And Zambia breathes easy for another day.
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You’re some 50 years late at least.
An obvious answer would be that terrorists are targeting specific countries (their leaders and their population) who they perceive as threats, and not Christianity as a whole.
Also, the average American doesn’t understand the difference between Sunni and Shia, but that doesn’t mean the average Arab doesn’t understand the difference between Catholics and Protestants. I grew up in Japan and even I understood from an early age that the Vatican wasn’t the seat of all Christianity.
I wonder if there’s some truth to that. It’s well known that religious Americans are more suspicious of atheists than of believers of other faiths. Is it possible that terrorists think of their targets as godless heathens, but think more highly of devout Christians?
Nobody wants to mess with those Swiss Guards, they have really fancy knives.
For example, following up onLittle Nemo’s observation - one could imagine terrorists targeting, say, a major Russian Orthodox holy place… but that would be as a way to hit at Russia rather than doctrinally at Eastern Orthodoxy. Islamoradical terrorists in Egypt target Coptic churches as a way to show the established regime can’t protect its minorities, and because they view nonmuslim minorities as regime collaborators.
In the West, though, both political and religious-fundamentalist terrorists believe our dominant religion is money and secure, easy lifestyles so when not attacking government centers they attack transport hubs, media/business centers, vacation locations, nightlife spots.
As to a terrorist organization hitting at the Vatican for the sake of hitting at the Vatican… Well, maybe some radicalized lone-wolf type, sure, but a big elaborate hit at the Vatican of the sort that needs high level organization and financing would only get to alienate billions of people who may have lent a sympathetic ear to the “freedom fighters” before. Very bad Return On Investment.
Specifically WRT Islamoterrorists, what ISTM their way is to Christians or other religious minorities within the Muslim nations themselves, as part of a use of sectarian violence to eliminate potential dissenters and real or apparent allies of secularism/westernism, and that includes people who are the “wrong” brand of Muslim (e.g. Al-Q and IS blowing up Shiite holy places). They do not have a pattern of reaching out to attack the other religions on purely sectarian grounds outside their own space.
Western political terrorists often belong to the local dominant religion or, if to a specific brand of it, know they’d be getting Hell from their own priests if they attacked the other brand’s temples. When that breaks up we get Kosovo.
Their unique form of hand to hand combat, the fearsome Pinzettemitzahnstockerundkorkenzeiherkampfwerkenheit is extremely effective and utterly silent. Few survive their blindingly fast slashing assault with both toothpick *and *tweezers, followed by the corkscrew for the coup de grace.
Oh the humanity! 
There are some placed in the world that are scared, and attack on any one of them would trigger an counter attack on the offending nation or group where multiple nations join in.
ISIS, and groups like them know better. The Vatican City also has its own security.
Disney World has fantastic security, with people walking around as tourists with hidden guns, cameras, attack dogs, underground forces, and such…YOU JUST DON’T see them as security.
We’re all scared, but the Vatican is also sacred. And yes, that’s why they won’t do it, they want to sow division in the western world, an attack on the Vatican would unite their enemies.
Back in the day of big outside organized attacks in the West (often by Al Qaeda) there was also a ‘big message’ and it seemed to typically focus on ‘temples’ of Western secularlism as seen by the radicals, like the WTC, airline travel etc. The big picture jihadi’s haven’t typically been very focused on Christianity per se as to their direct struggle with the West. And since those are the groups most likely to attempt some big attack on the Pope or Vatican that would seem the explanation why it hasn’t been attempted.
When it comes to lone actors and their smaller attacks Christian institutions might be targeted depending how those particular attackers feel, like the murder of a priest in France last year by local IS inspired radicals. France church attack: Priest killed by two 'IS militants' - BBC News
Then as was mentioned, at least some radical Islamists definitely see Christianity as an enemy in their own countries, and often attack churches, along with the places of worship of rival Islamic sects and religious minorities who aren’t Islamic or Christian.
I get that you’re just guessing, but you are so wrong it’s not even funny or helpful.
Few people are allowed?
Every Easter and Christmas will have a crowd like this. The other sites in Italy get massive tourism, to be sure, but I can’t think of any to draw a crowd this size at one time on a specific date.
This keeps popping up, and I don’t know where Dopers are getting this idea.
Your random amusement park has bigger walls than Vatican city. And yes, there’s a lot of security, but I am sure that it also has to do with the fact that square inch by square inch, these are some of the most valuable city blocks in the world.
And yeah, the Swiss Guard strikes fear at the sole sight of their colorful pantaloons. 
No, that was something Bush claimed and he’s not a spokesman for the terrorists.
Al Qaeda was always clear on what their goal was: they wanted troops from non-Muslim countries to be withdrawn from what they considered to be Muslim territory. They were targeting the United States because there are American troops stationed in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, and Yemen (and later Afghanistan and Iraq).
That’s their “tourist photo op” uniform.
WHy does he have a Turkish flag on his uniform? You sure you have not mixed that up with local security?
The Swiss Guards in that pic are the suits with red ties.
It was a joke.