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At least 60 migrants including a tiny baby dead after overloaded boat
breaks apart in a storm off coast of Italy
Katie Davis, The Sun
Published: 11:35, 26 Feb 2023, Updated: 15:55, 26 Feb 2023
AT least 60 migrants including a baby have died after their crowded wooden boat broke apart in a storm off the coast of Italy.
The overloaded vessel was destroyed as it crashed into rocky reefs on Sunday, with children among the victims.
At least 60 migrants have died after their overloaded boat fell apartCredit: Twitter/FrancoScarsell2/
A chunk of the boat, along with piles of splintered wood, on the beach at Steccato di Cutro.
Credit: Twitter/FrancoScarsell2/
At least 60 bodies have so far been recovered along the shore, according to local media. Among those who drowned was a baby who was just a few months old, Italian news agency AGI reports.
Some 81 survivors have been pulled from the water, with 22 rushed to hospital.
Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni said that the migrants were crowded into a 66ft long boat in adverse weather conditions.
The Mediterranean can be quite deadly in the winter months.
It is understood the boat left from Izmir, Turkey, three or four days ago with around 50 migrants from Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia on board.
Coast guard officials said the boat hit rocks "a few metres from the shore".
A chunk of the boat, along with piles of splintered wood, littered the beach at Steccato di Cutro, part of Calabria's coastline along the Ionian sea.
Some of the survivors tried to keep warm, wrapped in what appeared to be colorful blankets or sheets.
A helicopter and motorboats were deployed in search efforts, including vessels from state firefighters and border police.
A Coast Guard motorboat rescued two men suffering from hypothermia and recovered the body of a boy in the rough seas, it said in a statement.
Firefighter boats, including rescue divers, recovered 28 bodies, including three pulled by a strong current far away from the wreckage.
Meloni said: "It's inhumane to exchange the lives of men, women and children for the price of a ticket paid by them in the false prospect of a safe voyage."
I agree. The traffickers should spend the rest of their lives in a Turkish prison. Tunisia has vowed to stop the flow of migrants coming from sub-Saharan Africa through that country - many of whom end up in slavery. But other countries where migrants are departing for Europe need to do much more. The problem is there doesn't seem to be the will to stop it.
Pope Francis said he was praying for everyone caught up in the incident.
He said in his weekly address to crowds in St. Peter's Square: "I heard with sorrow of the shipwreck off the Calabrian coast near Crotone.
"Already 40 dead have been recovered, many of them children.
"I pray for every one of them, for the missing and for the other surviving migrant."
Calabria, Italy
Hungarian archbishop: ‘Muslims are being called in to get
Christ and Christianity out of Europe’
FEB 24, 2023 11:00 AM
BY ROBERT SPENCER
Jihad Watch
It has been nearly two months since the report below was published, and it refers to an interview from a month before that. Yet there is no record, or no public record anyway, of Pope Francis, who has been an energetic advocate for both Islam and for mass Muslim migration into Europe, calling Archbishop Emeritus Gyula Márfi on the carpet for his remarks about Islam and mass migration. This is likely because of the “Emeritus” designation; Gyula Márfi is retired, and so the woke pope need not trouble himself about this meddlesome priest.
Of course, he knew mainstream media would not cover this story anyway, it is much too close to the truth.
Possibly the most intelligent man in Catholicism, AB Emeritus Gyula Marfi
“Hungarian archbishop blasts Freemasonry, LGBT ideology,
rising Islam in Europe,”
by Raymond Wolfe,
LifeSite News, January 9, 2023
VESZPRÉM, Hungary (LifeSiteNews) – A Hungarian prelate recently sounded off against the rise of LGBT ideology, Islam, and anti-Christian sentiment in Europe and the influence of Freemasonry over leaders of the European Union.
In an interview last month with conservative Hungarian newspaper Magyar Jelen, Archbishop Emeritus Gyula Márfi of Veszprém warned of a multi-pronged assault against European Christianity from left-wing forces within the E.U.
“One of the most striking signs of the European Union’s anti-Christianity,” he said, “is that its constitution did not commemorate Europe’s Christian roots,” a point similarly emphasized by Pope St. John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI….
He recalled how the city of Brussels, the capital of the E.U., declined to put up a Christmas tree in 2012 for fear of offending its Muslim population….
The retired archbishop also pointed to the mass migration of Muslims as a chief means of weakening Europe’s Christian culture.
“In my opinion, Muslims are also being called in to get Christ and Christianity out of Europe,” he told Magyar Jelen.
“Today, Freemasons and Muslims are coming together to make Christianity disappear from Europe,” he observed. “It was practically the same as it was in the age of the Savior, when the Scribes and Pharisees worked with their deadly enemy, Pontius Pilate, to get Jesus out of the way.”
“In a multicultural, mixed society,” he continued, “the individual loses his identity, sense of identity, culture, faith, language, practically everything,” making people easier to manipulate for powerful corporations “who want to turn the whole Earth into a huge collective farm, where there are no ethnic, national and religious identities, only obedient workers and consumers manufactured according to standards.”
But European liberals “will ultimately ruin themselves” by embracing large-scale Muslim migration, he said, as “Islam will never accept their liberal principles.”
Archbishop Márfi has long been an outspoken critic of left-wing immigration policies, putting him at odds with Pope Francis, who has made embracing unfettered migration a central theme of his pontificate.
“The Holy Father asked every parish to accept a refugee Syrian family. Well, many parishes cannot sustain themselves without outside help,” the Hungarian prelate remarked in 2015.
“The leaders of the Muslim masses can clearly see that the situation is ripe to occupy the apostate continent,” he starkly warned at the time.
In his interview with Magyar Jelen, Archbishop Márfi alluded to Muslims’ long history of violence and terrorism against Christian Europe, and particularly Hungary, which suffered widespread devastation at the hands of the Turks during the Ottoman wars.
“They have been here in Hungary for 150 years, we know how much destruction they have caused,” he said of Muslims. “We Hungarians still carry the memory of this in our genes to some extent.”
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