The “Globalization Era” and the Right of the Church to Preach the Gospel to All Peoples. Canonical-Juridical Considerations and Assessments
The “Globalization Era” and the Right of the Church to Preach the Gospel to All Peoples. Canonical-Juridical Considerations and Assessments

Summary/Abstract: Under the divine mandate (see Mt 28, 19; Mk 16, 15), the Church received from its Founder, our Saviour Jesus Christ, the right to preach His Gospel to all nations. In the first millennium, the Church Fathers gave expression to this divine law in the first millennial canonical ecumenical legislation (see Apostolic Canon 34, Apostolic 58, Trulan Synod 19, etc.). In the Roman-Byzantine era — and especially in the Byzantine era — this right was stipulated expressis verbis by the state legislation of the Roman Empire (West and East). The international Law and the EU law, including the law of the states from the “globalization era,” that is, our era, provided in their texts for the legal justification of any recognized religious denominations to make known its faith teachings, in writing or orally; hence the right of its members to establish confessional schools, in order to teach religion in state schools, and to carry out evangelization missionary activities.

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