Some secularists reject the use of " Judeo-Christian " as a code-word for a particular kind of Christian America, with scant regard to modern Jewish, Catholic, or Christian traditions, including the liberal strains of different faiths, such as Reform Judaism and liberal Protestant Christianity.

Other faiths exist in Panama by the country's tolerance and freedom of religion, there are large Protestant, Jewish, Baha, Muslim and Hindu religious groups in Panama.

Rulers of the Imperial States have powers to decide their state religion, Protestant, Catholic or Calvinist, with the minorities of each of those faiths granted toleration of worship, and there is general recognition of exclusive sovereignty, including that of the Dutch Republic and Switzerland.

The region was shaped by the relative absence of slavery ( except for Missouri ), pioneer settlement, education in one-room free public schools, democratic notions brought by American Revolutionary War veterans, Protestant faiths and experimentation, and agricultural wealth transported on the Ohio River riverboats, flatboats, canal boats, and railroads.

Outside faiths were not allowed to purchase property within Nazareth, a basically all German Protestant community.

These settlers were a diverse blend of Protestant faiths, in contrast to their mostly Mormon neighbors.

This is particularly common in Indonesia, where many families have close friends or relatives of differing faiths, namely Catholic, some Protestant, some Hindu, Buddhist and Muslim.

The burial ground, which became known as " Tindal's Burial Ground " attracted mainly dissenters from the Established Church who were of a Protestant persuasion, partly owing to their much larger numbers in the locality than other faiths who did not conform to the Church of England's ways, such as Catholics or Jewish citizens.

Although many religions use priests, most Protestant faiths reject the idea of a priesthood as a group that is spiritually distinct from lay people.

Exceptions are admitted and there are over 200 married Catholic priests who converted from the Anglican Communion and Protestant faiths.

The city has a very diverse presence of Protestant or Reformed faiths, such as the Presbyterian Church, Calvary Chapel, For Christ International Church of Grace of God, Pentecostal Church of God in Brazil, Methodist Church, the Episcopal Anglican Church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Baptist Church, an Assembly of God Church, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God, the Jehovah's Witnesses among others.

* Protestantism and evangelicalism: Americana is also home to adherents of the Protestant, Pentecostal, and Neopentecostal faiths, such as the Nazarene, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Assembly of God, Adventist, Universal Church, and Jehovah's Witnesses.

Historically used by members of the English-speaking community and those of Protestant faiths, the cemetery is now non-sectarian and open to all.

There are other Christian groups such as Protestant churches ( Evangelicals, Born Again, Members Church of God International ( MCGI ), Kingdom of Jesus Christ ), the Iglesia Ni Cristo ( Church of Christ ) and other non-Christian faiths ( Islam, Buddhism.

In addition to placing 128 part-time chaplains ( including both Protestant and Catholic Christians and Muslim Imams ) in 78 Tyson plants, in 2006, the company invited their customers to download a prayer book, containing prayers from many faiths, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and American Indian spirtuality, from the company's website to read during mealtime.

The English civil war was far from just a conflict between two religious faiths, and indeed it had much more to do with divisions within the one Protestant religion.

In the nineteenth century, the whole region, and large parts of southern Russia contained villages settled by Germans belonging to various Protestant faiths, particularly Lutherans and Mennonites, as well as Roman Catholics.

Of the faiths recognized by the state, only the Jewish had to support its ministers, while those of the Catholic and Protestant churches were supported by the government.

It is presumed that Sarkozy desired to have some " official " representative of the Muslim community, in the same manner as there exist " official " representatives of the Jewish, Catholic, and Protestant faiths.

Non-attendance at Protestant church services was punishable by " recusant fines " and the public practice of unapproved faiths by arrest.

These lawsuits allege that the Navy has hired chaplains using a " thirds policy ," a formula dividing its chaplains into thirds: one-third consisting of liturgical Protestant denominations ( such as such as Methodists, Lutherans, Episcopalians and Presbyterians ); another third consisting of Catholics ; and a last third consisting of non-liturgical Protestant denominations ( such as Baptists, evangelicals, Bible churches, Pentecostals and charismatics ) and other faiths.

In contrast to the Protestant missionaries in Jerusalem, they never worked for the conversion of those of other faiths.

Education in Northern Ireland is highly religiously segregated, with 95 % of pupils attending either a maintained ( Catholic ) school or a controlled school ( mostly Protestant, but open to all faiths and none ), both funded by the state-by varying amounts.

According to literary critic Terry Eagleton, Le Fanu, together with his predecessor Maturin and his successor Stoker, form a sub-genre of Irish Gothic, whose stories, featuring castles set in a barren landscape, with a cast of remote aristocrats dominating an atavistic peasantry, represent in allegorical form the political plight of colonial Ireland subjected to the Protestant Ascendancy

A contemporary joke was that the letters on the weather vane of St Peter's Church could represent " Andrew Perne, Papist " or " Andrew Perne, Protestant " according to which the wind was blowing.

In the Confessing Church we didn't want to represent any political resistance per se, but we wanted to determine for the Church that that was not right, and that it should not become right in the Church, that's why already in ' 33, when we created the minister emergency federation ( Pfarrernotbund ), we put as the 4th point in the founding charter: If an offensive is made against ministers and they are simply ousted as ministers, because they are of Jewish lineage ( Judenstämmlinge ) or something like that, then we can only say as a Church: No. And that was then the 4th point in the obligation, and that was probably the first anti-antisemitic pronouncement coming from the Protestant Church.

Witness Lee taught that Babylon the Great represents the Roman Catholic Church, the " mother of harlots " and that her " daughters ", the harlots, represent the Protestant denominations.

It was an interconfessional union, intended to represent both Protestant and Roman Catholic workers.

The labarum, an amalgamation of the two Greek letters rendered as ☧, is a symbol often used to represent Christ in Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox Christian Churches.

Eventually — certainly by the 18th century — Minerva had come to represent all of those qualities that might be wished for in a rational, virtuous, prudent, wise, and " scientific " man: just the sort of progressive individual who might found a new nation ( or college ) based on sound republican principles and liberal Christian ( Protestant ) morals.

The decision was mainly influenced by European Rationalist and Protestant ideals, but was also a consequence of the pragmatic concerns of minority religious groups and small states that did not want to be under the power or influence of a national religion that did not represent them.

The leaders represent several of the Earth's major religions-Jewish, Protestant Christian, Buddhist, etc.

Walpole presents a " more fragmented recasting " of the Ghost in Hamlet, which had served as a representation of the " now unsanctioned, but still popular Catholic view of ghosts as speakers of truth " for Shakespeare The Catholic elements at play within both Hamlet and Otranto are both invoked to represent a further sense of wonder and mystery to the Protestant audience of both works.

The ban in the Republic was sometimes cited by ( mainly Protestant ) Unionists as evidence of excessive influence by the Catholic Church in the Republic which would ( in the event of a United Ireland ) represent a threat to the religious liberty of non-Catholics.

He chose to represent no foreign denomination or missionary society, and he encouraged full co-operation between all Protestant missionaries for the encouragement of indigenous initiatives.

Contributors represent traditional Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and Jewish viewpoints.

:::" That venerable document will not in our opinion stand patching ... it is ill fitted to represent the theological sentiment of our day as the cathedral is ill fitted for our Protestant worship "

At the first meeting of its General Assembly in 1927, the CCC could claim to represent close to a quarter of China's Protestants, making it the largest Protestant church in China during the 1920s, and the most powerful member of the National Christian Council ( NCC ).

Students represent Episcopal, other Protestant Christian, Roman Catholic, Jewish, Islamic, and Hindu faiths.

This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

Estimates of the total number of Protestants are very uncertain, partly because of the difficulty in determining which denominations should be placed in these categories, but it seems clear that Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians after Catholicism in number of followers ( although the Orthodox Church is larger than any single Protestant denomination ).

For example, in 1988 the United Church of Canada, that country's largest Protestant denomination, affirmed that " a ) All persons, regardless of their sexual orientation, who profess Jesus Christ and obedience to Him, are welcome to be or become full member of the Church ; and b ) All members of the Church are eligible to be considered for the Ordered Ministry.

The Protestant Church in the Netherlands (, abbreviated PKN ) is the largest Protestant Christian denomination in the Netherlands.

The Anglican Church is the largest Protestant denomination.

The largest branches of Christianity are the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Protestant churches.

Methodism boasts the largest number of higher education ministries, including teaching positions, of any Protestant denomination in the world in close competition with the Southern Baptist Convention.

Methodist and Wesleyan traditions in the Philippines are shared by three of the largest mainline Protestant churches in the country – The United Methodist Church, Iglesia Evangelica Metodista En Las Islas Filipinas ( IEMELIF ) ( Evangelical Methodist Church in the Philippine Islands ), and The United Church of Christ in the Philippines.

In 1925, they merged with the Presbyterians, then by far the largest Protestant communion in Canada, most Congregationalists, Union Churches in Western Canada, and the American Presbyterian Church in Montreal, to form the United Church of Canada.

In the United States, it ranks as the largest mainline denomination, the second largest Protestant church after the Southern Baptist Convention, and the third largest Christian denomination.

With 4000 circuit riders by 1844, the Methodist Episcopal Church rapidly became the largest Protestant denomination in the country.

* Presbyterian Church in America, a Protestant Christian denomination, the second largest Presbyterian body in the United States after the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .)

The Church of Ireland is the largest Protestant denomination but is closely rivalled by a large number of Presbyterians.

It would not only have been the largest, but also the first post-Reformation church in England and Wales built according to a plan where the preacher was to take the centre instead of the altar, thus stressing the importance of preaching in the Protestant Church.

As of the 2000 RCMS, the three largest denominational groups in Franklin County are Catholic, Mainline Protestant, and Orthodox.

The Southern Baptist Convention is the leading Protestant denomination in terms of adherents, with Glasgow Baptist Church being the largest congregation in the county.

The city is also home to the main campus of the largest church in the state and one of the country's largest Protestant churches, Southeast Christian Church.

It is the world's largest Baptist denomination and the largest Protestant body in the United States, with over 16 million members as of 2010.