It has entered the Southern African Development Community as a vehicle for improving ties with its largely Anglophone neighbors to the south.

* Species text for Blue Crane in The Atlas of Southern African Birds

* BBS, collective term for the former South African High Commission Territories of Basutoland, Bechuanaland Protectorate and Swaziland, administered by the British High Commissioner for Southern Africa

Cameroon also faces a complaint filed with the African Commission on Human Rights by the Southern Cameroons National Council ( SCNC ) and the Southern Cameroons Peoples Organisation ( SCAPO ) against the Government of the Republic of Cameroon, in which the complainants allege that the Republic of Cameroon is illegally occupying the territory of Southern Cameroons.

), tigers ( Panthera tigris subspecies ), Asiatic lion ( Panthera leo persica ), leopards ( Panthera pardus ), Jaguar ( Panthera onca ), Cheetah ( Acinonyx jubatus ), Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ), some populations of African Elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), the dugong and manatees ( Sirenia ), and all Rhinoceros species ( except some Southern African subspecies populations ).

Similar plant communities are found in the four other Mediterranean climate regions around the world, including the Mediterranean Basin ( where it is known as maquis ), central Chile ( where it is called matorral ), South African Cape Region ( known there as fynbos ), and in Western and Southern Australia.

The Southern African Khoisan languages only utilize root-initial clicks.

By law and Southern social convention, household heads were adult, white propertied males, and all white women and all African Americans were thought to require protection and guidance because they lacked the capacity for reason and self-control.

In 1953, in the face of African opposition, Britain consolidated the two colonies of Rhodesia with Nyasaland ( now Malawi ) in the ill-fated Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland which was dominated by Southern Rhodesia.

On 15 September 2008, the leaders of the 14-member Southern African Development Community witnessed the signing of the power-sharing agreement, brokered by South African leader Thabo Mbeki.

* Eastern and Southern African ( ESAF ) – Nairobi, Kenya

* Southern African Development Community Tribunal

* Rock Kestrel-Species text in The Atlas of Southern African Birds.

The conclusion of the Langa Commission, a commission appointed by Southern African Development Community ( SADC ) to investigate the electoral process, however, was consistent with the view of international observers and local courts that the outcome of the elections was not affected by these incidents.

The economy of Lesotho is based on agriculture, livestock, manufacturing, mining, and depends heavily on inflows of workers ’ remittances and receipts from the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ).

Lesotho, is a member of the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ) in which tariffs have been eliminated on the trade of goods between other member countries, which also include Botswana, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland.

It is a member of many regional economic organizations including the Southern African Development Community ( SADC ) and the Southern African Customs Union ( SACU ).

The Southern African regional office of the U. S. Agency for International Development ( USAID ) in Gaborone, Botswana now administers most of the U. S. assistance to Lesotho, which totaled approximately $ 2 million in FY 2004.

Denominations that oppose homosexuality include the Roman Catholic Church the Eastern Orthodox churches and some mainline Protestant denominations, such as the Methodist churches, Reformed Church in America the American Baptist Church, as well as Conservative Evangelical organizations and churches, such as the Evangelical Alliance, the Presbyterian Church in America and the Southern Baptist Convention.

The first entirely Catholic English language publication published in Buenos Aires, The Southern Cross is an Argentine newspaper founded on January 16, 1875 by Dean Patricio Dillon, an Irish immigrant, a deputy for Buenos Aires Province and president of the Presidential Affairs Commission amongst other positions.

* Knights of the Southern Cross, an Australian order of Catholic men

In a historical and political sense, the Main line is referred to as the northern border of Southern Germany, with its predominantly Catholic population.

Some Serbian intellectuals sought to unite all of the Southern, Balkan Slavs, whether Catholic ( Croats, Slovenes ), Muslim ( Bosnian Muslims, Sandžak ), or Orthodox ( Montenegrins, Serbs, Macedonians ), under their rule ( under the so-called panserbic ideologue, accordingly as " Serbian nation of three faiths ").

The Southern African Catholic Bishops ' Conference ( Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland ) put into effect the changes in the people's parts of the revised English translation of the Order of Mass from 28 November 2008, when the Missal as a whole was not yet available.

* The Southern Cross ( Argentina ), an Argentine newspaper by Patrick Joseph Dillon ( 1842-1889 ), a Roman Catholic priest, editor, and politician

* The Southern Cross ( South Africa ), the official newspaper of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference

There are, for instance, numerous prominent US examples, including The Catholic Theological Union in Chicago, the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, Criswell College in Dallas, the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, and Dallas Theological Seminary.

The Widney Alumni House, the campus ' first building The University of Southern California was founded following the efforts of Judge Robert M. Widney, who helped secure donations from several figures in early Los Angeles history: a Protestant nurseryman, Ozro Childs, an Irish Catholic former-Governor, John Gately Downey, and a German Jewish banker, Isaias W. Hellman.

Italian architects of the late Baroque / early Rococo were wooed to Catholic ( Southern ) Germany, Bohemia and Austria by local princes, bishops and prince-bishops.

Southern Europe remained Roman Catholic, while fierce battles which turned into warfare took place in central Europe.

Not only did he win battles and dominate Southern England but also he took an active hand in administering the affairs of his kingdom by founding market towns and overseeing the first major issues of gold coins in Britain ; he assumed a role in the administration of the Catholic Church in England ( sponsoring the short-lived archbishopric of Lichfield ), and even negotiated with Charlemagne as an equal.

These denominations include the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox church, the Methodist Church, and many other mainline denominations, such as the Reformed Church in America and the American Baptist Church, as well as Conservative Evangelical organizations and churches, such as the Evangelical Alliance, and fundamentalist groups and churches, such as the Southern Baptist Convention.

The manuals of the Roman Catholic Inquisition remained highly sceptical of the witch craze and of witch accusations, although there was sometimes an overlap between accusations of heresy and of witchcraft, particularly when, in the 13th century, the newly-formed Inquisition was commissioned to deal with the Manichaean Cathars of Southern France, whose teachings had an admixture of witchcraft and magic, and who had embarked upon campaigns of murder against their fellow citizens in France, not excluding prelates and ambassadors and whose ally, the Cathar King Pedro II of Aragon, later invaded Southern France with an army of 50, 000.

" It is not known how this Russian Orthodox artifact from Kodiak, Alaska made its way to a Catholic mission in Southern California.

In recent years, the county was declared a disaster area in September 1979 due to damage from Hurricane Frederic The largest religious bodies were The Southern Baptist Convention ( with 27, 789 members ) and The Catholic Church ( with 10, 482 members ).

The Claretians ( The Missionary Sons of the Immaculate Heart of Mary in Rome, or The Claretian Order ) of the Roman Catholic Church had come to Southern California by way of Mexico in the early 1900s, working in Los Angeles inner city missions.

The largest religious bodies were The Catholic Church ( with 25, 837 members ) and The Southern Baptist Convention ( with 5, 999 members ).

She wrote ironic, subtly allegorical fiction about deceptively backward Southern characters, usually fundamentalist Protestants, who undergo transformations of character that to O ' Connor's thinking brought them closer to the Catholic mind.

From 1956 through 1964, O ' Connor wrote more than one hundred book reviews for two Catholic diocesan newspapers in Georgia: The Bulletin, and The Southern Cross.

However, the Southern African Catholic Bishops ' Conference ( Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland ) put into effect the changes in the people's parts of the revised English translation of the Order of Mass from 28 November 2008, when the Missal as a whole was not yet available.

Denominations include but are not limited to, Messianic, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Southern Baptist, Methodist, Church of God, Nazarene, Roman Catholic and others.