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Posted on 04/25/2013 9:19:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
On a bitterly cold and snowing afternoon in Aberdeen, the doors of St John's Episcopal Church are open to hundreds of Muslim worshippers, arriving for daily prayers.
The familiar sounds of Christian hymns have been replaced with Islamic prayer in the chapel this Friday lunchtime and the church priest with the imam from the neighbouring mosque.
Muslims from the Syed Shah Mustafa Jame Masjid mosque next door share this church with Christian worshippers up to five times a day.
Church leaders believe this may be the only place in the country where Christian and Muslim worshippers pray side by side.
The rector at St John's has opened his doors to Muslims because there was not enough space for them to pray in their own mosque and many were forced to worship outside on the street.
The Reverend Isaac Poobalan, who grew up in Southern India surrounded by Islam, said he would not have been true to his faith if he did not help his neighbours.
"It was a very cold day, like today, and when I walked past the mosque I saw dozens of male worshippers praying outside, on the streets, right near the church.
''Their hands and feet were bare and you could see their breath in the freezing cold.
''Jesus taught his disciples to love your neighbour as yourself and this is something I cannot just preach to my congregation, I had to put it into practice."
Reverend Poobalan adds: ''I felt very distressed when I saw my neighbours praying out in the cold and I knew I needed to do something to help.''
''I know I cannot solve the world's problems, but when there is a problem I can solve, I will.''
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
Where the UK goes the West and the US are soon to follow.
I wondered about that too?
Gay weddings? Pig roasts? Female ministers? Communion with wine?
We are truly seeing the end of Western Civilization, all of the skids for a Crusade being waged via Liberalism.
No, and no Christian should entertain the idea either.
Sometimes I worry that the Catholic Church isnt too far behind with its interreligious prayers, etc.
This isn’t a Christian church. It’s Episcopalian. Christian’s don’t worship other gods. (See the First Commandment.)
this is not a true Christian church! Sad, so very, very sad...
Reverend Poobalan adds: ''I felt very distressed when I saw my neighbours praying out in the cold and I knew I needed to do something to help.''
If I was a member of your church... I would QUIt... I do NOT want TERRORISTS worshipping in my COUNTRY - let alone in my CHURCH.
They see you as weak, and they'll kill you!!
The Episcopal Church describes itself as being “Protestant, yet Catholic.”
Oh, come on, our good friends in the UK have to be smarter than this.
You are inviting the most evil death cult the world has known into your church so they can plot more of their evil?
Did our great friends in the UK not learn how appeasement of evil never ends up well?
Are there any non-communist countries in the world who ban this hate cult?
Wow, don't let a little thing like that get in the way... England is toast.
The headline calls the church Christian, while the story reveals it to be Episcopalian.
lmao
WOW, you think it’s funny !!!
Ichabod.
Gay weddings? Pig roasts? Female ministers? Communion with wine?
Huh? One of these things is not like the others . . .
yeah i do. If you dont follow the precepts of the church...well then its not a church...its a club.
Why We Are Afraid
Useful idiots.
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