Al-Qawawsa Quarter was formed by Arab Christian emigrants from the nearby town of Tuqu ' in the 18th century.

The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also called the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, or the Church of the Resurrection by Eastern Christians, is a church within the Christian Quarter of the walled Old City of Jerusalem.

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" I asked around in the Christian Quarter in Jerusalem, and discovered that the place was very much alive.

Today, the Old City is roughly divided into the Muslim Quarter, the Christian Quarter, the Jewish Quarter and the Armenian Quarter.

Although the Armenians are Christian, the Armenian Quarter is distinct from the Christian Quarter.

In Jerusalem, Moses Shapira converted to Anglicanism and in 1861 founded a store devoted to pilgrim trade in Christian Quarter Road.

The Holy Sepulchre ( 1 ) in the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem.

Najran, a fertile valley in what is now southwestern Saudi Arabia at the foot of mountains bordering the vast stretch of desert known as the Empty Quarter, was traditionally home to Christian and Jewish communities, in addition to Ismailis and Zaidis.

Quarter tense ( called in all other English speaking countries " ember days ") is a uniquely Irish name for those days set aside in the western Christian church for prayer and fasting to sanctify the liturgical seasons.

Thom's suggested megalithic solar year was divided by midsummer, midwinter and the two equinoxes into four and then subdivided into eight by early versions of the modern Christian festivals of Whitsun, Lammas, Martinmas and Candlemas ( see Scottish Quarter Days ).

The Armenian Quarter itself, centered around St. James, also included housing and one holy Christian site, the prison of Jesus.

The Christian Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem – empty by night

It was built in 1889 to provide direct access between the Christian Quarter and the new neighborhoods then going up outside the walls.

It was built at the request of the French Consul to provide access to the Old City from the Notre Dame Hospice that was completed in 1886, and to provide Russian Christian pilgrims living at the Russian Compound ( outside the Old City walls ) direct access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in the Christian Quarter.

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 " (; ; ).

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

Easter () or Pascha (, Paskha ; Pasḥa ; from Pesaḥ ) is a Christian festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the third day after his crucifixion at Calvary as described in the New Testament.

The Society of Jesus (, S. J., SJ or SI ) is a Christian male religious order that follows the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church.

Christian Democracy (, DC ) was a Christian democratic political party in Italy.

The Polish People's Party (, abbreviated to PSL ( traditionally translated as Polish Peasants ' Party ), is a centrist, agrarian, and Christian democratic political party in Poland.

The Russian Orthodox Church ( ROC ;, Russkaya Pravoslavnaya Tserkov ’) headed by the Moscow Patriarchate (, Moskovskiy Patriarkhat ), also known as the Orthodox Christian Church of Russia, is a body of Christians who constitute an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Church under the jurisdiction of the Patriarch of Moscow, in communion with other Eastern Orthodox Churches.

Pentecost (, Pentēkostē, " the Fiftieth ") is a prominent feast in the calendar of ancient Israel celebrating the giving of the Law on Sinai, and also later in the Christian liturgical year commemorating the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the twelve Apostles of Christ.

The Christian Democratic Union of Germany (, CDU ; ) is a Christian democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Germany.

The Christian Democratic Appeal (, CDA ) is a Christian-democratic political party in the Netherlands founded in 1977, which participated in all but two governments since then.

Trophimus (, Trophimos ) or Trophimus the Ephesian, Trophimos ho Ephesios ) was a Christian who accompanied Paul during a part of his third missionary journey.

68 AD ) (, Onēsimos, meaning " useful ," also called Onesimus of Byzantium and The Holy Apostle Onesimus in some Eastern Orthodox churches ) was a slave to Philemon of Colossae, a man of Christian faith.

A high cross or standing cross (,, ) is a free-standing Christian cross made of stone and often richly decorated.

The Austrian People's Party (, ÖVP ) is a Christian democratic and conservative political party in Austria.

Agape received a broader usage under later Christian writers as the word that specifically denoted " Christian " love or " charity " (), or even God himself (, ὁ θεὸς ἀγάπη ἐστίν, " God is Love ").

The remains of an Orthodox Christian are treated with special reverence, in conformity with the biblical teaching that the body of a believer is a " temple of the Holy Spirit " (, etc.

Divine Liturgy (,,,,,, ) is the common term for the Eucharistic service of the Byzantine tradition of Christian liturgy.

The Christian Democrats (, KD ) is a Christian democratic political party in Sweden.

Karl Lueger (, not ; 24 October 1844 – 10 March 1910 ) was an Austrian politician, mayor of Vienna, and leader and cofounder the Austrian Christian Social Party.

The Christian Democrats (, KD ; ) is a Christian democratic political party in Finland.

The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.

Again, Henley's attitude of defiance which colors his ideal of self-mastery is far from characteristic of a Stoic thinker like Marcus Aurelius, whose gentle acquiescence is almost Christian, comparable to the patience expressed in Milton's sonnet on his own blindness.

The football opponent on homecoming is, of course, selected with the view that said opponent will have little more chance than did a Christian when thrown to one of the emperor's lions.

It is true, of course, the uncertainties of life being what they are, that as now and then the Christian killed the lion, homecoming days have been ruined by a visiting team.

First of all, it is now known that Pope John sees the renewal and purification of the Church as an absolutely necessary step toward Christian unity.

Secondly, a whole series of addresses and actions by the Pope and by others show that concern for Christian unity is still very much alive and growing within the Church.

it is necessary to perceive the extent of foreign aid demanded by the Christian imperative.

Rich in Christian and Moslem art, Istanbul is today a fascinating museum of East and West that recently became a seaside resort as well with the development of new beaches on the Bosphorus and the Sea of Marmara only a short distance from the center of town.

Even in the United States, with its freedom of religious belief and worship and its vast denominational differentiation, there is a general consensus regarding the basic Christian values.

Kent and Story, the great early American scholars, repeatedly made use of this phrase, or of `` Christian nations '', which is a substantial equivalent.

To others whose concern it is to penetrate the significance of Christian Humanism, the Renaissance elements are of primary concern.

To derive Utopian communism from the Jerusalem Christian community of the apostolic age or from its medieval successors-in-spirit, the monastic communities, is with an appropriate shift of adjectives, misleading in the same way as to derive it from Plato's Republic: in the Republic we have to do with an elite of physical and intellectual athletes, in the apostolic and monastic communities with an elite of spiritual and religious athletes.

Denouncing the view that the sexual union is an end in itself, the Conference declared: `` We steadfastly uphold what must always be regarded as the governing considerations of Christian marriage.

An action once universally condemned by all Christian churches and forbidden by the civil law is now not only approved by the overwhelming majority of Protestant denominations, but also deemed, at certain times, to be a positive religious duty.

Progress will take place far less through what is done in any `` summit conference '' of the National Council or the World Council, or even in offices of the denominational boards, than through what happens in the communities where Christian people live together as neighbors.

What is now called Christian fellowship is often little more than the social chumminess of having a gracious time with the kind of people one likes.

It is, he said, a bifocal vision, which can see both the near-at-hand and the distant and keep a Christian in right relation to both.

It is raising no disturbing question as to what Christian stewardship means for the relationship of the richest nation in the world to economically underdeveloped peoples.

It is not disturbing them by thoughts of their Christian responsibility in relation to the world.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

Spiritual life is cultivated, but students do not need to be Christian.

It is also sufficient to show the Christian and any other champion of justice that he needs to make sure not only that his cause is just but also that his conduct is just, i.e., that, if economic pressure has to be resorted to, this be applied directly against those persons directly in the way of some salutary change in business or institutional practices, while, if injury fall upon others, it fall upon them indirectly and secondarily ( however inevitably ) and not by deliberate intent and direct action against them.