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If demography is destiny, Pentecostals are the ecumenical future
Posted on Jan 28, 2008 04:24am CST.By JOHN L. ALLEN JR.
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Understandably, the ecumenical focus these days in much Catholic conversation tends to fall on the Anglican Communion, given its present crisis, and on Orthodoxy, given the “preferential option” of both John Paul II and Benedict XVI for the churches of the East. What sometimes fades from view, however, is that by far the largest and most rapidly growing Christian “other” in the early 21st century is Pentecostalism.
