Today marks the 450th year anniversary of this Reformation Era document, the Heidelberg Catechism, composed in 1563. Among the Protestant declarations of faith of the era, this is one of the simplest and more personal ones, memorized in a question an...
By Indio Bravo: A Blog of a Filipino Historian on Oct 28, 2012 in:
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ANATHEMA is a very strong word for Christians of all persuasions. It meant being divinely cursed, earning an enmity with God for all eternity. In short, to be anathema is to be dead meat, either in here or in the next life. The Roman Catholic Church...
By Philippine Catholic News on May 7, 2011 in:
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MEMBERS of a protestant Church in Manila held a protest march on Wednesday to call for a stop to the construction of a motel in front of a religious shrine and a few meters from several schools in the suburbs of Quezon City.Read more...