Sentences with phrase «among religious leaders»

This project involves a partnership with select seminaries throughout the US to integrate science into their core curricula, with a goal of promoting a positive understanding of science among religious leaders and eventually the communities they serve.

Indeed, plans to build the Islamic center in the Cordoba House — a former Financial District Burlington Coat Factory — has drawn a firestorm of controversy among religious leaders and conservative politicians.

I always kind of wondered HOW she was caught in adultery, and if it wasn't some extra hypocrisy among the religious leaders, in that maybe the man she was «adulterating with» was one of them.

Indeed, judging by the reporting on the presidential campaign, it seems that in the absence of any substantive public debate on morality among religious leaders, media representatives have emerged as the new priesthood in our culture: they demand confessions of misconduct from public figures and then determine the seriousness of the sin and the degree of penance required for the sin to be forgiven.

Among the religious leaders of mankind this is a unique role.

At a meeting of the National Council of Churches he asked, not for any legal restriction but a «a voluntary agreement among religious leaders of all faiths that from now on they would not resort to conversions because the social logic of conversions is not valid now», that the promise of liberation from caste structure has not been fulfilled as proved by the fact that it persists in all religious communities; and any attempt to organize Hinduism as a religious community like others of the prophetic tradition has been a failure.

The growing consensus about human rights among religious leaders is a new development that has yet to be widely recognized and understood.

Not exact matches

Among those surprised by all of conservative TV host Glenn Beck's recent religious talk - including at Saturday's Washington rally, where Beck said that «America today begins to turn back to God,» - is the Rev. Richard Land, a Southern Baptist leader.

The Christian leaders had created the app to promote a document that urges opposition to abortion and gay marriage and support for religious liberty, among other positions.

A. W. Tozer, in his concern for the lack of the right kind of leadership in the church, wrote: Another kind of religious leader must arise among us.

He became somewhat popular among the crowds as a result, and certain religious leaders became nervous about some of the things he was saying, so they got the local government to arrest Josh.

While personal relationships could form across confessional lines» families hired servants from other communities, for example» and while some religious leaders encouraged respect and compassion for members of other faiths, the relationship among Christians, Muslims, and Jews was hardly a model of cooperation.

Among the colleagues and disciples of Sir Sayyid one of the most outstanding was the historian Shibli, who wrote scholarly biographies of the Holy Prophet and of several other religious leaders such as the Caliph Umar, Abu Hanifah, and Ghazali, thus awakening the Muslims of India to a sense of their glorious past.

For Muslim legislators, consensus is the agreement reached among qualified religious leaders in one place at one time.

Among other things, religious institutions have protections for their «internal governance» decisions, including choosing leaders and setting membership standards.

As for the reason Jesus was put to death, Cox locates the proximate cause not in humanity's sinfulness; nor in Jewish outrage over Jesus» claims to be the Son of God and the Way, the Truth, and the Life; nor in the jealousy of religious leaders threatened by Jesus» miracles (which Cox suggests were the fruit of positive thinking on the part of those who «feel» healed after touching Jesus); nor in his teachings (which Cox insists were uncontroversial among the Jews).

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

Look at America right now, religious leaders have a lot of sway among people, and in our democratic republic, it's fine.

Catholic bishops, among other religious leaders, see Buhari as «a man of integrity and decency who can fight corruption and Boko Haram,» John Bakeni, secretary of the Catholic diocese in Maiduguri, told RNS.

Participation could be seen as endorsing «false teaching» because some among the diverse group of religious leaders at the vigil hold beliefs different from those of synod.

Or are you actually saying the opposite, that Jesus was just being playful with the religious leaders, and although He NEVER said a good word about them He did in fact consider them to be among His genuine followers?

Since 2014, India has been led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a BJP leader notorious among Christians for permitting religious freedom violations to spread unchecked.

Pittenger also discriminates among the various kinds of response to Jesus: rejection «by the authorities of Church and State,» «puzzlement on the part of local religious leaders,» «the acceptance of the common people who heard him gladly,» and «the utter loyalty and devotion found in the circle of his disciples» (CR 76f).

Many religious leaders, as well as public officials, talk of friendship between church and state, and claim that in charging the government to be neutral regarding religion the founders meant «neutral among different sects.»

Wright, the bishop of Durham, has delivered among the most shallow and misleading speeches on the struggle against jihadism and Iraq that any prominent religious leader has given.

I am also concerned about the demonizing language that is common, not only among the leaders of Religious Right, but also among its critics.

While a small group of conservative evangelical leaders — including Samaritan's Purse's Franklin Graham, the National Religious Broadcasters» Jerry Johnson, and the American Center for Law and Justice's Jay Sekulow — have spoken out in defense of Trump's plan, the open letter in the Post further cemented the growing consensus among evangelical experts that Trump's executive order on refugees is unnecessary and harmful.

He is among the more than 70 religious leaders who have endorsed the Oct. 11 National Equality March on behalf of gay rights.

The Christian leaders created the app to promote a document urging opposition to abortion and gay marriage and support for religious liberty, among other positions.

Benedict Rogers, CSW's East Asia Team Leader said: «The rise of religious intolerance and the climate of fear among religious minorities was palpable, and the tension in Indonesia following the imprisonment of Ahok was obvious.»

Some other news about young people: 57 percent said that the primary reason they helped others was that it «makes them feel good personally»; 19 percent would not fight for their country under any circumstances, 24 percent were uncertain and 60 percent would not be willing to volunteer one year to serve their country; 17 percent could think of no famous person or celebrity they admired (only 1 percent admired Mother Teresa, and Donald Trump received a similar vote — indicating that religious and business leaders are among the least admired adults); 65 percent would cheat on a major exam in school, while 36 percent would lie to protect a friend who vandalized; 53 percent claimed that growing up for them is harder than it was for their parents (minority young people were more likely to say it was easier).

His claim is unique among all the religious leaders and prophets the world has ever known.

It appears that the people in Galilee were especially open to revolutionary appeals, sometimes of a political, sometimes of a religious, sort: Judas of Gamala (east of the Sea of Galilee) was known as a leader of the Zealots; among the disciples of Jesus appeared a Simon the Zealot, apparently a former member of the revolutionary party converted to Jesus.

Jewish leaders and religious and human - rights organizations around the country are concerned about an increase in anti-Semitism on college campuses and among the young in general.

«If the GOP House leadership gets tagged as gay friendly (as several influential religious right leaders like Tony Perkins are saying right now) that will depress turnout among these folks.»

«Admittedly, we came under intense persuasive pressure from genuinely concerned national, political, traditional, religious and cultural leaders prominent among which were; a section of the Northern Governors Forum under its Chairman, Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno state, northern traditional rulers and the Department of State Services DSS.

New York officials are revising the state's guidelines for instruction at private K - 12 schools, sparking concern among some religious and independent school leaders about possible government overreach.

The support from a coalition of religious leaders was aimed at countering the opposition to the bill from the Catholic Church and evangelical groups, among others.

In the same vein, the REC met with religious leaders at the INEC state office in Gausau recently, where she solicited for their support towards creating more awareness about the CVR among their followers.

In his first campaign, for the 2010 midterm elections, Grimm reportedly raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from supporters of Rabbi Yoshiyahu Yosef Pinto, the Israeli religious leader who counts many of the city's real estate heavyweights among his followers.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, has challenged traditional rulers and religious leaders to wake up to their responsibility of restoring moral values and discipline among the youth.

Nana Addo will among other activities pay a courtesy call on traditional and religious leaders in the region and thank them for their support in his victory.

For three days in December, scientists, medical professionals, teachers, engineers and Jewish religious leaders will be examining some profound questions at a conference in Miami - Dade County Among them: Can meditation be kosher?

A new study carried out by ecologists at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), among others, indicates that if the world's religious leaders wished to bring about a change, they would be ideally positioned to do so.

Intermarriage is a great concern among Jewish religious leaders.

A bridging leader is one who is skillful in forging a collaborative development process among conflicted stakeholders in a local area beset by social, political and religious divides.

The adult in the school who students would be most likely talk to about creating intra-group programs, among the following: a coach, a school counselor, a friend, a parent, a religious leader, a teacher, or somebody else.

He asks why, when Tony Blair acts to promote tolerance and understanding among communities, he reaches out to their religious leaders, rather than to those engaged in civil pursuits.

But the perils of Vader's journey into the unexplored Ghost Nebula are compounded by traitors among his crew and the presence of the system's religious leader, Lady Saro.

This of course causes consternation among politicians, religious leaders, morticians, and doctors.