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Nicky Gumbal statement from the alpha web site.
http://uk.alphacourse.org/runningacours ... dience.htm
In the Vatican: Alpha speaker Nicky Gumbel is presented to the Pope,
who has called for a ‘new evangelisation’, at the end of a General
Audience in the Papal Audience Chamber in February
"In April 1999, more than 500 Catholic clergy and lay leaders attended a
conference in Baltimore introduced on video by Cardinal William H.
Keeler, Archbishop of Baltimore."
‘It was a great honour’, says Nicky Gumbel
After returning from Rome, Nicky Gumbel said:
‘ It was a great honour to be presented to Pope John Paul II, who has
done so much to promote evangelisation around the world. We have been
enormously enriched by our interaction with Catholics in many countries.
It is a great privilege to meet inspiring leaders from different parts
of the church – Catholic, Baptist, Salvation Army, Pentecostal, Lutheran,
Methodist, and so many more – and discover that what unites us is
infinitely greater than what divides us.
"As Fr. Raniero Cantalamessa has pointed out, the battle today is
similar to that of the first century. The battle is around the King: Is
Jesus a Universal Saviour, or just one among many? Thus, on the crucial
issue of our day, we can be united and proclaim this Jesus to a
desperately needy world.’"
