Sentences with phrase «on peace and justice»

Heather Roberson Gaston is a New York - based writer and activist whose work focuses on peace and justice issues, both at home and abroad.

In the light of the perspective on peace and justice outlined above, we need to discuss some of the concrete affirmations.

Thus, most church members have been unmoved by the mainline denominations» heavy emphasis on peace and justice issues.

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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In addition, the Bobsts donated $ 11 million in 1973 to complete New York University's library on Washington Square, which bears Elmer Bobst's name, along with $ 10 million to create the Mamdouha S. Bobst Center for Peace and Justice.

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Pope Francis expressed his distress over the situation in Syria Sunday, calling on world leaders to assure that «justice and peace prevail.»

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.

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

«The Church is as keen as ever to encourage wide debate and discussion on the issues which matter - social justice, poverty, education, peace.»

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.

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.

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.

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..

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.

They see themselves on a mission, partnering with God to breathe justice and mercy and peace and compassion and generosity into the world.

We are committed to our local church and we ridiculously believe Jesus meant all of that stuff he said while he walked among us here on here so we're committed to justice and peace - making in our everyday lives, too — making space for work we believe in.

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

I would like to organize and prioritize, to rabble - rouse and disturb the peace of the rest of the world on behalf of justice, truth, beauty and love.

The main task of the Board is to coordinate and facilitate sustainable development programmes on Justice, Peace and Environmental issues in all the Dioceses of the Church of North India.

Does theology deepen our commitment to a new global solidarity based on justice and peace?

Worship is probably the most powerful engine for justice and peace because in it God's call, which stands behind and before us, can not be denied, will not let us rest and drives us into the world on behalf of the downtrodden and the oppressed.

One of the most poignant experiences for young people growing up in our society is to espouse some cause such as civil rights or world peace — a cause they learned to love in their home or church — and then find that their parents are opposed to overt action on behalf of social justice.

But as much as John Paul appreciated the United States, he kept his independence and issued a series of declarations about social justice and peace that challenged many Americans — both on the domestic front and in foreign affairs.

[9] The Church's social vision, built on principles of justice, peace, freedom and solidarity, [10] presents, this writer would submit, values which serve much better if we want to uphold the dignity of the human person.

The death of Osama bin Laden spurs discussions among people of faith on issues of forgiveness, peace, justice and retribution.

Our actions to promote peace, justice, and liberation are not on the same plane as the qualitatively other kingdom which God has brought from beyond our world of possibilities through Jesus Christ.

Dr. Wren, a free - lance hymn writer and consultant on worship, justice and peace, lives in Oxford, England.

He noted particularly «those superb chapters in the second part of the Summa Theologiae on paternal or domestic government, the lawful power of the State or the nation, natural and international law, peace and war, justice and property, laws and the obedience they command, the duty of helping individual citizens in their need and cooperating with all to secure the prosperity of the State, both in the natural and the supernatural order.»

But in their tenth anniversary «reflection» on the «83 pastoral, The Harvest of Justice Is Sown in Peace, a new topic appears: «the forceful, direct intervention by one or more states for essentially humanitarian purposes,» such as alleviating «internal chaos, repression and widespread loss of life.»

Nevertheless, Whitehead's own writings on the history of society show that «peace» is unstable apart from justice and that the union of zest with peace accounts for the adventurous aim toward transcending the relative justice and injustice of any given social order.

Traditional Catholic thinking about international relations was based on an older understanding of and appreciation for individual political communities as the loci within which a social order embodying justice in all its aspects might be established and maintained, thereby securing peace as the tranquillity of that just order.

A lasting peace, he says, must be built on a deeper foundation of self - assessment and justice.

Recently as I was sitting in church listening to a rather good sermon on the importance of «working for justice and peace.»

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?

Jews and Christians share a common hope: «Within this eschatological horizon is offered a real prospect of universal brotherhood on the path of justice and peace, preparing the way of the Lord....

The result is that America is a nation deeply divided between people who are concerned about real - life issues — war and peace, social justice, the health and welfare of people — on one hand, and other people who are concerned, instead, about «values,» by which they mean adherence to ancient taboos, dependence on a magical God, enforcing acceptance of ancient creeds, requiring everyone to believe as they do, and finding safety in raw (though often hidden) social and economic power.

Prior to his present position, Dr. Niles was Director for Programme on Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation, World Council of Churches, Geneva, and was Senior Lecturer and Academic Dean at the Theological College of Lanka, Pilimaralawa, Sri Lanka.

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

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.

Whereas the Church should be a prophetic voice for justice and peace and the integrity of creation, this globalization invites the Church to neglect the core message of the Gospel, to legitimize this social order based on greed and injustice to the majority of humanity and is racist in defending the present European - made world order.

The pope urged Mexican Catholics to remain true to their faith, and called on the Virgin Mary to «continue accompanying and protecting her beloved Mexican and Latin American children, so that Christ reigns in their lives and helps them to boldly promote peace, harmony, justice and solidarity.»

Sarah Bessey's reflections on faith and feminism and Osheta Moore's practical guidance on justice and peace challenged me to live as a more faithful follower of Jesus in those quiet, unpublicized moments when faithfulness really matters.

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.»

Your difficulty is that you want to try to live in history without sinning... our effort to set up the Kingdom of God on earth ends in a perverse preference for tyranny, simply because the peace of tyranny means, at least, the absence of war (Love and Justice [Westminster, 1957]-RRB-.

Many of these ideas were episcopally appropriated in the documents of the conference of Latin American bishops at Medellín in 1968, three years before Gutiérrez's landmark book appeared — especially those on «Justice» and «Peace,» in the composition of which Gutiérrez played a part as one of the official periti at the conference.

The Pope's message for the 45th World Day of Peace, New Year's Day, was released a couple weeks early on Friday, December 16, by the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace.

I keep hoping that evangelicals will not think my work compromises their emphases on the love of Jesus and on biblical authority, and that liberals will not suppose it is inconsistent with intellectual openness or commitment to peace and justice.

Citing South African Anglican Bishop Desmond Tutu's book Hope and Suffering, the pastor speaks of the endurance needed to participate in the marathon walk for justice and peace, a walk possible only through a mobilizing yet sober hope that anticipates a Good Friday on the way to Easter.

A country that was founded on the principles of liberty and justice for all will remember how justice was too long denied to African - Americans, how the civil rights movement made clear that separate is not equal, and how King's dream of all people living together in peace was «deeply rooted in the American dream.»