Though Tolkien, a Catholic, helped reconvert Lewis to Christianity after his atheist years, it is Lewis's fantasy world, not Tolkien's, that radiates Christian allegory.

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Conversions to Christianity have become common (though a cautious Catholic church does not give precise figures).

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"No other region is as important to the future of the church, or could use an intervention, as much as Latin America, " said Andrew Chesnut, who holds the Bishop Walter Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University and has written several books on Christianity in Latin America.

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And to those who don't agree with that I would say that Albanians are 27% Orthodox, 15% Catholic (approximate figures) and the rest are Muslim (who converted from Christianity to Islam under the Ottoman empire).

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Later in his tour in Syria, where Saint Paul converted to Christianity on the road to Damascus, the Pope will become the first Catholic leader to enter a mosque when he visits the tomb of John the Baptist.

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In Syria, he became the first Roman Catholic leader to step inside a mosque and spoke of the common bonds between Islam and Christianity.

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Roman Catholic priests established a small mission on the island in 1866 and converted a few locals to Christianity.

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If the loud voices of intolerance from far right Christian leaders go unchecked, will most young Americans begin to think that Christianity is "anti-Muslim, " "anti-Mormon, " "anti-Catholic" and so on?

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