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The war against the Polisario guerrillas put severe strains on the economy, and Morocco found itself increasingly isolated diplomatically. Gradual political reforms in the 1990s culminated in the constitutional reform of 1996, which created a new bicameral legislature with expanded, although still limited, powers.
1710 – First modern Bible Society founded in Germany by Count Canstein [171] 1711 – Jesuit Eusebio Kino, missionary explorer in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, dies suddenly in northern Mexico. Kino, who has been called "the cowboy missionary", had fought against the exploitation of Indians in Mexican silver mines.
Paul located Mount Sinai in Arabia in Galatians 4:24–25. [100] Paul asserted that he received the Gospel not from man, but directly by "the revelation of Jesus Christ". [101] He claimed almost total independence from the Jerusalem community [102] (possibly in the Cenacle), but agreed with it on the nature and content of the gospel. [103]
This is a timeline showing the dates when countries or polities made Christianity the official state religion, generally accompanying the baptism of the governing monarch. Adoptions of Christianity to AD 1450
1973 Trinity Broadcasting Network founded by Paul and Jan Crouch; 1973 New International Version of the Bible is first published (revised in 1978, 1984), using a variety of Greek texts, Masoretic Hebrew texts, and current English style; 1973 Walkout at Concordia Seminary begins the Seminex controversy in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
The creation of a literalist chronology of the Bible faces several hurdles, of which the following are the most significant: . There are different texts of the Jewish Bible, the major text-families being: the Septuagint, a Greek translation of the original Hebrew scriptures made in the last few centuries before Christ; the Masoretic text, a version of the Hebrew text curated by the Jewish ...
Sultan Mohammed V of Morocco gives speech at the Grand Socco. [12] American writer Paul Bowles moves to Tangier. [13] 1948 – Cinema Rif opens. [14] 1952 – 30 March: Political demonstration. [5] 1956 8 October: City becomes part of independent Morocco; [3] Tangier International Zone disestablished. [12] 1960 – Population: 141,714. [15]
During the 1950s and 1960s, Morocco was a refuge and artistic centre and attracted writers as Paul Bowles, Tennessee Williams and William S. Burroughs. Moroccan literature flourished with novelists such as Mohamed Zafzaf and Mohamed Choukri , who wrote in Arabic, and Driss Chraïbi and Tahar Ben Jelloun who wrote in French.