… And the Danube through Serbia flows-wonderful places to visit a few unknowns places.The Danube in Serbia “leaves” 588 kilometers or one fifth of its current. This space comes from contrast. Firstly, the Danube looks like a great lenchus, which is…
Gestas de España
Our project began in any given afternoon in Zaragoza. When walking in one of its streets and while passing by a shop, I saw right in the middle of the shop window a painting. The painting showed a battle of…
Fernando Rodríguez Salas: a painter of ideas and artistic world
How I define myself? I am a painter of ideas which works on different themes through which I talk about myself. My main medium is acrylic on canvas but sometimes I also use watercolour on paper, markers, pens, coloured pencils…
Architecture in Australia
Australia is a country really isolated and far away from everything, which might make many people think it is a strange place, nonetheless, at least culturally, it is not far from what we westerners consider familiar at all. Therefore, it…
The Orthodox Christian Conflict in Ukraine
Eastern Orthodox Churches: Ukrainian Orthodox Church – Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Kiev Patriarchate (UOC-KP), Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (UAOC), Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church-Canonical (Not very relevant), Various Old Believers Orthodox Churches, Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (Moscow Patriarchate),…
Aspects of Islam in the Old Continent
It is not false modesty, but I have been studying and investigating the Muslim faith for over forty years. Islamic Arab culture is part of my own culture because I was born and have grown up with them. I know…
Ethiopia Makes Significant Achievements in Religious and Political Life
Special Courtesy – Solomon Kibriye, Archdeacon Tesfa Mikael Williams & Menetasnot Desta The new Prime Minister Dr Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia is driving his nation to a new era of revival, peace and prosperity. He has launched a nationwide policy…
Third century thinkers to renew the West philosophical basis
INTRODUCTION In the book thinkers of the twentieth century, a philosophy of hope for the XXI century is exposed, in a manner accessible to a cult audience, some traces of the philosophy of the great thinkers of the twentieth century…
Part I: General trends & the end of Western Civilization
The political and economic issues broadly discussed in the media usually revolve around political cycles, terrorism, foreign policy, rising debt levels, sluggish economic performance, academic underachievement, environmental problems, ageing demographics and so forth. In our view, this all ties into a major…
The Biblical and Rabbinic origins of an important western value
There are differing definitions of equality today. In some circles it is equality of opportunity, which can mean affirmative action quotas; to others, quotas may mean inequality, as it might be felt that it discriminates against others. The Hebrew Bible…
Everything about Judaism
Among the main reasons that decided me to approach this topic, it is because I have always been passionate about knowing, studying and investigating the three monotheistic religions (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). Perhaps because my ancestors were Jews converted to…
Identity Challenges and Opportunities in the Middle East
I believe that there is much to discuss and much to discover about the identity of the Occidental civilization. Occidental is not just a geographical or cartographical description, but an identification with a heritage, a history, and a cultural and…
How to learn and speak many languages?
It’s not easy for me to answer the question: “How many languages do you speak?”. There are some that I only speak on a very basic level, while with others I am more comfortable. It all started because my favourite…
Europe’s identity crisis
In the last ten years, Europe was engaged in managing the effects of a multiple crisis: an economic and financial crisis, an institutional crisis, a political crisis and last but not least the still unresolved refugee crisis. The outer environment…
Why are Trump and Brexit good for Europe?
This article is about why Europe is in a very favourable position when it comes to assessing the global changes that are taking place at rapid speed these years. Often when we develop scenarios for the future we have a…
Identity Challenges and Opportunities in the Middle East
There is much to discuss about the identity -and the identity crisis- of the Occidental culture and civilization, but the crisis at the foundation of all the others is one of cultural and spiritual identity. The way to address this…
Europe of the 3 Regions. Towards a powerful new integration
The institutional forms adopted by the EU are based upon the implicit assumption that a common European identity would substitute for national forms of identity as a natural evolution. Although the European identity does exist, it does not allow for…
The Jewish Origin of Western Values
Judaism and Christianity differ in many ways, but they also share certain values. Some of those values have shaped Western civilization as we know it. We will focus on three values of Western society that originated in the Hebrew Bible…
Leadership concepts in the West
Ever since the Enlightenment, Western thinking has been dominated by rationalism. That rationality, and conceptual knowledge, are superior is so deeply ingrained in western thinking, that it is hard to conceive of experiencing the world and ourselves in it in…