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Christians Leave
The mayor's office in Jerusalem issued a press release stating Christians are the first category to leave the city due to the legal problems they encounter. The main problem is that family reunifications are very seldom allowed by the authorities, but also the inequity between Christian Arabs and Jews resulted in such a problem. Specialists say that the number of Jews and Arabs will reach parity in 25 years (...)

Religious Knowledge Is Not Religious, But Civic
Recent studies have led to the conclusion many people think Joan of Arc was married to Noah, according to many of the American graduating college. Some of the people sustaining the presence of the Ten Commandments in the courts do not know them. Also, many people think Jesus led the Jews through the Red Sea or cannot name the main holy books of Hinduism. Find out more reasons why studying religion in high schools and colleges might be important (...)

Liberation Theology
Everyone remembers Pope John Paul II's discourse in a South American country (Venezuela), where among whistles and crown noise, he cornered the liberation theology responsible for a violent vision of reality. Some of the text he had read there was written by Cardinal Ratzinger and now today's pope seems to have a problem while he heads for South America. Liberations theologians and their hymns and creeds are described here (...)

Ukraine Remains Where It Is
In 1990s the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has suffered a schism inside its body, caused by the supporters of total rupture with the Russian Patriarchate. Supporters of this idea still exist, but the Russian Orthodox Patriarchate issued a statement saying this dissensions are false and lack any kind of reason. The Russian officials say the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate enjoys all the freedom it needs while remaining under the Russian Patriarchate (...)

Close Army-Church Relations In Russia
The Russian Orthodox Church has a special relationship with the Russian Army. This is one of the reasons why the Orthodox Patriarchate chose to protest against the relocation of a memorial monument away from Tallinn, the Estonian capital. This is just another episode in which the two institutions back the other's words. A strange and uncommon relation (...)

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