Sentences with phrase «by religious groups»

Point 1 — This rule applied to businesses owned and run by religious groups.

Granted much good work is performed by religious groups.

So if providing health care to those that don't have it should be handled by religious groups, then what have they been waiting for?

If you want to write a story about political influence by religious groups....

Those organizations would award the funds to low - income students, who could use the money to attend private schools, including those run by religious groups.

Huffington Post: Zero Dark Thirty Protested By Religious Group For Depictions Of Torture As the controversy continues over torture scenes in Zero Dark Thirty, the film about the hunt to capture Osama bin Laden, a group called the National Religious Campaign Against Torture has joined to protest the gruesome depictions of torture in the film by leafletting showings of it nationwide.

An excerpt of the work was removed from the National Portrait Gallery's exhibition Hide / Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture following protests by a religious group and conservative politicians.

(CNN)- Lobbying and advocacy by religious groups in Washington have exploded in recent decades, increasing fivefold since 1970 to become a nearly $ 400 million industry, a new Pew report finds.

The requests were filed by religious groups linked to the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, which includes 300 institutional investors that manage $ 400 billion in assets, according to Bloomberg.

Every encroachment and violation of the First Amendment by religious groups violates my rights to religious freedom and violates my equal rights to equality under the law.

A different result should obtain if the city were to give preference to religious uses, or waive the fee for use of the facility by a religious group, but that does not seem to be the case here.

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».

A first step would be the decision by each religious group to reassess its own position.

There were hundreds of thousands of them, most of them having been donated by individuals or placed by religious groups over manyyears.

The expansion of UHF - frequency licenses provided them with the opportunity they needed, and by 1978 there were approximately 30 religious television stations with another 30 applications for a television license by religious groups before the FCC.

The need for an opportunity to periodically renew basic trust is satisfied by religious groups through corporate worship, symbolic practices, sacraments, and festivals.

@Bill I think that much of the «skewed hyper seexualization of the modern culture» is a backlash against the skewed, hyper demonization of s.ex by religious groups for hundreds of years, most especially by puritan groups in America.

Even Islamic leaders in Pakistan offered their support to Masih, whose case has intensified demands by religious groups for the Pakistani government to reform the law.

The argument, in a nut - shell, is that those officially charged with being our youth leaders, whether by religious groups or schools, as well as those who unofficially are youth leaders, simply by being youths themselves that their peers might follow if invited and....

I totally agree with shawn about weak minded, easily manipulated people being bound up and controlled by religious groups.

I believe that its presence as a presupposition of efforts to generate a new civic culture can be signified and lived sacramentally in a variety of ways by religious groups involved in the dialogue.

End of TImes, and Doomsday scenarios are scams by religious groups to make money.

Brought to greatness and power by science and technology, but being undermined from within by religious groups trying to bring it back to the dark ages.

I pay my taxes, including those taxes NOT paid for by religious groups who don't pay their fair share, have never relied on welfare, paid back all of my student loans, with interest, raised happy, fulfilled and accomplished children (who are also atheists), and I vote in all elections.

ex marriage, was financed and supported by religious groups.

Another modernizing element is the transformation of the daily life of the believer toward a new ethic proposed by the religious group.

The critics of Pentecostalism tend not to question whether the political model — be it conservative, patronage - based or indifferent — was created by this religious group or if it was pre-existing.

For Jews, that is no minor objection to advocacy of greater political activity by religious groups.

And these campaigns were not just fought by religious groups — the campaign against the Serious Organised Crime and Police Bill in 2004 united Rowan Williams, the NSS and evangelicals like the Barnabas Fund in its opposition.

He was picketed by religious groups during the 2010 election campaign for his stance on family and parenting issues, which, as outlined in the poll opposite, went down like a lead balloon with some Christian voters.

«Regrettably, these proposals have previously been opposed by religious groups.

This has not stopped religious groups from lobbying the Government extensively in recent months to have the cap removed, however, and it appears that this pressure has now taken its toll, despite the fact that many of the arguments employed by these religious groups are demonstrably false.

Some chapters also cite ways charter schools can exclude the students who are hardest to educate (but provide no data on frequency), show how a small minority have been captured by religious groups, and illustrate how self - seeking parents influence district policy by threatening to transfer to charter schools (but again don't say how often this happens).

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.

Some legal scholars say Trinity Lutheran v. Comer could forge a path toward more charter schools overseen by religious groups.

• Vanille is back, and while her role majorly remains to be a mystery, she is said to be sheltered by a religious group called the Salvation Council which keeps the city of Luxerion under their tight grip.

The Global Catholic Climate Movement's initiative represents the latest in a series of moves by religious groups that are striving to confront climate - change denialism among Catholics and Protestants worldwide.

Around 30 % of the state's adoption agencies are run by religious groups, according to the Associated Press.

Conversion therapy, often supported and performed by religious groups, can harm young people by wrongly making them think their normal sexuality is an immoral psychological disorder, the American Psychological Association says.

Ahead of its second reading in the Lords, Humanists UK published research that revealed the extent of the religious lobby on the Bill, and the scaremongering and misinformation being given out by religious groups about the issues.