Lent (in Latin Quadragesima) is a solemn religious observance in the liturgical calendar that begins on Ash Wednesday and ends approximately six weeks later, before Easter Sunday. The purpose of…
The Significance of Ash Wednesday Ash Wednesday, also known as Feria quarta cinerum in Latin, marks the beginning of Lent, a period of penance and reflection in the Western Christian…
In Abrahamic religions, the Messiah (Hebrew: מָשִׁיחַ, translit. Māšîaḥ), Christ (Greek: Χριστός, translit. Khristós), or Al-Masih (Arabic: المسيح, ISO 233: mahdī) is the one chosen to lead the World and thereby…
A yarmulke (Yiddish) or Kippah (Hebrew) is a small cloth cap worn by Jews. Traditionally it was worn only by men, but in modern times the push for equality between…
Tehillim: The different Numbering Systems of the Psalms The Book of Psalms (Hebrew: תְּהִלִּים, Tehillim, “praises”), is the first book of the Ketuvim (“Writings”), the third section of the Hebrew…
Pietism (from the word piety) was an influential movement within Lutheranism that combined Lutheran emphasis on Biblical doctrine with the Reformed emphasis on individual piety and living a vigorous Christian…
Vade retro satana (“Go back, Satan” or “Step back, Satan”) is a Medieval Catholic formula for exorcism, recorded in a 1415 manuscript found in the Benedictine Metten Abbey in Bavaria;…
One of the most important Christian Holyday is Christmas, the day that remember the birth of Jesus the Nazarene. The night between 24th and 25th December has been used conventionally…
Is very important know why GOD, in the Holy Scriptures recomands to take so much care to the Widows and the Orphans. The reason is not just because they are…
Introduction The 10 Commandments, also known as the Decalogue, are a set of Biblical Principles relating to ethics and worship, which play a fundamental role in Abrahamic Religions. The commandments include…
The Name of GOD used most often in the Hebrew Bible is the Tetragrammaton YHWH (Hebrew: יהוה). It is frequently anglicized as Jehovah and Yahweh and written in most English…
ALLAH (in Arabic: الله) is the Arabic word referring to GOD in Abrahamic religions. The word is thought to be derived by contraction from al-ilāh, which means “the god”, and is related to El…
In the Bible, a nazirite, nazarene or nazarite (from Nazir in Hebrew נזיר) is one who voluntarily took a vow described in Numbers 6, 1–21. “Nazarite” comes from the Hebrew word…
Maaser means “a tenth.” It’s based on the Hebrew word eser, or ten. As a rule, it refers to donating ten percent of whatever to whomever. While ma’aser may seem like…
The Nobel Peace Prize 1994 was awarded jointly to Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin “for their efforts to create peace in the Middle East”.
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