I would like to learn what the word "The Crusades" stands for? and also can you give me a contemporary x-mple?

It's from the Latin/French/Italian/Spanish "crux/cruce" or "cross". It literally means "to take up the cross" in the usual sense to go to war to defend or spread it or defend it. ie. Christianity.

Europeans are now quite done with that idea. America's present war is ostensibly a "Libertade" although actually a "Petroleumade" and a "Revanchade". (Freedom war, Oil war, and Revenge war.)

The only thing that qualifies is the Sudanese Civil War and the "Lord's Resistance Army", the latter being a thoroughly disgusting "Christian" group in Uganda that uses children as soldiers and cuts off women's lips.

Originall from Cross A Crusade was Any of the military expeditions undertaken by European Christians in the 11th, 12th, and 13th centuries to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims.

A holy war undertaken with papal sanction.

A vigorous concerted movement for a cause or against an abuse.

Think of the evangilist Billy Graham for a modern example.

French croisade and Spanish cruzada, both ultimately from Latin crux, cruc-, CROSS

The Crusades were a series of wars fought from the late eleventh through the thirteenth centuries, in which European kings and warriors set out *to gain control of the lands in which Jesus lived*, known as the Holy Land. At that time, these areas were held by Muslims. The Crusaders conquered Jerusalem in 1099 but failed to secure the Holy Land, and they were driven out by the late thirteenth century.

In the middle ages, the holy land was invaded and being destroyed by barabaric islamic extremists....the people of europe grouped together to fight them off. That was the crusades, and just means gathering together for a cause.

Only modern examples are prayer meetings where people come together for the purpose of prayer, worship and healing.