Conversion of the Jews (future event)

The widespread conversion of the Jews to Christianity is a future event predicted by many Christians, often as an end time event. Some Christian groups consider the conversion of the Jews to be imperative and pressing and make it their mission to bring this about. However, since the Middle Ages , the Catholic Church has formally upheld Constitutio pro Judæis (Formal Statement on the Jews), which stated: We decree that no Christian shall use violence to force them [the Jews] to be baptized, so long as they are unwilling and refuse. ... Despite such papal declarations, personal, economic and cultural pressure on the Jews to convert persisted, often stirred by clerics. Persecution and forcible displacements of Jews occurred for many centuries, and were regarded as not inconsistent with the papal bull because there was no "violence to force baptism". There were occasional gestures to reconciliation. Pogroms and forcible conversions were common throughout Christian Europe, including organized violence, restrictive land ownership and professional lives, forcible relocation and ghettoization , mandatory dress codes, and at times humiliating actions and torture . The object often was for the Jews to choose between conversion, migration or dying. The Church of England 's Ministry Among Jewish People , founded in 1809, used non-coercive means in its outreach and missionary efforts. Attempts by Christians to convert Jews to Christianity is an important issue in Christian-Jewish relations and Christian-Jewish reconciliation . Jewish groups such as the Anti-Defamation League have described attempts to convert Jews to Christianity as antisemitic and have directly compared those efforts to the Holocaust . Pope Benedict XVI in 2011 suggested that the church should not be targeting Jews for conversion efforts, since "Israel is in the hands of God, who will save it ‘as a whole’ at the proper time." A number of Progressive Christian denominations have publicly declared that they will no longer proselytize Jews , while other mainline Christian and conservative Christian churches have said they will continue their efforts to evangelize among Jews, saying that this is not antisemitic. A 2008 survey of American Christians by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that over 60% of most denominations believe that Jews will receive eternal life after death alongside Christians. Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life .

Predicted future conversion of Jews to Christianity This article is about a predicted future conversion of Jews to Christianity. Many Christians believe in a widespread conversion of the Jews to Christianity , which they frequently consider an end-time event. Some Christian denominations consider the conversion of the Jews imperative and pressing, and as a result, they make it their mission to proselytize among them ( See also : Proselytization and counter-proselytization of Jews ).

Christian prophecy of a mass conversion of Jews to Christianity This article is about a predicted future conversion of Jews to Christianity. The English Mission Hospital in Jerusalem has "London Society for Promoting Christianity Amongst the Jews" inscribed above its front door. Many Christians believe in a conversion of the Jews to Christianity en masse, which they typically consider an end-time event. Some Christian denominations consider the universal conversion of Jews necessary and urgent and, therefore, make it their mission to proselytize them. As a result, groups in support of Jews practicing Judaism have arisen to counter Christian proselytization .