The current Senate composition is as follows: 20 seats are held by the Coalition of Parties for Democracy ( CPD ): Six Christian Democrats ( PDC ), eight Socialists ( PS ), three Party for Democracy ( PPD ) and three Social Democrat Radical Party ( PRSD ); 17 by the Alliance for Chile ( APC ): nine Independent Democratic Union ( UDI ) and eight National Renewal ( RN ); and one independent leaning right.

He formed a government with three other center-right parties: the Party of the Hungarian Coalition ( SMK ), the Christian Democrats ( KDH ) and the Alliance of the New Citizen ( ANO ).

He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law & Justice ( ACLJ ), the Christian Broadcasting Network ( CBN ), the Christian Coalition, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment Inc., Operation Blessing International Relief and Development Corporation, CBN Asia and Regent University.

After his unsuccessful presidential campaign, Robertson started the Christian Coalition, a 1. 7 million member Christian right organization that campaigned mostly for conservative candidates.

* Christian Coalition of America

Since about 1980, the Christian right has been associated with several institutions including the Moral Majority, the Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council.

In the late 1980s Pat Robertson founded the Christian Coalition, building from his 1988 presidential run, with Republican activist Ralph Reed, who became the spokesman for the Coalition.

In 1992, the national Christian Coalition, Inc., headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia, began producing voter guides, which it distributed to conservative Christian churches.

Under the leadership of Reed and Robertson, the Coalition quickly became the most prominent voice in the conservative Christian movement, its influence culminating with an effort to support the election of a conservative Christian to the presidency in 1996.

The Christian Coalition, for example, has used the Internet to inform the public, as well as to sell merchandise and gather members .< ref >" The Christian Coalition of America: America's Leading Grassroots Organization Defending Our Godly Heritage.

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When neither Chancellor Gerhard Schröder's Social Democrats and Greens nor a coalition of Christian and Free Democrats, favored by Angela Merkel and Westerwelle, managed to gain a majority of seats, Westerwelle rejected overtures by Chancellor Schröder to save his chancellorship by entering his coalition, preferring to become one of the leaders of the disparate opposition of the subsequently formed " Grand Coalition " of Christian and Social Democrats, with Merkel as Chancellor.

In the 1980s and 1990s, the Christian Right was influencing elections and policy with groups such as the Family Research Council ( founded 1981 by James Dobson ) and the Christian Coalition ( formed in 1989 by Pat Robertson ) helping conservative politicians, especially Republicans to win state and national elections.

Aho was the prime minister of the centre-right coalition government ( Centre Party, National Coalition Party, Christian Democrats and Swedish People's Party ) from 1991 to 1995.

In the 16th century, Christian missionaries from Spain and Portugal first encountered indigenous peoples using ayahuasca in South America ; their earliest reports described it as the work of the devil.

One of the earliest Christian martyrs in North America was Saint Peter the Aleut.

Some dioceses around the Mediterranean Sea which were Christianised early are rather compact, whereas dioceses in areas of rapid modern growth in Christian commitment — as in some parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, South America and the Far East — are much larger and more populous.

— " brethren in Christ ") are a Christian group that developed in the United Kingdom and North America in the 19th century.

One of the first prominent countercult apologists was Jan Karel van Baalen ( 1890 – 1968 ), an ordained minister in the Christian Reformed Church in North America.

The Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ) is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination in North America.

In South America there are a number of indigenous traditions and more recent religious movements based on the use of ayahuasca, usually in an animistic context that may be mixed with Christian imagery.

* Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America

She has also “ been responsible for the production of some twenty-two books … and at least five hundred articles .” “ Rosemary Ruether has written on the question of Christian credibility, with particular attention to ecclesiology and its engagement with church-world conflicts ; Jewish-Christian relations …; politics and religion in America ; and Feminism.

* Gijsbert Haan ( 1801 ), founder of the Christian Reformed Church in America

A portion of his relics are enshrined at the St. Ignatius Chapel at the Antiochan Village in Pennsylvania, the headquarters of the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America, where he is regarded as one of their patron saints.

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.

In this effort, precursors of the National Conference of Christians and Jews created teams consisting of a priest, a rabbi, and a minister, to run programs across the country, and fashion a more pluralistic America, no longer defined as a Christian land, but " one nurtured by three ennobling traditions: Protestantism, Catholicism and Judaism.

Through soul-searching in the aftermath of the Holocaust, " there was a revolution in Christian theology in America.

In the late 19th century, the Social Gospel movement arose ( particularly among some Anglicans, Lutherans, Methodists and Baptists in North America and Britain ,) which attempted to integrate progressive and socialist thought with Christianity in faith-based social activism, promoted by movements such as Christian Socialism.

) Postmodernism and Christian philosophy, 68-96, Washington, D. C .: Catholic University of America Press.

* Reformed University Fellowship a Christian campus ministry of the Presbyterian Church in America

* Eck, Diane ( 2001 ) A New Religious America: How a " Christian Country " Has Become the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation ( San Francisco: Harper ).

Some churches in North America have a contemporary Christian music style, whereas other churches enjoy more traditional hymns including those found in the Adventist Hymnal.

White Magic, An Introduction to the Folklore of Christian Legend ( Cambridge: Medieval Society of America )

So-called " Confederate Southern Americans ", defined as white Christian descendents of those resident in the Confederate States of America at the onset of the Civil War ( preferably having Scots or Scots-Irish descent ), are seeking a " natural right to self-determination " by claiming " oppressed minority " status through Neo-Confederate groups such as the League of the South.

Christian Universalist ideas are first undisputedly documented in 17th-century England and 18th-century Europe and America.

Unitarian Universalism was formed from the merger in 1961 of two historically Christian denominations, the Universalist Church of America and the American Unitarian Association, both based in the United States.

In November 2006, the president-elect of the CCA resigned his post, citing a difference in philosophy over which issues the conservative Christian organization should embrace.

Former and current CCA faculty includes designers Yves Behar, Brenda Laurel, Nathan Shedroff, Christopher Simmons, Michael Vanderbyl, and Martin Venezky ; architects Thom Faulders, Ila Berman, Katherine Lambert, and Craig Scott ; artists Kim Anno, David Heintz, Raymond Saunders, Claudia Bernardi, Jordan Kantor, Kota Ezawa, Christian Jankowski, Tim Lee, Mario Ybarra Jr., Larry Sultan, Jim Goldberg, Brian Conley, Ken Lum, and Lia Cook ; goldsmith Alan Revere, writers: Tom Barbash, M. Celeste Connor, Joseph Lease, Aimee Phan, Lisa Robertson, Mitchell Schwarzer, Dodie Bellamy, and Kevin Killian ; curators Raimundas Malasauskas, Renny Pritikin, and Jens Hoffmann ; and filmmaker Rob Epstein.

* Christian Conference of Asia ( CCA )

The LEC has been a member of the Christian Conference of Asia ( CCA ) since 1967, but did not have contacts with CCA from 1975 to 1990 due to the political situation in the country.

Ever since the LEC was allowed to relate with overseas Christian bodies, it became an active member of CCA.