The Catholic News Agency portal reports on ongoing protests in Iran since December 2025, noting Christian participation and casualties including seven Armenian Christians reportedly killed by security forces. The article details humanitarian efforts by Christians providing food, water, and medical aid to protesters, while expressing concern over arrests of at least 10 Christians accused of “providing ideological fuel” for demonstrations. The report frames these events through the lens of religious freedom advocacy, noting internet shutdowns complicate verification of persecution claims.
Naturalistic Reduction of Christian Witness
The article commits the modernist error of reducing Christian identity to mere humanitarian activism, stating without critique that believers “prepared approximately 50 sandwiches, carrying them in backpacks along with bottles of water to distribute in the streets.” This reflects the post-conciliar obsession with temporal charity divorced from supernatural purpose. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas, Christ’s Kingship demands that “men may in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” be rejected as “absolutely false” (n. 17). The report’s celebration of sandwich distribution while omitting any mention of sacramental ministry or evangelization reveals its theological bankruptcy.
Ecumenical Poison in Martyrdom Accounts
By indiscriminately labeling all victims as “Christians” without distinguishing between Catholic, schismatic Armenian Orthodox, or Protestant sects, the portal promotes the condemned error of religious indifferentism. The Syllabus of Errors explicitly anathematizes the notion that “good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (n. 17). When discussing the death of Ejmin Masihi, the article ignores the dogmatic truth that “extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” (outside the Church there is no salvation) – a principle reaffirmed by Pope Pius XII in Mystici Corporis Christi (1943).
Silence on Duty to Convert Muslim Regimes
The report’s focus on “religious freedom” rather than Christus Rex‘s dominion constitutes apostasy from Catholic mission. Pius XI’s encyclical establishes that Christ’s reign “extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians” (n. 18). The conciliar sect’s refusal to demand Iran’s conversion to the Catholic Faith – instead treating Islam as equally legitimate – embodies the condemned proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Syllabus, n. 80).
False Mercy Over Justice
In lamenting security crackdowns against protesters, the article implicitly endorses revolution against legitimate authority – a position explicitly condemned in the Syllabus (n. 63). Contrast this with St. Pius X’s teaching in Vehementer Nos: “Nothing is more in accordance with natural reason, nothing more just, nothing more useful, than that the one to whom the care of the common good is committed should possess the means necessary to achieve it.” The report’s one-sided portrayal of civil disobedience ignores the Church’s perennial teaching on the divine origin of civil authority (Romans 13:1-7).
Modernist Hermeneutic in Persecution Narratives
The uncritical citation of “Iran Alive Ministries” – a Protestant evangelical group – demonstrates the conciliar sect’s embrace of heretical ecumenism condemned in Mortalium Animos (Pius XI, 1928). When Hormoz Shariat boasts of protesters converting to “Christianity” (deliberately vague between Catholic truth and sectarian error), he embodies the Modernist heresy exposed in Lamentabili: “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven” (n. 22). True Catholics would mourn such conversions to false religions rather than celebrating them.
The Iranian martyrs’ blood cries out not for sandwich distributions or interfaith dialogue, but for the public reign of Christ the King through Persia’s conversion to the One True Church. Until the conciliar sect abandons its naturalistic paradigm and demands Muslim nations’ submission to Rome, it remains complicit in the ongoing crucifixion of Christ’s Mystical Body.
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Reports of Christian casualties and arrests are emerging as mass protests continue in Iran (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.01.2026