Bishop Fekete: Azerbaijan Catholics is proud to be a church

Francesca Spatinelli – Vatican City

It was the first great teacher for Catholics in Azerbaijan when the first volume of the Bible was published in 2011, thanks to the cooperation with the Bible Association. Then there was a work to translate Missal to be able to celebrate the excuse, and then, after Francisco 2016 and the second inch visited the country after John Paul II in 2002 – we arrived, we arrived, we arrived, we arrived, and we arrived, and we arrived, For experience To celebrate the Mass in the language of excuse. The steps of the small Catholic society in the South Caucasus country wandered is the Apostolic Governor of Azerbaijan, Monsignor Vladimir Viktte, Bishop of Salovakin from Don Bosco sales, in Rome these days on the occasion of the twelfth conference “Cristianism in Azerbaiyan: History”. Gregoria Papanese University, which has received greetings from Cardinal Claudio Goghotti, Governor of Decastirio for Eastern Churches, and Cardinal George Jacob Kovakad, Governor of Dicasterio for interfaith dialogue.

Atkin in the Vatican News

The Monsignor Fekete’s, is a excellent Terimonium for the important path that has traveled in recent years by the Catholic society, which today explains, to the Vatican media, “” I have begun to be a local church, where Al -Azrani can express themselves in their language and sing their songs. Atz. “

The bishop, who found “a second family and good support” in the Catholic society, adds that the bishop of Azerbi is simple people, and the bishop, who found “a second family and good support” in the Catholic society. As he put it, a memory when, in 2017, Pope Mustafayev, the first priest of origin, ordered the country to be suitable in the country to go to Rome. They entered the basilica San Pedro, amazed and pleasure of greatness and beauty, as well as for all this part of the world. They, who in their entire lives did not leave Azerbaijan, who was the Catholic scientist consisting of a small church, a small church. Of course, we now have the clay church, but then they had no idea about the meaning of life in Christian countries.

Spirituality

The important thing, as confirms, is that the Vatican also visits them. John Paul II and Pope Francis visited us, and the Cardinal Foreign Minister Parolin came twice, and he visited the Cardinals and Bishops frequently. All this makes them feel that they are part of a wonderful family with their leaders in Rome. They are proud to receive these visits, because they are now from the AZERí page of the Vatican News website. When we started our mission in the country, we did not even have the Bible in Athar, the last priest was killed in 1930 and the Vatican did not reach this land. Today, Catholics understood that the Church in Azerbaijan has taken important steps, and they are proud of it. Catholics with their stories and their lives are more important than numbers and data, because the stories, the bishop concludes that people make us understand “we can live our faith and that we can give and receive answers to the hunger of spirituality.”