The prohibition of imagery (Iconoclasm) by the Eastern Church in the eighth and ninth centuries (and, after the Reformation, by Protestant sects) was a reaction against the widespread heresy of "real presence" the belief that the image of God or of Christ had itself an aspect of divinity.
Their Church split from the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches in 451AD because of a theological dispute over the nature of Christ but is now, on most issues, doctrinally similar to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
Meanwhile, the spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Istanbul, also intervened.
Members of the Eastern Orthodox church have been offended by the attempts of the Catholic church to proselytise in Russia.
Spencer noted that the head of that Vatican Synod, Archbishop Cyril Salim Bustros, who presently heads the Eastern Catholic church in the US, and in the past served as archbishop of Baalbek in his native Lebanon follows a similar pattern of dissimulation.
The new dig, due to start in July, will uncover much of the eastern end of the church, including the area where Richard was found.
Yet ever since the triumph of democracy in eastern Europe, the church has often appeared to the secular world to be slipping behind the train of history.
John Paul once compared the Western and Eastern Rites of the Church to left and right lungs and that for the Church to thrive it must breathe with both.
Then a mob set fire to a church in the eastern city of Ujung Pandang.
All that remained was a territorial name, which the eastern branch of the Armenian church took for its diocese.
Two people were killed in a grenade attack on a church in the eastern town of Garissa earlier in the month.
Tourists of architecture are often reduced to stopping by a Starbucks, imbedded in the church's eastern flank, to ask directions to the entrance.
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Many of its people have their roots in eastern Europe, and the Roman Catholic church is strong in the area.
In an article published in National Review, Pacepa, who when he defected to the US in 1978 became the highest ranking Soviet-bloc defector, claimed that in the late 1950s the KGB began perceiving the Catholic Church as the primary threat to its control over Eastern Bloc countries.
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Casmoussa is a member of the Chaldean Church, part of a group of independent but related Eastern Catholic Churches that accept the pope as their head.
This is obligatory for priests of the main Roman church (but not for former Anglican clerics, or for most of the priests in Eastern-rite churches that also come under papal authority).
The foundation, headquartered in Falls Church, sought Chapter 11 protection Jan. 24 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Virginia in Alexandria.
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