question: who was hope brady's mother on days of our lives

answers: Ciara Brady

answers: Addie Horton

title: Shawn-Douglas Brady

text: difficult time. Hope is let out of prison and Shawn returns to Belle in Hong Kong. Shawn and Belle return to Salem in December 2017 to support their daughter after the shooting of her boyfriend Theo Carver. Shawn-Douglas Brady Shawn-Douglas Brady is a fictional character on the television soap opera, "Days of Our Lives". He is the son of supercouple Bo Brady and Hope Williams and one half of the supercouple Shawn Brady and Belle Black. Jason Cook is most identifiable in the role, portraying the character from October 15, 1999, to September 22, 2006. Brandon Beemer was in the

title: Days of Our Lives characters (2010s)

text: and Ryan Quan on March 23, 2017. Days of Our Lives characters (2010s) A list of notable characters from the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives" that significantly impacted storylines and debuted between January 1, 2010, onward. Jane Smith is the warden of the Salem County Correctional Facility, the prison where Hope Brady serves time in 2010. She works with an inmate, Lee Michaels, to kill inmates during routine medical procedures in order to harvest their organs in an operation run by Stefano DiMera. Jane first appeared on September 21, 2010. Stacy Haiduk had been hired to portray the

title: Days of Our Lives characters (2000s)

text: a wedge between Bo and Hope – as well as the rest of the Brady family for most of 2006. In June 2016, he returns as an aged ghost (Scott Shilstone) to help his mother Hope. Bonnie Lockhart is the mother of Patrick, Mimi, and Connor Lockhart. The role was originated by Robin Riker, who played the role from July 11 to 31, 2000. Kathy Connell was the second actress who played the role from August 15, 2000 to June 7, 2002. Judi Evans, who previously played Adrienne Johnson Kiriakis took over the role and is the most notable actress

title: Bo Brady

text: terminal brain tumor and doesn't have long to live. In the location of their first kiss, Bo tells Hope of his condition. Bo and Hope passionately repeat their wedding vows to each other as Bo becomes extremely pale and weak. Hope told Bo that his niece Sami's son Will was murdered last month, which he was devastated, and then, Bo loses consciousness and dies in Hope's arms, while snow starts to fall on them. Bo Brady Bo Brady is a fictional character on the NBC soap opera, "Days of Our Lives", the youngest of the series' Brady family. Created under

title: Hope Williams Brady

title: Bo Brady and Hope Williams

text: Bo Brady and Hope Williams Beauregard "Bo" Brady and Hope Williams Brady are fictional characters and the signature supercouple on the American daytime drama "Days of Our Lives". Bo is portrayed by Peter Reckell and Hope is portrayed by Kristian Alfonso. On internet message boards, the couple is often referred by the portmanteau "Bope" (for Bo and Hope). Along with "General Hospital's" Luke and Laura Spencer, Bo and Hope are considered to be one of daytime's most iconic couples. Bo Brady and Hope Williams changed the face of daytime when rebel Bo came riding into town on his motorcycle in

title: Days of Our Lives characters (2000s)

text: Brady found comfort in one another, and Ciara is conceived, although it takes several months for Hope to learn she is pregnant. When she eventually learns that she is pregnant, a classic "Who's the daddy?" storyline begins. Hope had been to Morgan Island with Patrick Lockhart where, in a moment of weakness, she had found comfort in his arms. Tests were run and it was "determined" that Hope's unborn child was Patrick's. Unbeknownst to Hope and Bo, Patrick had paid the doctor to fix the test. Despite believing Patrick to be the father of her unborn child, Bo and Hope

title: Days of Our Lives characters (2000s)

text: father of J. T. Brady, who was switched at birth with Zack Brady, resulting in a complicated custody battle. Glen Reiber is the biological father of J.T. Brady, who was switched at birth with Zack Brady, resulting in a complicated custody battle. While watching TV in Chicago, Glen Reiber saw a sketch of a girl whose body had been found frozen in the ice, in the canal behind Bo and Hope Brady's house after their wedding New Year's Eve. He recognized it as Marlo, his former girlfriend, who had left town suddenly while pregnant. The couple went to Salem, identified

title: Days of Our Lives characters (2000s)

text: of the babies, Stefano has Dr. Rolf switch Hope's and Marlo's babies birth tags. So, the baby is instead taken home by Bo and Hope Brady and named John Thomas, getting his names from family friend John Black (Drake Hogestyn) and Hope's late grandfather Tom Horton (MacDonald Carey). Zack Brady was the second son and child of supercouple Hope and Bo Brady, born June 9, 2000. For the longest time, Zack is known as Isaac Theo Carver, the long-awaited and much-beloved son of Abe and Lexie Carver. For years the two had tried unsuccessfully to have a child of their

title: Days of Our Lives characters (2010s)

text: Days of Our Lives characters (2010s) A list of notable characters from the NBC soap opera "Days of Our Lives" that significantly impacted storylines and debuted between January 1, 2010, onward. Jane Smith is the warden of the Salem County Correctional Facility, the prison where Hope Brady serves time in 2010. She works with an inmate, Lee Michaels, to kill inmates during routine medical procedures in order to harvest their organs in an operation run by Stefano DiMera. Jane first appeared on September 21, 2010. Stacy Haiduk had been hired to portray the role but, wasn't able to fulfill the

title: Bo Brady and Hope Williams

text: and died in Hope's arms. It started snowing, making the vision from Caroline to be true. The romantic pairing of Bo Brady and Hope Williams was nominated for "Most Irresistible Combination" at the 32nd Daytime Emmy Awards. The pairing won the "America's Favorite Supercouple" award at the 2002 Emmy Awards. In 2005, SOAPnet celebrated "Days of our Lives" 40th anniversary by airing a marathon of Bo and Hope episodes. "Entertainment Weekly" calls them one of the greatest supercouples. In May 2009 Kristian Alfonso and Peter Reckell were invited to be international guests at the Australian Logie awards Kristian Alfonso and

title: Chelsea Brady

text: London. She reunites with Max and they get engaged. They decide to leave Salem and move to London. Chelsea Brady Chelsea Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera "Days of Our Lives". Created by head writer Sally Sussman Morina, the role was originally played by Mandy Musgrave. The role was recast with Rachel Melvin in 2005. Melvin portrayed the character from 2005 to 2009, after the character moves to London to take care of her mother, Billie Reed. She is the child of Bo Brady and Billie Reed. Chelsea is born by the name of Georgia Reed

title: Sami Brady

text: Sami Brady Sami Brady (also called by her married names of Reed, Walker, Roberts, Hernandez, and DiMera) is a fictional character from the American NBC daytime soap opera, "Days of Our Lives", portrayed by Alison Sweeney since 1993. The character was born on-screen during the episode of October 16, 1984, along with her twin brother Eric Brady. Initially played by a series of child actresses, Sweeney took over the role of Sami when the character was rapidly-aged from a pre-teen to a teenager, in January 1993, under the pen of headwriters Sheri Anderson and James E. Reilly. Sami is known

title: Bo Brady

text: Bo Brady Bo Brady is a fictional character on the NBC soap opera, "Days of Our Lives", the youngest of the series' Brady family. Created under head-writer Margaret DePriest, the role was originated by Peter Reckell on May 3, 1983. Reckell left the show alongside Kristian Alfonso who played Bo's wife Hope Williams Brady on April 20, 1987. Reckell returned from April 19, 1990, to January 17, 1992, when Robert Kelker-Kelly stepped into the role from March 13, 1992, to July 24, 1995. Reckell returned to portray Bo on August 1, 1995. In June 2012, after much speculation, it was

title: Days of Our Lives characters (2000s)

text: before living with Hope, Doug and Julie after her mother and father separate for a short while. Ciara's parents have since reunited and separated again. She has two older brothers, Shawn-Douglas and Zack Brady (deceased) and one older paternal half-sister, Chelsea Brady. Allie Horton is the daughter of Sami Brady and Lucas Horton. She and her twin, Johnny DiMera, are born October 23, 2007, at her grandmother Marlena's house, where they are delivered by Marlena. Allie goes for several weeks without a name until the Thanksgiving Day wedding of Shawn and Belle, where Lucas announces her name as Alice Caroline

title: Chelsea Brady

text: Chelsea Brady Chelsea Brady is a fictional character on the NBC Soap Opera "Days of Our Lives". Created by head writer Sally Sussman Morina, the role was originally played by Mandy Musgrave. The role was recast with Rachel Melvin in 2005. Melvin portrayed the character from 2005 to 2009, after the character moves to London to take care of her mother, Billie Reed. She is the child of Bo Brady and Billie Reed. Chelsea is born by the name of Georgia Reed Brady. "Georgia" is presumed dead, and buried in a bayou in Louisiana. In 2005 after Chelsea Benson's parents

title: Kimberly Brady

text: love for Kimberly and the child, they planned.to marry even though they believed Victor was Andrew's father. The news infuriated Emma, who tricked Kimberly into signing adoption papers. Kimberly Brady Kimberly Brady is a fictional character on the television soap opera "Days of Our Lives". The role was originated by actress Patsy Pease, and of four actresses to portray Kimberly, Pease is the one to have spent the most time in the role. After her initial run from 1984 to 1990 and from 1991 to 1992, she continues to return to "Days of Our Lives", as recently as 2016. Anne

title: Sami Brady

text: Series (in the 42nd Daytime Emmy Awards) for her portrayal of Sami. Sami Brady Sami Brady (also called by her married names of Reed, Walker, Roberts, Hernandez, and DiMera) is a fictional character from the American NBC daytime soap opera, "Days of Our Lives", portrayed by Alison Sweeney since 1993. The character was born on-screen during the episode of October 16, 1984, along with her twin brother Eric Brady. Initially played by a series of child actresses, Sweeney took over the role of Sami when the character was rapidly-aged from a pre-teen to a teenager, in January 1993, under the

title: Bo Brady and Hope Williams

text: Peter Reckell are the face of Avon's Blue Rush perfume advertising campaign. Bo Brady and Hope Williams Beauregard "Bo" Brady and Hope Williams Brady are fictional characters and the signature supercouple on the American daytime drama "Days of Our Lives". Bo is portrayed by Peter Reckell and Hope is portrayed by Kristian Alfonso. On internet message boards, the couple is often referred by the portmanteau "Bope" (for Bo and Hope). Along with "General Hospital's" Luke and Laura Spencer, Bo and Hope are considered to be one of daytime's most iconic couples. Bo Brady and Hope Williams changed the face of

title: Days of Our Lives characters (2010s)

text: Kristen. Brady and Theresa are reunited with Christopher and Kristen is presumed deceased. The baby boy is returned to his parents thanks to Melanie and taken home to Salem. He undergoes a successful bone marrow transplant, with his mother as the donor. Later, his parents rename him Tate Donovan Black. Lani Price, portrayed by actress Sal Stowers, known to daytime audiences for portrayal of Cassandra Foster on the short lived online reboot of "All My Children", was introduced as a new police cadet at the Salem Police department and later reveals herself to be the illegitimate daughter of Mayor Abe

title: Shawn-Douglas Brady

text: Shawn-Douglas Brady Shawn-Douglas Brady is a fictional character on the television soap opera, "Days of Our Lives". He is the son of supercouple Bo Brady and Hope Williams and one half of the supercouple Shawn Brady and Belle Black. Jason Cook is most identifiable in the role, portraying the character from October 15, 1999, to September 22, 2006. Brandon Beemer was in the role from September 28, 2006, to March 21, 2008. In May 2015, "Soap Opera Digest" reported the character will be returning for the show's 50th anniversary, once again portrayed by Cook. On November 10, 2015, it was

title: Doug Williams (Days of Our Lives)

text: returned again in the spring of 2015 with Julie to visit Hope. Both Doug and Julie were highly involved with the show's 50th anniversary and were around to help Hope deal with the sudden death of Bo Brady from cancer. Doug Williams (Days of Our Lives) Doug Williams is a fictional character on the American soap opera "Days of Our Lives". He has been portrayed by Bill Hayes since 1970. Since 1999, Hayes has continued to make recurring appearances as Doug, notably airing during the holiday seasons. Born Brent Douglas, he later changed his name to Doug Williams. He is

title: Brady Black

text: Brady Black Brady Black is a character on the NBC Daytime soap opera "Days of Our Lives". Formerly portrayed by Kyle Lowder, the role of Brady has been portrayed by Eric Martsolf since 2008. Martsolf won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2014 for his role as Brady. Brady is the son of John Black and Isabella Toscano, and the grandson of crime boss Victor Kiriakis. The character was initially played by Alex, Max, and Dash Lucero from May 1992 to September 1994, and subsequently by Eric and Brandon Billings from October 1994

title: Days of Our Lives characters (2000s)

text: by Daphne Bloomer from 2002 to 2006, worked at Salem University Hospital as a lab tech, but she lost her job and her pension after Sami blackmailed her into looking the other way while Sami switched the results of a paternity test. She later conspired with Kate against Sami and also worked as Lucas' personal assistant at Titan. She briefly dated Lucas. Rex Brady was portrayed by actor Eric Winter. Rex first appeared on July 8, 2002, and left town on July 26, 2005. He is the son of Roman Brady and Kate Roberts and twin brother to Cassie Brady.

title: Victor Kiriakis

text: Stefano DiMera by his daughter-in-law, Hope Brady. Victor Kiriakis Victor Kiriakis is a fictional character on NBC's "Days of Our Lives". The role has been portrayed by John Aniston since 1985. His time on the show has been since 1985 with a brief storyline driven absence in 2004 when his character was "killed off" but found alive on the island of Melaswen. Victor came to Salem in 1985 as an old friend of the Brady clan. As time went on, it was revealed that he was not only a former paramour of Brady matriarch Caroline, and the biological father of

title: Anna DiMera

text: Anna DiMera Anna Brady DiMera is a fictional character on the NBC daytime drama "Days of Our Lives". She is the ex-wife of Roman Brady, and the biological mother of Carrie Brady. Created by head writers Margaret DePriest and Sheri Anderson, Anna is portrayed by Leann Hunley. Anna is known for being a member of the powerful, upper class, DiMera family. She was married to Count Antony DiMera until his death in 2009. Hunley initially portrayed Anna from 1982–86. After a twenty-one year absence, Hunley reprised the role of Anna beginning on June 20, 2007, and remained on contract with

title: Gina Von Amberg

text: recover for him. Gina Von Amberg Princess Gina Von Amberg is a fictional character on the American soap opera "Days of Our Lives". The role was portrayed from 1998 to 2001 by Kristian Alfonso, who also plays Hope Williams Brady on the series. Alfonso reprised the character of Gina on March 29, 2012 as part of a retconned storyline on the series, once again portraying the character until early-April 2012. Alfonso yet again reprised the character of Gina in a one-off reappearance during the show's Halloween special dream-sequence episode on October 31, 2017. Alfonso reprised the role once more during

title: Carrie Brady

text: Carrie Brady Carrie Brady is a fictional character from the NBC soap opera, "Days of Our Lives", a long-running serial set in the fictional town of Salem. Created by head writer Margaret DePriest, the role of Carrie has been most notably portrayed by Christie Clark, who took over the role in 1986 as a teenager. Clark remained with the series off-and-on until leaving in October 2006, however, returned again as a series regular in September 2011 as part of a reboot of the series. Her return was short lived as she left the show the following July. On September 15,

title: Days of Our Lives characters (1990s)

text: deranged son Ben (Robert Scott Wilson) of the crime. On Oct. 24, 2017, after claiming to have revived the corpse of Will Horton while posing as a medical examiner in Salem, Rolf ingested a cyanide capsule and committed suicide as Sami Brady and Hope Brady looked on. On October 31, 2017 Rolf once again returned from the dead in a dream sequence, revived by Ben to bring his victims back to life. The pair later strangle Kayla Brady to death. Rolf dug up the graves of Serena Mason and Paige Larson, the two killing Chad, Abby and Lani respectively. Confronted

title: Shane Donovan and Kimberly Brady

text: autoimmune disease and requires a bone marrow transplant from his biological mother, Theresa. Shane Donovan and Kimberly Brady Shane Donovan and Kimberly Brady Donovan are fictional characters and a supercouple from the American soap opera "Days of Our Lives". Shane was portrayed by Charles Shaughnessy. Kimberly has been primarily portrayed by Patsy Pease (1984–90, 1991–92, 1994, 1996, 1997–98, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016). Anne Marie Howard took over the role from Pease in 1990, until Pease returned in 1991. Actress Arianna Chase portrayed Kimberly from 1992–1993. Kimberly Brady arrived in Salem in 1984. Kimberly met Shane

title: Hope Williams Brady

long_answer: Hope Alice Williams, the mother of Shawn-Douglas, Zack and Ciara Brady, was born on-screen on January 10, 1974 to Doug Williams and Addie Horton. Not long after Addie marries Doug and becomes pregnant, she discovers she is suffering from leukemia, but declines treatment in order to save her unborn baby. On December 24, 1974, while crossing the street, an oncoming car careens towards Hope and Addie, but Addie pushes Hope's baby-carriage out of the way, just in time to save her baby daughter, but not herself. Addie dies, and Hope is taken in by her maternal grandparents, Tom and Alice Horton, until Doug is strong enough to take care of her. Addie, who was wealthy from her first marriage to Ben Olson, leaves Doug and Hope with financial security. Hope is sent off to boarding school in 1982 and is not seen again until a year later. She returns in the spring of 1983 when Roman Brady rescues her after she runs away from boarding school and later falls from a car driven by a drunk friend. She later develops a crush on Roman. Hope eventually becomes a cop. Hope takes her job as a cop seriously.

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Addie Horton
Ciara Brady


question: what is the title of the person who runs the house of representatives

answers: the Speaker of the House

answers: Speaker of the House

title: House of Representatives

text: Indonesian People's Representative Council ("Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat", DPR) is generally known in English as the "House of Representatives", as is the "Dewan Rakyat" of the Parliament of Malaysia and the Dáil Éireann of the Irish Oireachtas parliament. In the 2012 draft for a new Constitution of Egypt, the People's Assembly is called "House of Representatives". "The House of Representatives" currently is the name of a house of the legislature in the following countries: In the following countries it is the sole chamber in a unicameral system: "House of Representatives" is the title of most, but not all, of the lower

title: Speaker of the House of Representatives (Netherlands)

text: a backrest that is higher than the other seats in the House. The Speaker is elected by the Members of the House. Such an election takes place shortly after a general election or after the position became vacant. The House adopts a profile that outlines the desired qualities that potential candidates should have, such as prior experience and personal traits. The profile is not binding, however. Members can submit their candidacy, but this is not required. The election itself requires the participation of at least 76 Members. To win the election, a Member needs to obtain an absolute majority of

title: House of Representatives (Netherlands)

text: individual may be a member of both parliament and cabinet, except in a caretaker cabinet that has not yet been succeeded when a new House is sworn in. The House of Representatives is also responsible for the first round of selection for judges to the Supreme Court of the Netherlands. It submits a list of three names for every vacant position to the Government. Furthermore, it elects the Dutch Ombudsman and their subsidiaries. The normal term of the House of Representatives is four years. Elections are called when the government loses parliament's confidence, the governing coalition breaks down, the term

title: Parliament of Grenada

text: of any bill dealing with taxation or expenditure. The Governor General personifies the State. In law, she is the head of the Executive and an integral part of the legislature. In practice, she exercises all these powers on the advice of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet. The House of Representatives has 16 members: 15 elected for a five-year term in single-seat constituencies, and a speaker. The elections are by the first-past-the-post system. The New National Party currently holds every seat in the House of Representatives. The House of Representatives is the focal point of parliamentary activity and public attention,

title: United States House of Representatives

text: The presiding officer is the Speaker of the House, who is elected by the members thereof and is therefore traditionally the leader of the controlling party.  He or she and other floor leaders are chosen by the Democratic Caucus or the Republican Conference, depending on whichever party has more voting members. The House meets in the south wing of the United States Capitol.

title: Australian House of Representatives

text: of Representatives are often held in conjunction with those for the Senate. A member of the House may be referred to as a "Member of Parliament" ("MP" or "Member"), while a member of the Senate is usually referred to as a "Senator". The government of the day and by extension the Prime Minister must achieve and maintain the confidence of this House in order to gain and remain in power. The House of Representatives currently consists of 150 members, elected by and representing single member districts known as electoral divisions (commonly referred to as "electorates" or "seats"). The number of

title: House of Representatives (Nigeria)

text: House of Representatives (Nigeria) The House of Representatives is the lower house of Nigeria's bicameral National Assembly. The Senate is the upper house. The current House of Representatives, formed following elections held in April 2015, has a total of 360 members who are elected in single-member constituencies using the simple majority (or first-past-the-post) system. Members serve four-year terms. The Speaker of the Nigerian House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the house. A group of 37 House members of Nigeria’s ruling party, the All Progressives Congress have defected to opposition parties underscoring rising political tensions due to the upcoming

title: Australian House of Representatives

text: house is invited by the Governor-General to form the Government. In practice that means that the leader of the party (or coalition of parties) with a majority of members in the House becomes the Prime Minister, who then can nominate other elected members of the government party in both the House and the Senate to become ministers responsible for various portfolios and administer government departments. Bills appropriating money (supply bills) can only be introduced in the lower house and thus only the party with a majority in the lower house can govern. In the current Australian party system, this ensures

title: House of Representatives

text: House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often called a "Senate". In some countries, the House of Representatives is the sole chamber of a unicameral legislature. The functioning of a house of representatives can vary greatly from country to country, and depends on whether a country has a parliamentary or a presidential system. Members of a House of Representatives are typically apportioned according to population rather than geography. The

title: House of Representatives

text: It was replaced by the National Assembly according to the 1997 Constitution of The Gambia. House of Representatives House of Representatives is the name of legislative bodies in many countries and sub-national entitles. In many countries, the House of Representatives is the lower house of a bicameral legislature, with the corresponding upper house often called a "Senate". In some countries, the House of Representatives is the sole chamber of a unicameral legislature. The functioning of a house of representatives can vary greatly from country to country, and depends on whether a country has a parliamentary or a presidential system. Members

title: New Zealand House of Representatives

text: New Zealand House of Representatives The New Zealand House of Representatives is a component of the New Zealand Parliament, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor-General). The House passes all laws, provides ministers to form a Cabinet, and supervises the work of the Government. It is also responsible for adopting the state's budgets and approving the state's accounts. The House of Representatives is a democratically elected body whose members are known as members of Parliament (MPs). There are usually 120 members, though this number can be higher if there is an overhang. MPs are elected usually every three years

title: Government of Australia

text: the next such election. The members of the House of Representatives are elected by majority-preferential voting using the non-proportional Instant-runoff voting system from single-member constituencies allocated among the states and territories. In ordinary legislation, the two chambers have co-ordinate powers, but all proposals for appropriating revenue or imposing taxes must be introduced in the House of Representatives. Under the prevailing Westminster system, the leader of the political party or coalition of parties that holds the support of a majority of the members in the House of Representatives is invited to form a government and is named Prime Minister. The Prime

title: Speaker of the Australian House of Representatives

text: of Representatives. He or she does not take part in debates in the House, does not vote in the House except in the (rare) event of a tied vote, and does not speak in public on party-political issues (except at election time in his or her own constituency). He or she is expected to conduct the business of the House in an impartial manner, and generally does so. There have been several memorable clashes between Speakers and the governments that caused them to be elected: In addition, a notable occurrence in 2011, a Speaker survived being countermanded by the House.

text: Father of the Australian House of Representatives In Australian parliamentary practice, the Father of the House of Representatives is the member of the Australian House of Representatives who has served longer, continuously, than any other currently serving member. It is an informal, honorific title which carries no parliamentary responsibilities. Where two or more members have had equal lengths of continuous service, more than any other currently serving members, they are known as the joint Fathers of the House of Representatives. The current Father of the House is Kevin Andrews, who acquired the title on 10 May 2016 after the retirement

title: Parliament of Australia

text: is convention in the Westminster System, the party or coalition of parties that has the majority in this House forms the Government with the leader of that party or coalition becoming the Prime Minister. If the government loses the confidence of the House, they are expected to call a new election or resign. Parliament may determine the number of members of the House of Representatives but the Constitution provides that this number must be "as nearly as practicable, twice the number of Senators"; this requirement is commonly called the "nexus provision". Hence, the House presently consists of 150 members. Each

title: New Zealand House of Representatives

text: news agencies which are accredited members of the New Zealand House of Representatives press gallery. New Zealand House of Representatives The New Zealand House of Representatives is a component of the New Zealand Parliament, along with the Sovereign (represented by the Governor-General). The House passes all laws, provides ministers to form a Cabinet, and supervises the work of the Government. It is also responsible for adopting the state's budgets and approving the state's accounts. The House of Representatives is a democratically elected body whose members are known as members of Parliament (MPs). There are usually 120 members, though this number

text: He presides over the session; decides on all questions of order, subject to appeal by any member; signs all acts, resolutions, memorials, writs, warrants and subpoenas issued by or upon order of the House; appoints, suspends, dismisses or disciplines House personnel; and exercise administrative functions. The speaker is elected by majority of all the members of the house, including vacant seats. The speaker is traditionally elected at the convening of each Congress. Before a speaker is elected, the House's sergeant-at-arms sits as the "Presiding Officer" until a speaker is elected. Compared to the Senate President, the unseating of an incumbent

text: of about 250,000 people. There are also party-list representatives elected through the party-list system who constitute not more than twenty percent of the total number of representatives. Aside from needing its agreement to every bill in order to be sent for the President's signature to become law, the House of Representatives has power to impeach certain officials and all money bills must originate from the lower house. The House of Representatives is headed by the Speaker, currently Gloria Macapagal Arroyo of Pampanga. The official headquarters of the House of Representatives is at the "Batasang Pambansa" (literally, "national legislature") located in

title: House of Representatives (Nepal)

text: vacant in the following circumstances: House of Representatives (Nepal) The House of Representatives (; "Pratinidhi Sabha") is the lower house of the bicameral Federal parliament of Nepal, with the Upper house being the National Assembly. Members of the House of Representatives are elected through a parallel voting system. They hold their seats for five years or until the body is dissolved by the President on the advice of the council of ministers. The house meets in the International Convention Centre in Kathmandu. The House has 275 members; 165 elected from single-member constituencies by first-past-the-post voting and 110 elected through proportional

title: House of Representatives (Egypt)

text: Five of the Constitution. According to article 86 the House of Representatives shall undertake: In practice, the People's Assembly had very little power prior to the 2011 Egyptian revolution. It was dominated by the National Democratic Party, and there was little substantive opposition to executive decisions. The House of Representatives Speaker (HR Speaker) presides over the House and is elected from the House membership, along with two deputies during the first session of the season. The Speaker's role in session is to keep the peace and order to the parliamentary session, take part in discussion provided that he gives up

title: Lok Sabha

text: the People, b) he/she resigns, or c) is removed from office by a resolution of the House passed by a majority. The Speaker of Lok Sabha is both a member of the House and its Presiding Officer. The Speaker conducts the business in the House. He/she decides whether a bill is a money bill or not. He/she maintains discipline and decorum in the house and can punish a member for their unruly behaviour by suspending them. He/she permits the moving of various kinds of motions and resolutions like the motion of no confidence, motion of adjournment, motion of censure and

title: House of Representatives (Thailand)

text: exercise their powers on a non-partisan basis. The Constitution stipulated that the Prime Minister and the Ministers had to be former members of the House of Representatives. After the first session, the House had to vote in a resolution to elect a Prime Minister, after which the King would formally approve him within thirty days. The Prime Minister-elect was always the leader of the largest party in the House. However, under the electoral system, the House resulted in a hung parliament. After the 2007 election, six parties formed a governing coalition, electing Samak Sundaravej of the largest party, People's Power

title: New Zealand House of Representatives

text: it can dissolve the government if a vote of no confidence is passed. The current government is a minority coalition government consisting of the Labour Party and New Zealand First, with confidence and supply from the Green Party. These parties collectively have 63 members in the House (52.5% of seats), thus Labour leader Jacinda Ardern commands the support of the House. The House of Representatives normally consists of 120 members, who bear the title "Member of Parliament" (MP). They were previously known as "Members of the House of Representatives" (MHRs) until the passing of the Parliamentary and Executive Titles Act

title: House of Representatives (Japan)

text: as on September 28, 2017. The House of Representatives has several powers not given to the House of Councillors. If a bill is passed by the lower house (the House of Representatives) but is voted down by the upper house (the House of Councillors) the House of Representatives can override the decision of the House of Councillors by a two-thirds vote in the affirmative. However, in the case of treaties, the budget, and the selection of the prime minister, the House of Councillors can only delay passage, but not block the legislation. As a result, the House of Representatives is

title: October 2015 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election

text: House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives, and is second in the United States presidential line of succession, after the Vice President and ahead of the President pro tempore of the United States Senate. Though the Constitution does not require that the Speaker be an elected member of the House of Representatives, every Speaker to date has been elected from House membership. The 435 members of the House of Representatives elect a Speaker by majority rule at the beginning of each session of the United States Congress, who serves until the end of

title: House of Representatives (Netherlands)

text: commands a majority in the chamber. Since 2012, the House of Representatives appoints a "scout" to ask the major party leaders about prospective coalitions. On the basis of the scout's interviews, the House of Representatives then appoints an informateur, who checks out possible coalitions, and formateur, who leads negotiations (in previous years the informateur and formateur were appointed by the monarch). It typically takes a few months before the formateur is ready to accept a royal invitation to form a government and become prime minister. All cabinet members must resign from parliament, as the constitution does not allow a cabinet

title: Australian House of Representatives

text: Australian House of Representatives The House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Parliament of Australia, the upper house being the Senate. Its composition and powers are established in Chapter I of the Constitution of Australia. The term of members of the House of Representatives is a maximum of three years from the date of the first sitting of the House, but on only one occasion since Federation has the maximum term been reached. The House is almost always dissolved earlier, usually alone but sometimes in a double dissolution of both Houses. Elections for members of the House

title: Speaker of the House of Representatives of the Philippines

text: Macapagal Arroyo from Pampanga. She was elected to the office on July 23, 2018, and is the first woman and 21st person to serve as Speaker. When the Office of the Speaker is vacant (usually at the beginning of a new Congress), the Secretary-General of the House sits as the Speaker until a person is elected. A Speaker is usually elected via majority vote via roll call of the Representatives, after nomination at the start of each new Congress. Usually, despite the current multi-party system used, only two representatives are nominated, with nominations being agreed upon before each Congress during

title: House of Representatives (Nepal)

text: for political parties, considering the whole country as a single election constituency. The House of Representatives, unless dissolved, continues to operate for five years from the date appointed for its first meeting. However, in a state of emergency, the term of the House of Representatives may be extended, not exceeding one year in accordance with federal law. The current House of Representatives was elected in 2017 and its first meeting was held on 4 March 2018. The House of Representatives was first provisioned by the "Constitution of the Kingdom of Nepal 1990". It consisted of 205 members directly elected from

title: House of Representatives (Libya)

text: House of Representatives (Libya) The House of Representatives (HoR) (, ) is a legislature of Libya. As part of the ongoing Libyan Civil War, it represents the "Tobruk government" based in the east of the country. It took power on 4 August 2014, following an election on 25 June 2014, replacing the General National Congress. Turnout at the election was 18%, down from 60% in the first post-Gaddafi election of July 2012. Because of security concerns no voting took place in some locations. The current chairman is Aguila Saleh Issa. The current deputy presidents of the Council of Deputies are

title: United States House of Representatives

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question: who has been designed as the new finance secretary of india

answers: Hasmukh Adhia

title: Minister of Finance (India)

text: become the Prime Minister who are: Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, V. P. Singh and Manmohan Singh. Minister of Finance (India) The Minister of Finance (or simply, Finance Minister) is the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India. One of the senior-most offices in the Union Cabinet, the finance minister is responsible for the fiscal policy of the government. As part of this, a key duty of the Finance Minister is to present the annual Union Budget in Parliament, which details the government's plan for taxation and spending in the coming financial year. Through the Budget, the

title: S. Venkitaramanan

text: Government of Karnataka before his appointment as Governor of the RBI. Venkitaramanan has published three books, Indian Economy: Reviews And Commentaries - Vol I, Indian Economy: Reviews And Commentaries - Vol II, and Indian Economy: Reviews And Commentaries - Vol III. His daughter Girija Vaidyanathan — a 1981, Tamil Nadu cadre Indian Administrative Service officer — is the current Chief Secretary of Tamil Nadu. S. Venkitaramanan S Venkitaramanan was the eighteenth Governor of the Reserve Bank of India from 22 December 1990 to 22 December 1992. Venkitaramanan also served as Finance Secretary, Ministry of Finance from 1985 to 1989 Venkitaramanan

title: Minister of Finance (India)

text: the Minister of State for Finance and the lower-ranked Deputy Minister of Finance. The first Finance Minister of independent India was R. K. Shanmukham Chetty, who also presented its first Budget. The incumbent Arun Jaitley, of the Bharatiya Janata Party, has held office since 26 May 2014. , Morarji Desai has presented 10 budgets which is the highest followed by P Chidambaram's 9 and Pranab Mukherjee's 8. Yashwant Sinha, Yashwantrao Chavan and C.D. Deshmukh have presented 7 budgets each while Manmohan Singh and T.T. Krishnamachari have presented 6 budgets. As of February 2018, four Finance Ministers have gone on to

title: Hasmukh Adhia

text: Adhia retired from IAS and simultaneously demitted the offices of Finance Secretary and Revenue Secretary on 30November 2018; he was succeeded as Revenue Secretary by Unique Identification Authority of India's chief executive officer Ajay Bhushan Pandey, and as Finance Secretary by Expenditure Secretary Ajay Narayan Jha, as the senior-most secretary in the Ministry of Finance. Ahead of his retirement, Adhia was praised by Minister of Finance Arun Jaitley, who called him "highly competent, disciplined, no-nonsense civil servant [...] with impeccable integrity," and said that Adhia refused important post-retirement assignment from the government and instead intended to focus on spirituality and

title: Finance Secretary

text: Hasmukh Adhia is the present finance secretary of India.

title: Debi Prasad Pal

text: was selected by the Congress (I) for the Calcutta North-West parliamentary constituency. He beat his political and legal guru Ashoke Kumar Sen by a huge margin. He was chosen to be the Union Minister of State for Finance by the then Prime Minister of India P. V. Narasimha Rao. He worked with Finance Minister Manmohan Singh, the former Prime Minister of India. He was also elected for the Lok Sabha in the years 1991 and 1996. He briefly joined Trinamool Congress after getting an invitation from its leader Mamata Banerjee but eventually came back to the Congress. He was the

title: Navin Kumar

text: cleared Kumar’s name to head Special Purpose Vehicle to handle the Goods and Services Tax Network. In March 2013, Kumar was selected as Chairman of Goods and Services Tax Network by a selection committee. The selection committee, headed by Finance Minister P Chidambaram, chose Kumar from a list of six people, including three more Indian Administrative Services officers and two Indian Revenue Service officers. Along with Finance Minister, the committee consisted of Unique Identification Authority Chairman Nandan Nilekani and Empowered Committee of State Finance Ministers Chairman Sushil Modi. Goods and Services Tax Network (GSTN) was set up as a Section

title: Minister of Finance (India)

text: Minister of Finance (India) The Minister of Finance (or simply, Finance Minister) is the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Government of India. One of the senior-most offices in the Union Cabinet, the finance minister is responsible for the fiscal policy of the government. As part of this, a key duty of the Finance Minister is to present the annual Union Budget in Parliament, which details the government's plan for taxation and spending in the coming financial year. Through the Budget, the finance minister also outlines the allocations to different ministries and departments. Occasionally, he is assisted by

title: Ajay Narayan Jha

text: the Union Expenditure Secretary by the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) in October 2017, succeeding Ashok Lavasa, he was made officer on special duty (OSD), in the rank of secretary, till Lavasa's retirement. Jha assumed the office of secretary on 31 October 2017. During his tenure as the Union Expenditure Secretary, Jha has been regarded as one of the most important people in the Ministry of Finance. Ajay Narayan Jha Ajay Narayan Jha (born 15 January 1959; IAST: ) is a 1982 batch Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officer of Manipur cadre. He currently is the Finance Secretary of India.

title: Vinod Rai

text: 1980. Later he was appointed as Principal Secretary (Finance) in the State Government of Kerala. He had served senior positions in the Ministries of Commerce and Defence, Government of India. Prior to his appointment as CAG, he served as Secretary, Financial Services and Additional Secretary in the Banking Division including banks and insurance companies under Ministry of Finance. Rai was instrumental in setting up the India Infrastructure Finance Company and was also on the Board of this company. Apart from serving in both, state and union governments, he has been a director on several Boards, including the State Bank of

title: Finance Secretary

text: Finance Secretary The Finance Secretary is the Permanent Secretary-level civil servant, who plays a leadership role in the bureaucracy of the Finance Ministry, Government of India. Ajay Narayan Jha is the present finance secretary of India. The Ministry of Finance is composed of five departments the Department of Economic Affairs, the Department of Revenue, the Department of Expenditure, the Department of Financial Services and Department of Investment and Public Asset Management (formerly known as Department of Disinvestment). Each of the departments is headed by a secretary. Each of the five secretaries directly reports to the finance minister. The "Finance Secretary"

title: Ajay Bhushan Pandey

text: executive officer (CEO) of the Unique Identification Authority of India by the prime minister-headed Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) in May 2016, he assumed office on 31 May 2016. In June 2017, after Pandey's promotion, the status of CEO of UIDAI was upgraded to be equivalent to a secretary to the Government of India from additional secretary to the Government of India. Pandey was given the additional charge of chairperson of the Goods and Services Tax Network by the ACC in September 2017. He assumed office on 10 September 2017. Ajay Bhushan Pandey Ajay Bhushan Pandey (born 2 February

title: N. K. Singh

text: 27 November 2017, Modi government appointed him as the chairman of Fifteenth Finance Commission of India. Former Economic Affairs Secretary Shaktikanta Das, Niti Aayog Member Ramesh Chand, Former Chief Economic Advisor Ashok Lahiri, and Georgetown University Professor Anoop Singh are the other members of the Commission. As per Article 280 of Indian Constitution, Finance Commission is required to make recommendations on the distribution of the net proceeds of taxes between the Centre and the states. 15th Finance Commission will make recommendations after reviewing several important aspects of federal fiscal finance including deficit, cash balances, debt levels, and fiscal discipline efforts

title: Shaktikanta Das

text: joint secretary in the Department of Expenditure of the Ministry of Finance in the Indian government. Das also had a stint with Mahindra Industrial Park Ltd (Mahindra World City), on deputation to a private sector company under Rule6(2)(ii) of the Indian Administrative Service (Cadre) Rules, 1954. Das was appointed Union Revenue Secretary by the prime minister-led-Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) in June2014, he assumed the office of Secretary on 16June2014, and demitted it on 31August2015. Das was appointed Union Economic Affairs Secretary by the ACC in August2015, he assumed the office of Secretary on 31August2015, and admitted it and

title: Yashwant Sinha

text: was appointed General Secretary of the party. He worked as Minister of Finance from November 1990 to June 1991 in Chandra Shekhar's Cabinet. He became the National Spokesperson of the Bharatiya Janata Party in June 1996. He was appointed finance minister in March 1998. He was appointed as Minister for External Affairs on 1 July 2002. In the Lok Sabha elections of 2004, he was defeated in Hazaribagh Constituency. He re-entered the Parliament in 2005. On 13 June 2009, he resigned from the post of vice-president of BJP. Sinha was the finance minister until 1 July 2002, when he exchanged

title: Ashok Lavasa

text: Finance after the retirement of Ratan Watal, Lavasa was designated as Finance Secretary in May 2016. Post-retirement, Lavasa was appointed as one of the two Election Commissioners of India in January 2018. Lavasa assumed charge as Election Commissioner on 23 January 2018. Ashok Lavasa Ashok Lavasa (IAST: ) (born 21 October 1957) is a retired 1980 batch Indian Administrative Service officer of Haryana cadre and is one of the two Election Commissioners of India. He has also served as the Finance Secretary of India, Environment, Forests and Climate Change Secretary of India and Civil Aviation Secretary of India. Ashok Lavasa

title: Duvvuri Subbarao

text: and 1993. Subsequently, he became the Finance Secretary to the Government of Andhra Pradesh between 1993 and 1998. On completion of his term, he was deputed as lead economist in the World Bank from 1999 to 2004. On completion of his term, he was appointed to the Prime Ministers’ Economic Advisory Council from 2005 to 2007 before he was elevated as the Finance Secretary in 2007. On 5 September 2008, he was appointed the twenty-second Governor of Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and Arun Ramanathan was appointed as Finance Secretary on 21 September 2008 in his vacancy. His term was

title: Pranab Mukherjee

text: to a survey of Euromoney magazine. Mukherjee returned to handling the finance of India during the premiership of Narasimha Rao. He was appointed the Deputy Chairman of the Planning Commission. Since the Prime Minister of India happens to be the ex-officio chairperson of Planning Commission of India, the position of the deputy chairperson has great significance. During Mukherjee's tenure 1991–96, Dr. Manmohan Singh as Finance Minister oversaw many economic reforms to end the Licence Raj system and help open the Indian economy. Mukherjee again became the Finance Minister of India in 2009. He presented the annual budgets in 2009, 2010

title: Arjun Ram Meghwal

text: as the Chairman of House Committee, Lok Sabha. Meghwal sworn in as Minister of State for Finance on 5 July 2016. He is doing remarkable work for successful implementation of Goods & Service Tax. Arjun Ram Meghwal Arjun Ram Meghwal (born 20 December 1954) is an Indian politician belonging to the Bharatiya Janata Party and former party Chief Whip in 16th Lok Sabha, Currently He is Union Minister of State in Ministry of Water Resources, River Development & Ganga Rejuvenation and Parliamentary Affairs in Government of India. He has been elected to the 15th and 16th Lok Sabhas (terms of

title: Pradeep Kumar Sinha

text: Ajit Seth. He served as an officer of special (OSD), in the rank of secretary, in the Cabinet Secretariat till Seth's retirement, formally taking charge as Cabinet Secretary on June 13, 2015. The union government constituted a selection committee headed by Cabinet Secretary P.K. Sinha for the shortlisting of candidates for Reserve Bank India governorship following the end of Raghuram Rajan's term in September 2016. Urjit Patel was appointed as Governor of RBI, with effect from 04 September 2016. On April 25, 2017, Sinha got an extension of one year as Cabinet Secretary. Sinha was granted another one year extension

title: Union budget of India

text: minister to present the Union budget on his birthday. Desai presented budgets that included five annual budgets and an interim budget during his first stint and three final budgets and one interim budget in his second tenure when he was both the Finance Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister of India. After Desai's resignation, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, took over the Ministry of Finance to become the only woman to hold the post of the Finance Minister. Pranab Mukherjee, the first Rajya Sabha member to hold the Finance portfolio, presented the annual budgets for the financial

title: Raghuram Rajan

text: Singh's request. On 10 August 2012 Rajan was appointed as [[Chief Economic Adviser to the Government of India|chief economic adviser]] to India's [[Ministry of Finance (India)|Ministry of Finance]], succeeding [[Kaushik Basu]] in the role. He prepared the [[Economic Survey of India]] for the year 2012–13. On 6 August 2013 it was announced that Rajan would take over as the [[Governor of the Reserve Bank of India|Governor]] of the [[Reserve Bank of India]] for a term of 3 years, succeeding [[Duvvuri Subbarao]]. On 5 September 2013 he took charge as the [[List of Governors of Reserve Bank of India|23rd governor]], at

title: Fifteenth Finance Commission

text: Fifteenth Finance Commission The FifteenthFinance Commission of India (XV-FC) is an Indian Finance Commission constituted in November2017 and is to give recommendations for devolution of taxes and other fiscal matters for fivefiscal years, commencing 1April2020. The commission's chairman is N. K. Singh, with its full-timemembers being Shaktikanta Das, Ashok Lahiri and Anoop Singh. In addition, the commission also has a part-timemember in Ramesh Chand. The FifteenthFinance Commission was constituted by the Government of India—after getting ceremonial approval from President of India—through a notification in "The Gazette of India" on 27November2017. Nand Kishore Singh was appointed as the commission's chairman, with

title: Amitabh Rajan

text: as the Additional Secretary in the Ministry of Personnel from 2010 to 2011. From 2006 to 2011, he served as the Principal Secretary and Investment Commissioner to the Government of Maharashtra, and was the Chairman and Managing Director of a National Finance and Development Corporation from 2001 to 2006. Prior to this, he has served the Government of India in various capacities, as the Secretary to the Maharashtra Electricity Regulatory Commission, the Director of Finance (Ministry of Social Justice), the Deputy Secretary (Home: Special), and District Magistrate for Jalgaon and Nanded districts in Maharashtra. He has represented India in various

title: Yashwant Sinha

text: at 5 pm local time, a practice held over from British Rule days that sought to present the Indian budget at a time convenient to the British Parliament (1130am GMT) rather than India's Parliament. Sinha has written a comprehensive account of his years as Finance Minister titled "Confessions of a Swadeshi Reformer". Yashwant Sinha has been accused by opponents, and by other political observers of trying to promote nepotism by nominating his son Jayant Sinha as a successor to contest from Hazaribagh overlooking the interests of many other loyal party workers, though he tried to justify the nomination of his

title: Hasmukh Adhia

text: Adhia was also a consultant to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization. Adhia was appointed as the Union Financial Services Secretary by the prime minister-headed Appointments Committee of the Cabinet (ACC) in November 2014, he assumed office on 3November, and demitted it on 31August 2015, when he was appointed the Union Revenue Secretary. Adhia was appointed as the Union Revenue Secretary by the ACC in August 2015, he assumed office on 1September 2016. In September 2017, after the retirement of Ashok Lavasa, Adhia was designated as the Finance Secretary, as he became the senior-most secretary in the Ministry of Finance.

title: Manmohan Singh

text: appointed Governor of the Reserve Bank of India under then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee and held the post until 1985. He went on to become the deputy chairman of the Planning Commission (India) from 1985 to 1987. Following his tenure at the Planning Commission, he was Secretary General of the South Commission, an independent economic policy think tank headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland from 1987 to November 1990. Singh returned to India from Geneva in November 1990 and held the post as the Advisor to Prime Minister of India on Economic Affairs during the tenure of V. P. Singh. In March

title: Rakesh Mohan

text: 2004 as Secretary, Department of Economic Affairs and Chief Economic Adviser to the Finance Minister of India till July 2005, before returning to RBI, where he remained till June 2009, when he took up an assignment at Stanford Centre for International Development at Stanford University, US, and subsequently joined McKinsey and Co's economic research wing. In 2010 back in India from his project, he worked with Nandan Nilekani, Shirish Patel, Keshub Mahindra, Deepak Parekh, to set up Indian Institute for Human Settlements, in Delhi. In April 2010, he joined the board of directors of Nestle India. In November 2012, he

title: Budget Day

text: in his second tenure when he was both the Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of India. After Desai's resignation, Indira Gandhi, the then Prime Minister of India, took over the Ministry of Finance to become the only woman to hold the post of the finance minister. Pranab Mukherjee, the first Rajya Sabha member to hold the Finance portfolio, presented the annual budgets for 1982–83, 1983–84 and 1984–85. Rajiv Gandhi presented the budget for 1987–89 after V P Singh quit his government, and in the process became only the third Prime Minister to present a budget after his mother and

title: Arvind Subramanian

text: 1999 to 2000. He has also taught at Johns Hopkins' School for Advanced International Studies from 2008 to 2010. In October 2014, he was appointed the Chief Economic Adviser (CEA) to Indian government. The post had been lying vacant since Raghuram Rajan left the finance ministry to join as governor of the Reserve Bank of India in September 2013. After his three-year term ended in 2017, he was given a year’s extension. On 20 June 2018, finance minister Arun Jaitley announced that owing to family commitments, Subramanian would be stepping down before the scheduled end of his tenure to return

title: Finance Secretary


question: who plays the first nfl game of the season

answers: the New England Patriots

answers: the Kansas City Chiefs

title: 2017 Houston Texans season

text: with one touchdown and an interception along with 2 rushes for 16 yards. Linebacker Brian Cushing was suspended 10 games without pay following the game for violating the NFL's PED policy. Deshaun Watson started his first NFL game for the Texans against the Bengals on Thursday Night Football. Watson scored the team's only touchdown of the game on a 49-yard run while the Bengals failed to score a touchdown. Trying to get their first ever win in New England and only their second ever win against the Patriots, the Texans led 33-28 with 2:28 remaining, but Tom Brady threw the

title: Josh Kline

text: first NFL game on November 3 when he entered the game at left guard for the final play, a kneel-down against the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played briefly in the Patriots' 34-31 win December 1 over the Houston Texans. He saw his first significant playing time in a December 15 game against the Miami Dolphins, when Patriots starting offensive lineman Nate Solder went down with an injury. Kline was inserted into the lineup and played most of the game at left guard, with starting left guard Logan Mankins shifting to left tackle. Kline made his first start and played the entire

title: Mason Crosby

text: 53-yarder and a 42-yard kick with two seconds left on the clock to help the Packers defeat the visiting Philadelphia Eagles. The kick was the first game-winner by a rookie on opening weekend since 1979 (when Matt Bahr achieved the same feat). Crosby was the first player in NFL history to kick a 50-yard field goal and a game-winning field goal with under a minute remaining in his NFL debut. Crosby was named NFC Special Teams Player of the Week (the first rookie kicker to receive this honor on opening weekend). Crosby was awarded the NFC Special Teams Player of

title: Mark Sanchez

text: starter for the 2009 season. On August 26, 2009, Sanchez was named the starter, becoming the first rookie quarterback to start the season for the team since Dick Jamieson in 1960. Sanchez started his first regular season NFL game against the Houston Texans on September 13, 2009, throwing his first touchdown pass, a 30-yard reception, to wide receiver Chansi Stuckey. Sanchez and the Jets won the game 24–7, with Sanchez throwing for 272 yards, a touchdown, and an interception. He was named the Pepsi Rookie of the Week for his performance in the game, the first of three consecutive Rookie

title: NFL Kickoff Game

text: 2017: The defending Super Bowl LI champions, the New England Patriots, hosted the Kansas City Chiefs for the 2017 Kickoff Game at Gillette Stadium.  Goodell visited Gillette Stadium for the Kickoff Game, having been absent from the venue since the 2014 season.

title: Marquez Valdes-Scantling

text: his NFL debut in the Packers' season opener against the Chicago Bears on September 9, 2018, recording a 21-yard kick return in the 24–23 victory. He recorded his first professional reception in the following game against the Minnesota Vikings. He started his first career game in place of the injured Randall Cobb in a week 4 win over the Buffalo Bills, catching one pass for 38 yards. Still starting in place of Cobb during a week 5 loss to the Detroit Lions, Valdes-Scantling had a breakout performance, notching seven receptions for 68 yards and a touchdown. He followed that up

title: Antoine Cason

text: the San Diego Chargers. Cason played in all 16 regular season games and both playoff games at cornerback and on special teams as a rookie for the 2008 AFC Western Division champion San Diego Chargers. His first NFL interception came on September 14, 2008, against the Denver Broncos, picking off Jay Cutler in the end zone and returning for 10 yards. His second NFL interception was a 59-yard pick of Tampa Bay's Jeff Garcia for his first career NFL touchdown. He ended his rookie season with 74 tackles (59 solo) and 2 INTs. The Chargers first game of the season

title: Cordarrelle Patterson

text: In Patterson's second career game against the Chicago Bears on September 15, he scored his first NFL career touchdown by returning the opening kickoff for a 105-yard kick return touchdown, marking the first kickoff return touchdown the Bears had allowed since September 30, 2007. For his outstanding performance on special teams during the month of September, Patterson was honored as the NFC Special Teams Player of the Month. In Week 8, Patterson returned the opening kickoff 109-yards for a touchdown, an NFL record for the longest play ever. After Patterson's performance against the Green Bay Packers he was named NFC

title: Vadal Alexander

text: debut during the second game of the season in a loss against the Atlanta Falcons. On October 2, 2016, he made his first career start during a 28-27 victory over the Baltimore Ravens after starting right tackle Austin Howard was unable to play due to an ankle injury. Howard's backup. Menelik Watson, was unable to play after he suffered an hamstring injury and the Raider's third backup right tackle option, Matt McCants, was down with a knee injury. Although the Baltimore Ravens targeted Alexander throughout the game and he was called for three holding penalties and a false start, he

title: Teddy Bridgewater

text: the season after Cassel, who broke his foot in the aforementioned game, was placed on injured reserve. On Sunday, September 28, 2014, he made his first regular season start against the Atlanta Falcons and won the game, in large part due to his 317 passing yards, and scored his first NFL touchdown off a 13-yard run into the end zone. After spraining his ankle during the Falcons matchup, Bridgewater was inactive for the next game against the Green Bay Packers on "Thursday Night Football" in Week 5. Bridgewater was able to recover for the week 6 game against the Detroit

title: Josh Johnson (quarterback)

text: first game after Sanchez was benched against the New York Giants in the third quarter of a 40–16 loss. It was Johnson's first appearance in a NFL game since 2013 with the Cincinnati Bengals. He finished the game completing 11 passes from 16 attempts for 195 yards, one touchdown (his first touchdown since 2011 with the Buccaneers) and an interception. He also rushed for 45 yards and his first career rushing touchdown on seven attempts. After the game, it was announced that Johnson would be the starter for the next game against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The game resulted in a

title: Jack Doyle (American football)

text: the Denver Broncos in Week 7. The following game, he was promoted to being the primary backup on the depth chart behind Coby Fleener and earned his first career start during a 27–25 win at the Houston Texans in Week 9 after the Colts released Dominique Jones. He finished his rookie season in 2013 with five receptions for 19-yards in 15 games and four starts. The Indianapolis Colts finished the 2013 season first in the AFC South with an 11–5 record. On January 4, 2014, Doyle appeared in his first career playoff game as the Colts defeated the Kansas City

title: Zuriel Smith

text: game of the special teams units. In his NFL debut playing on Monday Night Football against the New York Giants on September 15, he returned five kickoffs for 120 yards and also returned four punts. But his best play came with 11 seconds left in the game, after he let a Matt Bryant kickoff roll out of bounds, just inches from the end zone. The penalty gave the Cowboys the ball at their own 40 yard-line with no time off the clock, and allowed them to tie the game and eventually win it in overtime (35-32). In , he led

title: Brock Huard

text: football. He ended with career NFL stats of 60 of 109 for 689 yards with 4 touchdowns and 2 interceptions. In , the Huards became the first set of brothers in NFL history to start at quarterback on the same weekend. On November 26, Damon opened against the Indianapolis Colts as a member of the Miami Dolphins, while Brock started for the Seahawks against the Huard does numerous radio and television gigs, and has done color commentary for Fox Sports Networks on their Pac-12 games. He has had jobs announcing for ESPN Pop Warner football specials live from Disney's Wide

title: Paxton Lynch

text: first NFL regular-season game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, replacing the injured Trevor Siemian. He finished with 170 passing yards on 14-of-24 attempts and threw his first career touchdown pass to wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders in a 27–7 road win at Raymond James Stadium. In Week 5, Lynch started his first NFL game, completing 23-of-35 passes for 223 yards, one touchdown, and one interception in the 23–16 loss to the Atlanta Falcons. He was sacked six times, a record for a Broncos rookie. In Week 13, Lynch again replaced the injured Siemian against the Jacksonville Jaguars, posting 12 completions on

title: 2007 Green Bay Packers season

text: the first time since 1990 when the New York Giants lost to the San Francisco 49ers. Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo faced off against his boyhood idol Brett Favre in the game. The Packers started the game missing two key players of their defense, with injured cornerback Charles Woodson (tied for 7th in the NFL with 4 interceptions) and pass-rushing end Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila (tied for 6th in the NFL with 9.5 sacks) on the inactive list. In the first quarter, Green Bay took the early lead as rookie kicker Mason Crosby completed a 47-yard field goal. On the first play of

title: Spencer Larsen

text: became the first NFL player since 2003 (and only the fourth since 1990) to start a game on both offense (fullback) and defense (linebacker). The positions fullback and linebacker both involve considerably more contact than the wide receiver / cornerback positions played by other modern two-way players such as Troy Brown, Deion Sanders, Julian Edelman, and Champ Bailey. He also played on special teams during the game, including the opening kickoff. Larsen earned Diet Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week honors for the first time in his career for his performance against the Falcons. Larsen signed with the New England

title: Austin Davis

text: the first week of the 2014 NFL season against the Minnesota Vikings, Davis entered the game at the start of the second half in relief of starter Shaun Hill. A week later, due to Hill's injury, Davis made his NFL starting debut on September 14, in a winning effort against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Following the Rams' 28–26 upset win over the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks in Week 7, former All-Pro quarterback and legend Brett Favre tabbed Davis as a potential Tom Brady or Kurt Warner of the future, both of whom won Super Bowls despite a bleak

title: Marcus Mariota

text: where he completed 7 out of 8 passes for 94 yards with an interception and a lost fumble returned for a touchdown. Mariota played his first career regular season game on September 13 against 2015's first overall draft pick Jameis Winston and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. On his first career pass attempt, Mariota completed a throw to wide receiver Kendall Wright, who took it 52 yards for the rookie quarterback's first NFL touchdown pass. Coincidentally, Winston threw his first career pass on the next drive, and it was intercepted by cornerback Coty Sensabaugh and returned 26 yards for a touchdown.

title: Tyler Lockett

text: His performance for the first three weeks of the season earned him recognition as NFC Special Teams Player of the Month for September 2015. Lockett was the first Seahawks rookie to win the award since Joey Galloway. Lockett posted his first career touchdown reception on "Thursday Night Football" against the San Francisco 49ers on October 22, 2015. On November 22 against the San Francisco 49ers, Lockett scored 2 receiving touchdowns. On December 6 against the Minnesota Vikings who were 8-3 at the time, Lockett had 7 receptions for 90 yards, both new career highs. One week later, Lockett had his

title: Charles Johnson (wide receiver, born 1989)

text: the Packers and Browns practice squads, Johnson had a breakout first season for the Vikings in 2014. He was inactive on game day for the opening 2 contests of the season, but ended up playing in 11 games with 6 starts. In Week 5, he appeared in his first career NFL game against the team that drafted him at Green Bay, finishing the game with a catch for seven yards. In his first start against the Green Bay Packers on November 23, he caught his first career touchdown on a 22-yard pass from Teddy Bridgewater. In the Vikings' overtime victory

title: Adrian Peterson

text: a rookie during this game, which included the most 100-yard games rushing and the longest touchdown run from scrimmage. He also set an NFL rookie record with 361 all-purpose yards in a single game. His 607 rushing yards through the first five games of the season is second in NFL history to Eric Dickerson. For his performance, he was named the Offensive Player of the Week for the first time in his career. Following Peterson's record performance, Deion Sanders, now an NFL Network analyst, said about him: "He has the vision of a Marshall Faulk, the power of an Earl

title: James Jones (wide receiver)

text: a starter for the Packers in the first game of the 2007 season. He caught four passes for 29 total yards in a 16–13 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. Jones scored his first professional touchdown in a week four match-up vs. the Minnesota Vikings at the Metrodome. With Green Bay leading 16–9, Brett Favre hit Jones on a pass down the right sideline that went 33 yards for a touchdown, giving Green Bay a 23–9 lead. The Packers would end up winning the game 23–16. Jones was announced as the Diet Pepsi NFL Rookie of the Week for games played

title: 2017 Chicago Bears season

text: On "Monday Night Football", Mitchell Trubisky made his NFL debut against the Minnesota Vikings, who led the all-time series 58–52–2, though the Bears had won all but two games at Soldier Field since 2007. Trubisky is the eleventh rookie quarterback in team history to start a game and the first since Kyle Orton in 2005, though only three won their first games (Jim McMahon, Rex Grossman, Craig Krenzel); furthermore, since 2009, only one of nine Bears quarterbacks won in their debuts with the team (Todd Collins). Jeff Joniak emphasized a focus on first down success; the Bears' rushing game, which

title: NBC Sunday Night Football

text: (Denver Broncos), Clay Matthews (Packers) and J. J. Watt (Houston Texans). The animation ends with the "NBC Sunday Night Football" logo written in laser lighting. Beginning with this season, the opening was not used for any playoff game aired on NBC. Carrie Underwood continued her role as "Sunday Night Football"s show opener, which debuted on September 7. Once again, Verizon returned to provide product placement. Some of the NFL stars that are represented in the opening are Philip Rivers (San Diego Chargers), Luke Kuechly (Carolina Panthers), DeMarcus Ware (Broncos), Clay Matthews (Packers), Brandon Marshall (Chicago Bears), Jimmy Graham (Saints), LeSean

title: 2008 New England Patriots season

text: Seahawks' 43-yard line. Running back LaMont Jordan, playing in his first game for the Patriots since Week 5 due to an injury, fumbled a second down run but recovered his own fumble; a Cassel ran for a first down on the next play to extend the drive. Two plays later, a defensive pass interference penalty on Seahawks cornerback Marcus Trufant on a pass intended for Moss gave the Patriots a first down from the Seahawks' 2-yard line. Watson then caught a 2-yard touchdown pass from Cassel to cut the Seahawks' lead to 14–10, but his post-touchdown celebration involved using the

title: Brock Huard

text: the women's basketball team. Huard was selected by the Seahawks in the third round of the 1999 NFL Draft, the 77th overall pick and the seventh quarterback. It was the first draft in Seattle for newly-hired general manager and head coach Mike Holmgren. Huard's first pass attempt in the NFL (pre-season game) resulted in a touchdown. After a season as third-string in 1999, he saw his first game time in 2000 as the backup to Jon Kitna, starting four games and going 49 of 87 with three touchdowns and two interceptions. Huard played in the first game that season against

title: Ryan Fitzpatrick

text: 302 (1998), Cam Newton, 422 (2011), Robert Griffin III, 320 (2012), and Andrew Luck, 309 (2012). The win earned him the next three starts, making Fitzpatrick the first Harvard quarterback to start an NFL game. He was unable to duplicate his debut performance in the games he started with the Rams coming two weeks later in a 13–27 loss to the Minnesota Vikings in which he threw for 235 yards, no touchdowns, and five interceptions for a QB rating of 32.4 for the game. He was replaced by Martin after halftime the following week, after struggling in a home game

title: Tyler Lockett

text: for September 2015 when he posted both a punt and kickoff return touchdown in his first three games. He became the second rookie to win multiple Special Teams Player Of The Month awards and was the only rookie to be named 1st team All Pro for the 2015 NFL season. He was selected to the 2015 Pro Football Writers Association (PFWA) NFL All-Rookie Team at three positions. Lockett was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He attended Carver Middle School. He then attended Booker T. Washington High School in Tulsa, where he was a three-sport star in football, basketball, and track. He

title: 2018 NFL season

text: for its eleven games, with Hannah Storm and Andrea Kremer serving as the lead broadcast team. The announcement makes Kremer the first-ever female color analyst for an NFL game, the first time a game has been broadcast with no men involved in the broadcast team, and the first time since Tony Kornheiser left "Monday Night Football" that the color analyst had no coaching or playing experience. Amazon will offer the standard Fox broadcast team, a British broadcasting team, and a Spanish language feed as alternate audio choices. The kick-off timess for all three primetime series were moved up to start

title: NFL Kickoff Game

short_answers:
the Kansas City Chiefs
the New England Patriots


question: what is the most popular religion in sweden

answers: Lutheran

answers: Lutheran Church of Sweden

answers: Christianity

title: Irreligion in Sweden

text: Church of Sweden was formally separated from the state in 2000, leaving Sweden as "the only Nordic country without a state church". Irreligion in Sweden Sweden is one of the world's most secular and irreligious nations, partly because many Swedish people define themselves as irreligious but spiritual people. Phil Zuckerman, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College, writes that several academic sources have in recent years placed atheism rates in Sweden between 46% and 85%, with one source reporting that only 17% of respondents self-identified as "atheist". A Gallup Poll in 2016 found that 18% of Swedes self report

title: Irreligion in Sweden

text: Irreligion in Sweden Sweden is one of the world's most secular and irreligious nations, partly because many Swedish people define themselves as irreligious but spiritual people. Phil Zuckerman, an Associate Professor of Sociology at Pitzer College, writes that several academic sources have in recent years placed atheism rates in Sweden between 46% and 85%, with one source reporting that only 17% of respondents self-identified as "atheist". A Gallup Poll in 2016 found that 18% of Swedes self report as atheist and 55% as non-religious. Sweden's official website asserts that just three out of 10 Swedes state that they have confidence

title: Irreligion in Sweden

text: in the church. The article lists the following facts about religion in Sweden: Statistics from the Church of Sweden states that: Many Swedes attend church due to traditional or cultural reasons, but are otherwise not practicing Christians. One poll found that only 15% of Church of Sweden members actually believe in Jesus. Relatedly, the Swedish government has passed several secular reforms over the years; a legal opt-out of the previously mandatory 1.1% church tax was allowed in 1951, automatic birthright membership in the Church of Sweden - the organization's enrollment practice since the 1850s - ended in 1996, and the

title: Religion in Sweden

text: to government guidelines on core academic curriculum. The Office of the Ombudsman against Ethnic Discrimination investigates claims of discrimination "due to race, skin color, national or ethnic origin, or religion". Discrimination on religious grounds is illegal, including discrimination in the work place and in the provision of public and private services. In 2014, there were 4,812 formal affiliated Buddhists in Sweden, comprising 0.05% of the total population. A 2016 survey by Ipsos based on 500 working-age, internet connected Swedes, found that 1% of the respondents declared to be Buddhists. In 2015 there were 6,886,501 formal affiliated Christians in Sweden, comprising

title: Religion in Sweden

text: The Lutheran Church of Sweden — which was the state religion until 2000 — has a registered membership of 6.1 million Swedish citizens, equal to 61.2% of the total population.  One reason for the high membership might be the fact that until 1996 all newborns with at least one parent being a member of the Church of Sweden were also registered as members of the church. Yet the membership is declining rapidly, about 1% each year, falling from 95% in 1970 and 85% in 2000.

title: Religion in Sweden

text: freedoms enumerated in the constitution include the rights to practice one's religion and protection of religious freedom. The laws concerning religious freedoms are generally observed and enforced at all government levels and by the courts in a non-discriminatory fashion. Legal protections cover discrimination or persecution by private actors. In the early 2000s about 85% of Swedes still belonged to the Church of Sweden. By the end of 2017, this figure had fallen to 59.3%. The percentage of Swedes belonging to the Church of Sweden is decreasing yearly by more than one percent. In the year 2016, according to an online

title: Religion in Sweden

text: at least one parent being a member of the Church of Sweden were also registered as members of the church. Yet the membership is declining rapidly, about 1% each year, for the most recent years even 2%, falling from 95% in 1970 and 85% in 2000. Prior to their Christianisation that became complete around the 12th century, the Swedes practised forms of Norse religion. At first they became part of the Catholic Church; then, from the 1530s, Sweden switched to Lutheranism as part of the Protestant Reformation which converted most of Germanic Europe; the Church of Sweden was formed and

title: Religion in Sweden

text: 5% of the total population, while there were only 139,759 formally affiliated Muslims in 2015. As of 2016, 3% of the working-age, internet connected population of Sweden claimed to be believers in Islam. The Official Council of Swedish Jewish Communities estimates about 20,000 ethnic Jews in Sweden by halakhic criteria. Of them, about 8,302 were members of a Jewish religious congregation in 2015. Stockholm has the largest community and boasts a primary school, a kindergarten, a library, a bi-monthly publication ("Judisk Krönika") and a weekly Jewish radio program. Other cities like Malmö, Gothenburg, Borås, Helsingborg, Lund, and Uppsala have Jewish

title: Religion in Sweden

text: Methodists and the Mission Covenant Church of Sweden merged in 2011 into a new denomination: the Uniting Church in Sweden. It is the largest member church in the Swedish Free Church Council, with approximately 65,000 members. One of the Baptist denominations, the Evangelical Free Church in Sweden, has remained an independent denomination outside this merger. Most Catholics in Sweden are of Slavic (especially Poles and Croats), South American or Middle Eastern (especially Assyrian) origin. As of 2015, legally registered Catholics in Sweden were 113,053, comprising 1.2% of the total population. According to Ipsos, in 2016 Catholic Church in Sweden account

title: Religion in Sweden

text: The 19th century saw the arrival of various evangelical free churches, and, towards the end of the century secularism, leading many to distance themselves from church rituals. Leaving the Church of Sweden became legal with the so-called Dissenter Law of 1860, but only under the provision of entering another denomination. The right to stand outside any religious denomination was established in the law on freedom of religion in 1951. Today, the Swedish Free Church Council () organizes free churches in Sweden, belonging to various Protestant denominations: Calvinist, Pentecostal, and others. In total the member churches have around 250,000 members. Baptists,

title: Religion in Sweden

text: Orthodox Church has several parishes in Sweden, under jurisdiction of Serbian Orthodox Eparchy of Britain and Scandinavia. The Church of the Goths has a presence in Gotland. As of 2015, legally registered Eastern Orthodox Christians were 140,275 and they were the second-largest Christian sect in Sweden, comprising the 1.4% of the total population. A 2016 survey found that 3% of the working-age, internet connected population of Sweden declared to be Orthodox Christians. Germanic Heathenry, the contemporary continuation of ancient Germanic religion, is represented by various organizations, including the Nordic Society of the Ese ("Nordiska Asa-samfundet"), the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly

title: Sweden

text: a lack of belief in God, commonly question the term atheist, preferring to call themselves Christians while being content with remaining in the Church of Sweden. Healthcare in Sweden is similar in quality to other developed nations. Sweden ranks in the top five countries with respect to low infant mortality. It also ranks high in life expectancy and in safe drinking water. A person seeking care first contacts a clinic for a doctor's appointment, and may then be referred to a specialist by the clinic physician, who may in turn recommend either in-patient or out-patient treatment, or an elective care

title: Religion in Sweden

text: ("Samfundet Forn Sed Sverige") and the Community for Nordic Faith ("Samfälligheten för Nordisk Sed"). The Nordic Society of the Ese, despite being the most recently founded amongst the three (it was founded in 2013), has quickly grown to become the largest Heathen organization in Sweden. Islam entered Sweden primarily through immigration from countries with large Muslim populations (such as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Turkey, Iraq, Morocco, Iran, and Somalia ) in the late 20th century. The Baltic Tatars were the first Muslim group in modern Sweden. In 2009 it was estimated that there were 450,000 to 500,000 Muslims in Sweden, around

title: Religion in Europe

text: national church, but it is no longer "official". In Sweden, the national church used to be Lutheranism, but it is no longer "official" since 2000. Azerbaijan, the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Ireland, Portugal, Serbia, Romania, Russia, Spain and Turkey are officially secular. Buddhism is thinly spread throughout Europe, and the fastest growing religion in recent years with about 3 million adherents. In Kalmykia, Tibetan Buddhism is prevalent. Hinduism mainly among Indian immigrants. Growing rapidly in recent years, notably in the United Kingdom, France, and the Netherlands. In 1998, there were an estimated 1.4 million Hindu adherents in Europe. Jainism, small

title: Religion in Europe

text: brought increasing syncretism, New Age, and various new religious movements divorcing spirituality from inherited traditions for many Europeans. The latest history brought increased secularisation, and religious pluralism. European countries have experienced a decline in church membership and church attendance. A relevant example of the ongoing trend is Sweden where the church of Sweden, previously the state-church until 2000, claimed to have 82.9% of the Swedish population as its flock in 2000. Surveys showed this had dropped to 72.9% by 2008 and to 59.3% by 2017. Moreover, in the 2005 Eurobarometer survey 23% of the Swedish population said that they don't

title: Religion in Sweden

text: religion. In 1860 it became legal to leave the Church of Sweden for the purpose of becoming a member of another officially recognised religious denomination. From 1951, it became legal to leave the church, without providing any reason. From 1951 to 1977 all religious institutions could only be established with the permission of the Crown. The constitution of Sweden provides for freedom of religion, and the government generally respects this right in practice. The government at all levels seeks to protect this right in full and does not tolerate its abuse, either by governmental or private actors. The rights and

title: Hinduism in Sweden

text: Hinduism in Sweden Out of a population of 8.9 million, persons of Indian origin and non-resident Indians together number 11,000 or 0.12%. A majority of them are Punjabis, Bengalis, Gujaratis, Telugu's, Tamilians and Kannadigas. Some Indian students who went to Sweden in the 1950s settled down there. Another stream of Indians came from Uganda in the 1970s. Some Indians sought and obtained political asylum after 1984. The Indian community is culturally very active. Different associations hold cultural functions and observe national days. IRF 2005 reports that there are between 7,000 and 10,000 Hindus. Of the 10,000 Hindus, 2,000 are of

title: Islam in Sweden

text: that "we do not think it unreasonable to put the figure of religious Muslims in Sweden at the time of writing at close to 150,000". Professor Mohammad Fazlhashemi at Umeå University estimates "a good 100,000". About 25,000 are regarded as devout Muslims, visiting Friday prayers and practising daily prayers. Muslims in Sweden most often originate from Iraq, Iran, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, the Iraqis being by far the largest group in 2015. They are followed by Muslim refugees from Syria and Somalia, two very rapidly growing groups. Two other groups, residing in Sweden for a decade longer, are people from Turkey

title: Religion in Sweden

text: member-contributions made through the national tax system. All recognized denominations are entitled to direct government financial support, contributions made through the national tax system, or a mix of both. Certain Christian holidays are national holidays. School students from minority religious backgrounds are entitled to take relevant religious holidays. No recognition or registration is required to carry out religious activity. Religious groups that want to receive government aid may apply for it. Education about all major world religions is compulsory in public schools. Parents may send their children to religious charter schools, all of which receive school vouchers, provided they adhere

title: Buddhism in Sweden

text: Buddhism in Sweden Buddhism is a relatively small religion in Sweden. Most of the practicing Buddhists have various Asian (mostly Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese) heritage. In 2015, the Swedish Buddhist Cooperation Council (Sveriges Buddhistiska samarbetsråd, SBS) had 7 901 members. A Buddhist Temple was planned for Fredrika, a small town in the north part of Sweden. This Thai-style temple would be the biggest Buddhist temple in Europe when finished. There is a Thai pavilion in Jämtland, a region in central Sweden. A 500s AD Kashmir Indian made Buddha statue made of bronze was found at Helgö in Sweden dating from

title: Buddhism in Sweden

text: the Viking era. Buddhism in Sweden Buddhism is a relatively small religion in Sweden. Most of the practicing Buddhists have various Asian (mostly Thai, Chinese and Vietnamese) heritage. In 2015, the Swedish Buddhist Cooperation Council (Sveriges Buddhistiska samarbetsråd, SBS) had 7 901 members. A Buddhist Temple was planned for Fredrika, a small town in the north part of Sweden. This Thai-style temple would be the biggest Buddhist temple in Europe when finished. There is a Thai pavilion in Jämtland, a region in central Sweden. A 500s AD Kashmir Indian made Buddha statue made of bronze was found at Helgö in

title: Morality

text: the empirical relationship between religion and crime." Phil Zuckerman's 2008 book, "Society without God", based on studies conducted during a 14-month period in Scandinavia in 2005-2006, notes that Denmark and Sweden, "which are probably the least religious countries in the world, and possibly in the history of the world", enjoy "among the lowest violent crime rates in the world [and] the lowest levels of corruption in the world". Dozens of studies have been conducted on this topic since the twentieth century. A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the "Journal of Religion and Society" stated that, "In general,

title: Sweden

text: church rituals. Leaving the Church of Sweden became legal with the so-called dissenter law of 1860, but only under the provision of entering another Christian denomination. The right to stand outside any religious denomination was formally established in the Law on Freedom of religion in 1951. In 2000, the Church of Sweden was disestablished. Sweden was the second Nordic country to disestablish its state church (after Finland did so in the Church Act of 1869). At the end of 2016, 61.2% of Swedes belonged to the Church of Sweden; this number has been decreasing by about 1.5 percentage points a

title: Islam in Sweden

text: 106,327 officially registered members. Swedish estimates are rather 350,000, including nominal Muslims and people from a Muslim background. Such numbers do not imply religious beliefs or participation; Åke Sander claimed in 1992 that at most 40–50% of the people of Muslim background in Sweden "could reasonably be considered to be religious", and in 2004, based on discussions and interviews with Muslim leaders, concerning second-generation Muslims born and raised in Sweden that "it does not seem that the percentage they consider to be religious Muslims in a more qualified sense exceeds fifteen percent, or perhaps even less". Sander re-stated in 2004

title: Islam in Sweden

text: and Lebanon. In 2017 Swedish Security Police reported that the number of jihadists in Sweden had risen to thousands from about 200 in 2010. Based on social media analysis, an increase was noted in 2013. There are no official statistics on the exact number of Swedish converts to Islam, but Anne Sofie Roald, a historian of religions at Malmö University College, estimates the number of converts from the Church of Sweden to Islam to be 3,500 people since the 1960s. Roald further states that conversions are also occurring from Islam to the Church of Sweden, most noticeably by Iranians, but

title: Islam in Sweden

text: Islam in Sweden A 2014 report estimated there were 150,000 to 200,000 Muslims in Sweden practicing their religion regularly. The main driver of spreading Islam in Sweden is immigration since the late 1960s. Other sources set the figure at around 6% (almost 600,000) of the total Swedish population. A 2017 Pew Research report documents Muslim population at 8.1% of the total population of Sweden of 10 million (approximately 810,000). Archaeological findings have shown Viking contact with Islam dating back to the 7th–10th centuries, when the Vikings were trading with the medieval Islamic world. Pre-islamic Arabic coins originating from the Middle

title: Freedom of religion by country

text: violent incidents occurring in the 21st century. The prominence of antisemitism in Russia has decreased since its peak in the early 2000s. The constitution and other laws and policies protect religious freedom and, in practice, the government generally respected religious freedom. The Church of Sweden lost its position as the state church on 1 January 2000. Since then, 22 recognized religious denominations, in addition to the Church of Sweden, raise revenues through member-contributions made through the national tax system. All recognized denominations are entitled to direct government financial support, contributions made through the national tax system, or a mix of

title: Sweden

text: 92,000 Roman Catholics living in Sweden. The first Muslim congregation was established in 1949, when a small contingent of Tatars migrated from Finland. Islam's presence in Sweden remained marginal until the 1960s, when Sweden started to receive migrants from the Balkans and Turkey. Further immigration from North Africa and the Middle East have brought the estimated Muslim population to 600,000. However, only about 110,000 were members of a congregation around 2010. According to the Eurobarometer Poll 2010, According to a Demoskop study in 2015 about the beliefs of the Swedish showed that Sociology professor Phil Zuckerman claims that Swedes, despite

title: Religion in Sweden

text: for 4% of the working-age, internet connected population, while the Pew Research Center found a percentage of 1.2% in April 2016. According to the "2015 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses", there are 22,730 active members in Sweden, and 36,270 people attended their annual memorial of Christ's death. This number includes active members and guests. As of 2016, 1% of the working-age, internet connected population of Sweden declared to be Jehovah's Witnesses. Multiple Orthodox jurisdictions exist in Sweden, including but not limited to the Greek and Serbian Orthodox Churches. There is also a substantial presence of Coptic and Ethiopian Christians. The Serbian

title: Islam in Sweden

text: tradition, etc." regardless of personal religious convictions.), of whom about 100,000 were second-generation immigrants (born in Sweden or immigrated as children). In Sweden registration by personal belief is not common and is normally against the law, thus only figures of practising Muslims belonging to an Islamic community can be reported. In 2009, the Muslim Council of Sweden reported 106,327 registered members. In 2007, a study by the "Integrationsverket" government agency showed that 55% of respondents among the population of Sweden expressed reservations about moving to districts where many Muslims live. This was the same as for 2005. In December 2008,

title: Religion in Sweden

short_answers:
Lutheran
Lutheran Church of Sweden