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1 day ago · The nativity or birth of Jesus Christ is documented in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew.The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem, in Roman-controlled Judea, that his mother, Mary, was engaged to a man named Joseph, who was descended from King David and was not his biological father, and that his birth was caused by divine intervention.
1 day ago · The Arabic names of God are used to form theophoric given names commonly used in Muslim cultures throughout the world, mostly in Arabic speaking societies. Because the names of God themselves are reserved to God and their use as a person's given name is considered religiously inappropriate, theophoric names are formed by prefixing the term ˁabd (عَبْدُ: "slave/servant of") to the name ...
1 day ago · Canaan (/ ˈkeɪnən /; Phoenician: 𐤊𐤍𐤏𐤍 – KNʿN; [1] Hebrew: כְּנַעַן – Kənáʿan, in pausa כְּנָעַן – Kənāʿan; Biblical Greek: Χαναάν – Khanaán; [2] Arabic: كَنْعَانُ – Kan‘ān) was a Semitic -speaking civilization and region of the Southern Levant in the Ancient Near East during ...
1 day ago · The Serbian scholar Milan Budimir (1937), whose view was that the Philistines were Indo-European intruders coming from the Aegean and the Balkans via Crete, connected their name to that of the Pelasgians, the Penestai (a class of unfree laborers in Thessaly), the Pelastai (term for the laboring population of Attica), the Illyrian Pirustae, and ...
1 day ago · Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. In his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century. Zionism[ a ] is an ethnocultural nationalist [ 1 ][ b ] movement that emerged in Europe in the late 19th century and aimed for the establishment of a Jewish ...
17 minutes ago · Devil in Christianity. In Christianity, the Devil is the personification of evil. He is traditionally held to have rebelled against God in an attempt to become equal to God himself. [a] He is said to be a fallen angel, who was expelled from Heaven at the beginning of time, before God created the material world, and is in constant opposition to ...
1 day ago · A 2003 American court decision found IJO was the name used by Hezbollah for its attacks in Lebanon, parts of the Middle East and Europe. [98] The US, [ 99 ] Israel [ 100 ] and Canada [ 76 ] consider the names "Islamic Jihad Organization", "Organization of the Oppressed on Earth" and the "Revolutionary Justice Organization" to be synonymous with Hezbollah.
