Certificates Success Bother "Marketing" Agents!

This is a curious trend in Christian countries in Europe. It became a fad in England last year, where an online store selling de-baptism certificates was an unexpected success. Now, we understand why Asian and African countries are a potential "market" for Christianity "marketing" agents! Read ahead....

The northern Italian city of Milan is experiencing a boom in the number of people who want to renounce their baptism and leave the Catholic church. A report in the Italian daily Il Giornale said the diocese had received over 200 requests in the first five months of 2009, equalling the total number received in 2008.

“As a pastor, I worry and suffer every time I have to sign, as I did this morning, when I signed five or six of these requests,” said Luigi Manganini, the priest who presides over the discipline of the sacraments of the Milan diocese.

Manganini said this upwards trend of so-called debaptisms is “worrying” because the majority of the cases are of people between the age of 40 and 50.

The act of debaptism amounts to apostasy and the applicant is thus automatically excommunicated and prohibited from taking sacraments or having a funeral in a church.



Source: worldmonitoring.co.cc