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And when her former bridesmaid, Mary McCoy, has her brains accidentally blown out by another IRA bullet, she recruits a friend and they begin to lobby, first in churches and town meetings, then on TV, for a cease fire.
I believe this movie is created at the time in our history to bring all families and churches together.
Well I have to say this movie I would personally recommend to all Churches to take their congregation and let everyone have a review of how they feel about Jesus being portrayed as a man of Color.
Consider just three points: (a) Medieval churches at the centre of English villages are Anglican, not Roman Catholic, (b) How come the village only has 15 inhabitants?
Imagine, a film that would otherwise go straight to video and sit on Blockbuster's shelf, selling millions of tickets and being shown in thousands of theaters, churches, etc .... all on one night.
Their marketing was to push their followers to churches and other small venues to see the film for its ONE weekend showing.
Men and women talking in front of TV cameras are too far removed from the factories, offices, bars, churches, schools, and hospitals where viewers form the relationships that determine how they process information.
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.
Yusuf has since become a martyr, and daily attacks on hotels, bars, churches, and schools are usually followed with admonitions to Nigerians to shun the Western way of life.
Rural Americans, living on the vast plains, uprooted and isolated from the outside world, have a history of expressing their longing for community and mystical identity by gathering in large numbers in churches and tents, listening to the grand statements of charismatic hucksters.
In the case of Beck’s rally in Washington DC, the link with history of rural churches and religious “revival” meetings was overt.
Writing recently in The New York Review of Books about the coastal Libyan city of Derna, Nicholas Pelham described how between “the turquoise Mediterranean and the Green Mountains lie the ruins of the forums and churches Byzantium left behind.”
The wounds between the two churches would heal if left undisturbed.
It is true that firms, universities, foundations, churches, and other non-governmental groups develop soft power of their own which may reinforce or be at odds with official foreign policy goals.
After almost a century of oppression, the Orthodox Church is still struggling to define its role in Russia's postcommunist society, and finds it difficult to compete with more nimble (and self-assured) churches.
Sad to say, reconciliation between the two churches is thus unlikely to gain momentum until two new leaders begin to command their believers.
Angry Muslim and Christian mobs burned churches and mosques, killing dozens of people in a series of attacks and reprisals that have deepened the sectional divide between the Muslim north and the Christian south.
Eighteenth-century revolutionaries did the same to churches in France.
One could argue that images of these leaders and their henchmen lacked the artistic value of great churches of medieval England, or Tang Dynasty Buddhist sculptures in China.
In Iran, members of so-called “house churches” (independent assemblies of Christians who meet in private homes because of their fear of oppression) are rounded up and imprisoned.
Unofficial house churches are especially vulnerable to official harassment or raids by the authorities.
Churches and mosques were soon being burned in communal riots.
“There will soon be more mosques than churches,” he says, if true Europeans don’t have the guts to stand up and save Western civilization.
This Christmas, the open society is endangered not only from without, by the likes of ISIS, but also by (admittedly far smaller) threats at home – a gloomy reflection, I admit, as we prepare in churches and in high streets to enjoy another year’s winter party.
Excluding donations to churches, such contributions amount to 1% of GDP in the U.S., which is six times higher than in Germany or Japan, and 30 times higher than in Mexico.
A number of other churches and synagogues are also under renovation.
Seventy years later, all that remains of this world are ruined palaces, empty Baroque churches, and synagogues leveled and never rebuilt.
This means that anyone holding to the moral doctrines of most Christian churches should nowadays be considered a second-class citizen in the European Union.
Now it seems that, according to the committee that rejected my nomination, adhering to the principles of most Christian churches is a cause for such a “moral” disqualification.
The 300 million faithful of the Eastern churches led by the Ecumenical Patriarch are in lands facing extreme dangers from global warming: intense heat waves, rising sea levels, and increasingly severe droughts.
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