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The temperance movement is a social movement promoting temperance or complete abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement...

Sama (Turkish: Sema; Persian, Urdu and Persian: سَماع, romanized: samā‘un) is a Sufi ceremony performed as part of the meditation and prayer practice dhikr...

Begging (also panhandling) is the practice of imploring others to grant a favor, often a gift of money, with little or no expectation of reciprocation...

In keeping with its prevailing self-identity as a via media or "middle path" of Western Christianity, Anglican sacramental theology expresses elements...

During the 1980s and 1990s a moral panic about alleged satanic ritual abuse occurred, mainly in parts of the English-speaking world. This was propagated...

The relationship between Mormonism and Freemasonry began early in the life of Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter Day Saint movement. Smith's older brother...

25°51′40″N 111°32′38″W / 25.861°N 111.544°W / 25.861; -111.544 Misión San Francisco Javier de Viggé-Biaundó was a Spanish mission in San Javier, Baja...

Nikkō Shōnin (日興上人, 8 March 1246 – 7 February 1333), Buddhist name Hawaki-bō Byakuren Ajari Nikkō (伯耆房白蓮阿闍梨日興), was one of the six senior disciples of...

Matthew 6:17 is the seventeenth verse of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. This verse...

This is a list of cathedrals, churches and chapels in the London Borough of Barnet within the Greater London. The list focuses on the more permanent churches...

Matthew 6:23 is the twenty-third verse of the sixth chapter of the Gospel of Matthew in the New Testament and is part of the Sermon on the Mount. In the...

The Hollies Convent FCJ School was a girls' direct-grant Roman Catholic grammar school in south Manchester, England. In 1820, Marie-Madeleine d'Houët,...

Hokkekō (法 華 講, Hokke kō) is the mainstream lay organization affiliated with the Nichiren Shōshū.[citation needed] It traces its origins to three martyr...

Nichimoku Shōnin (日目上人, 28 April 1260 — 15 November 1333), Buddhist name: Niidakyo Ajari Nichimoku, was a junior disciple of Nichiren who sided with Nikkō...

Eduard Karl August Riehm (20 December 1830 – 5 April 1888) was a German Protestant theologian. He was born at Diersburg in Baden. He studied theology and...

Francesco Giovanni Brugnaro (born 16 March 1943) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Camerino-San Severino Marche...

Luis Sáinz Hinojosa (21 June 1936 – 8 October 2022) was a Bolivian prelate of the Catholic Church. Luis Sáinz Hinojosa was born on 21 June 1936 in Tiquipaya...

Carlo Martini (1 October 1913 – 16 July 1986) was an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See from 1937...

Pagodas in Myeik are pagodas on the Myeik Archipelago. Myeik (Mergui) is a city in the Tanintharyi Division in Southeastern Myanmar. A pagoda is a Hindu...