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  2. Batak Christian Protestant Church - Wikipedia

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    Official website. hkbp.or.id. The Huria Kristen Batak Protestan (HKBP, or Batak Christian Protestant Church in English") is an Evangelical Lutheran church among the Batak people, generally the Toba Batak in Indonesia. This church uses an Ecumenical worship style influenced by the Dutch Reformed Church due to the influence of Dutch colonialism ...

  3. Persecution of Christians - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day. Christian missionaries and converts to Christianity have both been targeted for persecution, sometimes to the point of being martyred for their faith, ever since the emergence of Christianity.

  4. Hinduism and abortion - Wikipedia

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    The Mahanarayana Upanishad lists abortion with actions such as breaking one's vow of chastity. [2] Some Hindu scriptures assert that "abortion is a worse sin than killing one's parents" and another text says that "a woman who aborts her child will lose her status". [1] In general, Hinduism teaches the guiding principle of Ahimsa, abstention ...

  5. After-Birth Abortion - Wikipedia

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    Abortion is the ending of an ongoing process before its completion, and, in the case of Giubilini and Minerva, it refers to ending the process of pregnancy after its natural conclusion of birth, thus making "after-birth abortion" a self-contradictory phrase, since birth ends the pregnancy leaving no pregnancy to be aborted.

  6. List of Christian denominations by number of members

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    The list includes the following Christian denominations: the Catholic Church (including the Eastern Catholic Churches), Protestant denominations with at least 0.2 million members (including Anglican churches, which are sometimes described as a via media between Catholicism and Protestantism), the Eastern Orthodox Church (and its offshoots), the Oriental Orthodox Churches (and their offshoots ...

  7. Murder of Wayan Mirna Salihin - Wikipedia

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    Arief Soemarko. . (m. 2015) . On 6 January 2016, Wayan Mirna Salihin died in Abdi Waluyo Hospital after drinking a Vietnamese iced coffee at the Olivier Cafe in the Grand Indonesia shopping mall in Jakarta. [1] According to the police, cyanide poisoning was most likely the cause of Mirna's death. Police charged Jessica Kumala Wongso with her ...

  8. Christianity - Wikipedia

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    — John 3:16, NIV The Law and the Gospel by Lucas Cranach the Elder (1529); Moses and Elijah point the sinner to Jesus for salvation. Paul the Apostle, like Jews and Roman pagans of his time, believed that sacrifice can bring about new kinship ties, purity, and eternal life. For Paul, the necessary sacrifice was the death of Jesus: Gentiles who are "Christ's" are, like Israel, descendants of ...

  9. Roe v. Wade - Wikipedia

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    Overruled by. Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992, in part) Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization (2022, in full) Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973), [ 1 ] was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States generally protected a right to have an abortion. The decision struck ...