Kafiristan: They called out for Christ and the Church said no

The beautiful mountains of Nuristan, Afghanistan. Once upon a time, the people of a region surrounded by Islamic nations  on all sides cried out to the Church to hear the Gospel of Jesus Christ and sadly, the Church failed to respond. In the early 19th Century, the British oversaw Pakistan and India as territories of their Empire and Afghanistan was maintained a buffer zone between their Empire and the Russian Empire to the North. However, both Empires often sent people through the country to make sure the other wasn't up to anything sneaky. Through contact with the British, the people of Kafiristan, came into contact with the Gospel but the Bible didn't (and still doesn't exist) in their language. The tribal leaders...

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WTF? - What, the filioque?!

Holy Spirit, from whence doth thou proceed? The 'filioque' clause is an issue which has divided Christendom since before the Great Schism in the 11th Century and perhaps even as early as the third century, before the council at Nicaea. Most Christians aren't even be aware of the issue nor would they know that many of them make reference to it every Sunday when they affirm their faith by reading out the Nicene Creed. 'Filioque' means "and (from) the Son" and the great debate is over does the Holy Ghost proceed from the Father and the Son or from the Father through the Son or, just from the Father alone. In Eastern Churches the line from the Nicene Creed that in the Western Church states "And in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, and giver...

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