Talk:Catholic Church in Afghanistan

message: I'm promoting this article to GA status per the qualifications. It is well written, clear, and of a good, neutral tone. The article is well cited with inline citations, and is fairly comprehensive. The subject is obscure, but interesting, and of clear relevance to the future of religious integration and tolerance in Afghanistan.
Here are a few suggestions for continued improvement:
* An image or two would be nice. However, because of the location and size of the only chapel, it seems there aren't any free license pictures around. However, finding one would help the article. Anyone travelling to Kabul soon want to snap us a nice picture?
* A little more on the early history of the church's presence in Afghanistan.
Thanks to the editors working on this article, you've done well, and the article is in a good state for further improvement. Phidauex 16:52, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is a [[Wikipedia:Good Article|Good Article]] 

message: This article is overtly bias and exceedingly speculative.  For instance, a portion of the article reads:
"The Catholic community in Afghanistan is mainly made of foreigners, especially aid workers, and no Afghans currently are part of the Church, mainly due to great social and legal pressure not to convert to non-Islamic religions." 
This passage totally fails to recognize the existence of several more substantive reasons why Afghans simply do not want to become Catholics.  There is absolutely no indication that their hesistation to convert is chiefly based on social pressures and not mainly on other premises.   This is one of many instances in where the article is not devoid of bias.  NPOV tag added. Scythian1 (talk) 16:18, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: If you can provide some references of these other reasons, it can be included, but its not my problem if you don't like the fact that christians, once revealed, have to flee the country or be killed, it's the truth. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 17:06, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

text: There is no "speculation" going on, that is the reason there are no converts, pain of death is a powerful thing. If you think I am wrong, and there are lots of happy Christians worshiping in Afghanistan, provide some references. Judgesurreal777 (talk) 16:21, 18 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alleged hesitation to convert purportedly due to social pressure 

message: I already found one picture in our files that I posted - I am a member of the Barnabites, the order to which the mission sui iuris is entrusted.  I will look for older photos and when I can try to get some current material from Fr. Moretti.
Rev. Peter M. Calabrese, CRSP 21:13, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures 

message: Overall good article.  I was a bit confused though to learn that there are only about 100 Catholics in the country.  I'd assume this doesn't (or didn't) include Catholics within foreign armies.  What was the experience of such foreign Catholics?  --Zfish118 (talk) 16:50, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Big thanks to the editor who included the new section! --Zfish118⋉talk 05:47, 15 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Military Presence 

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message: [Contents moved to move review.]
Please see move review here Wikipedia:Move_review/Log/2016_June#Catholic_Church_in_Afghanistan --Zfish118⋉talk 19:22, 24 June 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The result of the move review was endorsed. Jenks24 (talk) 08:17, 4 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Move review

message: The Roman Catholic Church did not exist in Afghanistan prior to the 1500's, yet the early history refers to "This early establishment of the Church".  The Catholic Church was referred to as "The Church" in the article at least once, it should be clarified which church is which.  The section also states that 9 bishops and dioceses were established prior to Muslim conquest.  Presumably these were "Nestorian" bishops, but I am not familiar with early Afghan history. All of these dates for bishoprics are from after communion between the Church of the East and Roman Catholic was broken.  Discussion rolls seemless into the Jesuits, who were not affiliate with the so called "Nestorian" Church of the East, which was apparently persecuted to near extinction in Afghanistan two centuries prior. Again, the lack of affiliation should be made clearer.--Zfish118⋉talk 17:52, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: I've switched that instance of "the Church" for "Christianity".  The Jesuits are by definition Catholic and not Nestorian; especially with the label "Jesuits" wikilinked, I don't think further clarification is necessary.  The sequence is clearly laid out to be St. Thomas preaching in the 1st century -> Nestorian establishment by the 5th century -> Muslim conquests in the 7th and control by the 9th and 10th-> Jesuits arrive and are welcomed in the 16th. Jujutsuan (Please notify with  talk | contribs) 18:04, 15 July 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Early history