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  CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Society For Promoting Christian Knowledge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The educational branch of the society's work has not been confined to England, but in India it has founded scholarships for native Christians, both in the boys' colleges and in the schools provided for the higher education of women.
The society's "port chaplains" undertake a systematic visitation of out-going vessels, and the chaplains at the ports of departure give letters of introduction to the chaplains at the ports of arrival, and often the long-voyage chaplains accompany the ships.
The organization and management of the society is efficient and vigorous, and there can be no doubt that it remains to-day one of the chief means of preserving for the Church of England its hold over the people.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/03720a.htm   (1202 words)

  
 Religious Movements Homepage: Rastafarianism
Since the Religious Movements Homepage seeks to promote religious tolerance and appreciation of the positive benefits of pluralism and religious diversity in human cultures, we encourage the use of alternative concepts that do not carry implicit negative stereotypes.
To the general public, the symbol of the lion represents strength, knowledge, and aggression.
Also, eight Lafayette, LA, children, whose Rastafarian values forbade them from cutting their dreadlocked hair, were recently allowed to reattend school after officials banned a school rule excluding "extremes in hair styles." According to the lawsuit, the family had been denied its constitutional rights of free expression and free practice of its Rastafarian religion.
religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu /nrms/rast.html   (3950 words)

  
 Scholarships - Christian Scholarships   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Christian churches in implementing the Great Commission of Jesus Christ to the...
Christian summer camp for boys and girls in the Finger Lakes region of New York.
promote home schooling, provide financial grants to support groups, assist needy...
www.scholarships-directory.com /christianscholarships   (689 words)

  
 Independent Catholicism
As we discussed in the previous page, Christians in the eastern Orthodox tradition also like to speak of themselves as being part of the Catholic, or universal, church of Christ.
In the West, Rome had always been the center of Christian ecclesiastic power, and the authority of the church at Rome went unchallenged until 1517 when a young priest, Martin Luther, posted his famous ninety-five theses on the door of castle church (Collinson, 1990).
Ordained a Roman Catholic priest by the Superior of the Sacerdotal Society of St. John Vianney in the Diocese of Campos, Brazil.
www.concentric.net /~cosmas/indcath.htm   (4677 words)

  
 Æ Indiana T. Zones and the Preface to the Message of the Covenant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
The primary distinction between the Protestant Christian Old Testament and the Tanakh is that the books are in a slightly different order with the books of Chronicles in the Tanakh appearing at the end of the collection.
The Jewish Publication Society of America, © Copyright 1917, By The Jewish Publication Society of America.
Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America.
www.aeragon.com /itz/00-preface-01.html   (2194 words)

  
 Bible HQ : American Bible Society
The Skeptics Society is a scientific and educational organization of scholars,scientists, historians, magicians, professors and teachers, and anyone curious...
Argues that the Founding Fathers were Christian not primarily Deists.
A fundamentalist Christian warning about the infamous secret society at Yale andlinking it to the Bible's prediction of the Antichrist establishing a New World...
www.bible-hq.com /americanbiblesociety/index.php   (879 words)

  
 Blacket Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
Most of the book is devoted to the art and monuments of the Celtic church with the remainder of the book being concerned with the Saxon church.
Contains "a description and discussion of the manner in which recent discovery and research have added to and modified our conceptions of ancient Egyptian and Mesopotamian civilization".
This is a description of the rich and complex archaeology of Christianity in Scotland and Northumbria from late Roman times to the Norse settlements.
books.vhost.org /showdoc.php?page=Archaeology&sub=1   (2161 words)

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