Sentences with phrase «established national church»

When Delaine and I took on our first assignment — in Argentina — we found an already well - established national church, with a publishing house, a seminary and other educational institutions run by capable administrators.

The sixteenth century saw the founding of Edinburgh University subsequent to the Reformation which established the national church, «the Kirk.»

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Under his dynamic leadership national councils embracing missionary societies and native churches alike were established.

National organizations were established to promote the development of good religious education in the Churches.

While the American Republic had no established church, the American state took a positive and benign attitude toward the full, free, and quite visibly public exercise of religion, not least at major state functions and national celebrations.

Ten different commissions have been established under the national CCC to assist and serve the ministries of the Church.

In the lead, once again, was the National Council of Churches (NCC), which established a Burned Churches Fund that has reportedly taken in more than ten million dollars and is still counting.

Ms Scolding said in her opening statement: «The church is the established church of England - the national church.

«More generally, how can the Church of England remain in any meaningful sense the national legally established church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?&Church of England remain in any meaningful sense the national legally established church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?&church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?»

In this climate a study apparatus of unprecedented scope for the examination of congregations was established by the World Council of Churches and its national counterparts.

Their group - created strategy included these actions: establishing cooperative links with other churches and groups committed to ecology; developing a Center of Ecology Information and a paperback book table at the church; devising methods to reach decision - makers in the community; exploring the development of a coordinating council of all ecology groups active in that community — Sierra Club, Friends of the Earth, Zero Population Growth, League of Conservation Voters, Wilderness Society, National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, World Population, GASP (Group Against Smog Pollution), Planned Parenthood, etc..

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan cChurch; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan cchurch and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan churchchurch.

What would happen if the church universal — every congregational property, every regional office, every national office, every seminary, every camp — was sold and the net proceeds were used to establish a trust fund endowment to support nutritional, medical, legal, and educational services for the poor, the lost, and the hurt?

One of the traditional modes of the Church's participation in national situation is service, The Church in India did pioneering service by establishing medical and educational institutions.

The first amendment prohibits congress from passing any laws that establish an official national religion (e.g. Islam in Saudi Arabia, or the Church of England in colonial times), or from passing laws that prohibit you from getting together with those of like mind and faith.

The pastor of Harlem's First Corinthian Baptist Church and a part of the Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network, Walrond is a well - established member of the Harlem community but a first time candidate.

In 1885, the Church established the Mutual United Brotherhood of Liberty that became the forerunner and model for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.