They are mostly followers of the fundamentalist Party of God, often described in the press as the force behind the Islamic Holy War organization that claims to be holding the five Americans.
There was also speculation elsewhere that the abduction might have been linked to efforts by the Islamic Holy War organization to win the freedom of 17 convicted terrorists who are being held by Kuwait.
Administration officials said there were also suspicions that the attacks in East Africa may have been carried out by the Holy War organization in Egypt, an Islamic extremist group that warned earlier this week of reprisals against the United States over its purported involvement in the extradition to Egypt of three of its members who were arrested in Albania.
Many churches have somewhat different confessions of faith and/or catechisms that are based upon their own interpretation of the Christian creeds, Holy Ordinances, system of church organization, and other matters.
The Holy Alliance a loose organization of Europe's most repressive rulers formed in 1815 ostensibly to promote Christian principles in political affairs was as little to his taste as the Christianizing art of the new school of Nazarene painters, and he felt that the values he esteemed had been better served in other times and places.
One of the fundamentalist factions was Islamic Holy War, the shadowy organization that has taken responsibility for kidnapping several Americans in West Beirut in the last 18 months.
Finally in 1721 he gave the church a bureaucratic organization: a Holy Synod composed of several appointed hierarchs and a lay representative of the emperor; the latter, called the chief procurator, came to play the dominant role.
First of all, these findings clearly show that complete transparency in electronic communications is not the "Holy Grail" that every organization has been waiting for to promote efficiency and collaboration.
Holy Alliance, a loose organization of most of the European sovereigns, formed in Paris on Sept. 26, 1815, by Alexander I of Russia, Francis I of Austria, and Frederick William III of Prussia when they were negotiating the Second Peace of Paris after the final defeat of Napoleon.
His conversion included joining the Company of the Holy Sacrament, a secret organization that aspired to exert religious influence on worldly matters and was best known for its efforts to ban Tartuffe.
