Evangelicals have celebrated the ‘Breach of Rome’, an event that opened the door to the gospel.
A photographic exhibition recounted the historical event, and a public service took place where Christians pleaded with God to breach the walls of peoples’ hearts today in the way that the city was breached 150 years ago.
On 20 September, 1870, the Italian army breached the wall surrounding Rome. Men flooded into the city and claimed Rome as the capital of the nation. Although Rome served as the capital of Christianity, it was a Christianity that had outlawed the Bible in the language of the people and persecuted anyone who might be found with such contraband. The Pope’s territory was pushed back to the Vatican, and so was the Roman church’s oppressive grip on the Biblical gospel of grace that began to enter the city unthreatened by the Pope.
