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The Churches of Christ, also commonly known as the Church of Christ, is a loose association of autonomous Christian congregations located around the world. Typically, their distinguishing beliefs are that of the necessity of baptism for salvation and the prohibition of musical instruments in worship. Many such congregations identify themselves ...
The International Churches of Christ ( ICOC) is a body of decentralized, co-operating, [6] [better source needed] religiously conservative and racially integrated Christian congregations. [3] [7] In March 2024, the ICOC numbered their members at 112,000. [3] [better source needed] A formal break was made from the Churches of Christ in 1993 with ...
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American religious-cult leader and felon, convicted of several sex crimes and two assisted sex crimes involving children. . He is the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult (not to be confused with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint
The Family International ( TFI) is an American new religious movement founded in 1968 by David Brandt Berg. [1] The group has gone under a number of different names since its inception, including Teens for Christ, The Children of God ( COG ), The Family of Love, or simply The Family . A British court case found current and former members ...
The Church Universal and Triumphant ( CUT) is a New Age religious organization founded in the United States in 1975 by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. [1] The church is headquartered near Gardiner, Montana, and the church has local congregations in more than 20 countries. Influenced by Theosophy and I AM, the Church originated as The Summit Lighthouse ...
United Church of Christ. The United Church of Christ ( UCC) is a socially liberal mainline Protestant Christian denomination based in the United States, with historical and confessional roots in the Congregational, Restorationist, Continental Reformed, and Lutheran traditions, and with approximately 4,600 churches and 712,000 members.
The Brethren is one of several informal names for a nameless religious movement created by Jimmie T. "Jim" Roberts. Other names include The Travellers, The Road Ministry, Body of Christ, and the Brothers and Sisters. The movement's members shun material things and family, living essentially as vagrants and doing odd jobs to pay their expenses.
The Church of God and Saints of Christ is a Black Hebrew Israelite new religious group established in Lawrence, Kansas, in the United States, by William Saunders Crowdy in 1896. [2] William Crowdy began congregations in several cities in the Midwestern and Eastern United States, and sent an emissary to organize locations in at least six African ...