Chancellor Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party slipped only a little in the voting but it was enough to lose the absolute Bundestag majority it has enjoyed since 1957.

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.

Athanasius is venerated as a saint by the majority of major Christian denominations which officially recognize saints.

The majority of the islanders is Christian ( 84 %) with the largest Christian denominations being Methodist ( 23 %), Anglican ( 12 %), Church of God ( 11 %) and Catholic ( 9 %).

Bethlehem has a Muslim majority, but is also home to one of the largest Palestinian Christian communities.

The influx of refugees significantly transformed Bethlehem's Christian majority into a Muslim one.

A majority of the forty-odd Israeli settlements surrounding Bethlehem is built on land confiscated from Christian, not Muslim, Palestinians.

The 1964 presidential election of Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Montalva by an absolute majority initiated a period of major reform.

Christian Democrat Patricio Aylwin, the candidate of a coalition of 17 political parties called the Concertación, received an absolute majority of votes ( 55 %).

In December 1993, Christian Democrat Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, the son of previous president Eduardo Frei Montalva, led the Concertación coalition to victory with an absolute majority of votes ( 58 %).

In Germany, for instance, coalition government is the norm, as it is rare for either the Christian-Democratic Union of Germany and Christian Social Union in Bavaria ( CDU / CSU ) or the Social Democratic Party of Germany ( SPD ) to win an unqualified majority in a national election.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

In its most broad term, it refers to the world's Christian majority countries, which, share little in common aside from the predominance of the faith.

: Christian ( majority of populace are members of the Cook Islands Christian Church )

They were claimed by Christian missionaries and British colonialists as people who were treated by ethnic majority as low-caste people or dirty-feeders.

" A substantial majority of gays cite their faith as a central facet of their life, consider themselves to be Christian, and claim to have some type of meaningful personal commitment to Jesus Christ active in their life today.

The vast majority of Christian nations and groups have not adopted this theology, nor have they followed it in practice.

* The state of the dead: The majority of standard scholarly Jewish and Christian sources today describe the state of the dead in terms identical or very close to the Christadelphian view.

* The atonement: The majority Christian interpretation of the Anselmian-Calvinist doctrine of the atonement as penal substitution has been criticized in mainstream Christianity since the 19th century, resulting in increasing rejection of traditional penal substitution.

No presidential candidate obtained a majority, so a run-off election between the top two candidates-Quito Mayor Jamil Mahuad of the DP and Social Christian Álvaro Noboa Pontón-was held on July 12, 1998.

The remaining 95 % are Christians, so divided: 78 % of the Eritrean Orthodox faith, 12 % Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic ( whose mass is held in Ge ' ez as opposed to Latin ), and 5 % belonging to various Protestant and other Christian denominations, the majority of which belong to the ( Lutheran ) Evangelical Church of Eritrea.

The majority of people left in the Christian church at Rome would have been Gentile Christians.

Other than the Bible, the majority of the LDS canon constitutes revelation dictated by Joseph Smith and includes commentary and exegesis about the Bible, texts described as lost parts of the Bible, and other works believed to be written by ancient prophets.

The vast majority of the service is the reading of the weekly Bible lesson supplied by Boston, and the order of the service set out by the Manual.

George Every claims that the existence of " myths in the Bible would now be admitted by nearly everyone ", including " probably all Roman Catholics and a majority of Protestants ".

The majority consensus is that the Peshitta Old Testament preceded the Diatessaron, and represents an independent translation from the Hebrew Bible.

The majority of modern translations ( for example English Standard Version and New American Standard Bible ) do not include this text.

The term preterism comes from the Latin praeter, which is listed in Webster's 1913 dictionary as a prefix denoting that something is " past " or " beyond ," signifying that either all or a majority of Bible prophecy was fulfilled by AD 70.

The majority of evangelism used by Jews for Jesus consists of handing out literature on the streets, one-on-one Bible studies, full-page ads in leading newspapers and magazines, ISSUES ( an eight-page evangelistic publication for Jewish seekers ) and internet evangelism.

Though from the point of view of an increasing majority of archaeologists, there were always two distinct cultures in Canaan, a strong and prosperous northern kingdom and a weaker and poorer southern one, in the Biblical account the Israelite tribes were initially united in a single kingdom, and only later fractured into the northern and southern kingdoms ; this fracture is blamed by the Bible on the jealousy of Ephraim over the growing power of Judah.

In 1967 the Mushuau Innu were settled in Utshimassits ( Davis Inlet ) on Iluikoyak Island located off the coast of Labrador Peninsula, inhibited the ability of the Mushuau Innu to continue their traditional caribou hunt on the mainland, therefore they were relocated in the winter of 2002 / 2003 to their new main settlement Natuashish ( speak: ‘ Nat-wah-sheesh ’), about 295 km north of Happy Valley-Goose Bay and 80 km southeast of Nain, Natuashish located on the mainland is only 15 km west of Utshimassits, ethnically they are Naskapi, speaking the Eastern Dialect ( Mushuau Innu or Davis Inlet variety ) of Iyuw Imuun and writing in Eastern Cree syllabics, but split off and headed to Eastern Labrador, very few ( if any ) are able to write in syllabics any more, the majority of the tribe is Catholic, which use the Montagnais Bible ( which does not use syllabics ) and therefore use the Latin alphabet, Reservation: Natuashish # 2, ca.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Wayne County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Stoddard County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), St. Francois County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Shannon County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Scott County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Ripley County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Reynolds County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Phelps County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

Unlike many rural counties throughout Southeast Missouri, Perry County is exempt from the Bible Belt with Roman Catholicism being the majority religion, according to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ).

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), OregonCounty is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), New Madrid County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2000 ), Mississippi County is a part of the Bible Belt with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2010 ), Grundy County is sometimes regarded as being on the northern edge of the Bible Belt, with evangelical Protestantism being the majority religion.