Sentences with phrase «protestant house churches»

Throughout 2013 dozens of Protestant house churches were shut down when they refused to come under the authority of the Three - Self Patriotic Movement, and hostility to them continues.

Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945 «1960: The Soul of Containment by William Inboden Cambridge University Press, 368 pages, $ 80 A few years ago the new American ambassador to Beijing was asked for his thoughts about China's persecution of underground Protestant house churches....

With more than 1,000 Protestant house churches meeting in Moscow alone, cracking down to the letter of the law will not be easy.

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The protestant churches also need to clean house.

Following on missives from Catholics to House Speaker John Boehner, from Catholics and evangelicals to Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan and from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to Congress as a whole, Protestant leaders such as the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, are advancing the argument that the GOP budget is an immoral document.

Latin American Protestant seminaries, theologians and publishing houses have a relatively limited space in which to move, work and think — in part because of the financial and ideological pressures of North American Christian churches, mission boards and societies.

Abingdon Press has recently published Spiritual Traditions for the Contemporary Church, based on lectures regarding Catholic and Protestant spiritual traditions under the aegis of Wesley Theological Seminary and the Domincan House of Studies in Washington, D.C..

In The Soul of the American University: From Protestant Establishment to Established Nonbelief (1994), Marsden offers an elegiac account of the way in which the effort by liberal Christians to identify Christian ideals with Western civilization may have served to make many church - related colleges and universities halfway houses on the way toward a secularity that Marsden sees as hostile to Christian influence.

The violence has spilled over into Ukraine, where leaders of the Evangelical Protestant Churches of Ukraine said that pro-Russian Orthodox militants had subjected their members to «abduction, beating, torture, murder threats, and damage to houses of worship, seizure of religious buildings, and damage to health and private property of the clergy,» the Free Beacon reported.

But this rather manipulative use of religious institutions scarcely applies to the Protestant churches since they are plainer and less exotic than other houses of worship and on the whole have minimal allure for the Western tourist.

In the past half century, the Protestant presence in Oaxaca has proliferated from a few isolated outposts to an impressive number of house churches, church buildings and Bible institutes.

The Begijnhof's complex of buildings includes two fifteenth - century churches later handed over to English and Scottish Protestants and a wooden house that is the oldest in Amsterdam.

The Protestant church is also tightly controlled by government authorities - it is thought that Protestant churches affiliated with the government have up to 15 million members but unofficial house churches may have up to 30 million.