Portuguese Bishop Américo Aguiar, tapped by Pope Francis to become a cardinal, has caused a stir by insisting that the Catholic Church is not trying to convert young people to Jesus Christ.
Pope Francis said Wednesday that trying to convince someone to become a Christian is a “pagan” activity unworthy of followers of Christ.
Pope Francis said Thursday that “every Christian is called to be a missionary and witness to Christ” because evangelization is “the very identity of the Church.”
Pope Francis urged the Christians of Cyprus Friday to bear witness to Jesus Christ but never to proselytize.
Pope Francis celebrated the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Christianity to the Philippines Sunday, urging his hearers to preach the gospel without proselytizing.
Police arrested nine Christians in central India based on complaints of forced conversions from a Hindu nationalist group, AsiaNews reported Friday.
Pope Francis urges Christian missionaries to bear witness to Jesus with joy and simplicity, while avoiding proselytism, elitism, isolation, and self-absorption.
Every baptized Christian is called to actively proclaim the good news of Jesus Christ, Pope Francis said Sunday in his weekly Angelus address.
The Church is “persecuted, misunderstood, and enchained,” Pope Francis said Wednesday, and yet “never tires of welcoming with a maternal heart every man and woman.”
Pope Francis told Christian high school students this weekend that they should respect people of other faiths and not attempt to convert them to Christianity, insisting that “we are not living in the times of the crusades.”
Pope Francis has called on young people in America to “bring the Lord” to their friends and families and all who “do not know Jesus.”
Pope Francis condemned the “rampant secularism” of the modern world Sunday, saying that God wills all men and women to be saved in Jesus Christ.
Algerian authorities have set a court date to try five Christians who have been accused of “inciting a Muslim to change his religion,” a criminal offence, and “performing religious worship in an unauthorized place.”
