The Biggest Apology for Christian Persecution of Other Christians Ever

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Pope Francis offered them to both the Waldensians and the Pentecostals for past Catholic persecution of Protestants. Matt Chandler’s Acts 29 megachurch asked a former member for forgiveness after wrongly subjecting her to church discipline. Bob Jones University said it was sorry for failing sex abuse victims. Turkish Christians asked forgiveness 100 years after the Armenian genocide. Pastor Kong Hee bowed three times after his conviction for siphoning millions from his Singapore megachurch. And Creflo Dollar’s board apologized for seeking $60 million to replace his private plane.

But the most significant mea culpa came in Albania from 145 representatives of “virtually all Christian confessions,” who said they were sorry for having abused each other.

“We repent of having at times persecuted each other and other religious communities in history, and ask forgiveness from each other and pray for new ways of following Christ together,” wrote the group, comprised of delegates from the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), the Pentecostal World Fellowship, the Vatican, and the World Council of Churches.

christianitytoday.com/gleanings/2015/december/biggest-apology-christian-persecution-global-forum-albania.html

 

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I think this is wonderful news for Christianity as a whole.

The delegates, who represented more than two billion Christians, gathered in the Albanian capital of Tirana last month under the organization of the Global Christian Forum. The conference was a response to the growing global “discrimination, persecution, and violence” against Christians, and was held in a country where, several decades ago, the government wiped out churches and other places of worship.

Anytime representatives from 2 billion Christians can “come together” to discuss anything much less apologize for their own wring doings is extremely moving.

“We had not planned to discuss the question of Christians discriminating against and persecuting Christians, even though it came up in the discussions from the very beginning,”

They may not have planned it but I bet they prayed for it, the HS that is.

Peace!!!

 

[TCEL]

I think this is significant too.

 

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God is great. His love, grace and mercy knows no boundaries.