Noii martiri ortodocşi sârbi, în timpul Croaţiei fascisto-catolice

[Decebal]

Unfortunately, many Orthodox Christians are ignorant of the sufferings of the nearly 750,000 Orthodox Serbian Christians who gave their lives in the defense and confession of the faith during the time of the last world war in the so-called "Independent State of Croatia" and in other parts of German-occupied Yugoslavia at the hands of the Croatian nationalists and other enemies of the Orthodox Church, at the instigation of and with the open participation of the Latin clergy. This persecution was aimed at the complete elimination of the Orthodox Church in these areas. Attempts at forced conversion to Catholicism were joined to a systematic and completely overt destruction of every trace of Orthodoxy. All of this was done in such a fierce and inconceivably brutal manner and in such a short span of time and relatively small geographic area that it is difficult even to imagine. Indeed the characteristics of this recent persecution are unprecedented in the history of the Church after the persecutions of the first centuries. The sacrifice and memory of these martyrs must not be allowed to remain hidden, known only to their fellow Orthodox countrymen, but should be published and commemorated for the edification of all Orthodox Christians.

(...) Very revealing as to the utter fanaticism that gripped the Roman Catholic Church in Croatia during these early days of the war and the infant Croatian state, is this excerpt from the diocesan newspaper of the archdiocese of Sarajevo: "Until now, God spoke through papal encyclicals. And? They closed their ears... Now God has decided to use other methods. He will prepare missions. European missions. World missions. They will be upheld not by priests, but by army commanders. The sermons will be heard with the help of cannons, machine guns, tanks and bombers." The Ustasi were known to have publicly taken oaths in the Catholic churches, pledging to work for the eradication of the Serbs and Orthodoxy. Especially militant and very prominent in the Ustasi were members of the Franciscan Order. Immediately after the proclamation of the Ustasi state, the Croatian primate, Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac of Zagreb, gave his blessing in the name of the Roman Church to the Croatian state and established "close collaboration." (It should be pointed out, however, that the Croatian Catholic Church was, at least officially, speaking for itself at that time. The procedure for obtaining recognition by the Vatican was in full progress, but officially the Vatican still recognized the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and had diplomatic relations with the government-in-exile. In short, the Vatican gave de facto recognition to the Ustasi regime, together will full diplomatic protocol at state occasions, though never official recognition.)

(...) The Ustasi plan called for the extermination of one portion of the Serbian population and for the forced conversion to Roman Catholicism of the other. In either case, the Serbs, as an Orthodox people, had no place in the Catholic Croatian state. This shows that in spite of the presence of widespread National Socialist "Aryan" racist propaganda in Croatia, the hatred for the Serbs was based on their being Orthodox. One Catholic periodical in lauding the head of the Ustasi state, Pavelic, praises the Ustasi "Crusader" (Krizar) organization as "Raised in the spirit of radical Catholicism, which knows no compromises so far as principles are concerned, that never knew what it meant to give in and abandon any part of the program of Croatian nationalism." Thus the program of Serbian conversion and/or liquidation, can be viewed as being in the tradition of the medieval crusades which were launched to stamp out the enemies of the Roman church. Archbishop Stepinac saw the Serbs as being schismatics and an evil "almost greater than Protestantism." Croatia was viewed as a bastion of Roman Catholicism in the Balkans. In 1944 a Berlin newspaper wrote: "An extraordinary ecclesiastical struggle is going on in Croatia. The Ustasi government is persecuting the Orthodox Church and is trying to convert as many Orthodox people as possible to Catholicism by means of intimidation and all kinds of devices. At the opening of the so-called Croat Assembly, Pavelic said that religious freedom did exist in principle, but it did not include the Orthodox Church. Apart from nationalistic reasons, Pavelic endeavored to represent himself as a missionary by virtue of his work on behalf of the church, thus desiring to acquire greater prestige. We still recall his visit to the pope at the time when he was just organizing his 'State'."

(...) During the time of the persecution, nearly 300 Orthodox churches in the territory of the Croatian state were destroyed. In the diocese of Karlovac 173 out of 189 temples were demolished. Others were desecrated by being turned into slaughterhouses, stables and latrines. Still others were given over to the Roman Catholics, as were several of the historic Orthodox monasteries. Many of the damaged churches have been restored by the Serbian Church since the war. Others are still to be repaired and can be seen crumbling and abandoned in Yugoslavia today.

The new Serbian martyrs of World War II included five bishops and at least 177 other clergy martyrs. In all, both clergy and lay, they number about 750,000. The late Bishop Nikolai (Velimirovich), over a quarter of a century ago, inscribed into the Church calendar by his own hand the following notation for the date August 31 (0. S.): "The 700,000 who suffered for the Orthodox faith at the hands of the Roman crusaders and Ustasi during the time of the Second World War. These are the New Serbian Martyrs."

Through their prayers may all the Orthodox be saved and strengthened in the defence of the Faith! Amen.

sursa şi mai multe la:

Joachim Wertz, On the Serbian Orthodox New Martyrs of the Second World War. A Brief Historical Background
http://orthodoxinfo.com/ecumenism/se...ewmartyrs.aspx

[Decebal]

Totuşi rămân mari semne de întrebare cu privire la cauzele pentru care astfel de evenimente au loc, iar după atâţia zeci de ani ortodocşii, români sau alţii, ştiu foarte puţine sau marea majoritate nimic despre cele întâmplate în Croaţia celui de-al doilea război mondial, foarte mulţi autori fiind de acord că catolicismul are partea lui de responsabilitate în ceea ce unii numesc chiar fenomen de genocid la adresa sârbilor ortodocşi, sute de mii (după unii, în special croaţi, doar zeci de mii) de sârbi ortodocşi ucişi pentru că erau sârbi şi ortodocşi, la care se adaugă distrugerile şi furturile de biserici şi darea lor în proprietatea papistaşilor, torturile, convertirile forţate la catolicism (în 1944 Stepinac îi comunica lui Pius XII un nivel de aprox. 240.000 [două sute şi patruzeci de mii] de ortodocşi convertiţi la papistăşie), deportările. În România se ştiu foarte puţine despre aceste evenimente la care catolicismul a dovedit încă o dată, dar de această dată în cel mai criminal, atroce şi cinic mod, care este adevărata lor poziţie faţă de Biserica Ortodoxă, "al doilea plămân al creştinătăţii europene", "biserica soră".

Cum este posibil, deci, ca la atâţia zeci de ani, şi în contextul în care există români şi ortodocşi şi din structurile clericale care ştiu aceste lucruri, populaţia română ortodoxă să nu cunoască aproape absolut nimic despre aceste fapte (eu însumi mărturisesc că am aflat absolut întâmplător navigând la întâmplare şi căutând altceva pe net, când am dat de aceste informaţii), doar puţini români cunoscând câte ceva despre evenimente?

Cum este posibil ca ortodocşii români, dar nu numai români, ci la nivelul chiar al Ortodoxiei, să nu se ocupe de aflarea şi răspândirea adevărului cu privire la aceste crime (pe care unii istorici le numesc genocid, ba mai mult în ceea ce îi priveşte pe sârbii ortodocşi, chiar unul motivat nu doar etnic, ci şi religios, şi faţă de care în esenţă şi la urma urmei catolicismul nu doar că nu s-a opus, dar a mai şi profitat şi înşfăcat prăzile de pe urma lui, şi pe care nu-l recunoaşte) şi cum este posibil să nu existe comemorare la nivelul întregii ortodoxii faţă de aceşti fraţi ortodocşi care au murit în esenţă nevinovaţi, mulţi dintre ei omorâţi fără nicio vină, cu o cruzime inimaginabilă, chiar de către clerici papistaşi, mulţi dintre ei făcând parte din ordinul franciscanilor? Cum este posibil ca ortodocşii români, şi nu numai, să nu caute după adevăr, în condiţiile în care vedem clar tăcerea absolut criminală a mass-mediei mainstream cu privire la acest subiect, singurele informaţii putând fi achiziţionate prin achiziţii de cărţi în limbi străine (nouă) şi de pe internet, şi cum este posibil să nu existe nimic făcut pentru memoria lor şi pentru a înţelege cu cine avem de fapt de a face atunci când avem de a face cu catolicismul?

The Western Press is usually silent about the genocide of Serbian people during the Second World War. Here, on the territory of the Independent State of Croatia arbitrarily delineated by Hitler and Mussolini and separated from Yugoslavia, 2 million and 300 thousand Serbs found themselves under the Nazi regime of Ustashi. This regime was headed by the Catholic Croat agent Pavelic who was sent from Rome. He was one of the most cruel executioners in world history who has ever committed atrocities. Archbishop Alojzije Stepinac of Zagreb, the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Croatia, immediately acknowledged Pavelic, and declared the state headed by him, to be Roman Catholic, in which there should be no place for the Orthodox.

The Ustashi, encouraged by their Papist Primate Stepinac and Croatian clergy, began persecution of the Orthodox Serbs, unimaginable for civilized people, let alone Christians. Hundreds of Roman Catholic clergy took part in killings and all kinds of violent acts. "The brutal nature of the militant Croatian clerical fascism expressed itself in such terrible manifestations as to surpass the horrors of Inquisition in the Middle Ages..."

(...) During the years 1941-1945 the Independent State of Croatia accomplished a monstrous plan publicly formulated by the Ustashi minister Mile Budak: "We will murder one third of Serbs, evict another, and we will convert the rest to the Catholic faith thus turning them into Croats".

In this Roman-Catholic Ustashi land of horrors, where the Orthodox were forced to wear a blue arm-band with the letter "P" ("Pravoslavec" - Engl. Orthodox), similar to the Jews who wore the hexagonal yellow star. During four years Ustashi had tortured and killed about 800.000 Serbs, 40.000 Gypsies and 30.000 Jews, deported 280.000 and forcibly rebaptized 240.000.

With a particularly ferocious hatred the clerical fascists attacked Orthodox churches and Orthodox clergy. They created a special Institution For the Destruction of Orthodox Churches. Almost all Orthodox churches on the territory of the Independent Croatia were destroyed, burned, or converted into Catholic churches. As a whole 450 Orthodox churches suffered destruction in these terrible years in the Independent State of Croatia. In the Uniat diocese of Krizhevac, for example, all Orthodox churches and chapels were turned into Catholic ones. Terrible fate befell Orthodox bishops and hundreds of priests in Croatia. They were either murdered with exceptional fanatical cruelty, or evicted to Serbia.

Ludmilla Perepiolkina, "Ucigaşi în numele lui Dumnezeu"

Să ne aducem aminte convertirea forţată în masă la romano-catolicism din Polonia, în perioada dintre cele două războaie mondiale, ca şi genocidul celor 700.000 de sârbi ortodocşi dintre anii 1941-1945, care a avut loc în ,,statul independent” militant romano-catolic. Ortodocşii din Croaţia au fost forţaţi să poarte litera chirilică ,,P” de la pravoslavnici sau ortodocşi, precum evreii care au fost forţaţi să poarte steaua lui David în timpul celui de-al doilea război mondial. Această este o dovadă fără de tăgadă că sârbii au fost exterminaţi de croaţii romano-catolici brutali şi radicali pur şi simplu deoarece ei aparţineau Sfintei noastre Biserici Ortodoxe.

Herman Ivanov-Treenadszaty
http://www.catacombeleortodoxiei.ro