Sentences with phrase «international church bodies»

Looking back on the sorry record of many Western Christians during the cold war, Tokes concludes, «I want to ask the international church bodies whether the time has not come to repent and ask for forgiveness.»

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It seems as though the churches and political organizations have swapped roles: The churches speak more as political organizations, and governments and international bodies as churches.

Great resources on this topic: http://www.wordonfire.org A Theology of the Body for Beginners — Christopher West Man and Woman He Created Them — A Theology of the Body — John Paul II Catechism of the Catholic Church 1992 or 1994 International Editions — Compiled by Catholic Bishops Worldwide with JP II United States Catholic Catechism for Adults

Protestantism made impossible a single ecclesiastical structure for Western Europe, but even had the outward unity of the Church in Western Europe been preserved, it is hard to believe that the Popes, as the spokesmen for that comprehensive body, would have had more voice in international affairs than they actually possessed or that a more effective unity of culture would have been preserved.

In 1956, the Joint Committee presented, to both organizations, a statement tracing the history of the association of the two bodies and offering the Committee» s conviction that the time had come for the World Council of Churches and International Missionary Council to consider afresh the possibility of integrating the two Councils.18 In the same year, the Joint Committee prepared a draft plan of integration, with a booklet entitled: Why Integration 2, to be presented to the World Council of Churches Central Committee Meeting in 1957 and the Ghana Assembly of the International Missionary Council in 1957 - 58.

F. Urge all church bodies, as well as UNESCO, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and other similar groups, to place more emphasis on funding of training and technical assistance for communications policy in developing nations.

But all churches share the challenge of inspiring local bodies to care intelligently about broader national and international moral problems.

The number of official ecumenical bodies has multiplied, so that a given church may be a member of the WCC, its own international confessional body, a regional confessional body, a regional council of churches, and a national council of churches.

The religious body appealed to the international community for assistance and urged all churches to set aside time on Sunday, January 7, to pray for Nigeria and «for victory over the wicked killings by Fulani herdsmen.»