(Photo: AP Images / Paul Sakuma)Fairmeadow Elementary School students recite the Pledge of Allegiance during a school assembly in Palo Alto, Calif., Monday, Nov. 5, 2007.
Christianity is a faith with a long and detailed history, with numerous events of lasting significance occurring throughout the ages.
Each week brings the anniversaries of great milestones, horrid tragedies, amazing triumphs, telling tribulations, inspirational progress, and everything in between.
Here are just a few things that happened this week, June 10-16, in Church history. They include the formation of Presbyterian Church (USA), the marriage of Martin Luther, and the insertion of “under God” into the Pledge of Allegiance.
Presbyterian Church (USA) Formed – June 10, 1983
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(Screenshot: YouTube/Presbyterian Historical Society)The June 10, 1983 worship and communion service announcing the merger of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. and the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. to the modern mainline Protestant denomination, Presbyterian Church (USA).
This week marks the anniversary of when the nation’s largest Presbyterian denomination was formed, Presbyterian Church (USA).
The mainline denomination was created via the merger of the southern-based Presbyterian…
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