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Does the holiday decoration touch our hearts, enlighten our minds?
The decoration is just a form, a game, an attempt to get back the lost… Otherwise it is placed with hope; the hope is that it, the external festivity, will...
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Religious News From Around the Web December 20, 2021
Pope Reemphasizes Opposition to Latin Mass; Ninth Circuit Clears Expulsions of Seminarians in Same-Sex Marriages; Gorsuch Cites Religious Liberty As Supreme Court Allows New York Vaccine Mandate; Survey: 30 Percent...
Buddhism
Buddhism in Buryatia: The Palace of the Legendary Sandalwood Buddha
By Lyudmila Klasanova December 20, 2021 The Palace of Sandalwood Buddha. From fest-bilet.ru The Sandalwood Buddha is a legendary image believed to be a “living image” or a “lifelike portrait” of…
Christianity
Metropolitan Hilarion on Unification of the Orthodox and the Catholics
In the beginning of December, Pope Francis of Rome, during his meeting with Archbishop Jeronymos II of Athens and All Greece, uttered the words, which many perceived as apologies to...
America
Rashad Hussain confirmed by US Senate as first Muslim Religious Freedom Ambassador
The U.S. Senate has approved Rashad Hussain to serve as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom, in a historic move as the first American Muslim to hold the position welcome by…
Christianity
With the idea of renaming Christmas by EU because of migrants, the pope called it a “dictatorship”
The European Commission has published a guideline proposing to replace "Christmas" with "holiday season" to draw attention to other religious communities. There was a violent reaction from the Vatican, writes...
News
“Religious Track” fostering dialogue for unity in Cyprus – Vatican News
By Christine Seuss It was Pope Francis’ desire to meet the Religious Track Group during his visit to Cyprus at the beginning of December. During that meeting, he encouraged group...
America
In England and Wales number of Christians falls to half the population, while in US similar pattern shows
Christian believers are showing signs of decline in both the United States and the United Kingdom, but in England and Wales latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show…
Europe
COMECE welcomes the CAP reform and encourages the EU to make it part of a broader ecological transition
COMECE welcomes the CAP reform and encourages the EU to make it part of a broader ecological transition On Tuesday 23 November 2021, the European Parliament adopted a new legislative...
News
CEC to enhance church voices in European institutions through advocacy
The Conference of European Churches is set to implement a sharp organisational profile. As a church-fellowship, CEC will strengthen its work to develop Christian voices in European political institutions and…