What counts as conversion to Islam: Repeating the confession: There is no God but Allah and Mohammad is his Prophet. If you repeat this in Arabic without understanding the words, then your conversion to Islam is still valid. …

By Hector Aleem (Pastor of the Anglican Church) — Political Motive of Committing Genocide on Christians in Pakistan The Islamic Republic of Pakistan considers itself to be the legitimate leader of all Islamic countries. This gives it political motive to create a strictly unified Muslim society in its nation. Pakistan finds military strength for this hardline policy in it`s…

By Marcela Carilo 22.dec.2020 Civil Engineer & Archaeologist Amateur at IC&H For Pioneering Tunneling Design for an Archeological Site, City of David National Park won first place in the “Oddities of the Underground” category in the ITA’s sixth annual contest. The Old City of Jerusalem Project was tagged as “Tunnelling…

Author: p. Arne Marco Kirsebom, Norway — Words. The Word is at the center of every communication. There is no dialogue without words. Through conversation, through our meeting with the Other, we find other human beings who fit us. Although there is also non-verbal communication, this is still a kind of language., such as facial expressions, body…

Part 5: Summary and Conclusions Author. K.R. Harriman We could continue further into abstruse depths on observances of December 25 as the date for Jesus’s birth, but this should be sufficient (for more on the history of Christmas observance, see Talley, Origins, 134–55). …

Part 4: What the Church Fathers Actually Say Author: K. R. Harriman I have already noted that there were differing traditions in the East and West about Jesus’s dates of death and birth (April 6 and January 6 on the one hand and March 25 and December 25 on the other), but the picture is even more complicated than that. The earliest…