and as you can see in the graph provided below, there has been a steady decline in the total population of Christians in the country. At the same time, the percentage of those that identify as “No Religion”,
so Ethiopians celebrate Christmas on January 7. The Ethiopian Orthodox Church's celebration of Christ's birth is called Ganna. It is a day when families attend church. Everyone dresses in white. Most Ethiopians don a traditionalshamma— a thin, white cotton wrap with brightly colored stripes acr...
2023. “Religion, Race, and Letterpress: Orthodox Christians in Nineteenth-Century New York City through the Lens of Kawkab America.” Journal of the American Academy of Religion 91 (4): 854–874. https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/lfae027. (Open in a new window)Google Scholar Eastman, S...
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. ...
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...
The reactivity hypothesis posits that individuals who are, or perceive themselves to be, deprived tend to develop a fundamentalist worldview and/o
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in the religious context of Finland, where 65.1% of the population belong to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland (ELCF Statistics,n.d.) and 1.03% to the Orthodox Church of Finland (OCF Statistics,n.d.). Although not all Finns are members of religious and spiritual communities, the ...
Orthodox Jewish authorities do not recognize female rabbis, even if they have been ordained by other Jewish denominations. “Last year was my 25th year,” she adds. Aiello spent many years at synagogues in Florida, and also as a Hebrew teacher at a synagogue in St. Thomas, one of the Vi...