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Post by Beach Police on Nov 24, 2007 16:14:06 GMT -5
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.
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Post by humbleman on Nov 24, 2007 16:50:07 GMT -5
That's because there are 800 000 Romanians there. LoL
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Post by superman on Nov 25, 2007 6:03:50 GMT -5
there are 1,5-2 millions romanians there, LoL
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Post by Novi Pazar on Nov 25, 2007 20:45:16 GMT -5
Interesting BP, democracy allows people to be whatever they want...regarding italy, the immigrants have helped.
In the middle ages italy did have an orthodox population, particulary those of the magna grecia.
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Post by Beach Police on Nov 26, 2007 11:16:02 GMT -5
I think it's great, don't you?
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Post by radovic on Nov 26, 2007 11:38:29 GMT -5
The number is probably closer to 1.5 million. For orthodoxy the following numbers exist in Italy: - Approximately 30,000 orthodox Greeks. - Around 1 million romanians. - 100,000 members of heretical Orthodox Church of Italy (it is an illegal organization linked to the illegal and uncanonical "Montenegrin Orthodox Church") - Around 100,000 Ukrainians (around 85% are Orthodox) - Around 20,000 Bulgarians in Italy. - There's close to 80,000 Serbs in Italy. - Around 60,000 "Slav Macedonians" -- members of uncanonical Orthodox church. - There is probably around 200,000 Italain converts to Orthodoxy.
These numbers do not distinguish between legal orthodox churches and heretical creations.
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Post by meltdown711 on Nov 26, 2007 14:33:17 GMT -5
[/quote]I think it's great, don't you? [/quote] Isnt this the Muslim tactic? Flood the area with immigrants so as to make the demographic change and then claim higher numbers?
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Post by radovic on Nov 26, 2007 14:50:28 GMT -5
I think it's great, don't you? [/quote] Isnt this the Muslim tactic? Flood the area with immigrants so as to make the demographic change and then claim higher numbers? [/quote] We aren't claiming higher numbers. There's around 1.5 million Orthodox in Italy. The number will increase but not as much as in the last few ears. Plus, in Italy (particularly the south) their has been an increasing number of conversions.
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Post by Novi Pazar on Nov 26, 2007 18:50:00 GMT -5
"I think it's great, don't you?"
Like l said above its good that Democracy allows people to be whatever they want without getting harrased by the majority.
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