Это видео недоступно.
Сожалеем об этом.
How Pope Francis Hopes to Win 400 Million New Believers
HTML-код
- Опубликовано: 8 авг 2023
- Join the VisualPolitik community and support us on Patreon: / visualpolitik
God is dead! Or at least that is what Nietzsche said, and it seems he was not entirely wrong in the case of Europe. Catholicism seems to be less and less attractive in the old continent and the Holy See is aware of this, so it is looking for a new religious epicenter, and it seems to have found it: Africa.
With generally unfavorable social and economic circumstances and a steadily increasing population, the presence of Catholicism seems to have broken through and gained enough momentum to continue to expand easily over the coming decades. But not before facing its internal demons and the challenges of Islam.
How is the Catholic Church extending its influence in Africa? What is Vatican diplomacy like? Is it possible that Europe is being replaced by another region of the world more open to Catholicism? Today we will tell you about it.
Interesting links:
Castien Maestro, Juan Ignacio. 2017. The religious factor in sub-Saharan Africa. Historical development and future prospects. In Peace, conflict and religion in the 21st century. A prospective vision. Working Paper 8/2017. Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies. At: www.ieee.es/Ga...
Pozos Bravo, Sara Susana. 2017. The foreign policy of the Holy See and its influence on international human rights instruments: religious freedom and freedom of conscience. Complutense University of Madrid. At: eprints.ucm.es...
Somavilla Rodríguez, Enrique. 2017. Vatican diplomacy and foreign policy of the Holy See. Institutional Studies vol. IV, 7:119-143. At: www.researchga...
Supertino, Gaétan. 2023. "Is Africa the future of Catholicism (and will the next Pope be African)?". Le Monde. At: www.lemonde.fr...
I m GREEK ORTHODOX! I WILL NEVER CHANGE MY RELIGION!
BUT I SUPPORT WITH ALL OF MY HEART CATHOLIC BROTHERS AND LATIN WORLD! YOU ARE OUR BROTHERS. WE ORTHODOXES ARE READY TO MAKE EVERYTHING TO SUPPORT YOU BROTHERS! GOD BLESS BROTHERS IN CHRIST!
☦🙏🏻✝️
Χαίρε αδελφός μου. I appreciate sentiment very much. I hope that we can reunify some day.
We should unite back, the chiism between the Roman Church and the Orthodox Churches goes against the Christ Volunty
@@CesarArturoCastaneda I PROMISE YOU MY BROTHER IN CHRIST: ONE DAY WE WILL BE ONE AND FOREVER!
CORPUS CRISTI!
WE SAY
++nnDnn++
☦🙏🏻✝️
It is so nice to hear an Orthodox say that. Thank you.
Protestant here 👋 May all us Christians come together and spread our message
Just look at how many Catholic parishes in the US have African priests and you will see how influential they are. The next Pope could very well be an African.
Hopefully Cardinal Robert Sarah.
According to Catholic prophecy from St. Malachy, there will be no next Pope. All the heretical anti popes are done.
Now if he corrects the errors of the Latin church and invalidates the previous heretical councils, that would be something.
@@andreichira7518 what council is "heretical".
@@calebnwafor2549 Every Latin council back to and including Vatican I
In indonesia catholicme grow at 8% 275 million per annum, double of country"s population grow at 4% per annum.
Close proximity with the Philippines and Borneo having the largest Christian population within Indonesia and Malaysia (Sarawak being a majority christian State inside the Malaysian Federation) is starting to be the focus of both Indonesia and Malaysia given how both unstable (Climate wise) java and the Malay peninsula have started to become.
Please check your numbers. I do not know about the 8% p.a. you claim for growth of Catholicism, but the 4% for the total population are definitely wrong. Growth has hardly ever been so high, and today is below 1%.
Rise by birth not by convertisme
I'm a Filipino and I'm disappointed you didn't even mention the Philippines which happens to be the third largest predominantly Catholic country in the world. There are already 90 million adherents of Roman Catholicism in my nation. That accounts for 80% of the population.
Filipinos play a significant role in propagating the Catholic faith to many non-Catholic countries globally. Filipino missionaries can be seen in the remote parts of the world, especially in the Asian continent
How is Marcos doing as president? I know his father was a dictator, does his son believe in democracy?
Cringey.
Magellan really did a number on you guys. No other colonised group of people names their country or themselves after their colonial king besides the Phillipines. Have some pride in who you were before colonisation.
No need to shame the gentleman for being informed on his own history and maintaining a view which is different from yours.
@@AR-bb8sw we Filipinos are proud of our pre-Hispanic history and heritage. "Philip" is not just the name of a foreign monarch but first the name of an Evangelist and Apostle of Jesus Christ. Majority of Filipinos don't see it as a big deal having our nation named after a European King. Although there are some Filipinos advocating for a name change, drawing inspiration from the African country of Swaziland.
But it would be a ridiculous waste of government coffers renaming a country! Millions of my compatriots would agree with me. It's not worth it! Swaziland squandered a stupendous sum of money renaming itself to Eswatini!
I always hate those cheap shot at the crusades. People don’t understand what they truly were and never reference the Islamic conquests which were just as bad.
“Woe to him that buildeth a town with blood, and stablisheth a city by iniquity!”
- Habakkuk 2:12
There should have been more.
Which were **** significantly worse.
Muslims never massacred civilians while Baldwin was the only crusader to not massacre Muslims.
@@MiguelDLewisif it weren't for the crusades, the Mohamedans would have conquered Europe and by extension, the new world (America), África And The rest of Asia.
I'm thankful for the pushback of the Crusaders against such a violent cult as Islam. They literally saved the world, whether or not we realize it.
It still is a very subtle phenomenon but in France, the number of adults asking for baptism is growing each year and has doubled since 2012. There are also a huge number of adults that have been baptised for tradition by unpracticing/unbelieving parents that are attending to mass again, but it is not easy to quantify
Mostly all african migrants.
France must return to the Church
How you get these statistics?
@@Jarod-te2bi The number of baptisms is public
Camarade de messe tridentine ? ;)
I'm not Catholic but I do appreciate all the good things they do for people.
Like inquisitions?
like shuffling pedophile priests throughout their parishes and covering up rape cases?
Like protecting child molestors?
The inquisitions were a good thing that limited torture and developed much of the due process and evidence based trial system of today and the Church is the reason why the west doesn’t support child abuse cultrally as the Greeks did. While secular society has academics like Foucault and Sartre trying to legitimize it
Like covering 1/4 of the world’s population healthcare costs -and being more charitable than any other organization on earth.
As a Catholic in the UK, i am proud to be apart of a growing, diverse parish which is bursting at each mass. I must say that many are immigrants as I am from an irish catholic background, but there are many youth at my Church. I know across Europe catholicism is declining, but I see that many of my age want to cling to tradition and cling to the faith. Also, I must say catholicism is not declining across the globe! Its growing!
Which part of UK is that, I guess South East.
@@galleon8129 yes, it is in the southeast/ Why?
Ave Maria! Gen Z in America is seeing a return to the faith as well!
@@blinkinyourarea244 yeah because it has a huge migrant population and church activities are lively. I think areas which has lots of migrants are generally active.
@@kcm489 yeah, they also see it as a responsibility. I think the 1970s & 1980s generation didn’t have internet or RUclips so they weren’t aware of the dangers of loosing their traditions
I think people underestimate how rooted Catholicism is in Europe. Even secular and agnostic people still identify as Catholic in many European countries. It's an identity as well for many countries, not just a religion you adhere to.
The same happens in Brazil and South America, it is common to see people who say they are not Christians, but they go to Easter and Christmas masses, celebrate the days of the saints, have images of saints and even pray the rosary, and even then they do not consider themselves Christians . My uncle recently baptized my cousin at the local parish, he says he is agnostic. It's something intricate in our society.
@@andre_cinelliÉ fato, meu amigo, há um solo muito fértil para um reavivamento do catolicismo na América Latina. A seara é grande, mas ainda faltam os trabalhadores...
@@tavares4224 Exatamente
I found it interesting that most (if not all) Atheist countries are from Protestant-majority countries (US, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, etc) since they don't have religious traditions.. unlike Catholic, Muslim, Buddhist, or Hindu countries.
@@andre_cinelliintrincate it is, indeed
Loud and proud Catholic from PH. Loving Father in heaven thank you for the gift of Life, the gift of Faith, and the gift of Family.
A real Christian is new born in Christ not catholic, orthodox.
The bible forbids to pray to marry. Google what new born in Christ means. Please🙏
I'm Rwandan (East Africa )and we Catholics are the majority here.
10:44 Incorrect. Christianity is the largest religion in the world. Catholicism alone is almost as large as all Islamic sects combined. You only get Islam to be larger if you treat as Muslims as one unified whole and each Christian denomination as separate.
Your wrong, there’s 1.3 billion catholic compared to Sunni Muslims having 1.7 billion and approx 200 million Shia
So that close
@@YOURMUSLIMGUY2.2 billion Christians.
@CyanstoneHow in the world did you take that from his comment?
2.4 billion Christians vs 2 billion Muslims but if we were to compare practicing Muslims vs practicing Christians then the number of Muslims will be A LOT higher.
@5:22 this is incorrect "The Catholic Church often replaces what is usually the responsibility of the state" referring to hospitals, schools and soup kitchens. The Church was doing this for hundreds of years before modern states even existed so it is better to say states are replacing what is usually the responsibility of The Church.
Another factual mistake at 10:42, Islam has about 1.9 billion followers while Christianity has 2.4 billion with Catholics making up 1.4 billion. Perhaps he meant most followers in Africa but the way he worded it is wrong.
The church allegedly used violence, to further its expansion. The Church's role in the cultural genocide of Canada’s indigenous people is a horrific.
I thought that was Yevgeny Prigozhin in the thumb nail 😂
You beat me to that.
@@gitfoad8032 You'll have my like nonetheless
he had a career change
Maybe it’s the same guy🤔
💯
Vietnam appointed their 1st diplomat to Vatican last week.(2023 august)
yes. I was thinking the same
Vietnam has churches where they celebrate daily mass. 😊
Appointing a Communist diplomat to the Vatican is not much progress while Catholics and other religious believers are persecuted by the Communist authorities. in Vietnam.
When Pope Francis abandoned the Chinesse Catholics in order to play buddy buddy with the dictator Xi, I pretty much lost whatever respect I had for him
What could he have done though? Xi could easily commit genocide towards the catholics in China and the only way to help them is through peaceful negotiations
They don't need pope francis, they needed God. Pope francis is nothing without God. There are no otherwise. He is running to what God has planned for him just like the prophets in the bible. They shouldn't leave even if there's a danger until God says so.
Yeap the pope has to go. This pope works for people in power.
Man, any bad move by the Pope can increase religious persecution in China as retaliation. Please understand the difficulty of the situation.
I LOVE Catholic Faith!
The faith of many Catholics is undeniably beautiful. I encountered a Nun last year and the joy in her heart just beamed from her face! Catholic Charities have been a blessing to many around the world. Although I am Messianic, I continue to extend the loving hand of fellowship to Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christians, and feel welcome at their worship services.
Amen
⚜️Ave Maria
Iesus est rex!!!
Jesus is King!!!
No matter how they think Christianity is declining well it's still on the rise
And more and more believers are still coming out both in Europe Asia Africa Américas More and more people are coming to God
God bless all my christian brothers and sisters More love from 🇵🇱✝️🙏🙏
I'm Anglican ✝️✝️😊💚💙
A former schoolmate of mine is actually a member of the Pontifical Swiss Guard
I am not longer a catholic and still respect the Swiss Guard, few organizations left on the word with such long record of courage and honer, no matter how much of a jerk a Pope was, they knew that the Swiss Guard would fight like lions to protect them, such loyalty, even misguided deserves a lot of praise.
@@cesaravegah3787 Swiss mercenaries were always known for their loyalty to the person that paid them. The Swiss Guard of the French King (yes they had them too) was killed when trying to protect King Louis XVI at the storming of the Touilleries
@@Swissswoosher Yes, and still, the Swiss Guard are now and forever beyond any mercenary, they are rightfully a power or their own.
@@cesaravegah3787 yes🇨🇭💪🏻
Historically Ireland sent a lot of missionaries to Africa and Asia. However while there are still clergy on missions they are nearing retirement and lay people probably outnumber them on both church supported missions and secular aid missions
Ireland now witnesses clergy from Asia and Africa carrying out Pastoral work on home soil.
Although the majority of Irish people from a Roman Catholic background tend to not attend Mass , it is still interesting that many include Baptism and other rites of passage in their lives.
A revert from
Islam to light of Christ
Love From
Egypt
Praise the Lord! Welcome my brother in Christ.
Stop the cap, you are coptic christian
Christianity is the largest religion with 31.1% of the world’s population followed by Islam with 24.9%.
It is a feature of life that religious people tend to have more children than secularists. Therefore over the long term, societies may well become more religious, not less. This is clearly demonstrated in Turkey which was created as an avowedly secular country a hundred years ago, but has become more religious lately.
Religions are not genetic. Children wil not follow their parent's religions often.
The general Turkish population is actually becoming less religious.
It is the autocratic governing party and president who are trying to force Turkiye into a religious state.
@@valkyrie3493
False, people are very religious nowadays
@@SuleimanTheMagnificent71618 lol. You're going to argue against established facts? Or are you just trying to convince yourself of this.
@@valkyrie3493
I have been in Turkey 3 times already lmfao??
You know more than me?
The Catholic Church will always be stronger than Islam because of one small detail.... women are recognized as people by the Catholic Church, educated, and can determine their own life goals.
Amen.
Every religion of Christianity is always respectful and kind towards others. I hope we all team up and pray together instead of spreading hates because our beliefs are contrary to one another. Definitely not a direct catholic but I can see how much anger protestants have and some with other catholics to each other which is rather sad because that's not what they are taught.
The small detail is Christ and Our Lady!
⚜️Ave Maria
You don't realize the treatment of women in Islam is a feature, not a bug. Islam aggressively controls women because they are the future baby-machines, which is why there is so much hatred against LGBT, feminism, women's rights, women's education, etc. in the Muslim. world .
where?
Proud to be catholic Christian, salute to Poland as well! Christianity is definitely tolerant of other faiths.
Christianity is the largest religion in the world not islam
Not for long.
Alhamdulillah!
Ex Muslim here 💪
Whatever brings you closer to GOD and does not harm others - Good on You 💫
Sure buddy
God revealed in Jesus Christ, our Lord be praised! I believe in Arabic it’ll be "Allahu akkbar”! LMAO 😜
You never were a Muslim
So instead of growing out of the Abrahamic religion and growing your own self you just swapped with in the same circle.
People in the US and the EU think they represent the general trend of humanity. We only represent around 1/10 of the human race though.
Europe used to have more people than Africa, now Africa has more than twice as much in population, they need population control.
Well said. Bizarre to see so many people in the West saying that religion is dying when this is not happening even in the neighborhood next to theirs.
I mean there was a time when about 25% of all the population in the world was centred in Europe alone and the percentage increases to about 32% if you include people of European descent. That time was not too long ago so it makes sense that Europeans still think they represent the entire humanity.
The Moscow Patriarchate attempts to provide religious inspiration and justification not only for the war in Ukraine, but for the Russian authorities' nationalistic aggressive ideas of "spiritual" supremacy.
Thus, this situation is not limited to Ukraine and politics only, but directly challenges the Church's standing in fundamental spiritual matters and requires relevant response.
From this perspective, it is hard to appreciate and accept the lack of Pope Francis' spiritual reaction to such a challenge.
Faithfully yours, bishop Vincent Berg.
If you are Bishop Berg than stand up and do something be Christ Like... The Catholic Church and very much so the Orthodox Church has totallllllly screwed over Ukraine in not standing up for justice and denouncing the Russian Criminals by action - embarrassing and total against Christ teaching.
Nothing Christ Like going on here 4sure with empty comments. The hierarchy of the Church is a nightmare and has no moral stand - shameful (wonder while people are falling away from Christ Church??? NOT)
At least the Moscow Patriarchate was not involved in Inquisitions, Crusades against fellow Christians (Zadar and Constantinople), forced conversion, ped0philia, h0mosexuality, forging of documents (Donation of Constantine, pseudo-Isidore etc.), Pachamama worship in Vatican, etc.
Yes, perhaps you are right. Thank you Bishop Berg.
Two questions come to mind:
Is it the will of the Most High God that the Russian Federation be Nationalistic?
Is it the will of the Most High God for the Russian Federation to have a State Religion?
Christ is truly the head of his church; and his church is the body of believers wherever they may be found. Christ prayed for unity among his Disciples. We should pray for unity among the believers.
@@questor5189As it comes from the Biblical story of the Babel Tower, divisions by nations and states is the curse of the humankind. Our history proves that the more we are trying to build "material towers to heaven" the more we are becoming divided and nationalism is growing as our malignant tumour.
Yet, if we would remember that every human being is the bearer of the God's soul, which has no nationality, and build together spiritual "tower to heaven" instead of a "material" one, it should gradually erase our divisions and cure us from nationalistic cancer.
Restarting the Carthaginian Latin Rite is a great idea through Tunisia.
i am a liberal muslim from tunisia which was a powerhouse of islam in north africa with morroco and egypt and which contributed of some of spain history of andalucia and we are more open as a muslim country .
the state does not recognize poligamy and it can take someone to jail as a person i wear a suit and i do not have a big beard because for me belief is in heart and mind, my mother does not wear hijab and she prays 5 times a day anf fasts my dream is to sent her to do al Hajj in saudi arabia once in a life.
it will never bother me that the christians brothers are the majority in the world or muslims converting to catholic church whoch happening world wide , every person have the right to choose his path and God is God ... i hope we have a big and huge liberal muslim wing that we can battle against extremists especially in some countries ruled by al shariaa as they said and which are laws that do not apply on today s world at all .... god bless all people all over the world
99% of Christians and even non-christians did not accept polygamy. It's chaos for most people. It will never be possible to accept polygamy world wide unless there's a tragedy or a miracle to happen.
Sad to say this to you, but extremist is closest to imitating muhammad
Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Has never killed anyone unjustly.
It becomes very obvious and clear when you stop reading buzzwords online and actually open a book to read his ENTIRE biography, you clearly see that it is almost always the others who agress against him.
The Jews of Medina conspired against him when the Muslims were defending themselves against the attacking Quraysh, they broke the treaty they had with him and he judged them according to their *own scripture* by killing the Men.
The Romans declared Hostility towards him by killing his ambassador.
The Persian king declared hostility by Ripping apart the Message sent to him by the Prophet without even reading it, just because he saw himself superior to listen to some man coming from the desert.
And the Meccans... well they hurt him the most, they spent the first 10 years since he had revelation by mocking him, throwing garbage at him, boycotting him, his family and followers, they broke treaties with him, tried to kill him, tortured and killed many followers of him...
He suffered way more than Jesus did in his lifetime
And when he conquered mecca 13 years later, he let these people go free...
Now tell me what "Normal man" goes through all of that and then does that, let alone a man you claim (god forbid) to be evil?
Sad to hear that...
Libe-ral Muslim is an oxymoron just like a vegetarian meat eater.
”Therefore, brothers, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours.” -2 Thessalonians 2:15 NAB
”Wherever the bishop shall appear, there, let the multitude of the people also be; even as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is the *Catholic Church.* “ (Letter to the Smyrnaeans, Chapter 8) -St. Ignatius of Antioch, 107 AD
Just a topic to talk about right after World Youth Day, 1 million of us gathered this year together, mind-blowing as always.
Yes, it's a shame that this event is so missed out in mainstream media. Just like it had no impact, which is obviously not true.
@@MrAceCraft what impact do you have in mind? I live in city where youth days have been organised. Apprt of traffic problems,huge amount of people in public transportation and all the money spent by city for this event. Oh, i have forgotten that i could not sleep in the night cause catholic youth danced to the cotton eye joe right in front of my building, on the church stairs.
@@MrAceCraft Maybe it's for the best? There were events over there that might raise some eyebrows like the DJ priest one.
@@YokoShige18Honestly, I could say the same thing about Pride Parade in my hometown.
The Holy Mother Church is still strong in central and south America, India, Philippines, and the horn of africa. In the west, people have turned to worshiping themselves, created things, and the philosophies of the age.
Not all of us
What do you mean worshipping "philosophies of the age"? Philosophy has always been unpopular outside academia. Hegel and Heidegger by most analysis are two most "popular" modern philosophers. Ask ten men on the street who knows them and nine out of ten, nobody knows them. I suppose you mean "spirit of the age", zeitgeist.
It's Thank the " universe " now.😂
I wonder who's responsible for this thought process/modern practice? Rhonda Byrne?
I think the next pope will be the first African pope since the 5th century.
Robert Sarah??
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 my guess is someone a bit younger.
That could be a very good thing since African cardinals are super based usually
As a catholic working in a catholic institution I can clearly say they start with charity and later run it as business at the expense of the staff who are working there. Pay the staff less and overburden them in the name of charity.
They need money to settle child assault settlements
@@WriteInAaronBushnell lol
@@WriteInAaronBushnell the Catholic Church doesn't have many child assault cases. By some statistics I've seen, the Catholic Church has less such instances compared to K-12 schools, after school programs, and office settings. But for some reason when we talk about child assault, we like to mention the Catholic Church first. That's what we call a double standard.
@@WriteInAaronBushnell
Protestants churhes (600% higher!), and homes and schools have more child assault cases than the Catholic Church. Research has proven this. But of course people enjoy it when they equate Catholif Church to child abuse
@@dr.j5642 In the US, "the total number of priests with allegations of abuse in our survey is 4,392". The analyses revealed "little variability in the rates of alleged abuse across regions of the Catholic Church in the U.S.-the range was from 3% to 6% of priests." "Of all priests against whom allegations were made, about 2% received prison sentences to date." [Report commissioned by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops 2004]
By comparison, of the 600 000 teachers in the UK, less than 1000 have been accused of sexual abuse towards kids, which works out at 0.17%. [International Journal of Education Learning and Development Vol.2, No.2, pp. 11-21, June 2014]
I think the Catholic Church is doing better in Africa than in other continents.
I just can’t imagine the Holy See being anywhere but Vatican City. I hope that never changes. It’s the spot where St. Peter was executed. It’s such an important symbol of Catholicism.
Imagine if you discover Avignon haha
Christianity is the world's largest religion not Islam.
Crusaders may certainly be " a thing of the past " but Islamic Jihad which actually triggered the crusade in the first place, is still alive and highly active
They still are , they just aren't publicized
There were 3 African popes from the Latin rite church actually. And you can argue that the oriental orthodox church has always had African popes. But yes, i think in the future we will see another African pope
Do you remember which popes were from Africa? I think Victor I was one but do not know the others.
@@CesarArturoCastaneda
Victor I (189-201)
Miltiades (311-314)
Gelasius I (492-496)
Thumb looks like Yevgeny Prigozhin.
+1
Islam has the largest numbers in the world? What? Since when?
I too was choked...
It’s the 2nd largest. But they’re the fastest growing.
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521 I mean how in the video closer to the end he says Islam is the largest multiple times
@@Huminahumina465 it’s going to be
But the muslims started losing power inside muslim majority country. I mean look at the Saudi, they are the capitalist and the most glamour of all muslims.
Commenting to say that this video has attracted an intriguing mix of people: there are of course the secular anticlericals but there are also Muslims, Protestants, and even radtrads.
What makes a path narrow?
Wut 🙃 ?
A strait gate 📖✝🕎
Nuns, bring back the Nuns! The pre 1990s Nuns, not the reasonable, soft, pleasant ladies we treasure now mind you. Put them in charge of our asylum centers, ngos, and send them on 'peace keeping' missions (warrior nuns) as a lapsed Irish Catholic who mortality feared them through primary school I can confirm they'd give wagner/the CIA and any dictator a run for their money. 😂💪🏽
go and join up then
@@patrickmac2799 awe, who didn't love you?
@@atix50 the nuns
Catholicism should never aim towards attracting more adherents who won't fully practice Catholic dogma in full and the Catholic Church would be better off with 100 million adherents but devout ones over 1 billion adherents but nominal ones.
The two are not mutually exclusive
But… thats the whole history of Catholicism, no, of any religion that spreads out through space and time. It reflects culture as much as the dogmas, want a source? The various saints who were gods/non-christian legends. Theres plenty of Roman culture in the religion born from defining itself away from Roman-ity. Without change Catholicism too will writher on the vine across the generations.
@@asiblingproduction saints who were part of pagan pantheons and non-Christian legends? I doubt that, name a few.
100 million donators vs 1 billion donators. Do the math.
@@iippo06 numbers mean nothing in terms of money. The modernized Norvus Ordo parishes are redlining in their finances, many churches are being forced to close down due to an inability to upkeep the facilities. The traditionalist SSPX and others like them are on the other hand opening large and beautiful churches such as the Immaculata in Kansas, despite having far less parishioners.
Sufism isn’t a branch of Islam, it’s a dimension of Islam. Vast majority of Sufis are within the Sunni branch. And you’re simplifying Sufism, most of the mainstream Sufis are pretty much orthodox Muslim and do take the dogma seriously. Salafists do oppose many of the Sufi practices but not all of it, also not all salafists says all other branch of Islam are considered as disbelievers. Some salafists take a nuance opinion and consider Twelver Shias and zaydi shias as Muslims as long they don’t curse Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman and Aisha. I don’t know if you’ll read this but stop simplifying Sufism and Salafism, and stop calling them branches because they’re not.
Don't waste your energy, this channel always proves that they know little about Islam, and what they know is often wrong.
VisualPolitik likely come from a Christian background where they conceptualize different forms of a religion's practices/beliefs as "branches" (John 15:2).
I admit as a Christian myself, I sometimes make that mistake when it comes to the different forms of Atheism, Hinduism, and Buddhism. Thanks for this explanation of Salafism and Sufism.
What does surf and surfism have to do with islam? Is riding the waves really that important for the islamic faith?
Outstanding overview of Catholicism in the Geo-demographical sphere. Thank you VisualPolitik. In his work "The Keys of this Blood", Malachi Martin analyzed the political and economic opposition standing in the way of Catholic growth and expansion world-wide. A future conclave where a Black Cardinal is elevated to the position of Supreme Pontiff is most definitely on the horizon, and the approach he takes to the challenges he will face will either galvanize the world under his leadership, or polarize the world beyond the point of no return.
Humm... Even though possible, an African Pope is quite unlikely right now. Maybe the creation of a new rite for the Africans would facilitate things a little bit more. Africans might to have the numbers, even thought their statistics are of questionable quality, but they certainly don't have the money to empower themselves, and that obviously matters. An African Pope would highly polarize the first world and perhaps to kill what is left of the faith in Europe in less than 10 years. They won't do that way round. And as others have said here, Pope Francis and most of his current Cardinal crowd is now too "woke" for Africa...
Good Guy Cardinal Sarah keep UP your work
check this out, check this out, check this out. this format is quickly getting way too annoying and repetitive...
Check this out... iconic!
You mean pope that condemns proselytism regularly want to find new believers? I don't buy this.
I was not expecting to see images of Granada, Nicaragua
While appreciating the opinion emphasized by this video, I would like to pinpoint two grave errors of facts mentioned in it:
1. Islam is not the world's largest religion with the most of the followers. It's still Christianity (1/3 of the world's population) and Catholicism is the majority among them (55/% or 1.3 billion)
2. There have been African and Asian Popes in the Catholic Church! (Total of 10, including the first, St Peter) The two African Popes were St. Victor I from Lybia and St. Miltiades from North Africa.
Victor I was an African Pope. I believe he wasn't the last either.
Actually, Islam is LOSING to Christianity. The Iranian Church is exploding with members. Also, in Africa the Church is growing by leaps and bounds. This is despite the fact that Islam is mounting large scale jihad efforts against Christianity, even to the point of murder (see Nigeria).
While here in Kerala every is just losing belives and in Manipur church burned but atleast they have belive unlike us Syrian Catholics .
How actually? 😅😅😅 Your judgement based on misinformation. 😅😅😅😅😅
Again, wrong. Iran is at least half non Muslim. That's one tiny example, Muslim. Worse, as Muslims move out from the middle east and North Africa, they are leaving Islam in droves because Islam can no longer enforce the death penalty for leaving Islam. @@ameenzakariya
But the thing is why won't the Western Christians help non-Western Christians? Why are you helping the aggressors? why are you giving them "asylums" and "refuge". Countries like Albania, Morrocco, Algeria, Pakistan are not even at war. Pakistanis literally destroyed churches and killed minorities last week. The liberal west helps the Muslim countries to fund jihad and extremism against non Muslim both in non western and western countries.
I am not sure if you are aware about the I-slamic world, according to the Salafists scholars, 24000 Moslims leave their religion daily, that religion is going to be doomed soon!
My country India had seen suicide of girl anjali from kerala for not getting scholarship from her convent school due to her hindu religion and pope is to be blamed and was the mastermind behind this😢. It's time for Africa😅
True in Mumbai it's the max
In the meantime St. Augustine is angry as he didnt get any recognision for having an african influence on the catholic church
As someone of African decent I can tell you that the continent of Africa needs less religion not more. Islam and Christianity generally has contributed to so much division, hatred and bloodshed throughout the region. My Grandparents came to the UK from Nigeria. The same Nigeria that is a hotbed full of extremists like Boko Haram, Fulani herdsmen and Christian fundamentalists. Religion has been a mess for that nation
As a black American, I feel you!
Roman Catholicism is NOT a faith based Christianity.
It is a political entity, just like Islam.
Both Catholic and Protestant are unaware of the foundational differences .
Christian fundamentalists in Nigeria? 🤔 🤔 🤔 I'm just hearing of this.
blame multiculturism that is being shoved down by the leftists.
It's a big fat joke that the pope is talking about colonialism in Africa because if it wasn't for the way Christianity was forcefully imposed by the Portuguese and french colonial empires on the people against their will they would have been no Christianity in the region and instead you would have had most people still practising voodoism which is the original faith of the people of Africa
Ironically Jesus was apparently born on the way to Africa while fleeing Herodes. Christianity has been in the continent long before it appeared in Western Europe.
@@AndreMarques45 If you say that then why does the Bible say that his birth place was is Bethlehem in current day palestine which is in the middle East. Get your facts right and also how does it matter where he was born as long as how his faith was forcefully imposed on people against their will and which he too would not have approved of if he was still alive
Yes .Catholics are good people. But I am a devoute Hindu and will never give up my Faith. Period. Jai Hind !
Sounds like “Deus Vult!” is about to return in Africa.
It makes sense for Catholicism to shift to Africa. Some of the greatest prophets of the Judeochristian, like Moses and King Solomon, were African. God even says he's "from Egypt". 🙏🏾✝🕎
"I am black and beautiful." - Song of Solomon 1:5
"Moses' wife, Sephora, was Ethiopian" - Numbers 12:1
I am the LORD thy God from the land of Egypt, and thou shalt know no god but me: for there is no saviour beside me.”
- Hosea 13:4
Moses was not African. According to the bible he was Jewish/Israelite and descended from people of the land of Canaan/Israel area, but during Moses lifetime they were freed from Egypt to go back to Israel. In the bible, the Egyptians are the bad guys and the Jewish god of Moses don't like the Egyptian gods (Exodus 12:12). Black people/Africans who follow the god of Moses are following a foreign god.
Church is the last refuge of a scoundrel - An ex catholic
Islam is not the most followed religion in the world. Christianity is still ahead by hundreds of millions.
God's Mercy will be known in the whole world soon, finally our Blessed Mother Immaculate Heart will triumph ( Fatima Message)
Your video is extremely interesting, but you are forgetting... Asia! Take a look at that continent as well 😊 Pope Francis and the Holy See are betting a lot on Asian countries like China for instance 😮 It would be nice to hear you talking about this 😁
Not only from China: The next WYD will be in Seoul, South Korea! And the next Pope can be an Asian as well, with Cardinal William Goh from Singapore being routinely presented as the most Papabile possible from that area. Time will tell. Asia is from where the new money is coming... And that sadly matters!...
It's all about Power and Social Influence & less about God, Jesus is just a poster boy at this point.
“Indeed, Allah is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. That is the straight path.” {Quran 3:51}
If the Catholic Church changes its teaching to suit a small minority it will be lost .The teaching for the 2 Thousand years must not changs
Agree, it must die
Once again: there is only one country in Europe for these guys: Spain and no one else… 🤦♂️😴😴😴
It is hard to speak for that long about us Catholics without eventually fudging matters or speaking rubbish, but you managed it, unlike most Vatican-based journalists who know no reporting boundaries and can't get over themselves (i.e. their locked-in perspective). Cool. Talented. More clips about everything please.
Catholic is the new covenant God has made for mankind.
As long as they are no terrorists, repretion, or religious fightings I'm ok with any religion being the biggest
So no religion then. Fighting each other is basically all they know, they have to be a victim.
@@RS-ls7mmNot really. Unorganised religions who are not involved in politics and power struggles are not much of an issue.
@@RS-ls7mm no religion (atheism) is also responsible for many war crimes throughout the history, it's politics،, polaticans will find any excuse to start a war
Islam is estimated to become the worlds largest religion.
@@hussienbintalal91 BS. The religious try to divert their long history of violence with the absolutely trivial number of incidents of the non religious. Pretty pathetic.
Africa will become Pentecostal, just as occurred in South Korea. One of your examples, Ethiopia, despite its very high-church Apostolic/Coptic church (which to a Protestant "looks" Catholic) has had massive Pentecostal growth since the Communists were shown the door. Most likely, in Ethiopia, the Omoros will remain Moslem and those Ethiopians who love hierarchy and all of that will not switch to Catholicism but remain Apostolic/Coptic while the huge number of those who fall into neither camp (there are over 90 different languages in Ethiopia, and huge portions of Ethiopia are not Amharic or Oromo) will go Pentecostal. Pentecostalism, due to its belief in the Holy Ghost as an important part of Christianity (not just in theory but in practice!) had huge growth in China (the True Jesus Church) and South Korea (not only the True Jesus Church but many other groups). Other non-Pentecostal groups such as Iglesia ni Cristo in the Philippines have more members than all of the Jehovah's Witnesses worldwide (which is not to say JW's are going to decline anytime soon!). So Catholicism has some very extreme Protestant competition in the Third World, before we even consider "moderate" (?!) Protestant groups like Baptists, not to mention continued growth from Mormons.
Hello A Christian from Ethiopia I wanna tell you the update of religious growth and I have to say things has changed many protestants even pastors are closing their congregations and returning to Orthodoxy and if this continues we will be more than half of the population I mean our evangelization is solid that even protestants are using the old methods they used in the 90s to get people back to their churches but their eyes have opened and because of social media every former pastor starts educating people about the truth and the uninspired theology and the disagreement between the denominations so sorry it won't happen , God bless you☦️
Hello A Christian from Ethiopia I wanna tell you the update of religious growth and I have to say things has changed many protestants even pastors are closing their congregations and returning to Orthodoxy and if this continues we will be more than half of the population I mean our evangelization is solid that even protestants are using the old methods they used in the 90s to get people back to their churches but their eyes have opened and because of social media every former pastor starts educating people about the truth and the uninspired theology and the disagreement between the denominations so sorry it won't happen , God bless you☦️
Christians are Romans who have appeased Jesus followers redeeming for having crucified Jesus and persecuting his followers for nearly 3 centuries. Whereas Jesus was overwhelmed with Budhism teachings and settled in Buddhist monastery in Kashmir after escaping persecution which is well documented but never acknowledged.
This is the truth
Proud to be Catholic! However, change must take place!
SMH - I've got my issues with the Catholics and their dogma, but capitulation towards man's wants and not His laws - they're doing it to themselves.
In countries like Uganda, Kenya, Congo, they got their presidents attending church service every Sunday, congo alone has 95m people and rising very fast.
"Lie is at the centre of believe because only the Truth shall set you free whether you believe it or not...Have Faith and 'Seek it'." -Pope Vincent (Glory of the Olive)
Recognize the 'Sign of Jonah' born a 'Lion of Judah'.
For decades i have walked among you and the message remains the same.
Catholicism May be growing rapidly in Africa but it looks starkly different to European Catholicism and the direction Pope Francis is taking the Church. They’re very conservative and have an extreme disdain for homosexuality- which Pope Francis is turning the other cheek for. Either there’s another schism or the Church becomes dominated by Africans (which is soon to be the case demographically) and thus more conservative. An African pope may be on the cards either after Francis dies or the death of his successor.
Me personally? I think that’s a good thing. Africa deserves a louder voice in international discourse- the Holy See is an effective tool through which it can achieve that.
What’s the difference between the catholic and the other Christian?
Christian's are like chess, there are so many openings and variations but all play the same game. I think muslims has two.
@@MrJabertazYeah, but which one is right, cuz we Muslims can find who’s at the wrong of us Muslims, this is why sunnis is the right because when we look at the Quran they don follow it, so which one is right if you don’t mind me asking
@@YOURMUSLIMGUY everyone think their religion is right. Why do you think we have wars?
@@MrJabertaz I am not talking about religions, I am talking about Christianity there main three sects, which one is the right one. Because we Sunnis can prove that we’re right, only iran in the Shia country
Btw it is only a question not a competition
in the map of Europe at the beginning of the video, the number for Germany is very wrong. 43% Catholics in Germany? Maybe that was the case 30 or 40 years ago, but last year the ratio of Catholics in Germany was 1 in 4, i.e. 25%, and in the previous years a bit more, therefore in the year 2018 probably between 26% and 29% ... far below 43%.
I do not like new order Catholicism.
Ex Christian here 💪🏻
It's always fun to be a member of a non-missionary religion and see Islam and Christianity childishly fight with each other for new believers 🤣
Well, we(Muslims and Christians) are your offshoots...😄😁😆😂🤣
That is because this whole circus is created by your kind.
How has the child molestation scandal affected the Catholic church’s followers and its reputation? That is a Extremely important video.
Probably contributed to the rise of evangelical protestant religions in South America, that’s just my guess
Nothing. Once you get brainwashed into a religion, they can do no wrong.
The church is far from the perfection and always will be misconducts, but in general sense the Catholic Church does much more good than bad and followers of the doctrine won’t let the misconducts to distance them to the church. Or do you think misconducts are exclusivity of the Catholic Church?
@@vap72a25 bowl all of them the church hierarchy is indicted with to many bad apples
How has the Anglospgere elite lost credibility because of €pstein? Or the UN because of the child rings in Africa?
Those "radical" catholics are just catholics. The you quoted them saying things that Pope Francis has also affirmed. He's not a politician. His job is not to change his stance to become likable. His job is to guide the church in her mission which is to serve God.
By stepping down?
I fear what people like you would label Jesus if he ever did make it back. Communist, socialist, far-left, etc.
@@jxg0314head of the communist party in Russia already called Jesus the first communist.
@@jxg0314 then there are people like you who are obsessed with labels. Christianity is Christianity. Jesus is a Christian. We follow the teachings of Christ, not communism or capitalism.
Napoleon did terminate Pope Pius VI from the Vatican, but Pope Pius VII was assured that the government of France AND the Catholic Church would act as one body- and note separation of Church and State did not become law in France until 1905.
The Vatican and USA did not establish diplomatic relations until after WWI, a smart move considering America was a growing world power and that democracy (UK) controlled Jerusalem. The Vatican also had purchased from the Ottomans in the 19th Century (when they were controlling Jerusalem) considerable amounts of property as well within Jerusalem, so to say their diplomacy towards for good reasons can be debated.
Pope Pius XII being cordial to Hitler cannot be following true CHRISTAIN beliefs, which with the nomination of Pius Xll as a saint should be scrutinized thoroughly. Thank goodness Pope Francis has allowed scholars outside of the the Vatican to research Pius XII, especially dealing with his attitude towards the Jews.
Some popes are using their power and potential. They can even make Presidents ex-communicated to their own country.
There is a lot of misinformation on this video, Islam is NOT the largest and most professed religion in the world, in fact it is still Christianity w/ Islam sadly following closely behind.
Islam is not the biggest religion in the world
I wonder how citizens of deeply catholic Italy, France, and Poland, have reacted to the church child molestation scandal?
I think most intelligent people know that a minority of priests became evil and abused their authority.
The same way Islamic countries react to terrorism. Ignore and make excuses.
France is far from being deeply Catholic.
France had secular intellectuals like Foucault and Sartre push to legalize it. And they made the film cuties. By the way, many non western cultures still have child brides to this day. The west doesn’t because the Church was against this stuff.
The catholic
church doesnt preach something like that
Lol. Religion is such a business 😂
I live in Africa. Jihadists are killing Christians in Africa.
Isnt the biggest competition to the catholic church in África the protestant/evangelical churches?
And Islam.
12:30 Oh no... Catholics actually following the teachings of the Bible and not just making it up like what the Pope is doing.
So a book written by fallible humans… translated with slight although large-reaching differing definitions of words across a two thousand year span… and you’re trusting that to be the direct word of God?
Oh sorry, what am i doing. God gave us reason but doesn’t want us to use it to figure doctrine for ourselves.
@@asiblingproduction That's false. There are zero doctrinal differences based on translation, if you're talking about the anciently established and approved canon of Christians. The Dead Sea scrolls demonstrated what the academic world doubted for centuries, that the Holy Scriptures we have today are identical in meaning to what believers had from the 3rd century BC to the 1st century AD.
@@dr.j5642 Christianity didn't exist in the 3rd century BC, it was 300 years before Christ after all.
@@Calikid331 well the Christian Bible does include the Hebrew Tanakh as its Old Testament, so thats where you get documents going back to the 3rd century BC, and some even as far back as the 8th century.
Gay people are not supposed to be persecuted anymore according to christianity/new testament. Jesus said to let the one without sin cast the first stone (John 8:7) and Jesus said that the devil was a murderer from the beginning and those who follow him are the devil's children seeking to do his will (John 8:44).
This video was a real good piece of soft promotion of your faith. However, faiths like Christianity and Islam are a threat to global diversity, imposing foreign and incompatible practices on locals and tribals, why do you need to send missions if your faiths are so good, they are just another form of colonialism. Political, economic and then religious colonialism. These also not compatible w climate change or envt protection movements as acc to them everything in nature is made by God to be exploited by man. Probably that's why educated populations of Europe themselves leaving them.
True, but no one realizes as most countries has already lost their uniqeness and diversity. It like saying Egypt today is not the real Egypt. The Real Egypt is gone long back.
And what does the "Educated" population of India doing now? 😅
I have never heard a Catholic priest, nun, or catechist say we should/can "exploit" nature. While it is true we do not worship the earth, that doesn't mean we believe in trashing it. On the contrary, many Catholics want to protect our natural resources. Pope Francis even proclaimed pollution to be a sin. Unfortunately I still drive a car on occasion, but I try to walk to work and to church whenever time allows.
He should read the vedas
I am not sure that reliogion has its last say in Europe and in the west in general. I am not religious but as I see progressive people having few kids and Woke and feminists too busy with pronouns, real or imaginary racism and feeling offended, some religious communities with stronger family values will grow and influence society.
Sunni muslims are the largest religious group on earth.
Sunni is not a true group..there arabs ..there are Asians there are blacks...there are baluch turks etc
@@hamodalbatal464 wth sunni make up 90% shia barely 10% get ur facts straight. 500 million 🤣 be serious plz