Nogle synes at mene kristendommen er i tilbagegang, men i Rusland
genopbygges kirker i tusindvis efter oplevelsen med kommunisme og ateisme.
"During the Soviet era, thousands of churches were either destroyed or
turned into warehouses. By 1991 Russia had 7,000 operating churches and 22
monasteries"
"Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia said 23,000 Russian Orthodox
churches have been rebuilt in the post-Soviet era"
"The country now has over 30,000 churches and about 1,000 monasteries"
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2010/12/03/Post-Soviet-Russian-churches-being-rebuilt/UPI-84801291423374/
Muhammedanerne praler jo ellers i tide og utide med islamo-fascismens
fremgang, så ovenstående vil nok vække nogen bekymring hos russernes
muhammedanske nabostater, eller burde i det mindste kunne dæmpe deres
højrøstede pralerier.
John