Sentences with phrase «church from his jail»

Jeffs had succeeded in leading his church from jail in Texas in the leadup to his trial on sexual assault charges this summer, but prison is much more restrictive.

Now, if the Pope were in jail with Jeffs (where they both should be), who here thinks that the Pope wouldn't be able to regain control of the Catholic Church from jail?

Not exact matches

There were also the Hussite Wars from 1419 to circa 1434 in which the Roman Catholic Church went to war against followers of Jan Hus, a priest, philosopher, and master at Charles University in Prague who had tried to reform the Church, condemning its sale of indulgences, which were the equivalent of a «get out of jail» card in the game of Monopoly in that the Church sold them as a means for believers to get out of Purgatory.

According to The Times, police spokesman Valery Gorelykh said Mr Sokolovsky was committing blasphemy and should be jailed for five years, while Vladimir Legoyda, a spokesman from the Russian Orthodox Church, said his actions were «intentionally provocative».

I'd love to hear more from you about this as just now I'm wrestling with the whole issue of how to bridge the gap for our Christian prisoners from «church» in jail to church on release.

CNN: Sandusky's pastor addresses conviction from pulpit Jerry Sandusky sits in a county jail cell in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, but his presence and the weight of the 45 guilty verdicts rendered against the former Penn State football coach on Friday night hung in the air Sunday morning at the State College church where he and his wife are longtime members.

How far removed is this from the town in Alabama that will let you out of jail if you go to church every Sunday for a year.

But ironically, in South Korea Christians are jailed for espousing democracy and human rights, apparently without protest from the Unification Church.

People in schools and churches across the country will pay homage to Martin Luther King Jr. today, and many will read «Letter From The Birmingham Jail,» which is right and good.

A Christian student who allegedly tried to steal a banner from North Korea to take back to his church in the United States has been jailed.

He was released from jail, but the church put him on house arrest for the rest of his entire life.

The 55 year old has now been jailed for 20 months for stealing # 37,000 from churches in Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire and West Yorkshire.

Along with campaigns from church groups, Amnesty International also petitioned for his release, saying that he was a «prisoner of conscience,» jailed for peacefully exercising basic human rights, like the right to assemble.

A church treasurer has avoided jail after admitting stealing nearly # 20,000 from collection funds.

One of the leading legal defenders of China's churches, Zhang Kai, was released from jail on Wednesday after being arrested in August 2015.

I remember reading his letter from a Birmingham jail where if I remember correctly he talked of the church being under God's judgement and losing its relevance if it is does not recover the authenticity and the sacrificial spirit of the first century church.

The province is west of Zhejiang province, where authorities have removed hundreds of crosses from church buildings, jailed a megachurch pastor for protesting those removals, and jailed (and then released) one of the leading legal defenders of those churches.