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7 hours ago · The global reach of the Catholic Church leads to its large membership. The Catholic Church is the largest Christian church in the world, with over 1.3 billion members worldwide. This vast membership can be attributed to several factors, but one of the primary reasons for the church’s global reach is its longstanding history and missionary ...
7 hours ago · The Maronite Church states that it is an Antiochene and Syriac Church. This article traces, in chronological and discursive fashion, the emergence of the Maronite tradition. It explores the life and significance of St Maroun (d. ca AD 418–23), giving consideration to thinkers who helped to understand his outlook and methods and assessing what we know of the St Maroun monastery (Dayr Mar ...
1 day ago · The conflicts to which the term is applied has been extended to include other campaigns initiated, supported and sometimes directed by the Roman Catholic Church against pagans, heretics or for alleged religious ends. This list first discusses the traditional numbered crusades, with the various lesser-known crusades interspersed.
1 day ago · St Anne's Roman Catholic Church is also situated in the centre of the town, is a Lombard Romanesque church, built in 1926, destroyed by arson in 2002 and rebuilt in 2004. The Canterbury Street drill hall was completed in 1870.
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1 day ago · The word “trust” comes from the Latin word, “trucido” which means to kill, slaughter, or murder wantonly. Beneficiaries were often killed so that the trustees or someone else could inherit. For these reasons, trusts fell out of use until the Roman Catholic Church revived them during the Crusades.
