Sentences with phrase «secular leaders of»

The program of these seminars has been directed by qualified persons able to win support and cooperation from the religious and secular leaders of the region concerned.

Not exact matches

As the year unfolded it became increasingly apparent that the S&P / TSX Composite Index offered investors outsized exposure to the laggards, such as energy, but also too little exposure to the leaders, such as the secular growth themes of technology and healthcare.

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.

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.

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.

It was unfortunate that the earliest attempts to liberalize Islamic theology were quickly followed, in the first half of the twentieth century, by the attempts of Muslim leaders like Ataturk, in Turkey, and Reza Shah, in Persia, to force their societies to emulate the secular West.

None of this is lost on Church leaders, and they know the areas were their not held to same scrutiny as the secular world, and adopt bullying as a legitimate Church practice.

However, the loudest cheers at the rally went not to these political leaders but to a voice relatively unknown to the secular media, Christian radio personality Janet Parshall, host of the nationally syndicated Janet Parshall's America.

Fueled by a professoriate that embraces the same leftist agenda as that of their colleagues in the secular academy, these Christian professors are making great strides in reorienting the political leanings of the coming generation of evangelical leaders.

The episode is reminiscent of a time in history when secular leaders did not accept a separation of Church and State.

According to Dante, God created Rome to be the imperial leader of the secular world.

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.

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Communism is technically atheist in that it lacks belief in an unseen supernatural being, but make no mistake: it is a secular religion, complete with iconography, strict moral codes and worship of a supreme leader.

Indeed, fundamentalist leaders frequently gave themselves the title of» «Dr.,» effectively saying that the institutions of the secular elite did not own the title, and that proven ability in the rough - and - tumble world of ordinary affairs — putting up radio stations and running colleges in remote mission outposts — was credential enough.

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.

Church leaders became the religious counterpart of the leaders of secular society.

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.

In the first instance and frequently in the second, it is patterned after «secular» models (the father as leader of a cult - group, tribal organization paralleled by cultic set - up).

Every location, every secular leader is proven beyond a shadow of a doubt to have lived and existed at this time.

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.

Editorial FAITH Magazine January - February 2007 A New Dialogue of Faith and Reason An increasing number of Christian, Islamic and secular leaders and opinion formers have entered the dialogue...

Pope Benedict's purpose and tone as he spoke to both religious and secular leaders - overwhelmingly positive and collaborative - was the direct fruit of the landmark event that remains the most significant moment of the history of the Church in our time, the Second Vatican Council.

But visit England he did - not in worldly or political triumph (the Spanish Armada tried that approach and failed), not in direct antagonism or opposition (Pope St. Pius V's excommunication of Queen Elizabeth I in 1570 was not exactly the happiest moment in the history of either England or the Catholic Church)- but rather in solidarity with Queen Elizabeth II, the Archbishop of Canterbury, secular leaders, and all English people of good will.

Also, Erdogan is actually more tolerant than most of the so called secular and «democratic» leaders of Turkey.

However, as one long - time evangelical leader told me, his community has also felt the continuing effects of cultural and social «intimidation» by the largely liberal and secular Oregon establishment.

Men and women in the secular media often are more sensitive to the needs and the issues of the world than are church leaders.

The lay leaders of the Holiness group ruled out anything as secular as a picnic.

SECULAR SCIENCES AND SAVING SECULARISM On the second anniversary of the Pope's Regensburg lecture, September 12th 2008, he spoke the following words to a gathering of French political, cultural and Islamic leaders, including the Minister of Culture, the Mayor of Paris and two ex-Presidents.

thankfully you have no control of our lovely secular government otherwise you would hand us lot stock and barrel over to whatever religious leader promised you eternal happiness if you followed him.

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.

If I started a secular club, and offered all the attractions that are offered at any mega-church, only without the religious teaching and preaching, and I, as club leader, made sure the members knew that I expect them to pay at least 10 % of their income to the club, and I was getting very, very wealthy as a result, I bet the vast majority of Christians who abstain from thinking badly about Benny Hinn, Jerry Falwell, Joyce Meyer, etc, would have no problem at all criticizing me, just because I am not a servant of the Lord.

In a day when religious prophets and secular high priests often proclaim that political problems would quickly be swept aside if leaders trusted more to their common humanity, Mr. Lippmann shockingly asserts that modern - day seers and saints have remarkably little to offer by way of practical advice and specific guidance.

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.

To ring in the New Year, CNN's Belief Blog asked experts in religion, faith leaders, and a secular humanist about how the forces of faith and faithlessness will shape the world in 2012.

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

I met with leaders of the outlawed Brotherhood in Egypt during the late 1970s, and it was evident that while some were peaceful and some were militant, all felt that secular Islam was their primary enemy.

How often we are still tempted to bring influence to bear upon secular powers by calling on the church to speak with some kind of authority through its leaders and councils.

«I am heartened by the clear, unequivocal condemnation of this disrespectful, disgraceful act that has come from American religious leaders of all faiths... as well as secular U.S. leaders and opinion makers,» she said.

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.

Actually, it was the leaders of the 19th century Indian Renaissance and the political thinkers in the ideological leadership of the 20th centary Indian Nationalism who grappled with the person and teachings of Jesus Christ and assimilated the essence of Christian humanism into the religious and secular thought of modern India.

This rewriting of history often goes hand - in - glove with attempts to celebrate Pope Francis's welcome stress on the divine mercy — another key John Paul II theme — by subtly reinforcing the secular world's stereotypes of Catholicism's pre-Francis leaders as hidebound, rule - obsessed reactionaries.

This antagonism is displayed not only toward modernist groups like Conservative, Reform, Reconstructionist and secular Jews, but also toward those who share the same body of beliefs and practices, but look to another father figure as their leader.

I myself have been hendered to own and read books from teachers and pastors on account of not being able to afford the material, I feel that all leaders should recieve equally from one pot as other priests while working secular jobs to then freely give what God put in thier hearts freely to say.

Not one of those secular leaders you named ever killed in the name of atheism.

Perhaps one place to begin would be in dialogue between religious leaders concerning the role of the public schools in overcoming the absence of values in a secular society.

We can only hope that Pakistan's democratization process will move forward; and civilian leaders who assume power after the forthcoming general elections will act as pragmatically as Jinnah and show the due political resolve to institutionalize his secular, progressive ideals of statehood.