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The Gifts of The Baháʼí Faith
The gift of the Baháʼí Faith is a welcoming religious practice that recognizes and honors all the faiths that have come before it.
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Christianity
Onomatodoxy (the Russian heresy of “Imyaslavie“)
Name worship (Gr. Onomatodoxia) - a teaching that asserts that God's name is God Himself, condemned by a Synodal Definition from the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC). It arose in 1907…
Christianity
The meaning of the icon
Written by Archim. Zinon (Theodore) The icon does not depict, it manifests. It is the manifestation of Christ's kingdom, the manifestation of the transformed, deified creature; of that transformed humanity…
Buddhism
A living goddess is worshiped in Nepal
Christians worship the icons or statues of Christ, the Virgin and the saints, and Buddhists light candles before the images of the Enlightened Ones. In Nepal, however, they still worship…
Christianity
Pages from the history of the Russian Church in Sofia (2)
In May 1944, the Bulgarian Synod granted the Russian community firstly the church "St. Great Martyr Ekaterina" at the cemetery in Kniazhevo, and after two months - the church "St.…
International
The Secret Treasures of the Copper Scroll
Written by Ventzeslav Karavalchev for dveri.bg In 1947, a Bedouin from the Taamira tribe walked around the Qumran hill, located on the western shore of the Dead Sea, looking for…
Christianity
Archimandrite Zinon – the traveling painter
Archimandrite Zinon (Theodore) is the most famous icon painter of the Russian Orthodox Church and his works - murals, icons, miniatures are known throughout the Orthodox world. In 1992, he…
Christianity
The Basilica – the royal home of the new people of God
Written by Ventzeslav Karavalchev for dveri.bg Immediately after Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit created the Church, a rapid development of the Christian communities began - the Gospel spread, worship developed,…
Books
Why Stephen King turned on his own publisher in a battle over the future of the book industry
It didn’t involve any killer clowns, haunted hotels, or avenging, telekinetic high schoolers, but this summer, author Stephen King began telling a new scary story: the precarious state of the…
Christianity
Holy Relics
Author: Archimandrite Justin (Popovich) Matter is represented in the human body, no doubt, in the most enigmatic, mysterious and complex way. Brain?! What marvelous mysteries are performed between his matter…