(The official title is Pastoral Challenges to the Family in the Context of Evangelization).
The synod will take up the question of "The Pastoral Challenges to the Family in the Context of Evangelization".
The noted Jesuit Roberto de Nobili (1577 1656) sought points of agreement between Hinduism and Christianity as a means of evangelization, but this caused difficulty with the church.
(This is, after all, the institution that quickly embraced the printing press and mass communications and whose own office of evangelization gave rise to the term propaganda).
They enabled the early modern popes particularly Pius V (1566 72), Sixtus V (1585 90), Paul V (1605 21), Innocent XI (1676 89), and Benedict XIV (1740 58)—to proceed with their policy of evangelization.
(As Archbishop Timothy Dolan said in his homily in 2009, "Keep in mind that, for Columbus, his voyage of discovery was a work of evangelization").
The expansion of the Russian Empire in Asia was accompanied by efforts of evangelization that—sometimes in opposition to the avowed policy of Russianization practiced by the government of St. Petersburg followed the Cyrillo-Methodian pattern of translation.
Eventually, the divided churches realized that the task of evangelization, in relation both to domestic secularization and to the global mission, called them to a mutual reconciliation that lay in the nature of the gospel.
For 10 years (725 735) Boniface was active in Thuringia, converting pagans and renewing the faith of Christians who had been converted earlier by Irish missionaries, whose haphazard methods of evangelization were henceforth to be the bane of Boniface's life.
Vatican II officially ended the colonial phase of missions and declared that "the whole Church is missionary, and the work of evangelization is a basic duty of the People of God".
