The Azerbaijan State Oil Company SOCAR has taken on a free long-term commitment to supply natural gas to all the churches and monasteries located on the territory of Georgia. The decision is very important, because many of the monasteries and churches are located in the highlands, where not only in winter, but even in spring and autumn, and sometimes in the summer it is extremely cold.
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Bulgaria’s Cabinet said on October 13 that it had proposed to head of state President Rossen Plevneliev to confer the country’s highest state honour, the Stara Planina first degree, on Bulgarian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Neofit.
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A theological dialogue initiative offering Orthodox perspectives on disability has encouraged churches to address the issue with a renewed commitment.
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Far right groups across Europe are calling for Muslims not to be allowed in amid a huge refugee crisis.
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Developing the topic of connections between science and religion, the MIFI rector noted that science is spiritually and morally neutral knowledge, it is neither good nor evil, "but it can turn into evil, in artificial knowledge leading to corruption of the human personality and global ecological catastrophe."