Scattered communities of Neo-Samaritans contact and cooperate with one another via a global network, the World Union of Samaritan Christians (WUSC), which has set forth the five tenets of Neo-Samaritan Christianity and established the primary objectives of all associated congregations. The strictest (orthodox) members of the church are known as “Isars” (איסרייא Ḁisarayëya), and adhere to a religious code, or bond, called הא פורשנא שרירא (Ha Puršana Šàrira, “The True Distinction”); they use Samaritan Hebrew and Isaric Aramaic in their liturgy. Neo-Samaritan activity was initially concentrated in America, but is now focused in Indonesia and Italy.
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| - Scattered communities of Neo-Samaritans contact and cooperate with one another via a global network, the World Union of Samaritan Christians (WUSC), which has set forth the five tenets of Neo-Samaritan Christianity and established the primary objectives of all associated congregations. The strictest (orthodox) members of the church are known as “Isars” (איסרייא Ḁisarayëya), and adhere to a religious code, or bond, called הא פורשנא שרירא (Ha Puršana Šàrira, “The True Distinction”); they use Samaritan Hebrew and Isaric Aramaic in their liturgy. Neo-Samaritan activity was initially concentrated in America, but is now focused in Indonesia and Italy.
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| - Scattered communities of Neo-Samaritans contact and cooperate with one another via a global network, the World Union of Samaritan Christians (WUSC), which has set forth the five tenets of Neo-Samaritan Christianity and established the primary objectives of all associated congregations. The strictest (orthodox) members of the church are known as “Isars” (איסרייא Ḁisarayëya), and adhere to a religious code, or bond, called הא פורשנא שרירא (Ha Puršana Šàrira, “The True Distinction”); they use Samaritan Hebrew and Isaric Aramaic in their liturgy. Neo-Samaritan activity was initially concentrated in America, but is now focused in Indonesia and Italy.
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