Sentences with phrase «law by these religious leaders»

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And to that point, since 1950 there have been over 10,000 children in the USA that have been raped by Catholics (and a few thousand other religious leaders) and it's just very recently that any of them have faced the law the way any non-priest would.

At the «informal» meeting, Hollande did not comment directly on the concerns expressed by the religious leaders about the draft law, according to Le Figaro.

He condemned and cursed the self - appointed religious leaders who perpetuated the perverted Judaism of the day through their promotion of the Talmud and Rabbinic Halachal above the Mosaic Law given by God; those who added to the Scriptures (the Pharisees) and those who subtracted from the Scriptures (the Sadducees) and anyone else who changed the commandments of God because of their own human desires for acceptance and the honor of men.

The more liberal Krishna Kanth, the Governor of Andhra Pradesh, in his address to the Assembly of the National Council of Churches in 1991 and following it in a press interview with Neerge Choudhury (Indian Express 21 Oct. 1991) «called for an end to religious conversion in the country, not by law but by a voluntary consensus of religious leaders», because in his opinion, communal strife is closely linked to conversion.

Even Islamic leaders in Pakistan offered their support to Masih, whose case has intensified demands by religious groups for the Pakistani government to reform the law.

These four books, written by great religious scholars, are the basis for Shi`a jurisprudence; after the Qur» an, they are the sources of law for religious leaders in Shi`a.

America's first Baptist leader, Roger Williams, had to flee Massachusetts and found a colony in Providence, Rhode Island, because his religious beliefs were not tolerated by the laws of Massachusetts.