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2 days ago · In January of this year, Pope Francis said, on Italian television, the he believes hell is empty. He emphasised that this is his personal view, not a matter of doctrine. Last week, at an interfaith youth group in Singapore, he said that all religions are pathways to God. They are like different languages, saying the same thing.
3 days ago · Conservative Christians are often accused of being intolerant by secular humanists and progressive Christians, who claim that they oppose science which seems to contradict their scriptural interpretation (creationism, use of birth control, climate change denial, abortion, research into embryonic stem cells, etc.), liberal democracy (separation ...
3 days ago · Orthodox believers are called to pursue deification, or divine qualities, according to a Russian Orthodox leader. The most powerful way to do this, he says, is through the Eurcharist. Metropolitan Hilarion Alfeyev spoke with EWTN about the importance of the Eucharist at the 52nd International Eucharistic Congress in Budapest, Hungary, on Sept. 6.
3 days ago · The Sukuma people of Tanzania believe in spirit possession. [68] A now-extinct spirit possession cult existed among the Hadimu women of Zanzibar, revering a spirit called kitimiri. This cult was described in an 1869 account by a French missionary. The cult faded by the 1920s and was virtually unknown by the 1960s. [69]
13 hours ago · Illustration of reincarnation in Hindu art. In Jainism, a soul travels to any one of the four states of existence after death depending on its karmas.. Reincarnation, also known as rebirth or transmigration, is the philosophical or religious concept that the non-physical essence of a living being begins a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death.
6 days ago · Silk noted that although it took a while, RNS eventually began covering Eastern Orthodox religions and the Black religious community, exposing the nation to diversity it hadn’t seen before.
3 days ago · Michael Lofton examines the new interfaith center in Moscow that features an Orthodox Church, Synagogue, Mosque and a Buddhist Temple. He also reviews Patriarch Bartholomew saying all religions worship the same God, Patriarch Kirill and Patriarch Tawadros II who say Muslims and Christians worship the same God.
