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Reformation Day is a Protestant Christian religious holiday celebrated on 31 October in remembrance of the onset of the Reformation. According to Philip Melanchthon , 31 October 1517 was the day Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-five Theses on the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg , Electorate of Saxony , in the Holy Roman Empire .
In 1949 the United Evangelical Church, the Philippine Federation of Evangelical Churches, and the Iglesia Evangelica Unida de Cristo formed the Philippine Federation of Christian Churches, now called the National Council of Churches in the Philippines. Today, Protestant and evangelical churches and denominations are grouped into major councils ...
Duterte also accused Marcos, First Lady Liza Araneta Marcos, and Speaker Romualdez of orchestrating the PI [34] and called on the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and the Philippine National Police to "protect the constitution"; he also vowed to arrest the proponents of the PI if he were to ever return to power. [35]
On the other hand, the former United Brethren in Christ, together with the Church of Christ (Disciples of Christ) and the independent congregations remained as the Evangelical Church in the Philippines. Since the Seventh-day Adventists were forced into the merger by the Japanese, they immediately left the Evangelical Church of the Philippines ...
The Reformed Institute of Theology was founded in 1969 to provide theological training in the Philippine Christian Reformed Church. In January 1970, the seminary’s opening ceremony was held with an initial batch of 50 men and women. In June 1975, it became the Genevan Reformed Seminary.
The history of the Philippines dates from the earliest hominin activity in the archipelago at least by 709,000 years ago. [1] Homo luzonensis, a species of archaic humans, was present on the island of Luzon [2] [3] at least by 134,000 years ago. [4] The earliest known anatomically modern human was from Tabon Caves in Palawan dating about 47,000 ...
The Supreme Court ruled in 1997 that the People's Initiative method of amending the constitution is "fatally defective", or inoperable. Another ruling in 2006 on another attempt at a People's Initiative was ruled unconstitutional by the court [15] This only leaves the Constituent Assembly and the Constitutional Convention as the valid ways to amend the constitution.
The Bastion of Truth Reformed Churches (B.T.R.C.) emerged in the tradition of the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. Their formation as a Reformed denomination stemmed from doctrinal conflicts within the Church of the Foursquare Gospel in the Philippines , a Pentecostal-Charismatic and fundamentally Arminian denomination founded in the United ...