Sentences with phrase «by missionaries in»

The Yang Tao had its name changed to «Chinese gooseberry» after being introduced to New Zealand by missionaries in the early 1900s.

The Yang Tao had its name changed to «Chinese gooseberry» after being introduced to New Zealand by missionaries in the early 1900s.

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This documentary made by the late Sydney Pollack looks at the little - known two - night live recordings Aretha Franklin did with LA's New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in 1972 for her best - selling album «Amazing Grace,» which was released the same year.

By aligning the individual's goals with those of the company, you will turn a mercenary (someone who works for the top dollar) into a missionary (someone who believes in and is loyal to the organization).

TQM was demonstrated on a grand scale by Japanese industry through the intervention of W. Edwards Deming — who, in consequence, and thanks to his missionary labors in the U.S. and across the world, has come to be viewed as the «father» of quality control, quality circles, and the quality movement generally.

He explained that the belief stems partly from «letters sent by Pope Gregory in which he encouraged his missionaries to change existing temples into Christian places of worship in the hope that natives would continue to attend and be converted that way».

An Australian church leader has published his reasons for participating in the controversial consecration of a missionary bishop for Europe by the conservative Anglican group, GAFCON.

He was shot in the back by several men (not just one) while sojourning as a missionary in the deep south.

A British explorer who went missing in Papua New Guinea three weeks ago has been saved by a Christian missionary.

He hoped to reach a remote tribe, thought to be one of the last on Earth to have no contact with the outside world, but was discovered by a Christian missionary worker at a remote airstrip in the heart of the country where roads have been cut off because of tribal fighting.

An Italian missionary who was abducted at gunpoint in the Philippines by Islamist terrorists has been... More

From an Evangelical Catholic perspective, every Catholic is a missionary, an evangelist, a disciple, commissioned by the Lord to take the gospel to every nation, calling all to be baptized in the name of the Most Holy Trinity.

So I doubt many will take her views seriously, since the fly in the face of what we have learned through the years about such Christians martyrs as Jim Elliot (speared to death by the Aucas and yet his son went back to be a missionary to them, because he LOVED them, something she might want to consider).

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

I grew up in South Africa, surrounded by missionaries.

Ironic that a Missionary says these words «I believe in my Mormon faith, and I endeavor to live by it.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

To illustrate my point I'll give you an example: While serving as a Missionary in Italy, one day I prayed for a miracle; a few hours later my companion and I were stopped by some business guy standing behind his car.

These changes in the numerical balance, together with the increasing replacement of American missionaries by nationals in leadership positions at the lower levels of church structure, have inevitably raised the issue of when and to what extent the distribution of leadership and other staff at headquarters will reflect these developments.

The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's doctrine of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up by J. C. Warner some 1500 years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up as tribes, and destroy their political existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt make rapid progress among them.»

During that same six - year period in which the number of DOM - sponsored missionaries decreased by 31 per cent, the number serving under EFMA agency sponsorship increased by 15 per cent, from 6,000 to 7,500, and the number serving under IFMA increased from 6,000 to 6,500 (8 per cent).

What we meant to model was the sending of one of our number to be a foreign missionary — to learn a new language, to understand a local culture, to sacrifice the amenities of affluence and to live knowing that he or she is always being watched by seekers — while the rest of us stay here as lifetime local missionaries, learning to speak the language of the unchurched, understanding secular culture, sacrificing the amenities of affluence and living as a «watched» person in a society that is skeptical of Christian spirituality until it sees the real thing on display.

Those evangelical «old style» missionaries still serving overseas are perceived by liberal / ecumenicals as supporting repressive economic and political systems in developing countries in order to achieve the «stability» that will enable them to gain admittance to those countries and be left free to evangelize.

Christian missionaries in Mughal India were constantly trying to present the Christian faith not only by writing in Persian (the language of the Court) but also by telling the Christian story, for example, through the painting of miniatures, a notable art form at the time.

In the coda, he speaks fondly of the joy he took in writing the book, and he reminisces about his childhood training by Methodist missionary parents, «which prepared [him] to tell the Christian Story from the inside.&raquIn the coda, he speaks fondly of the joy he took in writing the book, and he reminisces about his childhood training by Methodist missionary parents, «which prepared [him] to tell the Christian Story from the inside.&raquin writing the book, and he reminisces about his childhood training by Methodist missionary parents, «which prepared [him] to tell the Christian Story from the inside.»

However, defining the Copts concretely is more difficult, explains Mark Nygard, director of graduate studies at the Evangelical Theological Seminary in Cairo (founded in 1863 by American Presbyterian missionaries).

The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver tells the story of a ferocious, god - in - my - own - image missionary, his wife, and their four daughters.

By 2007, the Missionaries of Charity had established 600 missions, schools and homes in 120 nations and had thousands of nuns working for it.

While thinkers like Sir Sayyid and Iqbal were dealing with the problem posed by the impact of the West, a religious conflict was in progress because of the activities of the Christian missionaries and militant Hindu movements like the Arya Samaj, both of them trying to win Muslims to their own faith.

Matthew's second woe (23:15), not recorded by Luke, reflects an intense missionary activity in Judaism in the first century which ceased not long after that.

Long, senior pastor of New Birth Missionary Church in suburban Atlanta, was accused by four young men in September of using his spiritual authority to coerce them into sexual relationships.

This will not be completed until the end of the tribulation, but we can be helping in the progress right now by supporting and praying for missionaries who are working among the unreached people groups.

The letter is probably delivered by Demetrius, one of the missionaries in question.

A convert to Catholicism after being a protestant missionary in Latin America, it was during his RCIA class that Leonard was struck by the profound importance of aiming for sainthood.

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

In his service as missionary and later as director of the World Council's Theological Education Fund, he had encountered and dissented from the notion that redemptive Christian norms and ideas transform culture by being imported into or imposed on it.

The Scotsman recited the hymn in 1925 when he was asked by reporters at Edinburgh Waverley railway station why he was leaving sports behind to travel to China, where he would become a missionary.

Jeremy before the Gospel was preached in New Zealand my people the maori people already had many gods and lived under there own type of spiritual law.They had rituals to keep themselves holy or pure but was by works.They also believed that there was one supreme God who was above all other Gods and his name was eo.So when the Missionaries came they understood the message of a supreme God and the way to know him was through his son over 60 % of maori people accepted the Gospel.It was bigger revival than the welsh revival in terms of percentage of population the welsh revival was only 10 % of the population of wales and that was considered a large revival in its day the new zealand revival was in the years 1820 - 1840.

A myth fed by millions of pennies put in thousands of church plates by little children to support the missionaries in their work in this exotic land which was lusting for Christianity.

1747) to the beginning of the present century, during which time Islam was introduced by the Sufi orders in competition with the Christian missionary work of the Protestants and Catholics.

It is also strange that he quotes the letter to his curate, Bloxam, in 1841 on the conversion of England by missionaries going barefoot and being pelted and trampled on, and does not make the connection with Blessed Dominic Barberi.

Sham Pearls for Real Swine by franky schaeffer wolgemuth & hyatt, 290 pages, $ 14.95 In 1948, a young American minister from the conservative Bible Presbyterian Church moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, to serve as a missionary to Europe.

I wrote Geoff an email about his presentation in San Antonio: «In your report, you made much of God's mission, missionaries, and cooperation — I believe God was glorified, and Southern Baptists were encouraged, by your report.&raquin San Antonio: «In your report, you made much of God's mission, missionaries, and cooperation — I believe God was glorified, and Southern Baptists were encouraged, by your report.&raquIn your report, you made much of God's mission, missionaries, and cooperation — I believe God was glorified, and Southern Baptists were encouraged, by your report.»

By 2010, notes biographer Kathryn Spink, there were over five thousand Missionary of Charity sisters, serving in 766 houses in 137 countries, and another 377 active brothers serving in sixty - eight houses in twenty - one countries.

Catholic bishops in Guatemala — as elsewhere in the region — resent the persecution by governments seen to be in league with U.S. fundamentalist missionaries.

Even though Africa has trained enough people to the same academic levels as in Canada, USA and Australia it can not democratize or develop unless it first cures the residual effects of the partial westernization, cognitive dissonance, and governance - deficiency syndrome created by missionary Christianity.

At the same time, it must be said that this ecumenical (to all the inhabited world) sense of the missionary aim was given new impetus by what John R. Mott (Edinburgh, 1910) defined as «the decisive hour of Christian Mission» which called for» the evangelisation of the world in this generation».

This is clearly seen in the most important documents that have come out this century, beginning with the World Missionary Conference in Edinburgh (1 91 0) right up to the most recent conference organised by the WCC (San Antonio, 1989).

And ever - increasing numbers of converts made in foreign lands by that portion of the church's 25,300 - member full - time missionary staff stationed outside the U.S. seem to many Mormons to presage a time when their church will be the church universal.

In the memoirs of Asian and African leaders who were graduates from these schools it has become almost obligatory, as part of an attack upon white Christian colonialism, to express bitterness and recrimination about the loss of native roots that came as a by - product of missionary education and of imperialist schools both in the mission field and in the home countrIn the memoirs of Asian and African leaders who were graduates from these schools it has become almost obligatory, as part of an attack upon white Christian colonialism, to express bitterness and recrimination about the loss of native roots that came as a by - product of missionary education and of imperialist schools both in the mission field and in the home countrin the mission field and in the home countrin the home country.