Sentences with phrase «missionary priests»

He introduced himself to us: Father Carlos, from the Order of Scheut, thus a colleague of the Catholic missionary priests who had died of the virus in Yambuku.

One French and two Italian missionary priests, as well as a Canadian nun, were abducted between late 2013 and April 2014, but they were all were released after a few weeks.

In his film, Andrew Garfield and Liam Neeson play two missionary priests to 1639 Japan, who must face unimaginable violence while bringing the Gospel to local communities.

When John Dominic Crossan was a teenager in Ireland, he dreamed of becoming a missionary priest.

A Catholic missionary priest from Belgium, he served the leprosy patients at Kalaupapa until his death.

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The FACT is that Christianity would not have spread nearly as far had not missionary celibate priests not gone in to the jungles.

However, this tale of the «drunk priest» named «Albert Marie, age 46» of Sireuil and speeding at «120 kph» before killing Mrs. Anderson has been told to LDS missionaries in France as recently as 2010 that we can validate.

In Yemen last month, the nuns of Mother Teresa's Missionaries of Charity were tied up, shot to death and mutilated; their staff was murdered and their priest, the last surviving Christian in the port city of Aden, was kidnapped.

So, having said these things, I will still vote for President Obama not so much for the other issues I agree with him (immigration and especially economy), but because of the facts you Baptist Minister also mentioned about Bishop Romney (he was indeed a Mormon priest in Boston and a Mormon missionary in France).

Bishop Eduardo Horacio Garcia, who was Cardinal Bergoglio's auxiliary bishop in Buenos Aires, recounted shortly after Pope Francis's election that «at the end of the Jubilee Year, for which Cardinal Bergoglio had called a missionary year, we priests of the archdiocese asked Cardinal Bergoglio to call a synod in order to discuss how to harvest the fruits of our mission and draft guidelines.

He took the missionary oath (the promise to return to England despite the capital risk) before being ordained priest and returned to England in the same year as the Armada sailed.

Martin Scorese's film adaptation of the acclaimed book tells the story of persecution, martyrdom and faith involving two Jesuit priests who serve as missionaries to Japan in the 1600s.

In the new Martin Scorsese - directed movie Silence, actor Andrew Garfield plays a 17th - century Jesuit priest and missionary who travels to Japan.

There were patriarchs from Jerusalem, Antioch and Alexandria; archbishops from the Eastern Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran communions; bishops from these communions and from the Old Catholics, Methodists and Moravians; members of the supreme courts of Germany and Scotland; deans, canons, professors, executives, editors, ministers, priests, missionaries — and seven women!

A Nair reported to the missionaries that after the arrival of Christianity among the Pulayas the «evil spirits were obliged to run away from the places» and there was «scarcely any instance of demonical possession» among them.49 Some of the priests of the Pulayas who converted to Christianity demolished the images of their deities in the presence of the missionaries, thereby suggesting belief in the power of the new God which they had found in Christianity.

We met in his office not far from the burial place of Bishop Frederick Baraga, a 19th - century missionary to the Ojibwa known as the «snowshoe priest» — a beloved figure among Indian people and the creator of the first Ojibwa dictionary.

Both English and Syrian Christian missionaries felt disappointed at the continuation of pre-Christian religio - cultural practices among the converts.54 The Provincial Council of the CMS in Travancore, which consisted of both missionaries and Syrian Christian priests, formally discussed this issue and concluded that the Pulaya Christians were «not well established in the faith.»

He said: «Following Boko Haram's abduction of three priests and a nun in the border region by Boko Haram, missionaries are now accompanied by armed soldiers when they celebrate Sunday Mass there.

We wonder why there is so much unease in the hearts of members of Christian orders and of priests, why so few deep conversions are effected in China despite the flood of missionaries, why the Christian Church, with all its superiority of benevolence and devotion, yet makes so little appeal to the working masses.

They work as pastors, preachers and priests, teachers and scholars, evangelists and missionaries, writers and editors, administrators of denominational, educational, social service and reform agencies, as chaplains in prisons, hospitals and military establishments.

The priest who first did my instruction in the faith was once a missionary in Africa, and told me terrifying stories of having to do spiritual battle as an exorcist with the same sort of «religious leaders» the pontiff was now welcoming as his honored guests.

If social scientists are secular priests, Chicago school economists have become missionaries.

As we prayed, the sweet, generous, barrier - breaking, presence of Jesus, was nearly tangible in the midst of a lesbian feminist priest - to - be and a well - meaning, but still judgmental evangelical urban missionary.

The missionaries were eager to attribute this to religious reasons by comparing «the foolishness of the Hindu Gods» «with the purity and holiness and love» of Christ or by suggesting the priests were tired of «vainly striving to please by frequent offerings 40 Matthan's report about an «intelligent Pulaya priest Choti reads as follows:

It is significant to note that the first baptism from among the Pulayas of Central Travancore and from among the «runaway» slaves in Mundakayam were the mantravadis.38 In places like Mepra, Punnapra and Vembala near Alleppey where the conversion movement was particularly strong, CMS missionaries acknowledged the leadership of the Pulaya priests.39

In my better moments, I overcome these temptations to indifference and despair by recalling St. John Paul II's words in a 1979 address to Irish seminarians: «This is a wonderful time to be a priest, to be a religious, to be a missionary for Christ.»

The controversial «missionary» bishop Andy Lines will lead the service which will see nine men become priests and deacons within the Anglican Mission in England (AMiE).

After a period as a priest in the Diocese of Brentwood he became in 1947 the Superior of the Catholic Missionary Society, charged with restoring Catholicism to this land.

His parents initially disbelieved him when he told them the missionaries were encouraging him to discern for the priesthood, because they were under the impression that only white Frenchmen could become priests!

There's Matteo Ricci, the 16th century missionary to China, a polymathic priest and a groundbreaking figure in connecting Asian and European cultures.

An association of seculars, not regulars, it sought the nurture of the Catholic masses and the conversion of Protestants, conducted seminaries to train priests, and sent missionaries to other countries.

As for all those African vocations, well, «the growing number of priests is a result not only of missionary power but also a result of the fact that the priesthood is one of the few possibilities for social security on the dark continent.»

Agreed: «don't let the left hand know what the right hand is doing...» Those who «show» their faith, whether through their profession (Pastor, Missionary) or pious works (church board, conference speaker), can only be assessed as more sincere if there is evidence they were religious / pious / faithful when no one was looking (Pope John Paul II never confirmed this, but as a young priest, it was reported he worked in the Polish underground to save many Jewish children from the Nazi's, years later, he was visiting Israel and a woman who claimed he was the priest who saved her from the Nazis stepped forward to meet him, he blessed her, yet never did confirm or deny if he had played the part of a hero).

In the new Martin Scorsese movie, Silence, actor Andrew Garfield plays a 17th - century Jesuit priest and missionary who travels to Japan.

43 The Prayer Book uses it only of bishops; in monastic usage the tide «Father» for abbots, or for older, professed, or ordained members of the monastic family generally is ancient; in modern times it gradually spread, through the active missionary orders doubtless, to the Roman Catholic clergy of Ireland; the heroic ministry of Charles Lowder and other priests during the cholera epidemic of 1866 in London seems to have started the common use of «Father» for nonmonastic Anglicans.

The movie tells the story of Jesuit priests (played by Liam Neeson and Andrew Garfield), who are persecuted for their faith while serving as missionaries to Japan in 1639.

For those of your who are in the dark here, Jesuits are a group of Catholic priests who are known for their involvement in missionary work and education.

The priests were missionaries in India in the mid-16th century.

The former Scream Queens star is dating actor Robert Buckley, PEOPLE... Michele or Michael Ruggieri (1543 — 11 May 1607), born Pompilio Ruggieri and known in China as Luo Mingjian, was an Italian Jesuit priest and missionary.

Silence (TBA 2016) Martin Scorsese's long - brewing project about Portuguese Jesuit priests experiencing persecution in 17th century Japan will finally see the light of day with Liam Neeson, Andrew Garfield, and Adam Driver playing the missionaries.

If you don't believe that Appleism is a religion (or at least a cult), its proponents missionaries, priests and acolytes, and many of its users seemingly TRUE BELIEVERS, read this message on this board.

This is a personal blog by Fr Seán Coyle, a Catholic priest, member of the Missionary Society of St Columban, from Dublin, Ireland.

Because the River Warren Falls breaks off into two separate ones at the junction between the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers, Father Louis Hennepin, a priest and missionary, got to name the side that splits into the Mississippi River «St. Anthony Falls» in 1680 when he became the first European to find it.