china: repression of christian church intensifies

On December and 10, 2018, police officers Chengdu took into Pastor Wang Yi and more than 100 congregants of Early Rain Covenant Church from the church premises or their homes. ... In September, Beijing authorities shut down Zion Church, one of Protestant underground churches.. ..

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catholic social teaching held up in efforts to overcome polarization

My point is, if you think the church has nothing important to say in politics or relative to the public square, now is not the time to hunker down.. ... Conference of Catholic Bishops, said the church must guard against letting the small percentage of people on the left and the right..

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rochester priest sex abuse: time for truth, justice in catholic

The Roman Catholic Church could take page from the governments of South Africa, Germany and Canada and other countries that confronted painful pasts head-on with truth and reconciliation commissions, and convene its own truth panels.. ... Matano worked for the nuncio until 2005, however, ation..

our bill of rights or the un's human rights?

In other words, the government cannot create an official religion or church or make citizens attend it. ... The 'Thirty Years War' from 1618 to 1648 led to unspeakable horrors of man's inhumanity to man and all in the name of which Church would be preeminent. . ..

the sanctuary society and its enemies

century later, the mere hint that the Church of England might send bishop to the colonies, was origin of War of Independence.16 By the end of the 1830s, still supported churches. It was designed by Mann to inculcate common morality rather than sectarian religion.17 Church Sidney Mead put..

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