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Meeting for worship. A meeting for worship is what the Religious Society of Friends (or "Quakers") call their church service. Different branches of Friends have different types of meetings for worship. A meeting for worship in English-speaking countries typically lasts an hour.
New Testament military metaphors refer particularly to the legionaries of the 1st century Imperial Roman army. The New Testament uses a number of military metaphors in discussing Christianity, especially in the Pauline epistles . In Philippians 2:25 [ 1] and Philemon 1:2, [ 2] Paul describes fellow Christians as "fellow soldiers" (in Greek ...
The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, was originally established as a military vicariate, with the Archbishop of New York serving as the military vicar. It was reorganized as an archdiocese, with its own archbishop. Its headquarters was relocated from New York City to Washington, D.C. by Pope John Paul II in 1986.
Army Knowledge Online ( AKO) was a web application that provided enterprise information services to the United States Army, joint, and Department of Defense customers. AKO was sunset in 2021. [1] The remaining following information is historical in nature. Enterprise services were provided to those customers on both classified and unclassified ...
Designated ARLH. June 16, 1976 [ 1] The 16th Street Baptist Church is a Baptist church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. In 1963, the church was bombed by Ku Klux Klan members. The bombing killed four young girls in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The church is still in operation and is a central landmark in the Birmingham Civil ...
Mercy Otis Warren. / 41.956; -70.666. Mercy Otis Warren (September 25, 1728 – October 19, 1814) was an American activist poet, playwright, and pamphleteer during the American Revolution. During the years before the Revolution, she had published poems and plays that attacked royal authority in Massachusetts and urged colonists to resist ...
Andrejs Pumpurs. Andrejs Pumpurs (22 September [ O.S. 10 September] 1841 on the left bank of the Daugava, in Lieljumprava civil parish, now Birzgale Parish – 6 July [ O.S. 23 June] 1902 in Riga) was a poet who penned the Latvian epic Lāčplēsis ( The Bear Slayer, first published in 1888) and a prominent figure in the Young Latvia movement.
Pre-ecumenical councils, those earlier than AD 325, were mostly local or provincial. Some, held in the second half of the 3rd century, involved more than one province. The sui generis Council of Jerusalem was a meeting, described in the Bible in Acts 15 and possibly in Galatians 2, of the apostles and elders of the local Church in Jerusalem .