Sentences with phrase «actions of religious organizations»

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He also founded the Center for Action and Contemplation in Albuquerque, New Mexico, an organization that encourages acts of justice rooted in prayer and respect for other religious traditions.

Austin, while the list of recognized civil rights varies, activities and actions, including religious practice and organization of the family unit (number of children, marriage) have been a core element since at least the original UN declarations.

AA is a program of action not a cult or religious organization.

It goes on to call for recognizing the legitimacy of a religious worldview «as a basis for socially significant action (including those taken by state) and as an essential factor which should influence the development (amendment) of international law and the work of international organizations.»

On the other hand, the concern among religious organizations for a responsible society often is articulated ineffectively owing to limited resources and to the diffuse results of piecemeal efforts at «social - action» projects.

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.

The bottom line is that every organization and institution — whether political, economic, or religious, from large corporations and entire nations to small country churches and individual households — have a «tenor» or a «way of doing things» that define, characterize, guide, and even justify the actions and attitudes of that particular structure.

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.

Viewers are more likely to express influences of religious programs in actions which are proximate to the television screen, such as contacting or subscribing to a religious broadcast organization rather than through the more distant option of initiating a relationship with a neighborhood church.

Rockland Human Rights Commissioner Constance Frazier is already engaged in a renewed plan of action that will include faith - based organizations, community groups from all corners of our county, religious leaders and everyone else interested in promoting understanding and respect.

Called «Many Heavens, One Earth,» the meeting is intended to generate commitments for actions by religious organizations, congregants and countries that could reduce emissions of greenhouse gases or otherwise limit the human impact on the environment.

Happily, in America this question has already been asked and answered by a number of major religious organizations and evangelical groups that are on record as both accepting the science of climate change and supporting action at the public - policy level.

Interfaith Power & Light is an organization helping thousands of diverse religious congregations limit their carbon emissions and organize campaigns to urge lawmakers to take action on climate change.

Since we have agreed that I accept (at least provisionally, as far as the powerfully augmented eye can see) an expanding Universe and am therefore clearly religious about physics and mathematics and reason if nothing else, can you explain to me how God isn't something and yet is capable of things like sentience, action, choice, design, starting off Big Bangs out of nothingness — all things that seem to involve a remarkably high degree of material complexity and organization (not to mention time, and space and energy)-- not to mention various Amazing Powers to make an entire Universe poof into existence out of nowhere with just the right rules to work out to become (in very small part) me some 14 billion years later.

Religious activists and organizations gathered August 29 outside the White House as part of a two - week protest called Tar Sands Action, which is aimed at pressuring President Obama to reject a proposed oil pipeline from Canada to the Gulf Coast.

More recently, there have been several cases in which class actions have been certified for claims arising out of historical sexual abuse and, in particular, sexual abuse claims against private schools, religious organizations and government - run facilities.