Just in time for Hanukkah, a 1,000-year-old archaeological find may just have ended a centuries old debate on what the original design of the Menorah in the Holy Temples resembled.
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The draft budget has no funds earmarked for church building or rehabilitation works of religious places. It’s the first Romanian Executive that basically cuts the Romanian Orthodox Church’s access to a slice of the budget. In exchange, the Government boosted the salaries of priests and other church employees. This wage increase comes to contradict the government’s announcement a few days ago, that there will be no budget allocations to religious denominations.
Greece is one of the last EU countries where gay couples cannot receive recognition of their relationship.
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The Monastery was founded by Eusebius Vitti in 1973. After Vitti’s final journey to Greece in 1980 and his death in 2010, the task of maintaining the monastery was undertaken by the Orthodox Brotherhood “Agios Nikolaos.” The monastery was completely destroyed by a fire in October 2010. Over the next years, a new building was constructed, which remained uninhabited until October 2014, when the Metropolis of Sweden undertook the task of completing its thorough renovation. This hermitage is the first Greek Orthodox monastery in Sweden and all Scandinavia.
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A possible transfer of the world-famous Kiev Pechersk Lavra, also known to historians and theologians as the Kiev Monastery of the Caves, from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate to the non-canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kiev Patriarchate would be illegitimate from the point of view of both canon and secular law and would further aggravate tensions in Ukraine's religious life, Russian experts said on Thursday.