As Christians, it also reminds us of Jesus's legacy of generosity, tolerance, mercy, and forgiveness.
But as Christians, we believe that redemption can be delivered -- by faith in Jesus Christ.
As Christians around the world prepare to celebrate Easter, they reflect on God's purposes amid suffering and death.
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According to the American Religious Identification Survey in 2008 of the 228 million adult Americans 173 million identified as Christians.
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As Christians and humans, we all love each other and, through him, I've learned more tolerance for people different than me.
In the last census in 2001, 72% of people were classed as Christians - a figure which is much higher than other surveys.
Rick Santorum, a devout Roman Catholic who made his faith central to his presidential bid, blamed higher education for the declining number of young people who identify as Christians.
Interestingly, as Christians and Jews celebrated Easter and Passover this past week, their commemorations prompted much public talk about the relationship between religious scripture and the role of government.
The Ipsos Mori poll, for the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science, was rubbished by the Church, with Reverend Giles Fraser, former Canon Chancellor of St Paul's, saying it was not fair to trump people's "self-identification" as Christians.
And conservative America, once solidly sceptical, is now split over the issue, as Christians concerned about mankind's stewardship of the Earth, neo-cons keen to reduce America's dependency on the Middle East and farmers who see alternative energy as a new potential source of energy come round to the idea of cutting down on carbon.
He stated as good Christians we are to turn the other cheek as Jesus did.
Just as for Christians and other religions, it is the practice of worship that is as important as the belief, he argues.
American Muslims are as diverse as American Christians are.
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Meanwhile, in Egypt - a country that long was Christian before it was conquered by Muslims and still has a sizeable minority known as Coptic Christians - has just adopted a constitution based on shariah law.
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Soon thereafter, France, Italy and the United States formed a multinational force to help stabilize the country -- as differing factions of Arabs and Christians as well as the Israelis and Syrians were in a tangled web of conflict -- and allow PLO fighters to leave the country.
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As the only Christians there, we were entranced as Bob asked every grandchild to read and Myra made each of us feel absolutely special.
The tomb of Saint Dimitrios, regarded by Christians as the city's protector, was inside a mosque where both Christians and Muslims went to seek blessing.
There seems little awareness that Christians as well as Muslims have been attacked.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey, has spoken of the need for "deeper dialogue" between Muslims and Christians as the bombing of Afghanistan continues.
We as Catholics and Christians believe in the commandments of God.
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Everyone understands that while Jews have a perfect right to change their religion, they have no right to force the Jewish community to accept Christians as Jews.
Traditional parties such as the Social Christians were weakened but their place has been taken by forces hardly more congenial to Mr Correa, including those of Mr Noboa.
Weinstein, himself a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, has long fought against what he and others see as a pervasive effort by fundamentalist Christians to impose their values on the U.S. military, which has been plagued for years with accusations of coercion and proselytizing by fundamentalist Christians among U.S. military personnel, as well as incendiary actions such as proselytizing among Afghans.
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"They were Christians and as such they were in the minority in Syria, " he explains.
Goodman's grandparents were Christians, as an earlier generation converted from Judaism.
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The report stated there had been a widespread assumption by many Christians, as well as many Jewish people, that the Bible "supports an essentially Jewish state of Israel".
Rather, he wants us to engage with a dual problem of aesthetics and faith: a problem which came to a head in the dispute among eighth- and ninth-century Christians known as the iconoclastic controversy, but which can be readily generalised.
Mr Hirst, the dean of foreign correspondents in Beirut after five decades in residence, begins his tale with Lebanon's creation in the wake of the first world war, as a French gift to the Maronite Christians of the coastal Levant who had long seen Paris and the Vatican as their saviours.
The site was launched as a unique chance for Christians to worship interactively.
His judicial nominations have included several evangelical Christians, such as Charles Pickering and Claude Allen, a leading advocate of abstinence-education.
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