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48 unusual facts about Christianity


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Stephen, the first martyr of Christianity (stoned to death by Jewish leaders for preaching that Jesus was the Christ)

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They end the civil war, and Fritigern converts to Christianity.

Adam Cuthbertson

In 2007, Cuthbertson credited finding Christianity a year ago as the catalyst for his rise from obscurity.

Aldobrandesca

Saint Alda (or Aldobrandesca) (c. 1249 – c. 1309) was an Italian Christian saint and nurse.

Bagram Bible program

In May 2009 it was made public that Christian groups had published Bibles in the Pashtun language and the Dari language, intended to convert Afghans from Islam to Christianity.

Benjamin Kidd

He sees Christianity as the major factor in the success of the Western world, and the Reformation in particular as the event that brought about a 'softening' of character in the population, with greater sensitivity to the suffering of others as exemplified by Jesus Christ.

Blank family

The Blank family is a family of Jews, some of whom converted to Orthodox Christianity in the Russian Empire, mostly notable as the immediate ancestry of the maternal grandfather of Vladimir Lenin according to various published researchers who suggest that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jewish convert to Christianity (Alexander Blank).

Cairanne

Christianity arrived in Provence very early and the region was already extensively Christianized by the third century CE with numerous monasteries and churches being constructed.

Chapel of St Non

According to Christian tradition, Saint Non (also known as Nonna or Nonnita) was born around AD 475 and was a daughter of Lord Cynyr Ceinfarfog who lived as a nun at Ty Gwyn near Whitesands Bay until she was raped by Prince Sant of Ceredigion.

Charlotte Lady Eagles

The Lady Eagles are a division of Missionary Athletes International (MAI), an organization committed to sharing the message of Christianity through sports ministry.

Christians in the military

However, the Roman army continued to include many Christians, and the presence of large numbers of Christians in his army may have been a factor in the conversion of Constantine I to Christianity.

Cinnamon Gardens

Religions include Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Christianity and various other religions and beliefs to a lesser extent.

Consequences of reservation in India

Many minority religious institutions like(Sikh, Christian, Muslim, Jain etc) already have (30–50%) of reservation for their communities in India.

Farida Mammadova

Mammadova's area of focus has been the study of the development of Caucasian Albania, its ethnic composition, political and social life, the development of Christianity in Caucasian Albania, Church of Caucasian Albania, arts and literature.

Firmicus

The Christian astrologer Julius Firmicus Maternus (fourth century), after whom the crater is named.

First International Congress on World Evangelization

The congress was a conference of some 2,700 evangelical Christian leaders that was held in the Palais de Beaulieu in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1974 to discuss the progress, resources and methods of evangelizing the world.

For the Poor

In the 2008 municipal elections, the party described itself has being founded on a Christian view of the world.

Funerals of Ion Moţa and Vasile Marin

As the Spanish Civil War began in 1936, the Iron Guard, like much of the Romanian public opinion, saw it in a simple dichotomy: a fight between atheistic communist and Christianity, this point being made stronger by the news that some groups on the Republican side systemetically persecuted members of the Catholic clergy and destroyed churches.

Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chotanagpur and Assam

Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chotanagpur and Assam is a major Christian Protestant denomination in India.

International Christian Maritime Association

The International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA) is an ecumenical association of 28 Christian organisations, representing different churches and Christian communities.

Islamic view of the Trinity

Within Christianity, the doctrine of the Trinity states that God is a single being who exists, simultaneously and eternally, as a communion of three distinct persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

Janusz Śniadek

He supported European Constitution while considering it lacking in references to Christianity.

Jeremiah Films

It has produced films that investigate subjects as varied as terrorism, paganism, evolution, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, abortion, Halloween, Islam, Christianity, Cults, the occult, Jim Jones, Jehovah's Witness, and the Clinton presidency and scandals surrounding Gennifer Flowers and the alleged murder of Vince Foster.

Jesse Calderón

As show host of El Show del Mediodia, Calderon has shared with Luis Francisco Ojeda, Milly Cangiano, comedian and former telenovela supporting actor: Junior Alvarez, a Christian actress,, Maribel Quiñones known as Sor Tata, and chef Cielito Rosado, among others.

Jews for Judaism

Jews for Judaism, established by Rabbi Bentzion Kravitz in 1985, is an international organization designed to counter Christian missionaries whose evangelistic efforts are directed toward Jews.

Just a Moment

Nas mentions both Islam and Christianity as ways for one to have or regain faith, as Nas considers himself a spiritual and faithful person, yet doesn't make it clear which religion he associates himself with.

Kieran Richardson

Richardson became a Christian in 2007 and said, "I just want to praise Jesus Christ and go to heaven. That's all I care about".

Kleinwallstadt

In Kleinwallstadt, then also known as Bischofswallstadt, which was converted to Christianity as early as the early 8th century, the Archbishop of Mainz established in 1023 a Vogtei and a tithe court over a great expanse of the Spessart (range).

L'Église réformée du Québec

L'Église Réformée du Québec, or "Reformed Church of Quebec", is a small conservative French-speaking Reformed Christian denomination located primarily within the Canadian province of Quebec.

Lausanne Covenant

One of the most influential documents in modern Evangelical Christianity, it was written and adopted by 2,300 evangelicals at the International Congress on World Evangelization in Lausanne, Switzerland, from which it takes its name.

Lutheran Marian theology

It was developed out of the deep Christian Marian devotion on which he was reared, and it was subsequently clarified as part of his mature Christocentric theology and piety.

Mulanthuruthy Marthoman Church

Christianity flurished in this village, immediately after the arrival of St. Thomas.

Nehruism

Nehruism is constantly under criticism of Hindutva followers and Hindu nationalists for its perceived secularism, tolerance of "invading" ideologies and religions such as Christianity, Socialism and Islam, and its westernization and corruption of the purity of Hindu culture.

Oblate

An oblate in Christian monasticism (especially Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican) is a person who is specifically dedicated to God or to God's service.

Paul Byrd

Byrd has written a book called Free Byrd about his life, detailing both his devout Christianity and past struggles with pornography, among other things.

Port Broughton, South Australia

Christianity is the dominant religion in the region, and is well serviced by a number of churches.

Protestantenverein

The 'Protestantenverein' was a society in Germany the general object of which was to promote the union (Verein) and progress of the various Protestant established Churches of the country in harmony with the advance of culture and on the basis of Christianity.

Robert Sheaffer

Robert Sheaffer (born 1949 in Chicago, IL) is a freelance writer and a prominent investigator of unidentified flying objects, Christianity, academic feminism, and many other subjects.

Sacred natural site

While fifty per cent of the world's population profess to belong to either Christianity or Islam and many others are Hindus or Buddhists, 80 per cent of all people ascribe to a mainstream religion, a large part of which continue to adhere to at least some traditional or folk religion.

Stilicon

The two had a son, Eucherius, who was raised a pagan and an enemy of Christianity.

Swig Judaic Studies Program

As the first Catholic university in the United States to establish a Jewish Studies program, the University of San Francisco especially welcomes scholarly inquiry into the historic relationship between Judaism and Christianity.

Taizé, Saône-et-Loire

In Taizé lives the Taizé Community, a monastic, ecumenical, international community founded in 1940 by Frère Roger, which has today just over 100 brothers from many different countries and from different Christian traditions.

The TECH Project

A very religious person, Juliet's major plot involves her conflict between "God's will" and the mutations manifest.

Theo Hobson

His principal interests are the relationship between Protestant Christianity and secularism, which he believes is more positive than is generally understood; the relationship between theology and literature; and the post-ecclesial renewal of worship.

Theth

Local tradition asserts a single common ancestor for the community (one Ded Nika) and suggests that the population moved to Theth some 300 to 350 years ago in order to preserve their (Catholic) Christian traditions.

Timeline of official adoptions of Christianity

This is a timeline showing the dates when countries or polities made Christianity the official state religion, generally accompanying the baptism of the governing monarch.

Wörth am Main

In Frankish times, beginning in the 6th century, Wörth was a centre of royal power and with Saint Martin’s Chapel, in today’s graveyard, it was a jumping-off point for Christian missionary work in the depths of the Odenwald.

Zedazeni Monastery

Saint John founded the monastery in the 540s (6th century) on Zedazeni mountain, where prior to Christianity used to be a cult of Zaden, the idol of fruitfulness.


Agaunum

In 515, the basilica became the center of a monastery built on land donated by Sigismund of Burgundy, the first king of the Burgundians to convert from Arianism to Trinitarian Christianity.

Alan Kreider

As a public speaker, Alan Kreider has taken part in a debate on the arms race with Marshal of the Royal Air Force The Lord Cameron of Balhousie as part of the London Lectures on Contemporary Christianity at All Souls Church, Langham Place (1982) and with Lord Trefgarne, Edward Leigh MP, and Canon Paul Oestreicher, at the Cambridge Union Society (1983).

Antonio del Massaro

In Orvieto Cathedral he worked on pieces that featured Biblical scenes such as the Annunciation, Visitation, Presentation to the Temple, and an Flight into Egypt.

Battle of Pagastin

Pagan Prussians rose against their conquerors, who tried to convert them to Christianity, after Lithuanians and Samogitians soundly defeated the joint forces of the Teutonic Knights and the Livonian Order in the Battle of Durbe in 1260.

Bilton Hall

The house was generally occupied by junior members of the Boughton family and was sold by Edward Boughton in 1711 to the essayist and poet Joseph Addison, who wrote his book Evidences of Christianity while living there.

Erik Zürcher

In 1962 he became professor of history of East Asia, particularly the Chinese Buddhism, Chinese reactions to the Christianity and early relations between China and the outside world.

First Swedish Crusade

The First Swedish Crusade was a possibly mythical military expedition around 1150 that has traditionally been seen as the conquest of Finland by Sweden, with pagan Finns converting to Christianity.

Foreign relations of Tonga

The mass conversion of most Tongans to Christianity – and primarily to Wesleyan Methodism – resulted in strong religious ties to England as the source of most of the missionaries involved.

György Petri

By receiving Kossuth prize in 1996 along with Péter Esterházy, he once again became subject to political criticism for alleged disrespect to Christianity.

History of Goan Catholics

History of Goan Catholics recounts the history of the Goan Catholic community of the Indian state of Goa from their conversion to Christianity to date.

History of Southeast Asia

It was the lure of trade that brought Europeans to Southeast Asia while missionaries also tagged along the ships as they hoped to spread Christianity into the region.

Immanence

In Catholic theology, Christ and the Holy Spirit immanently reveal themselves; God the Father only reveals himself immanently vicariously through the Son and Spirit, and the Divine Nature, the Godhead is wholly transcendent and unable to be comprehended.

Independent church

National church, especially in Anglicanism and Orthodox Christianity, the organisation of that denomination within a given nation, which acts independently of the churches of the same denomination in other nations.

Iris Habib Elmasry

As a result, her work is more detailed, and of greater use to both academic and non-academic readers is valuable for any researcher in Coptic history and provides a comprehensive approach to the history of Christianity in Egypt and point of view of the Coptic Church regarding many debatable issue like Council of Chalcedon.

Jacob the heretic

On the one hand stand scholars such as Peter Schäfer who sees the Gemara as containing developed reaction to Christianity, on the other scholars such as Daniel J. Lasker who see references to Christianity in the Talmud as "embryonic".

Johann Schreck

He also mastered the source languages of Christianity, namely Greek, Hebrew and Biblical Aramaic.

Joshua Reed Giddings

Giddings called the caning of Senator Charles Sumner in the Senate by an opponent a crime "against the most vital principles of the Constitution, against the Government itself, against the sovereignty of Massachusetts, against the people of the United States, against Christianity and civilization."

Justin Popović

(John Meyendorff, professor of the Academy of St. Vladimir now in Scarsdale, New York (associated with Columbia University) - and every bit as much a critic of the "Catholic novelties" and the Pope's anti-Christianity.

Klaus Koschorke

Regular research stays in Asia, Africa and Latin America and guest professorships at European and various Asian institutions (e.g. in 2012 as guest professor at Shanghai University, China) serve the further development of the new historical subdiscipline “History of World Christianity” and networking between scholars engaged in this area of research.

Laurent Cleenewerck

He is also engaged in public debates and interested in constructive dialogue between Christianity and Islam.

Lax-kw'alaams First Nation

In 1857 an Anglican lay missionary named William Duncan brought Christianity to Lax Kw'alaams, but, feeling that he was competing in vain with the dissipated fort atmosphere for Tsimshian souls, he relocated about 350 of his flock to Metlakatla, at Metlakatla Pass just to the south.

Living Christ One Ear of Wheat Church

The founder of the Living Christ One Ear of Wheat Church, Matsubara Kazuhito, first came into contact with Christianity through the Mino Mission while a junior high student.

Manfred of Pécs

When the first record was made of him in 1277, Manfred was a canon at the cathedral chapter in Zagreb and dean of Gercse.

Marcel Simon

Marcel Simon (1907 in Strasbourg – 1986) was a French specialist in the history of religions, particularly relations between Christianity and Judaism in antiquity.

Nicholas Conyngham Tindal

His great-grandfather, Rev Nicolas Tindal, was the translator and continuer of the History of England by Paul de Rapin — a seminal work in its day — and he was also the great great grandnephew of Dr Matthew Tindal, the deist and author of 'Christianity as Old as the Creation' (known as the 'deist's bible') and descendant of Thomas Clifford, 1st Baron Clifford of Chudleigh.

Old Israel

Staroizrail, a sect of 19th century Russian Spiritual Christianity

Ōmura Sumitada

He achieved fame throughout the country for being the first of the daimyo to convert to Christianity following the arrival of the Jesuit missionaries in the mid-16th century.

Pascal Delannoy

Delannoy then served in a parish in Roubaix for two years, after which he was made responsible for diocesan activities in independent sites (1991–1999), and in 1997 was also named the Dean of the urban district of Roubaix and of Bailleul.

Peace Mala

It consists of 16 beads, forming a double rainbow, which represent Christianity, Buddhism, Sikhism, Islam, Judaism, Bahá'í, ISKCON, Zoroastrianism, Tribal and Native Religions, Jainism, Earth Religions, Taoism, Hinduism and Yungdrung Bön.

Room to Roam

The words "Further up, further in" are spoken by the character Aslan in a book by Christian fantasist C.S. Lewis, one of Scott's sources of inspiration.

Siqqitiq

Siqqitiq (meaning transforming one's life, more specifically adopting Christianity) is the ritual of converting Inuit with shamanist beliefs to Christianity.

Sisters of the Reparation of the Holy Face

This Holy Face of Jesus devotion dates back to Sister Marie of St Peter, a Carmelite nun in Tours France who in 1843 reported visions of Jesus and Mary in which she was urged to spread the devotion to the Holy Face of Jesus, in reparation for the many insults Jesus suffered in his Passion.

Slavic neopaganism

In the 19th century, many Slavic nations experienced a Romantic fascination with an idealised Slavic Arcadia believed to have existed before the advent of Christianity, combining such notions as the noble savage and Johann Gottfried Herder's national spirit.

Sunil Agnihotri

Subash Chouhan of the Bajrang Dal said "We will not allow the producer to shoot ... Such films will encourage the conversion of poor tribals to Christianity".

Tegernsee Abbey

Settled by monks from St. Gall and dedicated to Saint Quirinus of Rome, whose relics were brought here from Rome in 804, the monastery soon spread the message of Christianity as far as the Tyrol and Lower Austria.

The Mikey Show

Since arriving back in San Diego the show has become more mellow due to Esparza's embrace of Christianity, with a billboards campaign advertising his contrasts labeling him both an addict and a Christian.

Wanderings: Chaim Potok's History of the Jews

This monograph is divided into four sections with each comprising various chapters: Through Ancient Paganism (Sumer, Egypt, Canaan, Babylonia), Through Classical Paganism (Greece, Rome, Palestine), Through Islam and Christianity (Islam, Christianity), Inside Modern Paganism (Secularism).

Yuval Ron Ensemble

The ensemble includes musicians of all three major Abrahamic faiths: Jewish, Muslim, and Christian.

Zoraida Gómez

The name "Zoraida" originates from Don Quixote by Cervantes, where it is the name of a beautiful Moorish woman from Algiers who converts to Christianity and elopes with a Spanish officer.