The Katipunan Legacy Crimes in the name of god A mong the crimes committed in the name of God were the following: • The eight Holy Crusades organized by the papacies carried out pillage and genocide against Muslims, Jews and various Christian denominations alike all over Europe and the Near East. • To ensure papal monopoly of religious beliefs, education and membership to only one Christian organization, which was the Roman Catholic religion, Holy Inquisitions were carried out throughout Europe. Confessional boxes were used as instruments of intelligence to pinpoint heretics and enemies of monarchism and the papacy. Hunter teams composed of priests and soldiers of the crown were orga- nized to ferret out heretics, witches, demons and scientists among the populace. These hunter teams had the authority to search homes of suspects and arrest them immediately and burn their homes on the basis of discovered evidence. The employment of torture to ferret out confessions during interrogations was decreed by popes in several papal bulls. Special torture instruments and methods were developed and employed by Inquisitors who were priests. • On the basis of Papal Bulls starting with Dum Diversas which became legally known as the Laws of Nations and the Doctrine of Discovery, European Christian Kingdoms carried out world conquest and confiscated nonChristian lands. They established gold mines, plantations and haciendas, turning their inhabitants into slaves and tenants in lands which they once owned. High seas piracy, mass kidnapping, kidnapping for ransom, slavery and slave trade and genocide became legalized so long as the victims were non-Christians. During this period, Portugal, Spain, Britain, France, Germany, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Russia and the Vatican invaded and divided North America, Islands in the West Indies and the Carribean, South America, Africa, Islands in the Indian Ocean, Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, and the Asia-Pacific among themselves. • Up to the 18th century, nonChristians controlled world sea trade (i.e., the Silk Road) with the 25 25