Sentences with phrase «churchgoers in»

Such a time limit allowed Dylann Roof to buy the gun he's accused of using to kill nine churchgoers in Charleston, S.C. in 2015, Walsh noted.

In a recent case in front of a state appellate court, the court had to decide if a church had a duty to its churchgoers in providing them some assistance in crossing a dangerous street to get from the church parking lot to the church itself.

And then I remember that it's 8:00 a.m. on a Sunday morning, and we're in a town of churchgoers in southern Rwanda.

And 43 % of Muslim Americans say they attend a mosque on a weekly basis, on par with the 45 % of US Christians who have described themselves as weekly churchgoers in recent surveys.

According to a new report by Gallup, Missipians, Mormons, and African Americans are the most frequent churchgoers in the nation:

Allport and Ross concluded from their review of relevant studies that although churchgoers in general are more bigoted than nonchurchgoers, the occasional churchgoer is the most bigoted of all.

According to Peter Brierley's «Generations of Older People» report, those aged over 60 represented 41 % of churchgoers in 2010 and Dr Brierley anticipates that this will rise to 77 % by 2050.

The fact that this movie arrives a year, almost to the day, after the massacre carried out by Dylann Roof against nine African - American churchgoers in Charleston, SC only adds to the intense emotions that Free State of Jones evokes.

Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu has urged churchgoers in West Africa not to meet «in big numbers»... More

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on churchgoers in Russia's predominantly Muslim Dagestan region.

The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on churchgoers in Russia's predominantly... More

Skeptics might write off Obama's Bible talk as sanctimonious window dressing, aimed at no higher purpose than connecting with churchgoers in the purple and red states.

New figures have revealed the number of churchgoers in Scotland has dropped by over half in the last... More

Raised a churchgoer in deeply religious Lancaster County, where churches far outnumber bars, Monville said she always enjoyed a close relationship with God, hearing his voice call to her, feeling his embrace during prayer and worship.

Not exact matches

Dylann Roof, the white 21 - year - old who allegedly gunned down nine black churchgoers earlier this summer in Charleston, South Carolina, credited the Council of Conservative Citizen with opening his eyes to black - on - white crime in a chilling manifesto posted online.

The long line to get in — and the churchgoers» casual dress — confused me; I could not believe I was walking into a church service and not a concert.

Fifty - eight music fans fall in Las Vegas; 49 club revelers die in Orlando; 33 students are killed on the Virginia Tech campus; 25 churchgoers meet their God in...

Much of the criticism - along with confusion about the propriety of evangelicals politically linking arms with Mormons - is less formal and more rooted among in - the - pews churchgoers than evangelical elites.

In Scotland, too, female churchgoers vastly outnumber male churchgoers.

What I was trying to say was that, in my opinion, most churchgoers are like Pharisees in that they don't see their own need for cleansing (because they persist in thinking they are already clean) OR fall into a second category of being denominationally competitve (not unlike the Paul - Apollos - Cephas leader / hero worship mentioned in Scripture.)

I've nothing against middle - class churchgoers — I am one of them — but it's also a warning that something has gone wrong in the UK Church.

I saw a poll recently that suggested that about 1/3 of churchgoers do not believe in a theistic god.

Baptism and active membership there equipped Obama with an ability to connect with churchgoers he was trying to organize — and, years later, with religious voters he was trying to win over — in a deeper way.

Its chief object is to win back former churchgoers and assist those who have not previously belonged to any religious congregation in obtaining church membership.

A new study has found one in four Cumbria churchgoers have experienced abuse in their current relati... More

According to ICC, last month a radicalised university student attacked a priest and churchgoers with a samurai sword at St. Lidwina Church in Yogyakarta, Java, injuring four people.

Witnesses said churchgoers were forced to escape through a hole made in the church wall by police.

For example, after explaining how their research shows that three - quarters of young outsiders and half of young churchgoers describe present - day Christianity as «too involved in politics,» this is what Kinnaman concludes: «To address the deep challenges that are facing people in our nation and around the world, Gabe and I have come to the conclusion that being politically engaged is more important than ever.»

A gunman has opened fire with a hunting rifle on churchgoers leaving a service in Russia's Dagestan region,... More

The course itself is in secular mindfulness, though most people on the course are active churchgoers.

They may go on a «mission» trip where their fellow churchgoers can see them, but put them in dealings with hardworking, honest people and they behave worse than the people one would expect to swindle or harm them.

Now Britain wobbles upward with the other advanced industrial countries in a band plus or minus a few percentage points from the average, excepting the big, rich nation of churchgoers, which persists at 30 percent above the rest.

This is evident not only in the absence of black icons but also in the rejection by many black churchgoers of the term African - American.

St Patrick's Church in Glenamaddy told the Irish Catholic newspaper that churchgoers will be able to drive to the front door of the chapel, receive the blessing - including the ceremonial placement of ashes on the forehead - and drive off.

We've already put together helpful guides to knowing what your pastor's jeans and choice in coffee say about their theology, but now, after countless emails from theologically curious churchgoers around the world, we've finally turned our attention to shirts.

However, my first few weeks in this strange environment convinced me that theology was not an exclusive endeavour for the cultured churchgoer; it was for anybody who wanted to wrestle and reflect on who God is.

Churchgoers really have few options in worship because they do not know of any.

For African American churchgoers, get out the vote efforts have been in effect in full force and from the pulpits of churches across the nation.

A priest and a number of churchgoers have been kidnapped by militants linked to Islamic State (IS) in... More

They broadcast his complaint in the strange medieval chant familiar to any Anglican churchgoer (however occasional).

I doubt that there is a Christian leader, ordained or lay, who has never provoked anger or irritation in a church situation, and I doubt that there is a single churchgoer who hasn't experienced hurt feelings and discouragement from a congregational incident of some sort.

If there is so little understanding of Christian foundations in our congregations, how can we expect ordinary churchgoers to distinguish what is Christian from the usual amalgam of religious sentimentalism and what Ernst Käsemann called bourgeois transcendence?

They help to define the nature of evangelicalism's theological impasse in a way that the average Christian churchgoer who reflects on the faith can understand.

One would hardly know from these collected documents that Americans were churchgoers; I caught them at church in only one casual allusion.

Not to mention Heaven Is For Real and a slew of other Christian movies that seemed prime to keep churchgoers flocking to theaters every Saturday night all year long, with the pastor in the front row.

Some churchgoers will shun you for smoking, which is NOT mentioned in the Bible, but then go straight to the Sunday buffet after church and commit gluttony, which IS mentioned in the Bible.

Therefore they should not be held in higher esteem than the average churchgoer.

As part of the survey, researchers looked at how people with evangelical beliefs and churchgoers see the issues at play in the 2016 election.

Even with the current the ban, which has been part of the tax code since 1954, about 1 in 10 recent churchgoers say their leaders discuss the candidates, Pew found.

I know many churchgoers who never, EVER volunteer or practice the well - preached «take care of thy neighbor» community - minded sermons given at their local churches (oh, the rich ones can write a check in about 15 seconds, but do they donate?