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A Book About Another Kind of Fundamentalists
Chris Hedges is an author and winner of Pulitzer Prize, active as a correspondent for the New York Times in the past 20 years. In his new book, Hedges analyzes the American tendency to be identified as a Christian nation. He names those responsible and speaks about the dangers presented by such a perspective (...)

Orthodoxy Expanding?
Researchers say Orthodoxy in the US reaches 1.2 million believers. This number was reached mainly through immigration, but today there are more cases of conversion to Orthodoxy: a third of the Orthodox priests in US are converts. Among the causes of this phenomena there are the return to ancient rituals, the discovery of this rather unknown Christian faith, the beauty of liturgy and the theological durability (...)

Catholicism Drops in France
No longer Catholic, France has a great admiration for the Pope Benedict XVI. In a recent survey of France's religious shape, only 51% of the respondents declared themselves Catholic. This is shocking for a country who considers itself the oldest member of the Catholic family. Read more results here (...)

A Catholic Lustration
Appointed only a month ago, Archbishop Stanislaw Wielgus presented
his resignation after it was revealed he collaborated with the Communist political police. Like in other Churches in Eastern Europe, Poland has decided to face its political past, a painful and slow-going process of eradicating Communists from the life of the Church (...)

Aram I Speaks About Lebanon
Democracy is the value sustained by Aram I in his message to the Lebanese people. Instead of sustaining violent acts against Israel, the Lebanese should make their democracy stronger, said former moderator for the World Council of Churches. His speech comes in a time in which Hezbollah announced it would intensify its actions against the government (...)

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