Sentences with phrase «for by the missionaries»

Not a single person cared for by the Missionaries speaks on camera.

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This documentary made by the late Sydney Pollack looks at the little - known two - night live recordings Aretha Franklin did with LA's New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in 1972 for her best - selling album «Amazing Grace,» which was released the same year.

By aligning the individual's goals with those of the company, you will turn a mercenary (someone who works for the top dollar) into a missionary (someone who believes in and is loyal to the organization).

With its missionary zeal for consumers, Amazon has marched toward monopoly by singing the tune of contemporary antitrust.

A sprawling 44 - bedroom house surrounded by towering brick walls that was once the home base for polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has been converted into a sober living center by Evangelical missionaries.

Another friend who works for a large Christian missions organization told me that the number of participants they were sending into the mission field this summer was down by 60 percent, which translates into a few thousand missionaries for them.

An Australian church leader has published his reasons for participating in the controversial consecration of a missionary bishop for Europe by the conservative Anglican group, GAFCON.

He refused to believe that Vatican II, the ecumenical council he had experienced as a powerful work of the Holy Spirit, could only lead to permanent incoherence and division in Catholicism; and by providing an authoritative interpretation of the Council, John Paul II's pontificate energized the living parts of the Church and made Vatican II the launch platform for the new evangelization and for the Church's rediscovery of itself as a missionary enterprise.

What I have to wonder is, if we, as a Church, trust God to work and bring people to Him, or if we feel like we have to «help» by providing all these material possessions (which in the end are meaningless, the money spent on them might be better spent on improving the community, providing food for hungry, support for ministers and overseas missionaries).

To illustrate my point I'll give you an example: While serving as a Missionary in Italy, one day I prayed for a miracle; a few hours later my companion and I were stopped by some business guy standing behind his car.

The general working theory for Christian missionaries was first formalized in St. Augustine's doctrine of «cognite intrare», or «compel them to enter», but was perhaps best summed up by J. C. Warner some 1500 years later: ``... the sword must first — not exterminate them, but — break them up as tribes, and destroy their political existence; after which, when thus set free from the shackles by which they are bound, civilisation and Christianity will no doubt make rapid progress among them.»

He was the first victim of Boxer fighters, who lusted after the blood of foreign missionaries, whom they blamed for China's humiliation by Western powers.

The move led to discipline by the Anglican Communion and was the final straw for conservative Anglican group GAFCON who appointed a missionary bishop to oversee churches who felt they could no longer work within the SEC.

No, you are not directly responsible for the Spanish Inquisition, the thousands (or millions) of women killed during the various witch hunts, the millions killed by missionaries, the millions killed by Hitler, the suffocation of science, the persecution of free thinkers..., but you did sign on with the same group that IS responsible for all of that.

Christian missionaries in Mughal India were constantly trying to present the Christian faith not only by writing in Persian (the language of the Court) but also by telling the Christian story, for example, through the painting of miniatures, a notable art form at the time.

By 2007, the Missionaries of Charity had established 600 missions, schools and homes in 120 nations and had thousands of nuns working for it.

This will not be completed until the end of the tribulation, but we can be helping in the progress right now by supporting and praying for missionaries who are working among the unreached people groups.

A convert to Catholicism after being a protestant missionary in Latin America, it was during his RCIA class that Leonard was struck by the profound importance of aiming for sainthood.

Religion News Service: Mormon missionary applications soar by 471 percent Just two weeks since Mormon President Thomas S. Monson announced that young men could go on full - time missions for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints at age 18 (down from 19) and young women could go at 19 (down from 21), the Utah - based church has seen applications skyrocket from an average of 700 a week to 4,000 a week.

Everyone «knows,» for example, that Galileo, courageously defending Copernicus» discovery that the earth revolves around the sun, was roundly condemned by the Inquisition because his conclusions conflicted with the Bible; and everyone «knows» that the history of Christian missionary endeavors is inextricably linked with Western colonialism and oppression of native peoples.

Answering that call, Christians offer succor to the suffering: Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity care for the dying; the Salvation Army provides for the destitute; World Vision brings relief to those affected by natural catastrophes.

A myth fed by millions of pennies put in thousands of church plates by little children to support the missionaries in their work in this exotic land which was lusting for Christianity.

Sham Pearls for Real Swine by franky schaeffer wolgemuth & hyatt, 290 pages, $ 14.95 In 1948, a young American minister from the conservative Bible Presbyterian Church moved to Lausanne, Switzerland, to serve as a missionary to Europe.

Soon the various missionary agencies of the Church heard of the Negroes» plight, and they responded by forming private agencies to care for the freedmen.

At the same time, it must be said that this ecumenical (to all the inhabited world) sense of the missionary aim was given new impetus by what John R. Mott (Edinburgh, 1910) defined as «the decisive hour of Christian Mission» which called for» the evangelisation of the world in this generation».

Missionary translations of the message provided the primary impetus for this new form of Christian agency, preserving indigenous cultures by fixing them in written texts and preserving the traditional names of God in translating the Bible into new cultures.

Why didn't the president himself stand up for the human rights of the Christian missionaries and medical team in Afghanistan, including six Americans, to practice medicine and their faith, even after they were murdered by Islamic extremists?

The annual «Status of Global Christianity» survey published by the International Bulletin of Missionary Research is a cornucopia of numbers: Some are encouraging; others are discouraging; many of them are important for grasping the nature of this particular moment in Christian history.

The missionaries respected the «wonderful affection» the Indians had for their children but were repulsed by their refusal to physically punish them.

The great missionary God expresses his love for the world he has created by sending his Son, who reveals the character of that sending through his death on the cross.

The book begins by telling how the eleven apostles, after the resurrection of Jesus, met in Jerusalem and divided the world by lot among themselves for missionary work.

The Christian Century for December 22, 1976, carried a discerning article by Mark Juergensmeyer on «The Fading of an Era,» in which he vividly described the departure of the «last evangelistic missionary couple» from the Punjab state of north India and saw that departure as signifying the end of the «great missionary era of the...

At the first Axial Period, the ancient nature religions reacted strongly against the rise and spread of the new world religions, just as the Maori tohungas, for example, strongly resisted the message brought by the Christian missionaries.

The same longing for an experience of God's presence is expressed in a prayer by a twentieth - century Indian Christian leader, Chandra Devanesen, who was the first Indian to be head of Madras Christian College — a missionary college dating back to the mid-nineteenth century, at which I studied for a year in the 1960s:

Shahzad Masih and Shama Bibi were bonded laborers (seen by many as a modern form of slavery) at a brick - making kiln who lived in a small Punjab town named for the first Anglican missionary to Pakistan.

It seems that for my Western Christian friends, if missionaries did not justify by their field labors the guilt the West carries about the mischief of the white race in the rest of the world, then other missionaries would have to be invented to justify that guilt.

How many orphanages, wells, hospitals, schools, shelters, water purifiers, warm blankets, clothes for the needy, homeless shelters, soup kitchens, rehab programs, homes, charitable organizations, etc were built and / or started by missionaries or religious organizations?

And in 2009, a longtime missionary couple were sentenced by a Gambian court to a year of hard labor for sending a wry comment in an email to their prayer list.

Some scientists have gone overseas as medical, agricultural, or scientific missionaries and teachers; are there not in America most of the same opportunities for service to mankind and for witness by word and work to one's religious faith?

Yale psychologist Paul Bloom is cited for his research showing how overly empathetic nurses become helpless to their patients; however, by proper analogy with the nurses, the Jesuit missionaries should have become helpless to their converts and possibly shunned them.

I could go on and on about the many heroic missionaries I know who have never been called a «missionary» because they never crossed a sea, but who will, I believe, be praised by Jesus when they stand before Him, for accomplishing more in His Kingdom than many of those who currently receive praise, honor, and glory for being «missionaries.»

The theater has received glowing reviews for its staging of such plays as Merchant on Venice, which turns Shakespeare's play about Christians and Jews into a story about Muslims and Hindus, and Golden Child, by David Hwang, about the cultural clash between Christian missionaries and the Chinese.

One of the largest missionary organizations in the United States, the IMB had a $ 21 million deficit for 2015 and had overspent by $ 210 million since 2009, draining its reserves.

Assimilate or Go Home: Notes from a Failed Missionary by D.L. Mayfield:: I read an advanced copy of Danielle's book and wrote an endorsement for her.

Mr. Nuechterlein sounds uncomfortably like those who attacked Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger for being intolerant of other religions when he affirmed the unique fullness of the Christian revelation in Dominus Iesus As Ratzinger wrote, «The Church's constant missionary proclamation is endangered today by relativistic theories which seek to justify religious pluralism, not only de facto but also de iure (or in principle).»

As Leslie Newbigin pointed out, the problems posed for missions by the rise of the younger churches, the end of colonialism, and the development of inter-church aid on a massive scale were questions about the forms and patterns of missionary action.

In this state of imprisonment, Rodrigues experiences the lowliness of missionary life for himself: He is kept in custody by Inoue, Lord of Chikugo, until he apostatizes or renounces his faith.]

By way of contrast, the Rev. Norman Dewire, the chief program coordinating executive for the United Methodist Church, pointed out that «the national United Methodist Church runs on five cents of each $ 1, supports 750 missionaries, 900 short - term missionaries, curriculum and worship materials, the largest network of private colleges in the United States, one hundred retirement homes, and the recruitment and training of ministers plus all communication materials.

Awkward (and often outdated) pull - down maps for Sunday school classes, for example, are being replaced by software - generated images of the ancient Near East, whereby Bibles students can trace the missionary journeys of Paul or follow the exodus route of the Israelites.

By stirring up largely justified resentments, Protestant missionaries helped lay the groundwork for the 1997 law restricting religious minorities.