When Christians in Belarus take responsibility to stand up for justice as individuals as their churches remain silent, they take on consequences for their own lives
World Press Freedom Day must protect media but also religion from hurtful lies - Charter on Journalistic Ethics in Relation to Respect for Religion or Belief
BRUSSELS, BELGIUM, May 5, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Freedom of...
A feeling of pain and betrayal of Christ…Since the start of the war, dozens of people have publicly refused to consider themselves children of the Russian Orthodox Church.
The Codex Gigas is the largest illuminated manuscript of the Middle Ages. In addition to religious texts, encyclopedic, medical knowledge, and color illustrations, this book contains an image of the devil on a full...
According to an "in progress" article published by DW, the AFP Agency has had access to a document in which can be read that "the sanctions also reportedly target the head of the Russian...
Conference at the Press Club in Brussels on 4 May, 3pm – 5pm
Tai Ji Men is a menpai (similar to school) of qigong, martial arts, and self-cultivation, and its shifu (master) and dizi (disciple) have long been committed to international...
The icon “Matrona and Stalin” (“Blessed Matrona blesses Joseph Stalin” [) is an icon depicting the Holy Matrona of Moscow (1885-1952) and I.V. Stalin. In 2008, for some time from November 26, she was...
On May 2nd, the European Parliament made a short presentation of their report Persecution of minorities on the grounds of belief or religion (short presentation), of which The European Times has transcribed the English...
In view of the today’s vote of the European Parliament’s motion for resolution on the persecution of minorities on the grounds of belief or religion, the General Secretary of COMECE, Fr. Manuel Barrios Prieto,...
As part of the SASCE project, CEC conducted a training in Vienna for church leaders, church staff and worshippers, helping them to ensure safe and strong communities in Austria.
Author: archpriest John Meiendorf
The official condition for church marriage is the union of faith - ie. the affiliation of the spouses to the Orthodox Church. The definitions of the Laodicean (Rule 10 and 31),...
Author: D.S. Biryukov
Arianism is the first current in the mainstream of Christian thought, recognized as heresy and became the state religion in the Roman Empire. Arianism is undeniably the largest and largest of the...
It is hard to imagine that it was in Mariupol land about two centuries ago that a man lived whose personality both his contemporaries and descendants compared with the personality of God's prophet Moses....
John (Maximovitch) the Wonderworker (1896–1966) was a prominent Eastern Orthodox ascetic and hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR) who was active in the mid-20th century. He was a pastor and spiritual father of high reputation and...
On Friday, April 29th, The Stephen Leeson Show marked its first anniversary. The show launched in April 2021 as a co-production between singer/songwriter Stephen Leeson and the volunteers at the Scientology Community Centre. It...
The European Laudato Si’ Alliance (ELSiA) is pleased to invite you to the 5th Laudato Si’ Reflection Day to be held online on Tuesday 17 May 2022 from 9:30 to 12:30 and from 14:00...
Churches in South Africa responded strongly to the flood disaster in KwaZulu Natal province, and hich at least 440 people are known to have died in what many said is the worst inundation in...
The All-Seeing Eye of God is a symbolic and allegorical composition based on the words of Scripture about the vigilant all-seeing and all-knowing Christ
From the end of the 18th - the first half of...
Rev. Christian Krieger, president of the Conference of European Churches, visited western Ukraine in April, where he met with Bishop Pavlo Shvarts of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ukraine as well as other Ukrainian church leaders responding to humanitarian and spiritual needs.
Nessebar, Bulgaria 24 Apr. 2022. Author: BLITZ
Modern photographic computer technology is applied in Bulgaria at a limited number of sites
Almost 360 drawings of ships on the walls of four churches in Nessebar have been...
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew congratulated Orthodox Christians on Easter and called for an immediate end to the war, "which undermines human dignity and is a provocative violation of God's commandment to love one's neighbor."
This year,...
The red egg is the most recognizable symbol of the great Christian holiday of Easter. According to legend, Mary Magdalene laid eggs on Emperor Tiberius and told him about the resurrection of Christ. The...
Washington, D.C. – The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) today released its 2022 Annual Report documenting developments during 2021, including significant regress in countries such as Afghanistan and the Central African Republic (CAR)....
His Holiness the Dalai Lama met with participants at a Dialogue for Our Future organized by a number of organizations here in Dharamsala, including climate change.
The Bulgarian Orthodox website dveri.bg has launched a column "Not from the Gospel", in which it publishes excerpts from sermons, speeches or texts of Russian priests and representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church without...