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unusual facts about Christian Churches



The Crossing Church

The Crossing is an independent, non-denominational church headquartered in Quincy, Illinois associated with the Christian Churches in the Restoration Movement.

Volkstrauertag

The two largest Christian churches were not in agreement over a suitable date for remembrance since each already had its own day for remembering the dead in November: the Catholic All Souls' Day and the Protestant Totensonntag.


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Abraham Malpan

Here, the Malankara Church, one of the oldest Christian Churches in history was founded by Thomas the Apostle of Jesus Christ.It is believed that it was founded at the same time as that of the Church of Corinth, by Saint Paul

Awareness ribbon

The purpose of Christian Action on AIDS, an official Church of England charity whose founder/chairman was Barnaby Miln, was to get the worldwide Christian churches involved in the crisis that was AIDS.

Beheaded

Beheading of St. John the Baptist, is a holy day observed by various Christian churches which follow liturgical traditions

Confession of Peter

The Confession of Peter is also the name of a liturgical feastday celebrated by several Christian churches, often as part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Cyrillus Jarre

He opposed the formation of state-sanctioned Christian churches in China (Three-Self Patriotic Movement) and supported the Legion of Mary, an association of Catholic laity that was viewed as reactionary organization by the communists.

Emperor Wuzong of Tang

He all but destroyed Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism in China, and his persecution of the growing Nestorian Christian churches sent Chinese Christianity into a decline from which it never recovered.

Feast of the Ascension

It is one of the ecumenical feasts (i.e., universally celebrated) of Christian churches, ranking with the feasts of the Passion, of Easter, and Pentecost.

Freedom of religion in Brunei

There are 109 mosques and prayer halls, 23 Christian churches, 3 Chinese temples, and 2 Hindu temples officially registered in the country.

Iain Torrance

Furthermore, Nelson Mandela had also called for the support of the Western Christian Churches in what the South African lawyer considered a clear miscarriage of justice.

John Bramhall

Bramhall's A Just Vindication of the Church of England from the Unjust Aspersion of Criminal Schism (1654) was answered by the titular Bishop of Chalcedon, and Bramhall replied to this with Replication in 1656, where he prays that he might live to see the day when all Christian churches united again.

Lay Centre at Foyer Unitas

Various other Christian churches and communities have also been represented in recent years, as have Shi’a and Sunni Muslims, and Jews students.

Masbrough

There are three Christian churches in the Masbrough community: St Bede's Roman Catholic Church, St Paul's Church of England Church and Rotherham Assemblies of God.

Titulus

Titulus, or Titular church, one of a group of Early Christian churches around the edges of Rome

Water and religion

Many religions also consider particular sources or bodies of water to be sacred or at least auspicious; examples include Lourdes in Roman Catholicism, the Jordan River (at least symbolically) in some Christian churches, the Zamzam Well in Islam and the River Ganges (among many others) in Hinduism.