Sentences with phrase «justice leader of»

Elizabeth C. Yeampierre is a nationally recognized Puerto Rican attorney and environmental justice leader of African and Indigenous ancestry born and raised in New York City.

A number of white Christians responded to the alarm, but prominent Christian justice leaders of diverse cultures and denominations perceived a general lack of engagement from white Christians.

Not exact matches

Just this week, justices weighed the religious values of company leaders, as the Hobby Lobby case came before the Supreme Court.

«Given some of his past statements and his staunch opposition to immigration reform, I am very concerned about what he would do with the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice and want to hear what he has to say,» incoming Democratic Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said in a statement.

Through her work at Emerson Collective, Laurene has been a longtime leader in areas of education, immigration, social justice and the environment, and has demonstrated that she shares Ted Leonsis's belief in a double bottom line philosophy: that the companies that do best are those that do good in their communities.

In addition to members of Congress, the list includes current and former FBI and Justice Department leaders and federal judges.

The four - member Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, led by Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy, met with Pakistan's army ruler Pervaiz Musharraf, the Chief Justice of Pakistan, and other political leaders and government officials as they assessed the political situation in the country.

Korean leaders to meet at North - South border on Friday: BBC Chinese geologists say N. Korea's main nuclear test site has likely collapsed: WaPo China air force intimidates Taiwan with military flights around island: Reuters Conservative Supreme Court justices appear to back Trump's travel ban: The Hill French president expects Trump will withdraw from Iranian nuclear deal: BBC Rising interest rates keep Wall Street on edge: CBS Investors will focus on various inflation numbers in days ahead: Bloomberg A closer look at the 10 - year Treasury yield's rise to 3 %: Calafia Beach Pundit T. Rowe Price's assets under mgt top $ 1 trillion — a sign of active mgt growth: P&I World trade volume slumped 0.4 % in Feb, first monthly loss since Oct: CPB

In addition to testimonies from the Department of Justice, Secret Service, and Fincen several industry leaders from different virtual currency groups were invited to testify.

Hundreds of young people of color gather to learn about climate justice and just transitions through an innovative agenda that is entirely developed and implemented by youth leaders.

Ottawa — On the cusp of Thursday's federal election debate on the economy, the Trade Justice Network, (www.tradejustice.ca), a coalition of Canadian unions, environmental groups and citizens» groups, is calling on federal leaders to mandate the Parliamentary Budget Officer to do real fact - based analysis before they sign «free trade» deals that are destructive to Canadian -LSB-...]

Both the Jewish leaders who demanded the crucifixion of Christ and the Roman authorities who were more concerned with their careers than justice were practical atheists.

I believe we have done a fair job of using reason as leaders from other countries routinely tour and study at our judicial centers in awe of the most fair and honest approach to justice the world has ever known.

Krish Kandiah meets Eugene Cho, justice advocate and the founder of Quest Church, Seattle, which has just bought former church leader Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Ballard Campus.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pe - dophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, Bevilacqua?)

Dr Billings, who was deputy leader of Sheffield City Council in the 1980s, said: «My first priority will be to keep the police focussed on doing everything to ensure that all instances of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham are fully investigated with perpetrators brought to justice, officials held to account and victims fully supported.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice) Clinton, Cardinal Law), jail for embellizing / money laundering (the topic rabbi) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

In deed... that the bishops and other catholic leaders begin to realise that the culprits must be brought to justice instead of hiding and protecting them.

A symposium of church leaders, law and justice professionals and academics of different races has taken place in Westminster looking at ways to tackle the problem.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce and alimony payments for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law, B16?)

Editor's note: Sister Simone Campbell is Executive Director of the Catholic social justice lobby NETWORK and leader of the «Nuns on the Bus.»

I see no reason why church leaders should cease promoting Christian understandings of human rights in public settings as a way of promoting justice, morality, and the common good.

Together these leaders — long identified with the struggle for racial and economic justice — demand a test of vouchers with one basic criterion in mind: «Do public scholarships help or hurt our poorest children and the children of ethnic minorities?

This might seem like an appropriate time for a resurrected revolutionary leader victim to bring the bastards to justice — something a little more along the lines of direct action.

Such leaders can only advise, and guide, and administer justice within the limits of Islamic laws.

Krish Kandiah meets Eugene Cho, justice advocate and the founder of Quest Church, Seattle, which has just bought former church leader Mark Driscoll's Mars... More

He is the co-founder and director of Ohio Prophetic Voices, a movement of faith leaders and clergy engaged in a biblically rooted struggle for economic and racial justice.

But who could imagine that a leader capable of such words would lead the way to justice and freedom?

Gregory Brewer is the bishop of the Episocopal Diocese of Central Florida, an evangelical leader with a passion for justice.

Social justice causes, candles in worship services, v - necks and big neck tattoos on worship leaders, screenings of PT Anderson films at church, heavy use of Helvetica font in church bulletins, bald pastors who always wear black clothes from Banana Republic, beer at church barbecues, a renewed interest in corporately reading ancient creeds or prayers, Nooma videos, Sufjan Stevens and everything related to Sufjan Stevens.

While church leaders kept silent on the State Department's charge of discrimination, some populist Christian groups scrawled slogans calling for justice and rights for Christians on the walls of central Karachi and Lahore.

Making «control» more important than love or social justice speaks volumes about the leaders of this religion.

In contrast, denominational leaders often advocate full understanding of and involvement in the struggles of people seeking equality and justice.

I get quite concerned when churches and church leaders preach and teach about our responsibility a to kill, bomb, and destroy other people in the name of freedom and justice — or worse yet, in the name of Jesus.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pe - dophiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, married men / women), divorce for adultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law) and the death penalty or life in prison for murder («Kings David and Henry VIII).

Knowing I have something of a national platform, I've been thinking a lot about how to use it more effectively — perhaps by focusing my best op - ed writing on one or two and using the rest of my influence to amplify those church leaders, activists, and artists doing the good work of justice all around the world.

Krish Kandiah meets Eugene Cho, justice advocate and the founder of Quest Church, Seattle, which has just bought former church leader Mark Driscoll's Mars Hill Ballard...

In the introduction to Christ and the Just Society in the Thought of Augustine, Dodaro remarks that Augustine followed Cicero in «focusing the concept of the just society on the role of its leaders in establishing justice.»

Jesus goes on to encourage the leaders to continue giving, but tells them to focus more of their devotion and energy to things that matter more, like justice, mercy, and faith.

Christian leaders flee their daily responsibilities and decisions of justice in human affairs.

The task of religious leaders is to call their people to live citizenship as discipleship, which in this instance means using the arts of persuasion rather than the anarchic tactics of disruption to do the work of justice.

Otherwise, liberally sprinkled with Quranic verses, things lean toward a «strong man» of justice, a single leader leading, governing well and restraining corruption for the benefit of the people.

That is, that one of the main reasons for his attack on Darwinism is his conclusion that insufficiently critical adoption of evolutionary modes of thought by the majority of scientists, and also by educational (e.g., John Dewey) and legal (e.g., Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.) leaders, has led to a highly unsatisfactory cultural situation, and to many evil consequences.

Where a domesticated piety dominates the commitments of a denomination, the conservation of middle - class ideals can blind both leaders and people to the prominent concern for social justice found in the Bible.

On the other hand, even when leaders are committed to seeking social justice, they have not been able to sustain a legitimate critique of poverty and injustice in America because the family ideals of the American Dream continue to be linked to democratic values and economic stability.

In view of all this the charge must be made against the radical group of religious leaders, whom we call Humanists, that they have failed to do justice to the fundamental feature in the phenomenon of religion.

If someone is guilty of a crime in this litany of «neithers» they should or should have been penalized as the law dictates to include jail terms for pedop - hiliacs (priests, rabbis, evangelicals, boy scout leaders, imams, married men / women), divorce for ad - ultery (Clinton, Kennedy, Woods), jail terms for obstruction of justice (Clinton, Cardinal Law) and the death penalty or life in prison for mur - der («Kings David and Henry VIII).

Muslim leaders also try to promote peace with justice through their participation in inter-religious organizations like the World Congress of Religions for Peace.