The Teaching of Addai is a Syriac document convincingly dated by some scholars in the fourth or fifth century AD. I agree with this dating, but I think that there may be some points containing possible historical traces that go back even to the first century AD, such as the letters exchanged by king Abgar and Tiberius. Some elements in them point to the real historical context of the reign of Abgar ‘the Black’ in the first century. The author (...) of the Doctrina might have known the tradition of some historical letters written by Abgar and Tiberius. (shrink)

This study uses data from the Ghana Demographic and Health Survey of 1993 to examine factors determining the use of maternal–child health services in rural Ghana. The MCH services under study are: use of a doctor for prenatal care; soliciting four or more antenatal check-ups; place of delivery; participation in family planning. Bivariate and multivariate techniques are employed in the analyses. The analyses reveal that the use of MCH services tends to be shaped mostly by level of education, religious background (...) and region of residence, and partially by ethnicity and occupation. The implications of these results are discussed. (shrink)

Trop peu connu des théologiens et des communautés chrétiennes, l'accord oecuménique Guidelines for Admission to the Eucharist Between the Chaldean Church and the Assyrian Church of the East n'en est pas moins significatif au plan ecclésiologique, liturgique et dogmatique. Il invite à accueillir les différences légitimes et suggère aux catholiques occidentaux de revisiter la théologie médiévale de l'eucharistie.