"This is de facto legalisation using an administrative procedure, " Christian Hooft, vice-president of the Christian Alliance of Evangelical Churches, told La Nacion newspaper.
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Family Oyster cards with 25% discounts for London travel have been proposed by the Christian Peoples Alliance (CPA).
Germany - The centre-right alliance of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats led by Bavarian prime minister Edmund Stoiber, has a serious chance of defeating the Social Democrats under Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder in September's federal elections.
Don Horrocks, of the Evangelical Alliance, a Christian body, recalls attending a government-sponsored event last year to discuss policy with ministers, along with representatives from other faiths.
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True, the delegates agreed to stick to the alliance with the Christian Democrats and their stroppy Bavarian allies, the Christian Social Union, after the September general election voters permitting.
Hong Jae Chul, president of the Seoul-based Christian Council of Korea, an alliance of conservative churches.
He has already formed an alliance with the opposition Christian Democrats, and they are reported to have offered him the job if they win office.
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"Our most fundamental right in this country is the right to vote and the right to participate in the political process, " said Austin Nimocks of the Alliance Defending Freedom, a Christian advocacy group.
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Mr Berlusconi quit as prime minister after Mr Fini's party, the National Alliance, threatened to follow the Christian Democrats by pulling out of government.
Hezbollah, in its strange alliance with General Michel Aoun, a Christian, has made no secret of its desire to overthrow the democratic and Western-backed government of Fouad Siniora.
That would not be easy if he were linked to old school, professional politicians such as Gianfranco Fini of the National Alliance or Pier Ferdinando Casini, a Christian Democrat.
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But many Social Democrats, in Hamburg and at headquarters in Bonn, would not forgive him if he turned down a possible red-green alliance in favour of one combining Social with Christian Democrats.
Both of Mr Berlusconi's senior lieutenants, Gianfranco Fini of the National Alliance and Pier Ferdinando Casini of the Union of Christian Democrats, have said as much in recent weeks.
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Meanwhile, Silvio Berlusconi, the tycoon who leads a four-party coalition on the right, including the one-time separatists of the Northern League, the post-fascist National Alliance, his own Forza Italia and a little Christian Democratic offshoot, is grinning.
The alliance includes Monti's Civic Choice for Monti, the Christian Democrats and a smaller centre-right party, Future and Freedom for Italy.
None of the three biggest centre-right parties after Mr Berlusconi's Forza Italia the National Alliance, led by Gianfranco Fini, the Union of Centre and Christian Democrats, now led by Pier Ferdinando Casini, and the Northern League, led by Umberto Bossi is a true believer in free-market liberalism.
The Alliance's opposition to the government's economic policy is shared by the Christian Democrats (UDC), who want to protect the privileges of public-sector workers and state-owned enterprises.
With high hopes for South Sudan's independence, Deng is working to promote alliance among the U.S. government, the Israeli government, and a future South Sudanese Christian state to promote international security.
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