Iglesia ni Cristo: Pangalan ng Simbahan?
"Unfortunately, the coming of aggressive fundamentalist groups has not helped the ecumenical situation at all. Both the Catholic Church and the mainline non-Catholic Churches bear the biased onslaughts of these fundamentalist groups, reminiscent of a less enlightened age of religious conflict that we thought has long passed . . . . The Iglesia ni Kristo is an indigenous semi-Christian group that does not believe in the divinity of Christ. It was founded more than 75 years ago by Felix Manalo and is similar in nature to these fundamentalist and evangelical groups except perhaps that it has been more virulent in its attacks, and has become a very important political force in the country. Its members have also increased remarkably in number and they have retained their cohesion and discipline . . . . Ecumenical dialogue between the Church and these aggressive non-Catholic groups has been rendered extremely difficult at the moment. The aggressiveness of ...
