Sentences with phrase «martyrs today»

During a visit to the Italian city of Genoa on Saturday, Pope Francis prayed for the victims and warned the number of martyrs today exceeds that of early Christian times.

So someone who dies while fighting actively for justice and righteousness of a community or for a group of people has to be considered a real martyr today Those who lay down their lives for those values of the kingdom such as truth, justice, love of God and love to the poor can be considered as martyrs.

Not exact matches

Interesting that an article questioning the roots of Christianity and asking if «Christians have a martyr complex today?»

one only need look at the Church ih China today and it's growth under Communist persecution to get a mirror image of what it was like for first through third century Christian's as well as Revelation 6:9 - 11 then 14 - 17 nine through elven are the martyrs and 14 through 17 is a glimpse of judgment for men of war!

Further, Christians are still persecuted in much of the world up until today, and this last century has produced more martyrs than all the past 2000 years combined.

So... maybe the facts about early church martyrs are sketchy, and maybe they are not, but there's no disputing that Christians today are persecuted around the world for their beliefs.

We learn that the word «martyr» means «witness» and that «apostle» means «one who is sent» and then grasp what this really meant in the lives of the Apostles, and indeed what it means today: «Faith and love in Jesus will issue forth in ministry.

Stirred by the example of the martyrs who died rather than deny their Lord, Christians today should be prepared to make sacrifices for their faith.

Our own time is rightly understood as a time of the martyrs, and it is a most encouraging development that Christians today increasingly recognize and revere those members of the several ecclesial communities who, in the century past and still now, offer the ultimate witness to the lordship of Christ.

However, we can marvel today at how his words have come true — the eloquent wisdom in the face of persecution of St Joan of Arc; of so many English martyrs; St Paul Miki, and of many more.

At an interfaith memorial service for the martyred journalist Daniel Pearl, Imam Rauf said, «If to be a Jew means to say with all one's heart, mind, and soul: Shma «Yisrael, Adonai Elohenu Adonai Ehad; Hear O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is One, not only today I am a Jew, I have always been one.

Commenting on the church's inauguration, Bishop Gregory Mansour from the Maronite Church in the US told the Catholic News Agency: «Any way that the Church of today can honour her martyrs is a blessing.

O God of light and God of truth The hope of age, the strength of youth To whom the holy martyrs pray Renew and bless your Church today God bless our Pope.....

There are Galilean Christians today who at least claim to be descended from early bishops, saints, and martyrs.

Today's martyrs like Bonhoeffer need to be honored for the sake of their new life.

Today he is incontestably called a martyr theologian.

In response to the latest crime, Holy Father Pope Francis declared, «These are the martyrs of today!

Today, he adds, the martyrs of the Holocaust are sometimes invoked in the same way.

In The Myth of Persecution, Candida Moss, a leading expert on early Christianity, reveals how the early church exaggerated, invented, and forged stories of Christian martyrs and how the dangerous legacy of a martyrdom complex is employed today to silence dissent and galvanize a new generation of culture warriors.

In another Campbell chronicles a 1971 IRA martyr image used today to brighten up Christmas stockings.

Indeed, a hint of a martyr complex has to be part of the motivations of anyone entering the field today, whether their inclinations are activist, passivist or neutral.