Minority Churches and Tolerance

A content analysis of the Croatian Evangelical Church's newsletter Izvori (Wells) & of the Croatian Jehovah's Witnesses' newsletter Kula strazara (published in English as The Watchtower), 1991-1995, reveals the attitudes of church leaders toward other religions & ecumenism. While the Evangelical Church's newsletter calls for social involvement & understanding of the turbulent political moment, the Jehovah's Witnesses' newsletter demands unconditional withdrawal from society's organizations & emphasizes the primacy of the Jehovah's Witnesses' religion. Izvori idealizes the goal of all-Christian unity & tolerance toward major non-Christian religions, while portraying the emergence of New Age as the manifestation of the final battle between the kingdom of God (Christianity) & Satan (occultism). Kula strazara depicts all Christian religions as traitors of Christianity, while considering ecumenism as fundamentally opposed to the biblical negation of interconfessional coexistence. 12 References. Adapted from the source document.