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1 posted on 10/28/2012 4:20:18 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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greater institutional hold on its faithful

LOL I guess it does. Go ahead and try to denounce it.

2 posted on 10/28/2012 4:22:58 PM PDT by skeeter
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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"?

4 posted on 10/28/2012 4:46:53 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Ambassador Stevens Is Dead And The Chevy Volt Is Alive)
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“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?


7 posted on 10/28/2012 5:35:27 PM PDT by Viennacon
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Well, Catholicism, actually, Christianity at large, doesn’t have to use “Join us or we’ll kill you” as a recruiting slogan.


8 posted on 10/28/2012 5:47:00 PM PDT by RichInOC ("In the name of Allah, The Inexorable, The Irresistible...")
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Yet the global south is doing very well in regards to the Christian faith, it is growing.


9 posted on 10/28/2012 10:41:50 PM PDT by Biggirl ("Jesus talked to us as individuals"-Jim Vicevich/Thanks JimV!)
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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.)


10 posted on 10/29/2012 12:05:30 PM PDT by married21 (As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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No Christians should be worried about false religions because the Holy Spirit is STILL at work in the world, "He will convict the world of its sin, and of God's righteousness, and of the coming judgment." (John 16:8)

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)

11 posted on 10/29/2012 10:31:55 PM PDT by boatbums (God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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cultural jihad bump


12 posted on 10/31/2012 1:01:41 PM PDT by Dajjal (Vote for the American.)
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a greater institutional hold on its faithful.

Yeah ... Mohammedanism threatens to kill apostates.

13 posted on 10/31/2012 1:03:06 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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an arguably more direct message

Mohammedanism's message: "Convert or die" is certainly direct.

14 posted on 10/31/2012 1:13:57 PM PDT by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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