* J. N. D. Kelly, Early Christian Doctrines, 1978, ISBN 0-06-064334-X

* The Christian alternative rock band Daniel Amos wrote a song titled Hound of Heaven on their 1978 album Horrendous Disc that is based on the Thompson poem.

The group's most infamous act took place in 1978, when the second groups of the BR, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnapped the former Christian Democrat Prime Minister Aldo Moro, who was trying to reach a compromesso storico, or " historic compromise ", with the Communists.

In 1978, the Second BR, headed by Mario Moretti, kidnapped and murdered Christian Democrat Aldo Moro, who was the key figure in negotiations aimed at extending the Government's parliamentary majority, by attaining a Historic Compromise between the Italian Communist Party and the Democrazia Cristiana.

" Lectures on the First and Second Epistles of Peter " Klock & Klock Christian Pub, 1978.

On 16 March 1978, Aldo Moro, President of the Christian Democratic Party, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, an ultra-left terrorist group, on the day that the new government was going to be sworn in before parliament.

“ Faith and Election: The Christian right in Congressional Campaigns 1978 – 1988 .” The Journal of Politics 55 ( 1 ), ( February ): 80 – 91.

Alma White College, which closed in 1978, was a private college located in Zarephath, located in the building now occupied by Somerset Christian College.

In December 1978 Norman signed Christian rock band Daniel Amos to Street Level Productions and also to his Street Level Artists Agency.

In the aftermath of Cornerstone magazine's 1992 exposure of popular Christian comedian Mike Warnke, who had claimed falsely to be an ex-Satanic priest, in 1994 " a certain journalist speculated that Larry probably hadn't been in an airplane accident in 1978, and inferred that he also probably hadn't really suffered a serious heart attack.

When the Parliamentary leader of Christian Democratic Appeal in the House of Representatives Wim Aantjes resigned of a World War II controversy, Lubbers succeed him as Parliamentary leader, he served from November 7, 1978 until November 4, 1982.

The Moral Majority was formally initiated as a result of a struggle for control of an American conservative Christian advocacy group known as Christian Voice during 1978.

Cambridge Christian School, founded in 1978, has new facilities in the city of Cambridge.

Northumberland Christian School has graduated 312 students, beginning in 1978 and continuing each year to the present.

* Gabriela von Habsburg, born on Married Christian Meister in 1978, divorced in 1997.

A list of past honorary degree recipients, include: Beverly Sills ( 1975 ), Roy Lichtenstein ( 1977 ), Twyla Tharp ( 1978 ), Gordon Davidson ( 1980 ) Haskell Wexler ( 1981 ) Mischa Schneider ( 1981 ), Bella Lewitzky ( 1981 ), Henry Mancini ( 1983 ), Jan de Gaetani ( 1983 ), Ravi Shankar ( 1985 ), John Cage ( 1986 ), Frank O. Gehry ( 1987 ), Trisha Brown ( 1988 ), Donn B. Tatum ( 1989 ), Luis Valdez ( 1989 ), Paul Taylor ( 1989 ), Ornette Coleman ( 1990 ), Beatrice Manley ( 1990 ), Lulu May Von Hagen ( 1990 ), Ustad Ali Akbar Khan ( 1991 ), Pearl Primus ( 1991 ), Adrian Piper ( 1992 ), Ray Bradbury ( 1992 ), Yvonne Rainer ( 1993 ), Steven Bochco ( 1993 ), Stan Brakhage ( 1994 ), Vija Celmins ( 1994 ), Betye Saar ( 1995 ), Carolyn Forche ( 1995 ), Laurie Anderson ( 1996 ), Elvin Jones ( 1996 ), Chantal Akerman ( 1997 ), Lee Breuer ( 1998 ), Ed Ruscha ( 1999 ), Bill Viola ( 2000 ), Steve Reich ( 2000 ), Ry Cooder ( 2001 ), Faith Hubley ( 2001 ), Bruce Nauman ( 2001 ), Alice Coltrane ( 2002 ), Roy E. Disney ( 2003 ), Anna Halprin ( 2003 ), Carolee Schneemann ( 2003 ), Christian Wolff ( 2004 ), Daniel Nagrin ( 2004 ), James Newton ( 2005 ), Harrison “ Buzz ” Price ( 2005 ), Julius Shulman ( 2005 ), Rudy VanderLans ( 2006 ), Rudy Perez ( 2006 ), Alonzo King ( 2007 ), Harry Belafonte ( 2008 ), Herbert Blau ( 2008 ), Terry Riley ( 2008 ), Elizabeth LeCompte ( 2009 ), Morton Subotnick ( 2009 ), William M. Lowman ( 2010 ), Trimpin ( 2010 ), Annette Bening ( 2011 ), Donald McKayle ( 2011 ), and Peter Sellars ( 2012 ).

During Operation Litani in 1978, Israel established a security zone in southern Lebanon with mostly Christian inhabitants, in which they began to supply training and arms to Christian militias which would later form the South Lebanese Army.

Christian Death is an American deathrock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1978.

Rozz Williams founded Christian Death in Los Angeles in 1978, having grown up in the eastern suburb of Pomona in a Christian family.

Culkin was the third of seven children, five boys and two girls: Shane ( born 1976 ), Dakota ( 1978 – 2008 ), Kieran ( born 1982 ), Quinn ( born 1984 ), Christian ( born 1987 ), and Rory ( born 1989 ).

* Christian Louis, Baron de Massy ( Noghès ) ( born Monaco, 17 January 1949 ), married firstly in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, on 14 November 1970 and divorced in 1978 María Marta Quintana y del Carril ( born London, 17 June 1951 ) and had one daughter, Leticia ; married secondly in Ramatuelle on 11 September 1982 and divorced in 1987 Anne Michelle Lütken ( 28 November 1959-London, 25 November 2001 ), without issue ; married thirdly in Geneva Julia Lakschin ( born November 6 1968 ) on April 1992, without issue, and divorced in 1995 ; and married fourthly Cécile Gelabale ( born Guadeloupe ), and had one son, Antoine, and adopted another, Brice Gelabale:

From 1978 to 1985, Day was assistant pastor and school administrator at the Bentley Christian Centre in Bentley, Alberta.

In late December 1978, Vietnamese forces launched a full invasion of Cambodia, capturing Phnom Penh on January 7, 1979 and driving the remnants of Democratic Kampuchea's army westward toward Thailand.

He was succeeded in 1978 by Tom Davis of the Democratic Party.

* 1978 – The Soviet Union signs a " friendship treaty " with the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

On October 17, 2008, Devo performed a special concert at the Akron Civic Theater, their first in Akron since 1978, to promote Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Some notable operations include: the Chadian – Libyan conflict in 1969 – 72 ( the first time that the Foreign Legion was sent in operations after the Algerian War ), 1978 – 79, and 1983 – 87 ; Kolwezi in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo in May 1978 ; Rwanda in 1990 – 94 ; and the Côte d ' Ivoire ( the Ivory Coast ) in 2002 to the present.

As disillusionment set in, in 1978 a prominent member of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ), Mir Akbar Khyber ( or " Kaibar "), was killed by the government.

From 1978 to early 1990s, the city served as a strategic location for the pro-Soviet Democratic Republic of Afghanistan.

On April 27, 1978, in the so-called Saur revolution, the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ), seized power in a bloody military coup killing Daoud and his family along with many of his supporters.

In April 1978 there was a coup, known as the Saur Revolution, orchestrated by the Soviets and members of the government loyal to the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ).

Under the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan ( 1978 – 1992 ), weapon deliveries by the Soviets were increased and included Mi-24 helicopters, MiG-23 fighter aircraft, ZSU-23-4 " Shilka " and ZSU-57-2 anti-aircraft self-propelled mounts, MT-LB armored personnel carriers, BM-27 " Uragan " and BM-21 " Grad " multiple-launch rocket systems and FROG-7 and Scud launchers.

The Nigeria Police Force and troops have served in places like UNIPOM ( UN India-Pakistan Observer mission ) 1965, UNIFIL in Lebanon 1978, the UN observer mission, UNIIMOG supervising the Iran-Iraq ceasefire in 1988, former Yugoslavia 1998, East Timor 1999, and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ( MONUC ) 2004.

In 1978 it was changed to the " Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ".

On January 10, 1978, Pedro Joaquín Chamorro, the popular editor of the opposition newspaper La Prensa and leader of the " Democratic Union of Liberation " ( Unión Democrática de Liberación-UDEL ), was assassinated.

With the Vietnamese Occupation of Democratic Kampuchea ( Cambodia ) on December 25, 1978, Thailand at once became the " real " front line state in fighting against communism, as the Kingdom was surrounded by three unfriendly, communist Indochinese countries and a socialist Burma under General Ne Win.

After nine political parties blindly supported Kekkonen's candidacy in the 1978 Presidential election, including the Social Democratic, Centre and National Coalition parties, no serious rivals remained.

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan can also be considered a Soviet satellite ; from 1978 until 1992 the central government in Kabul was aligned with the Communist bloc, and was directly supported by Soviet military power between 1979 and 1989.

Mohammad Daoud Khan, the President of the Republic of Afghanistan from 1973 to 1978, was ousted during the Saur Revolution ( April Revolution ) following the death of Mir Akbar Khyber, a Parchamite politician from the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) who died under mysterious circumstances.

He overthrew the monarchy of his first cousin Mohammed Zahir Shah and declared himself as the first President of Afghanistan from 1973 until his assassination in 1978 as a result of the Saur Revolution led by the Communist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ).

* 1978 – The leftist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) seizes power during the Saur Revolution.

In 1978, Peck traveled to Alabama, the setting of To Kill a Mockingbird to campaign for Democratic U. S. Senate nominee Donald W. Stewart of Anniston, who defeated the Republican candidate, James D. Martin, a former U. S. representative from Gadsden.

The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan was formed after the Saur Revolution on April 27, 1978.

The county is a Democratic Party stronghold and the home of the Pryor family, which includes two U. S. senators, David Pryor ( 1978 – 1997 ) and his son Mark Pryor ( elected 2002 ).