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The Catholic Church during the Age of Discovery inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous peoples. The evangelical effort was a major part of, and a justification for, the military conquests of European powers such as Portugal , Spain , and France .
San Miguel Mission, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, established in 1610, is the oldest church in the United States.. The Catholic Church in the United States began in the colonial era, but by the mid-1800s, most of the Spanish, French, and Mexican influences had demographically faded in importance, with Protestant Americans moving west and taking over many formerly Catholic regions.
Antiochian Orthodox church in Canada; Christian communities make up a significant proportion of the Middle Eastern diaspora.. Millions of people descend from Arab Christians and live in the Arab diaspora, outside the Middle East, they mainly reside in the Americas, but there are many people of Arab Christian descent in Europe, Africa and Oceania.
Hundreds of churches across the U.S. have joined the Sanctuary Movement where faith-based groups promise to protect undocumented immigrants.
The 1950s saw a boom in the Evangelical church in America. The post–World War II prosperity experienced in the U.S. also had its effects on the church. Church buildings were erected in large numbers, and the Evangelical church's activities grew along with this expansive physical growth.
The Sunday magazine of the New York World appealed to Immigrants with this 1906 cover page celebrating their arrival at Ellis Island. The 1910s marked the high point of Italian immigration to the United States. Over two million Italians immigrated in those years, with a total of 5.3 million between 1880 and 1920.
Past generations of our relatives were all immigrants at one point in our brief history. Historically, America was built by immigrants, people who had nothing and needed to work hard to survive ...
There are quite a few immigrants in Tennessee: 3.0% of the state's citizens are born in the United States, and 5.3% of those born foreign have at least one immigrant parent. I come from a lineage ...