Just as for Christians and other religions, it is the practice of worship that is as important as the belief, he argues.
The site was launched as a unique chance for Christians to worship interactively.
Even before that legal basis was established for treating such Christians as dhimmis (enslaved peoples) they were relentlessly attacked, and in some cases murdered, as their businesses were ruined or expropriated and their churches burned.
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After the Hariri killing, there were several small bombings of Christian targets, as Christians had led the calls for Syria to leave.
The Christian Association of Nigeria (Can), the umbrella body for Nigerian Christians, called for speedy passage of the law, describing same sex unions as "barbaric and shameful".
To minimise their expected losses, the Kurds are bent on ensuring that all the non-Sunni minorities, such as the Christians, Yazidis and Shabaks, vote for a Kurdish-led list of candidates.
Al-Qaeda, the murderous perversion of Islam responsible for felling the Twin Towers and for countless other atrocities against Muslims as well as Christians and Jews, has entirely failed to make its presence felt.
More of Syria's minorities, such as Christians, who have looked to Mr Assad for protection, may also be joining in.
For many Christians, frankincense is best known as one of the gifts along with gold and myrrh that the three wise men brought to Jesus and his parents shortly after he was born.
And tomorrow, my family will join Christians around the world as we thank God for the all-important gift of grace through the resurrection of His son, and experience the wonder of Easter morning.
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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.
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.
Liberal Christians have offered qualified support for the measure, as a gesture of solidarity with its Muslim advocates.
Instead, they point out that their co-religionists work hard for whatever prominence they now enjoy as the biggest body of churchgoing Christians.
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It is characterized by such barbaric practices as beheadings of apostates, subjugation of Jews and Christians, stonings for adulterers, flagellation for women deemed "unchaste, " amputations for petty crimes, female genital mutilation and martyrdom in the service of jihad.
No, maybe those individuals are wavering, but the evidence is clear that a super-majority of African-Americans, including Christians, are clear as to which candidate they are voting for in November.
So on Wednesday, Hamas lobbed a mortar shell at the Erez crossing point into Israel just as a group of Gazan Christians were standing on line waiting to travel to Bethlehem for Christmas.
As Huckabee begins to cut into his opponents' support among evangelical Christians, who account for about half of GOP primary voters in South Carolina according to a recent Associated Press poll, the arrows are beginning to come out.
Last month business leaders complained that Republicans were forsaking their interests to pander to the religious right: the party's leaders were caving in to religious demands for sanctions on countries that persecute Christians, so jeopardising access to big markets such as China.
As the number of prisoners hits a record high, Christians in Suffolk are being urged to pray for those inside.
Their cooperation makes sense, for Islamists seek Muslim unity so as to focus full attention on the infidel enemy (especially Jews and Christians).
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Hugh Hewitt, a law professor and radio talk-show host, is as much an evangelist for the possibilities of New Media as Mr. Trippi is, but he believes that conservatives, libertarians and Christians are better positioned to take advantage of them.
The rest of the population -- ethnic Kurds (10%), Druze (3%) and Christians (10%) -- remain largely on the sidelines, for now at least as fearful of a Sunni successor government as they are of continued Alawite control.
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When Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed (peace be upon them) joined in prayer.
One Machiavellian school of thought has it that the row over adultery was part of a devious plan to focus European attention on the penal code and away from even thornier issues such as the discrimination still faced by Turkey's non-Muslim minorities, and the ban on theological training for Orthodox Christians.
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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