World Cultures

4. Annual festival celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ.
6. Religious festival celebrated in April marking the foundation of the Khalsa Panth
7. Believes in God and that faith in Jesus Christ who died for man’s sins and through God’s grace believers can receive eternal life in heaven.
9. Believes in Buddha and that believers seek to escape the cycle of rebirth and achieve a state of happiness.
12. Believes in Allah and that by following five pillars of faith-belief, prayer, charity, fasting, and pilgrimage to Mecca- believers go to eternal paradise.
13. Believes in Jehovah that by following God’s law and doing good deeds that will find eternal life and peace
16. period of celebration
17. There are _______ main types of religion.
19. Festival and holiday celebrating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead.
20. Month of fasting to commemorate the first revelation of the Quran to Muhammad

1. The belief in more than one god.
2. Jewish Day of Atonement (holiest day of the year)
3. The belief in one god.
5. Beginning of the year in the Jewish new year
8. Spring Festival celebrated at the turn of the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar
10. government that is ruled by a religious leader
11. annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca.
14. One of the traits of cultural identity.
15. Believes in Brahman and that a quest for enlightenment. Birth, death, and rebirth until one reaches a state of perfect knowledge.
18. Hindu festival of lights celebrated every year in the autumn