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2004 Khobar massacre

Kidnappers asked the hostages if they were Christian or Muslim, letting the Muslims go, and slitting the throats of non-Muslims.

Angel of the Presence

In some Judeo-Christian traditions, the Angel of the Presence / Face (lit. "faces", Hebrew: malak ha'panim, מלאך הפנים) or Angel of his presence / face (Hebrew: malak panayu, מַלְאַךְ פָּנָיו) refers to a type of angel, a singular entity variously considered angelic or else identified with God Himself.

Arpalı

Book called Bayburt Province which was written by Prof. Dr. İsmet Miroğlu states that at 1516 only 8 Muslim and 41 Christian soldiers were living at Arpalı.

Associated Brotherhood of Christians

The Associated Brotherhood of Christians is a Christian religious denomination.

Biblical accommodation

In the Epistle to the Hebrews (xiii, 5) the words spoken to Josue, "I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee" (Jos., i, 5), are applied to all Christians.

Charito

Bleterie considered Charito to have been a Christian and comments "no one had ever more need of the solid consolations which Christianity alone can give".

Christian Coalition

Christian's Coalition, a now defunct professional wrestling stable in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling

Christian Medical and Dental Society

The Christian Medical and Dental Society (CMDS) Canada is an evangelical, inter-denominational and active organization of Christian physicians in Canada.

Christian, Count of Waldeck

Christian was the son of Count Josias I of Waldeck-Eisenberg (1554-1588) and his wife Marie of Barby (1563-1619).

Philipp VII (1613-1645), Count of Waldeck-Wildungen, married in 1634 Countess Anna Catherine of Sayn-Wittgenstein

Christian died in 1637 and was succeeded as Count of Waldeck-Wildungen by his son Philip VII.

Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Catherine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel

Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels

For Christian's 43rd birthday in 1725 Bach wrote the Shepherd cantata Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a (en: "Escape, disappear, disperse, ye sorrows"), its music is lost but survived as the parody setting of the Easter Oratorio.

Christian, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Ærø

His father had combined the small farms on the island into three manors: Gråsten, Søbygård, and Gudsgave.

To provide for her, he gave her two large houses in 1629, one in Ærøskøbing and the other on the island of Dejrø.

Christian and his housekeeper Katharina Griebel (1570 in Lütjenburg – 1640 at Ærø) had a daughter: Sophie Griebel (b. 1600).

Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels

He also received Eschwege Castle in Eschwege in 1713, after Hesse-Kassel had repaid its debt to the Duke of Brunswick-Bevern.

Christian of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels (17 July 1689 in Wanfried – 21 October 1755 in Eschwege) was a son of Landgrave Charles of Hesse-Wanfried (1649-1711) and his second wife Alexandrine Juliane of Leiningen-Dagsburg (d. 1703).

Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Christian, Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (Cölln, 30 January 1581 – Bayreuth, 30 May 1655) was a member of the House of Hohenzollern and Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (later renamed Brandenburg-Bayreuth).

after= Christian Ernst

# Georg Albrecht (b. Bayreuth, 20 March 1619 – d. Schretz, 27 September 1666), inherited Kulmbach but never reigned.

# Magdalene Sibylle (b. Bayreuth, 27 October 1612 – d. Dresden, 20 March 1687); married on 13 November 1638 to Elector John George II of Saxony.

Christian inherited Kulmbach and his younger brother Joachim Ernst received Ansbach.

The death of the childless George Frederick the Elder in 1603 marked the extinction of the original Franconian line of the Margraves of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach.

# Erdmann August (b. Bayreuth, 8 October 1615 – d. Hof, 6 February 1651), Hereditary Margrave (German: Erbmarkgraf) of Brandenburg-Bayreuth.

# Anna Maria (b. Bayreuth, 30 December 1609 – d. Ödenburg, 8 May 1680); married on 23 October 1639 to Prince Johann Anton I von Eggenberg.

Christian, Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg

Christian of Nassau-Dillenburg (12 August 1688 at Dillenburg Castle – 28 August 1739 in Straßebersbach, now part of Dietzhölztal) was a rulng Prince of Nassau-Dillenburg.

Christian and his Hofmeister, Gustav von Moltke, were sent to Leiden, where Christian enthousiastically studied mathematics at the local university.

Christian's Coalition

Claiming trust issues prior to the event, Scott Steiner turned to family and left Team Cage, following which they began to be referred to once again as "Christian's Coalition".

Tomko, meanwhile, later left TNA for Japan, but ended up coming back for one last appearance against Samoa Joe when many of his Inoki Genome Federation bookings were canceled, before he tried out and Christian signed back with their former employer WWE.

After retaining the tag titles against The Steiner Brothers at Genesis, Styles and Tomko came out during Christian's number one contendership ladder match with Kaz right as Cage was about to win, despite his specific instructions not to.

Church Action on Poverty

Church Action on Poverty is a UK-based national ecumenical Christian social justice charity, committed to tackling poverty in the United Kingdom.

Community Chapel and Bible Training Center

Specific Christian books and bookstores were also to be avoided, because they contained "false creeds."

According to Dr. Daniel Pekota, a professor at Northwest College (now Northwest University) in Kirkland, WA, Barnett monopolized the meetings with preaching about the "Oneness" doctrine, a doctrine that, because it denies the Trinity, is widely recognized as contrary to historical Christian doctrine.

Comparative theology

Comparative Theology is a branch of Christian theology which studies the religious diversity and its comparison, as well as theological reflection upon it.

D. N. Jackson

He was a debater and conference speaker, publisher and a prolific writer of Christian literature and theological works including Studies in Baptist Doctrine and History.

Eccles, Kent

The name "Eccles" comes from the Latin word "ecclesia" meaning church, and suggests that a post-Roman Christian community existed in the village beyond the Roman withdrawal and into the Saxon period.

Entfliehet, verschwindet, entweichet, ihr Sorgen, BWV 249a

The cantata was written in 1725 for the 43rd birthday of Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels.

Fares al-Khoury

Khoury's ascension to the upper echelons of Syrian politics is remarkable, in light of the fact that he was Christian.

Free church

Protestant historians would typically argue that this is historically what the Christian church was before the Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity (see Early Christianity) and before the later setting up of the state church of the Roman Empire, and did not appear again until the appearance, within the Protestant Reformation, of groups such as the Calvinists and radical movements such as the Anabaptists.

Global Vision Christian School

Global Vision Christian School is a private Christian boarding school located in Eumseong, Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea.

Howayek

The surname Howayek, Hawayek (in Arabic حويّك / الحويّك) and its variants are common in the Christian Catholic Maronite clan from Lebanon.

Islamization

It was most prominently achieved during the 7th century Arabian Muslim conquests which spread the Arabic language, culture, and—having been carried out by Arabian Muslims as opposed to Arab Christians or Arabic speaking Jews—the religion of Islam to the lands they conquered.

Kitáb-i-Íqán

Since the questioner is a Muslim, Bahá'u'lláh uses verses from the Bible to show how a Christian could interpret his own sacred texts in allegorical terms to come to believe in the next dispensation.

Lamparello v. Falwell

In 1999, Christopher Lamparello created a website to respond to and criticize the anti-homosexual statements of popular and sometimes controversial Christian evangelical preacher Rev. Dr. Jerry Falwell.

In 1999, Christopher Lamparello registered the domain name fallwell.com and used the affiliated website as a gripe site to express his negative opinions about the Fundamentalist Christian preacher Jerry Falwell's public statements against homosexuality.

Louisiana Tech Lady Techsters basketball

A 1986 Sports Illustrated article stated, "A Lady Techster is likely to be a good student and a devout Christian, probably favors needlepoint over Madonna tapes on airplanes and fears a drug test about as much as she does an airport metal detector." The same article stated that Hogg's insistence that her players act like ladies gave the team an "almost antebellum image" that was well-suited to a conservative town like Ruston.

Malamir of Bulgaria

Malamir became ruler of Bulgaria in 831 on the death of his father Omurtag, because his older brother Enravota (Voin) had forfeited his right to the succession by becoming a Christian.

Man to Men

Man to Men (French:D'homme à hommes is a 1948 French-Swiss historical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Jean-Louis Barrault, Bernard Blier and Hélène Perdrière.

Northeast Oklahoma Association of Homeschools

On March 8, 1998, 17 families assembled to form N.O.A.H. N.O.A.H. is a 501(c)3 organization that was created to provide homeschool students with the opportunity to develop athletic abilities while building character in a distinctly Christian environment.

O angenehme Melodei, BWV 210a

He wrote the solo cantata for soprano in Leipzig as a "Huldigungskantate" (homage cantata) for Christian, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels, first performed on 12 January 1729, and dedicated it at least twice to different people and occasions.

Papa Stronsay

It has been described as the most northerly early Christian monastery ever found.

Parama Kamboja Kingdom

Like the Shakas, Pahlavas, Kambojas, Paradas, a section of the Rishikas had also migrated to west/south-west India prior to Christian era.

Powder Day

A more likely origin of the tradition is said to have its roots in a Christian/Moorish riot in the 16th century when Tolox, then under Christian control, had a large Moorish population.

Principality of Antioch

The siege lasted throughout the winter causing much attrition among the Crusader force, who were often forced to eat their own horses, or, as legend has it, the bodies of their fellow Christians who had not survived.

Robert Allen Hale

A self-proclaimed devout Christian, Hale moved his family of 17 to Alaska from New Mexico in 1998 and kept them isolated from nearly all outside influences, including churches.

Saint Derfel

Derfel, known as Derfel Gadarn (cadarn: "mighty, valiant, strong") was a 6th-century British Christian monk, regarded as a saint.

Sefer Ali-Bey Shervashidze

Sefer Ali-Bey Shervashidze (also known by the Christian name of Giorgi Shervashidze) was a prince of the Principality of Abkhazia from 1810-21.

Shirley Corea

As a devoted Christian, Mr. Corea served as a Diocesan Council member, of the Church of Ceylon, for a long period.

Show Your Face

Although the song had a religious theme, Shaw has stated that she is not a Christian and was not one at the time the song was recorded.

Structural anthropology

In this essay, Edmund Leach sought an explanation of why human societies have solemn or sacred occasions, such as the Christian celebration of Christmas, followed in a short time by their opposite: a taboo-breaking and "profane" celebration such as New Year's.

Syncretism

Another highly syncretic religion of the area, vodou, combines elements of Western African, native Caribbean, and Christian (especially Roman Catholic) beliefs.

Since the arrival of Christian missionaries in the nineteenth century, Mun traditions have been followed alongside that faith as well.

The History of Constantine

Having called upon the Christian God at Milvian Bridge, Constantine legitimized the Christian religion, offering it new status and protection.

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.

The Origins of The Koran: Classic Essays on Islam's Holy Book

After an introduction in Part One, Part Two focuses on the difficulty, perceived by the authors, of establishing a reliable Qur'anic text, while Part Three claims to detail the Jewish, Christian, and Zoroastrian sources of the Qur'an.

The True Furqan

The True Furqan, al-Furqan al-Haqq is a book written in Arabic mirroring the Quran but incorporating elements of traditional Christian teachings.

Tritheism

The term has been sporadically used to spearhead heresy accusations, especially when employed against Christian sects promoting allegedly anathema conceptions of the Trinity.


Antinomasy

Antinomianism, a belief originating in Christian theology that faith alone is necessary for salvation

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.

Battle of Garigliano

The Christian armies united the pope with several South Italian princes of Lombard or Greek extraction, including Guaimar II of Salerno, John I of Gaeta and his son Docibilis, Gregory IV of Naples and his son John, and Landulf I of Benevento and Capua.

Battle of the Hotels

As a counter-move, Christian fighters of the Phalange Kataeb Regulatory Forces (KRF) militia headed by William Hawi and Bashir Gemayel began to take positions between and around the main hotels, but quickly found themselves at a disadvantage as they were under constant observation and heavy machine gun fire from the Murr Tower.

Bsharri

During the Lebanese civil war (1975–1990), Bsharri was a bastion of Christian resistance against first the Palestinians and the Syrians.

Casino Christian Community School

In 1993, a group of Christian parents had the idea to start up a local Christian school somewhere in the Casino/Richmond Valley area.

Chapel Christian Academy

Graduates from Chapel Christian Academy were encouraged to attend Fundamentalist Christian colleges such as Bob Jones University, Pensacola Christian College, also primarily encouraging studies in Teaching, Missions, and Music.

Charles Gmelin

Gmelin was born in Bengal, India, where his father was a Christian missionary, but returned to England at an early age for schooling.

Christian Embassy

After the video was posted on the Christian Embassy's website in November, 2006, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, a group led by retired Air Force lawyer Michael Weinstein, requested an investigation in a letter to the Department's Inspector General.

Christian Karl Reisig

Christian Karl Reisig (name sometimes given as Karl Christian Reisig; 17 November 1792 – 17 January 1829) was a German philologist and linguist who was a native of Weißensee.

Christian Malanga

Christian Malanga Musumari (commonly known as Christian Malanga, born January 2, 1983) is a Congolese politician, businessmen, and former military officer.

Christian Pontus Andersson

Christian Pontus Andersson (born 1977) is a Swedish artist and sculptor, living in Södermalm, Stockholm.

Christian Quadflieg

Christian Urs Quadflieg (born April 11, 1945 in Växjö, Sweden) is a German television actor and director.

Christianity in Saudi Arabia

Christians and other non-Muslims are prohibited from entering the cities of Mecca and Medina, Islam's holiest cities.

Daniel Christian

Born in 1983, Christian grew up in the town of Narrandera in the Riverina region of New South Wales and is of indigenous ancestry (Wiradjuri).

Dublin Christian Academy

The school came into being through the donation of Staghead Farm by F. Nelson Blount and family to establish a Christian school.

Emmanuel Espinosa

Emmanuel Espinosa is a Christian musician, multi-instrumentalist, singer, producer, composer and songwriter from Hermosillo, Sonora, México.

Faith Academy Secondary School

Faith Academy is a Christian Secondary School located in Canaanland, Ota which is in the outskirts of Lagos, Nigeria.

Friedrich Anton Ulrich, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont

He married Countess Palatine Louise of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, daughter of Christian II, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld and Countess Catharine Agathe of Rappoltstein, in Hanau on 22 Oct 1700.

George Burman Foster

A friendship with Clarence Darrow shows that despite Foster's progressive views he still valued and respected the views of a traditional Christian community.

Herbert Taylor

Herbert Hudson Taylor (1861–1950), British Protestant Christian missionary to China

Honorific

Other honorifics may denote the honored person’s occupation, for instance "Doctor", "Captain", "Coach", "Officer", "Reverend" for all clergy and/or "Father" (for a Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, or Anglican Christian priest), or Professor.

Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon

Sherwood mentions opposition by the news media, major Christian denominations, and members of the government including Representative Donald Fraser and Senator Bob Dole.

Islamic pottery

The first centre was Malaga, producing wares in traditional Islamic styles, but from the 13th century Muslim potters migrated to the reconquered Christian city of Valencia, outlying suburbs of which such as Manises and Paterna became the most important centres, manufacturing mainly for Christian markets in styles increasingly influenced by European decoration, though retaining a distinct character.

Johann Christian Lossius

Johann Christian Lossius (1743, Liebstadt near Weimar – 1813, Erfurt) was a German materialist philosopher.

Kiki Fatmala

She married Christian Froeschel in Zwettl, Austria on 14 August 2004 and already registered in Registry Office, Jakarta.

KiptonART

Kipton Cronkite and Christian Simonds Co-Founded @60" (at60inches.com) in May 2012.

Kushiel's Dart

According to the Christian Bible, Mary Magdalene was one of the closest female friends of Jesus, and was the first to discover that he had been resurrected.

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.

Leslie Henson

Nicky's sons, with ex-wife Una Stubbs, are composers Christian and Joseph; and another son, with wife Marguerite Porter, is Keaton, an artist.

Lower Towamensing Township, Carbon County, Pennsylvania

Its villages include Aquashicola (locally pronounced "ack-wa-SHIK-la,") Christian Corner, Hazard, and Little Gap (which hosts the Blue Mountain Ski Area.) Its highway access is via Route 248, which extends through the southern gorge of the river to connect Lehighton with the Lehigh Valley and has nearby interchanges in Palmerton and Bowmanstown.

Lyngstad

Arne Lyngstad, Norwegian politician for the Christian Democratic Party

Marvin Olasky

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Olasky edited the 16-book Turning Point Christian Worldview series funded by Howard Ahmanson, Jr.'s Fieldstead Institute.

Michael Christian

Christian has also commentated on weightlifting events at the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

Mission of Full Gospel – Christian Open Door

The Mission of Full Gospel – Christian Open Door COD (Mission du Plein Évangile - Porte Ouverte Chrétienne POC) is a French Evangelical church whose main place of worship is located in Mulhouse.

Muhammad in the Bible

Subsequent Muslim writers have expanded on these arguments and have claimed to identify other references to Muhammad in the text of the Bible, both in the Jewish Tanakh and in the Christian New Testament.

Musalaha

Seeking and Pursuing Peace: the Process, the Pain, and the Product, Edited by Salim J. Munayer (Jerusalem: Yanetz Ltd., 1998)
This book is a series of articles by Messianic Jewish and Palestinian Christian leaders, such as Naim Ateek and Arnold Fruchtenbaum, as well as others, on the topic of peace and peacemaking.

North Ossetia–Alania

The Ossetian population of North Ossetia is predominantly Christian with a Muslim minority, speaking Ossetian and Russian.

Orentius

Orentius and Patientia (d. 240), Christian martyr and saint, father of St. Lawrence

R. H. Tawney

Adrian Hastings wrote: “Behind the list of major publications was the mind of a man tirelessly guiding government, Labour movement, Church and academic community towards a new society, at once fully democratic, consciously socialistic and fully in accord with Christian belief. In effective intellectual terms it is doubtful whether anyone else had remotely comparable influence in the evolution of British society in his generation”.

Regie Hamm

He wrote one of the most popular Christian songs of the 1990s, entitled "I Surrender All," recorded by Clay Crosse.

Robert Laws

His father, Robert Laws snr of Old Aberdeen, and his mother, Christian née Cruikshank of Kidshill in Buchan, Aberdeenshire, both attended St Nicholas Lane United Presbyterian Church, Aberdeen.

S. Arasaratnam

Arasaratnam was a practising Christian who attended the Uniting Church in Armidale, New South Wales.

Sectarian violence

Obasanjo sacked governor Joshua Dariye, accusing him of failing to act to end a cycle of violence between the Plateau State's Muslim and Christian communities.

Söderholm

Glen Soderholm, Canadian Contemporary Christian, singer-songwriter and minister in Rockwood, Ontario, Canada

Stewart Pollens

This book examines the work of numerous makers, including Henri Arnaut de Zwolle, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Giovanni Ferrini, Domenico del Mela, Henrique Van Casteel, Joachim José Antunes, Francisco Pérez Mirabal, Gottfried Silbermann, and Christian Ernst Friederici.

The Ziff Who Came to Dinner

However, at the Googolplex Theatre, every kid-friendly movie is sold out, and Rod and Todd will not let Homer see a raunchy comedy called Teenage Sex Wager since it is one of many movies condemned by a Christian publication called "What Would Jesus View?".

Three Wooden Crosses

These crosses stand in the traditional Christian formation of a tall cross in the middle and two slightly shorter crosses on each side representing the Crucifixion of Jesus.

Voice of Hope

Voice of Hope seeks to provide children living in the neighborhoods of West Dallas with strong character models, education support, life skills, and family support services needed to become productive Christian citizens.