Sentences with phrase «christian places of worship»

Numerous Christian places of worship observe Good Friday Wishes with a stifled administration, generally in the evening, in which Christ's demise is recalled with solemn hymns and thanksgiving prayers.

Included among these might be those parts of the New Testament other than the Gospels which are consistent with Jesus» teachings; other Christian writings; Christian places of worship or songs and prayers used in this worship; the sacraments; perhaps the life of a Christian we know or read about who exemplifies for us the way Jesus told us to live.

There are five Christian places of worship in North Korea, of the 121 total, but the report speculates that they are only there to make the country look better internationally.

Research by the European Parliament has found 200 churches or Christian places of worship are attacked... More

Research by the European Parliament has found 200 churches or Christian places of worship are attacked every month across the world.

He explained that the belief stems partly from «letters sent by Pope Gregory in which he encouraged his missionaries to change existing temples into Christian places of worship in the hope that natives would continue to attend and be converted that way».

===== @Chad «Christian place of worship» [church] @Really - O «There are religions other than those based on the god of Israel that call their place of worship a «church».

An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church = > Christian place of worship

The band sergeant posted a statement on Facebook: «If playing a hymn passed [sic] a Christian place of worship is wrong then we must be guilty.

Not exact matches

Some would protest against Muslims using schools as a place of worship, but there are those of us who would stand up against those who give our Christian name a bad one.

Conversely, why should we ask the Christian and the Jew to help build a place of worship for the Muslim when they fundamentally disagree about the truth?

«Old English cirice, circe «church, public place of worship; Christians collectively,» from West Germanic * kirika (cf. Old Saxon kirika, Old Norse kirkja, Old Frisian zerke, Middle Dutch kerke, Dutch kerk, Old High German kirihha, German Kirche), probably [see note in OED] from Greek kyriake (oikia), kyriakon doma «Lord's (house),» from kyrios «ruler, lord,» from PIE root * keue - «to swell» - etymonline.com

Christians were absolutely persecuted, Jesus place of worship was torn down stone by stone by the romans and jews.

It also revealed how 15.7 % of all charity legacies over the past three years have been given to Christian charities or places of worship.

PM: Christians and other faiths have freedom of worship in Israel which is the only place in the ME where the Christian community is growing

Trying to heap an ancient written Jewish code on modern Gentile Christians (and non --RRB-, tellingly without even an understanding of said code and a complete indifference to the message of Jesus and to the accounts in the very bible being worshipped in His place.

The professor was not placed on paid leave because of wearing a hijab, but because of her statement that Muslims and Christians worship the same God.

On accepting the role, he said: «Spring Harvest has a wonderful history and I want it to be a place of real Evangelical unity where many different Christian groups can come together to worship our amazing God and be inspired to change our world for Him.

Contrast the alleged actions of this alleged Coptic Christian with that of Muslims killing and maiming Coptic Christians and blowing up their places of worship... INSULTING Coptic Christians in far worse ways (literally «insulting» them TO DEATH) than is done (or ever could be) in this or any other film.

I am a Christian but avoid christian religions other than as a place of meditation, worship and intellectual debate, certainly not as a place for moral guidance as they change the rules with the politics ofChristian but avoid christian religions other than as a place of meditation, worship and intellectual debate, certainly not as a place for moral guidance as they change the rules with the politics ofchristian religions other than as a place of meditation, worship and intellectual debate, certainly not as a place for moral guidance as they change the rules with the politics of the age.

Should we not erect places of worship where «Christian» terrorists blew a building up (Oklahoma City, for example)?

This tendency is wrong, for the worship of God in spirit and in truth has its place at the very centre of the Christian existence; hence it is all the more important not to aggravate

A church that had been a place of continuous Christian worship for centuries is now dedicated to those who took pleasure in spilling Christian blood all over Iraq's historically Christian Nineveh Plain.

Rev Donaldson also said: «Feed My Lambs is used for Christian worship and is considered to be a place of worship.»

If congregations are to be such a sign, firstfruit and instrument of God's purpose of reconciliation in any place, it is vital that they have a sense of being one people in worship and service, in association with other Christian congregations in the area — not in isolation from or in competition with them.

As well as providing a venue for Christian worship, the hub will also provide a place of learning and well - being, and be available for hire for, among other activities, community development programmes, children's theatre, art exhibitions, business functions and interfaith celebrations.

Christians have built churches of great beauty in many places, which are consecrated or set apart for the worship of God.

ground zero mosque; hey christians remember all the noise you made over muslims making their place of worship?

Christian Aid says some places of worship will not be strong enough to withstand the Category 5 storm, meaning some families must be evacuated to cities.

As a result, such works only reinforce a general indifference toward the place of art in Christian worship.

Going to a place of worship does not make you a Christian, it's your personal relationship with Christ and studying your Bible with the help of the Holy Spirit and doing God's will that makes you one.

Thus it is for each generation to allow that tradition to come alive in its own time and place, to see that it is purified and given contemporary significance, with such modifications as may be required; and then to hand it on to the next age, for the enrichment of the Christian faith, worship, and life of those who follow.

One only needs to recall the place given to it in the public and private worship of Christian Scientists to be convinced that it does meet this requirement.

A week of worship, music, discussions about faith issues and mission activities, such as «Open the Book» presentations, will take place in a tent run by people from most Christian denominations.

I may not be a Christian, but I can tell you one thing, the only time I know of that Jesus went to a place of worship like the one I attended last Sunday, it is my understanding that he turned over their tables, called them thieves, and ran them all out so that they could think about what the house of God was really supposed to be.

«Violating a place of worship, killing priests and worshippers is not only vile, evil, and satanic,» said Muhammadu Buhari, Nigeria's current president and a Muslim (the nation alternates between Muslim and Christian heads of state).

Prince Charles and Camilla visited places of worship belonging to the Christian, Muslim, Chinese and Hindu communities in George Town, the capital city of the Malaysian state of Penang.

Christians aren't locking people in a place of worship and forcing them to convert or beheading them.

We Jews must honestly and pointedly ask Cardinal Glemp, Pat Buchanan and all well - meaning Christians who did not understand Jewish objections to a Christian convent in Auschwitz if they believe that those millions of innocent Jews who died so cruelly there would want a Christian house of worship to mark the place of their martyrdom, their Passion?

Unlike adherents to some of the other religions which have commanded the allegiance of men, Christian believers are gathered together as a fellowship, meeting at specific times and in specific places to engage in the action of divine worship.

The remainder of this book will be given to further and detailed development of the definition just suggested, to the ways in which we may pray in words and in thought, to the place of prayer in public worship and above all in the Holy Communion or Lord's Supper — which all Christians save the Quakers and the Salvation Army know to be the central act of public worship, however much they may sometimes slight that importance in church practice — and finally to see how it all «fits in» — how faith and action are related to, and find fulfillment in, prayer both private and public.

It is not correct to say that liturgical worship is alien to that kind of Christian worship which finds place, as a central element, for the declaration of the kerygma.

The deeper truth is that the Christian gospel and the faith which it evokes do, as a matter of fact, bring us to the place where our only response is worship; and a faith which does not involve and express itself in the worship of God through Christ is a faith which is radically imperfect — so imperfect, indeed, that one may doubt that it is true Christian faith at all.

Initially the landlords attempted to burn down the «slave schools» and places of worship where Pulayas received Christian instruction and were eventually baptised.

Thousands of pagan temples were transformed into places of Christian worship.

It was «as though I were watching the crucifixion of Jesus upon his cross,» Provost R.T Howard recalled as he witnessed a place where Christians had worshiped for hundreds of years being destroyed in one night.

And it is not surprising that Christians could adopt the Parthenon and the Pantheon for use as places of worship, and that Muslims could turn the Church of Santa Sophia into a mosque.

Also, I'm suggesting to you, the purpose of many of our Christian practices, especially worship practices, is that they are to become a thin place, where we momentarily glimpse the reality of the sacred.

The Christ of today's Christianty is not 100 % Jewish, except maybe in a Messanic Jewish place of worship, which is a Christian based denomination, not Judaic in its beliefs.

Staying up there on the mountain with Jesus and those sacred sources was for Peter like attending some spiritual retreat for the modern Christian: the quiet time, the holy place, the aids to worship: stained glass windows, helpful spiritual directors, rich meditations, prayers and songs, celebrating with thanksgiving the gifts of forgiveness, acceptance and freedom.