Sentences with phrase «christian religious organizations»

The mainstream churches (and by that I mean any Christian religious organization more than 20 years old) have been hemorrhaging members since the 1960s.

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All the good works done by religious organizations of all kinds (Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.

Being a member of a Religious organization does not make you a Christian, in fact, it probably prevents you from being one.

Theoretically, a Christian organization would have to elect an atheist if he really was the best man for the job in all ways other than his religious views.

♦ Throughout the late and unlamented Cold War, no religious organization so assiduously toed the Communist line as the Prague - based Christian Peace Conference.

After a back - and - forth with a variety of Christian leaders, most notably the Catholic Church, the rule was amended and some religious organizations were given an exemption.

Well I sometimes use the Christian label so as not to be oppressed by people like you — for example, when filling out religious preferences for organizations like the Boy Scouts.

Christian Zionists work closely with religious and secular Jewish Zionist organizations and the Israeli government, particularly during periods when the more conservative Likud Party is in control of the Israeli Knesset (parliament).

Despite these contradictions, not only AIPAC but mainstream Jewish organizations such as the Council of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations and the Anti-Defamation League / BnaiBrith have allied themselves with Christian Zionist organizations such as the Christian Coalition, Religious Round - table and the 700 Club.

Among the signers were Pat Robertson of CBN; Ralph Reed, the director of the Christian Coalition; Jerry Falwell; Brandt Gustafson, president of the National Religious Broadcasters» Don Argue, president of the National Association of Evangelicals; and Ed McAteer of the Religious Roundtable, one of the first Christian Zionist organizations in North America.

News broke over the weekend that all twenty - three schools within the California State University system have taken steps to «derecognize» InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF), a para-church Christian ministry organization that's had a longstanding presence within university life religious settings.

Accepting the divine entry of God into human history through the man Jesus Christ explains the extraordinary strength and resilience of the Christian Church, and also why it is a mistake to regard it as a purely human organization of those who happen to share the same religious views.

Although the Indian constitution guarantees that religious groups may propagate their faith, Hindu nationalists claim that many Christian organizations engage in coercive proselytism, especially among the Dalit classes, in a calculated «anti-India» effort to pollute national identity.

The ruling signals that «there are ways to accommodate the religious convictions of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Baptist organizations, and other Christian groups without sacrificing their consciences,» said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, in a shoreligious convictions of the Little Sisters of the Poor, Baptist organizations, and other Christian groups without sacrificing their consciences,» said Russell Moore, president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, in a shoReligious Liberty Commission, in a short video.

But religious organizations, such as Christian colleges and universities, are still in court over coverage of emergency contraception and artificial birth control.

We do well to remember that the freedoms we tend to take for granted are, in disputes all around the country, being defended daily by organizations such as the Rutherford Institute, the Christian Legal Society, the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Liberty, Dean Kelley of New York and William Ball of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (each of whose prodigious energy is tantamount to that of an organization).

But he writes to American Christians, and to those who identify with the American religious right — most of whom, at best, think of the Church as a «voluntary organization» or, at worst, hardly think of her at all.

Many of us identified with religious conservatism have never been in close alliance with Robertson or Falwell or with the organizations, the Christian Coalition and the Moral Majority, they respectively created.

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I consider myself a christian, with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set of views dictated by an organized religion, I believe the organized religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed out earlier to most «religious people» to question ones faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL things to see what is true.

Christian sects exhibit attitudes which, if contrasted to those of other religious organizations, offer striking parallels.

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It was Christian and other religious organizations organizations that were out there doing all the work.

«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).

In Indonesia, many Muslim citizens and organizations are committed to citizen equality and religious freedom, and Christian leaders are reaching out to them, according to Robert Hefner, director of the Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs at Boston University.

Two Christian organizations were among several groups that spoke out against the town's efforts to prevent the mosque's construction and filed an amicus brief on the Islamic Society's behalf, including the Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and the National Association of Evangelicals.

Yesterday's decision to officially label Boko Haram as a «foreign terrorist organization» drew strong praise from Christian Solidarity Worldwide and other observers of religious freedom in Nigeria.

The purpose of these organizations, and of their local offspring and analogues, is principally to sponsor discussions, and sometimes joint action, among members of different religious communities — Buddhist, Christian, Confucian, Jewish, Hindu, and so on.

If there was an organization called the Christian Brotherhood, you'd never buy that it was secular... how can an organization be both religious and secular... Muslim is not a race, it is a religion.

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Far more urgent is the need for supporters of the «hate group» designation to explain how such a pronouncement doesn't immediately apply to thousands of traditional Christian, Jewish, and Muslim organizations, and many millions of religious believers, who take conservative positions on sex and marriage.

Livid at religious organizations and politicians claiming to be Christians that they follow Christ but then they use Christ for political gain.

Meanwhile, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities emphasized Kennedy's nod to the First Amendment, stating the «full protections for religious individuals and organizations to exercise their beliefs privately and publicly are not diminished by expanded marriage rights.»

As Christians, we recognize that religious organizations and individuals have been guilty of not using the communication media primarily for the public welfare, and we repent both our inaction and transgressions in this regard.

I too am tired of selective appeals to «biblical marriage» that tend to glorify the modern nuclear family as the only ideal and render real people with real lives into a mere political / religious «issue,» and I too am reluctant to support an establishment that sends part of its profits to the Family Research Council, an organization that has fed blatant misinformation about homosexuality to Christians for years.

Christians living in better circumstances, however, need to take up the cause of their suffering brethren: they need to educate themselves about what is happening, spread the news, ask their own religious leaders to speak out, support reputable organizations that are working for religious freedom, and appeal to their political leaders to do far more in their contacts with key diplomats and oppressive governments.

Public cynicism toward religion, and toward the Religious Right in particular, is exacerbated when an organization such as the Christian Coalition claims to be nonpartisan.

interesting article though the list shown has the taint of a «hit list» given the reaction of so many people nowadays to any organization that claims to follow religious principles... specifically Christian principles..

InterVarsity has long had a strict policy that its leadership can only identify as Christian, and the lawsuit against Wayne State articulated that the action to dismiss the organization is a violation of religious freedom.

«Today's action by the U.S. Supreme Court represents a major victory for the freedom of all religious organizations to hire employees who share the same faith — whether Muslim, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, or any other religion,» World Vision U.S. president Richard Stearns said in a press release.

The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a ruling this afternoon allowing the Christian humanitarian organization World Vision to base its hiring decisions on matters of religious belief.

The CBN's research agency, in a study of partners and their giving, reported that as a result of their support of CBN and other religious organizations, partners found that «the volume of Christian mail coming into their homes is at times overwhelming... including what is described as a «redundant theme of financial crisis.»»

A review of the research suggests that the most effective uses of television in relation to those outside the normal reach of the Christian faith lie within the areas of imparting information about religious issues or organizations, the suggestion of religious questions for consideration by the viewer as applicable to his or her life, and the maintenance of a positive image in relation to general or specific religious issues or organizations.

So those who are posting and saying they belong to Christian organizations and volunteer to help others REALLY are better people than all the smugly «reasonable» posters whose venomous diatribes against having any religious belief make them sound like a logically mirrored reflection of a religious extremist.

They have passed from being a Christian organization into their own self - righteous «religious» cult.

Although GFI makes no attempt to obfuscate its own agenda as an activist evangelical Christian organization in its other, openly religious materials, parents who buy or are given the seemingly mainstream «Babywise» books have no way of knowing that the books» advice is based largely on GFI's own unique biblical interpretations.

[37] The campaign has support from both religious and non-religious organizations at both the national and local level including the Accord Coalition, the Association of Teachers and Lecturers, the British Humanist Association, British Muslims for Secular Democracy, ICoCo Foundation, the Centre for Studies on Inclusive Education, Ekklesia, the Hindu Academy, the Liberal Democrat Education Association, Richmond Inclusive Schools Campaign, the Runnymede Trust, the Socialist Educational Association, the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

The House tax reform bill fulfills a longtime goal of Christian conservatives by eliminating the ban on religious organizations making tax exempt political donations.