Throughout history, many have understood Jesus of Nazareth to have been a pacifist, drawing on his Sermon on the Mount ( see Christian pacifism ).

* September 17 – Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize ( d. 1938 )

George Lansbury ( 1859-1940 ) was a British politician, socialist, Christian pacifist and newspaper editor.

Lansbury, a lifelong Christian pacifist, sent a message to the constituency in his position as Labour Leader: I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army and disarm the Air Force.

Pérez Esquivel began working with popularly based Latin American Christian pacifist groups during the 1960s.

After the battle, American mounted troops moved on and burned Moraviantown ( marked today by the Fairfield Museum on Longwoods Road ), a settlement of pacifist Christian Munsee of the Moravian Church, who did not participate in the fighting.

In 1936 Muste resigned from the Workers Party and left socialist politics to return to his roots as a Christian pacifist.

The first body to use the name " Fellowship of Reconciliation " was formed as a result of a pact made in August 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War by two Christians, Henry Hodgkin ( an English Quaker ) and Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze ( a German Lutheran ), who were participating in a Christian pacifist conference in Konstanz in southern Germany.

" Although a Christian he was no pacifist but expected the coming world war and was also a high officer in Swiss Army.

As a Christian, Ursus struggles to follow the religion's pacifist teachings, given his great strength and barbarian mindset.

was a well known Japanese Christian socialist, parliamentarian and pacifist.

The Brotherhood Church is a Christian anarchist and pacifist community.

Leo Tolstoy was a fervent Christian anarchist and pacifist.

* Jane Addams ( 1860 – 1935 ), pioneer settlement worker, Christian pacifist, and the first American female Nobel peace laureate

Similar views were expressed by the notorious socialist and Zimmerwald pacifist Christian Rakovsky, leader of the Romanian Social Democratic Party.

Author James R. Graham wrote, " The Christian is not a pacifist, he is a non-participationist.

* Religious opposition from liberal Christian ( Methodist ) pacifist viewpoint.

Ammon Ashford Hennacy ( July 24, 1893 – January 14, 1970 ) was an Irish American pacifist, Christian, anarchist, social activist, member of the Catholic Worker Movement and a Wobbly.

This inspired him to radically depart from his earlier beliefs ; he became a Christian pacifist and a self-proclaimed " Christian anarchist ".

Ammon Hennacy was a pacifist, a Christian anarchist, and an advocate of anarchism and nonresistance.

The first body to use the name " Fellowship of Reconciliation " was formed as a result of a pact made in August 1914 at the outbreak of the First World War by two Christians, Henry Hodgkin ( an English Quaker ) and Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze ( a German Lutheran ), who were participating in a Christian pacifist conference in Konstanz, southern Germany ( near Switzerland ).

These houses received contributions from the Quakers, the Salvation Army, the American Congregational Church, the pacifist movement Fellowship of Reconciliation, Jewish and Christian ecumenical groups, the French Protestant student organization Cimade and the Swiss Help to Children in order to house and buy food supplies for the fleeing refugees.

Felix Christian Herbert Iversen ( 1887-1973 ) was a Finnish mathematician and a pacifist.

Likewise, the ecumenist may become so absorbed in the conflict of the church with the totalitarian state in East Germany, the precarious situation of the church in revolutionary China, and the anguish of the church over apartheid in South Africa that he loses close contact with the parish church in its unspectacular but indispensable ministry of worship, pastoral service and counseling, and Christian nurture for a face-to-face group of individuals.

Category: Christian group structuring

Category: Christian group structuring

* 1941 – World War II: The Communist Party of Slovenia, the Slovene Christian Socialists, the left-wing Slovene Sokols ( also known as " National Democrats ") and a group of progressive intellectuals establish the Liberation Front of the Slovenian People.

Christian rock group Relient K recorded the song " Plead the Fifth " a cappella on its album Five Score and Seven Years Ago.

Though not well known among philosophers, his philosophical work was taken up by Owen Barfield ( and through him influenced the Inklings, an Oxford group of Christian writers that included J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis ) and Richard Tarnas.

The group killed members of the Muslim Abbasid, Seljuq, and Christian Crusader élite for political and religious reasons.

It is now accepted by most scholars that the Arian Party was not a monolithic group, holding drastically different theological views that spanned the early Christian theological spectrum.

Taking these words quite literally, Anthony gave away some of the family estate to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, donated the funds thus raised to the poor, placed his sister with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-monastery of nuns, and himself became the disciple of a local hermit.

Early sources are not clear but various groups of Christian communities would have had a group of college or presbyter-overseers functioning as leaders of the local churches.

* Cell, a group of people in a cell group, a form of Christian church organization.

* A group of related Christian churches or Christian denomination

In late 1993, a group of Christian Scientists filed suit against the Board of Directors, alleging a willful disregard for the Manual of the Mother Church in its financial dealings.

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 >

A more secular meaning can denote that the term Christendom refers to Christians considered as a group, the " Political Christian World ", as an informal cultural hegemony that Christianity has traditionally enjoyed in the West.

Category: Christian group structuring

The longest standing group for lesbian and gay Christians in the UK, founded in 1976, is the non-denominational Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement ; specifically aimed to meet the needs of lesbian and gay evangelicals, there is the Evangelical Fellowship for Lesbian and Gay Christians ; specifically working within the Church of England is Changing Attitude, which also takes an international focus in working for gay, lesbian, bisexual & transgender affirmation within the Anglican Communion.

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

The founder of the movement was a former Christian and Missionary Alliance pastor, David Brandt Berg ( 1919 – 1994 ), also known within the group as Moses David, Mo, Father David, and Dad to adult group members, and eventually as Grandpa to the group's youngest members.

This work began with a group of representatives who revisited the 1999 document " Call to Christian Commitment and Action to Combat Racism ," which is available on the current CUIC website.

The only early Arab historian who mentions the Druze is the 11th century Christian scholar Yahya of Antioch, who clearly refers to the heretical group created by ad-Darazī rather than the followers of Hamza ibn ' Alī.

Soon, they adopted the name " Christian " to identify their group.