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President of the Lutheran World Federation: Archbishop Musa Filibus. [3] Although the president does not have any jurisdiction outside of his own regional church, as president of the LWF he oversees the meetings of the leaders of other regional churches. Chairman of the Pentecostal World Fellowship: Dr. William Wilson
Russian Union of Evangelical Christians-Baptists — Peter Konovalchuk, President (1994–2002) Yuri Sipko, President (2002–2010) Alexey Smirnov, President (2010–2018) Peter Mickiewicz, President (2018–present) Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists of Kazakhstan — Frans G. Tissen, President (present) Europe, regional. European Baptist ...
The various denominations of Christianity fall into several large families, shaped both by culture and history. Christianity arose in the first century AD after Rome had conquered much of the western parts of the fragmented Hellenistic empire created by Alexander the Great. The linguistic and cultural divisions of the first century AD Roman ...
Christianity is the predominant religion and faith in Europe, the Americas, the Philippines, East Timor, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Oceania. [11] There are also large Christian communities in other parts of the world, such as Indonesia, Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa where Christianity is the second-largest religion after Islam.
Vatican City and St. Peter's Basilica.. Christianity played a prominent role in the development of Western civilization, in particular, the Catholic Church and Protestantism. [5] [50] Western culture, throughout most of its history, has been nearly equivalent to Christian culture, and much of the population of the Western hemisphere could broadly be described as cultural Christians.
Carl F. H. Henry (1913–2003), founding editor of Christianity Today Robert Pierce (1914–1978), founder of World Vision and Samaritan's Purse Bruce M. Metzger (1914–2007), biblical scholar and translator who served on the board of the American Bible Society
Christians have made many contributions in a broad and diverse range of fields, including the sciences, arts, politics, literatures, sports and business This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
One part of [the] world ... has in recent years detached itself and broken away from the Christian foundations of its culture, although formerly it had been so imbued with Christianity and had drawn from it such strength and vigor that the people of these nations in many cases owe to Christianity all that is best in their own tradition.