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Reformation Day is a Protestant Christian religious holiday celebrated on 31 October in remembrance of the onset of the Reformation. According to Philip Melanchthon , 31 October 1517 was the day Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg , Electorate of Saxony , in the Holy Roman Empire .
Their eventual establishment as a Reformed denomination originated in the doctrinal conflicts within the Church of the Foursquare Gospel in the Philippines, a Pentecostal-Charismatic and a fundamentally and thoroughly Arminian denomination founded in the United States by woman preacher Aimee Semple McPherson, over the essential issue of God's ...
Protestantism began to seriously develop in the Philippines after the Spanish–American War when the United States acquired the Philippines from the Spanish with the 1898 Treaty of Paris. [5] During American Colonial Period , the Catholic Church was disestablished as the state religion , giving Protestant missionaries more opportunities to ...
The Reformed Institute of Theology was founded in 1969 to provide theological training in the Philippine Christian Reformed Church. In January 1970, the seminary’s opening ceremony was held with an initial batch of 50 men and women.
Foreman, J. (1906), The Philippine Islands: A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social, and Commercial History of the Philippine Archipelago, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons; Gatbonton, Esperanza B., ed. (2000), The Philippines After The Revolution 1898–1945, National Commission for Culture and the Arts, ISBN 971-814-004-2
The group aims to foster closer relationships with Spain and the Philippines. 12 January 1889 – La Asociacion Hispano-Filipino was created. The organization is composed of Filipinos and some peninsulares led by Miguel Morayta. Its aim was to influence public opinion to initiate reforms in the Philippines.
The commemoration of the introduction of Christianity in the Philippines was supposed to culminate in April 2021 but was changed to be the kickoff month of the observances due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result some events were held in 2022. [11] December 1, 2019 – 500-day countdown to the 500 Years of Christianity (YOC) event starts.
Lorenzo was beatified during Pope John Paul II's papal visit to the Philippines in 1981. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] It was the first ever beatification ceremony to be held outside the Vatican . A statue of San Lorenzo Ruiz enthroned at the Manila Cathedral