(n.) The religion of Christians; the system of doctrines and precepts taught by Christ.
(n.) Practical conformity of one's inward and outward life to the spirit of the Christian religion
(n.) The body of Christian believers.
Example Sentences:
(1) In Tirana, Francis lauded the mutual respect and trust between Muslims, Catholics and Orthodox Christians in Albania as a "precious gift" and a powerful symbol in today's world.
(2) Federal judges who blocked the bans cited harsh rhetoric employed by Trump on the campaign trail , specifically a pledge to ban all Muslims from entering the US and support for giving priority to Christian refugees, as being reflective of the intent behind his travel ban.
(3) Photograph: Jared Malsin for The Guardian They are among at least seven Egyptians – six Christians and one Muslim – who are believed to be held hostage in Libya, though that is regarded as a conservative estimate.
(4) In previous years, Ukip members have sought a more traditional Christian basis for RE.
(5) There are Christians coming from Syria, it doesn’t matter who it is, we would help anybody.
(6) The report was published on the same day that the charity Christians Against Poverty said it expects its free debt counselling service to experience its busiest day on record.
(7) The retreat of government forces had left tens of thousands exposed to the savagery of Isis, especially those from the country's minorities, including Christians and members of the Yazidi sect.
(8) The strikes “without a doubt put communitarian peace in danger,” Hendrik Bogaert, a Flemish Christian Democrat MP, told Le Soir.
(9) It is home to most of the country's five million Muslims, but Christians remain the overall majority.
(10) The main Absolute Radio station, which features presenters including breakfast DJ Christian O'Connell, Frank Skinner and Dave Gorman, had an average weekly reach of 1.375 million listeners in the final quarter of last year, down 16.9% on the previous quarter and 7.9% year on year.
(11) "It was a great debut for Christian," said the Spurs manager.
(12) Three hundred and forty-eight cranial remains from Bronze and Iron Age British, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon, Eastern Coast Australian aborigines, Medieval Christian Norse, Medieval Scarborough, 17--20th century British and German cultures, were examined for the presence of osteoarthritis in the temporomandibular joints.
(13) There has been no shortage of accusations of widespread war crimes and crimes against humanity against Christian and other minorities in eastern Myanmar and a slow but systematic genocide against the Rohingya Muslims in western Myanmar.
(14) Throughout his career he has continued to champion Crane, seeing him as the direct heir to Walt Whitman – Whitman being "not just the most American of poets but American poetry proper, our apotropaic champion against European culture" – and slayer of neo-Christian adversaries such as "the clerical TS Eliot" and the old New Critics, who were and are anathema to Bloom, unresting defender of the Romantic tradition.
(15) Cheers erupted at a camp for 100,000 displaced Christian civilians at the French-controlled airport .
(16) Asked why Muslims had been singled out, rather than followers of other faiths, Batten said: "Christians aren't blowing people up at the moment, are they?
(17) With Christian Eriksen peripheral on the left and Aaron Lennon well policed, the responsibility to unlock Everton came to rest on Dembélé.
(18) It seems that Pfeiffer-Weber-Christian disease and nodular panniculitis with liquefaction are varying expressions of the same disease entity.
(19) Christian Benteke has been revitalised under Sherwood and he followed up his hat-trick in last Tuesday’s 3-3 draw with Queens Park Rangers by scoring the winner here.
(20) Boko Haram spies spread the rumour that she refused to covert from Christianity to Islam.
Messianic
Definition:
(a.) Of or relating to the Messiah; as, the Messianic office or character.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I was nine or 10 I leapt directly from Doctor Dolittle to Dr No, leaving behind all those stupid talking animals and free-falling into a far naughtier realm of suavely promiscuous government assassins, hot shell-diving beauties and villains with metal hands and messianic plans for humanity.
(2) For Trump, America will be great again when it is responsible to no one, when it can bend neighbors to its will through magic feats of negotiation, when its military abandons all remaining ethical standards, when it defers its problems to a messianic strongman.
(3) "Our role is not inheriting that messianic role," he said.
(4) It is a messianism he combines with the tousled good looks of an ageing matinée idol and an undeniable charisma that at TED in Oxford four years ago had some members of the audience spellbound.
(5) That toxic blend of messianic warmongering abroad and McCarthyite witch-hunting at home – which gave us Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo and the London bombings – is coursing through our public life again.
(6) Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian Jones, a tall, bounding figure with a hairstyle and beard verging on the messianic, says the idea emerged from his comedy, where he encouraged those coming to his gigs to get to know one another, and they in turn pressed him for ways to stay in touch and even build small groups.
(7) They are opportunists, a hidden hand.” He warned France against “following the United States in ideological messianism” and of “hatred against hatred, war against war”, urging “a political vision, political strategies”.
(8) Pacquiao’s quasi-messianic desire to combat the poverty that spat him out from General Santos City years ago – a compulsion that's led him all the way to a congressional seat in the Philippines – had left his competitive drive subject to intense scrutiny.
(9) When I spoke to Farage he described Tony Blair’s messianic foreign policy as a post-imperial hang-up.
(10) Is he supposed to be floating, messianically, over the waves?
(11) Morsi's assessment of the region's problems came in stark contrast to the address delivered by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , who focused on religious themes, particular his messianic form of Shia Islam, and did not mention the Iranian nuclear programme, which is the focus of rising tension in the region – and in the wider international community.
(12) Some spoke of the disaster in the language of messianism, the idea that God sanctioned Poland’s suffering for a holy purpose.
(13) Markram's belief in the ability of computing technology to solve the big questions of neuroscience is messianic.
(14) The party of separation is a lean, ferociously disciplined and committed force with a leader who is treated with almost messianic reverence.
(15) And he drifted into messianic territory when he predicted it might mark “the beginning of peace in the Middle East and maybe all over the world”.
(16) Buhari, a tough-talking ex-general with a reputation for incorruptibility, was viewed by many Nigerians as an almost messianic figure who would rescue the country from its kleptocratic ruling elite and crush Boko Haram , the homegrown jihadi group responsible for thousands of deaths in recent years.
(17) Yet every now and then (his almost messianic half-time performance at the 2007 Super Bowl; that month of gigs at the O2 in London), Prince would remind us of his unwaning musical power and why it was necessary and right to prostrate yourself once a month in front of a silent, mocking fax machine.
(18) In January Israel's defence minister, Moshe Ya'alon, described Kerry as "obsessive and messianic".
(19) Also significant is Prokhorov's emphasis on universal European values and his criticism of Russia's new messianism, the idea the country has "its own 'special' fate, separate and distinct from everyone else".
(20) Hamas, however, is not a messianic jihadist movement but a local organisation with a pragmatic political leadership and limited aims.