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Christian feast day: Toyohiko Kagawa (Episcopal and Lutheran Church)

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Toyohiko Kagawa (Episcopal and Lutheran Church) from April 23, null

Toyohiko Kagawa

Japanese Christian social reformer

Toyohiko Kagawa was a Japanese Evangelical Christian pacifist, Christian reformer, and labour activist. Kagawa wrote, spoke, and worked at length on ways to employ Christian principles in the ordering of society and in cooperatives. His vocation to help the poor led him to live…
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The Calendar of the Church Year

Calendar of saints in the Episcopal Church

The Calendar of the Church Year is the liturgical calendar of the United States Episcopal Church. It is found in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and in Lesser Feasts and Fasts, with additions made at recent General Conventions.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Largest Lutheran denomination in the United States

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of December 31, 2024, it has approximately 2.68 million…
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