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Over 100 Ahmadis at Turkish-Bulgarian frontier face imprisonment, or death if deported

More than one hundred members of The Ahmadi Religion of Peace and Light, a persecuted religious minority, who presented themselves at the Turkish-Bulgarian border on May 24 requesting asylum face deportation within the next...

The Orthodox Church of Ukraine is moving to a new calendar

The Synod of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine approved the transition to the New Julian calendar from September 1, Reuters reports. This means that the Church will now celebrate Christmas on December 25th instead of...

A Word About The Glorious Ascension of Our Lord Jesus Christ

by Gregory, Bishop of Russia (Metropolitan of Kiev and Western Russia Grigory Tsamblak, 1364 - c. 1420*) Today's holiday is the fulfillment of the providence that the Only Begotten Son of God carried out for...

Cristal Logothetis, a Spaniard based in the USA boomed a “Carry the future” movement to help refugee mothers and newborns

Cristal Logothetis (Cristal Munoz-Logothetis) at Scientology Network’s MEET A SCIENTOLOGIST, the weekly series spotlighting the everyday lives of Scientologists from around the world and all walks of life, announces an episode featuring humanitarian Cristal Logothetis on May...

Did anti-cult Federation FECRIS lose at once 38 member-associations, or did it fake numbers?

FECRIS is the European Federation of Centers for Research and Information on Sects and Cults, an umbrella organization funded by the French government, that gathers and coordinates “anti-cult” organizations throughout Europe and beyond. It...

The Moscow Patriarchate “annexed” the Ukrainian Diocese of Berdyansk

The Berdyansk diocese of the UOC, located in the Russian-occupied Zaporozhye region, was taken away from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church by an official decision of the Synod of the Moscow Patriarchate. The decision states...

Announcement of the Synod of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church for Kosovo and Metohija

From: Council of Bishops of SOC / 05.20.2023 This year's regular meeting of the Holy Council of Bishops of the Serbian Orthodox Church paid special attention to the people and the Church in Kosovo and...

The oldest Hebrew Bible in the world sold for a record 38.1 million dollars

The "Sassoon Codex" dates from the late 9th or early 10th century The price was reached in just 4 minutes of contested bidding between two buyers, according to Sotheby's auction house in New York. The world's...

A Ukrainian court convicted former Kirovgrad Metropolitan Yoasaf of justifying the Russian occupation

The former Kirovgrad Metropolitan Joasaf (Guben) of the UOC, as well as the secretary of the diocese, Father Roman Kondratyuk, were sentenced to three years in prison with a two-year probationary period by the...

Tajikistan, Release of Jehovah’s Witness Shamil Khakimov, 72, after four years in prison

Jehovah's Witness Shamil Khakimov, 72, was released from prison in Tajikistan after serving the full term of his four-year sentence. He had been imprisoned on spurious charges of “inciting religious hatred.”

Germany brought to ECtHR for denying accreditation to a Christian school

A Christian hybrid school provider, based in Laichingen, Germany, is challenging the German state’s restrictive educational system. After the initial application in 2014, the Association for Decentralized Learning was denied approval to offer primary and secondary education by German authorities, despite fulfilling all state-mandated criteria and curricula

Paul Magdalino, Maria Mavroudi (ed). The Occult Sciences in Byzantium. La Pomme d’or S.A., Geneva 2006.

 Contents: Paul Magdalino, Maria Mavroudi: Introduction. Maria Mavroudi: Occult Sciences and Society in Byzantium: Considerations for Future Research. Katerina Ierodiakonou: The Byzantine Concept of Sympatheia and its Appropriation in Michael Psellos. Paul Magdalino: Occult Sciences and Imperial Power in Byzantine History and...

Cleric killed in Pakistan by mob following blasphemy accusation

Blasphemy, a mob in the city of Mardan, Pakistan, murdered a local cleric who was accused of making a blasphemous remark

May 9th, 73rd Anniversary for Europe and Dianetics

L. Ron Hubbard's “Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health” made its debut on May 9, 1950, and the results of the technique contributed to its swift rise to the top of bestseller lists....

BitterWinter.org exposes how FECRIS fabricated a cover-up of Russian links

FECRIS - Yet once more, the specialized human rights magazine BitterWinter.org, founded by expert Massimo Introvigne, broke the news this morning with the latest "fabrication" of FECRIS. We encourage readers to access the full...

The Christian messages of authority in the coronation of Charles III

Charles III and his wife Camilla were crowned in London, making him the fortieth monarch in British history. The coronation and anointing ceremony took place in Westminster Abbey. The previous coronation took place seventy...

The Danish government waived a law requiring all sermons to be translated into Danish

The Danish government has rejected a controversial draft law that had been under discussion for the past three years and would have required all religious sermons in Denmark to be translated into Danish. The...

A new religion from 2021 was founded around a hallucinogenic substance

Cross a tiger and a lion and you get a liger, cross a cow and a turtle and you get a helmeted calf, but what if you cross hallucinogenic frog slime with hallucinogenic mushrooms? According...

Religious terrorism, the Kenyan sect and the West

More than 100 bodies were found this past April in the Shakahola Forest in southern Kenya, another form of religious terrorism.

Secular States Struggling with Religious Freedom, conference at ETF of Leuven

The right to religious freedom is recognised and implemented by the vast majority of countries that value the UDHR. But the extent to which a liberal society should support religious diversity remains a subject...

Statement of the Serbian Patriarch Porfiry on the occasion of the mass murder in a Belgrade school

On the occasion of the mass murder of children by an underage classmate in a Belgrade primary school that took place this morning, Serbian Patriarch Porfiry made the following statement: It is with unbearable pain...

Europe must open up to new ideas about the secular state

Religion is one of the toughest challenges facing modern secular societies in their search for identity, equality and cohesion.

In March-April, 12 Jehovah’s Witnesses sentenced to 76 years in prison in all

Not only Russian citizens disagreeing about Russia’s war on Ukraine or asking Putin to stop the war are sentenced to heavy prison terms. Jehovah’s Witnesses whose organization was banned by the Supreme Court in...

Russia, Moscow City Court orders oppressive liquidation of human Rights NGO SOVA Center

As reported by SOVA Center, the remaining most active human rights NGO in Russia, the Russian oppressive fist is now falling on them. We reproduce here the statement of SOVA: On April 27, 2023 Judge Vyacheslav Polyga of the Moscow City Court considered the request filed by Russia’s Ministry of Justice to liquidate the...

The first prison sentence for opposing the war on religious grounds was issued in Russia

A 63-year-old Russian Orthodox Christian has become the first person to be sentenced to prison for expressing his opposition to Russia's war in Ukraine in religious terms. Mikhail Simonov is accused of spreading "false...
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