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Hartford International University has been home to The Muslim World since 1938, an academic journal dedicated to the promotion and dissemination of scholarly research on Islam and Muslim societies and on historical and current aspects of Christian-Muslim relations. The journal was founded in 1911, and is edited and published quarterly.
On May 30, 2009, the Connecticut Senate voted 23-12 for SustiNet. [14] SustiNet was sent to Governor Jodi Rell, who vetoed it on July 8. [15] On July 20, 2009, the governor's vetoes were overridden by the Connecticut House of Representatives with a vote of 102 to 40 and then by the Connecticut Senate with a vote of 24–12. [16]
The organization that is now Connecticut Foodshare started in 1982, when Mark Patten, a volunteer at Community Soup Kitchen in New Haven launched Connecticut Food Bank with a desk and chair supplied by Christian Community Action. It became an affiliate of Feeding America (then called America's Second Harvest) two years later. [4]
The state's flagship public university is the University of Connecticut, [1] which is also the largest school in the state. The remainder of the state's public institutions constitute the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities, comprising four state universities, twelve community colleges, and an online school, Charter Oak State College. [2]
Interfaith centers in the U.S. began in 1953 at Seton Hall University, and have spread to 27 centers around the country, [67]: 143 including the Center for Christian–Jewish Understanding of Sacred Heart which was established in 1992 as a research and academic division of the University [67]: 149 under the direction of Anthony J. Cernera and ...
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At the start of the 19th century, Congregationalism remained the established church of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. This meant that Congregational churches were financially supported through taxation. In 1818, however, Connecticut's new state constitution required disestablishment. New Hampshire followed a year later with the ...
Fellowship of Catholic University Students, or, more commonly, FOCUS, is a Catholic outreach program for American college students founded in 1997 by Curtis Martin and Dr. Edward Sri at Benedictine College. [1]