The first "Christian café" in the Iberian peninsula has just been opened in Portugal: a place to go for a coffee (alcohol is not sold there), to listen to music, watch a play, read a book. As well as pray in a chapel, browse through a Bible, go to confession. This is the initiative that was unveiled last weekend in Amora, before mgr. Gilberto Canavarro dos Reis, bishop of Setúbal. "This project explained one of the promoters, Lina Andrade, to the agency Ecclesia is a response to the challenges of the new evangelisation. So far it has been met with appreciation and surprise". The place, covering about 400 square metres, is open to the public on temporary opening hours (Thursday to Saturday, from 4 pm to 11 pm, Sunday until 7 pm), there’s a resident music band but it will also host other Christian music bands, "for a church exchange that will enrich one another", specifies Andrade. The place includes a waiting room "for the more delicate cases", a crèche "so young couples can bring their children", a library, a hall and a chapel. From next Saturday, the "Café cristão" of Amora will propose a moment of adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament once a week (from 4 pm to 5.30 pm) and from September it will celebrate Holy Communion once a month.
