has said so, I cannot say no anymore" Ethopian Christians believe that Christ once gave the Negus's empire of Abyssinia (former name of the country) to his Mother as the tithe of the universe. In a special

heart of a small nation, buffeted by history, which had survived confrontations with neighboring empires and eventually became the only nation to survive the dissolution of the ancient world, keeping its

me from the detestable and infamous tyranny of impure inclinations and passions; abolish in me the empire of sin; give wisdom and discernment to my stubborn, wretched mind, for the correction of my faults

in Heaven. Formerly, death, introduced into the world by Eve, strangled the earth with its cruel empire. Today, death has been expelled. Its defeat came from where it formerly got its power... Blessed

off the detestable and infamous tyranny of my impure inclinations and passions. Destroy in me the empire of sin. Grant wisdom and counsel to my spirit that is filled with darkness and wretchedness. Help

and Anatolia recently posted online, we read: "The opposition between Christianity and the Ottoman Empire has an eschatological dimension. In the Apocalypse narrated by the Apostle John, there is an image

small nation, tossed about by history's whims, which survived all the conflicts with neighboring empires and ended up being the only nation to outlive the ancient world, keeping its identity intact and

by the Edict of Milan in 313, that the Christian religion was to be the official religion of the Empire. Helen asked her son to build several churches, and a Basilica on the site where Saint Peter was

a fire 10 years later and rebuilt in stone. When St. Petersburg became the capital of the Russian Empire, from 1712 to 1917, the original icon of Kazan was transported there and the czar left a copy in

of Catholic states arranged by Pope Pius V, inflicted a major defeat on the fleet of the Ottoman Empire in the Gulf of Patras.