DIVINE MERCY & THE ONE WORLD RELIGION

DIVINE MERCY & THE ONE WORLD RELIGION

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We hope this email finds you well. Today we are pleased to announce the launch of our charity's new website Help Us Dry the Tears. 

Religion down through the centuries has been blamed, mostly by atheists and non-believers, for the hostility that erupts between countries and communities, but it's culture and nationalism that create differences not religion.

 

All of these battles occur with the adversaries asking their God to help and protect them in their disagreement with the other, but they are all asking the same God. For there is only one God.

We now have a situation in Georgia, in the Caucasus, where religion and belief in God may be seen to bring communities of different denominations, or even different faiths, together by a simple belief of understanding that we are all praising the same God but just in different ways with different rituals.

There must come a time in life where we pierce the mists of differences that dogs the path to understanding and accepting the dissimilarities in the way we live and worship God. Thus bringing peace, stability and unification between different peoples, through accepting and understanding that there are the different ways to live, pray and worship God.

These Georgians may hold a key to a way of opening these century old doors that divide communities, who live beside each other but apart from each other for centuries.

Our HUDT charity was asked and is helping to build a church in Rustavi, South East Georgia. It will be a small church, but a huge symbol for stability and the unification of Georgian Orthodox Christians, Russian Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholic Christians, and we hope the Muslims of the Caucasus who also believe in Jesus Christ.

This all came about from a unexpected meeting with Bishop Giuseppe Pasotto of Tiblisi, who was attending the opening of the new Divine Mercy Church we built in Cupcini, Moldova. A place where there had not been a church since the Soviet Union occupied Moldova after the end of the Second World War. In that year, 1945, the Soviets closed all the Catholic churches and sent the priests to Siberian working camps in Russia. When he discovered we were the charity that built this church, he jokingly said I wish you would do the same for me in my country.

We of course were so happy with the result of all our efforts in Moldova, another bastion of Communism, establishing a day centre for the poor and building the first Catholic church there since 1945. In Cupcini, we purchased a house from the Communist Mayor and that resulted in all the authoritative help we needed to do as we did.

We were immediately interested in another challenge and to know if the same was needed in some part of Georgia where Catholics did not have a church to worship in, and where it was needed but difficult to achieve. Rustavi was the town that the Bishop picked because it was built as an atheistic town by the Communist Soviet Union who swore there would never be a church there especially a Catholic church.  This conversation took place in 2010 and we sent the money to buy the land to build the church in 2011. Initially we were given permission to build the church but then a few months later it was withdrawn.

It has been a cat and mouse game ever since about to grant permission then withdrawing it. Last year in the year that was dedicated to mercy by Pope Francis, called 'The Year of Mercy', the Catholic Bishop constructed a large church door on the ground that was purchased for the church. This he called the 'Door of Mercy' inviting people of all denominations to walk through. To bring focus to the problems of getting permission for the church he invited Pope Francis to walk through this door.

The Pope bravely took up his invitation, came to Rustavi and walked through the door. The Pope as an international figure of course attracted a lot of attention and a good crowd turned up to walk through the 'Door of Mercy' including some Muslims who are a small population in Rustavi, and to include the Muslims is such an important gesture. Our Christianity is strongest when we embrace difference, which means opening a door to understanding others beliefs and recognising that almighty God excludes no one. 

We hope your belief brings you joy in life, hope in death, and glory in Eternity.

Yours Sincerely

Val Conlon

Divine Mercy Publications

Ireland

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