Posted on 10/08/2014 6:10:40 AM PDT by marshmallow
Prominent Anglican Bishop Michael Nazir-Ali has said that the Catholic Church must use its global power to protect Christians threatened by Islamic militancy and secularism.
In a talk to the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham at St Patrick’s Church in Soho Square last Thursday the former Bishop of Rochester said the Church potentially had “a great future and a huge opportunity” in the emerging world order and that it now had allies in upholding orthodoxy, even in unexpected quarters.
Speaking on the subject of “A Global Christianity in the Making”, he said that how effective the Church would be depended on how Rome viewed its own position and on its willingness to address its approach to certain issues, such as culture and language.
The Pakistan-born bishop, who was an outspoken defender of Christian rights in his native land before coming to England, said that with the growth of Islamic militancy and the persecution of Christians worldwide, many people were now looking to Rome as the leading voice of Christianity against Islamic militancy. He said these people included many Evangelicals whom he knew who never, in the past, would have thought about Rome. “So the Catholic Church has both a great opportunity and also a great responsibility,” he said.
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