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In England, 1,900 churches have been shut down since 1969, due to shrinking congregations, while in Africa, every single day, a church or mosque is being built.
Some of these churches and mosques are world-class, with excellent audio-visual systems, wonderful meeting spaces, and they organize events that rival international concerts.
I live in the Lekki area of Lagos, and in my community, there are at least 50 really nice churches, but there's no adult literacy center, no homeless shelter and very few public schools and hospitals.
Similarly, some African churches have a presence in countries across the globe, and the Redeemed Christian Church of God has a presence in 196 countries, serving as a bridge to the diaspora and providing support.
I really like looking at old churches.
We sometimes hear it said that museums are our new cathedrals, or our new churches.
Of course, in my travels I met people who legally divorced their children for being other than straight, but I also met people who were Southern Baptists who switched churches because their child was a lesbian.
I not only play at the prestigious classical concert halls like Carnegie Hall and Kennedy Center, but also hospitals, churches, prisons, and restricted facilities for leprosy patients, just to mention a few.
And now 4,000 churches have joined the environmental movement.
It was taking place in churches.
Churches were starting their own running groups and their own support groups for people who were dealing with obesity.
We are in urban communities and rural communities, communities of color, immigrant communities, churches and mosques and synagogues.
And the churches built in Palermo combined Latin-style architecture, Arab ceilings, and Byzantine domes, all decorated with exquisite golden mosaics.
In nearly every institution, even in the churches or in West Germany, there were many of them.
First of all is the misinterpretation of religious scriptures, holy scriptures, in the Bible, Old Testament, New Testament, Quran and so forth, and these have been misinterpreted by men who are now in the ascendant positions in the synagogues and the churches and in the mosques.
And people in churches all over and mosques all over this continent after September the 11th, coming together locally to create networks of understanding.
When Yared was seven years old his father died, and his mother sent him to go live with an uncle, who was a priest of the Ethiopian Orthodox tradition, one of the oldest churches in the world.
It's time that half of the world's population had voice and equality within our world's religions, churches, synagogues, mosques and shrines around the world.
Traditionally, it's been done by private and religious organizations, like churches and mosques and synagogues.
I believe they have shifted over the last 10, 20 years from being community churches, where you walk outside your door, round the corner and you're in church.
They shifted from that and became commuter churches.
So you now have churches who have become disconnected by default from the very community where they're planted.
Churches used tapestries not just to keep out cold during long masses, but as a way to represent the great theater of life.
Enough of the mass shootings in malls and movie theaters and churches and schools.
In the Netherlands, we see churches and care organizations match people in need of care and company with people who actually have a home for them and can provide care and company to them.
They have enjoyed the true meaning of belonging to a place, and that was reflected in their built environment, in the mosques and churches built back-to-back, in the interwoven souks and public venues, and the proportions and sizes based on principles of humanity and harmony.
For example, we've begun to partner with churches and to think about nurses that are church members, that come from that trusted community, as patient advocates and health coaches to people like Jane.
Across the board, churches and synagogues and mosques are all complaining about how hard it is to maintain relevance for a generation of young people who seem completely uninterested, not only in the institutions that stand at the heart of our traditions but even in religion itself.
I have found now in communities as varied as Jewish indie start-ups on the coasts to a woman's mosque, to black churches in New York and in North Carolina, to a holy bus loaded with nuns that traverses this country with a message of justice and peace, that there is a shared religious ethos that is now emerging in the form of revitalized religion in this country.
It was like designing one of the first churches for Christianity or one of the first mosques for Islam.
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