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In those hours, however, when the Bulgarian terror rule prevailed in Macedonia and Greek blood was flowing, he had to, as an Orthodox cleric, fulfil his duty and save the flock that the Ecumenical Patriarchate had entrusted to him.

That is because we suddenly have an alternative to oil, and when you look around, oil is the cause, the weapon, and the victim of our current round of conflicts.

By hating someone, we ourselves can become hateful.

The Torah teaches: We are responsible for one another

It is not the frequency but the severity of antisemitic incidents with an Islamic/Islamist background that stands out

This shows that the one who kills other people is not necessarily a person of coarse nature or, as some say, a hell-being. These are people in our surroundings, students, children, who look as though they have nothing evil in them.

Communication actually begins with the person themselves. We have a communication with ourselves. When we wake up in the morning, the person we first come into contact with is actually ourselves again.

The powerful and tyrannical forces can no longer control the narrative. They have their own narrative, but we also see the other side very quickly and very rapidly.

The parable that Jesus tells presents forgiveness as grace, as a gift, as a giving that comes from God's gratuitousness: "I have forgiven you the whole debt because you asked me to."

Compassion, not cruelty. Mercy, not malice. Generosity, not greed. Kind, not callous. Charitable, not brutal. Reconciliation, not revenge. Love, not hate.

Was this killing in a fit of passion a form of self-defense, as some exegetes portray him, making him a hero and savior of the nation, or was it lynching?

Unforgiveness is a terrible sin. In 1 John 4 it says that if someone claims to love God and at the same time harbors hatred toward his brother, then he is a liar.

Governments and police cannot simply express concern after each incident and then carry on. We need concrete measures to counter hate against Sikhs, to protect houses of worship, and to ensure that threats and hate-motivated incidents are properly investigated.

The protection of queer people is not solely the task of the community. It is a responsibility of society as a whole. The federal government, the states, and the municipalities are jointly obligated here.

Equanimity is the ability to include everything in our experience without being overwhelmed by what we are experiencing.

Speak the truth, speak little, speak kindly, speak gently. Offend no one, not even in thought; what is not right in word or deed.

Does the Buddha create a beautiful harmonious world? No, sir, he does not. And for the following reason. A world that is beautiful and harmonious is not truly beautiful and harmonious. It is only called beautiful and harmonious.

This distinction, between speaking out against injustice and dictating the political means by which justice is to be achieved, is where I have found my position.

It was entirely the wonders of trust in God. These were the fruits of his unshakeable faith in Him. He knew deep in his heart that no external worldly means could do him any harm at all.

To be humanly great therefore does not mean, from a Buddhist perspective, to become greater than others. It means to grow beyond yourself. To become more patient, more compassionate, more mindful, and wiser.

The question of a modern pluralistic military chaplaincy is gaining increasing importance in Germany. Although the Bundeswehr has established chaplaincy structures for Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, and in the future Muslim soldiers for decades, there is still no equivalent offering for those who do not belong to a religion.

The Rafida are the helpers of the idolaters and the Jews and the Christians in their fight against the Muslims.

The fall of Constantinople on 29 May, which marked the downfall of the Greek world and also of Orthodox Christianity, was connected in popular poetry with the endless Divine Liturgy in the holy church of the Holy Wisdom of God.