Orthodox believers in Italy equals to almost a million

[Crvena zvezda]

Orthodox believers in Italy equals to almost a million, their number grows rapidly - daily

Rome, November 22, Interfax - The impetuous inflow of immigrants from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe resulted in annual growth of Orthodox community in Italy.

According to the recent dossier on migrants issued by the Caritas Catholic charitable organization, the Italian Orthodox community includes nearly million people. The number of Orthodox believers increased by 259 thousand people in 2006 in the result of intensive migratory flow from Romania and Ukraine.

'Their presence in Italy has deep historical roots, but it has recently become unprecedented, and it seems that public opinion is not ready for this' historian Roberto Morozzo della Rocca noted in his interview to the Panorama Italian daily.

Experts believe that if the growth rates remain at the same level, Orthodox community in Italy will soon become the second biggest religious community after the Catholics. 117 thousand Orthodox children accounts for every half a million foreign pupils, and the number of mixed marriages constantly increases.

Orthodoxy appeals to the Catholics as it admits marriage for priests and tolerates second church marriage for the divorced, the edition reads.

[Kernunnos]

I could not ask for better. Italians need to wean off from a post-council Church that has prostituted itself to multiracial interest.

Catholic church openly advocates an influx of catholic immigrants from non - european countries, mainly from Africa and Southe America.

An orthodox Church could be simply italian or even more local, with its clergy tending the intersets of its european population.

Traditional catholics are too few to count and they still would remain catholics even if they succeeded at regaining control of the catholic Church.

Catholic means universal in greek, while Orthodox churches are national churches.