Since the permanent dividing of the Roman Empire in 395 ad, eastern rulers viewed themselves as the emperors of Rome. ... During the years of the Byzantine Empire, differences occurred between the eastern and western parts of the church. ... Well in 730 Emperor Leo 3rd banned the use of religious images used by eastern Christians. ... Therefore they split and had the Roman Catholic Church in the west, while the Orthodox Church was in the east. ... Slavs were people on the Black Sea that were converted by the Orthodox Christians....

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The Ukraine is a country in South Eastern Europe, which borders on the Black Sea. ... The religion in the Ukraine is mostly Ukrainian Orthodox. ... People who are Ukrainian Orthodox celebrate Christmas on January 7. ... The leader of the Orthodox church is not the Pope. The Orthodox church is led by the Bishops. ...

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Turkmenistan is a small country with 4,603,244 people. The population is growing at 1.85%. Currently, the life expectancy is 61 years. The literacy rate is 98%. The ethnicity of the Turkmen (the nationality) is made up of Turkmen 77%, Uzbek 9.2%, Russian 6.7%, Kazakh 2%, other 5.1%. 89% of Tur...

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It's a mixture of either eastern or western religions. ... In the Christians, 59% is Protestants, 27% is Catholic, and 1% is Eastern Orthodox. ... Catholics mainly came from eastern European countries, like Romania, Hungary, etc. People who believe in Eastern Orthodox mainly came from Russia. ...

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Before it was over, it had swept the colonies of the Eastern seaboard, transforming the social and religious life of land. ... They believed their souls were started by the "hellfire of the orthodox Calvinism." ...

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The Orthodox and Catholic Churches recognize seven sacraments – "Baptism, Confirmation, Eucharist, Penance, Anointing of the sick, Matrimony and Holy Orders.... The Council of Chalcedon was the 4th Ecumenical Council by the Roman Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Eastern Church and other Christian groups. ... The creed was readily accepted by the churches of the west but was rejected some eastern churches. ...

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It is known as the Eastern European concentration for witchcraft and occultism. While the official state church of Romania (Orthodox Church) has some presence in the region, many of the villages are absent any type church. ...

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The eastern boundary of this region, the Urals, are old mountains that have eroded. ... Eastern Siberia includes the Central Siberian Uplands .The Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Island, at the western edge of the Pacific, were formed from young mountains. ... The temperature in eastern Siberia reaches a bone-chilling level of -150 degrees F. ... These people are located in eastern Russia and in southern Siberia. ... Russian language courses were and are requirement for all schoolchildren. 41% of the Russians are Russian Orthodox believers. ...

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This simple idea caused a major division between the Eastern and Western Churches that still exists to this day. ... The idea of the Trinity wasn't the problem but the hierarchy of it was, which caused two major groups, the Western Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. ... In Eastern Theology, there is a distinct inequality in that the Holy Spirit doesn't come from the Father and the Son, but from the Father alone. ...

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In "The Ancient World," Brian Wilkie and James Hurst talk about the Roman, Hebrew, and Greek cultures. Each has their own impact on modern society, but I believe the Romans were the most influential on the way today's society is run. To this day, the Roman culture still has many important impacts li...

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Christians (Coptic Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Coptic Catholic, Roman Catholic, Armenian, Episcopal Church, and a variety of Protestant churches) believe in Christ. ... Here are some examples: the Nile Valley and Delta, the Western Desert, the Eastern Desert, and the Sinai Peninsula. ... Here are some of the countries Egypt has dealings with, Germany, Italy, France, the U.S., Asian countries and other Middle Eastern countries. ...

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"The civil emancipation of the European Jewry, a process complicated by lingering anti-Jewish sentiment, evoked different reformulations of Judaism in western and eastern Europe. ... In eastern Europe, modernization of Judaism took the form of cultural and ethnic nationalism- It emphasized the national language and the creation of a modern secular literature and culture, thus aiding the development of the secular ideology of Zionism (the creation of a modern Jewish society in the ancient promised land). ...

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Stalin's Soviet Union was a major factor in the defeat of Hitler in World War Two, and Stalin emerged from the war as leader of one of the world's two superpowers, quickly building a 'Communist Bloc' in Eastern Europe. 4. ... Peter not only reorganized the Russian army but he also reformed the government of the Russian Orthodox Church. 7. ...

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In the beginning, the former Yugoslavia consisted of six republics and two independent regions. Today Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Slovenia are independent nations and the rest form the country of Yugoslavia. Bosnia-Herzegovina had a population of 4.4 million, before the war. It...

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He has lectured and taught on campuses, including Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Northern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fuller Theological Seminary, and several institutions in America and countries on every continent. ... A well-respected and intellectual, Carl Henry, would become a leader and guide for evangelicals in the literary arena during the late 40s thus helping to develop a definitive philosophic grounding for the orthodox position. ...

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Turkmenistan is filled with beliefs but eighty-nine percent of all people are Muslim, and most of those people are Sunni, nine percent of all people in Turkmenistan are eastern orthodox, and two percent of all people in Turkmenistan are non-religious. ...

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Abrahamian, Sweenzy and Sweenzy (2001 p.288) stated "traditional music sounds Middle Eastern, and it generally follows Middle Eastern time signatures. ... Armenians converted early to Christianity, and the head of the Armenian Orthodox Church, the Supreme Catholicos, lives in Echmiadzin. ...

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The one institution that Stalin's birthplace shared with the larger Russian Empire was the Orthodox Church which Georgia actually converted more than 500 years before Russia. ... This set the scene for much conflict between the strict Russian Orthodox priests who ran the school and the radical Georgian student body. ...

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The revived Russian nationalism movement has recognized the Russian Orthodox Church as an important element in Russian culture. Russian Orthodox Church originated at the end of the 10th century, when missionaries from Byzantium converted the ruler of Kiev an Rus to Christianity. For the past 1,000 years the Orthodox Church has been the dominant faith of the Russian people. There are other Christian denominations as well, though none as large as the Orthodox. ...

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The Christian Identity: Christianity grew from a small group of followers into a full fledged religion in the fourth to the sixth century when the Roman Catholic Church replaced the Roman Empire. The church was now head of authority and set all the laws as the Pope looked over the states. They es...

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The role of religion has played a major part in every aspect of our world's history. Every country, big or small, every person peasant or king, even every time historic or modern has been affected by religion in one way or another. Among all of the regions in the world the most popular is Christianity. And in early European history Christianity spread with an almost fire like pace across much of the continent. With only some resistance Christianity would grow to become the dominate ideology in Europe. ...

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The word ordination comes from the Latin word Ordinatio, which means to bestow an ordo, (gark tnel, gark dal), or to appoint an official to an office. The Armenian word Dzernatrutyun comes from the Greek word cheirotonia, which means "the lifting up of hands." In Classical Greek, this word signifies...

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PART 1: TRIP PREPARATION Welcome everyone! We are glad to finally reach our departure date, as it has seemed a lifetime; we are now ready to begin our journey. We hope that everyone is extremely excited, for we are about to embark on a journey that will open doorways to a world that most people w...

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In Western, Eastern and Pagan religions, the concept of how to achieve a good or a bad existence after death have remained static for centuries. ... Saving grace comes from accepting Jesus Christ as their Savior; while the Greek Orthodox Church and Catholic Church instruct that the judgment pivots on both faith and works. ...

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1 "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."" It is one of the most known verses in the Christian Bible. For many, it is interpreted simply as revenge. If someone deliberately takes a person's life, then that person's life should be taken to create justice. But is this really how the verse was meant to be interpreted? ...

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