Sentences with phrase «secular leaders for»

The Catholic Education Service (CES) has been criticised by Muslim and secular leaders for choosing Judaism instead of Islam, given that the latter is the second largest religion in the UK after Christianity, and that Muslim children can form up to 90 percent of the student body in some Catholic schools in Britain.

President Obama supports everyone in this country, he is a secular leader for all and no a religious leader for all.

Not exact matches

Black religious leaders must be in the forefront of the fight for secular rights to be acknowledged and protected.

But I do think that black religious leaders have a responsibility, if they can not support gay marriage, to at least support and fight for the secular rights of gay people.

Messages of fidelity, monogamy, and delay of first sexual experience can be transmitted in a secular manner» for example, through life - skills programs at schools» and / or these messages can come through religious leaders and organizations.

While the leader in waiting in Iran in the late 1970s was a cleric renowned for his hatred of the United States and western civilization, the man of the hour in Egypt is a deeply secular man whose rapid ascent in recent days is fueled in part by the fact that he is a fluent speaker of both English and American culture.

Top of the agenda for an October conference in Hungary for Catholic, Protestant and Muslim leaders in Europe will be «the role of religions in secular society» and relations between Christians and Muslims.

or authoritarian (preachers often thing they ARE God - especially Moslems) Insist on that for atheists and secular leaders too (yes CNN..

Insist on tounge bridles for atheists and secular leaders too which will help keep their mouths either closed or so muffled no one will be able to hear their logic and reason.

However, it will not do for religious leaders to lay the fading of a sense of sin entirely to the influence of the secular community.

A number of more conservative leaders have expressed a nervousness about speaking out, for fear of being pilloried in the secular press, who certainly don't understand the rhetoric of «love the sinner, hate the sin», or getting lumped in with Westboro Baptist Church and their appalling «God Hates Fags» signs.

Benito Juárez, supreme court justice and then president, was the liberals» foremost leader and engineer of the 1857 constitution (for which he is now honored by schoolchildren as the first among national heroes).37 Earlier outlawed had been any but «secular» education and the use of civil machinery to enforce religious vows and payment of church tithes.

Insist on that for atheists and secular leaders too.

Some Christian leaders have even rejoiced in the dissolution of a Christendom that allowed, or perhaps encouraged, an excessive degree of nominal Christian allegiance: the impact of modem secular society has challenged people to make a conscious choice about whether they are either for or against Christianity.

From the very beginning, India's leaders faced the problem of instituting a secular and democratic state before the conditions for it - anadequately large secular and egalitarianminded citizenry, and impartial legal institutions - had been met.

While some cultural leaders (such as John Dewey and Sidney Hook) were saying that the open - minded attitudes of liberal, secular science were the only was to build a civilization free from prejudice and irrational intolerance, many other prominent spokesmen were saying that Christianity and the Judeo - Christian tradition could provide the best basis for a truly tolerant and liberal civilization.

Becket points out the school's Secular Student Alliance requires its leaders to be secularists and its Student For Life chapter requires its leaders to be pro-life.

But as President of the United States, and as a world leader, he dares not utilize religious texts for pluralistic secular solutions.

This framework of unity in pluralism has been developed through the movement of national struggle for independence under the leadership of Gandhi, the leader of Renascent Hinduism and Nehru, the advocate of Secular Socialism.

The lack of specific demands, proposals, and platforms, let alone leaders, made it difficult if well nigh impossible for the youth of Egypt and Tunisia to differentiate between one secular or liberal ideology and platform from another.

Updated A daylong Vatican meeting on climate, energy, ecology and equity has produced a declaration that offers a promising vision for religious and secular leaders eager to foster a sustainable human journey.

Counseling for those who are more comfortable talking in traditionally religious language rather than psychological terms or for those who feel more comfortable talking to a religious leader rather than a secular counselor.

For instance, while many people used to get pre-marital counseling from their religious leader, now it is just as common to get it from a secular or non-affiliated counselor.

The handbook also provides hotlines for church leaders to consult legal advisers and professional counselors, and requires clergy to report abuse to secular authorities.