The Eastern Orthodox Church observes several All Souls ' Days during the year.

The official name of the celebration in the Roman Rite liturgy of the Roman Catholic Church is " The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed ".

In the Methodist Church, saints refer to all Christians and therefore, on All Saint's Day, the Church Universal, as well as the deceased members of a local congregation are honoured and remembered.

All churches apart from the Armenian Apostolic Church must register with the government, and proselytizing was forbidden by law, though since 1997 the government has pursued more moderate policies.

All Christians who have a genuine relationship with God through and in Christ are part of the " true Church ", according to exemplary statements of evangelical Protestant theology, notwithstanding condemnation of the Catholic Church by some Protestants.

# As Primate of All England, he is the senior primate and chief religious figure of the Church of England ( the British sovereign is the Supreme governor of the church ).

He is buried in a vault beneath the Church of St Michael and All Angels which stands in the grounds of his home Hughenden Manor, accessed from the churchyard.

In 1820 the family moved a few miles to the village of Haworth, where Patrick had been appointed Perpetual Curate of St Michael and All Angels Church.

Charlotte was interred in the family vault in the Church of St Michael and All Angels at Haworth.

* The Church of St Michael and All Angels website: St Columba of Iona, Apostle to the Picts

* Cole, F. G. Mother of All Churches A Brief and Comprehensive Handbook of the Holy Eastern Orthodox Church.

All Orthodox jurisdictions, such as the Orthodox Church in America, have taken the approach of welcoming people with " homosexual feelings and emotions ," while encouraging them to work towards " overcoming its harmful effects in their lives ," while not allowing the sacraments to people who seek to justify homosexual activity.

For example, in 1988 the United Church of Canada, that country's largest Protestant denomination, affirmed that " a ) All persons, regardless of their sexual orientation, who profess Jesus Christ and obedience to Him, are welcome to be or become full member of the Church ; and b ) All members of the Church are eligible to be considered for the Ordered Ministry.

These paintings include Norwood Under the Snow, and Lordship Lane Station, views of The Crystal Palace relocated from Hyde Park, Dulwich College, Sydenham Hill, All Saints Church, Upper Norwood, and a lost painting of St. Stephen's Church.

From then on, until 1959, the Pope of Alexandria, as Patriarch of All Africa, always named an Egyptian ( a Copt ) to be the Archbishop of the Ethiopian Church.

Pope Shenouda III, the 117th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria | Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist ( 1971 – 2012 ).

Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria | Pope Cyril VI, the 116th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria | Pope of Alexandria and the Patriarch of All Africa on the Holy Apostolic See of Saint Mark the Evangelist ( 1959 – 1971 ).

In 1985 Classical historian Georg Luck, in his Arcana Mundi: Magic and the Occult in the Greek and Roman Worlds, theorised that the origins of the Witch-cult may have appeared in late antiquity as a faith primarily designed to worship the Horned God, stemming from the merging of Cernunnos, a horned god of the Celts, with the Greco-Roman Pan / Faunus, a combination of gods which he posits created a new deity, around which the remaining pagans, those refusing to convert to Christianity, rallied and that this deity provided the prototype for later Christian conceptions of the Devil, and his worshippers were cast by the Church as witches.

The modern popularisation of the terms " pagan " and " neopagan ", as they are currently understood, is largely traced to Oberon Zell-Ravenheart, co-founder of " the 1st Neo-Pagan Church of All Worlds " who, beginning in 1967 with the early issues of Green Egg, used both terms for the growing movement.

The majority of pagans are not committed to a single defined tradition, but understand paganism as encompassing a wide range of non-institutionalized spirituality, as promoted by the Church of All Worlds, the Feri Tradition and other movements.

See also the Neopagan section of Gaia and the Church of All Worlds.

His admirers have ranged from Madalyn Murray O ' Hair, the founder of American Atheists, to members of the Church of All Worlds, who hail Heinlein as a prophet.

Dearinth – The official sigil of the Church of All Worlds, Inc.

The Church of All Worlds ( CAW ) is a neopagan religious group whose stated mission is to evolve a network of information, mythology, and experience that provides a context and stimulus for reawakening Gaia and reuniting her children through tribal community dedicated to responsible stewardship and evolving consciousness.

When Zell stepped away from central leadership, the Church of All Worlds suffered internal strife that led to most of the church dissolving.

Oberon and Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart have appeared at over 20 Starwood Festivals ( and a few WinterStar Symposiums ) over the past 25 years ; because of this, there has been a Church of All Worlds presence at Starwood, called the CAWmunity, for over a decade.

* CAWeb – The Official Website of the Church of All Worlds, Inc.

* Church of All Worlds: A Brief History from The Pagan Library

Gwydion later purchased and moved to Annwfn, 55 acres ( 223, 000 m² ) of land in Mendocino county he later deeded to the Church of All Worlds as a gift, and worked psychedelic group shamanic and Vodou rituals.

" The Church of All Worlds is one example of a neopagan organisation which identifies the Triple Goddess as symbolizing a " fertility cycle ".

* The neighborhood was featured in the 2005 motion picture, War of the Worlds, in which director Steven Spielberg used special effects to destroy Five Corners and St. Stephen's Church.

* Humans: One of the three larger powers in the Vega Strike universe, human factions includes the Andolians, Purists, Shapers, League of Independent Human Worlds, Merchant ’ s Guild, Unadorned, High-Born, Mechanists, ISO, Interstellar Church of TrueForm ’ s Return ( Luddites ), the Forsaken, and assorted pirate groups.

They formed a pagan-based magical working group representing many differing traditions, including: Feri, Dianic, British Traditional, the New and Reformed Druids of North America ( NRDNA ), Celtic / Shamanic Wicca, Church of All Worlds ( CAW ), Strega and elements of ceremonial magic.

Later in 1978 Nemeton merged with the Church of All Worlds and became its publishing arm.

Naming his parcel Annwfn after the Welsh underworld, he later gift-deeded the property to the Church of All Worlds with which he had long been involved.

She moved to St. Louis to study theology with the Church of All Worlds, where she was ordained as a Priestess a year later.

It involves a far-future priest of the One True Interstellar Catholic Church of Earth and the Thousand Worlds ( with similarities to the Roman Catholic hierarchy ) investigating a sect that reveres Judas Iscariot.

Some specific groups whose members regularly appear at and attend Starwood include the Church of All Worlds ( CAW ), the Church of the Subgenius, Ar nDraiocht Fein, and various Neopagan Covens and organizations.

* Oberon and Morning Glory Zell-Ravenheart have appeared at over 20 Starwood Festivals ( and a few WinterStar Symposiums ) over the past 25 years ; because of this, there has been a Church of All Worlds presence at Starwood, called the CAWmunity, for over a decade.

Unlike most episodes, in which everything magical is fictional, during the fight which takes place in The Magic Box, in the background is a rack filled entirely with copies of the real-world Neo-Pagan magazine Green Egg, published by the Church of All Worlds.

Dade's chief probation officer, Jack Blanton, will lead a discussion on `` The Changes in the American Family '' at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Christ Lutheran Church.

We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

Some, for example the Church of Ireland, the Scottish and American Episcopal churches, and some other associated churches have a separate name.

In response, the American Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada answered that the actions had been undertaken after lengthy scriptural and theological reflection, legally in accordance with their own canons and constitutions and after extensive consultation with the provinces of the Communion.

* 1960 – David Miscavige, American leader of the Church of Scientology

* 1932 – Dallin H. Oaks, American attorney, jurist, author, and religious leader, apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and author, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Because of its classical Greco-Roman style, the ruins of Mission San Juan Capistrano's Great Stone Church in California, United States has been called the " American Acropolis ".

* 1954 – George Church, American biologist

That said, some people are challenging this, using arguments similar to those used by peyotist religious sects, such as the Native American Church.

* 1899 – Ezra Taft Benson, American missionary and politician, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( d. 1994 )

* 1984 – Frank Church, American Senator ( b. 1924 )

At the Vatican Council II, as representative of American Jews, Heschel persuaded the Roman Catholic Church to eliminate or modify passages in its liturgy that demeaned the Jews, or expected their conversion to Christianity.

It should also be noted that the second largest of the three predecessor bodies of the ELCA, the American Lutheran Church, was a congregationalist body, with national and synod presidents before they were re-titled as bishops ( borrowing from the Lutheran churches in Germany ) in the 1980s.

An American missionary in the 1850s reported a population of under 4, 000, nearly all of whom belonged to the Greek Church.

Aside from the American version and the newly-published Philippine Book of Common Prayer, the Filipino-Chinese of Saint Stephen's Pro-Cathedral in the Diocese of the Central Philippines uses the English-Chinese Diglot Book of Common Prayer, published by the Episcopal Church of Southeast Asia.

The Religious Society of Friends or Quaker Church is one of the earliest American opponents of capital punishment and unequivocally opposes execution in all its forms.

* American mathematician Alonzo Church created a method for defining functions called the λ-calculus,

Denominations that oppose homosexuality include the Roman Catholic Church the Eastern Orthodox churches and some mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Methodist churches, Reformed Church in America the American Baptist Church, as well as Conservative Evangelical organizations and churches, such as the Evangelical Alliance, the Presbyterian Church in America and the Southern Baptist Convention.