Sentences with phrase «against a faith group»

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As truckloads of equipment arrived at the fair organised by the Defence and Security Equipment International in East London in September 2017, Quakers were among faith groups protesting against arms trade and profiting from war.

Despite the clamour for places, there are prominent campaigns from the country's major secularist groups against faith schools.

Do a personal or group study around Forgive Us: Confessions of a Compromised Faith by Soong - Chan Rah, Mae Elise Cannon, Lisa Sharon Harper, and Troy Jackson This powerful book provides historical information, reflection, and prayers around Christian complicity in sins against God's creation, indigenous people, African Americans and people of color, women, the LGBTQ community, immigrants, Jews and Muslims.

The conservative campaign against self - described «pro-life» Democratic lawmakers has spurred a handful of relatively new left - leaning faith groups to come to their defense.

lol, yes clay i am an atheist... i created the sun whorshipping thing to have argument against religion from a religious stand point... however, the sun makes more sense then something you can't see or feel — the sun also gives free energy... your god once did that for the jews, my gives it to the human race as well as everything else on the planet, fuk even the planet is nothing without the sun... but back to your point — yes it is very hypocritical of me, AND thats the point, every religious person i have ever met has and on a constant basis broken the tenets of there faith without regard for there souls — it seems to only be the person's conscience that dictates what is right and wrong... the belief in a god figure is just because its tradition to and plus every else believes so its always to be part of the group instead of an outsider — that is sadly human nature to be part of the group.

While experts warn against exaggerating how much religious groups can do, the turn to faith - based groups is a fact of life.

If they are going to give taxpayer money to faith groups, then those groups should not be allowed to discriminate against any taxpayer as far as employment or services.

The new requirement is one of many changes that were recently made, which also saw Free Schools become unable to teach against the scientific consensus, and also a check placed on plans for faith groups to take over Academies without a religious character.

Indiscriminate violence against minorities as well as other Muslims by extremists groups who abuse the Islamic faith negates every visionary word Jinnah had uttered about the future secular and peaceful destiny of the country on the eve of its creation.

At noon, the #NoCuts Coalition, an alliance of dozens of grass - roots groups, civic organizations, faith leaders and labor unions rally against the Trump administration's proposed budget cuts to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, 26 Federal Plaza, Manhattan.

Read St James's consultation: http://www.stjames.tgacademy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/finalconsultation.pdf Read the BHA's correspondence with the Academy and Diocese: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BHA-correspondence-with-Tudor-Grange-Academy-Solihull.pdf Read Tudor Grange's affiliation agreement with the Diocese of Birmingham: http://www.tudor-grange.solihull.sch.uk/images/docs/draftjul11.doc Read the relevant section of the Equality Act 2010: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/85 Visit the local campaign's Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/150736215077978/ View the petition against the plans: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tudor-grange-admissions-policy Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-schools/ Read the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

Peers spoke out against the continuing power of «faith» schools to discriminate in admissions, the appointment of governors and the employment of staff, about homophobic bullying, about extremist (including creationist) groups setting up Free Schools with unbalanced curricula, about the need to repeal laws on collective worship and about the need to maintain community cohesion.

For the past decade, trade unions representing thousands of workers, student unions, faith groups and local councils have mobilised to end UK complicity with Israel's repeated violations of international law in its policies against Palestinians.

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.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

Make a Climate Action Contribution on behalf of a US city, state, tribe, university, faith group, business, or cultural institution, and take part in a national effort to step up the fight against climate change and show the world, We Are Still In.

Faith groups are vocal in their contribution to the fight against climate change.

A group of long - standing GM franchisees in the Greater Toronto Area brought an action against various GM companies for breach of the duty of good faith.

His other significant success in the area of insurance bad faith include a verdict in Kieffer v. Unum Group in the amount of $ 4.3 million, including $ 3 million in punitive damages; and settlements of $ 6.75 million, $ 3 million and $ 2.9 million against various insurers who acted in bad faith.

(a) the complaint or that part of the complaint is not within the jurisdiction of the tribunal; (b) the acts or omissions alleged in the complaint or that part of the complaint do not contravene this Code; (c) there is no reasonable prospect that the complaint will succeed; (d) proceeding with the complaint or that part of the complaint would not (i) benefit the person, group or class alleged to have been discriminated against, or (ii) further the purposes of this Code; (e) the complaint or that part of the complaint was filed for improper motives or made in bad faith; (f) the substance of the complaint or that part of the complaint has been appropriately dealt with in another proceeding; (g) the contravention alleged in the complaint or that part of the complaint occurred more than 6 months before the complaint was filed unless the complaint or that part of the complaint was accepted under section 22 (3).

Michael Powner, partner at Charles Russell, says: «The judgment will attract criticism from Christian groups who perceive that recent cases balancing the Christian faith against other protected characteristics (such as sexual orientation) have gone too far in favour of the latter.

United Policyholders and other pro-consumer groups have been advocating for the New York State Legislature to pass a bad faith bill that allows for insureds who are successful in litigation against their insurance companies based on a claim denial to recover attorney's fees.