Sentences with phrase «many national churches»

He will be the highest - ranking national church leader arrested since the Cultural Revolution.»

If you look at the «establishment» clause, it was meant to prohibit a national church.

The National Churches Trust has awarded # 390,000 to places of worship across Britain to keep them going for vital maintenance work.

«National Churches Trust funding for new community facilities will help ensure that more churches and chapels can better serve local people.

The National Churches Trust has said that everyone can contribute to the survival of their local church, by clearing drains or gutters so churches remain watertight, showing people around them as a volunteer, and reporting any suspicious behaviour to the police.

Huw Edwards, BBC newsreader and Vice-President of the National Churches Trust, said: «I'm delighted that this Christmas the future of 29 churches and chapels is being safeguarded by National Churches Trust grants.

He found the national churches of state Protesentism more to his liking, simply because they were easier for him to control and because they represented the religion of the north German states.

The National Churches Trust has awarded # 390,000 to places of worship across Britain to keep them going... More

The National Church of England was also notified, to prevent him from applying for ordination elsewhere in the country.»

The Rev. David L. Norgard, who is openly gay and is chairman of the national church's Standing Commission on Evangelism, says, «I'm thoroughly convinced, and hold it as a point of faith, that in the long run people are turned off by a church that excludes.»

The NBA is not a national church, after all.

Most are either in support roles for the national churches or in social ministries.

Protestantism in particular could not surrender the claim to be a Volkskirche, a true national church and the spiritual custodian of the German people.

They are willing to engage in joint evangelization efforts with the indigenous churches in reaching their own people, or to focus through cross-cultural evangelism on areas not yet reached by the national churches.

The secretary warned that «we can not afford to fragment into national churches.

Many of your people's ideas are quite opposite to yours and to the hopes of the national church.

The independence and autonomy of national churches are now the reality with which Western agencies deal throughout the Third World.

Further, many national churches offer comprehensive and sophisticated programs of theological education by extension for lay leaders.

Unlike their mainstream Protestant counterparts, Seventh - day Adventist missionaries did not create independent national churches in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The only voice in the national church to admit forthrightly that the product was the problem was the editor of The Lutheran, Pastor Edgar Trexler, who in the December issue wrote an editorial calling the distribution of the draft a «disaster» and the draft itself «mortally wounded.»

Awhile back the bishop sent her to a nasty little church, that had run off more than one preacher, refused to contribute a dime to any national church program, and cherished a reputation for being one of the most hostile congregations in the conference.

In short, in order to impose their views on the church as a whole they have insisted on centralizing authority in the national church and using that authority to demand that many — bishops, clergy, and lay people — act contrary to their consciences.

Here they have insisted that the national church restrict the freedom of annual conferences with respect to ordination and the freedom of local congregations with respect to the kinds of services they are allowed to hold.

CNN's Randi Kaye talks to the Very Rev. Gary Hall, dean of the Washington National Cathedral, about the national church's decision to host same - sex weddings.

The same question may be asked of other societies and national Churches.

When I asked Steve Pike, their national church planting director, why their church plants were more evangelistically effective.

In the face of society's crumbling morality the National Church, divided against itself, had little to offer, and has clearly become part of the problem.

In 1054 Rome and Constantinople parted in acrimonious mutual misunderstanding, and during 400 years of Ottoman rule the «one, holy, catholic, apostolic» Orthodox church of the East fragmented into a host of ethnic - national churches: Greek, Russian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Armenian, Romanian.

The subjects considered at national church meetings in the «80s and «90s exhibit a similar, though less extreme, pattern.

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

A South Carolina judge on Wednesday (Jan. 23) issued a temporary restraining order that prevents the national church from using the name or seal of the diocese, which espouses a more traditional theology and disapproves of the national church's acceptance of same - sex marriage and gay bishops.

They regularly attack national church activities and continue to build their coffers and secure recruits and staff.

In addition to inhibiting the growth of national church structures, the generalized economic deprivation of blacks in America has contributed to the continued fragmentation of the Afro - American religious community.

To this imbalance we shall need to address ourselves in other connections For the present we must only point out that whatever just criticism may have been made of theological schools in other countries and times because they were too remote from parish and national church activities and because they overlooked their responsibility for training preachers, pastors, evangelists and priests, the North American schools with which we are concerned have not erred in this direction.

Half of all Anglican churches across the country don't have a working toilet, according to the National Churches Trust, which funds church repairs in the UK.

The idea that people in the power center should plan for others extends into corporate offices, national church bureaucracies, and social welfare agencies.

Disciples of the social gospel still write challenging articles in liberal magazines; national church staffs sponsor conferences on the liberation...

For instance, faith appears incompatible with infant baptism, and the national church appears contrary to personal commitment and choice.

The national church stands in peril if it is not reaching out.

Both the national Church of Rwanda and its partners overseas have largely failed in this role of watchmen.»

Will they allow Moscow Patriarchate parishes to continue their work, or will they try to force them into a new Ukrainian national church?

Eastern Orthodox Christians come from «autocephalous» national churches deeply interwoven with local traditions.

Eddie Tulasiewicz from the National Churches Trust, which commissioned the survey, told Premier there was a simple explanation to explain why places of worship ranked below castles.

Claire Walker, Chief Executive of the National Churches Trust, said: «At the heart of communities in cities, towns and villages, cathedrals and churches are a treasure trove of architecture, history and faith.

The results from the latest National Church and Social Action Survey show that as many as 1.4 million volunteers participated in UK church - based social...

Paul Vallely, who wrote a biography about Pope Francis, credited the Catholic leader with encouraging dialogue within the Church and moving some decision - making powers away from the Vatican to the national churches.

As mentioned earlier, a factor which was prominent in the 1930s, and which influenced both the movements in forming the World Council of Churches, was a conviction about the universal church as against the national church.

The pastor had even been asked to speak at a national church conference next year, and it was rumored that a book deal was in the works.

Ms Scolding said in her opening statement: «The church is the established church of England - the national church.

It's a tough time to be a national church executive, and the situation may well get worse.