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The Eucharist in Orthodox-Lutheran Joint View
After starting their dialogue in 1981 in Espoo, Finland, the Orthodox and Protestant Church expressed their joint view over Eucharist in a meeting in Bratislava, Slovakia. The two Churches agreed they've developed "two different traditions" toward Eucharist, both with their respective value. The aim of this action is to move those two tradition towards the only visible form of communion (...)

Christ in Christmas Once more
The long list of offenders of religious symbols and meanings grows ever more. Also, the meanings of some Christian holydays may offend the people of different traditions or confessions. This is why in the past years there have been fewer and fewer symbols of Christ for Christmas. Find out how some people want to bring back Christmas from the North Pole back to Bethlehem (...)

A Case From The Textbook
The worst case scenario is unraveling now in Italy in what might become one of the bioethics textbook cases. A man confined for 40 years to his bed, suffering from severe muscular dystrophy, unable to move or speak, talking with the help of a computer, requested the right for euthanasia. The case developed a lot in Italy these days, a Catholic country, people marching on the streets to support the ill-man's request (...)

Hollywood's Distaste With Religion
A recent survey brought to light hidden characteristics of Hollywood. Although we might speak of a special interest in the movie industry with films like "The Passion of Christ" and "The Nativity Story", in TV things are different. For every positive portrayal of religious, there's at least one negative. And a vast majority of those came through comedy or drama shows. Find here more (...)

Imagine This
All of us find ourselves humming a tune we don't know where it came from. Then, we hear it on the radio and they say it's Beatles. We also know John Lennon sang "Imagine there's no religion". Even though these words were considered to be a political antireligious statement, it looks like Lennon was in fact interested in religious and especially biblical matters, but had no moral awareness. Find out more here (...)

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