Sentences with phrase «minority faith groups»

In the early days of his free school project, applications from minority faith groups seemed to come in thick and fast.

Not exact matches

Last month, he said: «We are now seeing the rise of many populist groups across the world that are increasingly aggressive towards those who adhere to a minority faith.

On February 1, a group of 51 faith - based, human rights and civil rights organizations, led by Muslim Advocates, called on House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi to urge King and his committee to address all forms of religious extremism rather than focusing on Islam.

In the argument of Protestant - Catholic - Jew, if the specific dogmatic elements of each faith were not important, then religion must have become simply one way a minority group could ease its way into the mainstream.

But in the past fifty years, Christianity has been blamed, with some justification, for the Holocaust, for participating in colonial oppression, for arrogance in dealing with other communities of faith, for ecological destruction, for cruelty to animals, for oppression of women, for repression of the body and its sexuality, for suppressing the voices of minority groups and thus participating in their oppression, for the persecution of gays and Lesbians, and many other crimes.

The «free exercise» clause applies to all faith groups equally and should not be seen as a threat to those that are in the minority — precisely the groups that the «no establishment» clause was designed to protect.

Muslims are currently a minority group in the United States, and for that; I will always defend the faith following and the religion.

As suggested earlier, the minority faith community or movement does not necessarily become a separate civic group, political group, but remains with its own original group.

(This is a minority position among other faith groups.)

Both Obama, the nation's first black president, and Romney, a Mormon, have found that their shared status as members of minority groups and political pioneers, in many ways, has also changed the rules of this presidential campaign cycle, said Nancy Wadsworth, co-editor of the anthology «Faith and Race in American Political Life.»

The government is charged vociferously with paying too much attention to faith groups (accused by left - liberal secularists of an unprincipled timidity on faith schools, being too open to faith engagement in third sector; and of being generally rather socially conservative; and, alternatively, by the right having a cynical multiculturalist approach to minority faiths as electoral blocs) and also of too little attention to faith (with some «competitive grievance» claims that Muslims are getting too much attention, by some claiming to speak for some other minority faiths and by some Christian voices; and traditionalists who think there is a secret project to do in every institution).

Indiscriminate violence against minorities as well as other Muslims by extremists groups who abuse the Islamic faith negates every visionary word Jinnah had uttered about the future secular and peaceful destiny of the country on the eve of its creation.

As in the United States, we will give faith groups an opening to impose their minority values on others.

Also at 10 a.m., NAACP and elected officials, and faith - based groups call on Cuomo, AG Eric Schneiderman and state Comptroller Tom DiNapoli to instruct the SUNY Board to suspend its deal with Fortis Property Group until justification for bypassing minority - owned business developers for the sale of LICH can be provided, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

In my area the Labour Council has actively connived, away from public view, with religious groups to found new faith schools thinking that it will prop up its gradually declining support from minority ethnic groups.

Expand your support structures — look to faith communities, sororities or fraternities, minority professional societies, service groups, housekeeping staff, and departmental secretaries.

It's also why I state that it doesn't bode well for any minority group in Quebec, including racial minorities like Blacks, who may share the dominant faith.

Foster carers are needed from all ethnic origins with varying faiths, cultures and languages, especially for sibling groups, teenagers, children from black and minority ethnic groups, children with disabilities and asylum seeking children.