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unusual facts about Evangelicals



Abba Estifanos of Gwendagwende

His reformation movement taking place close to seventy years prior to European Protestant reformation, the similar tenants that it has with Protestantism and the exponential growth of Evangelicals and Orthodox Tehadeso membership in Ethiopia in the late 20th century has sparked a new interest in his life and that of his followers.

Center for Victims of Torture

In addition to seeking financial support for torture rehabilitation, CVT collaborated with the National Religious Campaign Against Torture and Evangelicals for Human Rights to advocate against the use of torture by the U.S. government since September 11, 2001.

César Malan

Malan was part of the Société des Amis, a group of conservative evangelicals at Geneva, which included Merle D'Aubigne, Louis Gaussen, the Monod brothers and others.

Creation Science Movement

The proposal was seconded by barrister and amateur ornithologist Douglas Dewar, and the Evolution Protest Movement was formed at a meeting between them and five like-minded conservative evangelicals with electrical engineer, physicist and Victoria Institute president John Ambrose Fleming as president, Acworth as chairman and Dewar as secretary-treasurer.

God's Warriors

In God’s Christian Warriors, Amanpour reports on evangelicals trying to influence American politics and society from a faith-based perspective.

I Wonder as I Wander

While in the town of Murphy in Appalachian North Carolina, Niles attended a fundraising meeting held by evangelicals who had been ordered out of town by the police.

K. C. John

He was a guest speaker for the World Pentecostal Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, the World Consultation on Evangelism by Evangelicals at Jerusalem, Israel and GONCIL conference in Durban, South Africa.

Luis Palau

Palau got in touch with fellow evangelicals, and cooperated with Portland Commissioner Erik Sten, Potter, Beaverton Mayor Rob Drake, and Gresham Mayor Shane Bemis in 2008 in planning his August 22–23 festival, which will focus on volunteerism in support of the homeless.

Mark Dever

In the last several years, Dever has become a more widely-recognized name among conservative evangelicals, due in part to his appearance at large, nation-wide conferences such as the Desiring God National Conference, the Ligonier Ministries Conference, the Shepherd's Conference organized by Rev. John F. MacArthur, and the Together for the Gospel conference (which Dever co-founded with C. J. Mahaney, Ligon Duncan, and Al Mohler).

NEAC

National Evangelical Anglican Congress, an occasional but highly influential congress for Evangelicals in the Church of England

Northern Baptist Theological Seminary

In 2004 NBTS's then-president Charles Moore joined many other Protestant evangelicals in endorsing Roman Catholic film director Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

St. George Jackson Mivart

His parents were Evangelicals, and his father was the wealthy owner of Mivart's Hotel (now Claridge's).

The Evening Descends

The Evening Descends is the second album by Norman, Oklahoma band Evangelicals.

The Great Warming

The Great Warming is a 2006 documentary film directed by Michael Taylor. The film was hosted by Alanis Morissette and Keanu Reeves and even before its November 3, 2006 première helped establish an alliance between Democrats and Evangelicals trying to shake the administration out of its inertia on Climate change mitigation.

The Sword of the Lord

It also publishes sermons from a wider spectrum of evangelicals of past generations (not all of whom were Independent Baptist), including Hyman Appelman, Harry A. Ironside, Bob Jones, Sr., R. A. Torrey, Robert G. Lee, Dwight L. Moody, Billy Sunday, T. De Witt Talmage, and George Truett.

WTRU

Truth Broadcasting is owned by Stuart Epperson, Jr., son of Stuart Epperson, founder of Salem Communications and one of America's 25 most influential evangelicals according to Time magazine.


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