Björn Odendahl - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:55:07 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Björn Odendahl - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 African church growth put down to lack of education https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/12/01/african-church-growth-put-down-to-lack-of-education/ Mon, 30 Nov 2015 16:07:07 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=79377 The editor of the German bishops' website has said the Church is growing in Africa because of a lack of education and because Africans have little else. Björn Odendahl said this on Katholisch.de in an article entitled "The Romantic, Poor Church". "Of course the Church is growing there. It grows because the people are socially dependent Read more

African church growth put down to lack of education... Read more]]> The editor of the German bishops' website has said the Church is growing in Africa because of a lack of education and because Africans have little else.

Björn Odendahl said this on Katholisch.de in an article entitled "The Romantic, Poor Church".

"Of course the Church is growing there. It grows because the people are socially dependent and often have nothing else but their faith," he wrote.

"It grows because the educational situation there is on average at a rather low level and the people accept simple answers to difficult questions [of faith].

"Answers like those that Cardinal Sarah of Guinea provides."

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