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20. Dezember 2018
On December 20, 2018, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine adopted bill number 5309, voted for by 240 MPs. MPs from the Opposition Bloc voted against it. Speaker of the Parliament Andriy Parubiy emphasizes that the bill was passed at the personal request of Patriarch Emeritus Filaret. The bill sponsored by MP Alexander Bryhintsev and a number of other MPs suggests amending the standard law entitled On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Organizations so that a religious organization whose ...
20. Dezember 2018
Radio Free Europe, 19. Dezember 2018: Alyaksandr Kukhta is an Orthodox priest for a small parish in Belarus, but he has twice as many followers online as in real life. He's earned loyal viewers with his videos on subjects from sex to Lenin. Videobericht auf Radio Free Europe
20. Dezember 2018
English and Greek-language versions of the official website of the Russian Orthodox Church have officially opened. Materials in English and Greek are available at http://www.patriarchia.ru/en/ and http://www.patriarchia.ru/gr/. The opening of these new versions is intended to expand the audience of the Moscow Patriarchate’s official site and to facilitate access to certain important materials from the site for Orthodox believers abroad, media representatives, and those interested in receiving...
20. Dezember 2018
“Fast Questions and Fast Answers about the Geography of Orthodoxy in America”, the second essay in a group of mini-reports concerning Orthodox Church life in America, was released by the Assembly of Canonical Orthodox Bishops of the United States of America on Wednesday, December 5, 2018. The report offers interesting facts about the geographic distribution of Orthodox Christian parishes and Church members in America and answers a variety of questions, including: Is there anything unique a...
20. Dezember 2018
Im Jahr 1918 war Österreich-Ungarn ein Pulverfass, das kurz davor war, in die Luft zu gehen. Die politischen und staatsrechtlichen Veränderungen führten in Böhmen zur Abtrennung vom Wiener Kirchenrecht. Die tschechischen Protestanten spürten die Gunst der Stunde und begannen mit den innerkirchlichen Verhandlungen. Die angestrebte Vereinigung der zwei größten evangelischen Kirchen, der lutherischen (Augsburger Bekenntnis) und der reformierten Kirche (helvetisches Bekenntnis), war Inhalt der Ve...
20. Dezember 2018
The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations strongly opposes the use of law enforcement agencies by Ukrainian officials to propagate any ideologies (in particular, the gender ideology), for the purposes of censorship and restrictions of freedom of conscience, opinion, and expression. This is stated in the appeal of the AUCCRO addressed to the Prime Minister of Ukraine on December 11, the Institute of Religious Freedom reports. The reason for this appeal was the aggressi...
20. Dezember 2018
Am 30. November und 1. Dezember 2018 feierte die Zaoksky Adventist University (ZAU) ihr 30-jähriges Bestehen, wie die Kommunikationsabteilung der teilkontinentalen Kirchenleitung (Euro-Asia Division, EAD) mitteilte, die mehrheitlich für die Siebenten-Tags-Adventisten in der Gemeinschaft Unabhängiger Staaten (GUS) zuständig ist. Das Motto der Universität lautet "Lernen, Dienen, Inspirieren". Die Universität liegt in Zaoksky, im Verwaltungsbezirk (Oblast) Tula, rund 200 Kilometer südlich von ...
20. Dezember 2018
“We wonder when the leaders of our world will realize how late we have left our response to the climate crisis”, wrote His All-Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in a letter to the participants of the United Nations climate conference underway in Katowice, Poland. “A few years ago, we wrote of reaching a point of no return. This was neither euphemism nor exaggeration. Scientists have long warned that we have reached several tipping points; governments seem reluctant to respond, preferr...
20. Dezember 2018
On December 12, 2018, the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church appealed to clergy, monastics and lay people with the message “God's Word and Catechism.” The message says that the whole Church is responsible for Christian upbringing of their faithful, but the faithful can also fulfill this mission by sharing faith in the resurrected Christ. Therefore, as the message says, the family is a home church, and the parents are the first educators of the faith. “Dear parents! You a...