Sentences with phrase «as a sanctuary for»

Also, the ruling board of Faith Church is presently studying a recommendation from a dozen members that the congregation serve as a sanctuary for political refugees from Central America.

As Riker's Island became empty of criminals, we could repurpose it as a sanctuary for homeless families or undocumented immigrant children.

At the rally, Adams and the CUNY representatives reaffirmed the city and university's commitment as sanctuaries for immigrants.

The shape of the appendix is perfectly suited as a sanctuary for bacteria: Its narrow opening prevents an influx of the intestinal contents, and it's situated inaccessibly outside the main flow of the fecal stream.

Our calming and restorative atmosphere serves as a sanctuary for our clients and a much needed escape from life's daily stresses.

He envisioned his site as a sanctuary for single Christians struggling to date online.

The office doubles as a sanctuary for kittens that need a little time to mature; a place for mother dogs and their new puppies to have a little peace and privacy; a place for a silly Chihuahua to socialize and possibly learn some manners.

Today, that temporary shelter continues to serve the community as a sanctuary for 145 cats and dogs as well as hosting numerous humane education programs and affordable spay and neuter surgeries for the public.

Designed as a sanctuary for lovers, you can enjoy the island air and the tropical Balinese breeze directly from the living room or step outside into your private garden to experience the soothing and effortless atmosphere that reflects your new found marriage.

In 2005, fewer than 10 birds were believed to be in the wild; a year later, FNPF, working closely with the dozens of villages on the island, effectively established Nusa Penida as a sanctuary for the birds.

This acclaimed elephant park was developed as a sanctuary for critically endangered Sumatran elephants affected by growing deforestation back in 2000 — each elephant has their own personal handler for caretaking!

Continuing in the spirit in which the Kruger National Park was created, Imbali acts as a sanctuary for the bush's creatures, great and small, and is in fact your very own bush sanctuary for the duration of your special Kruger National Park stay.

Elephant Nature Park offered us the opportunity to get up close and personal with elephants but acts as a sanctuary for the animals.

The zoo was created as a sanctuary for the country's indigenous species and is now home for an impressive array of large cats, primates, reptiles and birds.

The island served as the sanctuary for the goddess Ixchel, the Mayan Goddess of fertility, reason, medicine, happiness and the moon.

Flinders Chase is renowned as a sanctuary for native Australian animals including kangaroos, wallabies, koalas and echidnas.

Flinders Chase is internationally renowned as a sanctuary for a host of native goannas and more.

The island served as the sanctuary for the goddess Ixchel, the Maya goddess of the moon, fertility, medicine and happiness.

Set among the immaculately manicured lawns and beautiful garden, the spa is designed as a sanctuary for those who want to rejuvenate the body and soul.

Most collectors think of their homes as sanctuaries for art, but danger lurks.

Extending this thematic, new nightlife pictures present underground club venues frequented by the artist as sanctuaries for free expression and even protest, offering a subtle counterpoint to the flood of uniform party pictures that now clutter social media.

A spokesperson for Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) said: «The exhibition references the gallery as former dwelling, but also the sense of YSP as a sanctuary for many and our continued work with hard - to - reach communities, including those who have made the region their home whether by choice or forced migration.»

The artist Theaster Gates is creating his first permanent outdoor commission ever, a structure in the form of a small, circular Renaissance temple that he hopes will serve as a sanctuary for the community.

(2005) «The Spa Casts a Spell» — Article presenting spa as sanctuary for modern lifestyle.

The near term interest in becoming homeowners among single family tenants reflects the new roles single family rentals are fulfilling as a stepping stone to homeownership for first - time buyers and as a sanctuary for large numbers of families displaced by foreclosures but who plan to buy again when they can afford to do so.

Not exact matches

The surprise acquittal of Jose Ines Garcia Zarate in the shooting death of San Francisco woman Kate Steinle set off a firestorm of outrage Thursday night, as top conservatives and critics of so - called «sanctuary cities» pinned blame for Steinle's death on illegal immigration and insufficiently aggressive deportation policies.

He cited America's history of giving «sanctuary to desperate children for centuries,» the «blight on our national reputation» when we refused to accept Jewish children fleeing the Nazis in 1939, and his Christian faith as reasons for the decision.

With state police and a smattering of protesters standing watch outside the church, brides clad in white and grooms in dark suits brought dozens of unloaded AR - 15s into World Peace and Unification Sanctuary for a religious event that doubled as an advertisement for the Second Amendment.»

This step may not only apply to China itself but also Hong Kong — a Chinese special administrative region and autonomous territory, that has become a sanctuary for dozens of Blockchain - based and crypto - related businesses as it was independent of the legislative decisions on cryptocurrency made in China.

The Turtle Hospital in Marathon doubles as a tourist attraction and sanctuary, where vets care for wounded sea turtles and educators give hourly tours of their 53 patients, including one young turtle named Irma after the storm washed it onshore when it was just a hatchling.

With massive and increasing structural deficits; exploding debt in all sectors; hostile demographics; social and political fracturing and disintegration; grotesque wealth inequality; extraordinary global trade competition; a complete collapse of respect for vital government organizations such as the Justice Department and FBI, which the people now realize have gone rogue; an extremely complex and corrosive global geopolitical environment; the real prospect of war, potentially nuclear and worldwide; not to mention numerous additional factors, we can only point to few other times in history more dangerous to the people's financial welfare, and therefore more overall bullish for gold, one of the only financial sanctuaries proven to work in times of dislocation.

Nestled in the picturesque Bavarian Alps, Ettal became a sanctuary for Bonhoeffer as he found himself zwischen den Zeiten — still officially a pastor of the Confessing Church charged with training ordinands for ministry, yet drawn inexorably into a conspiracy against Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime.

It was also the fact that the replica Holy House of Nazareth depicted for them their profound and long - held appreciation for the homestead as the sanctuary of family rights and duties founded on sacramental matrimony.

Here's a few quotes: Making a bold, expensive commitment to downtown, First Baptist Church of Dallas announced plans Sunday for a $ 130 million building program, with a new 3,000 - seat sanctuary as the centerpiece.

So he pointed to the well - known ruins of the earlier sanctuary of Shiloh as a sign that the Jerusalem temple too was destined for destruction, for the religious practices in it were leading Israel into a false faith, dishonesty and immorality.

A better measure of the strength of a congregation as a vehicle for maturing would be the number and proportion of the adult membership that meet in groups — disciple schooling, soma, and mission - support — outside the sanctuary at other times of the week.

Dropping the mic would necessitate cultivating the art of classical oratory as well as constructing sanctuaries designed to carry the human voice, just as the use of the microphone (I would suggest) has relegated homiletics to an afterthought for many seminarians and encouraged uninspired ecclesiastical architecture.

As in the Abraham stories, so too in the Jacob narratives, the sacredness and often the very name of ancient Canaanite sanctuaries are attributed to the visit of a patriarch to the scene, as witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claiAs in the Abraham stories, so too in the Jacob narratives, the sacredness and often the very name of ancient Canaanite sanctuaries are attributed to the visit of a patriarch to the scene, as witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claias witness, only for example, the stories of Bethel (28) and Peniel (32) This too contributes somewhat more subtly to the validation of Israel's claim.

Thus, all of the major sanctuaries of Israel are associated with experiences of the patriarchs, as, for example, Jacob at Bethel (28:10 ff.).

Carmo Rodeia, one of the sanctuary managers at the site, was quoted by AFP as saying 40,000 walkers, 2,000 journalists, 2,000 clergy and 350 patients hoping for healing will attend the pope's visit.

As the choir sang «Amen» I went to the door of the sanctuary, and as the congregation began to file out I prayed, «Lord, let now your servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation.&raquAs the choir sang «Amen» I went to the door of the sanctuary, and as the congregation began to file out I prayed, «Lord, let now your servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation.&raquas the congregation began to file out I prayed, «Lord, let now your servant depart in peace; for my eyes have seen your salvation.»

Traditionally, churches are viewed as sanctuaries — safe - havens for immigrants, where federal authorities will not enter — it's not necessarily that they can't, but they don't.

It is a portable sanctuary, for they are still a pilgrim people destined to wander for some forty years as nomads in the wilderness, learning, worshiping, preparing for the day when they claim the Land of the Promise and make it their holy land forever.

Obviously the intent of the sermon is close to the intent of the text: to create a living image that can be carried from the sanctuary as a source of power for living and as a lens through which to interpret the world.

However, on Sunday evening, the church sanctuary was opened as a memorial for the public to pay their respects to the slain congregation.

For many moderns, Kant was a place of refuge, but Freud, the «master of suspicion,» invaded that sanctuary as well.

He may eat his God's food, some of the most sacred as well as the sacred, only he must not approach the Veil, nor come near the altar, because he has a defect in him, lest he profane my sanctuary; for it is I, the Lord, who consecrate [Lev.

This mixed reality holds true for those seated in the sanctuary as well as those standing in the nave.

On the one side, it is possible for the church to let the rest of the world go by — and for the minister to concern himself mainly with his pulpit robe equipment, the shape of the baptistry, the architecture of the sanctuary, and perhaps the related facilities such as the educational rooms and the kitchens.

So it was that Marie Louise Weissenbock and a handful of other Austrian tourists came to tour the Israeli settlement of Shilo, where the Bible says the sanctuary for the tablets on which the Ten Commandments were written — a place known as the Tabernacle - resided for nearly four centuries.