Sentences with phrase «church runs the country»

This is so we don't get into that whole church running the country problem that people came here for in the first place, to have freedom of and from religion if they choose to.

This isn't the middle ages (or other countries today) where the church runs the country.

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Hours earlier, Maj. Gen. Qassim Atta said in a press conference broadcast on state - run Iraqiya TV that 15 «Arabs» - in Iraq, a euphemism indicating they came from outside the country - were responsible for three deadly attacks in Baghdad in recent months, including a bloody church siege.

He doesn't want to be questioned about his church because once he is in the White House he does not want anyone to know that his church elder will be running the country.

While churches across the country continued to run foodbanks, offer support to young people and invest in their communities through 2017, there was really only one issue that the mainstream media was interested in.

if churches around the country decided to use just 10 % of the money they bring in to help start and run other centers like The Genesis Project, we could start 5000 of these centers....

Christians are still the dominant religion, the wall of separation is still in place and, as Doc pointed out below, for countries where gay marriage is already legal, «NONE of those countries has a church been mandated to perform ceremonies that run counter to their doctrine.»

These guys may have points I actually agree with, but no church is in any way qualified to run a country.

Let the religious faithful run your churches but let the unaffiliated reality based atheists run the country for everyone.

During that time, I realized that most of the ministry conferences around the country were oriented for — and run by - «successful» pastors at «successful» churches.

Australia's longest - running royal commission - which is the country» highest form of inquiry - has been investigating since 2012 how the Catholic Church and other institutions responded to sexual abuse of children in Australia over 90 years.

We came from an oppressive country where the state ran the church.

The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and far down the receding and fading spread of roofs and balconies a fulttering wilderness of flags flashed in the sun; daily the young volunteers marched down the wide avenue gay and fine in their new uniforms, the proud fathers and mothers and sisters and sweethearts cheering them with voices choked with happy emotion as they swung by; nightly the packed mass meetings listened, panting, to patriot oratory with stirred the deepest deeps of their hearts, and which they interrupted at briefest intervals with cyclones of applause, the tears running down their cheeks the while; in the churches the pastors preached devotion to flag and country, and invoked the God of Battles beseeching His aid in our good cause in outpourings of fervid eloquence which moved every listener.

The French Revolution was brought about because the king of France, whom the Catholic Church supported, could not run his country properly and the people were starving.

Every year churches across the country are asked to sell poppies as part of The Royal British Legion's fundraising campaign in the run up to Remembrance Sunday.

Under Assad, Christians had more rights than in many Middle Eastern countries, with the freedom to worship and run schools and churches.

Whether it's around parenting or my marriage, my relationships in my extended family and friendships, the care and daily running of our home and finances, our church, our faith, our city, our country and our world, I feel overwhelmed sometimes by all of the things that I should be doing or need to be doing.

It is truly frightening to think that our country could be run by the morman church.

he belongs in some cloistered church compound... they love him, he loves them, they can take advantage of living in our wonderful country, come out to see the diverse and secular civilized community america really is and then turn around and run back into their compound.

More over, any religious organization who's pastors collect millions of dollars buying personal jets and running mega churches for profit without paying one dime in taxes do not have the right to dictate any political, legal, or even moral opinion in this country.

He ran an orphanage in the country and was imprisoned after allegedly helping to lead illegal underground Christian house churches in the country.

But he ran afoul of Alexander VI, for he denounced that Pontiff as neither a true Pope nor a Christian and appealed to the sovereigns of four leading countries to call a general council of the Church.

Australia's longest - running royal commission - which is the country's highest form of inquiry - had been investigating since 2012 how the Catholic Church and other institutions responded to sexual abuse of children in Australia over 90 years.

Sometimes, as is common in other African countries, such schools rent church buildings or use Christian - related names, but only in a few cases are the schools run by churches.

A majority of schools across the country that accept voucher students are religious schools — many run by evangelical Christian churches.

Known as the city of saints for its numerous churches, Grahamstown hosts one of the country's longest running major arts festivals, and is home to Rhodes University.

Chief Littlechild helped to lead a seven - year investigation by Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission into the country's «saddest, darkest, most unknown history», to unveil the truth and hear the stories of the survivors, many of whom were subject to abuse in the government - funded church - run boarding schools.

Moving, starting a church, running a business, jetting back and forth across the country four times, being a mom, having a life threatening surgery and a whole bunch of other stuff in between all of that — wow, I think I'm ready for a little nap under my covers for the winter.