Sentences with phrase «of church workers»

Dozens of church workers received death threats and fled the country under government order or death threat, dozens more... were jailed and abused in detention, and numerous church facilities were ransacked....

Incidents of church workers being beaten, threatened and killed as well as churches and Christian schools being bombed, torched, vandalised and demolished are all included in the report.

We should remember that it was the limited effectiveness of church workers in the settlement house movement and other voluntary, local efforts in the 1880s that led to the large - scale government social programs of the 20th century.

Not exact matches

A former safari camp worker from South Africa has become the first woman to be ordained as a Church of... More

A former church youth worker and trainee vicar faces jail after being found guilty of three counts of... More

A Muslim interfaith worker for the Church of England has said that the head of Ofsted's comments on the... More

A Chinese care worker says the Government's torn down a cross from the top of a church attached to a...

A former safari camp worker from South Africa has become the first woman to be ordained as a Church of Scotland minister on the Isle of Skye.

However this has not even got close to the number of youth workers employed by the church, which is estimated to exceed 7,000.

«And the thousands of volunteers in our country who will give up their time to make someone else's Christmas that little bit better: from faith inspired projects like the Churches Together initiative in my own constituency - to aid workers helping those in war - torn parts of the world.

Christian aid workers have told Premier about the most challenging aspects of their roles and urged churches to take an active interest.

These church workers also recognize structural obstacles to black achievement: poor schools; the lack of business investment; and a welfare system that breaks up families, fosters dependency and strips recipients of their dignity.

Anyway, all this to say that you have finally be able to unlock a major mystery for me and give me insight into the possible reason that God allowed me to be so viciously attacked (I was maligned, kicked out of church, lost all my friends, the whole bit... There are still people posting publically that I'm satan spawn, a worker of unrighteousness sent to destroy Gods Church, etc, etc — all because I refused to «repent of my pride which believes I chose to accept Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior&rachurch, lost all my friends, the whole bit... There are still people posting publically that I'm satan spawn, a worker of unrighteousness sent to destroy Gods Church, etc, etc — all because I refused to «repent of my pride which believes I chose to accept Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior&raChurch, etc, etc — all because I refused to «repent of my pride which believes I chose to accept Jesus as my personal Lord and Savior».)

For the last 2000 years most of the churches tithes went into church buildings themselves before going into chapels and now a variety of other ministries that take care of sex trade workers for example.

A church worker in Beijing repeated to me the tale of a church that had worshipped in a cave during the Cultural Revolution.

Thus, in recent years the Supreme Court has invalidated a Connecticut law (passed to replace the prior Sunday closing law) allowing workers to select their Sabbath day as their day off from work, struck down a Massachusetts statute allowing churches and schools to object to the issuance of liquor licenses in their near vicinity, and abolished an Alabama law allowing students in public schools a moment of silence.

Specifically Christian persecution has included the burning of churches, forced «reconversions» to Hinduism, bomb threats, distribution of threatening literature, the burning of Bibles, several high - profile rapes of nuns, the murder of priests and other Christian workers, desecration of the Cross and statues of the Virgin Mary, and destruction of properties at Christian schools, colleges, and cemeteries.

No, the cardinal had used the occasion of an Ash Wednesday statement to declare that he would instruct his priests and other church workers not to cooperate with any federal regulation requiring citizens to snitch on illegal immigrants.

Each reader, whose technology is run by the London - based fintech company SumUp, needs a «merchant», most likely a Church worker, to input each transaction, and a probable scenario will see members of the congregation walking past a manned device as they enter or leave a service or event.

They gathered in this district, first to plant a cross and then later, after bloody fights with the State and its forces, to build a church — a church which is due to the sweat and resistance of the workers — as Pope John Paul expressed it at his first visit to his home country.

During the week, we will talk to local leaders, workers living here permanently helping local churches, and also some of those who came with me.

For example, churches may participate in interracial dialogue programs, preschool education programs such as Head Start, nursery school programs for children of working mothers, alcoholism education programs, sex education programs, open housing programs, health and education programs for migrant workers.

The president of the church is respected as a hard worker as well as prophet, seer and revelator, and his counselors manage to work together as an effective administration.

A perusal of the Church of the Brethren Web pages provides clear evidence that a commitment to pacifism is not limited to denominational headquarters: the 48 churches of the Northern Indiana District Conference have joined to urge «the use of nonviolent approaches and interventions» in response to the terror; the Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania, Church of the Brethren has adopted a statement in which they «remain committed to walk in the Jesus way of nonviolent love, in which evil can only be overcome with redemptive acts of love»; a group of Brethren Volunteer Service Workers have issued a statement in which they «advocate the use of nonviolent means to settle disputes» and «stand opposed to the increased drive toward militarization»; on October 7 members of local Brethren churches (along with Mennonites and others) organized a peace rally at the state capitol in Harrisburg, «Sowing Seeds of Peace: Prayers and Petitions for Nonviolent Action,» which attracted over 300 people.

More and more U.S. church workers are being deported from El Salvador or barred from entry; reportedly the ARENA regime has a list of personae non gratae that includes such notables as Archbishops Rembert Weakland of Milwaukee and John Quinn of San Francisco.

She is one of many foreign church workers who believe the Holy Land can nourish two peoples and three faiths.

The local church in the nearby town has been very critical of the mining companies and of the government's failure to look out for the safety and health of the workers and residents.

The point is this: many of those who champion «trusting God» for their financial support (and do not regard too well on salaried pastor or church worker) are often themselves consuming medicine and buying insurance policies!

The story quotes others who have dealt with the problem and say that «churches are the perfect environment for sexual predators, because they have large numbers of children's programs, a shortage of workers to lead them, and a culture of trust that is the essence of the organization.»

The victims were under the responsibility of the range of people working in the church - priests, brothers, pastoral workers and lay persons, it says.

She was shocked when workers of Summit Church in Springfield interrupted her as she nursed her daughter and asked her to cover up or move to their baby room.

Church workers in the South face the complex challenge of empowering peasants in the countryside or urban barrio dwellers to host an encounter in a way that allows them to feel equal to the northerners.

The indigenously led churches do not require foreign workers in administration, and the absence of any confessed strategy of witness and evangelism to the overwhelming Muslim majority would seem to minimize opportunities for foreigners to be useful.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

For example, one church school has a social worker who, at the invitation of a teacher, visits that class to observe and work with a troubled child.

First, whereas the social gospel writers had called on the church to act nonviolently and to support nonviolent ways of getting justice, Niebuhr saw the limits of what could be attained in that way and also that the appeal to nonviolence actually stacked the cards against the workers.

The main objectives of this Consultation were to analyze globalization and its impact on human rights; to study ethical and theological considerations with regard to globalization; to search for alternative development paradigms; to study the policies of developed nations on development and trade policies in the context of globalization; to gain inputs on the experiences of indigenous people, workers and farmers who are affected by globalization; to consider the response of the Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian Churches to the challenges posed by globalization and to study and identify concerns that the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian churches can take up in order to address the adverse impact of globalization in the Asian context.

Rather than systematically trying to understand the unions and the needs of the workers so arbitration could be possible, the Churches condemned the unions and cried for arbitration.

I've been in full time ministry, got fired, struggled for decades with my self - identity as a construction worker to raise a family, and ended up joining a Church where I had a snowball's chance in hell of getting ordained but still held out hope, but it has never happened after 14 years now.

On the other hand, my participation in the common good is served far more by living in a community of retired church workers with whom I share many interests and commitments and who care for one another and help one another through the difficulties of aging and dying.

Castro's communist revolution endeavored to rid the country of its religious influence, confiscating church property and expelling or oppressing religious workers.

Unfortunately we have heard from our churches in the northeast provinces complaining that in the past couple of years many conservative south Korean Christian workers, often with a large amount of foreign currency, have been trying to apply their church - development methods to the churches in Manchuria.

Maybe the church needs a gifted cartoonist to illuminate the aesthetic plight of congregational workers who are increasingly staring at computer monitors in their corporate - style cubicles.

sense of Ongoing training group AUTONOMY for nursery school while retain - workers (church & ing basic nonchurch).

Seventeen years ago, when I edited the first issue of a new magazine for Christian youth workers, the number of salaried church - based youth workers was...

Following Bonhoeffer's exposition of the Sermon on the Mount, he gives an exposition of Matthew 9:35 - 10:42.39 Short vignettes are drawn of the harvest (the people are without a shepherd, without relief, deliverance, and forgiveness) for which one must pray for laborers; the call of the apostles (who are given power stronger than Satan's and are bound together only by their choice and call); the work (fulfilling their commission to preach, traveling as messengers of the King, living in «royal poverty,» warning men of the urgency of the times); the suffering of the messengers (as Jesus was persecuted so the messengers will be, but they are forewarned; because Christ will return the disciples are not to fear man, or to be gullible in thinking that «there is good in every man «40); the decision (man's eternal destiny is determined by his decision on earth for the devil or for Christ); and the fruit (the disciples are fellow workers having as their goal the «salvation of the Church»).41

A church purporting to care about social justice and to be sensitive to the needs of the city might start with a willingness to stand up for workers.

Praise God for the church nursery and Sunday school workers, for the young ones without babies themselves (and all of their energy), for the older couples who have raised their babies (and all of their calming certainty), for the other tired parents who take their turn so that they could perhaps listen to the sermon next week.

There are too many denominations but when I think of the church as «the people» and with that as individual voters, elected officals and general workers I see folks bringing their Faith into their decision making as much as a woman brings her life experiacnes into her job.

The Chicago Temple offers midweek services for downtown workers (90 percent of whom are members of other churches), and it has a ministry to the many homeless people who spend days and nights in the Loop.