On 25 June 2009, the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, Abune Paulos, said he would announce to the world the next day the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, which he said had been kept safe and secure in a church in Axum, Ethiopia.

In addition to de facto renunciation through apostasy, heresy, or schism, the Roman Catholic Church envisaged from 1983 to 2009 the possibility of formal defection from the Church through a decision manifested personally, consciously and freely, and in writing, to the competent church authority, who was then to judge whether it was genuinely a case of " true separation from the constitutive elements of the life of the Church ... ( by ) an act of apostasy, heresy or schism.

In 2009, for the first time in church history, more new members came from Africa than the United States.

With 2, 000 congregations and a membership of some 1. 8 million ( or 10. 8 % of the Dutch population, 2009 ), it is the second largest church in the Netherlands after the Roman Catholic Church.

As of March 21, 2009 a federal judge says members of the church in Ashland can import, distribute and brew ayahuasca.

This may be represented more starkly by the fact that, as of the proposed missionary goals of 2009, missionaries as a function of total church membership represent less than % 0. 008.

As of 2009, the UUA comprised 19 Districts, 1, 041 congregations with 164, 656 certified members and 61, 795 church school enrollees served by 1, 623 ministers.

* Anti-abortion extremist Scott Roeder assassinates George Tiller, a pro-choice advocate and late-term abortion provider, on May 31, 2009, at Tiller's church in Wichita, Kansas.

While premiering a TV series in January 2009, Hanks called supporters of Proposition 8 " un-American " and criticized the LDS ( Mormon ) church members, who were major proponents of the bill, for their views on marriage and their role in supporting the bill.

The trio filmed their scene in an empty church on October 24, 2009.

Thorvaldsen's Christus was recreated in Lego by parishioners of a Swedish Protestant church in Västerås and unveiled on Easter Sunday 2009.

After Armstrong's death, his former church, which changed its name to Grace Communion International ( GCI ) in 2009, abandoned all his teachings, including British Israelism.

The church of Santa Maria di Collemaggio in L ' Aquila, as it was before the 2009 L ' Aquila earthquake | devastating earthquake of 6 April 2009.

The church applied for Canadian tax-exempt status in 1998, was reportedly rejected in 1999, and is not registered as a charity as of 2009.

After being closed to the public for six years due to the 2003 San Simeon Earthquake, the church re-opened on December 22, 2009.

As of 2009 there were five church buildings in Stansbury Park, all units of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ).

* Dr Alan Spedding 1967-March 2009 ( formerly organist of Kingston upon Thames parish church )

In 2009, the church adopted its current name.

In 29 May 2009 the Våler church was destroyed by an arson attack, which is suspected to be an act of satanist.

Matagh of a rooster at the entrance of a monastery church ( Alaverdi, Armenia, 2009 ), with cropped detail of bloody steps.

A constitutional amendment of 2009 / 2012 designates the church as " Norway's people's church " (" Norges Folkekirke "), which is also the name of the Danish state church, and the church remains a state-funded state church, but with increased autonomy in appointments of clergy.

More than 20, 000 people were forced to leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 2009, an action the DR Congo said was in retaliation for regular expulsion of Congolese diamond miners who were in Angola illegally.

In July 2009, it was revealed that Universal Studios had won the rights to adapt the game into a film.

The APG III system ( 2009 ) differs only in that the Limnocharitaceae are combined with the Alismataceae ; it was also suggested that the genus Maundia ( of the Juncaginaceae ) could be separated into a monogeneric family, Maundiaceae, but the authors noted that more study was necessary before Maundiaceae could be recognized.

In 2009, one of the subfamilies of Araliaceae was shown to be polyphyletic.

The private transaction was reported in a 2009 article in The Economist, which described Warhol as the " bellwether of the art market ".

In the 1998 version, Alliaceae were a distinct family ; in the 2003 version, combining the Alliaceae with the Agapanthaceae and the Amaryllidaceae sensu stricto was recommended but optional ; in the 2009 version, only the broad circumscription of the Amaryllidaceae is allowed, with the Alliaceae reduced to a subfamily, Allioideae.

A review of the management of degenerative ataxia was published in 2009.

In 2010, retail trade turnover was largely unaltered compared to 2009.

As of late November 2009, the Armenian government's foreign debt was around $ 3 billion USD, having doubled in size over the course of the previous year.

On 10 September 2009, following an Internet campaign, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an official public apology on behalf of the British government for " the appalling way he was treated ".

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

It was signed into law on July 26, 1990, by President George H. W. Bush, and later amended with changes effective January 1, 2009.

< li > A unit was sold in September 2009 for $ 17, 000 on eBay.

In March 2009, NYSE Alternext U. S. was changed to NYSE Amex Equities.

In 2009, Aachen was ranked 8th among cities in Germany for innovation.

The building work for the stadium which has a capacity of 32. 960, began in May 2008 and was completed by the beginning of 2009.

By 2009 with natural gas prices at a long-term low, Alberta's economy was in poor health compared to before, although still relatively better than many other comparable jurisdictions.

Alberta was once the smallest of the three Prairie Provinces by population in the early 20th century, but by 2009, Alberta's population was 3, 632, 483 or approximately three times as much as either Saskatchewan ( 1, 023, 810 ) or Manitoba ( 1, 213, 815 ).

The January, 2009 collation of Alarums and Excursions was # 400.

He has written and produced seventy-three full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough, where all but four of his plays have received their first performance.

On August 21, 2009 it was announced that the institution had changed its name to Crandall University in honour of Rev.

* 215: 511 Philadelphia, PA was deprecated by state-wide use of 511 as road info in 2009 ; PA is the 36th state to adopt the system.

It was announced at the 2009 state of the franchise meeting that the Falcons would wear 1966 throwback uniforms for a couple games during the 2009 season.