Roman victory propaganda – Revelation’s response: A historical and theological study by Łukasz Bergel

“…The Book of Revelation comes with a message to comfort Christians torn between these two realities. It uses the Roman symbolism of victory and transforms it to answer the Roman propaganda. …”
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St. Thomas Aquinas’ Doctrine of Christ’s Descent into Hades and its implications for African Ancestor Christological discourse by I. Boaheng

“…It encourages Akan Christians to place their faith solely in Christ. …”
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Territorialidades das igrejas evangélicas nas comunidades tradicionais da Amazônia Central by José Diego Gobbo Alves, Heloísa Corrêa Pereira, Álvaro de Oliveira D’Antona

“…However, as observed in Brazil, the number of evangelical Christians has increased significantly in recent years, a growth associated with the territorial expansion of evangelical religious temples. …”
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The Case of Hagia Sophia's Opening to Worship As an Example of Political “Anamnesis” by Deniz Ülke Arıbogan

“…It has been used as a church for nearly 1000 years and has become a crucial symbol of the power of the Byzantine Empire as well as being a center of worshipping for Christians. The symbolic power of Hagia Sophia, which was used as a mosque for 482 years and was conquered by Ottomans, is important. …”
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The ancient past and fiction, or about the construction of worlds by humanities scholars: A review of books by D.E. Martynov

“…Eliseeva’s novel is a synthesis of the personalities and actions of Julius Caesar and Constantine the Great, so the writer used the motif of the fantasy world, in which the Roman Republic and Rome are replaced by Latium and Eternal City with the Nazarenes (i.e., Christians) playing an important role in its future. …”
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Pemaknaan Pengalaman Bahagia pada Orang Islam by Diana Elfida, Winarini Wilman D. Mansoer, Mirra Noor Milla, Bagus Takwin

“…Two philosophical perspectives on the good life, namely hedonic and eudaimonic, have become references for experts to explain how people understand happiness in Western societies with individualistic culture and the majority of Christians. This descriptive phenomenological study aimed to understand the happiness experiences of a collectivistic Muslim society. …”
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St. Yared in the Sǝmen Mountains of northern Ethiopia: The Ethiopian Orthodox and Betä Ǝsraʾel (Ethiopian Jewish) religious sites by Bar Kribus, Sophia Dege-Müller

“…The Betä Ǝsraʾel and Ethiopian Orthodox Christians did not commonly recognize the same post-biblical individuals as holy men. …”
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Jews, Rights, and Belonging in Tunisia: Léon Elmilik, 1861-1881 by Jessica M. Marglin

“…Elmilik aligned himself with Jews and Christians who believed in the need to modernize and Europeanize Tunisia. …”
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Marching towards the Cruzada: Douglas Jerrold's road to nationalist Spain by F. Hale

“… The Spanish Civil War pitted British Christians against each other in an intense battle for the hearts and minds of the public. …”
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“Ikwekwe yinja1 (a Boy is a Dog)” by Zukile Ngqeza

“…Notwithstanding, scholars like Marcia Bunge acknowledge that in the Judeo-Christian bible “infants and children are also whole and complete human beings made in the image of God” (2012:65). …”
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Ekologiczne aspekty katolickiej teologii moralnej by Mariusz Ciszek

“…The ecological aspect of catholic moral theology should not evoke astonishment, as it is not a strange hybrid created by means of artificial manipulations aiming at bestowing authority of Christian tradition on ecology. Popes' statements concerning natural environment conservation seem to testify against such claims and only show the importance and need of implementing responsible and moderate using the Earth's resources into Christian awareness. …”
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“Pretty as a peach” by Nicola Jones, Sandra Pitcher

“…The paper analyses the stereotyped representation of Steenkamp and Pistorius in all three publications, and following the work of Clifford Christians (2009), uses these examples to highlight problems with the traditional utilitarian frameworks that govern modern news reporting. …”
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Family prayer as a tool for consolidating Abkhazian family unions by R.Sh. Zelnitskaya (Shlarba)

“…Despite the fact that some Abkhazians are Christians and others are adherents of Islam, for each of them national beliefs are important. …”
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Editorial by Maria Frahm-Arp

“…In a different vein, Aidoo examines the phenomena of cursing prayers in which pastors criticize each other and claim other pastors as not being Christians in their prayers. Second, there is no centralized canonical theology determined by a particular body or group with authority to establish and enforce rules or regulations, meaning that the groups and churches in the movement are free to development their own theologies. …”
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Urbanisation, migration, depopulation and virtual ritual community - the village kurban as a shared meal by Hristov Petko, Manova Tsvetana

“…The paper deals with the specific use of collective rituals focused on blood sacrifice and a shared meal among Orthodox Christians in the Balkans, known mostly as kurban. …”
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Ecumenism from Below by Herbert Moyo

“… This article explores ecumenism from below as demonstrated by women’s leagues in Zimbabwe and South Africa where Christians from different denominations worship together once every week. …”
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The situation of the Greek Catholic Church in Slovakia in the second half of 20th century by Peter Šturák

“…Let it be passed from generation to generation to make deep Christian recovery flow from it. Let guard the memory of martyrs as the jewel of incredible price for the Christians of the new millennium.” …”
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Gregorio de los Ríos at the Casa del Campo by Catherine Chomarat-Ruiz

“…Giving grace to the beauty of the nature given by God pagans and Christians would have understood this objective of an art which gives sense to human being. …”
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Christology and the Catholic Encounter with World Religions by Francis V. Tiso

“…To accomplish this task, Catholic Christians are invited to find Christ in all phenomena, including in other religions as disclosures of what it is to be human. …”
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