Persecuted Convert Warns: Vatican Silence on Islam Driving Europe Toward “Self-Annihilation”
Persecuted Convert Warns: Vatican Silence on Islam Driving Europe Toward “Self-Annihilation”
A Muslim-born Catholic convert living in exile in the U.S. is warning that the Vatican’s approach to Islam is putting Christians worldwide at risk. She is also urging Pope Leo XIV to take stronger action against their persecution.
Sabatina James, an Austrian‑Pakistani humanitarian and author of the new memoir The Price of Love: The Fate of a Woman and a Warning to the West, fled Germany in 2015 amid ongoing death threats for apostasy and her outspoken criticism of forced marriage.
Born into a devout Muslim family in Pakistan, after moving to Austria with her family, she converted from Islam to Catholicism and has devoted her life to freeing Christian slaves, protecting orphans, and rescuing women and girls from forced marriage and honor-based violence.
In this in-depth interview, she contends that European leaders are steering the continent toward “self-annihilation” and argues that the Catholic Church has abetted this trajectory by emphasizing “mercy” toward refugees, failing to …