Sentences with phrase «by the christian organization»

One approach to youth ministry is evident in an antihunger effort by a Christian organization dedicated to alleviating hunger and poverty in economically distressed areas of the world.

More than 150,000 people have signed an online petition calling for Apple to remove an app from the iTunes store that was created by a Christian organization they say is anti-gay.

Last year a religious pilgrimage to Paris for COP21 was mobilized by Christian organizations to unite voices for climate justice.

Not exact matches

He was constantly thinking about financial issues, from the operational to the philosophical: how to finance his organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and how to right the economic injustices suffered by the dispossessed throughout the country.

The temple served as the headquarters of an organization once headed by King, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Another friend who works for a large Christian missions organization told me that the number of participants they were sending into the mission field this summer was down by 60 percent, which translates into a few thousand missionaries for them.

All the good works done by religious organizations of all kinds (Christian and otherwise) might get a mention in a human interest story sometimes, but decades of this media treatment have skewed public perceptions of what faith is about.

Like our Army, it is made up of many Christians, but there are almost as many non-Christians serving, and we can not nor should we disrespect them by calling the Marines a Christian organization.

Well I sometimes use the Christian label so as not to be oppressed by people like you — for example, when filling out religious preferences for organizations like the Boy Scouts.

But the issue has not been solely spearheaded by Christian groups; Muslim organizations have also been vocal about condemning Iran.

But then maybe RD is owned by some jewish organization, not leftist christian after all - making sure who stays on top.

Renaud has received a sexual addiction counseling certification from the American Association of Christian Counselors, though she is not licensed by secular organizations like the American Psychological Association.

Many people who follow abusive church movements are well aware that such abusive organizations will release stories that get picked up by Christian media that are purportedly impartial but are really just paid ads for the ministry.

I spend a lot of time ministering to people who have been deeply wounded by churches and traditional Christian organizations.

The amount of money spent by western Christian organizations to reach the lost with the westernized version of the gospel is appalling.

«Your group does not allow full participation «without regard to... religion...» as mandated by our Application for Official University Recognition,» Jonathan E. Curtis, UNC - Chapel Hill's assistant director for student activities and organizations wrote to the InterVarsity Christian Fellowship in a December 10 letter.

CNN: Anti-Obama mail piece: «We are no longer a Christian nation» Focus on the Family, the Colorado - based social conservative organization founded by evangelical author and radio host James Dobson, is targeting Iowa voters with a mailing that quotes President Obama as saying «we are no longer a Christian nation.»

«years of undue judgment by the organization and the Christian Church as a whole,» ------- Good for them.

The announcement comes less than a day after Exodus issued a wide - ranging apology to the gay community for «years of undue judgment by the organization and the Christian Church as a whole,» a statement from the group says.

As several Christian organizations point out — including one actually approved by the State Department to be a part of the resettlement program — most refugees who come to the U.S. are here to be reunited or connected with family members already in the U.S.

This evangelical attitude came as a shock, for initially I had thought that the movement was simply a «Jews for Jesus» extension of previous Hebrew Christian evangelistic organizations that also had been opposed by both Christians and Jews.

We do well to remember that the freedoms we tend to take for granted are, in disputes all around the country, being defended daily by organizations such as the Rutherford Institute, the Christian Legal Society, the Catholic League for Civil and Religious Liberty, Dean Kelley of New York and William Ball of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (each of whose prodigious energy is tantamount to that of an organization).

This was followed by five subsequent phases of development in a regular pattern of succession: (1) the organization of home and foreign mission societies to channel new leadership into church planting or into the field; (2) the production and distribution of Christian literature; (3) the renewal and extension of Christian educational institutions; (4) attempts at «the reformation of manners» — i.e., the reassertion of Christian moral standards in a decadent society; and (5) the great humanitarian crusades against social evils like slavery, war and intemperance.

It is fascinating that the movement would arise in the American branch of the Hebrew Christian Alliance (HCAA), an organization that has consistently assuaged the fears of fundamentalist Christians by emphasizing that it is not a separate denomination but only an evangelistic arm of the evangelical church.

I do not agree with many of the social & political beliefs expounded by fundamentalist Christian organizations, but it was Christ who defined Christianity, not the fundamentalists & not the social justice Christians.

One of the watersheds in the use of sociological and anthropological analysis was the publication of The First Urban Christians, by Wayne Meeks, which was a comprehensive attempt to describe the social context and organization of the early Pauline communities.

I consider myself a christian, with religious knowledge and general knowlege, however I do not hold to a set of views dictated by an organized religion, I believe the organized religions are where we have gone wrong, as someone pointed out earlier to most «religious people» to question ones faith or organization is wrong but that is exactly what the bible tells us to do... test ALL things to see what is true.

Des Moines, Iowa (CNN)-- Focus on the Family, the Colorado - based social conservative organization founded by evangelical author and radio host James Dobson, is targeting Iowa voters with a mailing that quotes President Obama as saying «we are no longer a Christian nation.»

I wonder how many deaths were prevented by Christian relief organizations and individual donations by Christians over the years?

But the fact remains that generations of youth were energized by what they experienced as a new vision of what it means to be a Christian, that the mainline Protestant churches formed ecumenical organizations to work together to implement the new vision, and that, finally, in the depression, many of their practical proposals for social reform were implemented.

Although the selection and organization of the material throughout reflects the special interest in illuminating Christian existence and is undoubtedly influenced by its Christian perspective, the attempt in Chapters Three through Ten is to describe each structure of existence as objectively as possible.

The conference was spearheaded by Michael Davidson, a man of God who came out of the homosexual life many years ago and heads up a group called Core Issues Trust («a non-profit Christian ministry supporting men and women with homosexual issues who voluntarily seek change in sexual preference and expression») and by Andrea Williams, dynamic barrister and CEO of Christian Concern (an organization that seeks to be «a strong Christian voice in the public sphere») and the Christian Legal Centre (a legal defense team for British Christians persecuted for their faith).

«The International Association of Genocide Scholars, over 200 members of Congress, and over 70 human rights experts and organizations, spanning the nation's religious and political spectrum, have raised their voices that the treatment of these communities by ISIS meets even the strictest definition of genocide under international law, and must be treated as such,» said Kirsten Evans, executive director of In Defense of Christians (IDC).

The guiding principle for cooperation offered by foreign churches and Christian organizations is that projects should be open and above board and meet the needs of the target people.

The organization Christian Aid Mission has released a disturbing report, recounting how 11 Christian workers and one of their children were captured by militants from the radical Islamic group ISIS and publicly executed after they refused to denounce their faith.

CCT will also include national Christian organizations, and all decisions will be made by consensus.

The organization Christian Aid Mission has released a disturbing report, recounting how 11 Christian workers and one of their children were captured by militants from the radical Islamic group ISIS...

According to a 2002 survey by the London - based Christian Research organization, 22,000 people under the age of 34 attended London Alpha courses in the fall of 2001 alone.

«Christian» organizations and churches are really driven by money.

You quoted kkk's goals as: «reestablish Protestant Christian values in America by any means possible», when clearly this organization's hatred is fuelled by «racism» which you deviously omitted and gave it your own personal slant, to make it look like this hatred was fuelled by religion.

hurled at every person or organization that represents the institutionalized church... Church books are written by people with a plan and ten steps, not by Christians just hanging on by their fingernails... And yet I am writing.

They clearly teach and believe that THEY are the only true Christians and that all the rest of us are part of organizations led by Satan.

«Guideposts is a Christian - faith based non-profit organization founded in 1945 by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, Raymond Thornburg, and Peale's wife, Ruth Stafford Peale.

When we say that the Church is necessary to the Christian life, we do not, by that token, say that the national and diocesan organization of the Episcopal Church is necessary.

Meanwhile, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities emphasized Kennedy's nod to the First Amendment, stating the «full protections for religious individuals and organizations to exercise their beliefs privately and publicly are not diminished by expanded marriage rights.»

[So, Martin Luther King Jr., though he was a Christian and a pastor, can apparently be discredited too because his meetings were sponsored by communistic organizations?

Scott is the Executive Director of Plant With Purpose (formerly Floresta), a Christian nonprofit organization that reverses deforestation and poverty by transforming the lives of the rural poor in six countries.

It would have been very easy for the writer to point out that this blatantly Christian oriented organization is often the recommendation of courts for drunk drivers to attend (and by recommend, I mean you will do it or go to prison).

How long will it take for distinctive Christian perspectives, other than those provided by voluntary campus organizations, to disappear entirely from America's leading universities?

World Vision is a Christian humanitarian organization conducting relief, development, and advocacy activities in its work with children, families, and their communities in nearly 100 countries to help them reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice.