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Petar Gramatikov

Dr. Petar Gramatikov is the Editor in Chief and Director of The European Times. He is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Reporters. Dr. Gramatikov has more than 20 years of Academic experience in different institutions for higher education in Bulgaria. He also examined lectures, related to theoretical problems involved in the application of international law in religious law where a special focus has been given to the legal framework of New Religious Movements, freedom of religion and self-determination, and State-Church relations for plural-ethnic states. In addition to his professional and academic experience, Dr. Gramatikov has more than 10 years Media experience where he hold a positions as Editor of a tourism quarterly periodical “Club Orpheus” magazine – “ORPHEUS CLUB Wellness” PLC, Plovdiv; Consultant and author of religious lectures for the specialized rubric for deaf people at the Bulgarian National Television and has been Accredited as a journalist from “Help the Needy” Public Newspaper at the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland.

America

Honoring the saints of the West (2)

The author of this text himself St. Archbishop John (Maximovich) of Shanghai Miracle Worker (+1966) was canonized a saint on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Orthodoxy in America…

7 July 2021 · 7 min read

Religion

THE STATE, THE CHURCH AND THE FREEDOM

In human society, freedom does not consist in the ability to do whatever you like, it would be an extreme disorder in the State, which would turn into oppression. But…

6 July 2021 · 3 min read

Religion

Qumran horoscopes (4Q186, 4QMessAr)

Among the Dead Sea manuscripts were found two documents from cave пе 4, one of which was written in ancient Hebrew and the other in Aramaic, and the dating of…

5 July 2021 · 3 min read

Religion

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH IN THE THIRD MILLENNIUM

It is difficult to determine the exact number of practicing (regular church) Orthodox Christians, it is only certain that the majority of self-identified as such do not know what God's…

5 July 2021 · 5 min read

Religion

FORERUNNERS OF ARIANISM (PHENOMENOLOGY OF ARIANISM)

Paul of Samosata is Bishop of Antioch, where he holds the public office of Procurator ducenarius, and has the unreserved support and patronage of Queen Zenobia of Palmyra. In 267,…

5 July 2021 · 10 min read

Religion

FORERUNNERS OF ARIANISM (TRIADOLOGICAL DISPUTES)

For the Church in the East and in the West, Origen is considered the most famous theologian of his time. He is generally perceived as an Orthodox theologian, although his…

5 July 2021 · 6 min read

ANCIENT LIBRARIES
NEW YORK - OCTOBER 27: Dead Sea Scrolls "Life And Faith In Biblical Times" at the Discovery Times Square as displayed by Running Subway Productions October 26th, 2011 in New York City. (Matthew Peyton)

Religion

ANCIENT LIBRARIES

The Library of Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem, built by the Holy King and Prophet Solomon 3,000 years ago. There, in the temple library, the sacred books (of the Old Testament)…

4 July 2021 · 11 min read