and to Mrs. Rozella Switzer, regional director of The National Conference of Christians and Jews, who asked them to serve as a committee for the fund.

There were several on the Council who tried to live like Christians.

Catholics who were truly Christians longed for the simple penance of days gone by.

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.

In Tabriz, André de Longjumeau met with a monk from the Far East, named Simeon Rabban Ata, who had been put in charge by the Khan of protecting the Christians in the Middle-East.

Supporters of this view believe that “ to a hypothetical outside reader, presents Christianity as enlightened, harmless, even beneficent .” Some believe that through this work, Luke intended to show the Roman Empire that the root of Christianity is within Judaism so that the Christians “ may receive the same freedom to practice their faith that the Roman Empire afforded the Jews .” Those who support the view of Luke ’ s work as political apology generally draw evidence from the facts that Christians are found innocent of committing any political crime ( Acts 25: 25 ; 19: 37 ; 19: 40 ) and that Roman officials ’ views towards Christians are generally positive.

Other scholars have even said that Luke wrote this apology in order to support Christians who were becoming allies with local Roman officials.

Many who side with this view disagree that Luke portrays Christianity or the Roman Empire as harmless and thus reject the apologetic view because “ Acts does not present Christians as politically harmless or law abiding for there are a large number of public controversies concerning Christianity, particularly featuring Paul .” For example, to support this view Cassidy references how Paul is accused of going against the Emperor because he is “ saying that there is another king named Jesus .” ( Acts 17: 7 ) Furthermore, there are multiple examples of Paul ’ s preaching causing uprisings in various cities ( Acts 14: 2 ; 14: 19 ; 16: 19-23 ; 17: 5 ; 17: 13-14 ; 19: 28-40 ; 21: 27 ).

Thus far the only people who have been attested with a high level of genetic, historical, linguistic and cultural research to be the descendants of the ancient Mesopotamians are the Assyrian Christians of Iraq and its surrounding areas in north west Iran, north east Syria and south eastern Turkey.

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.

Those powerful families were supported by Iberians who were openly or secretly Christians and had acted with the rebels.

Following the rebellion, those Christians who survived continued to practice their faith in secret, despite persecution.

Similar to the traditional view in Judaism, conservative Christians view the Book of Daniel as written by the prophet Daniel, who they claim wrote the book around 536 BC after having been in captivity for about 70 years.

:"" There are there ," he said, " many great and powerful gods, and in former time a church was built there, and there are many Christians there who worship Christ --"" ( Chapter XIX )

* Evangelism – practice of sharing about Christianity to those who are not Christians.

The use of the definite article before the word " Christ " and its gradual development into a proper name show the Christians identified the bearer with the promised Messiah of the Jews who fulfilled all the Messianic predictions in a fuller and a higher sense than had been given them by the Rabbis.

The God who raised Jesus from the dead would also give new life to the " mortal bodies " of Gentile Christians, who had become with Israel the " children of God " and were therefore no longer " in the flesh ".

Some groups of individuals who hold basic Protestant tenets identify themselves simply as " Christians " or " born-again Christians ".

By the 12th century, the Mishneh Torah ( i. e., Rabbi Moses Maimonides ) was criticizing Christianity on the grounds of idol worship, in that Christians attributed divinity to Jesus who had a physical body.

The first Christians were, like Jesus, Israelites resident in Roman Israel who worshiped on occasion in the Temple in Jerusalem and weekly in local synagogues.

Christians explain that such selectivity is based on rulings made by early Jewish Christians in the Book of Acts, at the Council of Jerusalem, that, while believing gentiles did not need to fully convert to Judaism, they should follow some aspects of Torah like avoiding idolatry and fornication and blood, including, according to some interpretations, homosexuality.

This epistle addresses the question of whether Christians were obligated to follow Mosaic Law.

By his compromises in India with the Christians of St. Thomas, he developed the Jesuit missionary methods along lines that subsequently became a successful blueprint for his order to follow.

For those Orthodox Christians who follow the Julian Calendar, this day falls on December 25 of the Gregorian Calendar, and thus provides a spiritual alternative to what some believe to be the increasingly secularized celebration of Christmas.

In the Qur ' an, Christians are referred to as naṣārā, meaning " followers of an-Nāṣirī ," or " those who follow Jesus.

Sinhalese Christians mainly follow Roman Catholicism, followed by Protestantism.

* Persian Christians who follow Nestorianism gather in the second Council of Seleucia ( modern Turkey ).

The subsequent verse mentions the unwillingness of the People of the Book ( Jews and Christians ) to follow the Qibla of Islam: " Even if thou wert to bring to the people of the Book all the Signs ( together ), they would not follow Thy Qibla ; nor art thou going to follow their Qibla ; nor indeed will they follow each other's Qibla.

This verse says, " Those who follow the Jewish ( scriptures ) and the Sabians, Christians, Magians and Polytheists — God will judge them On the Day of Judgement :" ( 22: 17 ).

The majority of Orthodox Christians ( Russians, in particular ) follow the Julian Calendar in calculating their ecclesiastical feasts, but many ( including the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Church of Greece ), while preserving the Julian calculation for feasts on the Paschal Cycle, have adopted the Revised Julian Calendar ( at present coinciding with the Gregorian Calendar ) to calculate those feasts which are fixed according to the calendar date.

However, whereas Western Christians follow the Gregorian Calendar in their calculations, the Orthodox calculate the fixed date of 21 March according to the Julian Calendar, and observe the additional rule that Easter may not precede or coincide with the first day of the Jewish Passover ( see computus for further details ).

Byzantine Christians ( Eastern Christians who follow the Rite of Constantinople: Orthodox Christians and Greek-Catholics ) call this day " Holy and Great Friday ", or simply " Great Friday ".

Though a minority of scholars follow the Augustinian hypothesis, most scholars ( including Christians and non-Christians ) date the composition of the Christian gospels to between 70 and 100 CE, a time after Christianity had separated from Judaism ( and after Pharisaism emerged as the dominant form of Judaism ).

* 1665-Japanese feudal landholders ( called Daimyo ) were ordered to follow the shogunate's example and to appoint inquisitors to do a yearly scutiny of Christians

Nonconformity ( usually capitalized ) is the refusal to " conform " to, or follow, the governance and usages of the Church of England by the Protestant Christians of England and Wales.

Muslims commonly refer to Christians and Jews as " People of the Book ", people who follow the same general teachings in relation to the worship of the One God ( Tawhid ) as known by Abraham.

The Qur ' an also makes it clear that the Christians will be nearest in love to those who follow the Qur ' an and praises Christians for being humble and wise:

The epistle is addressed to Christians in general, and it warns them about the doctrine of certain errant teachers to whom they were exposed.

It also defined how Christians are to discern true teachers: by their ethics, their proclamation of Jesus in the flesh, and by their love.

In the 13th century, the Tibetan Buddhist teachers of the Sakya school, led by Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen took part in a religious debate with Christians and Muslims before the Mongolian royal court.

His polemics are, above all, directed against Judaizing Christians ( see Ebionites, Nazarenes, Judaizing teachers ).

Ripa returned to Naples from China with four young Chinese Christians, all teachers of their native language and formed the Institute sanctioned by Pope Clement XII to teach Chinese to missionaries and thus advance the propagation of Christianity in China.

The Yassa also decreed complete religious freedom, ensuring that Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, etc., were all allowed to travel freely throughout the empire ; religious leaders were also exempted from taxation, as were doctors, lawyers, undertakers, teachers, and scholars.

The Judaizing teachers were a group of Jewish Christians who taught that converts to Christianity must first be circumcised ( i. e. become Jewish through the ritual of a proselyte ) in order to observe the Law of Moses ( as well as the oral traditions of the authorities making the proselyte ritual mandatory for Gentiles to secure a place in the World to Come ) in order to be justified.

Asia Conference is a biennial conference bringing together pastors, Bible teachers, worship leaders, and Christian artists to educate, equip and empower Christians.

Governments hostile to Christianity often accept well-qualified teachers, doctors, computer technicians and engineers into their countries to work, even if these men and women are Christians.

Higher Life teachers promoted the idea that Christians who had received this blessing from God could live a more holy, that is less sinful or even a sinless, life.

The emperor, wanting to purge the schools of Christian teachers, published an edict in June 362 mandating that all state appointed professors receive approval from municipal councils ( the emperor's accompanying brief indicated his express disapproval of Christians lecturing on the poems of Homer or Virgil when their religion demanded the annihilation of the religion of Homer and Virgil ).

In the later 16th century, a decree of Rudolph II forbade Christian teachers to train Jews, and competitions between Christians and Jews were forbidden around this time as well.