With all places of worship, such as monasteries, churches, and mosques, officially closed in 1967, Albania was even proclaimed by Radio Tirana the “first atheist state in the world.”
According to Tischendorf, he suggested to the monks that the manuscript should be given to the Russian czar—who, as protector of the Greek Orthodox Church, could use his influence in favor of the monastery.
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For example, the monasteries, nunneries, and churches in Christendom have over the centuries acquired huge amounts of gold, silver, precious stones, valuable woods, and other forms of material wealth.
After being involved in a serious accident that left him paralyzed from the waist down, Panya visited Buddhist monasteries, sincerely hoping for a miraculous cure.
In May 1943, I was transferred to another prison in Budapest and later to the village of Márianosztra, where we lived in a monastery with some 70 nuns.
The New Catholic Encyclopedia acknowledges that especially from the 9th to the 11th century “simony pervaded the monasteries, the lower clergy, the episcopacy, and even the papacy.”
(2 Corinthians 6:17; 2 Timothy 3:16, 17) We are not set apart by isolation in monasteries and convents, as are the monks and nuns of Babylon the Great.