Evangelicalism (/ ˌ iː v æ n ˈ dʒ ɛ l ɪ k əl ɪ z əm, ˌ ɛ v æ n-,-ə n-/), also called evangelical Christianity or evangelical Protestantism, is a worldwide interdenominational movement within Protestant Christianity that affirms the centrality of being "born again", in which an individual experiences personal conversion; the authority of the Bible as God's revelation to humanity …

Protestants likely formed a majority of Hungary's population at the close of the 16th century, but Counter-Reformation efforts in the 17th century reconverted a majority of the kingdom to Catholicism. A significant Protestant minority remained, most of it adhering to the Calvinist faith. In 1558 the Transylvanian Diet of Turda decreed the free practice of both the Catholic and …

Le massacre de Vassy (aujourd'hui Wassy) est un événement survenu le 1 er mars 1562 à Vassy (bourg de la principauté de Joinville dont le seigneur est le duc de Guise) au cours duquel une cinquantaine de protestants furent tués, et environ cent-cinquante blessés par les troupes du duc de Guise.Cette affaire déclenche la marche à la guerre du premier conflit des guerres de …

A biblical canon is a set of texts (also called "books") which a particular Jewish or Christian religious community regards as part of the Bible.. The English word canon comes from the Greek κανών kanōn, meaning "rule" or "measuring stick".The use of the word "canon" to refer to a set of religious scriptures was first used by David Ruhnken, in the 18th century.. Various biblical …

The mainline Protestant churches (also called mainstream Protestant and sometimes oldline Protestant) are a group of Protestant denominations in the United States that contrast in history and practice with evangelical, fundamentalist, and charismatic Protestant denominations. Some make a distinction between "mainline" and "oldline", with the former referring only to …

The Darkley killings or Darkley massacre was a gun attack carried out on 20 November 1983 near the village of Darkley in County Armagh, Northern Ireland.Three gunmen attacked worshippers attending a church service at Mountain Lodge Pentecostal Church, killing three Protestant civilians and wounding seven. The attackers were rogue [citation needed] members …

Het protestantisme is een van de drie grote stromingen binnen het christendom, naast het rooms-katholicisme en de oosters-orthodoxe kerken.De stroming ontstond uit kritiek op praktijken en leerstellingen van de middeleeuwse katholieke Kerk. In het begin van de zestiende eeuw leidde dit tot diverse pogingen om de kerk daadwerkelijk te hervormen: de …

The Ulster Defence Association (UDA) is an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland.It was formed in September 1971 as an umbrella group for various loyalist groups and undertook an armed campaign of almost 24 years as one of the participants of the Troubles.Its declared goal was to defend Ulster Protestant loyalist areas and to combat Irish republicanism, …

Despite popular myths about the Spanish Inquisition relating to Protestants, it dealt with very few cases involving actual Protestants, as there were so few in Spain. The Inquisition of the Netherlands is here not considered part of the Spanish Inquisition. Lutheran was a portmanteau accusation used by the Inquisition to act against all those who acted in a way that was …

Purgatory (Latin: purgatorium, borrowed into English via Anglo-Norman and Old French) is, according to the belief of some Christian denominations (mostly Catholic), an intermediate state after physical death for expiatory purification. The process of purgatory is the final purification of the elect, which is entirely different from the punishment of the damned. Tradition, by …