US EditionReligion. "a Strong Need for Spirituality": Why More and More Adults Ask for Baptism
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The Conference of Bishops of France has conducted a survey of the catechumens, which are growing in number every year, in order to understand their motivations.
At Easter, the Church will baptize 21,386 adults and teens, 25% more than last year. A record that does not compensate for the inexorable decline in infant baptisms. Meeting with Judicaël, a new Catholic.
This year too, thousands of young people will become Catholic in the neighbouring country at Easter. The Parisian Church Province organizes a particular assembly to accompany the "new" Catholics appropriately.
Meeting in Lourdes, as in every spring, the conference of the bishops of France presented the figures concerning the baptisms of adults and adolescents, which are experiencing a real explosion in France.
For the past four years, the number of new baptized more than triples, reveals the annual survey of the Conference of Bishops of France. More than 13,000 adults and 8,100 teenagers will be baptized at Easter. 40% of them claim to have turned to the Catholic faith following an ordeal.
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