12 Targeting of People from Certain Cultural Backgrounds Your ministry must take account of the richness of religious expression and cultural diversity that characterizes the Hispanic community and demands appropriate pastoral programs and initiatives. Among the principal pastoral tasks in relation to the Hispanic community is that of evangelization and catechesis, especially in the face of extremely active proselytism by other religious groups. The sects offer people a closed community that is more fraternal than the Catholic masses. Worship is participative and simpler. Biblical fundamentalism makes the initiates feel that they are learned in religion because they memorize some passages from the Bible Their consciences are assuaged because God directly forgives sins.
Some groups regularize second marriages between divorced people.
These characteristics of the sects attract new members and, at the same time, make them fanatical. Cardinal Ernesto Corripio Ahumada , Doc. There is a need for a sense of community, and sects offer human warmth, aid and attention to the person, especially to people who are divorced, who are migrants, alcoholics. The rapid expansion of these sects in certain parts of the world, including the Gulf, is in great measure due to the psychological, social and economic conditions prevailing in these regions. It is no less the result of their missionary fervor and the efficiency of their method.