Some articles on christians, christian:
... The term Evangelical Catholic is used by Christians who consider themselves both "catholic" and "evangelical" (meaning "gospel-centered") ... catholic is the noun with evangelical modifying) can refer variously to evangelical Protestant Christians who consider themselves catholic Christians that identify with the historic Christian Church, who believe that ...
... and 1972 (the last till after the Lebanese Civil War), seats were apportioned between Christians and Muslims in a 65 ratio, with various denominations of the ... and the higher emigration rate among Christians had by this time almost certainly produced a Muslim majority, which the parliamentary distribution did not reflect ... Christian politicians were unwilling to abolish or alter the system, however, and it was one of the factors in the 1975–1990 civil war ...
... Largest Christian populations (as of 2010) United States 246,790,000 Brazil 176,356,100 Mexico 107,780,000 Russia 102,600,000 Philippines 93,121,400 Nigeria 80,510,000 People's Republic of China 67,070,000 DR Congo 63 ...
... Resident Aliens Life in the Christian Colony (ISBN 0-687-36159-1) is a 1989 book authored by theologians Stanley Hauerwas and William Willimon ... that churches should focus on developing Christian life and community rather than attempting to reform the secular culture ... idea that America or any other country is a Christian nation, instead believing that Christians should see themselves as "residents aliens" in a foreign land, using the metaphor of a colony to describe the church ...
... A Christian community is recorded in 1114 in Qal'a in central Algeria ... city of Carthage, and evidence of religious contacts with Christians of Arab Spain ... in Europe at this time were disseminated amongst the indigenous Christians of Tunis, which would have not been possible had there been an absence of contact with Rome ...
Famous quotes containing the word christians:
“We are no longer Christians: we have outgrown Christianity not because we have been too remote from it but rather because we have been too close—it is precisely our more stringent and more fastidious piety that forbids us to remain Christians nowadays.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
“Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)