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A fact from Christian Flag appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 13 December 2004. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Christian flag was the idea of a superintendent of a U.S. Sunday school who gave a speech asking students what a flag representing Christianity would look like?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2004/December.

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make a site fro religious heraldry also heraldry that indicates kingship in countries that have no kings

Human Rights Ιnfringement

Religion is an element of self-identification and not common to all citizens of a nation. Human rights are not a majority issue and should be respected. Many nationals of countries that have flags or heraldry that has religious symbols are oppressed. An other problem is the democratic countries that have no king but have symbols of kingship like Hungary and Finland in their coat of arms.

NPOV

The top of the article is NPOV. I could easily tell that it was written by a quite enthusiastic Christian. I'll try to rewrite it to make it a bit less... crazy about Jesus. AutisticCatnip (talk) 03:40, 20 August 2012 (UTC)[reply]

rm roman catholic-specific piece; this is true of MANY denominations, not just that one denomination

What demoninations besides the Catholic Church display the flag of Vatican City, as opposed to the Christian flag? patsw 04:42, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Apologies; I misunderstood the paragraph. In many denominations, the national flag is displayed with the Christian flag...I thought that was the nature of the statement...I didn't catch that it was about the Vatican flag. Sorry again...my bad. KHM03 17:04, 16 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Move?

Should this article be moved to Christian Flag? FOTW uses the capital F. And it seems that it would be a proper noun. Fishal 02:10, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Let's look at similar articles:

* United States flag points to Flag of the United States

* Canadian flag points to Flag of Canada

* Vatican flag points to Flag of the Vatican City

Hrm. That search was not useful. I've never heard of anyone referring to this flag as the Flag of Christianity, just the Christian flag or Christian Flag. A quick Google search sees that people use both the capitalized and uncapitalized version of Christian Flag.

In general, though -- I'd agree. It seems to be a proper noun, so should be capitalized.

Chip Unicorn 17:49, 20 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

OK. I moved it. Fishal 00:08, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Episcopal Church flag

Does anyone have a better image of the Episcopal Church's flag? The proportions are incorrect on the image here.Rockhopper10r 15:45, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

US National Christian flag

Is this article the place to mention also the newest addition to christian flags, in the form of the US Christian Flag? --Oren neu dag (talk) 16:06, 11 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

not unless there are significant neutral third party references showing this is a notable flag. otherwise, it would just be a link to a commercial website promoting a product, which is not our purpose.(mercurywoodrose, always replying 2 years late on random talk pages, out of a sense of completion)75.61.138.42 (talk) 06:08, 6 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

The vatican city flag or the flag of the holy see

In the United States which of these flags are used? It's says that Churches in Communion with the Holy See display the Vatican City Flag and that makes little sense. Why would they use the Vatican City Flag? They aren't in communion with Vatican city.Serialjoepsycho (talk) 06:46, 7 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Many (Roman) Catholic parishes and other institutions do fly the Vatican flag -- there being no separate flag for the (Roman) Catholic Church (and certainly, as far as I know, no separate flag for the U.S. [Roman] Catholic Church). Vikslen (talk) 17:58, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Usage

I have never heard of any body that wasn't Protestant (and note, not even the Protestant Episcopal Church) using the "Christian flag." I'm not arguing for changing the name of the article, but I think this fact could be brought more to the forefront in the body of the article. And what's this about Catholic and Orthodox churches starting to use it? Vikslen (talk) 18:09, 10 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

US-Centric Flag

The introductory paragraph describes the flag as being popular among churches in North America, Latin America, and Africa. I don't believe this is accurate, in fact I've never seen the flag outside of the United States (although I'm sure it might be present in Canada). I feel that the design itself stirs American patriotism. 72.145.32.164 (talk) 16:24, 30 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to have been frequently used by some groups in southern Sudan, to judge from some photographs I've seen. Probably usually under U.S. missionary influence... AnonMoos (talk) 02:27, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That's what I understand. American missionaries using an American flag is almost expected, but I don't believe that any other Christian groups outside the US use this flag. I being Nicaraguan can attest to never having seen this flag until I came to the United States. 74.161.32.184 (talk) 18:15, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]

It's not just American missionaries, it's groups under the influence of American missionaries. AnonMoos (talk) 20:13, 31 October 2012 (UTC)[reply]