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  Encyclopedia: Religious leaders by year
This is a list of the leaders of major religions in any given year.
This is a list of the governors of colonies, protectorates, or other dependencies in each year.
Leaders by year State leaders Religious leaders Intl organization leaders Colonial governors Canadian incumbents British incumbents German rulers US state governors Canadian incumbents in any given year.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Religious-leaders-by-year   (4020 words)

  
 International Religious Freedom Report 2002: Indonesia
Some religious minority leaders expressed concern that the onset of decentralization and enhanced regional autonomy in the country, which is to empower provincial and district governments, might result in issuance of regulations by local officials that could erode the right of minorities to practice their religions.
Religious violence and the lack of an effective government response to punish perpetrators and prevent further attacks continued to lead to allegations that officials were complicit in some of the violence or, at a minimum, allowed it to occur with impunity.
Religious intolerance, especially on the part of Muslim extremists towards religious minorities, including Christians, increasingly was evident and became a matter of growing concern to many religious minority members and Muslim moderates.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2002/13873.htm   (11960 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: 1983
This is a list of decades which have articles with more information about them.
See also: 1982 in music, other events of 1983, 1984 in music, 1980s in music and the list of years in music // Events The most long-term influential release of 1983 is probably Head over Heels by the Cocteau Twins, which sold poorly upon its initial release.
This is a list of aviation-related events from 1983: Events January January 31 - the Ayres Turbo Thrush NEEDS cropduster plane officially joins the United States war on drugs.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/1983   (8779 words)

  
 Religious Cults
Church refers to a religious organization claiming a monopoly on knowledge of the sacred, having a highly structured or formalized dogma and hierarchy, but also being flexible about membership requirements as the organization attempts to minister to the secular society of which it is a part.
Religious orders such as the Franciscans began as cults built around the presence of a charismatic leader who emphasized a life style dedicated to attaining high levels of spirituality.
During this period, young people were increasingly found living in various types of religious communes and engaging in unconventional behavior, such as speaking in tongues (glossolalia), faith healing, meditating (often under the tutelage of a spiritual leader or guru), and following leaders that conventional society tended to look upon with suspicion and distaste.
mb-soft.com /believe/text/cults.htm   (1766 words)

  
 Emerging Women Leaders: national consultation participants   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
We are excited about this initial group of thirty women and are deeply committed to doing whatever it takes to build genuine relationships with women leaders from all expressions of the emerging church, extending our invitations beyond the limits of denomination, tradition, cultural expression and race.
Blair is the CEO (Chief Executive Orbiter) of avisualplanet, an online resource that connects visual artists and their work to churches that desire to incorporate visual art into their worship.
She received the M.A. degree in leadership and mission from Luther Seminary, St. Paul, in 1997, and is currently pursuing the Ph.D. in congregational mission and leadership at Luther Seminary.
www.emergingwomenleaders.org /whats_ahead/national_consultation_participants.html   (2629 words)

  
 List of state leaders in 1983 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Supreme Leader - Ruhollah Khomeini, Supreme Leader of Iran (1979–1989)
Surya Bahadur Thapa, Prime Minister of Nepal (1979-July 12, 1983
Communist Party Leader - Erich Honecker, General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (1971-1989)
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_state_leaders_in_1983   (1244 words)

  
 List of Religious Movies Nominated for the Oscars
This is a list of 26 films with strong religious themes that have been nominated for major Oscars.
Those films that the Vatican chose for its list of the top 45 films are noted with V45.
The list is split into three categories, one for films on religion, another for films with moral messages, and a final category for films which are particularly artistic.
www.geocities.com /richleebruce/oscar-religious.html   (1499 words)

  
 Cults in France
The principle of neutrality of the State thus means that the religious beliefs are not a public fact subject to the restrictions related to the respect of the law and order, that the religious fact concerns the only individuals, of the only private sphere of the citizens.
It is on this compost favorable to the blossoming of new religious movements that the economic crisis and the upheaval of the family structures intervened.
Thus, Scientology is a religious philosophy in the profoundest sense of the term, because it is concerned with complete rehabilitation of the innate spiritual identity of man - his aptitudes, his state of consciousness and the certainty of his own immortality.
cftf.com /french/Les_Sectes_en_France/cults.html   (14821 words)

  
 Winter solstice celebrations of Christianity, Judaism, Neopaganism, etc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Religious folk worldwide observe many seasonal days of celebration during the month of December.
They respect both their own religious traditions and those of other faiths for their ability to inspire people to lead more ethical lives.
The western church leaders selected DEC-25 because this was already the date recognized throughout the Roman Empire as the birthday of various Pagan gods.
www.religioustolerance.org /winter_solstice.htm   (3295 words)

  
 NCSE Resource   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
As religious leaders we share a deep faith in the God who created heaven and earth and all that is in them, and take with utmost seriousness the Biblical witness to this God who is our Creator.
Uphold religious neutrality in public education, oppose all government mandated or sponsored prayers, devotional observances, and religious indoctrination in public schools; and oppose efforts to compromise the integrity of public school teaching by the introduction of sectarian religious doctrines, such as "scientific creationism," and by exclusion of educational materials on sectarian grounds.
Opponents of the Act, including religious leaders, educators, and scientists, challenged the constitutionality of the Act in the federal courts (McLean v Arkansas Board of Education) and in 1982 the law was declared unconstitutional.
www.ncseweb.org /resources/articles/4650_statements_from_religious_orga_3_13_2001.asp   (7608 words)

  
 friendly dictators
In January 1986, Christian Democrat leader Vinicio Cerezo was elected President and said he had "the political will to respect the rights of man", but it didn't take long to find out that his political will was irrelevant in the face of Guatemala's well-oiled military machine.
During regional elections in 1954, the Shah's agents raided a religious school and hurled hundreds of students to their deaths from the roof.
But eventually, the Shah was overthrown in 1978 by an indigenous people's revolution that held sway until fundamentalist religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile and reasserted his power during the 1979 US hostage crisis.
www.thirdworldtraveler.com /US_ThirdWorld/dictators.html   (9246 words)

  
 Legal Fiction
When, by contrast, these same Red State HBO-watchers hear someone who makes an effort to be respectful to religious or conservative people or their beliefs, they let the force field down and are more likely to actually listen to what the person is saying.
If we are unsuccessful, the leaders who executed the war are to blame, not the liberal groups who had exactly zero influence in the war planning and execution.
Second, there’s the inherent assumption that Muslims are somehow “worse” than Sullivan and should recognize the flaws of their own “people” – this is coming from someone who went off in a rage of insanity justifying an illegal war that has killed exponentially more innocent civilians than even the grotesque Islamic extremists have.
lawandpolitics.blogspot.com /2005_08_01_lawandpolitics_archive.html   (15954 words)

  
 Arianna Online Forums - Religious Leaders Ahead in Iraq Poll   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Leaders of Iraq's religious parties have emerged as the country's most popular politicians and would win the largest share of votes if an election were held today, while the U.S.-backed government of interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi is losing serious ground, according to a U.S.-financed poll by the International Republican Institute.
The new poll, based on 2,000 face-to-face interviews conducted among all ethnic and religious groups nationwide between Sept. 24 and Oct. 4, shows that Iraqi support for the government has plummeted to about 43 percent who believe it is effective, down from 62 percent in a late-summer poll.
Iraqi President Ghazi Yawar, a Sunni leader of the country's largest tribe, was also omitted from the poll.
www.ariannaonline.com /forums/showthread.php?t=14355   (1046 words)

  
 U.N. plans to bring together 1,000 world religious leaders
The "working list" to be issued Tuesday will not include personages such as Pope John Paul II and probably not the Dalai Lama, who reports no invitation.
The Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders is organized by an "independent coalition" of interfaith leaders, and is being held in a year when nongovernmental organizations, or NGOs, are seeking use of the General Assembly chamber more than usual.
The religious leaders are expected to issue a Declaration for World Peace and agree to some form of a permanent International Advisory Council of Religious and Spiritual Leaders.
www.ordination.org /together.htm   (1741 words)

  
 Eastern Patriarchates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In 544, Jacob Baradaeus (a Monophysite leader) consecrated Sergius of Tella as Patriarch in opposition to the Imperial-backed Orthodox candidate.
For a listing of the leaders of the Armenian Church, an ecclesiastic organization similar in many ways to Orthodoxy, go to the Caucasus.
During the ascendancy of the Mongols, many notable leaders, including Hulegu (the first Ilkhan), belonged to this church, and though reliable statistics are not available, it is likely that this church, whose remnants today number at most a few million, boasted the largest population of any Christian denomination.
www.hostkingdom.net /orthodox.html   (1948 words)

  
 How Important Is the PLO? - article by Daniel Pipes
In the course of adopting European ways, most twentieth-century Muslim leaders did in fact institute Western-style elections, but the difference in political background meant that they regarded citizen participation more as a way to prod the populace for support than as a means of creating legitimacy or stability.
In like fashion, if less grandly, PLO leaders live in a world of their own making; spoiled by easy money from above, they run a guerrilla organization as though it were the decisive factor in Middle East politics., the linchpin of East-West relations, and the key to the oil market.
Mahmud al-Masri, a Shi'i religious leader in Ansar, led the opposition to PLO entry into the village in 1980; he was tied up and forced to witness the rape, execution, and mutilation of his fifteen-year old daughter.
www.danielpipes.org /article/165   (6784 words)

  
 Joining a Cult: Religious Choice or Psychological Aberration?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
In the 1970s and 1980s we saw an explosion of new religious groups in America, many of which came to be labeled by their detractors as "cults." The groups were based on a variety of ideologies drawn from Eastern and Western religious traditions and were organized in different ways, but they shared some basic characteristics:
Further, since these were truly new religious movements, they all needed to grow and therefore to make converts, and they concentrated their conversion attempts upon young, idealistic, mostly white, and middle-class Americans.
Although there are other reasons for the wholesale adoption of the "brainwashing" theory, certainly the strongest is that it justifies a hair-raising variety of coercive interventions by claiming that the subject is so non-autonomous as to be almost literally "not there." This maneuver has a number of results, not all of them consciously intended.
www.religioustolerance.org /cult_art.htm   (2650 words)

  
 Politics1 - Guide to the Inactive 2004 Democratic Presidential Prospects
The early response from labor union leaders, however, was warm praise mixed with pleas for him to remain in the Senate instead of running for President.
Gephardt's role as leader of the House Democrats for eight years created a natural, nationwide network of supporters and provided him with visible platform from which to be heard.
For the same reason, party leaders are excluding him from the debates -- even though he qualified for federal matching funds and raised over $5 million as of fall 2003 (which placed him ahead of Clark, Kucinich, Braun, and Sharpton in the money hunt).
www.politics1.com /dems04.htm   (13615 words)

  
 Religious Leaders List   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
Dimitrios was the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and leader of the Orthodox Church, 1972-1991.
TLS, January 11, 1983, to Jim Havel, expressing regret that she cannot provide an autographed photo of the Bhagwan, and inviting him for a visit to Rajneeshpuram.
Cardinal Piovanelli was the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Florence, Italy, from 1983 to 2002.
www.havelshouseofhistory.com /catalog/religious_leaders_194780_products.htm   (2751 words)

  
 1983 Online Research :: Information about 1983   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
1983 is a Common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar.
Lists of leaders: List of state leaders in 1983 - List of religious leaders in 1983
April 25 - Maine schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about Nuclear war.
in-northcarolina.com /search/1983.html   (3050 words)

  
 Largest Religious Groups in the USA
Religious identification is only one component of religious statistics, and identification with a particular religious group may or may not be sociologically meaningful for a particular meaningful.
Episcopalians: Observant readers of these lists may notice that the Episcopalians appear on the list of largest denominational families, yet the Episcopal Church (the only Episcopalian/Anglican body of a statistically appreciably size in the U.S.) is not listed as one of the largest religious bodies.
Between 1990 (when the NSRI study was conducted) and 1997 (list of religious bodies) there was some decline in the size of the Episcopal Church, and growth on the part of some other religious bodies.
www.adherents.com /rel_USA.html   (6472 words)

  
 Freedom of Religion or Belief
Article 13: This article ensures the religious and moral education of children in conformity with the wishes of parents or legal guardians, and uses the phrase “full development of human personality and respect for human rights” found in other human rights instruments.
Published by the Human Rights Resource Center, the talking points are meant to help to preachers, teachers, religious leaders, prayer leaders, and any one who may want to engage their faith community in a discussion about the values of human rights and religion.
Entries are divided by region and introduced by a regional overview; themes include the relationships between belief groups and the state, freedom of manifest belief in law and practice, religion and schools, religious minorities, new religious movements, the impact of beliefs on the status of women, and conscientious objection to military service.
www1.umn.edu /humanrts/edumat/studyguides/religion.html   (5920 words)

  
 Journalists in prison, 2004
This list represents a snapshot of all journalists incarcerated at midnight on December 31, 2004.
He was also a senior leader of the NLD and a close adviser to opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
In particular, he criticized former leader Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin, who at that time held the position of chairman of the Central Military Commission, for representing only the interests of "imperialism" and the upper classes.
www.cpj.org /Briefings/2005/imprisoned_04/imprisoned_04.html   (16532 words)

  
 OxBlog
Both Colin Powell and the human rights community seem to agree that the leaders of the insurrection are a collection of notorious thugs and murderers.
Fraph was an instrument of terror wielded by the military junta that overthrew Haiti's embattled president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, in 1991.
GOOD ON HIM, PART TWO: New Tory leader Michael Howard continues to show that under his watch there will be no room for racial intolerance in his party, by sacking a Conservative MP who made an offensive and insensitive remark about the Chinese undocumented migrants who drowned while picking cockles on an English beach.
www.oxblog.blogspot.com /2004_02_22_oxblog_archive.html   (6086 words)

  
 RedMorals: Who: Red Religious Leaders   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
When Gail Barr became pregnant for a third time in 1983, Bob Barr expressed no opinion whether she should maintaing the pregnancy or abort.
When she made the decision to abort, Bob Barr drove her to the clinic, and paid for the abortion.
As a Republican congressman, Barr authored the "Defense of Marriage Act." See Affidavit of Gail Barr, January 9, 1999; "Publisher Larry Flynt levels accusations at Rep. Bob Barr," CNN, Jan. 12, 1999; Jonathan Darman, "The Federal Government Should Not Be Stepping In," Newsweek, Feb. 27, 2004.
tesibria.typepad.com /redmorals/who_red_religious_leaders   (3306 words)

  
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European leaders envision that this will be in the best interest of their economy and the bottom line - the trading value of the Euro against the dollar.
Military leaders both in Europe and Washington prefer to have everyone, including American soldiers themselves, believe that the real reason that they are serving in the former Yugoslavia is to make the Balkans a comfy, warm, secure and thriving place to live.
The list of names gathered at such meetings and rallies are computerized and then targeted in case of an emergency.
www.angelfire.com /or/don9840/fact.html   (18551 words)

  
 List of religious leaders in 2004 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
2003 religious leaders - Events of 2004 - 2005 religious leaders - Religious leaders by year
Categories: Lists of religious leaders by year
This page was last modified 23:55, 12 November 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_religious_leaders_in_2004   (682 words)

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