Pope Launches Team to 'Re-evangelise' the West
THE TELEGRAPH: The Pope launched a team to stem the secularisation of Catholic countries and "re-evangelise" the West.

Pope Benedict XVI. Photo: The Telegraph
Benedict XVI announced the creation of a new Vatican department dedicated to tackling what he called "a grave crisis in the sense of the Christian faith and the role of the Church."

He expressed deep concerns that previously staunch Catholic countries in Europe and North America were facing "the eclipse of a sense of God". Tens of thousands of worshippers are deserting the Church over issues such as clerical sex abuse and the ban on married priests.

"I have decided to create a new body with the aim of promoting a renewed evangelism," in countries that are going through "progressive secularisation of society", the 83-year-old Pope said.

The new department, to be called The Pontifical Council for New Evangelisation, will try to reinvigorate belief among Catholics in rich, developed countries – or, in the pontiff's words, "find the right means to re-propose the perennial truth of the Gospel." >>> Nick Squires in Rome | Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Hallelujah! From the Man Who Should Be the Archbishop of Canterbury: Convert Those of Other Faiths to Christianity!
It is heartening indeed to hear this message coming from Dr Nazir-Ali. It is what I have been saying for so many years. This website is testimony to that; and so is my book, The Dawning of a New Dark Age. And people who know me know very well that my message has been the same for about twenty-five years now. But people have been slow to wake up. Now it looks as if there’s at least some hope, though, that the West will wake up before it is too late. It is already five to midnight. But then, it has to grow a backbone too. And that’s going to be difficult with the politicians we have leading us today.

Dr Nazir-Ali has also called on the Church to start spreading the Gospel again. This is also something that I have stated many, many times before. No Church can survive for long without calling people to it, and underscoring the importance and superiority of the message is vital. No more than a car corporation can stay in business if its CEO doesn’t sing the praises of the company’s models. Who’d want to buy them? Similarly, who wants to attend a Church whose leadership isn’t clear of what the Church stands for; and believes in the pc dogma that all religions are equally valid, to boot? - ©Mark

"Let us pray that we are able to recover our Christian nerve in the west and make sure the Gospel is not lost, and that all that is valuable in western culture – much of which comes from its Judeo-Christian background – will survive as a way to enhance cultures in the west and renew them once again." - Dr Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester

Photo of Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, courtesy of The Telegraph
THE TELEGRAPH: The western world is losing its Christian values at a time when it needs them most, a leading bishop in the Church of England has warned.

The Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali, the Bishop of Rochester, claimed the declining importance of the church was creating a "double jeopardy" situation where faith was being challenged at a time when society would most benefit.

He said believers needed to "recover their nerve" and spread the Gospel again.

The outspoken bishop, who earlier this week told those who tolerate homosexuality in the clergy to repent, also said he was "frustrated" that decisions which had been made in the church had not been stuck to.

Dr Nazir-Ali was greeted with a standing ovation as he gave a speech to a breakaway summit in Jerusalem of more than 1,000 traditionalists from across the Anglican Communion who oppose gay priests and the blessing of same-sex unions.

He did not say that divisions over sexuality would lead to a schism in Anglicanism, and referred to unity being a "very precious thing".

Instead he called on those in the church to concentrate on mission – trying to convert those of other faiths and with no faith to Christianity. Western World Is Losing Christian Values, Says Leading Bishop >>> By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent in Jerusalem | June 25, 2008

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