Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The St.Thomas Seminary is gradually growing as a centre of the Orthodox Church in Central and North India. Not only does it cater the needs of the diaspora population meaningfully but also does it create a new vision about the mission of the Church in a multi-lingual and multi-religious context. Moreover, the Seminary offers a stage for fruitful dialogues of Christian theologians with people of other faith affirmations. In future, women of the Orthodox Church, who wish to study theology and to reflect to the challenges of the world will find it as a place, where their ideas will be influencing the theology of...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Naheere, commonly known as "Entrance to Heaven", is a practice of Syriac people in the Syriac Orthodox Church which includes a church sermon. It is celebrated on the eve of Monday during Holy Week (evening of Palm Sunday). The word 'Naheere" is Syriac( a dialect of Middle Aramaic) for light. The occasion celebrates how, if one asks Jesus into his heart, Jesus comes in and shows you the ligh. You are accepted by his grace into heaven. One of the things that the service centers around is the Parable of the Ten Virgins. This was told by Jesus to explain the entrance concept. Some Syriac prayers, which tell this...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Lady Silimaka married Silimaka Ikinehau, a farmer and landowner in Liku, Niue Island in 1945. Although, having no biological offspring, they adopted 7 Main Children whom they identify as: Togiaua Fotuaga, Sialemele Pinivai, Vilimaui Vilikai, Mele Toni Vilikai, Isaako Togiaua, Anita Silimaka and Tumaka. From these 6 Children, Nahega was also able to also care for the 2nd and 3rd Generation of Children, making her the proud recipient of 34 Grandchildren, 78 Great-Grandchildren and 14 Great Great-Grandchildren. Nahega was a dearly loved member of her family, community and church. Данное издание не...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A community settlement (Hebrew: , Yishuv Kehilati) is a type of town in Israel. While in an ordinary town anyone may buy property, in a community settlement the town's residents, who are organized in a cooperative, can veto a sale of a house or a business to an undesirable buyer. By this selection process, residents of a community settlement may have a particular shared ideology, religious perspective, or desired lifestyle which they wish to perpetuate by accepting only like-minded individuals. For example, many community settlements will not accept people with criminal records. Many will only accept young...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Un nahual ou nagual est, dans les croyances mesoamericaines ou d'origine mesoamericaine, un etre mythologique de nature double, a la fois humaine (ou divine) et animale. La forme animale du nahual est le plus souvent un canide (coyote, chien), un rapace, un ane ou une dinde, mais peut etre aussi un animal plus puissant comme le jaguar. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Nachum was the teacher of Rabbi Akiva, and taught him the exegetical principles of inclusion and exclusion ("ribbui u-mi'ut"). Only one halakah of his has been preserved; but it is known that he interpreted the whole Torah according to the rule of "ribbui u-mi'ut". He used to explain the accusative particle by saying that it implied the inclusion in the object of something besides that which is explicitly mentioned. In the sentence "You shall fear the Lord your God", however, he did not explain the word before "the Lord", since he did not wish to cause any one to share in the reverence due to God; and he...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Rabbi Rabinovich taught Judaism in several places and served as a congregational rabbi: Between 1952 -1963 he was the Rabbi of the Jewish Community in Charleston, South Carolina. In 1963 he was called to serve as a community Rabbi in Toronto. In the 1970s, he completed a Ph.D. in the field of statistics and probability in the Talmud at the university of Toronto; the results are in his book which is highly cited: "Probability and Statistical Inference in ancient and medieval Jewish Literature" (Toronto, 1973). At that time he also gave lectures at the University and was an editor of the Rabbinical Council of...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. In different religions solar supreme deities carry different names and are associated with different aspects of the cultural universe of the society, but for the most part its raw image remains identical. The Neolithic concept of a solar barge, the sun as traversing the sky in a boat, is found in the later myths of ancient Egypt, with Ra and Horus. Earlier Egyptian myths imply that the sun is within the lioness, Sekhmet, at night and can be seen reflected in her eyes or that it is within the cow, Hathor during the night, being reborn each morning as her son (bull). Proto-Indo-European religion has a solar...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Naikan (lit. “inside looking” or “introspection”) is a structured method of self-reflection developed by Yoshimoto Ishin(1916-1988) a business man and devout Jodo Shinshu Buddhist who, as a young man, had engaged in an ascetic 'contrition' (mishirabe) practice involving sensory deprivation through dwelling in a dark cave without food, water or sleep. Wishing to make such introspection available to others he developed Naikan as a less difficult method which he first introduced to young people who had been incarcerated for committing crime and social disturbances. Later the practice was introduced to the...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Relics that are claimed to be the Holy Nails with which Christ was crucified are objects of veneration among some Christians. In Christian symbolism and art they figure among the Instruments of the Passion or Arma Christi, the objects associated with Jesus' Passion. Like the other Instruments the Holy Nails have become an object of veneration among many Christians and have been pictured in paintings and supposedly recovered. When Helena, mother of Constantine the Great discovered the True Cross in Jerusalem, the legend was told by and repeated by Sozomen and Theodoret that the Holy Nails had been recovered too....

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Rev. Dr. Naim Stifan Ateek (Arabic: , Na'im 'Ateeq) is a Palestinian Christian who is the founder and head of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem. He went to school to the Nazareth Baptist school where he also taught after graduation. He was the first to articulate a Palestinian theology of liberation in his book, Justice, and only Justice, a Palestinian Theology of Liberation, published by Orbis in 1989. The book laid the foundation of a theology that addresses the conflict over Palestine and explores the political as well as the religious, biblical, and theological dimensions. A...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Like the Khitan and the Uyghurs, many of them were Nestorian Christians and Buddhists. When last Tayan Khan was killed after a battle with Genghis Khan in 1203, his son Kuchlug with his remaining Naiman troops fled to the Kara-Khitai. Kuchlug was well received there and the Khitan King gave him his daughter in marriage. Kuchlug soon began plotting against his new father-in-law, and after executing him and taking his place, he began to persecute Muslims in the Hami Oases. But his action was opposed by local people and he was later defeated by the Mongols under Jebe and the land of the Kara-Khitai empire...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Najmiddin Jalolov was the leader of the Jama'at al-Jihad al-Islami, a militant organization affiliated with Al-Qaeda that operates in Central Asia and Russia. He is a former member of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, another organization affiliated with Al-Qaeda. Uzbek courts found Jalolov guilty of terrorism in absentia in 2000. Jalolov has been tied to Taliban leader Mohammad Omar, Uyghur militant Abu Mohammad, and Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. He is believed to have been killed in a U.S. Predator drone strike on September 14, 2009. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Naka Vihara is a stupa, or Buddhist religious monument, built with bricks and square in shape. The stupa is located in Anuradhapura, Sri Lanka. The site was constructed according to an unusual model and would have been similar to the seven story building (Satmahal Prasadaya) in Polonnaruwa, Sri Lanka. Excavations done at this location revealed several clay caskets. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Nakayama-dera is a Buddhist temple, in Takarazuka, Hyogo, Japan. The Kansai Kannon Pilgrimage No.24. The ‘engi', or the official history of the temple, recorded that the temple was founded by Prince Shotoku, in the 6th century. It is one of the most popular temples in the region. Today's buildings of this temple were mainnly built by Toyotomi Hideyori in the 17th century. Hideyori is a son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi who unified Japan in the 16th century. The principal object of worship at this temple is a Juichimen Kannon, or the Goddess of Mercy with eleven heads. It is believed the Kannon has her power to give babies and its easy delivery. Данное издание не является...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The party participated in the ouster of the first Communist Party of India (CPI) government in Kerala in 1959. In 1960 the party took part in the formation of a coalition government in the state, consisting of the Indian National Congress, Praja Socialist Party and IUML. The government proved short lived. In the elections in Kerala in 1967 the party had entered a united front led by the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)). The other members of the front were CPI, Revolutionary Socialist Party, Karshaka Thozhilali Party (Peasants and Workers Party), Kerala Socialist Party and Samyukta Socialist Party. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! N?mar?pa is a dvandva compound in Sanskrit and Pali meaning "name (n?ma) and form (r?pa)".This term is used in Buddhism to refer to constituent processes of the human being: n?ma is typically considered to refer to psychological elements of the human person, while R?pa refers to the physical. The Buddhist n?ma and r?pa are mutually dependent, and not separable; as n?mar?pa, they designate an individual being. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! He undertook the task of building the older church which is still standing and is contained within the walls of the city, one hundred and fifty feet in length, sixty in width,-that is, the nave, fifty in height to the vault, with a round apse in front and on each side aisles finely built, the whole building is laid out in the form of a cross; it has forty-two windows, seventy columns, eight doors. The fear of God is in it and a great brightness is seen, and in the spring a very pleasant fragrance as if of spices is perceived there by the devout. It has near the altar walls of variegated work adorned with many kinds of marble. The blessed bishop on finishing the building in the twelfth year,...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A name day is a tradition celebrated in many countries in Europe and Latin America of celebrating on a particular day of the year associated with the one's given name. The custom originated with the Catholic and Orthodox calendar of saints, where believers, named after a particular saint, would celebrate that saint's feast day. In many countries, however, there is no longer any explicit connection to Christianity. The celebration of name days has been a tradition in Catholic and Orthodox countries since the Middle Ages, and has also continued in some measure in those countries, such as England and the Scandinavian countries, whose Protestant established church retains certain Catholic...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The historian Marcel Trudel asked the following question: "where does the name "Mount Royal" come from? in honor of Cardinal de Medici, Archbishop of Monreale? in honor of Claude de Pontbriand, son of the Seigneur de Montreal? or simply in honor of the king? No explanation has been given". Claude de Pontbriand, the Seigneur de Montreal (landlord of the Chateau de Montreal), accompanied Jacques Cartier on his expedition up the Saint Lawrence River, and was with him on October 3, 1535, when he reached Hochelaga, on the site of the present day city of Montreal. Among the hypotheses concerning the origin of Montreal's name, the most acceptable to Toponymy is the one that finds it to be a variant of...

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Names and titles of Jesus in the New Testament. Messiah, Christ, Anointing of Jesus, Head of the Church, Kohen Gadol, Immanuel, INRI, Lamb of God, Logos (Christianity), Prophet, Rabbi, Son of God, Son of man Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Various monotheist religions have different names of God. In the Hebrew scriptures the Jewish name of God is considered sacred and, out of deep respect for the name, Jews do not say the name of God and do not erase it if it is written. The tetragrammaton is the name for the group of four Hebrew letters which represent the name of God. The Tetragrammaton occurs 6,828 times in the Hebrew text in the Biblia Hebraica and the Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia. Neither vowels nor vowel points were used in ancient Hebrew writings. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Christians disagree on the contents of the Old Testament. The Catholic Church, the Orthodox Churches and some Protestants recognize an additional set of Jewish writings, known as the deuterocanonical books. They are not accepted as canonical by the Jews (although some ancient Jews appear to have accepted them) and by most of the Protestants, who consider them to be apocryphal. There are also a number of other early Christian writings some individual Christians regard as scripture, but which are not generally regarded as such by the churches. These include the apocryphal gospels, such as the Gospel according to the Hebrews, the Gospel of Thomas and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene. Данное...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Syriac Christians from the Middle East shouldn't be confused with Syriac Christian Dravidians from India, who are an entirely different ethnic group but follow the same version of Christianity that was spread by Syriac Christians from the Middle East, centuries earlier. There are around 25,000,000 Syriacs in the world, the majority living in the diaspora with the largest centres being in Brazil, India, the United States, Canada, Syrian Arab Republic, Lebanon, Sweden and Iraq. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The naming and blessing of a child in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is a non-saving ordinance, usually performed during sacrament meeting soon after a child's birth in fulfillment of the commandment in the Doctrine and Covenants: "Every member of the church of Christ having children is to bring them unto the elders before the church, who are to lay their hands upon them in the name of Jesus Christ, and bless them in his name." The purpose of the practice is twofold: to give a baby an official name and to provide an opportunity to give a blessing for the child's spiritual and physical welfare....

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