The initiative's possible denomination could be One Dollar for Development.

Max Weber thought that was peculiarly Protestant.

But it so happened he was speaking in a Protestant Church.

In Lebanon, all persons married and divorced according to the rules of their own religious denomination.

In 1807, Robert Morrison, the first British Protestant missionary to China arrived in Guangzhou.

We know this because today the work ethic is no longer a Protestant, Western phenomenon.

We saw scientific revolutions, the Protestant Reformation, constitutional democracies possible where they had not been possible before.

Uzbekistan's system of religious education includes the Tashkent Islamic Institute, 10 madrassas and Orthodox and Protestant seminaries.

The Protestant International Church in Islamabad, for instance, is one of the best protected buildings in Pakistan.

Roman Catholic and Protestant traditions are the only denominations that benefit from confessional education in the school system.

And we thought, sustainability has grown into being this sort of neo Protestant idea that it has to hurt in order to do good.

The private system includes two business colleges, five high schools and several elementary schools, most of which are affiliated with Roman Catholic and Protestant religious denominations.

When you are brought up as a Catholic, you think that if you ever set foot in a Protestant Church, you'll be struck dead at the threshold.

Therefore, to render an opinion in this case, the Working Group is not called upon to take a position on whether Falun Gong is a religion, a religious denomination, a sect, or a belief.

Most examples of violent crime by mentally ill people were committed first in England, and then in the US, often seeming politically motivated, even when mediated by religion. The first such case was likely that of Peter Berchet, a young Protestant, who felt that he had to kill the royal councilor Christopher Hatton, also a Protestant, whom Berchet believed to be a Catholic sympathizer.

WFP is present in Panama City the WFP Regional Bureau for Latin America and Caribbean (ODPC) is in a separate building in the same complex as the other agencies, which enables the United Nations house denomination.

After all, Pope Francis s native region, Latin America, is currently home to nearly half (44 ) of the world s Catholics. But the Catholic Church is increasingly losing out to Protestant competition there and elsewhere.

Pull one thread the celibacy requirement for priests, for example and the whole edifice comes crashing down. Consider what has happened to liberalizing Protestant denominations, which, for all their good intentions, have lost adherents.

The UU UNO acts both as a voice for the religious denomination of Unitarian Universalists (UUs) in the world forum of the United Nations, and as a venue for education, advocacy and outreach on UN related issues, particularly among congregations in North America.

Starting in the autumn of 2008, a single program of ethics and religious culture will be offered to all pupils at the primary and secondary levels, replacing the current Roman Catholic, Protestant and moral education programs.

Switzerland, as a country made up of different cultures and religions, has had to learn how to coexist peacefully in its small territory. It has had to overcome differences of religious denomination, language and economic interests in order to create national unity while respecting diversity.

Instead of giving in to grief, depression, defeat in the face of that violence, Mairead hooked up with Betty a staunch Protestant and a staunch Catholic and they took to the streets to say, No more violence.

I was in Ireland during the Troubles, 10 years ago, and I was working with some Catholic and Protestant kids on conflict resolution. And I did this with them a risky thing to do, because they were street kids.

They depended much less on foreign creditors than on domestic lenders. The Dutch model was exported to Britain in 1688, along with the political revolution that deposed the Catholic James II and put the Dutch Protestant William of Orange on the English throne.

Alas for them, however, the Flemish have no such desire. Belgium, after all, became an independent state in 1830, precisely in order to liberate the Catholic Flemish, as well as the Walloons, from being second class subjects in a Protestant Dutch monarchy.

It was standard pre modern practice to overcome such differences with a formal disputation. In the early sixteenth century, the German princes attempted to settle the philosophical challenge presented by Protestant reformers by engaging Martin Luther to debate a prominent orthodox Catholic theologian, Johannes Eck.

The British economist Walter Bagehot replied at the time that there would probably be two competing world currencies, which he termed Latin and Teutonic. By Teutonic, Bagehot seemed to mean the Protestant world the United States, recovering from the Civil War, Germany, and Britain.

The modern tendency to regard economic differences in terms of religion was stimulated by Max Weber s reflections on the Protestant work ethic. But that interpretation is clearly unsatisfactory, and cannot account for the dynamism of the deeply Catholic world of Renaissance Italy and Flanders.

Governments have always worried about the flow and control of information, and our age is hardly the first to be strongly affected by dramatic changes in information technology. Gutenberg s printing press was important to the origins of the Protestant Reformation and the ensuing wars in Europe.

Consider Ireland, where for many years Catholics objected that if a vote were held within Northern Ireland, the two thirds Protestant majority would rule. Protestants replied that if a vote were held within the geographical area of the entire island, the two thirds Catholic majority would rule.

Gaelic is spoken by only about 80,000 of Scotland s 5.1 million inhabitants. Nor does religion play a discernible role while Roman Catholics used to fear independence as being liable to result in Protestant hegemony, today Catholics and Protestants are roughly equal in their support of Scotland s institutions.

Pope Benedict, being from Germany, a predominantly Protestant country, does not carry the weight of this bitter history. Perhaps this is one reason why Alexi responded positively to Benedict s first speech urging reconciliation, saying that he hopes that this will improve Orthodox Catholic relations on the post Soviet territory.

It was as natural for an Elizabethan Protestant to see the cause of his mental discomfort in a government overrun by Catholic sympathizers as it is for someone with a Muslim connection in the US today to see this cause in America as the embodiment of Western offenses against the faith.

And, as I have argued elsewhere, governments have long been penny wise and pound foolish to provide large denomination notes, given that a large share are used in the underground economy and to finance illegal activities. Moving to a twenty first century currency system would make it far simpler to move to a twenty first century central banking regime as well.

Given this, the Chinese government would have to implement decisive measures to encourage international traders and creditors to price their transactions in renminbi. Specifically, China would have to use its market power to promote pricing in renminbi for relevant manufactured exports and raw material imports, and encourage renminbi denomination of foreign financial assets that China purchases (which the country s status as a net creditor should facilitate).

He described his first house call in the 1960s, when he and a senior colleague visited a jovial protestant minister who had no idea that he only had weeks to live, owing to aggressive colon cancer. The senior doctor suggested giving the patient large doses of painkillers, which they would tell the patient were antibiotics to treat an infection.

ISTANBUL When European Central Bank President Mario Draghi announced in late July that the ECB would do whatever it takes to prevent so called re denomination risk (the threat that some countries might be forced to give up the euro and reintroduce their own currencies), Spanish and Italian sovereign bond yields fell immediately. Then, in early September, the ECB s Council of Governors endorsed Draghi s vow, further calming markets.

Compare, for example, the discipline that international banks and the IMF were able to impose on Indonesia and South Korea in 1998, with the relative freedom of the US bestowed by denomination of American debt in dollars to increase government spending in response to the 2008 financial crisis. Indeed, rather than weakening, the dollar has appreciated as investors regard the underlying strength of the US as a safe haven.

With that sentence, Draghi eliminated the perceived re denomination tail risk that was highest in the case of Greece, but that was driving up borrowing costs in Spain, Italy, and Portugal as well. It was not a populist message, because the ECB does indeed have the firepower to buy enough sovereign bonds on the secondary market to put a ceiling on interest rates, at least for many months.

French President François Hollande is constantly flirting with the idea of building a new Latin bloc, in which Spain and Italy would join France in the struggle against fiscal austerity. In this vision, Latin superiority consists in a more expansive view of the state s capacity to secure incomes and create wealth, and less of the Protestant obsession with the individual s work.

Meanwhile, surveys have repeatedly shown that most Filipinos favor making contraceptives available, which is not surprising, given that the Church approved birth control methods mentioned by Francis are demonstrably less reliable than modern alternatives. It is hard to believe that if the Philippines had been colonized by, say, Protestant Britain rather than Catholic Spain, the use of contraception would be an issue there today.

Long before the arrival of Muslim guest workers in the 1960 s and 1970 s Dutch society was in a sense multicultural in that it was already organised into Protestant, Catholic, liberal and socialist pillars, each with its own schools, hospitals, TV stations, papers and political parties. When guest workers from Morocco and Turkey became de facto immigrants, some began to champion the creation of an additional Muslim pillar.

By Teutonic, Bagehot seemed to mean the Protestant world the United States, recovering from the Civil War, Germany, and Britain. He had no doubt about which vision would win out Yearly one nation after another would drop into the union which best suited it and looking to the commercial activity of the Teutonic races, and the comparative torpor of the Latin races, no doubt the Teutonic money would be most frequently preferred.