Not exact matches
The scheduled attendees of the conference encompass a wide variety of experts, ranging from medical professionals, hospice advocates, scholars,
religious and spiritual
leaders,
as well
as entrepreneurs and business
men and women interested in learning how an understanding of death and dying can help them live lives of greater purpose and meaning.
Catholic bishops, among other
religious leaders, see Buhari
as «a
man of integrity and decency who can fight corruption and Boko Haram,» John Bakeni, secretary of the Catholic diocese in Maiduguri, told RNS.
The offices of priest, prophet and king are just
as natural to
man as a social and
religious being
as the
leader is in a pack of lions or the elements are in a periodic table.
The Catholic church is
as Jesus gave in an illustration of «Lazarus and the Rich
man», whereby Lazarus pictured the common people or am - haarets (Hebrew meaning «people of the land») and the rich
man pictured the Jewish
religious leaders who fed the Lazarus class spiritual «crumbs».
It is, however, relevant to comment that just
as for most primitive
men, environment spoke to Israel through its
religious leaders.
As mentioned above, today's
religious leaders are crooked
men who have misled today's churchgoers.
Luther was caught in a political bind commonly unavoidable for any
man who emerges
as a
religious leader of a large number of people.
The building of the Church
as a community with complex organizational structure, with manifold functions and
leaders, with various responsibilities to the society around it, can easily degenerate into the building of
religious clubs, of sororities and fraternities and of national associations for the promotion of good causes, if the understanding of the Church's purpose, of its responsibility to God, of the nature and action of God, of
man and his history, of the meaning of the Church's work in all the complex of human activity and of the interrelation of the various aspects of its work are lost to view.
We need something that can fire contemplatives and other
religious, priests, preachers, teachers, catechists, theologians, parents, youth
leaders, «the
men and women in the pew» and the youth of today's Church
as they all do their bit to learn from God's Word and announce the Good News revealed by Jesus Christ in His words, miracles, Passion and Resurrection.
XXXXX also gave me the impression that many
religious leaders in Ghana perceive President John Atta - Mills
as a nice
man, but a weak president who can easily be pressured by pro-gay Western governments to do their bidding.
Along with being a Kundalini and Hatha yoga master Yogi Bhajan was a
religious, community and business
leader with a distinguished reputation
as a
man of peace, world - vision, wisdom, and compassion.
In fact, the idea is to convene a meeting with the
religious leaders of the main religions to make all people aware of the state of our climate and the tragedy of social exclusion starting from the biblical message that
man is the steward of nature and of its environmental and human development according to its potential and not against it,
as Paul IV intended.