| I discovered that, in spite of borders, Christians could live in a profound unity and in that way prepare a different future. |
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| But even though divided, Christians are still in communion with one another. |
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| As Christians, we are called to pray and to live towards a deep mutual respect among persons and peoples. |
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| While Christians bow our heads to pray for you, radical Islamists want to cut off your head. |
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| He powerfully set the stage for what God had in mind for Christians in Madrid and Spain. |
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| Here are some of the mandates that must be followed by all who truly wish to be Christians. |
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| He was also able to show how much Christians and Muslims had worked together in the past for the good of universal culture. |
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| According to the legend, Lucia had helped Christians persecuted by the Romans to survive by bringing them food in their hiding places. |
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| Christians are tempted to join government agenda and to support unjust wars and extreme measures to fight against terrorism. |
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| That's like trying to explain to harebrained Christians that the crucifix no longer exists. |
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| At that time, I started listening to a program called Rock Talk, hosted by two former rock musicians who were now born-again Christians. |
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| However, all these undertakings bore fruit and engendered many Christians who shed their blood in testimony to their faith. |
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| Christians offer very few details and simply pronounce we will be with Jesus. |
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| In a hypothetical Venn diagram, one circle representing extremist Christians and the other fundamentalist capitalists, the lens-shaped overlap contains Sam Brownback, the newly re-elected governor of Kansas. |
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| In 1914 there were 2 million Armenian Christians living in Turkey. |
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| Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.46pm BST17:46 Resident describes situation in Hasaka Hasaka, in north-east Syria, has a mixture of Arabs, Kurds and Christians. |
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| Such a vacuum in authority is not acceptable and cannot be solved by combining the arrest of Islamists with the random rounding up of a number of indigenous Christians. |
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| All these people are suffering from persecution only for being Christians. |
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| The Coptic Christians feel like second-class citizens. |
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| I see the Christians come to Aceh and help my brothers and sisters. |
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| In Sweden and Norway, Sami are primarily Lutheran, in Finland and Russia they are orthodox Christians. |
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| The Oneness doctrine may be considered a form of Modalism, an ancient teaching considered heresy by most Christians. |
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| Therefore those who say they are Christians, followers of Christ must reject war totally. |
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| As it was, the patterns of textual survivals were shaped by their usefulness to the severely constricted literate group of Christians. |
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| By 1872, the population of the island had risen to 144,000, comprising 44,000 Muslims and 100,000 Christians. |
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| Subsequently, Christians, who had been persecuted until then, increased rapidly across the entire Roman Empire. |
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| A surviving letter from Pliny the Younger, governor of Bythinia, to the emperor Trajan describes his persecution and executions of Christians. |
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| I think they can very easily be made Christians, for they seem to have no religion. |
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| It decided that Christians, and not Moslems, should be the ruling power in Europe. |
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| Soon the Avar tuduns had lost the will to fight and travelled to Aachen to become vassals to Charlemagne and to become Christians. |
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| The central and southern parts of Maluku are populated by a majority of Christians. |
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| Thus, in China they were Uighur Buddhists, Turkestani and Persian Muslims, and Christians. |
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| The Hindus forms largest religious group, followed by Muslims and Christians. |
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| In late 302, Diocletian and Galerius sent a messenger to the oracle of Apollo at Didyma with an inquiry about Christians. |
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| Among the symbols employed by the primitive Christians, that of the fish or Ichthys seems to have ranked first in importance. |
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| They may have been native Christians, but Augustine did not treat them as such. |
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| All men, truly zealous, will perform those good works that are incumbent on all Christians. |
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| The Ottoman authorities in Lebanon could not stop the violence, and it spread into neighboring Syria, with the massacre of many Christians. |
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| The Norman leader, Roger I of Sicily, was welcomed by the native Christians. |
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| The city of Antioch, where someone gave them the name Christians, had a reputation for coming up with such nicknames. |
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| In church polity, some advocated for separation from all other Christians, in favor of autonomous gathered churches. |
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| Evangelical Friends regard Jesus Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour, and have similar religious beliefs to other evangelical Christians. |
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| These poems are named Menologium, The Fates of the Apostles, The Rune Poem, The Seasons for Fasting, and the Instructions for Christians. |
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| Over the years, some religious people, particularly Christians, have decried Rowling's books for supposedly promoting witchcraft. |
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| His party was defeated in 1874, but made a comeback based on opposition to Turkey's Bulgarian atrocities against Christians. |
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| Kuwait also has a large community of expatriate Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, and Sikhs. |
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| For Reformed Christians, such a belief denies that Christ actually became human. |
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| Baptists also insist on immersion or dipping, in contradistinction to other Reformed Christians. |
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| But all agree that violence on behalf of a country or a government is prohibited for Christians. |
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| David's fame as a teacher and his asceticism spread among Celtic Christians, and he helped found about 12 monasteries. |
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| Pentecostals believe that the baptism with the Holy Spirit is available to all Christians. |
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| Pentecostals in a church service may pray aloud in tongues while others pray simultaneously in the common language of the gathered Christians. |
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| Leah, holding high to her own personal beliefs took a path that would soon put her on a pedal stool upon other Christians. |
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| When they entered Italy, some Lombards retained their native form of paganism, while some were Arian Christians. |
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| Aristotle believed in human flourishment or happiness as do all Christians. |
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| The hammers may have been worn as a symbol of Norse pagan faith and of opposition to Christianization, a response to crosses worn by Christians. |
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| The word appears in the New Testament and was appropriated by the Church to mean a sect or division that threatened the unity of Christians. |
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| The Sherbro are virtually all Christians, and their paramount chiefs had a history of intermarriage with British colonists and traders. |
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| It was originally built as part of a mosque when the Moors ruled in Spain and was later added onto by the Christians. |
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| By the 9th century, some members of the Sephardic community felt confident enough to take part in proselytizing amongst Christians. |
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| The Easter festival is kept in many different ways among Western Christians. |
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| Medieval Spain and Portugal saw almost constant warfare between Muslims and Christians. |
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| The last week of August is dedicated to the Morismas de Bracho, a theatrical production of the struggle between Moors and Christians. |
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| Most Christians, even those who deny that there is any real change in the elements used, recognize a special presence of Christ in this rite. |
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| Calvin was dissatisfied with its original structure as a catechism, a primer for young Christians. |
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| The majority of followers believe that heterosexuality or celibacy is required of Christians, but believe in tolerance towards others. |
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| Separate laws govern Sikhs, Hindus, Muslims, Christians, and followers of other religions. |
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| Anglicans, Methodists, and the United Congregational Church of Southern Africa make up the majority of Christians. |
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| Many people, especially some evangelical Christians, have been less than optimistic about the Potter influence. |
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| I do not appreciate neither those who call themselves Christians nor those who call themselves Buddhists, to give your power to a church moves you away from your true divinity thus moves you away from the real god. |
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| Then began the struggle of those Christians who had needed to lose their Master on earth in order to raise themselves up to preach the truth that He had revealed to them. |
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| Six children told the Special Rapporteur that they were Christians and that their parents were alive, but that they did not know where they were living. |
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| Christians make up quite a substantial portion of its population. |
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| He called the First Council of Nicaea in 325, at which the Nicene Creed was adopted by Christians. |
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| Not only are persons of a holy life made to shine with a more radiant brightness, but common Christians, of no note or visibleness, are changed to a saintly character. |
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| There are also communities of ethnic Indian Hindus and Christians. |
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| The teachings of Arius and his supporters were opposed to the theological views held by Homoousian Christians, regarding the nature of the Trinity and the nature of Christ. |
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| According to early church historian Eusebius of Caesarea, the Imperial household of Maximinus' predecessor, Alexander, had contained many Christians. |
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| Tertullian considered the pallium an appropriate garment both for Christians, in contrast to the toga, and for educated people, since it was associated with philosophers. |
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| Peter Phan argues that True Meaning was used by a Jesuit missionary to Vietnam, Alexandre de Rhodes, in writing a catechism for Vietnamese Christians. |
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| Conversely, it is below average for its number of Christians. |
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| A witness of his suffering convinced Empress Alexandra of Rome and Athanasius, a pagan priest, to become Christians, as well, so they joined George in martyrdom. |
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| After an unsuccessful ministry of two years at Savannah in the Georgia Colony, Wesley returned to London and joined a religious society led by Moravian Christians. |
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| En route to his martyrdom in Rome, Ignatius wrote a series of letters which have been preserved as an example of the theology of the earliest Christians. |
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| As newly converted Christians, the Goths respected church property, but those who found sanctuary in the Vatican and in other churches were the fortunate few. |
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| The Limba are about equally divided between Muslims and Christians. |
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| Ever since the fall of the Severan dynasty in 235, rivals for the imperial throne had bid for support by either favouring or persecuting Christians. |
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| The Annals is one of the earliest secular historical records to mention Christ, which Tacitus does in connection with Nero's persecution of the Christians. |
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| Progressive Evangelicals, also known as the Evangelical left, share theological or social views with other progressive Christians, while also identifying with Evangelicalism. |
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| He appointed the Patriarch of Constantinople Gennadius Scholarius, whom he protected and whose status he elevated into leader of all the Eastern Orthodox Christians. |
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| The document had special benefits for Christians, legalizing their religion and granting them restoration for all property seized during Diocletian's persecution. |
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| The Edict of Milan included several clauses which stated that all confiscated churches would be returned as well as other provisions for previously persecuted Christians. |
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| Nigeria is divided roughly in half between Christians, who live mostly in the southern part of the country, and Muslims, who live mostly in the north. |
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| Whether prophetic or not, however, Pentecostals are agreed that all public utterances in an unknown tongue must be interpreted in the language of the gathered Christians. |
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| Adam accused Forkbeard of being a rebellious pagan who persecuted Christians, betrayed his father and expelled German bishops from Scania and Zealand. |
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| Other than in their contempt for Trinitarian Christians, the Arian Visigoths were largely uninterested in the religious creeds within their kingdom. |
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| The Shepherd of Hermas was popular in the early church, considered a valuable book by many Christians, and considered canonical scripture by some of the early Church fathers. |
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| Napoleon III felt obliged to intervene on behalf of the Christians, despite the opposition of London, which feared it would lead to a wider French presence in the Middle East. |
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| For moderate Christians, this meant a return to simple Scripture. |
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| Other early Christians, however, considered the work to be apocryphal. |
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| Such claims can be found among the worldwide community of Christians. |
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| For Christians, this event commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the followers of Jesus Christ, as described in the second chapter of the Book of Acts. |
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| In principle, the service is open to all baptized Christians, but an individual's eligibility to participate depends on the views of each particular assembly. |
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| In 388, Emperor Theodosius the Great was informed that a crowd of Christians, led by their bishop, had destroyed the synagogue at Callinicum on the Euphrates. |
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| These often had very different practices, some preferring underground places of worship, while others, like Early Christians, worshipped in houses. |
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| As such, for Christians, the Easter egg is a symbol of the empty tomb. |
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| The confrontation has radicalized and politicized the Christians. |
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| The majority of Russian Karelians are Eastern Orthodox Christians. |
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| Almost immediately thereafter Peter the Hermit began preaching to thousands of mostly poor Christians, whom he led out of Europe in what became known as the People's Crusade. |
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| The greatest damps however, that may ever roll upon your spirits, will arise from the stupidity of sinners, and the vapory dullness of declining Christians. |
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