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Christianity

Church and church organization (2)

Guest Author -
During the first period of its existence, the Church consisted of numerous communities, completely separate and independent, having no canonical connections with each other - in our use of the word. While at the...
FORB

Patriarch Kirill remains silent after Gorbachev’s passing

Jan Leonid Bornstein -
When the last President of the Soviet Union passed away a few days ago, Kirill remained silent, offering no condolences, and issuing no statement. That does not seem to be a mistake.
Christianity

A unique fresco is preserved in the Bulgarian Zemen Monastery

News desk -
The unknown predecessor of Leonardo da Vinci from our lands saw the biblical plot "The Last Supper" in a different way, which makes the temple extremely valuable for world culture The only fresco of its...
Editor's choice

Six more Jehovah’s Witnesses firmly sentenced to prison in Russia in August

Willy Fautre -
The persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses is going on unabated. In the last eight months, 26 of them have been sentenced for merely practicing their religion in private and put behind bars. Here is the...
Culture

The first eco-mosque in the region will be opened in the Croatian town of Sisak

Charlie W. Grease -
All people with an open mind, heart and soul are welcome to the new mosque and Islamic center in Sisak, regardless of their religion, Sisak chief imam Alem Crankic told Hina news agency on...
International

Hajj in Islamic Perspective

Charlie W. Grease -
Another rite, like prayer and fasting, which is one of the five mandatory pillars of Islam and supports its doctrinal dome, is the pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj). The Koran says about it this way:...
Christianity

The Tragic Theodicy

Newsdesk -
By Boris Vysheslavtsev In his ethical activity and judgments, man has no right to take the viewpoint of Providence. He has no right to judge sub specie aeternitatis , appropriating God's point of view as...
News

What is a Fatwa? A Scholar of Religion Strips the Word of its Stereotypes

WRN Editorial Staff -
When the late Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued an Islamic edict against Salman Rushdie on February 14, 1989, an Arabic word, fatwa, the cleric used to call on Muslims to execute the author reverberated across the world.
News

Orthodox Church of Ukraine applies for membership in CEC

News desk -
The Orthodox Church of Ukraine has made an official application to become a CEC member church. Archbishop Yevstratiy of Chernihiv and Nizhyn presented the membership application to CEC President Rev. Christian Krieger at the 11th Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Karlsruhe. Peace and reconciliation in Ukraine is among the priority work for CEC. Learn more
Christianity

Church and church organization

Guest Author -
The proposed article was originally printed in the Church Gazette (issues 15, 17 and 19) - an edition of our diocese, as a review of the book of Fr. M. Polsky The canonical position...
International

Alevis in the Republic of Turkey

Newsdesk -
Alevis are accepted by modern Shia scholarship, although there has long been controversy over this issue. From the beginning of their existence until today, the Alevis have been called by various names. In colloquial...
Islam

Predestination in Islamic Perspective

Newsdesk -
The meaning of the presence of prayers - requests in the prayer practice of such a fatalistic religion as Islam, seems completely incomprehensible. According to Islamic doctrine, the afterlife of a person is predetermined...
Christianity

The mention of non-Orthodox at funeral services

Newsdesk -
By St. Athanasius (Sakharov) Regarding mentioning your deceased parents. Above all, I think that children are always obliged to pray for their parents, whatever they may have been during their lifetime - monsters, blasphemers and...
Editor's choice

Night of Religions returns to full live presence in Barcelona

Newsdesk -
On 17 and 18 September, the seventh edition of the Barcelona Night of Religions (Nit de les Religions) will take place. In this seventh edition, under the subtitle "Faiths and Beliefs in Dialogue"
Christianity

Unique monasteries in Romania painted with frescoes on the outside

News desk -
The frescoes have remained almost unaffected by time and atmospheric conditions In Romania, several monasteries hundreds of years old, as well as their main churches, are painted on the outside of the temples. Considering the...
Christianity

A society that has abandoned charity in the name of prosperity has been abandoned by God

News desk -
We are publishing an article by the Russian priest Prot. Pavel Adelheim (1938-2013) from "Live Journal" from 2010. With great pain, the priest missionary and confessor, who paid with his life for his faithfulness...
International

Orthodox prayer has nothing in common with the Muslim prayer except for …

Charlie W. Grease -
Coming to the topic of Muslim prayer, an Orthodox person enters an area, many components of which will lead him into serious bewilderment. Despite the common name of this aspect of religious prescriptions, the...
Christianity

The Latvian Parliament will vote on the independence of the Latvian Orthodox Church

News desk -
The President of Latvia Egils Levits submitted to the parliament a draft law on changing the status of the Latvian Orthodox Church, reports the official website of the Latvian presidency. Currently, the Latvian Orthodox Church...
News

Russia Accused of Antisemitism and Exploiting the Suffering of Jews for its Own Agenda in Ukraine

WRN Editorial Staff -
U.S. State Department Accuses Russia of Antisemitism and Exploiting the Suffering of Jews for its Own Agenda in Ukraine
News

Pope beatifies John Paul I: May he obtain for us the ‘smile of the soul’

Vatican News -
Pope Francis presided over the beatification Mass of Pope John Paul I, recalling how his smile communicated the goodness of the Lord.
Christianity

A mass for peace was held in a 1100-years old Armenian church

News desk -
An 1,100-year-old Armenian church in Turkey's eastern Van province hosted its tenth special Mass since it opened in 2010 after a 95-year hiatus, reported Mesut Varol and Emre Ilikan from Anadolu Agency. Sahak Mashalyan, head of...
Culture

Ablution in Islamic Perspective

Charlie W. Grease -
Ablution is an integral part of Islamic rituals. Even prayer, which is one of the pillars of Islam, is considered invalid unless it is preceded by a ritual bath (K.5:6). That is, the quality...
Charities

Social housing in Byzantium

Newsdesk -
The Byzantine Empire had an extensive network of social institutions supported by the state, the church, or private individuals. Already in the decisions of the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea (4th century), the obligation...
Charities

Pope Francis took control of the Order of Malta

Gaston de Persigny -
He abolished its previous governing bodies and appointed an interim Sovereign Council After years of controversy, Pope Francis took control of the Order of Malta today, removing its previous governing bodies and appointing an interim...
Christianity

Christianity [2]

Gaston de Persigny -
By Fr. Alexander Men When we pass from the Gospel to the Acts of the Apostles and the Epistles, we are obliged to stop our attention to the second person of the New Testament. As...
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