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<\/p>\nI g\u00e5r starta en synode om Afrika i Vatikanet, og bildet viser alle biskopene som deltok i messen i Peterskirken s\u00f8ndag morgen. Synoden skal vare fram til 25. oktober, og John Allen skriver slik om g\u00e5rsdagen:<\/p>\n
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Pope Benedict XVI led this morning\u2019s liturgy, joined by almost 240 bishops, most of them Africans taking part in the synod. Concelebrating the Mass were the three co-presidents of the synod, Cardinals Francis Arinze of Nigeria, Wilfrid Fox Napier of South Africa, and Theodore-Adrien Sarr of Senegal, along with Cardinal Peter Turkson of Ghana, the \u201crelator,\u201d or general secretary, of the synod.<\/p>\n If the musical tone was upbeat, Pope Benedict struck a more sober note in his homily this morning. The pope praised the dynamism of the faith in Africa, where the Catholic population grew during the second half of the twentieth century by some 7,000 percent, soaring from 1.9 million Catholics to an estimated 160 million today.<\/p>\n The pope called Africa \u201can immense spiritual \u2018lung,\u2019 for a humanity that appears to be in a crisis of faith and hope.\u201d Later, during his midday Angelus address, Benedict praised the «extraordinary human wealth» of Africa.<\/p>\n Nonetheless, in his homily Benedict warned that Africa faces two serious threats, suggesting that the synod should carefully ponder responses to both.<\/p>\n The first threat, Benedict said, is a \u201cpractical materialism, combined with relativistic and nihilistic thought.\u201d Those philosophical currents, he suggested, are reaching Africa from the West.<\/p>\n \u201cThe so-called \u2018first world\u2019 has exported and is still exporting its toxic spiritual refuse,\u201d the pope said, \u201cwhich infect the populations of other continents, especially in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cColonialism is finished in a political sense,\u201d the pope said, \u201cbut it\u2019s not completely gone away.\u201d<\/p>\n The second threat Benedict identified is \u201creligious fundamentalism, mixed with political and economic interests.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cGroups with diverse religious affiliations are spreading themselves throughout the African continent,\u201d the pope said. \u201cThey do so in the name of God, but according to a logic opposed to that which is divine. They\u2019re not teaching and practicing love and respect for liberty, but intolerance and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n The pope also made clear reference to the social ills that continue to scar Africa, citing \u201cexploitation, conflicts and corruption,\u201d as well as \u201cpoverty, injustices, violence and wars.\u201d He called upon the church in Africa to be a source of \u201cprophecy and ferment of reconciliation among the various ethnic, linguistic and religious groups, within individual nations and across the entire continent.\u201d<\/p>\n In his Angelus remarks, Benedict likewise noted that life in Africa is marred by «so much poverty, and still suffers under heavy injustices.» … … <\/font><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I g\u00e5r starta en synode om Afrika i Vatikanet, og bildet viser alle biskopene som deltok i messen i Peterskirken s\u00f8ndag morgen. 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