RELIGIONS IN DAVAO CITY

FOUR SQUARE

Founded: January 1, 1923

Lineage: Christian > Protestant > Pentecostal

Founder: Name: Aimee Semple McPherson

HISTORY:

The Church of the Four-Square Gospel was founded by

Aimee Semple McPherson (1890-1944)in Los Angeles in 1918.

At the age of seventeen, she had been

questioning her parents' Methodism and declared herself an atheist.

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST

Classification: Protestant>Orientation>Adventist>Polity
Geographical area: Worldwide.But esp. America
Founder: Joseph Bates, James White, Ellen G. White, J. N. Andrews

Origin: May 23, 1863Battle Creek, Michigan

Congregations: 61,818 Churches, 61,361

Members: 17 million

JEHOVAH'S WITNESS

Classification: Millenarian>Orientation>Restorationist
Organizational structure: Hierarchical
Geographical area: Worldwide
Founder: Charles Taze Russell

Congregations: 103,267
Members: 7.1 million

ASSEMLY OF GOD

Classification: Protestant>Orientation>Pentecostal>Polity and Congregational
Geographical area: Worldwide
Origin: 1914
Congregations: 312,048
Members: 60 million





CATHOLIC

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church,is the world's largest Christian church.

With more than a billion members, over half of all Christians and more than one-sixth of the world's population,

the Catholic Church is a communion of the Western, or Latin Rite Church, and 22 autonomous Eastern Catholic Churches, comprising a total of 2,795 dioceses in 2008. The Church's highest earthly authority in matters of faith, morality, and governance is the Pope, currently

Pope Benedict XVI, who holds supreme authority in concert with the College o Bishops,

of which he is the head. The Catholic community is made up of an ordained ministry and the laity;

members of either group may belong to organized religious communities.

PROTESTANT

Protestantism is a branch within Christianity, containing many denominations with

some differing practices and doctrines, that principally originated in the sixteenth-century

Protestant Reformation. It was founded by Martin Luther.

EVANGELICAL

Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement which began in Great Britain in the 1730s.

Most adherents consider its key characteristics to be: a belief in the need for personal conversion

(or being "born again"); some expression of the gospel in effort;

a high regard for biblical authority; and an emphasis on the death and resurrection of Jesus.

DaviD Bebbington has termed these four distinctive aspects conversionism,

activism, biblicism, and crucicentrism, noting,

"Together they form a quadrilateral of priorities that is the basis of Evangelicalism.

DATING DAAN

Ang Dating Daan (Tagalog for "The Old Path") is a religious radio and television program in the Philippines

produced by Members Church of God International and hosted by Brother Eli Soriano.

IGLESIA NI CRISTO

Classification: Independent

Orientation: unitarian/monotheistic

Leader: Eduardo V. Manalo
Geographical area: Congregations concentrated in the Philippines, some branches are in North America
Founder: Felix Y. Manalo
Origin: July 27, 1914

Congregations: 5600+

Members:More than a million in Central Luzon;

70,000 in the provinces of Cebu, Bohol and Negros Oriental


ISLAM

Islam is the religion articulated by the Qur’an, a book considered by its adherents to be the verbatim word of the single incomparable God (Arabic: الله‎, Allāh), and by the Islamic prophet Muhammad's demonstrations and real-life examples (called the Sunnah, collected through narration of his companions in the volumes of Hadith). The word Islam is a homograph, having multiple meanings, and a triliteral of the word salaam, which directly translates as peace.