مقالات رزومه یاسر عسگری

The immigration of the Spanish and Portuguese to Latin America and the complete domination over, and brutal colonization of this region turned it into a Christian territory. This continued for five centuries so that nearly ninety percent of its population follows Christianity today and the followers of other religions and domestic faiths are only few. Catholicism has been unrivaled religion in Latin America for the last few decades as result of the immigration of Latin groups contemporary with the rulers and kings were in favour of Vatican Church. The Protestant Church and different denominations, which had no opportunity for propagation and free activity, and which constitute a small part of its population have recently witnessed a significant growth.The present paper aims at investigating Christianity in Latin America in modern time. To this end, this article is mainly concerned with the latest condition of Catholics and Protestants and most important challenges they face, and it uses a library method and makes use of the latest news about Christian activities in the region. Among the important results of the research is identifying the strengths and weakness of different Christian denominations of the region. This can be of some help to Muslim leaders and statesmen, those in charge of Islamic centers and policy makers of Islamic seminaries, both Shiite or Sunni.

Dialogue with the followers of Abrahamic religions and political allies in the contemporary world is one of the issues of high consideration for the government and Islamic centers in our country. The liberation theology of Latin America is one of the modern and critical theological currents in the Christian world stressing on the presence of religion in socio-political fields. It considers military governments dependent on the West, colonizers, and multinational companies as the root causes of poverty in the countries of this region. This theology introduces struggle, education, and public enlightenment as the right path towards divine kingdom. The present article is an attempt to identify this theology towards establishing relations and interactions with justice seeking movements in the world and reinforcing the world resistance front against the World imperialism and arrogance. Our research method is desk survey. One of the significant results of this research is precise knowledge of the efficient causes in the formation and historical background of these movements towards establishing interactions with this theological current. Leaders of this school consider such an interaction necessary seeing the brilliant future of their religion in the light of interaction with Islam.

Liberation Theology is a movement in Christian theology that has rooted in circumstances prevailing during 1960s and 1970s of Latin America. The most important reason for failure and misery of the poor countries of Latin American region, according to this theology, are both despotic and military governments of the region that are affiliated to and supported by superpowers and colonialism of northern American and European countries.Liberation theology emphasizes on independence and the need for removing poverty through struggle, education and giving necessary awareness to masses at large. According to this theology the Church should get her legitimacy through relievingthe poor from poverty. It urged that the Bible be read and experienced from the poor perspective. This article is an attempt to introduce liberation theology explaining its distinguishing features with contemporary Christian theology.