Many had come to America to escape religious persecution — Puritans, Quakers and Catholics. They specified no established religion so that all people would have freedom of worship. That American ...

Although some Russian Orthodox priests have spoken out against “war liturgies,” they don’t all hold the same positions. Some ...

“One is Anne Hutchinson and one is Mary Dyer. But they’re both ministers, Puritan and Quakers,” Devine said. “I do not want to see them taken down because somebody refers to it as religious — because ...

Have you ever wondered how Protestant denominations acquired their names? I'll tell you anyway. As a little boy growing up in ...

this decades-researched account of Black History shows how its roots are sprinkled everywhere — even today — from Puritan New England to Quaker Pennsylvania. To learn more about the Civil ...

Also, Britain had turned from a Catholic to a Protestant nation and many Catholics, Puritans and Quakers left Britain fearing religious persecution and settled in the North American colonies.

None more so than the puritans of the late 1500s/early 1600s and ... that did not adhere to the tenets of the Church of England headed by the monarch. Quakers, Baptists and Methodists and others found ...

Puritan, Anglican, Ranter and Baptist and Quaker, were all ‘phanaticks’ in their own way. But in spite of the passion with which all sides regarded the struggle, it was, says Worden, relatively rare ...