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Giovanni Benini, an ADRA Leader in Italy, is Literally Building Bridges to Rome
On Friday night, January 20, 2023, at 6:00 p.m., Giovanni Benini visited the Church of Saints Ann and Gioacchino, in Cesena, Italy, to build bridges with Roman Catholic Bishop Douglas Regattieri from the Catholic Diocese of Cesena-Sarsina, Romanian Orthodox Priest Silviu Sas, Romanian Eastern Rite Catholic Priest Michele David, and Ukrainian Eastern Rite Catholic Priest Vasyl Romaniuk.
The occasion served to inaugurate the 2023 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Stone bridges were built during this ecumenical event to represent everyone's dedication to solidarity and unity. Each church representative brought stones to the altar and placed them on a banner that read "peace and justice," which was surrounded by images of the Virgin Mary.
The problem with these ecumenical events is that they are building bridges to Rome. All of the ecumenical movement's bridge-building initiatives are the work of Pope Francis. The 2023 Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is being overseen by the Vatican. For the 2023 celebration, according to Roman Catholic Cardinal Kurt Koch of the Vatican's Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, the churches must "overcome the injustice of division." This is what happens when church entities like ADRA and PARL become so secularized in their missions that they no longer represent what our faith is supposed to stand for. The true Seventh-day Adventist message becomes null and void when we embrace bridge-building.
The notion that no further warnings against apostasy are needed and that finding common ground is more important than focusing on our differences is having a negative impact on our mission. What has happened over the last 60 years is that interfaith dialogue has replaced real evangelism.
There is an attitude of deadly indifference towards the prophetic and unchangeable truths of our historic Seventh-day Adventist faith. The foundational teachings of God's Word are not the problem. The problem lies with many of our leaders. There is a planned effort to misapply, reinterpret, or completely ignore these teachings. If we don't identify this problem, if we don't reject this Catholic exercise of building bridges, and if we don't get rid of all the Jesuit-trained leaders who promote this deadly heresy, there will be many who will never be able to recover their calling and get back on track.
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