the Samaritans

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• the Samaritans — (in the UK) an organization which counsels those in distress, mainly through a telephone service. → Samaritan …   English new terms dictionary

• Samaritans (charity) — Samaritans (until 2002 known as The Samaritans) is a registered charity aimed at providing emotional support to anyone in distress or at risk of suicide throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland. An international network exists under the name… …   Wikipedia

• Samaritans — The people settled by the Assyrians in the district of Samaria (according to 2 Kgs. 17:29) and who were alleged by Jews to practise a form of Hebrew worship contaminated by combination with their previous cult. However, the evidence is rather… …   Dictionary of the Bible

• Samaritans —    The name given to the new and mixed inhabitants whom Esarhaddon (B.C. 677), the king of Assyria, brought from Babylon and other places and settled in the cities of Samaria, instead of the original inhabitants whom Sargon (B.C. 721) had removed …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

• The Return to Zion — ( he. שיבת ציון, Shivat Tzion , or שבי ציון, Shavei Tzion , lit. Zion Returnees ) is a term that refers to the event in which the Jews returned to the Land of Israel from the Babylonian exile following the decree by the Persian King Cyrus, the… …   Wikipedia

• SAMARITANS —    the descendants of the Northern kingdom of ISRAEL who intermarried with local people thus gaining the scorn and enmity of ORTHODOX JEWS who retained their racial purity. They refused to recognize the TEMPLE in JERUSALEM as the center of… …   Concise dictionary of Religion

• The Bus Uncle — Chinese 巴士阿叔 Transcriptions Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin …   Wikipedia

• The John Bohlen Lectureship — The The John Bohlen Lectureship was a series of lectures on a subject relating to the Christian religion, delivered annually in the city of Philadelphia.History and EndowmentJohn Bohlen, who died in Philadelphia on 26th April 1874, bequeathed to… …   Wikipedia

• The Church —     The Church     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The Church     The term church (Anglo Saxon, cirice, circe; Modern German, Kirche; Sw., Kyrka) is the name employed in the Teutonic languages to render the Greek ekklesia (ecclesia), the term by which… …   Catholic encyclopedia

• The Befrienders — is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1972.The series dealt with the work of the Samaritans organisation, and the individual cases its staff came across. The leading cast members were Megs Jenkins and Michael Culver. The… …   Wikipedia

• SAMARITANS — This article is arranged according to the following outline: history samaritan origins samaritans in the time of nehemiah the samaritans in the second temple period samaritans in the graeco roman diaspora excavations on mt. gerizim late roman to… …   Encyclopedia of Judaism