Sentences with phrase «peace efforts in»

Factional scribe of the youth body, Mr Bristol Emmanuel, told journalists in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, that the body was not opposed to the current peace efforts in the Niger Delta, noting that while it was still consulting with leaders and elders in the region, some persons had been using the IYC for private gains.

(CNN)- Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday called for an end to violence in Syria, as well as a renewed peace effort in the Middle East, in his annual Easter Mass message from the Vatican as Christians worldwide marked the holiday.

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«The Coalition calls on all parties to focus their efforts in the same direction to defeat ISIS, which is our common enemy and the greatest threat to regional and worldwide peace and security.»

And he has backed efforts to bring Iran to the table for future peace talks in Afghanistan.

Trump on Monday railed against the recent string of attacks in Afghanistan, and ruled out any US discussions with the Taliban as part of the effort to seek peace talks between the Afghan government and the insurgents.

He added that during Pence's visit, they would discuss US efforts «to halt Iran's aggression, the Iranian nuclear program, and ways to advance peace and security in the region.»

US Vice President Mike Pence told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he hopes to usher in a «new era» of Middle East peace talks, while the Palestinians have scorned US efforts and are turning to other global leaders for support.

Looking back on the failures of the Obama administration's Israeli - Palestinian peace efforts, he suggested that former Secretary of State John Kerry may have been too idealistic in pursuing talks that collapsed in 2014.

Kushner, who had a broad portfolio in the White House, including leading Middle East peace negotiations and an effort to modernize and reduce the size of some government programs, lost his interim top - secret security clearance, two U.S. officials familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

«Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self - satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.»

«The short story was, I wanted to create the conditions for world peace in my lifetime,» Tan says of his efforts.

On Friday, Vice President Mike Pence is set to depart on a trip to Egypt, Jordan, and Israel, to support the Trump administration's efforts in pursuit of an «ultimate deal» to bring about Middle East peace.

President Trump said on May 1 that South Korean President Moon Jae - in's suggestion that he receive the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to negotiate...

But the visit by Greenblatt, who is leading the daily effort within the White House to forge a US - led peace plan, comes at a time of crisis in relations between the Trump administration and the Palestinian Authority.

In his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern perioIn his account, the Church's attempts to tame violence through preaching humility and peace had a negligible effect on the ancient traditions of manliness until its efforts were joined with the state's in the early modern perioin the early modern period.

He also continued to portray himself as a fair mediator between Israel and the Palestinians, telling the Palestinians that «efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure» and telling Israelis that «the status quo is unsustainable, and Israel too must act boldly to advance a lasting peace.»

Dear friendly peoples of world, hope the all mankind could kindly arise with joint effort to save this peace loving people from the wicked and severe tortures and baseless accusations.How mankind in this century of light can treat another human being simply heap false accusations and put in prison for so many years when they have done no wrongs.l.

Heb.12: 14 «Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.»

In this situation, surely no Jewish effort should be spared to narrow the split; yet whether he realizes it or not, precisely at just this moment Schindler's dreams widen that split still further, for they define all opponents of the Oslo agreement, seekers after peace though they may be, as the «enemies of peace.»

Those who play by the rules of the game in the orders of creation may win prizes commensurate with their efforts, but all that has nothing to do with securing eternal peace with God.

First, the involvement of Latin America nations in regional peace efforts was seen as a dangerous precedent that ultimately threatened the Monroe Doctrine.

-- This institution will make every effort to battle such reprehensible fundamentalist violence to ensure that such horrors are not repeated anywhere (even if that means Muslims volunteering — NOT protesting — to be ethnically profiled, as terrible as that would normally be in times of peace, at airports, to help catch the murderers).

So, people who are supporting this work really are not just engaged in the physical work of getting food, but it's a peace - making effort.

12:14 Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord -LCB- NIV -RCB-.

In fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioIn fact, U.S. liberation movements are already under way in women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin women's groups, community organizing efforts among the poor, the search for freedom by gay and lesbian communities, and in Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin Native American, African American and Hispanic struggles against U.S. racism, and in a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creatioin a host of works for justice, peace and the wholeness of creation.

In polite company, and for the sake of keeping peace with each other (because mutual apostasies take so much effort), we can do with marriage what we do with our disagreements about eucharist and baptism: keep our mouths shut and let God sort it out in the enIn polite company, and for the sake of keeping peace with each other (because mutual apostasies take so much effort), we can do with marriage what we do with our disagreements about eucharist and baptism: keep our mouths shut and let God sort it out in the enin the end.

In The Challenge of Peace, their 1983 pastoral letter, the bishops «identified as critical the need for arms control and disarmament, efforts to minimize the risk of «any war.»»

«In 2014, Welby warned that world leaders risked conflict against Islamist extremists, advocating the need for a long - term effort to build fair and sustained peace.

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.

How easy it is to believe that one has disinterested concern for world peace as one becomes active in organizations that work for it, when others see that we care a great deal about our role in the organization and gaining recognition for our efforts!

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-.

The Editor - in - Chief of First Thingsand syndicated columnist in this magazine went as far as to say that «it serves neither peace nor understanding to acquiesce in the efforts of Muslim leaders to change the subject» away from «the sources of terrorism and oppression perpetrated in the name of Islam (which) after all, is what prompted these exchanges in the first place».

Francis's meeting with Buddhist monk Sitagu Sayadaw was undertaken «in an effort to encourage peace and fraternal coexistence as the only way ahead», Mr Burke said.

As part of U.S. - led efforts to resume new peace talks, Israel appears to be easing some travel restrictions currently in place on Palestinians in the West Bank.

A pastor once told me that looking to the Psalms for solidarity in doubt is a misguided effort because David eventually resolved all his questions to find peace in God.

Novak also sees the admission of natural law concepts as the first step in Judaism's long effort to make peace with modernity by abandoning the inner essence of its identity, a Faustian bargain culminating in the Holocaust.

I teach my children to follow the teaching of Paul found in the book of Hebrews: «Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.»

Kirkridge's mission is to «picket and pray»: to join the work for peace and justice with a serious effort to grow in relationship with God.

The Vatican has sent an envoy to oversee the talks between the opposition and the government, in an effort to mediate a path for peace in the country and Pope Francis sent a letter encouraging both sides to continue down the difficult path towards peace and justice.

This was notably the case in the successful campaign against Negro slavery, in the many efforts, not so successful, to curb war and bring about international peace, in the Red Cross for ministering to the sufferers from war and from natural disasters, in the inauguration of the modern nursing profession, in the fight against the excessive use of alcohol, in the efforts to improve the care of prisoners and the insane, in the multiform endeavors, never before so numerous, to give larger opportunities to the underprivileged, and in some of the many programs for the thorough reconstruction of society.

Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, chairman of the Department of External Church Relations for the Moscow Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, called on the «world community to join efforts in order to find the abducted hierarchs as soon as possible,» and prayed for peace to be «re-established in the ancient land of Syria and for Christianity to keep developing there.»

This paragraph and several which appear later in this chapter are reprinted from my contribution to the symposium «To Combine Our Efforts» — For Lasting Peace.

There is nothing admirable about denying the truth, communication and concern in an effort to keep peace; in fact, it does quite the opposite.

Civil rights activists had to sometimes disturb the peace in an effort to make room for real peace.

As Christians — people who are called to «make every effort to live in peace with everyone» (Hebrews 12:14)-- we know it's not the government who prescribes our values.

But if it was unjust to link peace work and appeasement in the «40s, the suspicion was more understandable in the «60s, when some American antiwar activists made no effort to conceal their sympathies for an authoritarian regime in North Vietnam.

Yet if all just wars aim at the establishment or recovery of the peace of order, then vigorous truth - telling about the American decision to go to war, about America's conduct of the war, and about America's postwar efforts at reconstruction and pacification in Iraq is an important component of the pursuit of a just peace.

After they have settled as traders or agriculturists they try to control by force and persuasion the neighboring Bedouin tribes in an effort to maintain some measure of peace and order.

Her efforts culminated in a massive silent protest outside the Presidential Palace, where women wearing white T - shirts and dresses demanded a resolution to the conflict, issuing a statement that read: «In the past we were silent, but after being killed, raped, dehumanized, and infected with diseases, and watching our children and families destroyed, war has taught us that the future lies in saying NO to violence and YES to peacin a massive silent protest outside the Presidential Palace, where women wearing white T - shirts and dresses demanded a resolution to the conflict, issuing a statement that read: «In the past we were silent, but after being killed, raped, dehumanized, and infected with diseases, and watching our children and families destroyed, war has taught us that the future lies in saying NO to violence and YES to peacIn the past we were silent, but after being killed, raped, dehumanized, and infected with diseases, and watching our children and families destroyed, war has taught us that the future lies in saying NO to violence and YES to peacin saying NO to violence and YES to peace!

So when Paul urged the Ephesian church to «make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace,» he followed this with an acknowledgement of the Church's diversity, in which there are «apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors, and teachers... so that the body of Christ may be built up until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.»