SocialNet was soon acquired for a modest sum by a company called Spark Networks, which now owns the religious dating sites JDate and ChristianMingle.
Meanwhile, the top sites from the top five major niche dating categories made considerable gains, with the gay dating and religious dating categories growing the fastest.
Orthodox Christians in Serbia and several other countries celebrate Epiphany on January 19 – proudly sticking to the old calendar that puts every significant religious date two weeks after those followed by other Christians.
Orthodox Christians in Serbia and several other countries celebrate the Epiphany (the anniversary of Jesus's baptism) on January 19 proudly sticking to an old calendar that puts every significant religious date two weeks after those followed by other Christians.
The use of maps as vehicles for communicating and reinforcing religious ideas dates from medieval mappamundi of the 7th century AD.
From a more secular viewpoint, John Lewis Gaddis, a Yale historian, points out that much religious politics dates back to the 1970s, a time when more worldly "isms" seemed to fail.
Holy Island's importance as a religious centre dates from ad 635, when the ecclesiastic St. Aidan established a church and monastery there with the aim of converting the Northumbrians.
The "Ecstasy of St. Francis," perhaps his finest religious work, dates from about 1732, and some three years later he was commissioned to execute an "Assumption" for the elector of Cologne.
In my book "Women and Gender in Iraq," I show how the rise of conservative social and religious forces dates to the humanitarian crisis provoked by United Nations sanctions in the 1990s.
Coptic literature, body of writings, almost entirely religious, that dates from the 2nd century, when the Coptic language of Egypt, the last stage of ancient Egyptian, began to be used as a literary language, until its decline in the 7th and 8th centuries.
