Persecuted in Russia, devotees of the “Russian Orthodox Church – Tsarist Empire” may now be banned in Belarus too.
Testimonies Global
Falun Gong Practitioners Arrested as “U.S. Agents” in the Russian Republic of Mordovia
Arrests were carried out earlier this month, following previous raids in Moscow and Krasnodar.
Uganda vs Religious Liberty: An Interview with Scott Morgan
Using as a pretext the “fasting sect” incident in Kenya, with French and Japanese influences, several African countries are cracking down on religious minorities. Now, it’s Uganda.
Japan, Leading Magazine Exposes the Conspiracy Against a School with Unification Church Connections in Senegal
The influential “Weekly Shincho” revealed the political reasons of what it called a “crude and childish” attempt to appease the Communist Party.
Ahmadis in Pakistan: Lawyer Threatened with Disbarment, Four Jailed with False Blasphemy Charges
An attorney has been told he would not be allowed to enter courts if he does not renounce his faith. Four are accused as usual of having burned pages of the Quran.
A Summer Reading, Benedict XVI and Hope. 5. Act Four: The Restoration of Hope
Although deconstructed by ideologies, hope is not lost. It is a perennial possibility, even in the midst of the most horrible persecutions.
A Summer Reading, Benedict XVI and Hope. 4. Act Three: The Attack Against Hope
By divorcing Biblical faith from Greek reason, Luther, Kant, and Marx destroyed the roots of the Christian concept of hope.
A Summer Reading, Benedict XVI and Hope. 3. Act Two: The Definition of Hope
Faith and hope are closely related. To understand hope, the German Pope argued, we should look at the definition of faith in the “Epistle to the Hebrews.”
A Summer Reading, Benedict XVI and Hope. 2. Act I: The Birth of Hope
When was hope born? In “Spe salvi” the German Pope discusses the “scandalous” claim in the “Epistle to the Ephesians” that before Jesus hope did not exist.
A Summer Reading, Benedict XVI and Hope. 1. A Dialogue with Ernst Bloch and Greek Philosophy
Hope is the main resource religions provide, and one unfortunately becoming scarce. A proposal: reading again “Spe salvi,” the 2007 treatise on hope by the German Pope.