In Acts, attention is given to the religious persecution of the early Christians, as in the case of Stephen's martyrdom and the numerous examples are Paul's persecution for his preaching of Christianity.

This is because Alexandria was the Capital of the Province, and the preaching center and the place of martyrdom of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Apostle.

As said above, Acts of Paul consists of the third letter to the Corinthians, an account of his martyrdom, and other narratives depicting his preaching and activity.

During this period, he requested that he might be allowed to go preach in North Africa, with the hope of achieving martyrdom for preaching the Catholic faith.

Since Alexandria was the Capital of the Province, the preaching center and the place of martyrdom of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Holy Apostle, the title “ Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of all Africa on the Holy Throne of Saint Mark the Evangelist and Holy Apostle ".

This includes religious instruction for the family, and taking the lead in preaching activities.

The title of evangelist is often associated with those who lead large meetings like those of Billy Graham, possibly in tents or existing church buildings, or those who address the public in street corner preaching, which targets listeners who happen to pass nearby.

A boy began preaching in either France or Germany claiming that he had been visited by Jesus and told to lead a Crusade to peacefully convert Muslims to Christianity.

Outside The Blind Beggar public house some missioners heard him speaking and were so impressed by his preaching that they invited him to lead a series of meetings they were holding in a large tent.

" Erasmus would not cease preaching the Gospel, even though he was " put into a pan seething with rosin, pitch, brimstone lead, and oil, were pour ... into his mouth, ... which he never shrank.

A very early tradition of preaching in the Wesleyan / Methodist churches was for a lay preacher to be appointed to lead services of worship and preach in a group ( called a ' circuit ') of meeting places or churches.

The rapid and extensive defection of the Congregational churches in Boston and vicinity, under the lead of William Ellery Channing and others in sympathy with him, had excited much anxiety throughout New England ; and in 1826 Beecher was called to Boston's Hanover Church, where he began preaching against the Unitarianism which was then sweeping the area.

Although these interns do not lead worship services, they perform some tasks usually reserved for rabbis, such as preaching, teaching, and consulting on Jewish legal matters.

In contrast to the Jesuits, the Dominicans, Franciscans, and Augustinians were openly preaching to the common peoples ; this caused Hideyoshi to become concerned that commoners with divided loyalties might lead to dangerous rebels like the Ikkō-ikki sect of earlier years ; this led to Hideyoshi putting the 26 Martyrs of Japan followers to death in 1597 on his order.

His preaching efforts in the Toms River area of New Jersey in the late 1830s lead to first conversion of members of the Ivins Family.

While engaged in preaching Islam in Bahrain and at the young age of 26 Grand Ayatollah Sabzewari and Grand Ayatollah Mar ’ ashi Najafi also awarded Ayatollah Almodarresi power of representation in which they praised him and labeled him as “ scholar worthy of taking a leadership position ” and urging Muslims to follow his lead.

By 1300, the enthusiasm for preaching and conversion within the Order lessened.

The monks later realized that Xavier was preaching a rival religion and grew more aggressive towards his attempts at conversion.

In April 1854, after preaching three months on probation and just four years after his conversion, Spurgeon, then only 20, was called to the pastorate of London's famed New Park Street Chapel, Southwark ( formerly pastored by the Particular Baptists Benjamin Keach, theologian John Gill and John Rippon ).

Evangelism is the preaching of the Christian Gospel or the practice of relaying information about a particular set of beliefs to others with the object of conversion.

This changed when he had a religious conversion while listening to Howell Harris, the evangelical reformer, preaching in Talgarth in 1737.

At age 19, influenced by his sister and by a preacher named Peace Wang, he had a conversion experience and chose to dedicate himself to the task of preaching the gospel.

His work with the Salvation Army increased his sympathy for the oppressed classes of people and strengthened his stand for preaching conversion and salvation.

The fundamental premise of evangelicalism is the conversion of individuals from a state of sin to a " new birth " through preaching of the Word.

Men like Bourne and Clowes were not educated and their preaching and mass conversion was threatening.

After a religious conversion in 1898 Smith began preaching to small gatherings.

Layne began preaching in the Church of God ( Guthrie, OK ) after his conversion.

She also spends some of her time preaching Christianity and selling audio CDs on her website that give accounts of her religious conversion and beliefs.

When I speculated on one such occasion that the new growth, like other mutations, might be unable to propagate, I was immediately accused of preaching racial prejudice.

George Herbert was however, not alone in his enthusiasm for preaching which he regarded as one of the prime functions of a parish priest.

When John the Baptist appeared and began preaching, he attracted disciples who assumed he would be announced as the Messiah, or " the one " they had been awaiting.

In conformity with the two parts of his book, his personality and his preaching are alike twofold, and the title Zul-Kifl means " the one of double " Aside from the possible identification of Zul-Kifl with Ezekiel, Muslims have viewed Ezekiel as a prophet, regardless of his identification with Zul-Kifl.

In favour of the two-year ministry, John Robinson points out that both Matthew and Luke imply that Jesus was preaching in Galilee for at least one Passover during his ministry.

In 1791 George Rapp said, " I am a prophet, and I am called to be one " in front of the civil affairs official in Maulbronn, Germany, who promptly had him imprisoned for two days and threatened with exile if he did not cease preaching.

Andrewes was a friend of Hugo Grotius, and one of the foremost contemporary scholars, but is chiefly remembered for his style of preaching.

George Whitefield, another significant leader in the movement, and one of the Wesley brothers ' fellow students at Oxford, became well known for his unorthodox ministry of itinerant open-air preaching.

Later, on one occasion in Troas, the early Christians meet on the first day ( Hebrew ) to break bread and to listen to Christian preaching ().

Wishart travelled throughout Scotland preaching in favour of the reformation and when he arrived in East Lothian, Knox became one of his closest associates.

It was after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on Pentecost where they were gathered in one place that John spent much of his time in Judea and in the surrounding lands preaching the gospel.

Sigismund III Vasa is one of the personages in a famous painting by Jan Matejko, depicting the preaching of Piotr Skarga.

On one celebrated occasion at the Hôtel de Rambouillet, during a dispute about extempore preaching, the 16-year-old Bossuet was called on to deliver an impromptu sermon at 11 pm.

He is one of the preachers, along with John Tillotson and Louis Bourdaloue, who began the transition from Baroque to Neoclassical preaching.

: After preaching at Cuthberton and in Teesdale, I went a little out of my way, to see one of the wonders of nature.

He is remembered by many, even non-Christians, as a lover of nature ( his preaching to an audience of birds is one of the legends of his life ).

The Franciscans naturally expected that one of the Dominicans would occupy the pulpit, for they were renowned for their preaching ; the Dominicans, on the other hand, had come unprepared, thinking that a Franciscan would be the homilist.

They were one of the chief tools in the Catholic Counter-reformation, the aim of the order being to work among the poor, impressing the minds of the common people by the poverty and austerity of their life, and sometimes with sensationalist preaching, such as their use of the supposedly possessed Marthe Brossier to arouse the Paris mob against the Huguenots.

* 1745-David Brainerd, after preaching to Native Americans in December, wrote about the response: " They soon came in, one after another ; with tears in their eyes, to know, what they should do to be saved.

In that case, one of Jehovah's Witnesses had reportedly told a New Hampshire town marshal who was attempting to prevent him from preaching " You are a damned racketeer " and " a damned fascist " and was arrested.

He was one of four prelates who refused to prevent Bishop Colenso from preaching in their dioceses, and the only one who withheld his signature from the addresses calling upon Colenso to resign his see.

Dred, the titular character, is one of the Great Dismal Swamp maroons, escaped slaves living in the Great Dismal Swamp, preaching angry and violent retribution for the evils of slavery and rescuing escapees from the dog of the slavecatchers.

She was one of eight aid workers on trial in Afghanistan for preaching Christianity.

They had been teaching and preaching that " sanctification " was the baptism of the Holy Spirit and that tongues could be a sign but not the only sign that one had been baptized.