Monday, June 21, 2010

"Millions of New catholics are Coming into the Church!"

Christians in the Middle East. Who's coming, who's going

The old communities are becoming few and far between. But from Asia and Africa millions of new faithful are coming, mainly, to the Gulf and Saudi Arabia. Where, however, religious freedom is still a myth 

by Sandro Magister


ROME, June 21, 2010 – Few have noticed it. But amongst the 10 thousand faithful, that is practically the total number of Catholics in Cyprus, who participated at the mass celebrated by Benedict XVI on June 6th at Nicosia, most of them were not Cypriots, but Asians, Africans, and South Americans.

The Pope himself, in his homily, addressed a particular salute to the immigrants coming from the Philippines and Sri Lanka.

As a matter of fact, together with the Indians they represent half of the 30 thousand immigrants on the island, 60 thousand if you also count the illegal ones.

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