Sentences with phrase «used by their religious leaders»

But they are being used by their religious leaders.

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Due to a misunderstanding of the word «saved» this verse has been tragically used by some misogynistic authoritarian male religious leaders to require women to remain barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen, because otherwise, they can not be «saved.»

As a religious leader, the minister counselor can use the healing symbols of Christianity by which such guilt can be transformed.

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.

And though Stalin executed priests and other clergy that he perceived as a threat to his power, later when he, like many political leaders, saw benefit to be gained by using religious beliefs to enhance his own power, he made an alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, just as Putin has done today.

If your religious leader has not warned you of God's word banning Christians from using mind - altering pharmakia drugs, you are being misled and also have child abusers in your church being known of by your leaders and kept secret from the police.

Television certainly offers the potential for social and political impact by religious broadcasters who seek to use it in that way, and yet, the example set by broadcasters in the 1980 election year left much to be desired in the eyes of many Christian leaders and adherents.

One uses religious belief as the means by which the leaders strive to control the thoughts and actions of the faithful followers.

A religious group under the auspices of the Niger Delta Christian Leaders Forum was on Thursday prevented from using the International Event Centre in Akure, the state capital by officials of the state government.

By the 1970s, community leaders agreed that Coke and other soft drinks could be substituted for posh, deemphasizing the use of alcohol during religious ceremonies.