Sentences with phrase «religious bodies»

He further appreciated the role of religious bodies in the education sector and urged them to do more.

As expected, a number of submissions by religious bodies supported the teaching of religion in schools.

Yet she did not want to identify herself with a particular organized religious body.

The religious movements that grow while the established religious bodies continue to decline share one thing in common: they take a dim view of contemporary American society.

There is no state that has proposed that, and no state that has NOT gone out of it's way to specifically say religious bodies do NOT have to do that.

The court is presently saying religious bodies are exempt from birth - control laws.

This would signal an emphasis on quality while not requiring any school to exclude from its basic program students who are sent to them by their sponsoring religious body.

Interestingly the clergy, civil groups and supposed religious bodies took to their heels onto roof tops just to make noise over this.

Show me ONE law that requires religious bodies to do that.

According to this theory, religious bodies expand by demanding strong commitment while providing social and personal benefits.

Such an absolute separation would, in theory, prevent any conflict or controversy between religious bodies and government.

Are religious bodies addressing contemporary challenges to community - building, or are they relying too much on models from fifty or a hundred years ago?

The council advised religious bodies and entertainment centers to comply with the customs and traditions of the traditional area.

This religious nature of television content and use is posing a challenge to established religious bodies.

Political critics and religious bodies took issues with the president over his comment, saying it amounted to an invitation to human rights groups.

One hopes that the Supreme Court will interpret the word «religion» broadly to cover the moral teaching of religious bodies as well as worship and rituals.

They sharply distinguish the state from religious bodies, deeming them to fall under the private sphere.

As to the reasons for this alignment of different religious bodies, they could not be simpler: the main reason, of course, is the class character of the respective constituencies of these bodies.

According to data provided to me by Rich Houseal of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, Massachusetts is the most Catholic state in the nation.

It's particularly notable in the leadership of the Catholic Church, the country's largest religious body.

«Facing calls to curb child se - x abuse within its churches, in June the Southern Baptist Convention — the largest U.S. religious body after the Catholic Church — urged local hiring committees to conduct federal background checks but rejected a proposal to create a central database of staff and clergy who have been either convicted of or indicted on charges of molesting minors.

28, Third Edition: «We think it no concern of our what what religious bodies our members identify themselves with as individuals.

Religious bodies among Afro - Americans have not devised the means for generating financial surpluses sufficient to enable them to maintain national headquarters staffs.

In the latter country, under the leadership of Francis Asbury (1745 - 1816) they began the remarkable growth which was to make them one of the major religious bodies of that nation.

Congressman Ryan is right to note recent assaults on the specific religious bodies whose stories and rites stand at the heart of our culture.

But I say, this type of new atheist are preaching their belief which makes them a non religious body who claims logic and reason as their own (I doubt it's all theirs) and use media, laws, advertising, gatherings, to persuade you into their non belief system.

A church or other religious body which cares about human love will offer its service, its wisdom, and its ritual to those who wish to have them; but it will not control the legal foundations of marriage according to its own prescriptions.

The Times of India: Soon, Golden Temple to use phone jammers The Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee, Sikhs» highest religious body, is preparing to install jammers inside the Golden Temple complex to stop the «menace of ringing mobile phones.»

Sponsoring religious bodies expect and sometimes require them to accept marginal students.

In 1802, for instance, the Seventh Congress specifically exempted religious bodies from real estate taxes.

But our local interviewing encompassed the entire range of religious bodies found at the seven sites where we interviewed (Seattle, Albuquerque, Chicago, Nashville, Hartford, and clusters of rural counties in central Missouri and central Alabama).

An observer commented, «A mainly atheistic outlook tempered by the conviction that the subordination of action against religious bodies to the wider objectives of the state leaves the maximum freedom to pursue whatever policy appears to be the most expedient at any particular juncture».

''» will, inevitably, be used to punish religious bodies that do not recognize any such thing as same - sex «marriage»: by taking away their tax - exempt status, denying their ministers the legal capacity to act as witnesses of marriage under civil law, or both.