Author Topic: Up to ten baptism requests (Read 575 times)

Centroamerica · « **on:** April 22, 2016, 09:57:35 PM »

In 2016 more than half of converts in Vienna were Muslim, according to reports

An increasing number of Muslim migrants in Austria are converting to Christianity, according to reports.

According to Austrian website Kurier, 83 adults were approved for baptism in Vienna in 2016, with Friederike Dostal of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference estimating that about half of them were Muslims, mainly from Syria, Afghanistan, and Iran. This figure is up from one-third in 2015.

There is expected to be a further rise of Muslim converts in 2017 due to the fact that there has been an increase in the number of refugees arriving in Vienna in recent months and because the conversion process, known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, takes up to a year to complete.

The Archdiocese in Vienna is handling between five and 10 adult baptism requests per week, Kurier says.

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/04/19/number-of-muslim-migrants-in-austria-converting-to-christianity-on-the-rise/

poche · « **Reply #1 on:** April 23, 2016, 02:02:03 AM »

Jesus said, "Go out to all the nations and preach the Gospel." If we can't go out to the Muslims in the Middle East, then gos will bring them to us. It is up to us to live the holiness that will induce them to conversion.

songbird · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2016, 04:14:03 PM »

Question: are they converting to New Order, even the protestants call themselves christians.

Neil Obstat · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2016, 06:20:29 PM »

Quote from: songbird

Question: are they converting to New Order, even the protestants call themselves christians.

Answer: "There is expected to be a further rise of Muslim converts in 2017 due to the fact that there has been an increase in the number of refugees arriving in Vienna in recent months and because the conversion process, known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, takes up to a year to complete."

(Note: RCIA is the Novus Ordo replacement for conversion to Catholicism.)

..........So long as the pope in Rome avoids the infallible dogma, extra ecclesiam nulla salus, there will be confusion in the process of Holy Baptism and true conversion to the one True Faith. Monsignor Perez recently made the most interesting point, that whenever we look at the Crucifix, we are looking at the event that God gave us for our faith, the fact that God was incarnated into our human nature with one objective in mind, to die for our redemption, and the MEANS He chose for this to take effect is the Holy Catholic Church. Just as there are not two or more crucifixions, there are not two or more churches, and consequently, Jesus died on the cross to establish His Church. It is no small matter, then, for us to think the Church is not important, because God died on the Cross in order to found this Church. Anyone who attempts to falsify this One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church by so doing places himself outside this same Church, where there is no salvation.

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poche · « **Reply #4 on:** April 29, 2016, 02:14:34 AM »

Quote from: Neil Obstat

Quote from: songbird
Question: are they converting to New Order, even the protestants call themselves christians.

Answer: "There is expected to be a further rise of Muslim converts in 2017 due to the fact that there has been an increase in the number of refugees arriving in Vienna in recent months and because the conversion process, known as the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, takes up to a year to complete."

(Note: RCIA is the Novus Ordo replacement for conversion to Catholicism.)

..........So long as the pope in Rome avoids the infallible dogma, extra ecclesiam nulla salus, there will be confusion in the process of Holy Baptism and true conversion to the one True Faith. Monsignor Perez recently made the most interesting point, that whenever we look at the Crucifix, we are looking at the event that God gave us for our faith, the fact that God was incarnated into our human nature with one objective in mind, to die for our redemption, and the MEANS He chose for this to take effect is the Holy Catholic Church. Just as there are not two or more crucifixions, there are not two or more churches, and consequently, Jesus died on the cross to establish His Church. It is no small matter, then, for us to think the Church is not important, because God died on the Cross in order to found this Church. Anyone who attempts to falsify this One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church by so doing places himself outside this same Church, where there is no salvation.

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I thought that the Rite of Christian Initiation was unique to the United States. Is it in use in Europe?