The failure of colonial and modern governments to create employment by expanding the formal economy, which might have absorbed the growing working population, led to the emergence of the informal sector where th
Religion is not only a feature of the past, but is of the utmost importance to the majority of the world's population today. When traditional social, economical, national and collective roles are challenged by a globalised world, religion is the single most important stabilising factor both for...
Like St. Mary’s, other Catholic institutions that helped shape the future cardinal are long gone, closed over the past several decades as the Catholic population around where he grew up and elsewhere plummeted. Among those bygone institutions: • Mendel College Prep High School, where Prevost ...
population was slightly over 50 percent female. As with race, Republicans significantly trail their Democratic colleagues in gender parity within their ranks. A third of the Democratic caucus' 48 Senate seats are held by women, a share that includes four of their five newly elected members. In ...
population was slightly over 50 percent female. As with race, Republicans significantly trail their Democratic colleagues in gender parity within their ranks. A third of the Democratic caucus' 48 Senate seats are held by women, a share that includes four of their five newly elected members. In ...
Once the faith of millions, a small but devoted number of adherents in Asia and North America keep the flame of faith burning.
TheUKpopulation:byreligion censusinApril,2001 3 ReligioushistoryinBritain Around432:IrelandconvertedtoChristianitybySt.Patrick,whobroughtfaithfromRome HisfollowersspreadChristianitytoWales,Scotland&England,establishedreligiouscenters InAD496-7:theSaxonsofEnglandwereconvertedtoChristianitybySt.Augustine&...
In spite of Mubarak’s persecution of the Ikhwan, they have steadily gained power politically and socially across Egypt, making hay with Mubarak’s poor economical policies, until currently at least 20% of the population identify themselves directly with the MB. That’s over 16 million people…...
Manyofthemmaketheirchoicenotfordoctrinalreasons,butforfriendlyenvironment,peoplenetwork,churchactivities,members’socialstatus,etc.BeliefinGod Thephrase"InGodWeTrust"firstappeared onaU.S.coinonthe2-centpieceof1864,andhasbeenonallcoinsandpaperbillssince1957.ItwasdeclaredthenationalmottobyCongressin1956.
They are products of the first half of the twentieth century, molded by mechanization and mass education, brought up with lingering memories of their own country’s agricultural past. They are, in effect, the people of the present. The remaining 2 or 3 percent of the world’s population, ...