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17 hours ago · The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. [1] Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Union of Utrecht, the Lutheran World Federation, the Anglican Communion, the Mennonite churches, the ...
17 hours ago · Following new accusations of sexual violence against the once-renowned Capuchin priest Abbé Pierre, the Catholic Church in France has opened its episcopal archives. Documents reviewed by La Croix ...
17 hours ago · Inspirations for fiction. The Underground Railroad is a 2016 novel by Colson Whitehead. It won the 2016 National Book Award and the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. [214] The Underground Railroad is a 2021 streaming television limited series, based on Whitehead's novel.
17 hours ago · 2001 – The September 11 attacks, a series of coordinated terrorist attacks killing 2,977 people using four aircraft hijacked by 19 members of al-Qaeda. Two aircraft crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, a third crashes into The Pentagon in Arlington County, Virginia, and a fourth into a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
17 hours ago · Men’s civic breakfast at Christ Episcopal Church will be Saturday, September 28 at 8 a.m. Speaker will be the Rt. Rev. Robert C. Wright, the 10 th bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta. Members of the community are welcomed.
17 hours ago · Idris Jones (* 1943), britischer Geistlicher, Primas der Scottish Episcopal Church; Ieuan Wyn Jones (* 1949), walisischer Politiker; Ike Jones (Isaac Lolette Jones; 1929–2014), US-amerikanischer Schauspieler und Filmproduzent; Inez Jones (1912/13–1995), US-amerikanische Jazzsängerin; Inigo Jones (1573–1652), britischer Architekt
17 hours ago · Lee Teng-hui (Chinese: 李登輝; 15 January 1923 – 30 July 2020) was a Taiwanese statesman and agriculturist who served as the 4th president of the Republic of China (Taiwan) under the 1947 Constitution and chairman of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1988 to 2000. He was the first president to be born in Taiwan, the last to be indirectly elected ...
