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Christian democrats and liberal-centrists were undoubtedly the strongest factions within the party, but all four were mainstream for a special issue: for example liberals and liberal-centrists were highly influential over economic policy, Christian democrats led the party over ethical issues ( although there was a substantial minority promoting a more progressive outlook ), while social democrats had their say in defining the party's policy over labour market reform and, moreover, it is thanks to this group ( and to those around Tremonti, he himself a former Socialist ) that constitutional reform was at the top of Forza Italia's political agenda.
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Yet the party's group in parliament voted against an oppositional motion for gay marriage, in order not to threaten the coalition with the Christian democrats.
The elections of 2004, however, brought the Encuentro Progresista-Frente Amplio-Nueva Mayoría, a coalition of socialists, former Tupamaros, communists, social democrats, and Christian Democrats among others to power with majorities in both houses of parliament.
Although the term originally designated traditional conservatives and reactionaries, the usage of “ right-wing ” has been extended to describe liberal conservatives, classical liberals, libertarian conservatives, Christian democrats, and nationalists.
Right-wing parties include conservatives, Christian democrats, classical liberals, libertarians, nationalists and, on the far Right, racists and fascists.
Since its inception in 1994, the UW had to cope with internal frictions between various factions: liberal socialists ( such as Leszek Balcerowicz ), those proposing a more liberal economic agenda in a more conservative, bourgeois guise ( such as Donald Tusk ), more progressive social democrats such as Jacek Kuroń, and intellectual former civil rights activists such as Bronisław Geremek or Tadeusz Mazowiecki, who also has a strong background in liberal Catholicism and leans towards Christian democracy.
Also, while the UW was a somewhat elitist party appealing mostly to educated and affluent urban voters, the PD is trying to establish itself as a populist party with a broad appeal, which caters for centrist social-liberals ( Frasyniuk ), pragmatic centrists with leanings toward economic liberalism ( Hausner ) and centrist Christian democrats ( Mazowiecki ).
As an economic ideal, mixed economies are supported by people of various political persuasions, typically centre-left and centre-right, such as social democrats or Christian democrats.
In his Christmas homily that year, he asserted that there was no opposition between a democratic form of government and being a good Catholic: " Christian virtue makes men good democrats ....
Christian democrats from the House of Freedoms refused to join either the People of Freedom or its coalition, and stood independently as the Union of the Centre.
These controversies might have a led to a change of coalition after the 2006 municipal elections: the PS lost some votes, the Christian democrats gained some and the liberals and the green party Ecolo where stable.
Support of the Christian democrats significantly declined in the European elections of 2009, where the former party leader Alf Svensson got the party's sole seat in the European Parliament at the expense of the party's top candidate Ella Bohlin.
Military leaders of these military forces included August Willich and Feliks Trociński and Captain Christian Zinn On May 17 through 18, 1849, a group of workers and democrats from Trier and neighboring townships stormed the arsenal at Prüm to obtain arms for the insurgents of the uprising.
* Democratic and Popular ( Christian democrats, centrists ): Philippe Douste-Blazy, Pierre Méhaignerie, Adrien Zeller, Jacques Barrot, Nicole Fontaine, Pierre-André Wiltzer, Marc-Philippe Daubresse, Alain Joyandet, Antoine Herth
* Christian Democratic Party ( social conservatives, Christian democrats ): Christine Boutin, Jean-Frédéric Poisson, Charles de Champeaux
In 2004, the party, along with Italy's Democracy is Freedom – The Daisy, was one of the founding members of the European Democratic Party, intended to be home to all those Christian democrats and centrists who were disillusioned with the new course of the European People's Party, which had welcomed the Rally for the Republic and later the UMP.
Christian democrats are usually socially conservative, and, as such, generally have a relatively skeptical stance towards issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage.
On economic issues, Christian democrats normally do not completely oppose capitalism as an economic system, unlike their repudiation of atheistic communism and similar ideologies, though they do see the economy as being at the service of humanity.
The duty of the state towards society is of real importance for Christian democrats, though some would see this duty as being mostly to create the conditions for civil society to flourish, while others would see it as a more direct duty of the state towards citizens, including in areas such as education, universal health care and social safety nets.
In recent decades, some right-leaning Christian democratic parties in Europe have adopted policies consistent with an economically liberal point of view, while by contrast other Christian democrats at times seem to hold views not dissimilar from Christian socialism.
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but both groups were so closely knit that despite individual differences the family life in both cases was remarkably similar in atmosphere if not entirely in content -- the one being definitely Jewish and the other vaguely Christian.
Sessions devoted to `` Ethics and Foreign Policy Trends '', `` Moral Principle and Political Judgment '', `` Christian Ethics in the Cold War '' and related subjects proved to be much livelier under this procedure than if Catholics were merely talking to themselves.
Similar literary exercises were the common doings of a Christian humanist of the first two decades of the sixteenth century.
The next day I visited International Christian College which has developed since the war under the leadership of people who were interned and who know Japan well.
Some were clearly of Christian origin, among them the Great Awakening and other revivals which helped to make Christian liberty, Christian equality, and Christian fraternity the passion of the land.
Although he later broke with the churches because he believed that they were insufficiently outspoken against social evils, he remained a devout Christian.
L'Unita and Hoy published identical denunciations of Short's elevation, l'Osservatore Romano and the Christian Science Monitor ignored it, Times of India snickered at it, and the Manchester Guardian simply reported it -- the Fosterites in England were few but extremely militant.
From biblical to medieval Christian traditions, tensions between self-affirmation and other-regard were sometimes discussed under the heading of " disinterested love ," as in the Pauline phrase " love seeks not its own interests.
The Turkish language and the Islamic religion were gradually introduced as a result of the Seljuk conquest, and this period marks the start of Anatolia's slow transition from predominantly Christian and Indo-European and Semitic-speaking, to predominantly Muslim and Turkish-speaking ( Although some ethnic groups such as Armenians, Greeks, Assyrians and Georgians retained Christianity and their native languages ).
As the Ottoman Empire further fragmented during the Balkan Wars, much of the non-Christian populations of its former possessions, mainly the Balkan Muslims, flocked to Anatolia and were resettled in various locations, mostly in formerly Christian villages throughout Anatolia.
In the earliest age of Christian monasticism the ascetics were accustomed to live singly, independent of one another, not far from some village church, supporting themselves by the labour of their own hands, and distributing the surplus after the supply of their own scanty wants to the poor.
We know that in the 6th century, the Alemanni were predominantly pagan, and in the 8th century, they were predominantly Christian.
He also spoke of the particular ruthlessness of the Alamani in destroying Christian sanctuaries and plundering churches while the genuine Franks were respectful towards those sanctuaries.
The contemporary ecclesiastics recorded with wonder many instances of the Visigoths ' clemency: Christian churches saved from ravage ; protection granted to vast multitudes both of pagans and Christians who took refuge therein ; vessels of gold and silver which were found in a private dwelling, spared because they " belonged to St. Peter "; at least one case in which a beautiful Roman matron appealed, not in vain, to the better feelings of the Gothic soldier who attempted her dishonor.
The Lesbian or Aeolic school of poetry " reached in the songs of Sappho and Alcaeus that high point of brilliancy to which it never after-wards approached " and it was assumed by later Greek critics and during the early centuries of the Christian era that the two poets were in fact lovers, a theme which became a favourite subject in art ( as in the urn pictured above ).
If the Christian faith fell into ruin in his kingdom, if the clergy were too ignorant to understand the Latin words they butchered in their offices and liturgies, if the ancient monasteries and collegiate churches lay deserted out of indifference, he was answerable before God, as Josiah had been.
The Almoravids were crucial in avoiding a precipitated fall of Al-Andalus to the Iberian Christian kingdoms, when they decisively beat a coalition of the Castilian and Aragonese armies at the Battle of Sagrajas.
One way to explain much of the confusion concerning Ammonius is to assume that there were two people called Ammonius: Ammonius Saccas who taught Plotinus, and an Ammonius the Christian who wrote biblical texts.
He found Christian prisoners from Germany in the heart of " Tartary " ( at Talas ), and was compelled to observe the ceremony of passing between two fires, as a bringer of gifts to a dead Khan, gifts which were of course treated by the Mongols as evidence of submission.
Some believe that this appeal “ thereby shows Christian ’ s of Luke ’ s day both that their predecessors were innocent before the state and that Paul had no political quarrel with Rome ” but rather with the Jews who were accusing him.
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Earlier Christians fighting the Moors, such as Pelayo, could plausibly be described as natives opposing foreign invasion and conquest ; however, by the time most parts of Muslim Iberia were ( re ) conquered by Christian forces, the Muslim population there was centuries old, and much of it undoubtedly composed of converted Iberians rather than migrants from other Muslim lands.
As a songwriter, Norman crystallized the heart of the Jesus Movement ; as an artist, he pushed the creative envelope well beyond what had been considered appropriate ; as a producer, he brought to prominence some of the most significant artists in Christian music ; and, as a businessman ( undoubtedly his weakest suit ), he ran a label that brought some of the most important albums into the world.
In Christian theology, the key philosopher influenced by Aristotle was undoubtedly Thomas Aquinas.
The name Peter the Christian ; suggesting that Christianity had started to permeate into Serbia, undoubtedly through Serbia ’ s contacts with the Bulgarians and Byzantines.
The principal contributors to Danish literature are undoubtedly Hans Christian Andersen ( 1805 – 1875 ) with his fairy tales, the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard ( 1813 – 1855 ), storyteller Karen Blixen ( 1885 – 1962 ), playwright Ludvig Holberg ( 1684 – 1754 ), and modern authors such as Henrik Pontoppidan and Herman Bang.
Historian Vincent A. Smith says, “ It must be admitted that a personal visit of the Apostle Thomas to South India was easily feasible in the traditional belief that he came by way of Socotra, where an ancient Christian settlement undoubtedly existed.
According to German historian Erich Eyck, Bismarck supported Russia's persuasion that " Turkish rule over a Christian community ( Bulgaria ) was an anachronism which undoubtedly gave rise to insurrection and bloodshed and should therefore be ended.
Book VIII offers peculiar difficulties ; the first 216 verses are most likely the work of a second century Jew, while the latter part ( verses 217-500 ) beginning with an acrostic on the symbolical Christian word Icthus is undoubtedly Christian, and dates most probably from the third century.
Throughout the 1980s and into the early 1990s, Petra was undoubtedly the world's most popular Christian rock band, with each of its albums during that period selling hundreds of thousands of copies while the band sold out arenas and regularly placed songs at the top of Christian radio charts.
" Solidarity is undoubtedly a Christian virtue.
For many Jews of the period, even though they enjoyed his translations, it was hard to praise a Jew who had converted to Christianity, and one who translated not only literary works, but undoubtedly Christian works.
Ælfwald's sister Ecgburgh was abbess at Repton in Derbyshire and Ælfwald's upbringing was undoubtedly Christian in nature.
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