“Even today, there are many settings where Christian faith is considered absurd—fit only for weak or unintelligent people. In these environments, other certainties are preferred: technology, money, success, power, pleasure. These are places where it is not easy to bear witness to and proclaim the Gospel, and where believers are mocked, opposed, scorned, or at best tolerated and pitied. And yet, precisely for this reason, these are the places where mission is most urgently needed, because the absence of faith often brings with it great tragedies: the loss of life’s meaning, the forgetting of mercy, the violation of human dignity in its most dramatic forms, the crisis of the family, and many other wounds that deeply afflict our society.“
