Sentences with phrase «report says the church»

ROME (CNN)-- Using strikingly open language, a new Vatican report says the church should welcome and appreciate gays, and offers a solution for divorced and remarried Catholics who want to receive Communion.

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The church - affiliated schools that in 2014 and 2015 obtained exemptions to a law that prohibits sex discrimination in educational settings collectively enroll more than 73,000 students, the Human Rights Campaign said in a report published Friday.

The Catholic Church has released a report saying that 20 missionaries were killed in the line of duty last year.

Section III folded «unity» issues, including Faith and Order, and missions into one report; Section IV's mandate was to interpret the doctrine of the Spirit and determine what he is saying to the churches.

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The National Churches Trust has said that everyone can contribute to the survival of their local church, by clearing drains or gutters so churches remain watertight, showing people around them as a volunteer, and reporting any suspicious behaviour to theChurches Trust has said that everyone can contribute to the survival of their local church, by clearing drains or gutters so churches remain watertight, showing people around them as a volunteer, and reporting any suspicious behaviour to thechurches remain watertight, showing people around them as a volunteer, and reporting any suspicious behaviour to the police.

Various reports say the Chinese government has taken down more than 1,200 crosses in the past two years, and completely demolished several other churches.

Estes Church said in a statement: «Our hearts are saddened to report the death of our missionary Roberta Edwards.

The Church of England welcomed some aspects of the review, but also said: «We are however disappointed that the report misunderstands the role of Church of England schools in providing a rounded education to more than a million pupils from all backgrounds as part of our commitment to the common good.

But while denying the reports, which said the butler was merely a courier in a behind - the - scenes struggle for power in the Holy See, the Vatican acknowledged that the often sordid affair would test the faith of Catholics in their Church.

Reuters: Vatican says trust in Church hurt by scandal The Vatican, engulfed in the worst crisis in Pope Benedict's papacy, on Monday denied Italian media reports that cardinals were suspects in an investigation into leaks of sensitive documents that led to the arrest of the pope's butler.

In a statement, Rt Rev Dr Stephen Croft apologised to the survivors of Peter Ball's abuse and said the Church of England's actions of failing to report Ball's actions were inexcusable.

A government minister has said the UK is continuing to raise human rights issues with Sudan amid reports of churches being demolished there.

But now I say unto you, report those who disagree with you to the church or denominational authorities, label them heretics or say that they raise «red flags» and let everyone know not to listen to them, criticize their positions without ever going to them personally to find out what they actually believe and are teaching, align them with other «heretics» without ever researching their books, writings, and messages, and above all, side with your friends against them even if you personally have never been hurt or offended by them.

CNN: After Anne Frank baptism, Mormons vow to discipline members Reacting to a report that well - known Holocaust victim Anne Frank had been baptized by proxy in a Mormon temple, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch policy.

(CNN)- Reacting to a report that well - known Holocaust victim Anne Frank had been baptized by proxy in a Mormon temple, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pChurch of Jesus Christ of Latter - day Saints says it is committed to disciplining members of its church who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch who conducted such baptisms, which violate church pchurch policy.

«I beg your forgiveness, too, for the sins of omission on the part of Church leaders who did not respond adequately to reports of abuse made by family members, as well as by abuse victims themselves,» Francis said in the homily, according to a text of the statement provided by the Vatican.

Imam Baihaqi was said «to have been the key person behind the church closures and had considerable influence over the government,» reported Open Doors.

Athie said the church either ignored or archived for years allegations of child sex abuse when he reported them during his years as a priest.

The 1938 report Doctrine in the Church of England says that «every individual ought to test his or her belief in practice and, so far as his or her ability and training allow, to think out his or her own belief and to distinguish between what has been accepted on authority only and what has been appropriated in thought or experience».23 Such an emphasis has to allow for variety of belief and view within the community.

Jesus himself was reported to have said that «where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them,» (Matthew 18:20) and very early in the New Testament's narrative we are made aware of a strong, corporate solidarity in the nascent churches.

Gunmen killed 19 people when they fired on worshipers at a church in Ni.g.eria's central Kogi state during a Monday evening service, police said on Tuesday, the BBC reported.

«We have concluded that there were catastrophic failures of leadership of Catholic Church authorities over many decades,» the report said.

In a private meeting, reports say, Linda Cooper was given a choice: publicly atone for their transgressions or leave the church.

Recognizing that zero tolerance is a «blunt instrument,» the report says, «Nonetheless, the Board believes that for the immediate future the zero - tolerance policy is essential to the restoration of the trust of the laity in the leadership of the Church, provided that it is appropriately applied.»

Of the one thousand churches surveyed, two - thirds reported that they're meeting or exceeding their annual budget, and of that number, 22 percent say they're over budget.

A police spokesman said: «We were called shortly after 9.30 am (on January 27) to the church following a report a man had died.

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The church — every gathering of the church, everywhere, under every form — remembers that on a certain night its Founder said and did certain definite things, briefly reported: that on the same night he fell into the hands of his enemies; and that he suffered a violent death (for the broken body and the shed blood can mean nothing else).

Such reporting, says Shaw, is superficial and distorted because most journalists are abysmally ignorant of theology and church affairs, and preoccupied with fitting everything into the categories of dispute over politics and matters sexual.

The Church says all the allegations were reported to the Statutory Authorities with 10 cases reported to the Police.

Only The Times report was something of a throwback to the old kneejerk Popeknocking days: «Critics,» wrote one Richard Owen, «said that putting a Ratzinger - Bertone alliance at the top of the Vatican hierarchy meant that the Church would be in the hands of «arch-conservatives» at a time when many Catholics, especially in the Third World, are calling forreform.»

CT previously reported that the vast majority of National Association of Evangelical (NAE) board members say pastors can be restored to church roles after marital infidelity.

«In the areas they control, the separatists have kidnapped, beaten, and threatened Protestants, Catholics, and members of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the [Kiev] Patriarchate,» the report said.

The violence has spilled over into Ukraine, where leaders of the Evangelical Protestant Churches of Ukraine said that pro-Russian Orthodox militants had subjected their members to «abduction, beating, torture, murder threats, and damage to houses of worship, seizure of religious buildings, and damage to health and private property of the clergy,» the Free Beacon reported.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (CNN)- The Catholic Church in Philadelphia will investigate as many as 37 priests identified in a grand jury report as remaining in «active ministry with credible allegations of child sexual abuse,» Cardinal Justin Rigali, archbishop of Philadelphia, said Wednesday.

Guidance, contained in the Church of England's new Valuing All God's Children report said nursery and primary school children ought to be free to try «the many cloaks of identity» without being labelled or bullied.

Reports say that nearly 100 demonstrators are currently outside First Unitarian Church's building showing support for Vizguerra.

Tom Peterson, president of Catholics Come Home, says some worshipers who've returned to the Catholic Church report leaving because they had disagreements with church officials or had divorced and feared they wouldn't be weChurch report leaving because they had disagreements with church officials or had divorced and feared they wouldn't be wechurch officials or had divorced and feared they wouldn't be welcome.

Religious freedom charity Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) says it's concerned by reports which suggest in the past two weeks authorities in Henan Province have demolished crosses and churches, destroyed religious materials and forbidden children from attending churches.

The subject of evangelism was drawn into the center of attention of the Assembly by M.M. Thomas in his moderator's report.53 Thomas said that since New Delhi, ecumenism had been marked by two thrusts which made it theologically distinct from the position of the earlier period of the World Council of Churches.

The stories about Jesus and the reports of his sayings for the most part passed by word of mouth from ear to ear, from group to group, in the expanding church, and would suffer some unintentional modification in the process.

«It takes a good deal of deception and manipulation to get an improper submission through the safeguards we have put in place,» LDS Church spokesman Michael Purdy said in a statement Tuesday, responding to the report about the Anne Frank baptism.

The following is also from Ecumenical News International, reporting on a talk by Frieling at Paderborn University: ««Peter was no pope, and the Pope is not the only Peter,» Frieling said, referring to the claim of the Roman Catholic Church that the popes are the successors of St. Peter, one of the disciples of Jesus.»

In her foreword, Dame Moira said: «This report considers the serious sexual wrongdoing of Peter Ball, a bishop of the Church of England who abused many boys and men over a period of twenty years or more.

Sparks reported on the controversy to his presbytery by saying: «The church is a mother that has given birth to a child.

The Catholic Herald reported it fairly straight, giving the bare facts with what seemed at first (and still seems to most) the inevitable conclusion: «Pope Benedict XVI has told the 86 year old founder of the Legionaries of Christ, one of the Church's most dynamic new orders, to stop saying Mass in public following an investigation into charges of sexual abuse.

«There has been striking improvement in the Church's response to and treatment of victims,» the report said.

«How can we build a church that will not stand in its own way,» begins one study report, «whose organizational structure is not forever contradicting what it says on the mystery of the church, whose budget does not make a mockery of what the church teaches?

At the press conference announcing the Annenberg - Gallup study, a member of the audience, himself an electronic - church broadcaster, summed up the report by commenting, rather wistfully, «It looks like the research is saying that all that religious TV is doing is to make people feel good and to get them to keep on doing what they «re doing!»