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  2. List of Christian women of the early church - Wikipedia

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    Christian women of the early church Name, also known as, location, year Image Description and legacy Two slave women deacons. ministers, deaconesses, maid-servants Bithynia. Pliny's letter c112 The governor, Pliny the Younger, wrote a letter to Emperor Trajan; one of the earliest documents showing persecution of the church by Roman authorities ...

  3. Women in Church history - Wikipedia

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    Women in Church history have played a variety of roles in the life of Christianity—notably as contemplatives, health care givers, educationalists and missionaries. Until recent times, women were generally excluded from episcopal and clerical positions within the certain Christian churches; however, great numbers of women have been influential in the life of the church, from contemporaries of ...

  4. Joni Eareckson Tada - Wikipedia

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    She also served on Love and Action, the Institute on Learning Disabilities, the Disability Advisory Committee, New Europe Communications, and the Christian Writers Guild, and as honorary co-chair of the Presidential Prayer Team. [25] She has been interviewed by the Chicago Tribune, [26] Ligonier Ministries, [27] and the Los Angeles Times. [28]

  5. Kathryn Kuhlman - Wikipedia

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    Hendrik van der Breggen, a Christian philosophy professor, argued in favor of the claims. [21] Author Craig Keener concluded, "No one claims that everyone was healed, but it is also difficult to dispute that significant recoveries occurred, apparently in conjunction with prayer. One may associate these with Kathryn Kuhlman's faith or that of ...

  6. Teresa of Ávila - Wikipedia

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    Contemplative prayer seeks him 'whom my soul loves'. It is Jesus, and in him, the Father. We seek him, because to desire him is always the beginning of love, and we seek him in that pure faith which causes us to be born of him and to live in him. In this inner prayer we can still meditate, but our attention is fixed on the Lord himself. [66]

  7. African and African-American women in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    In 1970, Black women held about 3% [17] of leadership roles. By 1990, this figure had risen to 19%. In 1890, 7% of black women in Protestant churches were given full clergy rights, but 100 years later 50% had these same rights. Often, women do not receive the higher level or more visible roles.

  8. Women in Christianity - Wikipedia

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    References on the history of women in the early Christian Church. Brock, Sebastian and Harvey, Susan, trans. Holy Women of the Syrian Orient, updated edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. Brown, Peter. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998.

  9. Category:Female Christian missionaries - Wikipedia

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    Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church (48 P) Pages in category "Female Christian missionaries" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 469 total.