراني والتحذير من تأثير الإسلام وسيطرته على قلوب وعقول الأوروبيين.

وقد أفرزت هذه المخاوف قيام القس "جوسي بوليكربو" بطريرك "لشبونة" بتحذير النساء الكاثوليكيات من الزواج من المسلمين، ومطالبة القس "جيكومو بيفّي" الحكومة الإيطالية بجعل الأولوية للمهاجرين الكاثوليك دون المسلمين حماية لهوية البلاد النصرانية، إضافة إلى رفض الفاتيكان عضوية "تركيا" للاتحاد الأوروبي بسبب عدم مشاركة الدولة الإسلامية الموروث النصراني للقارة الأوروبية.

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Muslims will become majority in Europe, senior Vatican official warns

European Christians must have more children or face the prospect of the continent becoming Islamised, a senior Vatican official has said.

talian Father Piero Gheddo said that the low birth rate among indigenous Europeans combined with an unprecedented wave of Muslim immigrants with large families could see Europe becoming dominated by Islam in the space of a few generations.

"The challenge must be taken seriously," said Father Gheddo, of the Vatican's Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions.

"Certainly from a demographic point of view, as it is clear to everyone that Italians are decreasing by 120,000 or 130,000 persons a year because of abortion and broken families – while among the more than 200,000 legal immigrants a year in Italy, more than half are Muslims and Muslim families, which have a much higher level of growth."

He said: "Newspapers and television programmes never speak of this. However, an answer must be given above all in the religious and cultural fields and in the area of identity."

The priest blamed Christians for failing to live up to their own beliefs and helping to create a "religious vacuum" which was being filled by Islam.

He predicted that Islam would "sooner rather than later conquer the majority in Europe".

"The fact is that, as a people, we are becoming ever more pagan and the religious vacuum is inevitably filled by other proposals and religious forces," he said.

Father Gheddo also said that Christians who lapsed were also making themselves vulnerable to attacks by secularists.

He said when "religious practice diminishes in Christian Europe and indifference spreads, Christianity and the Church are attacked".

"If we consider ourselves a Christian country, we should return to the practice of Christian life, which would also solve the problem of empty cradles," he added.

The comments of Father Gheddo come just months after a Czech cardinal also blamed lapsed Catholics for the Islamisation of Europe.

On his retirement as Archbishop of Prague earlier this year, Cardinal Miloslav Vlk said Muslims were well placed to fill the spiritual void "created as Europeans systematically empty the Christian content of their lives".

He said that unless Christians woke up to the threat to their culture they would soon find they no longer have the strength to make their mark on society.

He called on Christians to respond to the threat of Islamisation by living their own religious faith more observantly.

While many European Catholic bishops often defend the rights of Muslims to worship publicly others are more keen to protect the Christian heritage of their continent.

Last year Cardinal Jose Policarpo, the Patriarch of Lisbon, warned Catholic women against marrying Muslims.

Italian Cardinal Giacomo Biffi has also urged the Italiangovernment to give priority to Catholic migrants over Muslims in order to protect his country's religious identity.

The Vatican has also opposed Turkey joining the European Union partly because the Muslim country does not share the continent's Christian heritage.