Berbice was settled in 1627 by the businessman Abraham van Peere from Vlissingen, under the suzerainty of the Dutch West India Company. Until 1714, the colony remained the personal possession of Van P ...
In 1745, Demerara was separated from Essequibo.In 1781, the American revolution induced the Dutch Republic to join with the Bourbon side against the British, a large fleet under Admiral Lord Rodney's ...
Guarani (/?ɡwɑr?ni?/ or /ɡw?r??ni?/), specifically the primary variety known as Paraguayan Guarani (endonym ava?e'? 'Ava language'), is an indigenous language of South America that belong ...
Main articles: Nahuan languages and Nahuatl dialectsIn the past, the branch of Uto-Aztecan to which Nahuatl belongs was called "Aztecan". From the 1990s on, the alternative designation "Nahuan" has be ...
The Catholic Church was the dominant influence on Western civilisation from late antiquity to the dawn of the modern age. It was the primary sponsor of Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, Mannerist and B ...
For Catholics, the Eucharist is the sacrament which completes Christian initiation. The Eucharistic celebration, also called the Mass or Divine liturgy, includes prayers and scriptural readings leadin ...
The term "catholic" is derived from the Greek word καθολικ?? (katholikos) meaning "universal" and was first used to describe the Church in the early 2nd century. The term katholikos is equiva ...
Due to the divergent interpretations of the word "Catholicism", any listing of beliefs and practices that distinguish Catholicism from other forms of Christianity must be preceded by an indication of ...
Main article: History of the term "Catholic"The earliest evidence of the use of the term Catholic Church is the Letter to the Smyrnaeans that Ignatius of Antioch wrote in about 107 to Christians in Sm ...
Christian groups and denominations have long expressed ideals of being reconciled, and in the 20th century, Christian ecumenism advanced in two ways. One way was greater cooperation between groups, su ...
With around 2.4 billion adherents, split into 3 main branches of Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox, Christianity is the world's largest religion. The Christian share of the world's population has stoo ...
Justin Martyr described 2nd-century Christian liturgy in his First Apology (c. 150) to Emperor Antoninus Pius, and his description remains relevant to the basic structure of Christian liturgical worsh ...
Christians share a certain set of beliefs that they hold as essential to their faith, though there are many important differences of interpretation and opinion of the Bible on which Christianity is ba ...
In the case of freed slaves of the United States, many became share croppers and indentured servants. In this manner, some became tied to the very parcel of land into which they had been born a slave ...
Slavery in the Americas had a contentious history, and played a major role in the history and evolution of some countries, triggering at least one revolution and one civil war, as well as numerous reb ...
