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In Africa: destroying idols and saving souls
Fr. William Ryan, Catholic World Report
Friday, April 21, 2023
Missionaries cannot recoil from their evangelical calling: idol-worship there needs to end. Africans need to freely choose to renounce it, full-stop. Pagans and everyone else have a right to know that the one who possesses all power, who created and sustains the whole universe, is also infinitely good and loves them beyond measure.