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Pope: courage and creativity needed to foster hope
Pope Francis on Thursday sent a video message to participants in the eleventh edition of the Festival of the Social Doctrine of the Church taking place in the northern Italian…
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EU-Africa partnership: Returning (to) cultural heritage
The event will be an occasion to reflect jointly with policy-makers, Church representatives and practitioners from Europe and Africa on the role of cultural and religious heritage as one of…
America
US pastors join race to quit as 38 percent thought of leaving ministry in past year
Many U.S pastors are in crisis mode and the mass of resignations plaguing the United States is reaching into churches at a startling level as nearly 4 in 10 in…
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Faiths Working Together Set an Example for Multi-Cultural Harmony
The All Faiths Network (AFN) held its annual Interfaith Week event on 20th November at the Central Gurdwara London (Khalsa Jatha) bringing together over 70 people from a wide range…
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Vatican: Assisted suicide not an answer to suffering
The Vatican’s Pontifical Academy for Life has commented on what will be Italy’s first legal "medically-assisted suicide" case. Mario” is the pseudonym of a tetraplegic man who has been paralyzed…
Christianity
Former Chukotka bishop Diomid died in an accident
Former Chukotka Bishop Diomid (Dzyuban), a well-known "fighter for pure Orthodoxy" in the recent past, died on November 20 in a crash in the Leningrad region. Diomid, 60, died along…
Christianity
Patriarch Kirill calls cohabitation of people of the same sex a special sin
The Orthodox Church will never recognize the cohabitation of people of the same sex as a marriage; for it, such coexistence of people will always be a special sin. This…
Christianity
14 priests out of the church in Greece for refusing a vaccine
The Metropolitan of Zakynthos Dionysios removed from office 14 priests who refused to be vaccinated on Saturday. The metropolitan issued a clear warning and asked everyone in the Zante diocese…
Religion
Growth of applications for vaccination on Mount Athos
According to Ethnos newspaper the cases of sick monks on Mount Athos are increasing, as in the whole country. In the last week alone, two monks have died and three…
International
The first consecrated trains of the Moscow metro transported in two month up to 50 million passengers
In September, the first consecrated train in Russia and Moscow was launched in the Moscow metro, created for the 800th anniversary of the birth of Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky. The…