Sentences with phrase «building by a religious group»

Without intending any any disrespect to your contention, I wonder how the use of a school building by a religious group at a time or day when students and teachers are not using it is likely to result in a situation in which the «religious group becomes identified with the school, which appears to be promoting that brand of religion».

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The country has long been considered a model of tolerance, but religious tensions in the past few years — including the demolition of 20 churches, protests over attacks on Christians by Islamist extremists, and a law requiring minority religious groups to collect signatures from local majority groups before building churches — highlight the country's increasing struggles to maintain harmony between its religious groups.

Special attention should be given to the practice of scheduling religious services and to the use of Church buildings by these groups, including the facilities of Catholic schools and colleges.

To be sure, neutrality governs this result: the cathedral is not safe because it is a religious building; it is safe because it is a building valued by a politically powerful constituent group.

Burleigh builds a conclusive case that those most responsible for paving the way for Auschwitz were not Christians reading and preaching the gospel but instead were atheists, apostates, and revolutionaries who promoted a «hatred against the Lord and His Christ nourished by groups subversive to any religious and social order,» as the papal encyclical Dilectissima Nobis (1933) put it.

Some religious people offer their big buildings to be used by other groups.

They are opening in former office blocks and libraries and Grade II listed buildings, being set up in England by religious groups and groups behind existing academies as well as by some parents and teachers.

The New York Times this week published an investigative report about the financial practices of a sizable group of Texas charter schools being operated by the followers of Fethullah Gulen, a Turkish Islamic religious leader «whose devotees have built a worldwide religious, social and nationalistic movement in his name.»

By focusing on ornamental details scattered throughout Jerusalem, the exhibition demonstrates the influence and cross-pollination of aesthetic ideas between ethnic and religious groups that are embedded in the built environment.