Example collocations logo

Church in sentence

1081 examples of Church in a sentence

Despite the illustrious cast, there was nothing remotely spiritual in either the characters or the performances, save perhaps Forest Whittaker's scene of repentance in church towards the end, which nevertheless left much unresolved and was ultimately unconvincing.
His anguish – whether for predominantly white schoolchildren gunned down in their Connecticut classroom by a disturbed white youth, or a group of African Americans murdered at their Charleston church by a white neo-Nazi – has clearly been genuine.
The purpose must be to establish Europe as a forceful and fair-minded player on the world stage, rather than as a “broad church” in which different viewpoints co-exist.
And, despite having left the church, I still feel a profound reverence for the holy truth.
Today, the church of newspaper journalism is fragmenting.
For example, in response to attacks last year on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan, local Muslims formed human chains around churches, allowing them to hold services.
Finally, to absorb and integrate more than a million asylum seekers and migrants a year, the EU needs to mobilize the private sector – NGOs, church groups, and businesses – to act as sponsors.
When embarrassed by comments made by the pastor of his church, he delivered an exceptional speech about race in America.
Swedes are overwhelmingly secular and indifferent toward the Swedish church.
He is robbed of his property by the corrupt mayor, who is paid by the Orthodox Church for the right to build a new church on Nikolay’s land.
Before the announcement of the Papal visit to Ukraine, the Italian newspaper "Corriera della Sera" quoted Patriarch Alexy II as admitting that a papal visit was possible, but only if “persecution” of Russian Orthodoxy by Catholics in western Ukraine and proselytising by Catholic clergy on the "canonic territory" of the Russian Orthodox church came to an end.
Moreover, because almost half of the parishes overseen by the Moscow Patriarchate are abroad – in Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Central Asia and other regions – Patriarch Alexy II lays increasing stress on the global character of his church.
Opportunities for a meeting between the two church leaders still exist, of course.
A self-described “obedient son of the church,” he is unlikely to surprise the faithful when it comes to matters like sexuality and women’s ordination.
The sharp reactions of the Orthodox Patriarchate to the actions of the Holy See reflect an ongoing crisis of leadership and legitimacy within the Russian Orthodox church, where a battle is clearly underway for the succession of Aleksey II.
In Nigeria, on February 26, three Christians were killed and dozens wounded after a car bomb exploded close to a church in the northern town of Jos.
The concept of separation of church and state is alien to Islam – former Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini once famously declared that “Islam is politics or it is nothing” – and Islamists have still to prove that they are amenable to democratic governance.
Goodbye, JohnnyPARIS – What better send-off for a rocker than Saturday’s vast, silent concert on the steps of a church?
Martin Luther King, Jr. benefited from growing up in an African-American church tradition rich in the rhythms of the spoken word.
I once witnessed a group of highly respectable Singaporeans letting go of themselves in an evangelical church service.
He attended church.
If the Catholic Church can change, so can the church of football.
Kimberly Brown-Whale was a pastor at a church in Essex, Maryland, when she saw a news report about a young woman who needed a kidney transplant.
Likewise, where else but in South Korea can you find a Christian church whose registered membership runs upwards of 800,000, and where nearly 100,000 adherents attend each of the three Sunday services every week?
But what is alarming is how private religious beliefs and morals have increasingly shaped the secular agenda of America, whose Founding Fathers had specifically designed the Constitution to separate state and church.
Not long after that, an assailant slit an elderly priest’s throat at a church in Normandy.
Likewise, the established or state church is the Church of England, created almost 500 years ago when King Henry VIII decided that the Catholic pope should not adjudicate his marriage.
After all, such a democracy does not work in Israel, or even in the US, a country that G. K. Chesterton described as having “the soul of a church.”
NEW YORK – After the French Revolution of 1789, deputies in the National Assembly who supported the revolutionary gains sat on the left, while those who opposed them and hankered after the old order of monarchy and church congregated on the right.
They were members of a church that stands blocks from the apartment where I grew up.
BackNext