Information om | Engelska ordet DOUKHOBORS

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• English immigrants planted lakeside orchards, and Doukhobors from Russia, sponsored by Tolstoy and the Quakers, tilled the valley benchlands.
• The same term is used in the Mennonite community, sometimes spelled varenikie or wareniki; and vareniki among Canadian Doukhobors.
• On 29 June 1895, the Doukhobors, in what is known as the "Burning of the Arms", "piled up their swords, guns, and other weapons and burned them in large bonfires while they sang psalms".
• The period from 1878 to 1918 was marked in the province of Kars by the settlement by the Russian authorities of a very heterogeneous mix of Christian populations, including Armenians, Caucasus Greeks, Russians, Georgians, and even smaller numbers from other Christian communities hitherto with little or no historical links to the region, such as ethnic Germans, Poles, Estonians, Lithuanians, and Russian sectarian communities such as Molokans and Doukhobors.
• Of about 20,000 active Doukhobors in Canada today, ancestors of about 2,500 were Freedomites, and many descendants have joined the USCC Community Doukhobors.
• The Court upheld the Albertan provincial Communal Properties Act of 1955, which among other things, restricted the amount of land that could be owned by Hutterites and Doukhobors.
• Local Haligonians had found these Doukhobors quite special in their enlightenment and enjoyed the churek that the women baked in the cookhouse.
• Mass migration of Molokans (as well as Doukhobors, Khlysts, and Skoptsy) to the Caucasus took place in the 1830s, when Nicholas I focused efforts on resettlement, particularly to Armenia.
• Randi points to inconsistencies in Supreme Court rulings in regards to respect for religion; they refused to act against Christian Scientists for allowing members to die from curable diseases; they did act against the Rastafarians for allowing the smoking of marijuana and they did act against the Doukhobors for allowing members to have more than one spouse.
• During the reign of Nicholas II, Russian authorities encouraged the migration of various religious minorities, such as Molokans and Doukhobors, from Russia's heartland provinces into Transcaucasia, including Georgia.
• Many of the Doukhobors that remained in Elisabethpol Governorate (today's western Azerbaijan) joined other dissenting Christian groups, such as Molokans or Baptists.
• In Canada, the majority of the Conscientious Objectors came from the pacifist churches such as the Mennonites, Quakers, Doukhobors, Hutterites and Tunkers.
• The Doukhobors settled 20 versts from the village of Amginskoye on the Magon (Magan) tract near Yakutsk and formed two villages.

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