Pope Urban II Gave This Sermon In 1095 AD. After The ISIS Church Attack, It’s As Relevant As Ever Your brethren who live in the east are in urgent need of your help, and you must hasten to give them the aid which has often been promised them. For, as the most of you have heard, the Muslims have attacked them [Christians] and have conquered their territory… as far west as the shore of the Mediterranean… They have occupied more and more of the lands of those Christians, and have overcome them… They have killed and captured many, and have destroyed the churches… If you permit them to continue with impurity, Christians will be much more widely attacked by them. On this account I, or rather the Lord, beseech you as Christ’s heralds to publish this everywhere and to persuade all people… to carry aid promptly to those Christians and to destroy that vile organization from the lands of our friends. I say this to those who are present, it meant also for those who are absent. Moreover, Christ co