During the 15th Century, the Roman Catholic Church divided the world into two between Portugal and Spain. Pope Nicholas V gave Portugal the right to trade along the whole West African coast while he gave America to Spain. In his Romanus Pontifex issued in 1455 to Portugal, the Pope gave Portugal the sole right to invade, plunder, and “reduce their persons to perpetual slavery.”
Queen Isabella of Spain, who invested in Christopher Columbus to search the New World (Americas), decided against enslaving the Native Americans but claimed them as subjects/citizens of Spain. Hence, Spain signed a contract to allow the shipment of African slaves from Africa by Portuguese ships into the New World. Later on, other European countries such as Denmark, France, England, and the Netherlands, also signed this contract (Asiento) to also ship these human commodities and cash into the wealth of this business.
The rush to colonize the New World and sign the Asiento with Spain quickly expanded the slave trade between the Americas and Africa, with coastal Africans serving as middlemen. More than 12.5 million people were thus transported from their homes into forced labour in the Americas. Why did the churches and missionaries that came to Africa look on while millions of people were transported under humiliating and inhumane conditions for months into America for slavery that enriched the Europeans?
For the Catholic Church and later on the Protestants, the Black man had no soul to save. The Bible was used to both defend and later on, argue against slavery. Indeed, it is a shame to note that slavery was abolished by individual abolitionists who were horrified by the evils of slavery instead of the church of God! Where was the church during the almost 400 years of slavery? Her voice was silent…
When World War II came to an end, the Catholic Church helped many Nazi leaders to escape from Europe through Italy into Catholic Argentina. Working with the International Red Cross Society, the Church gave these wicked Nazi leaders forged documents and fake identities to help them escape into Argentina and other parts of Latin America. Through this act, thousands of Nazi leaders escaped punishment into Southern America and were never punished. The secret intelligence service of Israel, the Mossad, had to secretly search for and return many of these Nazis to face justice in Israel.
Indeed, it is on record that the Pope was against the Nuremberg trials established to try World War II Nazi war criminals. Why were the Pope, Vatican, and Catholic Hierarchy opposed to the trial and prosecution of Nazi war criminals after all the atrocities they committed? If they did not support their acts during World War II, would they assist them to escape? Indeed, one Bishop is on record to have said that those Nazis who were tried were not the important ones because those who were most important and committed the most crimes were made to escape Europe.
Indeed, in some cases, these Catholic Bishops clandestinely released these criminals from prison so they could escape from Europe. They hid them in their convents and provided secret routes (ratlines) for them to escape justice. Is this the church of Christ!? I leave the answer to you.
Many Jewish rabbis and Jewish converts to Catholicism wrote to the Pope and sought the church’s help during the time of the Holocaust, but they fell on deaf ears. In fact, Jews in Rome were even rounded up and sent to Auschwitz and other concentration camps to be killed by the Nazis. After the war, millions of gold that were seized from Jews are said to have landed at the Vatican Bank. This money has been the cause of many years of litigation. Why was this gold sent to the Vatican? It is alleged that this gold was used to support fleeing Nazi war criminals and other Ustashe leaders (from former Yugoslavia) to live luxuriously in South America.
Indeed the Ustashe was also mainly Catholic- and Nazi-supported to kill Jews, Gypsies, and Orthodox Christians (Serbs, Yugoslavs, and Ukrainians) in Yugoslavia (now separated into Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Slovenia, and the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (later known as Serbia and Montenegro). The Ustashe leaders were also funneled away just like the Nazis from Europe to Southern America through the Church’s instrumentality. Almost all of the 40,000 Jews that resided in Yugoslavia were murdered. Compared to the atrocities of the Ustashe, the Nazis were saints! Even the Nazis were horrified by the evils of the Ustashe. The leader of the Ustase movement, Ante Pavelic, fled to South America after the end of World War II in 1945. He eventually moved to Spain and died in 1959 at the age of 70 and was never prosecuted for his crimes.
It was the determined purpose of the Ustashe to kill all non-Catholics except Muslims as they claimed that all true Croatians were Catholics. They established concentration camps just like the Nazis and killed millions of non-Catholics. Many Catholic priests directly took part in the killing of these victims, promoted, encouraged, and even composed songs for the murderers! To this day, the Vatican has vehemently refused to grant access to the holocaust files, even in the face of international pressure. Only some files were released recently (2022). Is it any wonder then, given all the above facts, that the Bible in Revelation 17 and 18 calls the modern-day Catholic and Protestant Christian churches Babylon and the daughters of Babylon?
Revelation 17:5. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication: 5 And upon her forehead was a name written, Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth. 6 And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.
Happy Sabbath!!
