Sentences with phrase «church over the legislation»

The hiring comes as the bill remains stalled in the Republican - controlled Senate amid opposition from scouting organizations and the Catholic Church over the legislation's impact.

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We face, in effect, a modern version of the Penal Laws, the legislation which for well over a century systematically excluded Catholics from public life by requiring them to publicly deny various parts of the Faith or to take Communion in the Anglican Church before they could hold certain jobs.
This amendment granted the Church additional powers over its own governance, enabling it - through the Synod, to bring forth its own legislation, and even to amend Acts of Parliament on matters affecting it.
Terzungwe Samuel Ali and Shimakyaa Iorkyase, President General and Secretary of Mdzough U Tiv, in a press statement in Kaduna said, «In their quest to resist the anti-open grazing legislation already operational in Benue State and take over the State as threatened on 23rd October 2017 and reported by the Leadership Newspaper of 24th October, 2017, on 1st of January 2018 at about 10:00 am, Fulani Herdsmen mindlessly attacked peaceful and harmless Church Goers in Gaambe - Tiev, Ayilamo and Turan in Logo Local Government Area.
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