Despite the widespread prevalence of mental illness and the increasingly high need for mental health care, patients with mental illness continually fail to receive adequate or timely treatment. Among other reasons, stigma against and misunderstandings of mental illness prevent millions of people from promptly seeking appropriate medical attention, thereby distressing not only those affected, bu...

Background: -Fasting, the voluntary abstention from all restricted foods, is a feature of many religions, and the putative health benefits have attracted both scientific and popular interest. There is no clear understanding that religious fasting has great effects on metabolic syndrome. There is little data available that provides information concerning Ethiopian Orthodox Christians fasting inf...

The earliest references to Christianity and Christians in non-partisan non-Christian sources were made by the Roman historians Publius Cornelius Tacitus (56 C.E.-ca 117 C.E.) and Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (ca 69 C.E.-ca 140 C.E.) who criticized Christianity as an oriental superstition and a degraded cult that disrupted the social fabric and security of the state. Tacitus wrote in The Annals o...

Personal Bible reading is considered to be highly important in many Christian communities. This can pose significant challenges for Dyslexic Christians who often struggle read. article explores the under-researched topic of dyslexia and through analysis interviews with 15 dyslexic Christians. We consider difficulties faced by Christians, unique ways which they engage Bible, need churches respon...

1 Basic context 2 Depictions in Luke-Acts 2.1 Status of the Church 2.2 Scribes and chief priests 2.3 Jerusalem Temple 2.4 Imprisonment of Peter and John 2.5 Role of Sadducees 2.6 Martyrdom of Stephen 2.7 Persecution in Damascus 2.8 Execution of James 2.9 Violence against Paul 2.10 Crowds in Corinth 2.11 Threats against Paul's life 2.12 Paul before a Sanhedrin 3 Elsewhere in the New Testament 3....