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List of churches in Greater Manchester; List of churches in Hampshire; List of churches in Harrogate; List of churches in Kent; List of churches in Lincolnshire; List of churches in London; List of churches in Oxford; List of churches in Salford; Congregations in the United States List of churches that are National Historic Landmarks in the ...
Christian Aid, international development agency backed by UK churches; Christians Against Poverty, a charity that deals with debt counselling; Christian Concern For Our Nation, campaigning group on legal and political changes; Churches Together in England, national ecumenical organisation
Parachurch organizations perform a number of roles, including: [3] evangelistic crusade associations (patterned after the Billy Graham Association); evangelistic and discipleship ministries (such as ThereforeGo Ministries, [4] Youth With a Mission (), InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, Scripture Union, Cru, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Christian Challenge, and The Navigators)
Modern movements such as Christian fundamentalism, Radical Pietism, Evangelicalism, the Holiness movement and Charismatic Christianity sometimes cross denominational lines, or in some cases create new denominations out of two or more continuing groups (as is the case for many united and uniting churches, for example; e.g. the United Church of ...
The list also includes the largest Adventist church (the Seventh-day Adventist Church), the largest Methodist church (the United Methodist Church) and the largest African initiated church (the Zion Christian Church) and the second largest Pentecostal denomination in the world, The Pentecostal Mission (TPM) or (New Testament Church/Universal ...
The Roman Catholic Church defines marriage as a covenant "by which a man and a woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring." [31] The church teaches that "homosexual acts are intrinsically disordered. They are ...
The emerging church, sometimes wrongly equated with the "emergent movement" or "emergent conversation", [further explanation needed] is a Christian movement of the late 20th and early 21st century. Emerging churches can be found around the globe, predominantly in North America, Western Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa. Members come ...
The Methodist Episcopal Church attempted to protest slavery through membership restrictions and preaching; however, there was significant pushback, and the only restrictions that were upheld were those constituting that members could not “engage in the buying or selling of slaves with the intention of keeping them in bondage.” [60] This ...