And I’ll hear well, I don’t believe in the papacy or I don’t believe in the dogma of the assumption of Mary. Okay. Well, why wouldn’t you be Eastern Orthodox then if your big concern is, let’s say the papacy or the dogma of the assumption of Mary, because in the Eastern ...
The Church plays an important role in the Christian movement by conducting dialogues aiming at resolving the theological differences with the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Presbyterian, and Evangelical Churches. Perhaps the greatest glory of the Coptic Church is its Cross. Copts take pride in the ...
which is the focus of this article, but also the south. Same goes with the seasons. I imagine the country is quite different in the wet season which we
In the Eastern Orthodox religion, Ash Wednesday is not observed because it is not specifically mentioned in the Holy Bible. Instead, those participating in the Eastern Orthodox Church begin the Lenten season (Great Lent) forty days before Palm Sunday, which would be the Monday before Ash Wednesda...
’ve ever entered a Western church or visited an art gallery. But while there is no physical description of him in the Bible, there is also no doubt that the historical Jesus, the man who was executed by the Roman State in the first century CE, was a brown-skinned, Middle Eastern Jew...
theEasterseason. “The first reference to a general feast celebrating all saints occurs in St. Ephrem theSyrian(d. AD 373). St. John Chrysostom (d. AD 407) assigned a day to the feast, the first Sunday after Pentecost, where in the Eastern Churches the feast is celebrated to this day...