Sentences with phrase «action against the church»

Here was no proletarian revolution, but an almost medieval turning to the State for action against the Church — only this time it was not a sovereign versus an archbishop, both competing for power.

His victim, who is now in his 40s, is taking legal action against the Church of England for personal injury caused as a result of the abuse suffered.

Undercover, the church woman are up against the odds, and the criminals are taking action against the church.

The plaintiff Randy Wall brought action against the church that he had been a member of since 1980 until his expulsion in 2014, and succeeded on the basis that the Churches» disfellowshipped» was procedurally unfair.

My then firm was acting for a Conservative member of Parliament, Sir Geoffrey Johnson Smith, in an action against the Church of Scientology for libel.

Not exact matches

Her decision to leave the church comes the same week the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction barring the Obama administration from implementing a policy of deferring deportation actions against more than 4 million undocumented immigrants.

The LDS Church has policies in place, and has taken action against the wayward person.

The article is saying the the Mormon church is enforcing its policy of not performing vicarious baptisms of holocaust victims and is apologizing and taking corrective action based on a single runaway member doing something that was clearly against the rules.

Aware and concerned, the progressive church moves beyond itself in word and deed, but it tends to stop, short of an analysis - of and actions - against the strictures of injustice, even while it promotes programs to alleviate misery.

In the RCC, the abuse has NOTHING to do with the actual religion & the church has taken much, much action against all the abuse and abusers.

The actions of this church were unchristian, against the very foundations of faith.

It would appear to be something of a shock, not to say disappointment, to The Tablet's mindset, but a Catholic who has acted against Church teaching does not necessarily join that magazine in attempting to justify their action through dissent.

Nearly everyone in the church I was pastoring counseled us against such an action.

He's also keen to state he's not against social action: «I want mercy ministry to occur in our churches.

For example, in the case of the Action for Children «s Television call for a ban on commercials for children too young to discriminate, or the church «s protest against excessive and gratuitous violence, the criticism was aimed at a class of programming rather than against an individual program.

The church's prophetic word must be heard in the public sector, searing in judgment against those actions, both individual and systemic, which continue patterns of oppression based on strength or race or sex or tradition.

The only action taken against those who deny God's truth or continue to sin in rebelion to God is to removve them from the church and treat them as non believers.

It is this kind of «hate - speech» which led to the burning down of 77 churches in Norway by militant atheists and which at the most extreme end of the atheist movement leads to comments such as this from the Church Arson website «Any intelligent Antichrist methodology at that point will involve a consolidation of strength, public education in the ways of science and logic for our individual members, and actions taken against the remaining believers.

Church authorities have taken action against some theologians who have dissented from the official teaching on matters of sexual morality.

Through personal action and public pronouncements, these agency people led the church into the forefront of the fight against social injustice.

A conservative Church of England group is calling for action against the Bishop of Buckingham after he spoke out in favour of gay marriage.

The leaders of two of Britain's major church denominations have urged the government to think twice before agreeing to take part in military action against Islamic State (IS).

In the first of a three part series on Christian involvement in social action, Sam Hailes investigates the ways in which today's Church is joining the fight against...

Rabbi David Saperstein, director of the Religious Action Centre of Reform Judaism, also testified, as did the National Council of Churches, the Episcopal Church and a group of evangelical Protestants who signed a statement warning against global warming.

The Alliance of Evangelical Churches even pledged to take action against Christians who «distort [Jesus» gospel]» by not pursuing reconciliation, stating:

He thinks that the recent swell in political interest is due to more churches getting involved in social action over the past 20 years, from running foodbanks with the Trussell Trust to working with Christians Against Poverty (CAP) in alleviating debt.

Malaysia bans non-Muslim publications from using «Allah,» Episcopal church takes disciplinary action against two conservative bishops, and April issue to be CCM magazine's last.

The alleged subordination of the gospel to Karl Marx is illustrated, for example, by charging that «false» liberation theology concentrates too much on a few selected biblical texts that are always given a political meaning, leading to an overemphasis on «material» poverty and neglecting other kinds of poverty; that this leads to a «temporal messianism» that confuses the Kingdom of God with a purely «earthly» new society, so that the gospel is collapsed into nothing but political endeavor; that the emphasis on social sin and structural evil leads to an ignoring or forgetting of the reality of personal sin; that everything is reduced to praxis (the interplay of action and reflection) as the only criterion of faith, so that the notion of truth is compromised; and that the emphasis on communidades de base sets a so - called «people's church» against the hierarchy.

A rally against church teaching on the divinity of Jesus by the Student Unitarian Action Coalition

The church said it is «committed to taking action against individual abusers by suspending the submitter's access privileges,» the statement continued.

As for mine, with all the reaction that has often been in evidence, I see the basic action of the churches as against reaction and for progress.

In the language of the World Council of Churches, his actions against the people and the natural communities in the Korean peninsula were actions against the integrity of creation.

Dr. Scranton also took action against the pastor of the church, warning him not to make any political protests against the Japanese colonialization of Korea.

And after reading everyone's posts against Mormon Church's stance and statements and actions... If you «still» don't understand, well, we can see what more you have to say.

But the Catholic church has tried to cover it up, pretend it never happened, and refuses to take action against these criminals.

Their group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, etc..

The indigenous elements were the waning aftermath of Lollardy, earnestly religious humanists, resentment against interference in Church life by the Popes, the decisive action of monarchs, and native leadership.

The United Church of Christ has continually played an active part in media advocacy, devoting much of the time of their Office of Communication to media criticism, lobbying, and organizing community and legal - action groups against the television industry on behalf of disenfranchised groups.

In the first of a three part series on Christian involvement in social action, Sam Hailes investigates the ways in which today's Church is joining the fight against UK poverty.

It's too politically charged, and most church's are political organizations, by taking action against over the top fire arms, he would be doing exactly what he trying to prevent doing in the article, lose followers.

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

Church leaders are taking legal action against a bus operator which refused to display an advertisement promoting the true meaning of Christmas.

The Church takes action against your membership in it for breaking their standards), but on the wide scale that can be quite the generalization.

Police in Tema have given the founder and leader of the International Godsway Church, Bishop Daniel Obinim 24 hours to honour their invitation or they'll be forced to take action against him.

The Orthodox church in Greece protested loudly against the removal of religion from the ID - card, and yet I can not find any rational argument supporting their actions other than trying to hang on to the privileged position of that church and its followers in the Greek state - effectively hanging on to the ability to treat non Christian Orthodox citizens as lesser citizens.

Organizations Supporting the Fossil Fuel Divestment Act: 350.org NRDC Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter Citizens Campaign for the Environment Clearwater Food & Water Watch Citizen Action of NY 350NYC NYS Council of Churches Catskill Citizens for Safe Energy Catskill Mountainkeeper Citizens Environmental Coalition of NY Fossil Free & Green NY Green Education and Legal Fund Greenfaith Healthcare Without Harm Jews Against Fracking NY Interfaith Power & Lights People for Animal Rights Plan to Save the Planet, Albany Renewable Energy Long Island Rochester People's Climate Coalition Syracuse Cultural Workers Syracuse Peace Council

Faith groups, low - income residents, anti-hunger groups, and Congressman Paul Tonko assembled today in Albany at Emmanuel Baptist Church for the annual Thanksgiving Action Against Hunger.

In addition to Citizen Action, a variety of other groups hosted the event including Albany Democratic Socialists, Albany Jewish Voices for Peace, Albany Social Justice Center, Alliance for Quality Education, Bethlehem Neighbors for Peace, the Capital District Coalition Against Islamophobia, Center for Law and Justice, the New York State Labor Religion Coalition and the New York State Council of Churches.

Coming up against the church «s stonewalling, documents that have been made unavailable or have strangely disappeared, and a sleazy attorney in the D.A «s office (Billy Crudup, «Public Enemies»), the team reaches out to Phil Saviano (Neal Huff, «The Grand Budapest Hotel») who heads an organization dedicated to supporting abuse victims as well as attorney Mitchell Garabedian (Stanley Tucci, «Transformers: Age of Extinction») who represents victims that are suing the church in a class - action lawsuit and is an important source of information.

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