Sentences with phrase «in eastern»

Weinstein, the country director in Pakistan for J.E. Austin Associates, a U.S. - based firm that advises a range of Pakistani business and government sectors, was abducted from his house in the eastern city of Lahore in August 2011.

Yet if there is a new vision of «pan-Orthodox and ecumenical unity» in the Eastern church, no one is more responsible for it than this man, whose desire for an open church is matched only by his love for American baseball.

In Eastern church tradition, however, the patriarch of Constantinople is merely «first among equals,» taking his place alongside the patriarchs of Rome, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem.

There can be little doubt that this is the earliest patristic theology which is still taught explicitly in the Eastern Church.

In the Eastern church, those who were married before ordination could continue to live with their wives, except for a bishop who was expected to find a nunnery where his wife could live.

It remains the basis of the way of life still followed by monks in the Eastern Church.

The growth of the church was even more marked in the third century, especially in the eastern part of the Empire.

Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Li Baiguang has died under mysterious circumstances in an eastern... More

To his credit, Mr. Wieseltier recognizes that the critical questions in Eastern Europe are cultural — how people contrive to articulate the «meaning of their lives.»

(Snow cautiously alludes to the genocide of the millions of Armenians who once lived in eastern Turkey; their abandoned churches, theaters, and hospitals, now used for appliance warehouses and torture chambers, stand in the novel as reminders of that crime and of the degradation of Turkish culture that followed.)

In the interwar years Poland was rife with anti «Semites and anti «Semitism, but it was, paradoxically, virtually the only nation in eastern Europe that never imposed any economic restrictions on Jews or racialist limitations on their full participation in the nation's economy.

Watching the destructive power of nationalism in Eastern Europe reminds us of the even greater destructive power it has, in the past, exercised in the West.

It was the abuse of power that shipwrecked the socialist states in Eastern Europe and not the many mistakes that could have been corrected.

Set during the early 1990s, Snow takes place mostly in Kars, a desolate city in eastern Turkey.

In keeping with its sister volume, Catholicism for Dummies, it provides the reader with a concise and informative presentation of everything from the rhythm of the seasons, in chapter three, to the finer details of sacred vestments in the Eastern and Western Church, in chapter 12.

They may have grown up in Eastern Europe.

The video of the executions, entitled «Until there came to them clear evidence», switches between a scene on a beach in eastern Libya, where an estimated 15 men in orange boiler suits are beheaded by masked militants in camouflage, and a scene in a desert area in southern Libya where similarly dressed Daesh members execute a similar number of men in black boiler suits...

Hauge was born in 1776 to prosperous peasants in eastern Norway.

Rumors of a Qur «an desecration at a Christian wedding in the eastern village of Kurian led to violent demonstrations that culminated August 1 in the destruction of more than 100 Christian houses in nearby Gojra.

In March 2015, two suicide bombers attacked two churches in the eastern city of Lahore, killing 15 people.

On Monday, Egypt and Libya launched warplanes in an air assault on Darna in eastern Libya, where the group is based.

In the Eastern Orthodox tradition, the Fifth Sunday of Lent is dedicated to the story of St. Mary of Egypt, who lived in the fifth century.

It can be observed in eastern mysticism.

Well he did perform or take part in a greater miracle than the death of Bin Laden, he played the pivotal role in the DEMISE OF COMMUNISM IN EASTERN EUROPE.Well that was when he was a live.So don't discredit this old guys wearing white medieval dress they have and might play a major role in history.

We want to dispel the old suspicion that the Christians in the East provide a way for Western interests to gain a toehold in Eastern societies.

The character of the imperial cult, at least in the eastern empire, is the subject of considerable debate at present, as can be seen by a cursory examination of the two most significant works on the subject: S. R. F. Price's Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor and Steven Friesen's Twice Neokoros: Ephesus, Asia and the Cult of the Flavian Imperial Family.

To look in Eastern religions, such as the three major ones of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, will also be a «dead end street» in looking for God.

After the forced closing of Finkenwalde, Bonhoeffer continued to illegally train students to serve in the Confessing Church through underground pastorates and through the system of supporting ordinands in «collective pastorates» in eastern Pomerania.

Horoscopes and star charts are still incredibly important in some Eastern cultures, as well as being popular («just for fun») in the West.

(In Eastern Christianity, parish priests, but not monks, may marry.)

It is no mere coincidence that Communism became the ideology of choice in Eastern Europe while Western Europe embraced an increasingly individualistic form of Capitalism that has lost any concept of the common good.

If there is despair on the part of these poor communities or the theologians who live and write in solidarity with them, it is less due to the change in Eastern Europe than to the prospect of facing unrestrained U.S. hegemonic domination within the emerging «New World Order.»

In eastern Congo, where I am, the causes are different.

This has been legal until recently (past few years) in some eastern societies.

Second, Christianity continues to manifest a dynamic vitality in appearing, renewed and changed, in various parts of the world, where it may again be the agent of change» as it was in Eastern Europe in 1989.

Why should Putin, whose goons are killing Christians next door in eastern Ukraine, care a fig for persecuted Christians hundreds of miles away in the Middle East?

The funeral of a Christian grandmother murdered at her home in eastern Scotland has been attended by around 190 people.

This is the ideology that has fueled the ongoing war in eastern Ukraine.

Thousands of angry protesters on Saturday set ablaze more than 100 houses of Pakistani Christians over a blasphemy row in the eastern city of Lahore, officials said.

The funeral of a Christian grandmother murdered at her home in eastern Scotland has been attended by... More

The Judeo Bolsheviks were slaughtering Christians in Eastern Europe long before the Nazis even came on the scene.

Smoke rises following a Syrian government air strike on rebel positions in eastern Aleppo, Syria

In the Middle Byzantine period, from about 1000, it came to represent more specifically the throne prepared for the Second Coming of Christ, a meaning it has retained in Eastern Orthodox art to the present.

The move, which has seen thousands of retired Germans rehoused in homes in eastern Europe and Asia, has been severely criticised by social welfare organisations who have called it «inhumane deportation».

Yet the Assembly virtually ignored the earthquake in world politics that resulted in democratic revolutions in Eastern Europe and the near demise of socialism.

Of course, even in eastern religions, there are set of belief, but they are not mandatory.

Today, the four indicted LRA leaders thought to be still alive are on the lam; Kony is probably in the eastern Congo.

That fact «raised questions about the way in which sections of the ecumenical movement supported the ruling ideologies in Eastern Europe.»

In March 2014 Russia annexed Crimea and intervened militarily in eastern Ukraine.

They ignore entirely the more interesting question, raised again by recent events in Eastern Europe, concerning the very viability of the boundaries of modern nation - states.