Ambiguous Belongings: How Catholic Missionaries in Persia and the Roman Curia Dealt with Communicatio in SacrisWindler, Christian
This article provides insight into a rare instance of a collaborative governance approach to sex work that led to the decriminalisation, design and impleme
The figures show that the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart had in December 2021 more than €51 million in cash. When liabilities were deducted, the congregation had net assets of nearly €60 million. The De La Salle Brothers had in December...
Voodoo is an official religion in Benin, where as many as 40 percent of the people are followers [source: BBC]. An estimated 60 million people practice Voodoo worldwide [source: Guynup]. Since Voodoo is primarily an oral tradition, the names of gods, as well as the specifics of ...
For early Pentecostal believers, receiving the gift of tongues had a functional purpose, too. Once baptized in the Holy Spirit, adherents would often to travel abroad to preach the word as Pentecostal missionaries. But Mittelstadt wants to emphasize that speaking in tongues was never seen strictly...
In missions, churches, neighborhoods and backyards across Texas, Mexican-Americans re-enact two Christmas folk plays that Spanish missionaries brought to the New World: Las Posadas, a processional drama that re-enacts Mary and Joseph’s search for aposada,or inn, on the eve of Jesus’ birth;...
My parents came from India. They were Christian missionaries. I grew up in an all white Roman Catholic school and neighborhood. I was very much the outsider there, but the boxing gym was the one place that never judged me. There were so many components to the sport that really shaped me...
Ironically the westward movement of theYijingbegan with the eastward move- ment of the West. Beginning in the late sixteenth century, in a pattern replicated in many other parts of the world, Jesuit missionaries traveled to China, attempt- ing to assimilate themselves as much as possible to th...
You do not need the Catholic Church to live a life unto Christ. I'm sorry sisters, but they simply don't and you know it. Many disciples of Christ have walked the path to and for Him totally alone. And they still do. The difference is it's not a path that escapists take to easi...
Ethiopia defeats Italy End of the consolidation of Ethiopia and of its expansion He is Muslim and therefore dangerous for the hegemony of the Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia Consequences/meaningful events regarding education He also supported Catholic missionaries, as he saw their teaching as a basis ...