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  2. Spread of Christianity - Wikipedia

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    Bart D. Ehrman attributes the rapid spread of Christianity to five factors: (1) the promise of salvation and eternal life for everyone was an attractive alternative to Roman religions; (2) stories of miracles and healings purportedly showed that the one Christian God was more powerful than the many Roman gods; (3) Christianity began as a ...

  3. Portal:Christianity/Map - Wikipedia

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    A broad overview of various Christian groups including a historical context. See also Christianity by country , Islam by country , Judaism by country , Protestantism by country , Commons:Category:Religion maps of the world

  4. Christian persecution complex - Wikipedia

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    Christian persecution complex is the belief, attitude, or world view that Christian values and Christians are being oppressed by social groups and governments in the Western world. [1] This belief is promoted by certain American Protestant churches, [ 2 ] and some Christian- or Bible-based groups in Europe. [ 3 ]

  5. Decline of Christianity in the Western world - Wikipedia

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    Among Christians, 80.9% were Catholics, 7.2% were Orthodox Christians (mostly belonging to the Eastern Orthodox Church), 5.6% were Protestants, while the remaining 6.2% were other Christians, belonging to other denominations of the religion or not affiliated with any denomination, and 22.4% declared they did not belong to any religion ...

  6. Religious conversion - Wikipedia

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    The exact requirements vary between different churches and denominations. Baptism is traditionally seen as a sacrament of admission to Christianity. [8] Christian baptism has some parallels with Jewish immersion by mikvah. In the New Testament, Jesus commanded his disciples in the Great Commission to "go and make disciples of all nations". [9]

  7. Christianized sites - Wikipedia

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    The continuation to Cape Finisterre is regarded by historians as unjustifiable for Christian reasons, but Finisterre has a prominent pre-Christian significance, it was considered to literally be the edge of the world (hence the name finisterre, meaning end of the world), due to it seeming to be the westernmost point of Europe (in reality, even ...

  8. One of SC’s largest churches has decided to leave Methodist ...

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    Lexington’s Mt. Horeb is the largest Methodist church in South Carolina. Now the church’s more than 5,000-strong congregation has made the decision to leave the United Methodist Church and go ...

  9. Seventh-day Adventist interfaith relations - Wikipedia

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    This article describes the relationship between the Seventh-day Adventist Church and other Christian denominations and movements, and other religions.Adventists resist the movement that advocates their full ecumenical integration into other churches because they believe such a transition would force them to renounce their foundational beliefs and endanger the distinctiveness of their religious ...