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George W. Bush, former President of the United States [5] Jimmy Carter, former President of the United States [6] Ted Cruz, U.S. Senator from Texas [7] Jim DeMint, former U.S. Senator from South Carolina; Mike Huckabee, former Governor of Arkansas; James Lankford, U.S. Senator from Oklahoma
Christians have made many contributions in a broad and diverse range of fields, including the sciences, arts, politics, literatures, sports and business This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The 266th bishop of Rome is Pope Francis, who was elected on 13 March 2013.The pope is the patriarch of the Latin Church, the largest of the Catholic Church's 24 autonomous churches.
Western Christianity is one of two subdivisions of Christianity (Eastern Christianity being the other). Western Christianity is composed of the Latin Church and Western Protestantism, together with their offshoots such as the Old Catholic Church, Independent Catholicism and Restorationism. The large majority of the world's 2.3 billion ...
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
Christianity had a significant impact on education and science and medicine as the church created the bases of the Western system of education, [72] and was the sponsor of founding universities in the Western world as the university is generally regarded as an institution that has its origin in the Medieval Christian setting.
An event at Gateway Church, an Evangelical megachurch in Texas. In the United States, evangelicalism is a movement among Protestant Christians who believe in the necessity of being born again, emphasize the importance of evangelism, and affirm traditional Protestant teachings on the authority as well as the historicity of the Bible. [1]
Pierre-Jean De Smet, a missionary to the Native Americans in the Western United States. Jan MikoĊaj Smogulecki, introduced logarithms to China; Cypriano de Soarez, author of De Arte Rhetorica; Jon Sobrino, author of Christology at the Crossroads, liberation theologian; Carlos Sommervogel, scholar and author of Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de ...