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A plaque showing the locations of a third of the missions between 1565 and 1763. Beginning in the second half of the 16th century, the Kingdom of Spain established missions in Spanish Florida (La Florida) in order to convert the indigenous tribes to Roman Catholicism, to facilitate control of the area, and to obstruct regional colonization by Protestants, particularly, those from England and ...
Many of the British North American colonies that eventually formed the United States of America were settled in the 17th century by men and women, who, in the face of European religious persecution, refused to compromise passionately held religious convictions (largely stemming from the Protestant Reformation which began c. 1517) and fled Europe.
Full-scale persecution destroys the Christian community by the 1620s. Converts who did not reject Christianity were killed. Many Christians went underground, but their communities died out. Christianity left no permanent imprint on Japanese society. [141] 1598 – Spanish missionaries push north from Mexico into what is now the state of New Mexico.
The missionary movement in the East began which gradually spread throughout Mesopotamia and Persia and by AD 280. While the rulers of the Second Persian Empire (227-640) also followed a policy of religious toleration, to begin with, they later gave the largely Assyrian Christians the same status as a subject race.
Jesus began his ministry after his baptism by John and during the rule of Pilate, preaching: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near" (Matthew 4:12–17). While the historicity of the gospel accounts is questioned to some extent by some critical scholars and non-Christians, the traditional view states the following chronology for his ministry:
The US census has never asked Americans directly about their religion or religious beliefs, but it did compile statistics from each denomination starting in 1945. [ 12 ] Finke and Stark conducted a statistical analysis of the official census data after 1850, and Atlas for 1776, to estimate the number of Americans who were adherents to a ...
Lippy, Charles H., ed. Encyclopedia of the American Religious Experience (3 vol. 1988) Lynch, John. New Worlds: A Religious History of Latin America (2012) McLeod, Hugh, ed. European Religion in the Age of Great Cities 1830–1930 (1995) Noll, Mark A. A History of Christianity in the United States and Canada (1992) Rosman, Doreen.
1646 Westminster Standards produced by the Assembly, one of the first and undoubtedly the most important and lasting religious document drafted after the reconvention of the Parliament, also decreed Biblical canon; 1647 – The Discalced Carmelites begin work on Madagascar [35] 1648 – Baptism of Helena and other members of the emperial Ming ...