The Pope worried by the rise of Pentecostal and Evangelical churches

Pope Benedict XVI today expressed its concern at the rise of the churches of Evangelical and Pentecostal in Latin America and Africa.

At the meeting with journalists on board the plane that moved you to Cotonou, the capital of Benin, the Pope said that meeting the challenge, the Catholic Church has to offer a simple message simple, profound and comprehensible.

He said that it is very important that Christianity was not conceived as a difficult system but as a message universal.

According to Benedict XVI, the Evangelical and Pentecostal churches are growing because they expose a seemingly sympathetic message and a participative liturgy, is actually a "combination of the syncretism of religions".

This guaranteed a success but also implies them little stability, stressed the Pope.

The Bishop of Rome added that often these faithful are passed back to the Catholic Church or other churches Pentecostal.

By u000aThis, so there is that flight of Christians towards those churches, the message of the Catholic Church should be "simple, profound and comprehensible", a particular message, "a God who knows us and loves us," noted..

Also remarked that instruction doesn't have to be very heavy, but should give a particular message and that the liturgy is to be participatory, but not sentimental.

Benedict XVI travels to a continent where wars continue and, as he said, "calls for reconciliation, justice and peace".

And in this regard, added at their meeting with journalists that at the various summits that have taken place on Africa for its pacification, "many times the words have been larger than the intentions, that will make those agreements".

Were asked about what "reality fails to the words", and called on politicians and people who "resign and go beyond selfishness" and that "each to be delivered to the" u000a"other".

Benedict XVI recalled that Africa is a "great spiritual lung for a humanity in crisis of faith and hope".

In its 50 or 60 years leading independence, most of these countries have faced very fast transformation processes, explained.

In this regard, he recalled that if he thinks in his youth, sees how the world "has changed co-operation" and that "sometimes it seems that I live on another planet".

"Humanity is in a more rapid process of transformation, and to African peoples is a difficult process that requires the cooperation of all," said the Pope.

Benedict XVI argued that Africa has much to teach, because "on this continent there is freshness, Yes to life, a youth full of enthusiasm, a cheerful faces that offer hope".

In Africa there is a "fresh humanism" found in the young soul of Africans, and despite the problems they have, "a" u000a"book of life and future" that we all have to take into account, stressed.

The Pope stressed that you going to Benin because it is "a country that has recovered democracy, where there is peace and freedom responsibility and justice and religions coexist in mutual respect,".

Also travels to Benin to pay tribute to Cardinal Bernardin Gantin, who died in 2008, very friend theirs, which said: "It was a humanist, a man of faith and a great African Bishop very intelligent".

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