As an obvious consequence, obstacles to genuine interfaith communication have grown more formidable in one important area: relations between Christians and non-Christians in these lands.

When the Germanic peoples entered the Roman Empire and founded successor-kingdoms in the western part, most had been Arian Christians for more than a century.

In the 20th century, there has been more contact between Protestants and Christians from Eastern traditions which claim apostolic succession for their ministry.

Years later in 1890 Edward Granville Browne described how ` Abdu ' l-Bahá was " one more eloquent of speech, more ready of argument, more apt of illustration, more intimately acquainted with the sacred books of the Jews, the Christians, and the Muhammadans ... scarcely be found even amongst the eloquent.

Billy approves them, Billy condones them, Billy recommends them .... I think that Dr. Graham is doing more harm in the cause of Jesus Christ than any living man ; that he is leading foolish and untaught Christians, simple people that do not know the Word of God, into disobedience to the Word of God.

A large number of Old Testament passages were regarded as messianic by the Jews, many more than are commonly considered messianic by Christians, and various groups of Jews assigned varying degrees of significance to them.

With more than 1. 1 billion baptized members, the Catholic Church is the largest church representing over half of all Christians and one sixth of the world's population.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

A more secular meaning can denote that the term Christendom refers to Christians considered as a group, the " Political Christian World ", as an informal cultural hegemony that Christianity has traditionally enjoyed in the West.

And yet, the connection of all Christians is also asserted, albeit in a way that defenders of this view usually decline, often intentionally, to elaborate more clearly or consistently.

Some Christians who view the Jewish people as close to God seek to understand and incorporate elements of Jewish understanding or perspective into their beliefs as a means to respect their " parent " religion of Judaism, or to more fully seek out and return to their Christian roots.

Deism became more prominent in the 17th and 18th centuries during the Age of Enlightenment — especially in Britain, France, Germany and America — among intellectuals raised as Christians who believed in one God, but found they could not believe in supernatural events such as miracles, the inerrancy of scriptures, or the Trinity.

There are different interpretations of the significance of the Eucharist, but according to the Encyclopædia Britannica " there is more of a consensus among Christians about the meaning of the Eucharist than would appear from the confessional debates over the sacramental presence, the effects of the Eucharist, and the proper auspices under which it may be celebrated.

Some have interpreted apostasy to mean a number of different things, such as a group of Christians in one sect leaving for another more conservative sect, one of which the author disapproves.

There is evidence that Christians were then in Rome in considerable numbers and probably had more than one place of meeting.

In India, the spelling Xavier is almost always used, and the name is quite common among Christians, especially in the southern states of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and more common in Goa.

Persons who adhere to no religion have fewer children than Christians, and studies also found that among Christians the more conservative ones had more children than the more liberal ones.

The various episodes in the first half of the book are used by Christians as moral stories, and are often believed to foreshadow events in the gospels.

The Latin term Corpus Christianum is often translated as the Christian body, meaning the community of all Christians.

In opposing interpretations of the Bible that are supportive of homosexual relationships, conservative Christians have argued for the reliability of the Bible, and the meaning of texts related to homosexual acts, while often seeing what they call the diminishing of the authority of the Bible by many homosexual authors as being ideologically driven.

It is especially important in the Catholic Church, but is also used in Orthodox and Eastern Catholic, as well as Anglican, and Lutheran churches, ( though less often in other Protestant churches ), and it emphasizes Jesus ' sacrifice — his death by crucifixion, which Christians believe brought about the redemption of mankind.

Leeming regards resurrection as a common part of the heroic monomyth, in which the heroes are resurrected, often as sources of " material or spiritual food for their people "; in this connection, Leeming notes that Christians regard Jesus as the " bread of life ".

Christians will often use the Septuagint to make distinctions between the types of love: philia for brotherly, eros for romantic and agape for self-sacrificing love.

* Most Reformation and post-Reformation churches use the term Catholic ( often with a lower-case c ) to refer to the belief that all Christians are part of one Church regardless of denominational divisions ; e. g., Chapter XXV of the Westminster Confession of Faith refers to the " catholic or universal Church ".

85 % of the Tigre people adhere to the Islamic religion Sunni Islam, but there are a considerable amount of Christians among them as well ( often referred to as the Mensaï in Eritrea ).

In the Middle East, Orthodox Christians have also been often referred as Roman ( or Rum ) Orthodox, because of their historical connection with the Eastern Roman ( Byzantine ) Empire as said in Chapter 30 ( Sura Rum ) of the Quran.

From the late 20th century onwards, such conservative Protestant Christians, and their churches and social movements, have often been called evangelical to distinguish them from other Protestants.

Also often advanced as a possible context for 1 Peter is the trials and executions of Christians in the Roman province of Bithynia-Pontus under Pliny the Younger.

One use of the term faith healing is in reference to the belief of some Christians that God heals people through the power of the Holy Spirit, often involving the laying on of hands.

Christians often call the day " Candlemas ", long celebrated as " the feast of the Purification of the Virgin ".

It was often the book-after the Bible-that Christians most frequently owned.

Much of the population, swollen with refugees fleeing Saladin's conquest of the surrounding territory, was allowed to flee to Tyre, Tripoli, or Egypt ( whence they were sent back to Europe ), but those who could not pay for their freedom were sold into slavery, and those who could were often robbed by Christians and Muslims alike on their way into exile.

The crusaders and their descendants often learned to speak Greek, Arabic, and other eastern languages, and intermarried with the native Christians ( whether Greek, Syrian, or Armenian ) and sometimes with converted Muslims.

Although Christians, both Western and Eastern, were by law prohibited from being sold into slavery, the native Christians were often indistinguishable from the Muslim population and the Italian merchants were sometimes accused of selling them along with Muslim slaves.

For Christians, Moses — mentioned more often in the New Testament than any other Old Testament figure — is often a symbol of God's law, as reinforced and expounded on in the teachings of Jesus.

This conjecture seems to be confirmed in the introduction of the first volume of the chronicles of Gallus Anonymus concerning the Pomeranians: Although often the leaders of the forces defeated by the Polish duke sought salvation in baptism, as soon as they regained their strength, they repudiated the Christian faith and started the war against Christians anew.

The belief that human souls choose good or evil totally independently of God's will, which is most often found among Arminian Christians, means that God does not ultimately determine the will of each soul.

" Despite the Crusaders ' slaughter when they originally conquered Jerusalem in 1099, Saladin granted amnesty and free passage to all common Catholics and even to the defeated Christian army, as long as they were able to pay the aforementioned ransom ( the Greek Orthodox Christians were treated even better, because they often opposed the western Crusaders ).

He made his first attempt to learn Hebrew under the guidance of a converted Jew ; and he seems to have been in correspondence with Jewish Christians in Antioch.

Having converted to Christianity, he resigned his post before Diocletian's purging of Christians from his immediate staff and before the publication of Diocletian's first " Edict against the Christians " ( February 24, 303 ).

Sixtus ' earlier threats to excommunicate all captains or pirates who enslaved Christians in the bull Regimini Gregis of 1476 could have been intended to emphasise the need to convert the natives of the Canary Islands and Guinea and establish a clear difference in status between those who had converted and those who resisted.

* The Muladi: Christians who converted to Islam after the arrival of the Moors.

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.

* Emperor Valens is converted to Arianism and orders the persecution of orthodox Christians in the Roman East.

Santosuosso notes that ' Uqba b. Al-Hajjaj converted about 2, 000 Christians he captured over his career.

Suars, like other tribes ( which later converted to Islam ) became Volga Bulgars and later the modern Chuvash ( mostly Christians ) and Tatars ( mostly Muslims ).

Prior to the arrival of the missionaries, some 550 natives were scattered throughout the local area ; by 1790, the number of converted Christians had grown to 700, and just six years later nearly 1, 000 " neophytes " ( recent converts ) lived in or around the Mission compound.

His parents were conversos, or New Christians, Christians who had converted from Judaism to Catholicism in order to avoid the civil persecutions of Jews.

Early formal organizations run by converted Jews include: the Anglican London Society for promoting Christianity among the Jews of Joseph Frey ( 1809 ), which published the first Yiddish New Testament in 1821 ; the " Beni Abraham " association, established by Frey in 1813 with a group of 41 Jewish Christians who started meeting at Jews ' Chapel, London for prayers Friday night and Sunday morning ; and the London Hebrew Christian Alliance of Great Britain founded by Dr. Carl Schwartz in 1866.

In the 1940s and 50s, missionaries in Israel, including the Southern Baptists, adopted the term meshichyim ( משיחיים " Messianics ") to counter negative connotations of the word notsrim ( נוצרים " Christians ", from " Nazarenes "); the term was used to designate all Jews who had converted to Protestant evangelical Christianity.

A 2012 study dedicated to Dante's Statius's relation to Christianity has shown the significance of the fact that Dante does not state that Statius ever converted to Christianity, but that his Neapolitan predecessor let himself be " baptized " by Christians.

Half of the Christians in Al-Andalus are reported to have converted to Islam by the 10th century, with more than 80 % by the 11th century.

In exile, the sons of Æthelfrith were converted to Christianity, or raised as Christians.

In August of that year, John Heckawelder brought an additional 250 converted Lenape Christians into the village.

During the French and Indian Wars ( Seven Years War ), Native allies of the French killed 11 missionaries and Lenape ( Delaware ) converted Christians at Gnadenhutten on 24 November 1755.

Afterwards, all converted Jews and their descendants would be referred to as " New Christians ", and they were given a grace period of thirty years in which no inquiries into their faith would be allowed ; this was later extended to end in 1534 .< Ref > Arthur Benveniste.

It is likely that the Hwicce were converted to Christianity by Celtic Christians rather than by the mission from Pope Gregory I since Bede was well-informed on the latter yet does not mention the conversion of the Hwicce.

The converts were also known as Cristianos nuevos ( Spanish ) and Cristãos novos ( Portuguese ), which mean New Christians, and conversos ( the converted ).