A religious strategy to maintain his popularity has worked for the President of the Republic: an “admiration” for two characters, Jesus Christ and the Pope, whom he identifies by their devotion to the poor. That is, the two most important people of Christianity in its two most popular versions in Mexico, the evangelical and the … Read more
The Conference of Religious Men and Women in Cuba expressed its indignation “at the expulsion from Nicaragua of the Missionaries of Charity nuns,” ordered by the Daniel Ortega regime and approved on Wednesday by the National Assembly. In a post published yesterday Friday on their Facebook pagethe religious organization expressed its “indignation at the expulsion … Read more
The content of the new Culture and Citizenship of Quebec course, which will replace the controversial Ethics and Religious Culture course, is taking shape. The provisional secondary program, of which The newspaper obtained a copy, will be tested in around twenty schools from the start of the school year. • Read also: I am convinced … Read more
What is the place of religion in France? Should we worry about the forms it takes with a lot of secularization on the one hand but also minorities tense on very conservative visions in the name of their faith? If ideologues and the media like to argue, quantitative surveys, in particular the European Values Study … Read more
After the age of 30, those who read in Ecuador begin to adopt a taste for religious-themed publications. This has been revealed by the recent Survey of Reading Habits and Cultural Consumption. 34 out of 100 people between the 30 and 64 years they prefer reading religious books. This number almost doubles (61 people) among … Read more
It was on the night of June 22, 2022 that Sheikh Mahmud Efendi, spiritual authority of the Sufi path Naqshbandi in Turkey and a Sunni religious reference, left this world at the age of 93. A respected figure in the Muslim world, tributes have multiplied to salute a wise man and a reviver of traditional … Read more
Every year in December, Jewish children rejoice. It’s Hanukkah, known as the “festival of lights”: at nightfall, the whole family gathers around a nine-branch candlestick (a menorah also called chanukkiah). The center candle (the chamache which means “servant” in Hebrew) is lit first and allows the others to be set ablaze night after night. On … Read more
Theologians and authors of science fiction (SF) would benefit from talking to each other: this observation prompted the organization by the Ethics chair (ethics, technology and transhumanisms) of the Catholic University of Lille of a symposium on “Science fiction, religions, theologies” on June 10 and 11, 2022. Indeed, there are countless works that mobilize a … Read more
Yamoussoukro, the political capital of Côte d’Ivoire, hosted the national restitution workshop for the training of Muslim leaders held at Al Azhar University in Egypt on SWEDD themes related to the education of girls and to their retention in school, to the economic empowerment of out-of-school and uneducated young girls, to the harmful effects of … Read more
With faith as a central element, a work aims to analyze the existence of God from multiple angles. Without losing to laughter along the way beloved brotherthe work directed by Aníbal Gulluni, proposes a sensitive approach to a story where spirituality is clearly present and at the same time installs the possibility of being able … Read more