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TheChurch of the Holy Sepulchre in theChristian Quarter of theOld City of Jerusalem, aholy place of Christianity

Christianity is anAbrahamic monotheistic religion, professing thatJesus wasraised from the dead and is theSon of God, whose coming as theMessiah (Christ) wasprophesied in theHebrew Bible (called theOld Testament in Christianity) and chronicled in theNew Testament. It is theworld's largest and most widespread religion with over 2.38 billion followers, comprising around 31.2% of theworld population. Its adherents, known asChristians, are estimated to make up a majority of the population in157 countries and territories.

Christianity remainsculturally diverse in itsWestern andEastern branches, and doctrinally diverse concerningjustification and the nature of salvation,ecclesiology,ordination, andChristology. Thecreeds of variousChristian denominations generally hold in common Jesus as the Son of God—theLogos incarnated—whoministered,suffered, anddied on a cross, but rose from the dead for thesalvation of humankind; and referred to asthe gospel, meaning the "good news". The fourcanonical gospels ofMatthew,Mark,Luke andJohn describe Jesus's life and teachings as preserved in the early Christian tradition, with the Old Testament as the gospels' respected background.

The three mainbranches of Christianity areRoman Catholicism (1.3 billion people),Protestantism (625 million-900 million), andEastern Orthodoxy (230 million) while other prominent branches includeOriental Orthodoxy (60 million),Restorationism (35 million), and theChurch of the East (600,000). Smaller church communities number in the thousands despite efforts toward unity (ecumenism). In theWest, Christianity remains the dominant religion even with adecline in adherence, with about 70% of that population identifying as Christian.Christianity is growing in Africa and Asia, the world's most populous continents. Christians arepersecuted in some regions of the world, particularly where they are in the minority in theMiddle East,North Africa,East Asia, andSouth Asia. (Full article...)

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Nefarious: Merchant of Souls is a 2011 American documentary film about modernhuman trafficking, specificallysexual slavery. Presented from aChristian worldview,Nefarious covershuman trafficking in the United States, Western and Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia, alternating interviews with re-enactments. Victims of trafficking talk about having been the objects of physical abuse and attempted murder. Several former prostitutes talk about their conversion to Christianity, escape from sexual oppression, and subsequent education or marriage. The film ends with the assertion that only Jesus can completely heal people from the horrors of sexual slavery.

Nefarious was written, directed, produced and narrated byBenjamin Nolot, founder and president of Exodus Cry, the film's distributor. Nolot, who travelled to 19 countries to collect the film's content, said that the purpose of the film is "to draw people's attention to the issue, but also to inspire them in terms of what they can be doing … to take a stand against this injustice." The film was officially released on July 27, 2011, with individual grassroots screenings also taking place. Laila Mickelwait, Exodus Cry's director of awareness and prevention, screened the film in several countries in an attempt to persuade governments to make laws similar toSweden'sSex Purchase Act, which criminalizes the purchasing rather than the selling of sex. The film was released on home video on May 1, 2012. (Full article...)

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Image 1PopeClement I prays to the Trinity, in a typical post-Renaissance depiction byGianbattista Tiepolo (d. 1770) (fromTrinity)
Image 2First page ofMark, bySargis Pitsak (14th century): "The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God". (fromJesus in Christianity)
Image 3Detail of theearliest known artwork of the Trinity, theDogmatic or Trinity Sarcophagus,c. 350 (Vatican Museums)
Three similar figures, representing the Trinity, are involved in the creation ofEve, whose much smaller figure is cut off at lower right; to her right,Adam lies on the ground (fromTrinity)
Image 4Jesushealing the paralytic inThe Pool byPalma il Giovane, 1592 (fromJesus in Christianity)
Image 5An anonymous 18th century Catholic painting from the PeruvianCuzco School. This work depicts the Holy Triune God; one in essence, with three persons (fromTrinity)
Image 6Depiction of Trinity fromSaint Denis Basilica in Paris (12th century) (fromTrinity)
Image 7Depictions of the Resurrection of Jesus arecentral to Christian art (Resurrection of Christ byRaphael, 1499–1502). (fromJesus in Christianity)
Image 8A depiction of theCouncil of Nicaea in AD 325, at which the Deity of Christ was declared orthodox andArianism condemned (fromTrinity)
Image 9The Glory of Saint Nicholas, byAntónio Manuel da Fonseca;Nicholas of Myra, a participant in the First Council of Nicaea, achieves thebeatific vision in the shape of the Holy Trinity. (fromTrinity)
Image 10A compact diagram of the Trinity, known as the "Shield of the Trinity" consisting ofGod the Father,God the Son (Jesus), andGod the Holy Spirit (the Shield is generally not intended to be a schematic diagram of the structure of God, but it presents a series of statements about the relationship between the persons of the Trinity) (fromTrinity)
Image 11Representation of the Trinity in the form of themercy seat (epitaph from 1549) (fromTrinity)
Image 12The Holy Trinity in an angelic glory over a landscape, byLucas Cranach the Elder (d. 1553) (fromTrinity)
Image 13God in the person of the Son confrontsAdam and Eve, byMaster Bertram (d. c. 1415) (fromTrinity)
Image 14Renaissance painting byJerónimo Cosida depicting Jesus as atriple deity Inner text: The Father is God; the Son is God; the Holy Spirit is God (fromTrinity)
Image 15A Greekfresco of Athanasius of Alexandria, the chief architect of the Nicene Creed, formulated at Nicaea (fromTrinity)
Image 16The Baptism of Christ, byPiero della Francesca, 15th century (fromTrinity)
Image 17Nativity at Night, byGeertgen tot Sint Jans,c. 1490 (fromJesus in Christianity)
Image 1813th-century depiction of the Trinity from aRoman de la Rose manuscript (fromTrinity)
Image 19TheChurch of the Holy Sepulchre is aholy site inJerusalem believed by mostChristians to encompass thetomb of Jesus and the site of his crucifixion and resurrection. (fromJesus in Christianity)
Image 20The "Heavenly Trinity" joined to the "Earthly Trinity" through theIncarnation of theSon–The Heavenly and Earthly Trinities byMurillo (c. 1677) (fromTrinity)
Image 21The Trinity by Russian icon painterAndrei Rublev, early 15th century: this portrayal of the threeangels who visitedAbraham at theOak of Mamre (Genesis 18:1-8) (fromTrinity)
Image 22God the Father (top), the Holy Spirit (a dove), and the child Jesus, painting byBartolomé Esteban Murillo (d. 1682) (fromTrinity)
Image 23AGospel of John, 1056 (fromJesus in Christianity)
Image 24The Good Samaritan byJames Tissot. TheParable of the Good Samaritan is one of the parables of Jesus. (fromJesus in Christianity)
Image 25TheCommunion of the Apostles, byLuca Signorelli, 1512 (fromJesus in Christianity)
Image 26God the Father (top), and the Holy Spirit (represented by a dove) depicted above Jesus Painting byFrancesco Albani (d. 1660) (fromTrinity)
Image 27A 'Jesus Saves'neon cross sign outside of a Protestant church inNew York City (fromSalvation in Christianity)
Image 28The Holy Trinity on the stained glass windows of the Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul inBrockdish (fromTrinity)
Image 29Jesus'Farewell Discourse to his eleven remaining disciples after theLast Supper, from theMaestà byDuccio (fromJesus in Christianity)
Image 30Atypical depiction of the Trinity where the Son is identified by a lamb, the Father anEye of Providence, and the Spirit a dove (fromTrinity)
Image 31Three doors representing the trinity ata cathedral in Cleveland, Ohio. (fromTrinity)
Image 32TheAdoration of the Trinity byAlbrecht Dürer (1511)
From top to bottom: Holy Spirit (dove), God the Father and Christ on the cross (fromTrinity)
Image 33The Father, The Holy Spirit, and Christ crucified, depicted in aWelsh manuscriptc. 1390–1400 (fromTrinity)

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Bethlehem is a city in theWest Bank ofPalestine, located about ten kilometres (six miles) south ofJerusalem. It is the capital of theBethlehem Governorate, and as of 2017 had a population of 28,591 people.^[1] The city's economy is strongly linked totourism, with a focus on theChristmas period, whenChristians embark on a pilgrimage to theChurch of the Nativity, which is revered as the location of thebirth of Jesus.

A possible first mention of Bethlehem is in theAmarna correspondence ofancient Egypt, dated to 1350–1330 BCE, although that reading is uncertain. In theHebrew Bible, the period of theIsraelites is described; it identifies Bethlehem as the birthplace ofDavid. In theNew Testament, the city is identified as the birthplace ofJesus of Nazareth. Under theRoman Empire, the city of Bethlehem was destroyed byHadrian, but later rebuilt byConstantine the Great, who commissioned the Church of the Nativity in 327 CE. In 529, the Church of the Nativity was heavily damaged bySamaritans involved in theSamaritan revolts; following the victory of theByzantine Empire, it was rebuilt byJustinian I. (Full article...)

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The Good Samaritan by Rembrandt (1630) shows the Good Samaritan making arrangements with the innkeeper

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and testedhim, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”
He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read it?”
He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”
He said to him, “You have answered correctly. Do this, and you will live.”
But he, desiring to justify himself, asked Jesus, “Who is my neighbor?”
Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. By chance a certain priest was going down that way. When he saw him, he passed by on the other side. In the same way aLevite also, when he came to the place, and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a certainSamaritan, as he traveled, came where he was. When he saw him, he was moved with compassion, came to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. He set him on his own animal, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him. On the next day, when he departed, he took out twodenarii, and gave them to the host, and said to him, ‘Take care of him. Whatever you spend beyond that, I will repay you when I return.’ Now which of these three do you think seemed to be a neighbor to him who fell among the robbers?”
He said, “He who showed mercy on him.”
Then Jesus said to him, “Go and do likewise.”

—Parable of the Good Samaritan,Luke 10:25-37;World English Bible

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