IRS: ‘Please Detail the Content of Your Members’ Prayers.’ Posted on May 17th, 2013 by Paycheck in American Politics, Religious Persecution The new persecution: Money first, then your flesh when you have no more money or power.Share this: This entry was posted on Friday, May 17th, 2013 at 7:14 pm and is filed under American Politics, Religious Persecution.
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Vatican City, 17 May 2013 (VIS) – Yesterday, Thursday 16 May, in the Domus Sanctae Marthae chapel, there was a meeting on new religious movements organized by the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue that, together with the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples and the Pontifical Councils for Promoting Christian Unity and for Culture, have been studying these phenomena for some time. In 1986, for the first time, a brief provisional report was published entitled: “The Phenomenon of Sects and the New Religious Movements: Pastoral Challenge”, the result of a questionnaire sent out to the Episcopal Conferences two years prior
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5 May 2013, 07:42 | Religious holidays and traditions | | | Code for Blog | | This year, Easter, the Resurrection in the Orthodox tradition is celebrated on 5 May. This holiday is the most ancient and joyful holiday of all the great feasts of the church year.Easter marks the end of Lent, a forty-day period of fasting, prayer, and penance
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LoadingFor more information contact the Communications OfficeYou are here: Home / NewsMay0210th Annual Celebration of Priesthood and Religious Life DinnerSerrans honoured and expressed gratitude to those Priests and Religious Sisters in the Diocese of Hamilton who are celebrating the 10th Anniversary of their ordination/final vows during the 10th Anniversary of their annual Priesthood and Religious Life Banquet on Wednesday, May 1, 2013 at Liuna Station in Hamilton, Ontario.
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10th Annual Celebration of Priesthood and Religious Life Dinner
Jared Dees of The Religion Teacher, wrote about 10 Teaching Strategies for Class Discussions. They are all great ideas for engaging students in the topic at hand
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24 April 2013, 12:23 | Legislation | | | Code for Blog | | “We are drafting concrete proposals on further improvement of legal base in the sphere of state-church relations,” the President said at the meeting with leaders of churches and religious organizations.
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President Yanukovych Promises To Improve Legal Basis in Area of Church-State Relations
22 April 2013, 13:50 | AUCCRO, inter-confessional councils | | | Code for Blog | | Final Communiqué of All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations on occasion of the visit of its delegation to Brussels (6-7 March, 2013).The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations is pleased with the successful visit of its delegation to Brussels on 6-7 March, 2013 and would like to note the following to sum up:We would like to express gratitude to Commissioner for Enlargement and European Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle and all other persons who made this visit to Brussels possible and successful.
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Council of Churches of Ukraine Published Communique on Its Delegation’s Visit to Brussels
When you do the Spiritual Exercises, you are encouraged to put yourself into the gospel story you are meditating on. You are to see, hear, and smell what is happening
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Communication and media offices of the Episcopal Conferences, Dioceses and Religious Communities, are all invited to send any materials they might be preparing for the occasion, a selection of which will be posted on the Council’s website www.pccs.va . Please send us an email with the details to webmaster@pccs.va or info@intermirifica.netThank you in advance for your participation, a sign of a new frontier of communion among Catholic communicators!
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Sharing of pastoral resources for the 47th World Communications Day
Dear CSD Family, My time with the religious and lay faithful at the Institute for Religious Life at Mundelein Seminary this past week was an absolute joy. I was moved to be able to bless the attendees with more than 500 copies of Navigating the Interior Life and to deliver about 200 books to Fr
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2013-04-10 Vatican Radio (Vatican Radio) A Muslim graffiti artist who wants to present Pope Francis with one of his works of art, an NBA basketball player aspiring to play with the Swiss Guards’ team: these are just two of an eclectic group of speakers invited to take part in the upcoming TEDxViadellaConciliazione event April 19th just down the street from Saint Peter’s Basilica. The Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Culture has embraced the initiative of a group of lay academics in Rome to organize this TEDx forum on the subject of Religious Freedom – the first time ever that the theme has been tackled by a TEDx event.
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TEDx event in Vatican: a pop star, graffiti artist, basketball star and an archbitect
The religious activities are the moments of spirituality that the movements, congregations and institutes, are organizing, offering thus the richness of their spirituality, not only to young people who are part of them, but to all young people of WYD.The meetings are formations and conferences promoted by groups and associations, with the intention of offering human formation and doctrinal WYD participants.
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new Catholic Library Resources list: is your Catholic blog on it?
24 March 2013, 09:27 | Religious intolerance and vandalism | | | Code for Blog | | The Chapel of the Holy Virgin of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) and house of the priest in the town of Kreminna of Luhansk Region (Donbas) were attacked.
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7 March 2013, 09:32 | International relations | | | Code for Blog | | On March 6, the delegation of the All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations met with the European Commissioner for Enlargement and Neighbourhood Policy Štefan Füle, reports the Institute for Religious Freedom.During the meeting, there was a lively exchange of views on the European prospects of Ukraine with regard to various difficulties in the European integration process.The heads of the Ukrainian denominations emphasized the importance of moral principles that are necessary not only for the development of Ukrainian society but also for the entire European community. They expressed awareness of their responsibility before God to uphold high moral values for the sake of future generations, which determines the appropriate public stance in the dialogue with the authorities and citizens.On his part, Štefan Füle expressed his deep respect for the spiritual and moral principles that the leaders of churches and religious organizations represent and embody in Ukraine
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Delegation of Ukrainian Church Heads Meets with European Commissioner Štefan Füle
CBC mocks religion, guess which one Posted on March 6th, 2013 by Paycheck in Catholic Scandals, Media Distortions, Religious Persecution Sun’s take.There’s now two laws in this country: one for the Gay and one for Catholics.Share this: This entry was posted on Wednesday, March 6th, 2013 at 6:11 pm and is filed under Catholic Scandals, Media Distortions, Religious Persecution. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed
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2013-03-06 Vatican Radio Archbishop Silvano Tomasi on Wednesday urged political leaders to safeguard the right of individuals and of communities to religious freedom.In a statement released in Geneva at the 22nd Session of the Human Rights Council on the Report of the Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, Archbishop Tomasi who is the Permanent Observer of the Holy See to the United Nations and Other International Organizations said that “While the State should enforce the universality of human rights by balancing freedom and equality, it often identifies itself with the “dominant community” in a way that unfortunately relegates minorities to a second class status”.Please find the full text of Archbishop Tomasi’s statement below.Mr. President,Religious freedom is also a duty, a responsibility to be fulfilled both by individuals and religious groups
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Religious freedom: cornerstone of dialogue and collaboration
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Priests for Life and the National Prolife Religious Council announced today that the 20th annual Memorial for the Preborn and their Mothers and Fathers will be held on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 from 8:30 to 10:30am in DAR Constitution Hall in Washington DC.
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