FBI records show that 85 % of COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals that the FBI deemed " subversive ," including communist and socialist organizations ; organizations and individuals associated with the civil rights movement, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and others associated with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the Congress of Racial Equality and other civil rights organizations ; black nationalist groups ; the American Indian Movement ; a broad range of organizations labeled " New Left ", including Students for a Democratic Society and the Weathermen ; almost all groups protesting the Vietnam War, as well as individual student demonstrators with no group affiliation ; the National Lawyers Guild ; organizations and individuals associated with the women's rights movement ; nationalist groups such as those seeking independence for Puerto Rico, United Ireland, and Cuban exile movements including Orlando Bosch's Cuban Power and the Cuban Nationalist Movement ; and additional notable Americans — even Albert Einstein, who was a member of several civil rights groups, came under FBI surveillance during the years just prior to COINTELPRO's official inauguration .< ref >

Centre Party, Christian Democratic Party, Socialist Left Party and Liberal Party were against EU-membership in both referendums.

Left Behind is a series of 16 best-selling novels by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, dealing with Christian dispensationalist End Times: pretribulation, premillennial, Christian eschatological viewpoint of the end of the world.

In 2007 the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association ( ECPA ) recognized the Left Behind series at its CBA & ECPA Awards Celebration in Atlanta, Georgia with the ECPA Pinnacle Award.

Along with some other rapture fiction novels, the Left Behind series demonstrates a specific understanding of the Gospel and the Christian life, one with which many have taken issue theologically.

It was the only party to win over protest voters broadly across Germany's political spectrum: nearly one million Social Democratic voters defected to the Left while the Christian Democrats and Greens together lost half a million votes to the resurgent party.

The left wing faction either joined the Democratic Party of the Left or stayed within the new Italian People's Party, while some right-wingers others joined National Alliance, however in 1994 – 2000 most Christian Democrats joined Forza Italia, which would have become the party with more ex-DC members in absolute terms.

Democratic Socialist, Christian Socialist, Libertarian Marxist and Agrarian Socialist ideologies lie within Labor's Left Faction.

Left to right: Maria Feodorovna ( Dagmar of Denmark ) | Dagmar, Frederick VIII of Denmark | Frederick, Prince Valdemar of Denmark | Valdemar, Christian IX of Denmark | Christian IX, Louise of Hesse-Kassel | Queen Louise, Princess Thyra of Denmark | Thyra, George I of Greece | George and Alexandra

The Democratic Party was formed on the initiative of Freedom Union chairman Władysław Frasyniuk, together with the social-democratic economist Jerzy Hausner, until recently a member of the governing post-communist Democratic Left Alliance ( SLD ), and prominent Christian democrat, former UW member Tadeusz Mazowiecki.

Mazowiecki had left the UW in November 2002 after it had left the conservative and Christian democratic European People's Party in favour of the European Liberal Democrat and Reform Party, and entered coalitions with the social-democratic Democratic Left Alliance and the populist Self-Defence of the Republic of Poland party on the local level.

Following the 2009 election, seven parties are represented in parliament: the Labour Party ( 64 representatives ), the Progress Party ( 41 ), the Conservative Party ( 30 ), the Socialist Left Party ( 11 ), the Centre Party ( 11 ), the Christian Democratic Party ( 10 ) and the Liberal Party ( 2 ).

As of 2007, Halden is ruled by a coalition between Arbeiderpartiet ( a social-democratic party ), the Socialist Left Party, and the Christian Democratic Party.

A radical Left aided by a cultural elite that detests Christianity and finds Christian moral tenets reactionary and repressive is hell-bent on pushing its amoral values and imposing its ideology on our nation.

The Christian Left maintains that such a stance is relevant and important.

Adhering to the standard of " turning the other cheek ", which they believe supersedes the Old Testament law of " an eye for an eye ", the Christian Left often hearkens towards pacifism in opposition to policies advancing militarism.

While non-religious socialists sometimes find support for socialism in the Gospels ( for example Mikhail Gorbachev citing Jesus as " the first socialist "), the Christian Left does not find that socialism alone as an adequate end or means.

In the United States, members of the Christian Left come from a spectrum of denominations: Peace churches, elements of the Protestant mainline churches, Catholicism, and some evangelicals.

The Christian Left does not seem to be so well-organized or publicized as its right-wing counterparts.

Further, supporters contend that the Christian Left has had relatively little success securing widespread corporate, political, and major media patronage compared to the Right.

Members of the Christian Left who work on interfaith issues are part of building the Progressive Reconstructionist movement.

The Christian Left sometimes differs from other Christian political groups on issues including homosexuality.

The historian Walter Goffart says of Bede that he " holds a privileged and unrivalled place among first historians of Christian Europe ".

Although the date, place, and circumstances of his death are historically unverifiable, Christian tradition holds that Barnabas was martyred at Salamis, Cyprus, in 61 AD.

Old Cairo, located south of the centre, holds the remnants of Fustat and the heart of Egypt's Coptic Christian community, Coptic Cairo.

A minority view in Christianity, known as Christian Torah-submission, holds that the Mosaic law as it is written is binding on all followers of God under the New Covenant, even for Gentiles, because it views God ’ s commands as " everlasting " (, ;, ; ) and " good " (; ; ).

Even the Christian faith, which holds Christ to be identical to God, distinguishes between God the father and Christ the begotten son.

The South Galatian view holds that Paul wrote Galatians before or shortly after the First Jerusalem Council, probably on his way to it, and that it was written to churches he had presumably planted during either his time in Tarsus ( he would have traveled a short distance, since Tarsus is in Cilicia ) after his first visit to Jerusalem as a Christian, or during his first missionary journey, when he traveled throughout southern Galatia.

The Christian egalitarian view holds that the Bible teaches the fundamental equality of women and men of all racial and ethnic mixes, all economic classes, and all age groups, based on the teachings and example of Jesus Christ and the overarching principles of scripture.

At its foundational level, Christian thought holds that "... in Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, man nor woman ", defining all as equal in the sight of God.

A contrary view is that of Christian Universalism, which holds that, because of divine love and mercy all will ultimately be reconciled to God.

Another recent theory holds that the earliest stories that cast the Grail in a Christian light were meant to promote the Roman Catholic sacrament of the Holy Communion.

If the most commonly accepted attribution of texts ( that of Christian Lindtner ) holds, then he was clearly a Māhayānist, but his philosophy holds assiduously to the Śrāvaka canon, and while he does make explicit references to Mahāyāna texts, he is always careful to stay within the parameters set out by the Śrāvaka canon.

Preterism is a Christian eschatological view that interprets prophecies of the Bible, especially Daniel and Revelation, as events which have already happened in the first century A. D. Preterism holds that Ancient Israel finds its continuation or fulfillment in the Christian church at the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.

He is the only Italian player ever to score in three World Cups and holds the record for most goals scored in World Cup tournaments for Italy, along with Paolo Rossi and Christian Vieri.

The Ash ' ari school of Sunni aqidah ( theology ) holds that those who had never heard of the message of Islam, by virtue of isolation, can still be saved by the grace of Allah, similar to Karl Rahner's concept of the Anonymous Christian.

In the German lowland of Schleswig-Holstein, a werewolf could be cured if one were to simply address it three times by its Christian name, while one Danish belief holds that simply scolding a werewolf will cure it.

Christian Bay's encyclopedia article states that civil disobedience requires " carefully chosen and legitimate means ," but holds that they do not have to be nonviolent.

Christian tradition holds that he outlived the remaining apostles — all of whom suffered martyrdom ( except Judas Iscariot )— and ultimately died of natural causes " in great old age in Ephesus " at the beginning of the second century.

The sword is characterized by a hilt decorated with magical formulas, Christian symbols and floral patterns, as well as a narrow slit in the blade which holds a small shield with the coat of arms of Poland.

Thus the definition of Christian propitiation asserted by Calvin, Packer and Murray holds that within God there is a dichotomy of love and anger, but through propitiation love trumps anger, abolishing it.

Due to its cultural and geographical history, the site holds a prominent religious significance to those of both the Christian and Muslim faiths.

Lindars holds the Acts narrative to be prior, and that although the incident is not created out of the Old Testament passages the text of Zechariah 11: 12ff is " freely used to fill up the gaps in the story ... to the early Christian exegetes a perfectly legitimate hermeneutical procedure ".

Rather than an accurate account of Jesus ' relationship to Pharisees and other Jewish leaders, this view holds that the Gospels instead reflect the competition and conflict between early Christians and Pharisees for leadership of the Jews, or reflects Christian attempts to distance themselves from Jews in order to present themselves in a more sympathetic ( and benign ) light to Romans and other Gentiles — thus making them a biased source concerning the conduct of the Pharisees.

This foundational Christian position holds that the divine nature of the Son of God was perfectly united with human nature in one divine Person, Jesus, making him both truly God and truly man.