Sentences with phrase «during synod»

During the synod's session this weekend in York, members of the Church's national assembly voted to endorse a Memorandum of Understanding on Conversion Therapy signed by The Royal College of Psychiatrists and others condemning the practice.

Written from Rome: During Synod - 2015, I've been reading John Martin Robinson's Cardinal Consalvi: 1757 - 1824, a biography of Pope Pius VII's secretary of state, one of the most impressive churchmen of his day, or indeed any day.

During the Synod, the bishops gave particular attention to the difficulties in which numerous families in many nations found themselves because of institutions and laws which did not help people to know the inviolable rights of the family, or even threatened these rights.

Not exact matches

I will never forget the horror when I realized as an adult convert during the schism in the Missouri Synod Lutheran Church that, if it weren't for the protection of the civil government, there were people in that Church who would probably kill me for what I believed.

CSW said in 2005, the centre was raided by security agents during a Council Synod meeting, and all the clergy on the Council were arrested.

The motion, backed by General Synod during a summit in York last July, recognised the «need for transgender people to be welcomed and affirmed in their parish church».

Conscious of his responsibilities to the Church throughout the world, he made extensive use of the episcopal conferences mandated by Vatican II and of the Synod of Bishops which he himself had established during the Council.

In June, the SEC voted to amend canon law and allow same - sex couples to be married in church during the church's General Synod in Edinburgh.

It was given during the First Synod of the New Province of Westminster, held at Oscott College, near Birmingham.

Few of us can resist the lure of the tidbit concerning the ugly spectacle at the motel during the last meeting of the synod's finance committee.

«We hope that the discernment in the Electoral Synod will enable them to elect a new bishop who will lead the Diocese of Brechin in its future ministry and mission, and hold each of the candidates and the Diocese in our prayers during this process.»

He plans to call for reform on the use of mitres during a debate on vestments at a General Synod meeting in York on Monday.

During the General Synod debate the Archbishop of Canterbury said his own wellbeing had been affected during his time as a parish pDuring the General Synod debate the Archbishop of Canterbury said his own wellbeing had been affected during his time as a parish pduring his time as a parish priest.

Since at the 1977 General Synod a woman elder did well in the race for the vice-presidency (in the RCA the vice-president of General Synod is heir presumptive for the presidency the next year), it seems well within the realm of possibility that during the coming decade a woman (elder or minister) will be elected president of the General Synod, the highest office the church can bestow.

He told the BBC that the Nigerian economy is on the verge of collapse.Another interesting revelation is that this same respected man of God whose word is taken serious by many a Nigerian speaking during this year's 1st session of the twelfth synod at St Stephen church, Iju in Akure on a topic «stewardship», said the incumbent government seems confused.

Governor Wike disclosed this during the first session of the eight Synod thanksgiving service at Saint Stephen's Anglican Church, Rumueme Deanery.