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...Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán, a pious laywoman from Ecuador who died in 1869. In the Catholic faith, only God can make a saint; these four are among those who "have emerged as individuals who can light the way ahead," as the Modern Catholic Encyclopedia puts it. But the means by which these saints are identified - and by whom - has varied over the history of the church...
...many Pentecostals are there? Pentecostalism is the fastest-growing Christian tradition, but it is also a diverse religious movement, so the numbers vary by definition. The World Christian Encyclopedia, however, estimates that 500 million Christians worldwide are Pentecostal, making the tradition second only to Catholicism in overall Christian numbers. Pentecostalism is now more dominant than Catholicism in South America, and it is rapidly spreading throughout Asia and Africa as well. In 30 years, Pentecostals have increased their share of the global Christian population from 6% to 25%. In the U.S., the Assemblies of God is the largest Pentecostal denomination with...
...experienced terrorist group could have carried it out. But just about anyone can make a car bomb. Designs are available are on the Internet. Karl Armstrong, the man who blew up a University of Wisconsin building in 1970, found the formula for his fertilizer car bomb in the Encyclopedia Britannica...
...James P. Currier, founder and chairman of Medpedia—whose stated mission is to become the world’s largest collaborative online encyclopedia of medicine and health—has called upon faculty at the Medical School to lay the groundwork for the project...
...Maine was purchased with the proceeds from the books he wrote for McCain. Mark McKinnon, a veteran of the Bush campaigns who worked closely with McCain and Salter during the primaries, describes Salter's role as that of three staffers in any other campaign: he is chief speechwriter, an encyclopedia of McCain's personal history and the man who can tell McCain anything. "We became close friends," Salter explains of his mentor. McCain calls...