Breitbart: ROME — An African archbishop told the Vatican synod of bishops this week that Christians in his country have learned tolerance, friendship, and cooperation by allowing themselves to be “evangelized” by Muslims.
Archbishop Ilario Antoniazzi of Tunis, who represents the North African bishops’ conference, told members of the synod of bishops that the few Christians living in North Africa must be very careful not to offend Muslims with an overt show of faith, Catholic News Service reported Wednesday.
Christians in North Africa must live their faith with “great discretion,” said Antoniazzi, in the midst of a Muslim majority that often sees them as “infidels, unbelievers or worse.”
By allowing themselves “to be evangelized by their Muslim brothers, that is, to learn their culture and religion,” the Italian archbishop said, they have learned tolerance, friendship, and cooperation, which are vital for a peaceful society.
“Our young people discover in this way that different religions are no longer an insurmountable obstacle but become a different path to the one God we all adore,” Antoniazzi said.
Some of the synod fathers may have found the archbishop’s use of the term “evangelizing” somewhat puzzling in the context of Muslims’ witness to Christians, since the word has a precise meaning in Christian theology, namely, the preaching of the “Good News” (εὐαγγέλιον) of Jesus Christ as the messiah, a belief not shared by Islam. read more
SNIP: If, by ‘Evangelized’ the archbishop means- murdered, maimed, assaulted, raped, beaten, robbed, tricked, invaded, tortured, kidnapped, lied to, oppressed by, harassed, degraded, … Then I understand what he’s saying.
Here’s the perfect Christian prayer, it’s even Biblical and that’s all it takes to be smarter than the Archbishop.
Psalm 83. 13-18
As a Bible clutching, gun-toting Christian, I say to hell with the archbishop and his screwy non-Biblical admonitions.
OMG!
They learn tolerance by suborning who THEY are? They learn tolerance by being told not to upset the human filth?
Sometimes I really feel like teh Catholic Church needs to die. It’s suicidal anyway, at this point. Doing more harm than good. It used to actually fight for itself.
Holy guacamole!
“a different path to the one God we all adore.”
Just shows Antoniazzi of Tunis is totally ignorant as to what Islam really is about….
It sounds like Archbishop Retardo is in essence a double agent.
“Muslim brothers” my ass.
Luke 22:36
Christianity can be evangelized by
islamic satanism ?
It’s not just the roman church that’s going down
It is ALL of Christianity with this thinking.
Hi my friends, my name is Father Antoniazzi, today’s mass will be lead by iman oban-el chopper there will be no wine or hosts today instead we will have a blood sacrifice all in the name of alla alla full of crap,come my sheep up to the rail and let us give thanks to the new master and shed our blood for him.
That is a red hat that is going to hell.
The “Good news” is the word of God proclaimed by Christ and his followers, not this evil dude. Lord have mercy on his soul.
Don’t show your faith, avert your eyes, just stay off the street, you may live a longer life
they fear for their lives. Not everyone can be a martyr but everyone should do as the Holy Spirit tells them. Here in the States, most of us dont witness and its simple and safe to do so. I hope when push comes to shove that I will have the strength to witness for Him.
I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.
I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Guess I am reading the wrong Bible or something Mr. Archbishop Ilario Antoniazzi of Tunis. Are you related to Oprah? Just asking.
Tunis dude is the Tokyo rose of Catholics
God have mercy on his soul
Yeah, when you beat your swords into plowshares you end up pulling the plow for someone else.
Islam is a degenerate cult of death and servitude for the mentally challenged, kinda like Socialism.
This article is poorly written. Is the bishop saying Christians are learning to be more tolerant of Islam? If so, that is a pant load. Christians do not have a doctrine for killing non-believers. But the other guy does.
Allah is not the God of Abraham, Islam is not just another manifestation of the One true God.
Islam delenda est
He misspelled Dhimmi-fied
So this guy is basically saying when faced with a real choice that means life or death he will sell out to his enemy.
No Shadrach, Meshach or Abednego for him.
@MAF, Ishmael and Isaac, the sons of Abraham are who islam started with.
Ishmael was the son of Hagar the servant. God had promised a son to Abraham and Sarah a son. Hagar’s son was not the son promised by God. God declared that the sons of Ishmael would fight and war with everyone else forever. So, muslims are not God’s people.
Isaac’s sons, (descendants) are God’s people.
That’s a short synopsis but you can see it’s truth being lived out.
Submitting to evil, committing evil – same outcome.
How can a true believer, as I would assume an ‘archbishop’ to be, fail to have
full faith and confidence in the God he claims to have dedicated his life to?
Matt 10:28 plainly tells us otherwise.
One wonders if AB has ever read it.
@Diogenes –
Ignorant about Christianity too, per John 14:6.