Sentences with phrase «religious programs claim»

5 % of all participants in religious programs claim to have been healed either during or after the telecasts, and the healers on the programs play major roles.

Five per cent of the participants in religious programs claim to have been healed either during or after the telecasts, and the healers of these programs play major roles.

(29) The Gallup Poll of Evangelical Christianity in 1978 found that 27 percent of those who watched religious programs claimed not to be a member of a church or synagogue, 18 percent claimed not to attend church, and another 18 percent claimed they attended less than once a month.

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In March 2009, Coppedge claims that his supervisor advised him that co-workers had complained that he was harassing them over debates about his religious views and coercing them in the workplace into watching DVD programs about intelligent design.

The religious right, most recently through the extremely dangerous «Tea Party,» have hi - jacked what SHOULD be logical public discourse or social programs, and turned them in to a Bible fight by claiming, incorrectly, that this is a Christian nation, and that we should be legislating the Bible.

On the other hand, 14 per cent claimed that their viewing of religious programs was a «substitute for going to church,» and about 20 per cent said that they watched religious programs on Sundays during church hours.

The viewing audience for religious programs is far smaller than has been claimed.

The audience of cable programs in the United States is still a relatively unknown factor, and with an increase in the number of religious syndicators moving into cable the claim is made that a large number of additional viewers are attracted by cable religious programs.

In Onondaga County in 1971 Solt found that 18 percent of all regular listeners or viewers of religious radio and television programs were people who claimed they rarely or never went to church.

In spite of these findings, most religious broadcasters make little effort to establish personal contact between respondents to their programs and a local church, though they frequently claim to be supportive of the idea.

While the characteristics mentioned in the previous section dominate in the audience of religious television programs, evidence suggests that these programs are watched on occasion and in some cases regularly by non - Protestants, non-evangelicals, those of higher income and education, those in white - collar occupations, and those who claim no religious interest or church affiliation.

In August, almost 200 parents filed suit to remove five Orthodox members of the school board, claiming that the board materially - assisted private religious schools by providing them with books and programs.

He says HIV programs for MSM must concentrate on key institutions such as the media and government policymakers; confront religious leaders and their claims that homosexuality is both a sin and a legacy of Western colonialism; independently fund agencies serving MSM; and bring the force of U.N. agencies to bear in support of human rights and good governance.

A group of parents sued to shut down the Encinitas Union School District (EUSD) yoga program because they claim it has religious roots.

Clearly alarmed by the religious instruction that would occur at religious schools — «not only is the risk of religion intruding into the secular educational function great, that risk is inevitable and unavoidable due to the very structure of the Scholarship Program» — Judge Martinez accepted nearly all of the ACLU's claims.

Opponents would claim that the inclusion of religious schools among the choices for parents violated the separation of church and state, required by the federal constitution, and they challenged the program in court.

Supporters of choice claim that parents look mainly for the best academic opportunity for their children; critics charge that parents will just as often search for a school on the basis of ethnic, religious, or ideological preferences, the quality of the sports program, or how blue the student body's blood is.

The findings raise new questions about the impact that expanding private - school voucher programs could have on religious life in America, at a time when voucher programs are expanding and the number of people claiming religious affiliation is declining.

Davey sued the state, claiming that it had violated the Free Exercise Clause by excluding religious study from its scholarship program.

The supreme court next turned to the Duncan plaintiffs» claim that the ESA program Section 10 of Article 11 in the Nevada Constitution by allowing public funds to be used for tuition at religious schools.