Sentences with phrase «general council in»

In 2011 she won the First Prize in Paliss» art, a contemporary painting prize organized by La Source, Gérard Garouste and Eure's General Council in Évreux, France.

(10) While this «Position paper» (and others since issued) does not hold the constitutional status of the Statement of Fundamental Truths approved by the AGs highest body, the biennial General Council in session (typically four to nine thousand voters), the paper does bear the approval of the (roughly two hundred man - no women) General and Executive Presbyteries all of whom are elected by General Council membership.

At our General Council in Hungary next summer, we will have the honor of welcoming Cardinal Cassidy and Monsignor Radano as ecumenical guests.

The United Church of Canada, one third of it Presbyterian at its inauguration in 1925, at its 32nd General Council in l988, after much study and years of hot debate, made the kind of decision in the face of this issue that ought at least to be considered by other ecclesial communities facing it.

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FRANKFURT - General Council meeting of the ECB in Frankfurt.

At the meeting in New York, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged all members of the Security Council to exercise restraint and avoid escalation in Syria, but said allegations of chemical weapons use demands an investigation.

«Altria has already been preparing for any reasonable potential standard, and we plan to participate in every step of this process,» said Murray Garnick, the company's executive vice president and general council.

Last month the Canadian high - tech lobby group Information and Communication Technology Council along with Music Canada jointly made the case for increased government support of arts education, especially music, on the basis that music students «performed better in general intelligence skills such as literacy, verbal memory, mathematics and IQ,» are more creative and have better social skills.

U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged all Security Council members to exercise restraint and avoid escalation in Syria, but said allegations of chemical weapons use demand an investigation.

In a statement, UN Secretary - General Antonio Guterres called on the Security Council to reach an agreement on the «continued use of chemical weapons» in Syria and cautioned the situation could quickly spiral out of control if it didn'In a statement, UN Secretary - General Antonio Guterres called on the Security Council to reach an agreement on the «continued use of chemical weapons» in Syria and cautioned the situation could quickly spiral out of control if it didn'in Syria and cautioned the situation could quickly spiral out of control if it didn't.

In addition, Gunnar Kilian, who until now has served as Secretary - General of the Volkswagen Group Works Council, has been appointed the new member of the Group Board of Management for Human Resources.

With 14 votes in the U.N. General Assembly, the region can be key to Canada's 2020 bid for a non-permanent U.N. Security Council seat.

The school of today is a far cry from the original days as the Faculty of Business, which was created by a narrow margin of just one vote in a General Faculty Council decision in May of 1967.

Stonecrest's City Council voted to de-annex 345 acres of land and asked the Georgia General Assembly to officially rename the property in the tech giant's honor.

Karen's background in public policy, communications, strategic planning, and issues management is founded on previous roles with Spectra Energy's Canadian LNG group, Westport Innovations, the United States Consulate General (Vancouver), and the Business Council of British Columbia.

General Electric said in a statement that it «has no tolerance for hate, bigotry or racism,» but added that its chairman and recently - retired chief executive, Jeff Immelt, will remain on the manufacturing council from which Mr. Frazier resigned.

At the most recent General Assembly of the World Council of Churches, in Vancouver in 1983, the theological significance of other religious traditions still remained a controversial issue.

Many people find more meaning in city councils and voting for school boards than they do for national elections, but they all say local politics make them more passionate about politics in general.

Rev Tim's new duties will include supporting the Archbishop of Canterbury's work in the House of Bishops, General Synod and the Archbishop's Council.

It was the second day of the 53rd General Council of the Assemblies of God (AG), and Noel Roberts was having an unhappy lunch in the makeshift food court at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando.

On a spring day in April 1914, 300 Pentecostal saints met in the Grand Opera House of Hot Springs, Arkansas, to form the General Council of the Assemblies of God.

From a general as well as from the pastoral point of view it would be wrong to assume that the Church in the various countries needed only to follow the directives of the Council willingly and exactly in order to fulfill her God - given task in this time.

The controversy raged for two years, the final showdown coming in the 1916 General Council, where trinitarians won by a decisive two - thirds vote.

There is a limit to what we can do with ourselves on our own (Pelagius gave too much of the job to us and not enough to God, according to the fifth - century Council of Carthage that declared him heretical), but in general humans are called to actively participate in the mysterious enterprise of being changed by way of grace into Christlike beings.

KANU General Secretary and Minister of Education Aringo accused the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK), the umbrella organization of most Protestant denominations in the country, of being riddled with anti-government agitators».

Mainline Protestant leaders appeared to take an important step toward joining this movement in November when Robert Edgar, general secretary of the Nation Council of Churches, signed a statement calling on churches to do a better job of articulating God's purposes for marriage, supporting married couples, and proclaiming the good news about marriage to the wider society.

World government proponents were deeply ambivalent about the formation of the UN after World War II, recognizing that in important respects it entrenched the nation - state by creating a General Assembly based on national representation and a Security Council reflecting the conventional notion of Great Powers.

Thus the most heated debates in recent General Councils of the Assemblies of God have centered on efforts to qualify local sovereignty in favor of district and national cCouncils of the Assemblies of God have centered on efforts to qualify local sovereignty in favor of district and national councilscouncils.

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

We don't know what he specifically thought of it, but we know a great deal about what he thought of the Council in general, for he devoted a kind of guidebook to it, for the instruction and practice of his diocese of Krakow (The English translation is Sources of Renewal: The Implementation of Vatican II).

On a spring day in April 1914, 300 Pentecostal saints met in the Grand Opera House of Hot Springs, Arkansas, to form the General Council...

In Geneva he talked with Visser» t Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, who asked him, «What do you pray for in these days?&raquIn Geneva he talked with Visser» t Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, who asked him, «What do you pray for in these days?&raquin these days?»

There are also reports from the island of Halmahera in North Maluku of Christian militia training to fight Muslims.Last week Konrad Raiser, general secretary of the World Council of Churches, in Geneva, called on the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson, to make an immediate, investigative visit to the Maluku islands.

But the Council has never issued an apology and the religious left in general has never been called to account for its spiritual lend - lease to totalitarian regimes.

Rev. Bao Jiayuan is Associate General Secretary of the China Christian Council and Director of the office located in Nanjing, China.

Article 8 of the «Statement of Fundamental Truths» of the General Council of the Assemblies of God states, «The baptism of believers in the Holy Ghost is witnessed by the initial physical sign of speaking with other tongues as the Spirit of God gives them utterance (Acts 2:4).»

Philip Potter, the then Director of the Commission on World Mission and Evangelism of the World Council of Churches (who in 1972 became its General Secretary), wrote in the International Review of Missions explaining the reason why that particular theme had been chosen.

The new emphasis on the world challenged the hitherto church - centric view of mission that had been developing in the International Missionary Council and the ecumenical movement in general.

This general view finds its fullest and clearest New Testament expression in the Fourth Gospel, was elaborated in the great creedal discussions of several centuries later, and was finally and definitively formulated by the Council of Chalcedon in 451: «One and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only begotten, acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of the natures being by no means taken away because of the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved and concurring in one person.

In his opening address to the World Conference on Church and Society, Visser» t Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, said, «We do not speak because we want to have a say in the affairs of the world, but because we can not live with God, with other fellowmen, with ourselves, if we keep silent»In his opening address to the World Conference on Church and Society, Visser» t Hooft, General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, said, «We do not speak because we want to have a say in the affairs of the world, but because we can not live with God, with other fellowmen, with ourselves, if we keep silent»in the affairs of the world, but because we can not live with God, with other fellowmen, with ourselves, if we keep silent».

Presbyterian general assemblies are not universal councils of the church, and setting agendas and shaping deliberations in concert with other churches and their councils would help to avoid the conceit that authority in the church belongs to a voting majority of seven hundred commissioners.

The general overview of the heresies and the church's orthodox responses in Know the Heretics and Know the Creeds and Councils should make it clear how messy the pursuit for theological truth can be.

Inasmuch as the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV) Bible sponsored by the National Council of Churches has been out since 1989, the TNIV is playing «catch up» on avoiding male terms when gender - inclusive words are valid translations or when humans in general were meant.

This book had its origin in lectures at the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches in Claremont, California, in 1952 and the Nathaniel W. Taylor lectures at the Yale Divinity School in 1953.

Nonetheless he was an imaginative orthodox thinker, in the sense that he combined a commitment to orthodox church teaching (of the first four General Ecumenical Councils) with a thoughtful and creative application of ecumenical orthodoxy.

In the light of this, it is fortunate that a foundation for joint action was laid in a statement adopted by the General Board of the National Council of Churches in 195In the light of this, it is fortunate that a foundation for joint action was laid in a statement adopted by the General Board of the National Council of Churches in 195in a statement adopted by the General Board of the National Council of Churches in 195in 1958.

20 Konrad Raiser, «Report of the General Secretary,» in Diane Kessler, ed., Together on the Way: Official Report of the Eighth Assembly of the World Council of Churches (Geneva: WCC Publications, 1999), p. 87.

The General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, in his address to the 1998 Harare Assembly uses the word «conversion» in relation to the churches themselves and asks: «The ecumenical jubilee is... a call to conversion, to repentance and critical self - assessment, acknowledging the accumulated guilt and coresponsibility in dividing the body of Christ.

In the summer of 1952 the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches was forced to take a vote on the propriety of the activities of its Council for Social Action.

Konrad Raiser, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, uses it to describe, a change in theological perspective which affects the whole range of ecumenical work.1 His colleague and former student Martin Robra applies it specifically to a change in perspective on social ethics in World Council work.2 K.C. Abraham describes it as a change in theological and ethical perspective brought about by the participation of the Third World in the ecumenical movement.3 They all make important points.