Origins and construction. The Garden Grove Community Church was founded in 1955 by Robert H. Schuller and his wife Arvella. A congregation of the Reformed Church in America, the church first held services in space rented from the Orange Drive-In Theatre.. The congregation moved to the present Christ Cathedral campus in 1961, erecting a building now known as the Arboretum, …

Anabaptism (from Neo-Latin anabaptista, from the Greek ἀναβαπτισμός: ἀνά-'re-' and βαπτισμός 'baptism', German: Täufer, earlier also Wiedertäufer) is a Protestant Christian movement which traces its origins to the Radical Reformation.. The early Anabaptists formulated their beliefs in a confession of faith called the Schleitheim Confession.

Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched the Protestant Reformation.The reaction of the government and church authorities to the international spread of his writings, …

The word muslim (Arabic: مسلم, IPA: ; English: / ˈ m ʌ z l ɪ m /, / ˈ m ʊ z l ɪ m /, / ˈ m ʊ s l ɪ m / or moslem / ˈ m ɒ z l ə m /, / ˈ m ɒ s l ə m /) is the active participle of the same verb of which islām is a verbal noun, based on the triliteral S-L-M "to be whole, intact". A female adherent is a muslima (Arabic: مسلمة) (also transliterated as "Muslimah").The ...

The Bible Christian Church was a Methodist denomination founded by William O’Bryan, a Wesleyan Methodist local preacher, on 18 October 1815 in North Cornwall.The first society, consisting of just 22 members, met at Lake Farm in Shebbear, Devon.Members of the Church were sometimes known as Bryanites, after their founder.

The Foursquare Church is an Evangelical Pentecostal Christian denomination founded in 1923 by preacher Aimee Semple McPherson. The headquarters are in Los Angeles, California, United States History. Angelus Temple, built by ... Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States (2000). Mead, Frank S., Samuel S. Hill, and Craig D. Atwood.

The U.S. census has never asked Americans directly about their religion or religious beliefs, but it did compile statistics from each denomination starting in 1945.. Finke and Stark conducted a statistical analysis of the official census data after 1850, and Atlas for 1776, to estimate the number of Americans who were adherents to a specific denomination.

Ian Richard Kyle Paisley, Baron Bannside, PC (6 April 1926 – 12 September 2014) was a Northern Irish loyalist politician and Protestant religious leader who served as leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from 1971 to 2008 and First Minister of Northern Ireland from 2007 to 2008.. Paisley became a Protestant evangelical minister in 1946 and remained one for …

An ethnic group or an ethnicity is a grouping of people who identify with each other on the basis of shared attributes that distinguish them from other groups. Those attributes can include common sets of traditions, ancestry, language, history, society, culture, nation, religion, or social treatment within their residing area.

A Christian school is a school run on Christian principles or by a Christian organization.. The nature of Christian schools varies enormously from country to country, according to the religious, educational, and political cultures. In some countries, there is a strict separation of church and state, so all religious schools are private; in others, there is an established church whose …

The United Methodist Church (UMC) is a worldwide mainline Protestant denomination based in the United States, and a major part of Methodism.In the 19th century, its main predecessor, the Methodist Episcopal Church, was a leader in evangelicalism.The present denomination was founded in 1968 in Dallas, Texas, by union of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United …

A new religious movement (NRM) is a religious, ethical, or spiritual group or community with practices of relatively modern origins. NRMs may be novel in origin or they may exist on the fringes of a wider religion, in which case they will be distinct from pre-existing denominations.Academics identify a variety of characteristics which they employ in …

Usman Ɗan Fodio pronunciation (Arabic: عثمان بن فودي, romanized: ʿUthmān ibn Fodio; 15 December 1754 – 20 April 1817) was a Fulani scholar, Sunni Islamic religious teacher, revolutionary, and philosopher who founded the Sokoto Caliphate and ruled as its first caliph.. Born in Gobir, Usman was a descendant the Torodbe clans of urbanized ethnic Fulani people living in the Hausa ...

Unity of the Brethren (Latin Unitas Fratrum) may refer to: . Unity of the Brethren (Czech Republic), the province of the Moravian Church in the Czech Republic Unity of the Brethren (Texas), a Protestant church formed in the 1800s by Czech immigrants to Texas Unity of the Brethren Baptists, a Baptist denomination in the Czech Republic; Minor Party (Unity of the …