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P'ent'ay (from Ge'ez: ጴንጤ P̣enṭe) is an originally Amharic–Tigrinya language term for Pentecostal Christians.Today, the term refers to all Evangelical Protestant denominations and organisations in Ethiopian and Eritrean societies.
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Contemporary Christian music (CCM), also known as Christian pop, and occasionally inspirational music, is a genre of modern popular music, and an aspect of Christian media, which is lyrically focused on matters related to the Christian faith and stylistically rooted in Christian music.
The Protestant church has influenced changes in wider culture in Germany, contributing to the debate around bioethics and stem cell research. [25] The Protestant leadership in Germany is divided on the issue of stem cell research; however, those opposing liberalising laws have characterised it as a threat to the sanctity of human life. [26]
Many Protestant reformers, drawing from the Bible and the concept of Sola scriptura, Latin for by scripture alone, argued that worship music ought to be derived directly from the book of Psalms in the Old Testament. [7] This concept came to be known as the regulative principle.
United Methodist Church (UMC) is the largest mainline Protestant denomination among the "Seven Sisters" with 5.4 million members in the United States in 2022. [19] Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is the second largest mainline denomination with approximately 2.8 million members and 8,500 congregations at the end of 2023. [20]
In 2021–2022, a number of pastors and elders, along with hundreds of members of the PRC left to establish a new denomination named the "Reformed Protestant Church." The impacted congregations included Byron Center, Michigan, Dyer, Indiana, Hull, Iowa, and Edmonton, Canada.
First edition title page of the 1539 Strasburg Psalter. The Genevan Psalter, also known as the Huguenot Psalter, [1] is a 1539 metrical psalter in French created under the supervision of John Calvin for liturgical use by the Reformed churches of the city of Geneva in the sixteenth century.