H.)  New Christian activities

        In the current religious world of the New Age, there are also the important efforts and movements inside the individual great religions and communities strongly represented, especially on the ground of the world religions.

       Thus, the old notion of St. Augustine, who understood that religion is a "semper reformanda" (permanently renewing) is realized. Even today, it exists within many religious and amateur movements, where some go over the framework of traditional religions:

       e.g., such as the Fokolarij movement of Klara Lubich, the charismatic renewal, the Christianity of Love and Family, or the Congregation of the Mission Sisters (The Servants of the Holy Spirit), and others.

       The young Christian Taize movement became known around the world - the name originating from the location in France where repeated meetings were held.

       The Taize movement is primarily trying to deepen and to permanently enrich Christian spiritual life.

        Very helpful is the work and involvement of  Sister Mother Theresa, known as The Missionary Love.

       She was originally known as Agnes, born in 1910 in Albania, and is currently active in India working with lepers and among the poorest of all inhabitants of India.

       Her mission started on September 10, 1946 in the city of Darjeeling where she had returned every year for mass and thanksgiving.

       There she heard the God's calling and devoted her entire life to the service of the poorest and most wretched.

       She received papal consecration as early as 1948, and in 1957 she built a modern leprosarium in Calcutta funded by charitable donations, and later also elsewhere in the country.

       In 1971, she received the Papal Peace Prize, and in 1979 she received the Nobel Peace Prize. Finally in 1983, the Queen of England recognized her with the highest British medal for achievement with the words: "Her humanity is the highest form of religious belief, it is the light that will never disappear. Mother Theresa is a woman of God who managed to put Christian love in life again."

        Currently, one of the most important events within the Roman-Catholic Church is the decade of the spiritual renewal of the church, a decade of the renewal of the nation, and a worldwide decade of evangelism: 1990 - 2000. This is supplemented by the ecumenical movement initiated by the World Protestant Church in Geneva.

       Most of these revival and renewal movements are trying to gain a deeper interest in religious issues of believers and non-believers and unconcerned people, as well as those who did not respect religion and declared themselves atheists. Thus, currently the wishes of the apostle Paul are being fulfilled: "Try everything and stick with good things."
 
 

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