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• Franciscans

  [History]

  The Franciscans are a Catholic mendicant order, whose members live without property and preach while begging for their food. Francis of Assisi founded the order in 1209. Its official name is the Order of Friars Minor, and it emphasizes strict poverty and brotherhood.

• News&Joy

  [Institutions]

  News&Joy (Newsnjoy) is an internet newspaper covering Korean Protestantism, launched in August 2000. It presents itself as an "independent press" that monitors church power and is funded mainly by donations from individuals and churches.

• Silent Prayer

  [Doctrine & Theology]

  Silent prayer is prayer offered inwardly without speaking aloud, or prayer in which one ceases speaking and rests quietly before God. In Korean Protestant churches, it is also referred to as mukdo (wordless prayer) or meditative prayer.

• Pontus

  [Bible]

  Pontus was a region in northern Asia Minor along the southern coast of the Black Sea. In the New Testament it appears in the Pentecost narrative, as the birthplace of Aquila, and as one of the regions addressed in 1 Peter.

• James (Brother of Jesus)

  [People]

  James is recorded as a brother of Jesus and became the leader of the church in Jerusalem after Jesus' resurrection. Church tradition identifies him as the author of the Epistle of James.

• 2 Samuel 7:12–16

  [Bible Verses]

  The passage in which God, speaking through the prophet Nathan, promises David that He will establish the throne and kingdom of his offspring forever. It is the central text of the Davidic covenant, and the New Testament frequently cites it as a basis for confessing Jesus as the Messiah, the Son of David.

• Ezekiel 7

  [Bible]

  Ezekiel 7 is a prophecy of judgment proclaiming that "the end" has come upon the land of Israel. It declares that sword, pestilence, and famine will strike, that silver and gold will not save the people, and that even their leaders will be rendered powerless.

• Hosea 2

  [Bible]

  Hosea 2 rebukes Israel for following Baal, likening the nation to an unfaithful wife, and pronounces judgment on her. It then promises that God will lead her into the wilderness, take her again as his wife, and call her "my people."

• Hosea 8

  [Bible]

  Hosea 8 is a fourteen-verse prophecy that indicts the northern kingdom of Israel for setting up kings without God, worshiping the calf of Samaria, relying on Assyria, and offering merely formal sacrifices, and it pronounces judgment on the nation.

• Nahum 3

  [Bible]

  Nahum 3, the final chapter of the Book of Nahum, pronounces woe upon Nineveh, the Assyrian capital, calling it "the bloody city." Citing the fall of No-amon as an example, it prophesies that Nineveh too will fall.

• James 5

  [Bible]

  James 5 is the final chapter of the Epistle of James. It warns the rich and urges believers to be patient until the coming of the Lord. It then addresses the prohibition of oaths, prayer for the sick, and the restoration of a brother who has wandered from the truth.

• Revelation 7

  [Bible]

  Revelation 7 stands between the opening of the sixth and seventh seals. It contains two scenes: the sealing of God's servants on their foreheads (the 144,000 from the tribes of Israel), and a great multitude clothed in white, which no one can number, praising God before the throne.