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13 hours ago · The Knights of Columbus presented a check to Catholic University of America on the steps of the university's McMahon Hall in 1904 to establish a Chair of American History. Since its earliest days, the Knights of Columbus has been a "Catholic anti-defamation society." [141] In 1914, it established a Commission on Religious Prejudices. [141]
13 hours ago · In political science, a political ideology is a certain set of ethical ideals, principles, doctrines, myths or symbols of a social movement, institution, class or large group that explains how society should work and offers some political and cultural blueprint for a certain social order.
13 hours ago · Goa was founded and built by ancient Hindu kingdoms and had served as a capital of the Kadamba dynasty.In late 13th-century, a Muslim invasion led to the plunder of Goa by Malik Kafur on behalf of Alauddin Khilji and an Islamic occupation. [36]
13 hours ago · The School War ushered in a period of Catholic Party dominance in Belgian politics that lasted (almost unbroken) until 1917. [62] Religious conflict also extended to university education, where secular universities like the Free University of Brussels competed with Catholic universities like the Catholic University of Leuven.
13 hours ago · There are also Christian movements which cross denominational lines and even branches, and cannot be classified on the same level previously mentioned forms. Evangelicalism is a prominent example. Some of those movements are active exclusively within Protestantism, some are Christian-wide.
13 hours ago · The first page of Beowulf. Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066. [12]
13 hours ago · Nevertheless, the Catholic Church's illegal status had a devastating impact on the number of the Church's followers. Even so, a significant Catholic population, served by outlawed "heather priests", [22] continued to exist, especially in the Doric-speaking Northeast and the more remote Gàidhealtachd areas of the Highlands and Islands. [23]
