The pontiff, 85, shocked the world's biggest Christian Church on Monday when he announced his resignation.
Hill met his future wife, Theresa Bennett, at the Riverside Avenue Christian Church, in Jacksonville, in 2005.
Just over 20 years ago, Baldo discovered the foundations of an early Christian church in the undergrowth near his home.
We move on to a Christian church in the center of town that at first glance seems typical.
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You have just imagined the relationship between the Christian Church and her seminaries.
Robert Mooty is pastor at Timberlake Christian Church, a form of Congregationalism, not far from Mr Falwell's vast edifice.
Mr Morsi denounced the violence in a phone call to Pope Tawadros II, the head of the Coptic Christian Church.
DeYoung, the "United by Faith" co-author, says the first-century Christian church grew so rapidly precisely because it was so inclusive.
Luther, he pointed out, had always wanted the Christian church to unite.
All that appeared odd then were the town's wide avenues lined with tall trees and the occasional spire of a Christian church rising upwards.
Texas Christian University, for example, tried and failed where it was determined less than 50% of its board of directors were members of the Christian Church.
The Christian church was far too comfortable and conservative for him, and his militant attitude was more in tune with political groups than with his co-religionists.
Friends from College Heights Christian Church and Ozark Christian College helped us most of the day to salvage what was worth saving, in the eyes of the beholders.
Hardeep ends his visit by attending a service at the City Temple evangelical Christian church, and wonders whether this vibrant form of Christianity is the future of worship.
And the Moorish Ummayad dynasty in Spain, made the city of Cordoba its capital, and installed an immense mosque on the site of an ancient Christian church there.
Yes it indeed, it is the heartbeat, in fact I'd want to say this is the reason why the Church exists, this is the event which created the Christian Church.
Peter Navy Tuiasosopo made his remarks after a service at Oasis Christian Church of Antelope Valley in Lancaster, California, near the family's Palmdale home about 60 miles northeast of Los Angeles.
Other Biennial-related highlights include Bertrand Ivanoff's neon installations on the old Orthodox Palestinian Christian Church and Johan Tahon's milky ceramic figures set in a 15th-century tiled kiosk in walls of the Topkapi Palace.
They point to the New Testament description of the first Christian church as an ethnic stew -- it deliberately broke social divisions by uniting groups that were traditionally hostile to one another, they say.
"Building a Christian church was a very delicate matter that had to be handled with extreme caution, " says Giuseppe Benedetti, the son of an Italian diplomat who oversaw negotiations with Kabul at the time.
The entity, initially criticized by some as an attempt to poach faithful from a rival Christian church, aims to bridge divisions between Roman Catholicism and the Church of England dating to the reign of King Henry VIII.
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The Turkish Cultural Association of Austria complained that the Lego set resembled Hagia Sophia, a 4th Century Orthodox Christian church in Istanbul that the Ottoman Turks converted into a mosque, and is now a museum.
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Though some fundamentalists appear to believe that the Bible was written in English, for the more thoughtful (or pious) Christian, serious study of the New Testament or the early Christian church is impossible without first knowing alpha from omega.
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Still, the 7th century Al-Aqsa mosque was built atop an earlier Christian church, which in stood astride a Roman temple, all of which stood on the platform built by king Herod to house the second Jewish temple, which itself replaced the temple of Solomon, built around 900 BCE.
The Christian Church is now the official religion of the Roman Empire, many of its early doctrinal struggles were settled at the Council of Nicea, and the Church itself had a mighty philosopher in the form of Augustine, the Bishop of Hippo, who had successfully waged a theological battle against the Donatist heresy, among others.
Most of the participants come from churches with Calvinist roots, such as the Reformed Church in America and the Christian Reformed Church.
It was a modest interlude, like its Christian counterpart, the church coffee hour.
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