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The Al-ʽAhd, or the Covenant Society, (Arabic: جمعية العهد, Jamyat al-Ahd) was a political group organized in 1913, mainly by Iraqi officers serving in the Ottoman military. [1] Most of these officers would serve in Sharif Husayn's army during the Arab Revolt and later in Faisal's Syrian army. It called for the independence of Iraq ...
Ellison had very close ties to the Ku Klux Klan and the Northern Idaho-based group Aryan Nations, led by Richard Butler. Miles operated a very active prison ministry and he also published a newsletter, most of the readers of it were members of several violent white supremacist groups, the most notable of these groups was the Aryan Brotherhood .
In 1982, the military leader of the group, who ran its "End Time Overcomer Survival" training camps and used the name Randall Rader during his stay at the CSA's compound, left the group along with 30 of his followers in a rift with Ellison, following the latter's attempt to take a second wife, and he joined the newly forming group The Order in ...
In The New International Dictionary of Pentecostal and Charismatic Movements Thigpen describes the 'covenant' aspect of communities formed by Clark and Martin as involving "a commitment to at least some degree of sharing financial resources, regular participation in community gatherings, and submission to the direction of the group's designated ...
Leland Jensen (22 August 1914 – 6 August 1996) was the leader of a small apocalyptic cult called the Baháʼís Under the Provisions of the Covenant (BUPC). [1] Jensen was originally a member of the mainstream Baháʼí Faith until he was excommunicated in 1960 for supporting Mason Remey 's attempt at schism. [ 2 ]
The GEO Group's Lawton Correctional and Rehabilitation Center is the last privately operated prison in Oklahoma. The state also leases the Great Plains Correctional Center in Hinton from the company.
The Members of the Covenant were a proto-monastic group in early Syriac Christianity. The first record of them is found in the fourth century. The first record of them is found in the fourth century. The practice is in the process of being revived today in the Syriac churches and there exists communities of monks part of this.
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