World Alliance of Reformed Churches
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World Alliance of Reformed Churches. The World Alliance of Reformed Churches (Presbyterian and Congregational) was formed in 1970 by the amalgamation of the (
Presbyterian) World Alliance of Reformed Churches (founded in 1875) with the International Congregational Council (founded in 1891).
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REFORMED CHURCH'S LONG LOCAL HISTORY
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 10/9/1997; ; 622 words
; ...England as the state church and required all to support...Many of the 40 Dutch Reformed churches in the county have histories...Theologically, the Reformed Church is akin to the Presbyterian and Reformed churches of Europe inspired by...
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"God moves in a mysterious way": the Hungarian Reformed Church.
Magazine article from: Presbyterian Record; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...1781, the Hungarian Reformed Church was permitted to build churches and schools. The office...in 1947-48, the Reformed and Roman Catholic churches were subjected to intense...persecution. Seminaries and church high schools were closed...Lajos Ordass and many Reformed pastors ...
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Reformed Church in America looks to experimental mode.(News)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 10/5/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...of cell-group churches that gathers once...s former First Reformed Church sanctuary. Although...he said. "These churches arise from the grass...parishioners from Third Reformed Church and Haven Reformed Church in Kalamazoo...
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Taking the Jesus Road: The Ministry of the Reformed Church in America among Native Americans.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...The Ministry of the Reformed Church in America Among Native...Historical Series of the Reformed Church in America 50...Although the "mother church" of the work, in Colony...closed in 1932, by then, Reformed missions had been established...
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Cemetery last vestige of defunct Olive Reformed Church in Murrysville
Newspaper article from: Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review; 6/29/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...the new houses with no church in sight. The Olive Reformed Church and the Beamer...present at the Beamer Church cornerstone laying...Voigt preached at both churches, some members living closer to Hankey Church transferred their memberships...Hankey Church. A new ...
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REFORMED CHURCH ON MEMBERSHIP MISSION
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ); 6/18/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...mainline Protestant churches, the rolls of the Reformed Church in America have...Estella of Faith Reformed Church in Lodi. "There...traditionally based churches that are doing...One such church is the Fairfield Reformed Church, where...
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Bible may split Christian Reformed Church
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 1/5/1992; ; 700+ words
; The Christian Reformed Church joins a...over opening all church offices, including...denomination, with 948 churches in the United...leading critic of church change. Schlissel...unspecified number of churches in Canada already...the 25 Christian Reformed Congregations...The ...
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Reformed Church Elects President
Newspaper article from: Oakland Post; 7/31/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Post 07-31-1994 Reformed Church Elects President...General Synod of the Reformed Church in America...sexual misconduct in the church, Synod approved "Guidelines...classes (clusters of churches) to use these guidelines...confessing that the Reformed Church in America has ...
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Monarchical proclamation: the Reformed Church splits with the UCC over Bill Phipps' apostasy.
Magazine article from: Alberta Report; 4/13/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...March 19, the Reformed Church's Classis of...Canadian Council of Churches (CCC) be informed...opposition to the United Church's apostasy...the CCC, or the Reformed Church in Canada...Canada's oldest Reformed church and is a...than the United Church itself. How ...
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Small congregation, big impact Wheaton Christian Reformed Church reaches out to community.(Neighbor)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 6/17/2000; ; 700+ words
; As area churches go, Wheaton Christian Reformed Church may not have...the 'Dutch church,' " Schuurman...Christian Reformed churches encourage...Christian Reformed churches, like Horizon Community Church in Lisle...
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Reformed Church in America
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...continued as the Reformed Church in the United States after...the Evangelical and Reformed Church, which joined (1961) the Congregational Christian Churches to become the United Church of Christ . The Reformed Church in America, which...
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Christian Reformed Church
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Christian Reformed Church denomination formed after the secession of a group from the Reformed Church in America in 1857. Colonists...1846 generally became members of the Reformed (Dutch) church there. A number of...
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Evangelical and Reformed Church
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...merger (1934) of the Reformed Church in the United States...Reformation in Europe. Their churches in America were established...and Switzerland. The Reformed Church in the United States, long known as the German Reformed Church, organized its...
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Dutch Reformed Church
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
...Dutch power, the Dutch Reformed Church was of central...Kerk), but the Dutch Reformed Church remained the largest...cent. separatist churches, the Nederduitse Gereformeerde...the World Alliance of Reformed Churches declared apartheid...position appeared in Church and ...
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Reformed church
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
...universal Catholic Church (the Western Church). More specifically, Reformed Churches are those Churches that adopted...Lutheranism . In the USA, the largest Reformed Churches, such as the Dutch Reformed Church and the Evangelical and Reformed...
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