The Church is and must be the sacrament of salvation and the sacrament of the unity of mankind among each other and with god. The three dimensions martyria, diakonia and liturgia illustrate the sacramentality of the church, ever concidering the precise social and religious surroundings of Christians. In contrast to the life of the Church in a situation of majority, the religious diaspora may require particular forms, especially a basically «diaconie» attitude of Christians living as a «creative minority».
