Sentences with phrase «of peace and justice»

Its current focus is on issues of peace and justice.

Stateside's conversations with Ded and Flora Rranxburgaj, immigrants from Albania living at the Central United Methodist Church in Detroit; Caitlin Homrich - Knieling with Michigan United; and Arthur Park, Chair of the Peace and Justice Committee at the Central United Methodist Church.

In the hope that you will do all in your power to do this work of Peace and Justice, my colleagues and I thank you for your commitment to educating all children.

But Global Education is not only about global themes, world problems and how to find solutions altogether — it is also about to envision a common future of Peace and Justice for All connecting micro-macro perspectives.

When I was a child, I looked up to police officers as beacons of peace and justice.

Until the monster weapons of the nuclear powers are controlled by world structures of peace and justice, mankind flirts daily with extinction.

(2) The «utopia» of peace and justice (i.e., the expectation of «a new age») is not an ideal construction from which certain consequences are derived for specific situations but, on the contrary, it is the coming together in a vision of the specific struggle of the community to solve the conflicts, contradictions and difficulties that they find in everyday life — political, social, religious, economic.

It is Interesting and worth noting that we don't find in the Bible general definitions of peace and justice but rather an endless number of concrete acts and events in which God and human beings «act justly» or «unjustly», thus, for instance,

Its main point, which comes only two sentences from the end, is expressed this way: «To those to whom truth has been revealed, who continue in the tradition of the Holy One's followers, the call is not only to offer words of praise, confessing that Jesus is Christ the Lord, but to offer our lives as the instruments of this Lord of peace and justice.»

The church does not let the world set its agenda... but a church of peace and justice must set its own agenda.

In them we find clearly articulated such themes as the importance of the communidades de base («grass - roots «Christian groups); Jesus as the liberator from hunger, misery, oppression and ignorance; the refusal to separate Christian sanctification from «temporal» tasks; challenges to capitalism (as well as to Marxism); the theory of «dependency» on inhuman economic systems; the need for liberation from neocolonialism; the need for «conscienticization»; the need for the church to support the downtrodden; the correlation of peace and justice; and the reality of «institutionalized violence.»

It encourages either cozy feelings of assurance that the Lord makes everything work to our benefit, or else cozy communities assured that they are God's only hands and feet in the work of peace and justice.

Looking at this side of the ambiguity, we see a church in which many first - world Christians of our day could feel comfortable and undisturbed: a church that lives without question or resistance in a state founded on violence and made prosperous by the exploitation of less fortunate nations; a church that accepts various perquisites from that state as its due; a church where changing jobs for the sake of peace and justice is seldom considered; a church that constantly speaks in the language of war; a church given to eloquent invective in its internal disputes and against outside opponents; a church quite sure that God will punish the wicked.

It is laid on the servant to inaugurate God's new order of peace and justice for the world.

It means that only as we recognize that God is a God above all tribal deities, a God above all national interests, a God who is the Father of all men and who loves the people of all nations as his children, only so can God lead us in the way of peace and justice.

Our selfish isolationism, our refusal to participate in the effort to build a world order of peace and justice through the League of Nations, our aloofness from the World court, our scuttling of the London Economic Conference, our interference with the free flow of goods by high tariffs, our Oriental Exclusion Act, our arming of Japan for her war upon China, are a few of the counts in the indictment which the God and Father of all mankind must bring against us.

In the meantime, wherever Christ's standards of peace and justice are observed to any degree, to that degree the kingdom is anticipated, and to that extent God's ideal for human society is displayed.»

Will the Church, especially the Church in the United States, be able to articulate a cogent vision of a humane global society based on Christian notions of peace and justice?

Other factors inhibiting the church from developing a new understanding of creation are the patriarchal nature of the ecclesiastical establishment and the expectation of a millennial period in which human strife will be overcome and superseded by a reign of peace and justice.

«At the official press conference that unveiled Caritas in Veritate, Cardinal Mgr Renato Martino, President of the Pontifical Council of Peace and Justice -LSB-...] said that Cold War ideologies «have been replaced by the new ideology of technology,» and that the «arbitrary nature of technology is one of the greatest problems of today's world.»

A new order of peace and justice, abatement of economic and racial tension, the banishment of ignorance, poverty, and disease will not come about solely through prayer.

Dreams of peace and justice, dreams that I — and communist children alike — had been fed, were dangerous delusions in the hands of those who had the power and ambition to try to realize them fully.

This passage challenges Christians to lay foundations on which communities of peace and justice can be constructed.

The opening scene of Jesus public ministry left no doubt: a commitment to Jesus involves a commitment to build communities of peace and justice.

Here you are putting the blame on al Islamic branches for one Islamic branch although the as branches contradict each other and they are always in disputes among them and that's was the reason they became branches rather than one Islam so really it is not fear to hold all at guilt for one misbehave or abuse... nor it is fair to address the whole Islam belief, Quran and Prophet of God for the fault of ones or few that are not in the right track of Islam being the religion of peace and justice to mankind..

Also in circles such as the World Council of Churches, environmentalism was patched on to the quilt of peace and justice, and presented as a seamless garment of progressive commitment.

Not exact matches

In November of 1919, President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November Eleventh as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words: «To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations...»

«To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with lots of pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations.»

Lastly, Goal no. 16 on peace and justice urges us to «significantly reduce all forms of violence and related death rates everywhere.»

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Ms. Knoop applied for a permit to hold a rally on the steps of the gold - topped, Greek Revival State House in Montpelier and said a group called the Peace & Justice Center handled the liability insurance.

When Church and kingdom are set against each other, then the language of the kingdom can be used, and is used, to sacralize whatever is the contemporary program for justice and peace.

The march led participants to the Assembly worship tent, where they engaged in «worship on [sic] justice, peace, and the integrity of creation.»

«By bringing perpetrators to trial, the ICTY aims to deter future crimes and render justice to thousands of victims and their families, thus contributing to a lasting peace in the former Yugoslavia,» declares the website of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

The church is not authorized to represent the reign of God, his justice and peace, in any other way than that in which Jesus represented it, namely by being partners with him in challenging the powers of evil and bearing in its own life the cost of the challenge.

The teachings of Christ are crystal clear — that we must love our enemies, bless those who persecute us, pray for those who hate us — and not that they receive condemnation, but that their hearts may be turned to ways of true justice, love, and peace.

This focus is becoming the center of the «justice, peace, and integrity of creation» (JPIC) ethical framework dominant in the WCC.

Naomi Klein will lead the Holy See's meeting, called «People and Planet First: the Imperative to Change Course» on July 2nd, alongside the Ghanaian President of the Pontifical Council for Peace and Justice, Cardinal Peter Turkson.

In times of crisis within the Church and without, Sambi resolutely defended the goodness that religion offers the world» peace, justice, tolerance, and true individual freedom.

Unless it was meant for us as a new system to drop Republican systems for the Royalist systems that are taking place now that Jordan and Morocco both Royelists are planed to join GCC as one with a change to the name of the GCC since the Royalist empire will be extending to countries outer of the Arabian Gulf Countries... What ever it is all we need is freedom of rights, justice, peace, equality and to live in prosperity... Egypt is not in the heart of Egyptions only but as well in the heart of every Arabic nation, Egyptions were our teachers in our schools and Egypt was the university of our Yemeni students... Egypt was the source of islamic educations, Egypt was the face of all arts, books, papers, TV plays and movies to all of Arabian speaking countries... Egypt is our Arabian Icon so please please other nations are becoming larger and stronger in the area on your account as a living icon for the Arabian Unity what ever our faiths or beliefs are we are brothers in blood, culture and language, God Bless to All.Amen.

The oppression of women in general is very much a peace and justice issue.

Indeed, «it is to all Christians that we address a fresh and insistent call to action» — for «beneath an outward appearance of indifference, in the heart of every man there is a will to live in brotherhood and a thirst for justice and peace, which is to be expanded.»

I and others of like mind criticized the drug culture and related antics as a self - indulgent distraction from the goals of racial justice and peace, and worried that the new enthusiasm for «ecological consciousness» was in fact a conservative ploy designed to turn the movement away from the cause of the poor.

Those who will seek justice, encourage the oppressed, defend the cause of the fatherless, and plead the case of the widow, Those who will seek to reconcile more than separate, Those who will seek to co-operate more than compete, Those who will seek peace more than power.

The Pope is confident that, once this is achieved, it will be possible to cooperate in a productive way in the areas of culture and society, and for the promotion of justice and peace in society and throughout the world.»

Subsequently, both the United States Council of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace at the Vatican issued....

Certainly every opportunity for dialogue is to be nurtured, but dialogue that makes for peace is dialogue in truth that does not indulge sentimentality and wishful thinking at the expense of honesty and justice.

The easiest explanation is that such critics do not care about peace, justice, the empowerment of the poor, and other self - evidently good things.

StanPark, Joseph Smith was arrested and brought up on charges as a «glass looker» by a justice of the peace in Bainbridge, New York, on March 20, 1826.

The triumph of conservatives in the Southern Baptist Convention should not obscure the fact that a sizable number of Southern Baptists share classic liberal concerns for women's rights, racial and social justice and international peace, not to mention the viability of historical - critical method.