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Rating: 9,8|Votes: 10
In August of 2014, Bishop Innocent of Burundi and Rwanda (Orthodox Church of Alexandria) baptized several hundred Africans.
Hieromonk Savatie (Bastovoi)
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One of the telling events of our times was the election of a porn star, Monica Cicciolina, to the Italian Parliament. This is a testimony to the state of our society—not because we are talking about a novelty in human history, but because ideals that were once shameful, which were, for a time, overcome by Christian common sense, are now returning to society in their most vulgar form.
Rating: 5,4|Votes: 11
There is now an auto-repair shop in the former church in the Como community on lake Como. The former San Filippo Church in the commune L’Aquila is now used as a theatre. In the former All Saints Church in Viareggio, where sermons on morals were once delivered, now people treat themselves to wine: the new owners have opened a pizzeria in the building.
AS A colleague has written in this week's print edition, Christianity in China is experiencing spectacular, but turbulent, growth; by one estimate, the number of Chinese Christians could by 2030 have reached 250m—the largest Christian population of any country in the world.
The conservative Catholic writer John Zmirak says that Pope Francis and his allies in Rome are playing with fire in their attempts to liberalize Catholic practice on divorced Catholics receiving communion.