CATHOLIC SCHOOLS VISIT SYNAGOGUE AND PARTAKE IN SEDER MEAL
Most likely these Catholic school children do not learn their faith in the Catholic schools they attend --but they do learn the Jewish faith.
GLORIA POLO'S NEAR DEATH TESTIMONY
The Testimony of Gloria Polo
May
5, 2005 - Caracas, Venezuela
Good morning, brothers. It is wonderful for me to be
here, to share with you this gift so beautiful that
the Lord gave me.
That which I am about to recount to you happened May
5, 1995 at the National University of Bogotá,
starting from 4:30 pm.
I am a dentist. I and my 23-year-old cousin, who is
also a dentist, were studying in order to get the
specialization. On that day, which was a Friday,
about 4:30 pm, we were walking together with my
husband toward the Faculty of Dentistry to find some
books that we needed. With my cousin I walked under a
small umbrella while my husband wore a rain coat and
to shelter himself better he was walking near the
wall of the General Library. We two were jumping from
one side to the other in order to avoid the puddles
while staying close to the trees. When we jumped over
a rather large puddle we were hit by a lightning bolt
which left us both carbonized.
My cousin died immediately. The lightning bolt
entered from behind, burning him inside totally, and
came out through his feet, leaving him intact
externally. Not withstanding his young age, he was a
very religious young man. He had a great devotion for
Baby Jesus and he always carried around his neck His
image, a quartz medal. The authorities said that it
was the quartz that attracted the lightning bolt to
my cousin, because it entered into the heart burning
everything…
Remaining intact externally, he immediately had a
cardiac arrest which did not respond to the attempts
of reanimation by the doctors, and he died on the
spot.
As for me, the lightning bolt entered from my
shoulder, burning terribly the whole body, inside and
out; in short my flesh disappeared including my
breasts, especially the left one, leaving a hole. It
caused to disappear the flesh of my abdomen, of my
legs, of the ribs; it carbonized the liver, it
gravely burned the kidneys, the lungs, the ovaries…
and came out through the right foot.
For my contraceptive, I was using a spiral (an
intrauterine devise in the form of a T), and because
of the material with which it is made (copper) it is
a good conductor of electricity; the lightning bolt
carbonized and
More Than 1,000 Mexicans Leave Catholic Church Daily
From Latin American Herald: "MEXICO CITY – More than 1,000 Mexicans left the Catholic Church every day over the last decade, adding up to some 4 million fallen-away Catholics between 2000 and 2010, sociologist and historian Roberto Blancarte told Efe.
Blancarte, one of the nation’s outstanding specialists on religious subjects, said that one of the main conclusions to be drawn from the 2010 census is that Mexico is no longer a predominantly Catholic country and has become a nation of religious pluralism.
According to figures from the census taken last year, out of a total 112 million Mexicans, 92.9 million are Catholics, 14.1 million belong to Protestant Christian denominations, and a lower number are devotees of Islam, Judaism and various oriental doctrines.
One of the principal novelties is that 5.2 million say they profess no religion – to the question about their religious beliefs, they answered “no religion.”
“It would be a mistake to think that these 5 million are atheists – all it means is that they profess no particular belief but they might well believe in some form of divinity,” Blancarte told Efe.
The specialist from Colegio de Mexico and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, or UNAM, said that the decline has been uninterrupted over the past 60 years.
In 1950, 98.21 percent of Mexicans said they were Catholic, in 1960 the percentage dropped to 96.47 percent, in 1970 to 96.17 percent, in 1980 to 92.62 percent, in 1990 the percentage dropped to 89.69 percent, in 2000 the country was only 88 percent Catholic, and now that percentage is lower still at 83.9 percent.
This signifies that the last decade has seen a drop of more than 4 percentage points, equivalent to almost 4 million people or an average of 1,300 people a day leaving the Catholic Church.
In contrast, the number of Protestants and Evangelicals went from 1.28 percent in 1950 to almost 8 percent of the total population in 2010, without counting Jehovah’s Witnesses or Mormons.
Blancarte said that this change is not exclusive to Mexico but extends across the region. In Brazil, for example, surveys have found that Catholics make up less than 70 percent of the population.
In Central America, according to figures provided by the expert, Catholics represent between 55 percent and 73 percent of inhabitants, in both Chile and Venezuela they constitute about 70 percent, while in Cuba and Uruguay the percentage plummets to around 50 percent.
In the coming years, according to Blancarte’s projections, Mexico’s Catholics will tumble to below 80 percent."
