If the Vicar of Christ does not speak out against the persecution of Christians, who on earth still can?”
ROME, 26 December 2025 — 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 confront the realities of Islam, and neglecting to preach and uphold the faith that shaped European culture. She further warns that the same fate could reach the United States if its leaders do not heed these warnings.
Indiscriminately accepting Muslims while ignoring violent Islamism is “indefensible,” James says. “A public correction of these misguided attitudes is urgently needed, and it needs to come from the Catholic Church.” Failure to do so, she says, makes its leaders “complicit in Islamist violence.”
Recalling Benedict XVI’s apology to the Muslim world following backlash to his 2006 Regensburg address, she contends that Pope Francis “sacrificed the persecuted on the altar of interreligious dialogue” and that Pope Leo XIV has, in the first months of his pontificate, effectively implied that the Christian world ought to “accept or ignore abuses” being perpetrated by Islamists across Europe.
“If the Vicar of Christ does not speak out against the persecution of Christians, then who on earth still can?” she asks, and calls on the new pontiff to step up to support and defend the persecuted.
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