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  2. Dominicans - Wikipedia

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    Dominicans (Spanish: Dominicanos) are an ethno-national people, a people of shared ancestry and culture, who have ancestral roots in the Dominican Republic. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] The Dominican ethnic group was born out of a fusion of European (mainly Spanish), native Taino, and African elements, this is a fusion that goes as far back as the 1500s.

  3. Dominican Order - Wikipedia

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    Members of the order, who are referred to as Dominicans, generally display the letters OP after their names, standing for Ordinis Praedicatorum, meaning 'of the Order of Preachers'. Membership in the order includes friars , [ a ] nuns , active sisters , and lay or secular Dominicans (formerly known as tertiaries ).

  4. List of Dominican saints and beatified - Wikipedia

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    It includes Dominican saints from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas. Since the founder of the Dominicans, Dominic de Guzmán, was canonised in 1234, there have been 69 other Dominicans canonised and many more beatified.

  5. The Dominican Republic votes on Sunday. Here’s what to know

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    Crime and safety and inflation on the ballot. Crime and safety are among the biggest concerns of Dominicans in this election, according to several surveys, although government data indicates that ...

  6. Dominican Republic's president on path to reelection as main ...

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    Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader is on the path to a second term following Sunday’s general elections, with his top competitors conceding early in the night as he took a big lead in ...

  7. List of Dominicans on canonization process - Wikipedia

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    Relics of Dominican saints. The Order of Preachers was founded by St. Dominic de Guzman, a Spanish friar, on 1215 to proclaim the word of God by preaching, teaching and example, while they are sustained by life in common. [1]

  8. List of Dominican friars - Wikipedia

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    Marco Pellegrini (fl.1500), Vicar-General of the Dominicans in Lombardy; Dominique Pire (George) (1910–1969), recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize; Girolamo Savonarola (1452–1498), Italian orator, de facto ruler of Florentine Republic after the overthrow of the Medici family, burned by the Inquisition; Edward Schillebeeckx (1914–1998 ...

  9. Dominican's largest drug trafficking gang dismantled after ...

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    The Dominican Republic's top prosecutor said on Tuesday that the Caribbean nation's largest drug trafficking gang has been dismantled, a group that allegedly used two former professional baseball ...