In early December, a Marian Procession was attacked in Nanterre France, by Islamists threatening to behead Catholics and spitting on priests.
The following week, police presence was needed at Mass in order to ensure that no one would in fact be decapitated as they practiced the ancient Catholic faith of the French people.
There was a near blackout on this story throughout European media for fear of the damage that it may cause to the Globalism project.
Now, footage has emerged of French churches being heavily protected with guns during the Christmas period.
In one set of images, those leaving Midnight Mass can be seen being guarded by men with guns.
Catholic Arena came in for heavy taunting from a number of relatively prominent American Neoconservative journalists and commentators, who cast doubt on the reality of these claims, evidently fuming at the suggestion that their illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and crimes in Syria and Libya had made Europe a far less safe place for Christians.
French news website Objectifgard wrote of those standing guard:
On December 25, the crew is present for a priority mission, that of securing mass in the church of Saint Felix. A visible presence to reassure practicing Christians, an undeniable deterrent tool for those who were thinking of something else. But is the message well understood? When people are asked if the presence of men in blue is troublesome, one word comes up,"no." For Marie-Louise,"No, I prefer to know them and see them there, on the forecourt, rather than in their barracks. You never know, we live in crazy times and some people could very well come and do anything here. We are not a target like the Vatican can be but look at what happened elsewhere in France a few years ago and you will understand that the gendarmes are right to come here."
According to Actu, half of all reservists were drawn in to ensure the safety of French Catholics at Christmas so that their heads would not be severed from their bodies during Mass.
La Croix ran with the headline For Christmas, increased security around churches, stating that the orders had come directly from the French Interior Minister.
Fearing the risk of an attack during the Christmas period, Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin asked prefects to strengthen security around churches. Police and military personnel will be stationed near places of worship.
Cnews reported:
Gérald Darmanin asked the prefects to be particularly attentive to Christian and Catholic places of worship.
He believes that the terrorist threat "is currently significant and can strike at any time".
The Minister of the Interior would like to thank the police who will be protecting the population during the holidays and adds that he himself will be "in a police station for Christmas and New Year".
Le Progres reported on one church that was facing such protections:
"They are there for us. We are grateful. They would probably prefer to be in their Charentaises, "smiles Catherine, a faithful, on the sidelines of the Christmas mass, celebrated Saturday morning, in the church of Saint-Genis-Laval, southwest of Lyon. Six gendarmes, including three from the Givors intervention platoon, secured the exit of the Catholics, against a backdrop of terrorist threat, still considered very high.
The "physical presence [of the military] was made before the beginning of the ceremony and we are again there for the exit," says Lieutenant Capon, who commands the local gendarmerie brigade. During the celebration, two soldiers patrolled "near the church to detect potential vehicles or suspicious individuals".
Meanwhile, Le Figaro ran with the headline:
Before Christmas, police services on alert for the risk of an attack
The official police account reported on the need to increase security at places of worship.
Despite the best efforts of security forces, there were some church invasions this Christmas time, in one church in Carcassonne, a Muslim stormed a Catholic church screaming that he was a Muslim before being arrested. It was claimed that the Moroccan was under the influence of alcohol at the time.
That same week, French Presidential Candidate Eric Zemmour released a much lauded video cherishing France’s Catholic heritage and pointing out that Christians were the most persecuted peoples on Earth.
One thing is for sure, whether American Neoconservatives or Ivory Tower European Unionists want to admit it or not, Paris isn’t Paris anymore.
Ken Moore
