Posted on 10/28/2012 4:20:12 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A drive to rekindle Roman Catholicism's missionary zeal is struggling to counter the challenge of Islam, a religion with an arguably more direct message and a greater institutional hold on its faithful.
Bishops who have been meeting for three weeks to plot a way forward for a Church whose membership is dwindling in Europe are concerned by Islam's growth and worried about Christian minorities in Muslim countries, according to participants' comments released by the Vatican.
Islam was barely mentioned in preparatory documents for the Synod on New Evangelisation, a meeting in Rome of 262 prelates from around the world been held behind closed doors.
But one participant said it had become the "buzzword" of the synod that ends this weekend.
"It's no surprise that Islam has taken on such importance during this synod," French-born Bishop Paul Desfarges, who heads the diocese of Constantine in Algeria, told journalists in Rome this week. "It's an issue that concerns Europe."
Christianity, with about 2 billion followers, is the world's largest religion and Catholicism - its biggest denomination by far - makes up just over half that total.
But some estimates suggest that the 1.3 billion Muslims, four-fifths of them outside the Arab world, are growing in number much faster than Christians, whose numbers are shrinking in their European heartland...
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
LOL I guess it does. Go ahead and try to denounce it.
If the penalty is death for leaving, it ceases to be a religion and becomes a gang. And really, it doesn’t even take a day—just a single declaration will do it.
A drive to rekindle Roman Catholicism's missionary zeal is struggling to counter the challenge of Islam, a religion with an arguably more direct message and a greater institutional hold on its faithful.
Sounds like Al Reuters has gone into the comedy business."Direct message"? "Greater institutional hold"? Are those other ways of saying "beheading"?
If the penalty is death for leaving, it ceases to be a religion and becomes a gang. And really, it doesn’t even take a day—just a single declaration will do it.
Preach the Faith - that is what Christ directs them to do.
“Christians continue to be considered second-class citizens and many of their rights are not recognized.”
He’s referring to Egypt here, but he could easily be talking about any country in Europe outside of the Eastern Bloc. It’s about time the Vatican woke up to the fact that they are being invaded thanks to the actions of militant atheists (AKA = The EU multi-cult elites)
Time for another crusade?
Well, Catholicism, actually, Christianity at large, doesn’t have to use “Join us or we’ll kill you” as a recruiting slogan.
Yet the global south is doing very well in regards to the Christian faith, it is growing.
Ask the Protestants. They have been evangelizing in muslim countries for awhile.
Also, a Voice of America type of programming is working in places like Iran. People are listening and deciding to seek out the Church. (I read this in a newsmagazine a couple of years ago.)
False gods and religions have always been around because the one behind them (the devil) has always sought to pervert the truth and keep people in bondage and from seeing the truth, but he is not more powerful than Almighty God. The TRUE God is a "rewarder of those who diligently seek him" (Hebrews 11:6). God is calling and there is nothing to keep the truth from getting to the one who is earnestly desiring to know it. That is why we can trust that God will reach ANY heart who wants to know the truth.
So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?" (Hebrews 13:6)
cultural jihad bump
Yeah ... Mohammedanism threatens to kill apostates.
Mohammedanism's message: "Convert or die" is certainly direct.
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