Another way to get immersed in a place's culture is to visit the
local houses of worship, whether during a service or not.
Back then, it was
houses of worship just starting to welcome the shopping - mall crowd, while banks were trying to look like gated temples rather than computer terminals.
Besides, many churches use a school as a temporary spot until they have funds to get their
own house of worship.
Strong proponents of religious liberty contend that we should treat for - profit corporations just like other religious corporations — that is, just
like houses of worship.
Most churches and other
houses of worship offer some couples counseling, and most hospitals and medical centers can help you find a marriage counselor as well.
Under the new policy, «private
non-profit houses of worship are now eligible for disaster assistance as community centers, without regard to their secular or religious nature».
Cash -
strapped houses of worship, which are facing shrinking congregations and the threat of development, are looking to partner with developers to build out their land and air rights.
The discovery of these buildings led to new ideas and works in which he studied the characteristic eccentric patterns and structures of these 17th, 18th and 19th
century houses of worship.
The argument from the other side is that the state can not begin business tomorrow, close churches and
other houses of worship and declare that we are one religion or another.
However, it is not his photography that I have a problem with — it is his ignorance of religion, yet he is writing a book about
religious houses of worship.
In spite of his nonchalance, de Blasio has traveled to churches around the city to defend his plan, speaking at
houses of worship in East New York and The Bronx this past weekend, two areas where resistance is strongest.
Singles groups
at houses of worship tend to attract serious people with serious ambitions and careers, so it makes good sense to up your chances of finding the right single doctors at these meet - ups, and you'll already have identified a ready - made officiant for your nuptials.
These architecturally appealing
houses of worship as well as the more formal and subdued worship taking place within their walls, however, may indicate that with its prosperity the AG has lost some of its distinctiveness as a Pentecostal denomination.
For the mosque construction projections is has supported so far, the ADL's legal arguments revolve around the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act, a 1990 law requiring government to show a compelling interest if it imposes land use regulations
on houses of worship.
This might be considered a degeneration into ochlocracy, because it is a majority rule in direct democracy taking away a particular right of a religious minority (to
build houses of worship in their own preferred style).
The ad featured a fake picture of Pope Benedict XVI kissing Ahmed Mohamed el - Tayeb, imam of the Al - Azhar mosque, a prominent
Muslim house of worship in Cairo, Egypt.
Yes, the government should stay out of everyone's bedroom and
houses of worship so that religious shamans (charlatans all!)
Sharia law has prohibited non-Muslims from building any new
houses of worship since The Pact (Covenant) of Umar which implemented Sharia law.
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, who represents the area, wants government assistance to be made available
for houses of worship destroyed by natural disasters, New York 1 reports.»
After all, they have their own
houses of worship where no other religion is allowed (public schools), where people teach the religion with no regard for anyone else's thoughts (teachers).
The Soviet Union had a long history of state atheism, in which social success largely required individuals to profess atheism and stay away
from houses of worship; this att itude was especially militant during the middle Stalinist era from 1929 — 1939.
Attempts to reconceive the contexts of ordinary life and neighborhood, to replicate with more a sense of realism than an impulse toward beautification, to help imagine the lives of the people who built and used
old houses of worship, make preservation worthwhile.
This week Councilman Peter Vallone plans to introduce legislation calling on the federal government to pass Congress Member Grace Meng's bill and
allow houses of worship damaged by Superstorm Sandy to receive aid from FEMA.
Brooklyn borough president's office hopes to guide some of the roughly 2,400
houses of worship through the construction process
The Bible teaches us our churches are the last place Jesus would be... he would be with the homeless and ill of our society... not at these modern so
called houses of worship... hypocrites are every where!
«As I previously stated, government has no business deciding whether there should or should not be a Muslim
house of worship near Ground Zero.
As part of his week - long sojourn to the forgotten borough, de Blasio will meet with residents and local groups,
visit houses of worship, host events around the borough and a town hall meeting, according to Ramos.
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Targeting houses of worship and the killing of the innocents are criminal acts that violate Islamic principles,» the Cairo - based institution stated, expressing full solidarity with the Egyptian church and Egyptian Copts.
As most same - gender - loving people in
fundamentalist houses of worship, Marcus lived a double life, or on the «down low,» for he felt it was the only way to continue in ministry and stay connected to the community he loved.
There is no synagogue in Arlington Heights, and despite scattered anti-Semitic incidents in the past, the reason for the absence of a
Jewish house of worship is «nothing sinister,» according to Rabbi Stephen A. Hart of Temple Chai in Long Grove.
Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) is working to
help houses of worship across the United States to model care for those who suffer most from the impacts of climate change.