Written by an award-winning author, this well-organized and comprehensive introduction to global Christianity illuminates the many ways the world's Christians live their faith today. Covers the entire globe: Africa, Asia, and Latin America as well as Europe, North America, and the Pacific ...
Just as with many European Christians, there are many American Catholics that have moved away from the Church. Also known as “Cultural Catholics” or non-practicing Catholics, these members of the Catholic faith were born and raised Catholic, but rarely if ever, attend church. According to a ...
Catholicism is the largest denomination of Christianity. All Catholics are Christians, but not all Christians are Catholics. A Christian refers to a follower of Jesus Christ who may be a Catholic,Protestant, Gnostic, Mormon, Evangelical, Anglican or Orthodox, or follower of another branch of the ...
scary thing was that, like a teenager who wears the same clothes as all the other kids at school, I unconsciously accepted the intellectual assumptions of my social environment. Only by spending time with orthodox Christians, who I mostly disagreed with, did I see the myopia of my worldview...
Gaza’s 2.3 million population comprises an estimated 1,000 Christians, mostly Greek Orthodox. UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Thursday urged an immediate halt to the fighting in South Sudan and renewed its peacekeeping mission in the warring country for another year. ...
Many of the interventions that were successfully used to reduce polarization are aiming to correct people’s perception of others. This is possible because people, especially those who strongly identify with their ingroup, tend to believe that a (disliked) outgroup is substantially different to ...
But Christmas is also a secular celebration of family — one that many non-practicing Christians and people of other religions are comfortable accepting as their own. The secular nature of Christmas was officially acknowledged in 1870 when the United States Congress made it a federal holiday. Feder...
The Christians would not recognize the Roman God’s and that caused great friction. There are many primary sources historians have found on the relationship between the Christians and the Romans. The majority of the sources being used in this summation are from the Documents of the Christian ...
use the words of God to direct them into their self-serving channels. And only the members of the true Orthodox Church—the Orthodox Christians—protect it from all sides; because preserving and understanding the purity of the Holy Scriptures is equivalent to protecting the Orthodox faith itself....
“People ask me sometimes, ‘Why did you pick Serrastretta to start the synagogue in Calabria,” she says, noting that there were many places in the Italian region where she could “initiate a Jewish community and a synagogue.” “Once again, I think Serrastretta chose me. Because this is...