Sentences with phrase «youth gathering»

Yet, and here is the irony, back in the spring of 1967 American Catholic youth gathered in the very same National Shrine to rally in support of Father Charles Curran, the then - youthful leader of a generation of theologians who dissented against the moral teaching of the Magisterium.

For more than 1,300 youth gathered at Washington University in St. Louis last weekend for the Clinton Global Initiative University (#CGIU), the focus was squarely on the future.

When 1,200 youth gathered for the first Chinese «Urbana - style» missions conference this fall, 300 pledged to become full - time missionaries.

Eucharistic adoration is today a central feature of major Catholic youth gatherings from World Youth Day to pre-Confirmation retreats, and this in turn has begun to influence attitudes to the Mass, the Tabernacle, genuflecting, being at ease with times of united reverence.

IPS: While world leaders were wrapping up the United Nations conference on climate change (COP 18) in Doha, Qatar this past weekend with the annual vague promise to tackle the enormous crises brought on by extreme weather and global warming, a delegation of youth gathered far from the high - level conference halls to say «no» to [continue reading...]

@rachelheldevans there were several injuries at a ELCA youth gathering when playing sardines and someone hid in the hotel elevator.

Public concern about common incidents of anti-social behaviour - like youths gathering on street corners, drunks urinating in shop doorways and aggressive driving in residential streets - remains high.

In fact, events such as the recent world youth gathering in Paris are organised by the local church, but more interesting is the reassurance that properly liberal Tablet types would not be caught dead attending, never mind helping to organise, such gatherings of the great unwashed.

The experience with young people led Taizé to organize youth gatherings in various countries.

By the time I was there, the hideous state - sponsored cult of Pavlik Morozov, a young traitor to his family, was fading, but friends of mine remembered, sometimes with a shudder, being marched to pay respects to statues of this little monster, and to sing songs in his praise at Soviet youth gatherings.

It should be noted here that we are not referring to one of those highly chorerographed opening worship services at a church convention or large youth gathering where the music sends chills along the spine and the speaker is «out of this world.»

Its most popular event began in 1991: Acquire the Fire, a 27 - hour youth gathering filled with music and teaching.

The first youth gathering was held at Herne Bay in Kent and attracted some 40 young people.

The protest is the second just within the week as Tiv youths gathered in Abuja, to demand action from the seat of power at the Federal level, however more needs to be seen if the protest caught the attention of the President to warrant immediate solution.

Climate justice was on the agenda at the Young Friends of the Earth Europe summer camp 2015 in Brittany, north - west France, as 100 European youth gathered to discuss action plans and environmental justice in the run - up to this December's UN climate talks in Paris — the COP21.

So, when national representatives, civil society and youth gathered for the 6th Dialogue on Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) this week the...

The Faith Movement has large youth gatherings — but much of the real work is done more personally — the eager questions asked after a formal talk, the sacramental encounter in the confessional, the one - on - one conversations that run on late and tackle some of the great issues of faith and of life's purpose.

It must have seemed unlikely, in the 1970s, that his modest achievements in Krakow - a vast annual Corpus Christi procession through the city, the great new church at Nowa Huta, a network of social care established for unmarried mothers and others in need, youth gatherings up in the Tatra mountains and in overflowing city churches — would in due course overwhelm official Marxism by sheer force of joyful hope and moral uplift.

Then the Communist Mayor of the city of Rome rescinded at the last moment an already given approval for a tent city in the «Pineta Sacchetti», a large Roman Park; suddenly we didn't know where major parts of the youth gathering could find accommodation.

In preparing for the 50th anniversary of the first World Conference on Faith and Order, I asked Frère Roger whether he would be willing to amplify the celebration with a youth gathering.

Of special importance were the youth gatherings in Eastern Europe.

Dostoevsky makes clear in the novel's final scene, when the youths gather to cheer Alyosha as if he were their savior, that he is a true icon of Christ, a man through whom the invisible light of eternity brightly shines.

In the UK, which faces exactly the same issue, the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has put out a demand for a 20 % tax on fizzy drinks, a strict limit on fast food outlets near schools and other places where children and youth gather, the removal of junk food vending machines from hospitals, and a prohibition on junk food ads before 9.00 p.m.

Officials believe it is connected to the other five and to a youth gathering in Toronto earlier this month.

In the afternoon the youth gather at the Paradise and Super Paradise beaches for sunning, drinking and partying.

So, when national representatives, civil society and youth gathered for the 6th Dialogue on Action for Climate Empowerment (ACE) this week the discussion was all about solutions.