Sentences with phrase «held in places of worship»

«Allowing civil partnership ceremonies to have a religious content and to be held in places of worship is a significant advance for gay and religious freedom,» he said.

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In the early years of Celebration, the theater held church services every Sunday morning as the town waited for a place of worship to be built.

Most of the nine saints are known either by the name of the place where they lived or the place where they were buried, to which is added a title such as Susuhunan — abbreviated to Sunan — meaning «the worshiped,» or Maulana, «our Lord,» or similar titles expressing the high regard in which they were held.

Such a move would make civil partnerships effectively indistinguishable from traditional weddings, given that parliament recently allowed for them to be held in churches and other places of worship when it amended the Equality Act.

The court held that the case is an abuse of the court process in view of the earlier judgment of the court in 2002 which upheld the sanctity of the rights of the Minister to issue licences to places of worship to conduct marriages, and the Registrar under the Marriage Act to register marriages.

Whether it be restlessness, calm or the strange hinterland between boredom and contemplation that often holds sway in both places of worship and temples of culture, his photographs are always about this looming «other» that hovers just outside the frame.