Sentences with phrase «faith groups campaigning»

His blanket claim was holed by faith groups campaigning, for example, for religious blessing of civil partnerships, and indeed doing so as a matter of religious freedom.

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Despite the clamour for places, there are prominent campaigns from the country's major secularist groups against faith schools.

The changes to housing benefit were introduced last year in England, Scotland and Wales but were met with fierce criticism from many campaign groups and faith leaders.

The conservative campaign against self - described «pro-life» Democratic lawmakers has spurred a handful of relatively new left - leaning faith groups to come to their defense.

Religion News Service: Nuns on the Bus meet Tea Party protests in Ohio The «Nuns on the Bus» have been a consistently popular and effective faith - based tool for religious progressives this campaign season, but on Monday a group of demonstrators apparently organized by a local Tea Party affiliate met the nuns at a stop in Marietta, Ohio, and provided a far different welcome than the sisters usually receive.

Native Deen, a Muslim hip - hop group, adds its voice to the «My Faith My Voice» grassroots campaign.

CNN: Faith groups launch campaign to counter controversial «Defeat Jihad» ad Jewish and Christian groups have unveiled three separate ad campaigns to counter what they claim is hateful speech toward Muslims contained within an advertisement posted at some New York City subway stations.

Both Obama, the nation's first black president, and Romney, a Mormon, have found that their shared status as members of minority groups and political pioneers, in many ways, has also changed the rules of this presidential campaign cycle, said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor of the anthology «Faith and Race in American Political Life.»

That was enough to persuade Deschamps to pitch him straight into 2014 FIFA World Cup ™ qualifying action and the 26 - year - old repaid his faith by converting Karim Benzema's pass as Les Bleus opened their Group I campaign with a 1 - 0 win in Helsinki last night.

Congratulations to the Quakers and to everybody involved from the wide range of faith groups and secular perspectives in launching an effective campaign for Waheed's amendment.

As the poll of churchgoers on the next page shows, the top campaign issues all relate to policy areas where faith groups have cause to be concerned.

Good Government Groups Ask Gov. Cuomo for Reform Thirty good - government, trade and faith - based organizations penned a letter to Governor Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday, urging him to include public financing of state campaigns in his annual executive budget proposal.

Read St James's consultation: http://www.stjames.tgacademy.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/finalconsultation.pdf Read the BHA's correspondence with the Academy and Diocese: http://humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BHA-correspondence-with-Tudor-Grange-Academy-Solihull.pdf Read Tudor Grange's affiliation agreement with the Diocese of Birmingham: http://www.tudor-grange.solihull.sch.uk/images/docs/draftjul11.doc Read the relevant section of the Equality Act 2010: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2010/15/section/85 Visit the local campaign's Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/150736215077978/ View the petition against the plans: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/tudor-grange-admissions-policy Read more about the BHA's campaigns work on «faith» schools: http://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/schools-and-education/faith-schools/ Read the BHA's table of types of school with a religious character: http://www.humanism.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/schools-with-a-religious-character.pdf The British Humanist Association is the national charity working on behalf of non-religious people who seek to live ethical and fulfilling lives on the basis of reason and humanity.

The President, who called for the strengthening of the AU Advisory Board on Corruption to make it more proactive, also proposed to enlist the support of parliamentarians, women associations, the media, business community, faith - based groups, the youth, educational institutions and traditional rulers among others in the campaign.

The campaign, which seeks to reform the faith school sector, brings together a range of groups and individuals, including educationalists, civil rights activists and both the religious and non-religious.

The second was not to give any form of special access to policy - making or campaigning to any faith group.

That's according to a coalition of more than 70 environmental, faith and labor groups have launched a campaign on this Earth Day to require New York to transition to 100 percent clean energy by 2030.

Dozens of people from labor, faith, and community groups gathered to push for a legislative agenda this year that includes raising the minimum wage, closing corporate tax loopholes and reforming campaign finance.

The Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) is a growing alliance that brings together trade unions, INGOs, the women's and youth movements, community and faith groups and others to call for action from world leaders in the global North and South to meet their promises to end poverty and inequality.GCAP's main aim is to achieve policy and practice changes that will improve the lives of people living in poverty.GCAP adds to existing campaigning on poverty by forming diverse, inclusive national platforms that are able to open up civil society space and advocate more effectively than individual organisations would be able to do on their own.

The Department for Education (DfE) has announced that the new rules will stop «secularist campaign groups» from targeting faith school admission «as part of a particular agenda».

CPAG is the host organisation for the Campaign to End Child Poverty coalition, which has members from across civil society including children's charities, faith groups, unions and other civic sector organisations, united in their campaigning for public and political commitment to ensure the goal of ending child poverty by 2020 is met.

The reports were based on a press release from Accord, a group campaigning for all state - funded schools to be non or multi-faith, which said the council was the first to «allow schools to be freed from having to provide daily Christian worship by instead allowing them to provide multi-belief or no - faith assemblies».

Last month, the two groups launched a «Charters Work» campaign, when more than 160 black education and faith leaders sent a letter to the NAACP urging the group to rethink the resolution.

Our campaign includes more than 50 education advocacy organizations plus teachers and school administrators, representatives of charter schools and traditional public schools, urban and rural interests, business and organized labor, faith - based groups and community groups.

There are also divestment campaigns running in health institutions, faith groups, charities and workplaces across the UK.

As Massey poured hundreds of thousands of dollars into an ad campaign to whitewash its image in mining country, Bonds is organized faith groups and local activists to picket Massey's annual stockholders meeting.

More recently, a coalition of Canadian human rights, development, labour and faith groups, the Canadian Network on Corporate Accountability, has launched a campaign for strengthened corporate accountability, Open for Justice.

St. Vincent's Hospital — One of the Largest Cancer Care Units in South East U.S. Lutheran Social Services of North East Florida — Faith - based social service ministry focused on improving the quality of life for people in need in Jacksonville, FL, Florida Credit Union Community First Credit Union North East Florida's leading Credit Union Engelhardt & Partners Advertising First Team Automotive Group — One of the largest privately owned dealer groups in the southeast U.S. Sunny Isles Rotary Club — Designed campaign to market club's activities to South Florida community.