The Pasyon is a retelling of the Passion of Christ. Readings and performances of the pasyon text are widespread in the Philippines, where they have synthesized indigenous religious performativity with Catholicism and political and social activism. There are three pasyon texts, the first of which was published in 1704 by the Filipino poet Gaspar Aquino de Belen. The pasyon is performed during Lent in cities and villages throughout the Philippines,...

A Jew who initially persecuted Christians (as Saul) but, according to the account in the New Testament book the Acts of the Apostles, he experienced a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus. He became an early champion of the Christian story and founded several churches in 1^st century Roman provinces. He is the author of several epistles (letters) to young Christian communities and several of them are included in the...

In early Christianity, the proposed government of a united universal Christendom represented by five patriarchal sees, or centers of Christian authority in Antioch, Alexandria, Constantinople, Jerusalem and Rome.

A charismatic movement within Protestant Christianity where followers who experience baptism in the Holy Spirit (a profound spiritual encounter) are able to speak in tongues (glossolalia) which is a fluid form of speech delivered in a trance-like state and not readily comprehensible. Historically, Pentecostalism began in Kansas (USA) in the early part of the 20^th century but it has become one of the fastest growing contemporary global religious movements.  Pentecostalism is...