CNA: Cardinal Sarah: West Must Wake Up to Threat of Islamism After Terror Attack on French Church

An attacker armed with a knife killed three people at a church in Nice and wounded others, the mayor of the French city said Thursday.

Catholic News Agency, October 29, 2020

VATICAN CITY — Vatican Cardinal Robert Sarah said Thursday that the West must wake up to the threat of Islamism after three people were killed at a French church by an attacker shouting “Allahu Akbar.”

The Guinean cardinal wrote on Twitter Oct. 29 that “Islamism is a monstrous fanaticism which must be fought with force and determination.”

“It will not stop its war. Unfortunately, we Africans know this all too well. The barbarians are always the enemies of peace,” the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments wrote.

“The West, today France, must understand this. Let us pray.”  …

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