Dietary restrictions are not used by the highly urban Brazilian ayahuasca church União do Vegetal, suggesting the risk is much lower than perceived, and probably non-existent.

The church originally had a central tower and ( probably ) a spire.

The Universalists almost disappeared in Canada, outside of a small rural church in southwest Ontario, and were probably saved in the other two surviving locations by influx of Canadian Unitarians.

church father Isho ' dad of Merv ( probably based on the work of Theodore of Mopsuestia ), which J. R. Harris translated back into Gr. in Exp Expositor " 7 ( 1907 ), p 336.

Paul, who is in prison ( probably in either Rome or Ephesus ), writes to a fellow Christian named Philemon and two of his associates: a woman named Apphia, sometimes assumed to be his wife, and a fellow worker named Archippus, who is assumed by some to have been Philemon's son and who also appears to have had special standing in the small church that met in Philemon's house ( see Colossians 4: 17 ).

Titus and a brother whose name is not given were probably the bearers of the letter to the church at Corinth ( 2 Corinthians 2: 13 ; 8: 6, 16 – 18 ).

The Gospel was probably shaped in part by increasing tensions between synagogue and church, or between those who believed Jesus was the Messiah and those who did not.

Before the apparition of the first gospel, the gospel of Mark which was probably written around the years 65 – 70, Paul the Apostle used the term gospel when he reminded the people of the church at Corinth " of the gospel I preached to you " ( 1 Corinthians 15. 1 ).

The language was in decline by the mid-6th century, due in part to the military defeat of the Goths at the hands of the Franks, the elimination of the Goths in Italy, and geographic isolation ( in Spain the Gothic language lost its last and probably already declining function as a church language when the Visigoths converted to Catholicism in 589 ).

The episcopal church built in London was probably founded by Æthelberht, rather than Sæberht.

It is viewed as a product of the agenda of Liber Pontificalis — this section of the book was probably written in the late fifth century — to show an ancient pattern of the earliest bishops of Rome ruling the church by papal decree.

The first church described in the city is a small building that was probably originally a small prayer house.

After his death a monastery ( Lanwethinoc, the church of Wethinoc an earlier holy man ) was established here which was of great importance until the town was raided by the Vikings in 981 ( the Vikings laid waste " Petroces stow " ( probably Padstow ) according to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ).

There were probably traders, slavers, pirates and settlers unconnected with the church as well.

The outbreak led to the death of 102 " Blacks " ( probably under-reported in church records ), and 58 " whites " in the two months to May.

South of Hayling Island in the Solent is a deposit of stones, which scuba divers found to be the remains of a stone building, probably a church.

Vasco da Gama was born in either 1460 or 1469 in Sines, on the southwest coast of Portugal, probably in a house near the church of Nossa Senhora das Salas.

* The Faradda di li candareri ( The Descent of the Candelieri ): it's a devotional procession, in which enormous wooden candles are carried by members of the city guilds from the town centre to the church of Santa Maria of Betlem, in commemoration of the end of the plague in 1582, but it probably has older origins, from a cultural tradition from Pisa that as early as in the second half of the 13th century was practiced in some parts of Sardinia.

Of the thirty-seven Greek churches, the most important are the city's cathedral, the church dedicated to Our Lady of the Cave ( η Παναγία Σπηλιώτισσα ( hē Panagia Spēliōtissa )); Saint Spyridon church, wherein lies the preserved body of the patron saint of the island ; and finally the suburban church of St Jason and St Sosipater ( Αγιοι Ιάσων και Σωσίπατρος ), reputedly the oldest in the island, and named after the two saints probably the first to preach Christianity to the Corfiots.

Edgar had been a strong ruler who had forced monastic reforms on a probably unwilling church and nobility, aided by the leading clerics of the day, Dunstan, Archbishop of Canterbury, Oswald of Worcester, Archbishop of York, and Bishop Æthelwold of Winchester.

* Santa Sofia is probably Padova's most ancient church.

The church, with a single nave, has traces of the ancient frescoes ( 13th century ), which probably covered all the walls.

Its assets were: The Bishop Odo of Bayeux held the monastery ( the site of the Cathedral ), the ' tide-way ' - which still exists as St Mary Overy dock ; the King owned the ' church ' ( probably St Olave's ) and its ' tidal stream ' ( St Olave's Dock ); the dues of the ' waterway ' or mooring place were shared between the ' King ' and Earl Godwin ; the King also had the ' toll ' of the strand ; and the ' men of Southwark ' had the right to a ' haw and its toll '.

Contrary to the dominant lay ministry that existed in the Nephite culture, Nehor established a church in which priests were given a separate social status and were paid for their ministry.

A Persian geographer recorded in the mid-9th century that a well preserved and much venerated church existed in the town.

The Catholic Encyclopedia states that " A controversy existed in the primitive church over the interpretation of the expression the seed of Abraham.

Smith said that his religion " believe in the same organization that existed in the primitive church, viz: apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists ".

The most prominent reference to the term evangelist in the denomination's literature is found in its Articles of Faith, derived from the Wentworth letter, a statement by Joseph Smith in 1842 to a Chicago newspaper editor that the church believes in " the same organization that existed in the primitive church ", including " evangelists ".

In the North American Lutheran tradition, General Synod refers to a church body which existed from 1820-1918.

" Don't get it twisted, God has always existed ," said Kurtis, " and in terms of these young people out here who love Jesus but do not like to go to church, maybe hip hop can bring them back to the church.

The Church of England of the Interregnum was run on presbyterian lines, but never became a national presbyterian church such as existed in Scotland, and England was not the theocratic state which leading Puritans had called for as " godly rule ".

Other churches had existed during the time of the apostles, but from the church Christ set up, after the corruption and mystification of doctrine in the Bible, the Catholic Church began to rise.

Officially, a separation of church and state existed in the kingdom.

He was severely criticized by the Puritans for failing to Christianize them, but Williams had arrived at the place in his own thinking that no valid church existed.

The church of St. Anna had existed since the 13th c., initially as “ Santa Maria in Porta Cipriana ”, on ruins of the ancient Greek walls of Ancona.

A memoria over the execution point and holding the remains of Alban existed at the site from the mid-300s ( possibly earlier ); Bede mentions a church and Gildas a shrine.

A Polish church remained functional until 1809 and a Polish craftsmen association ( Towarzystwo Polskich Rzemieślników ) was established by Kazimierz Lisowski in 1898, it existed till 1935 when Lisowski was murdered by Gestapo.

This temple no longer existed by the time of Hadrian, and its site probably lies under the church of Santi Martina e Luca.

In this, and many later contexts, the reference is specifically Christian, alluding to members of the Ordo Virginum ( Order of Virgins ), which applies to the consecrated virgins known to have existed since the early church from the writings of the Church Fathers.

In the Geest, the village church stands on the medieval rim of the village or with other houses within it ; the settlements of the Geest existed before their churches were built and there was no special need to protect these churches from flooding.

A church, dedicated to St. George, is known to have existed in the temple from as early as 978 AD.

No archaeological evidence has been found so far, to show that any church existed here earlier than shown in written records.

The small town that existed around the church and courthouse came to be known as " Columbia Courthouse.

Archaeological records indicate that a smaller wooden and stone Norman church had existed on the location of the south aisle of the present building.

In addition, a Presbyterian church once existed on what is currently the property of the United Methodist Church.

Bishop Odo of Bayeux fought at Hastings ( 1066 ) before any such authorized champions of the church existed.