(n.) A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.
(n.) A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.
(n.) The collective body of Christians.
(n.) Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.
(n.) The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.
(v. t.) To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.
Example Sentences:
(1) Typological and archaeological investigations indicate that the church building represents originally the hospital facility for the lay brothers of the monastery, which according to the chronicle of the monastery was built in the beginning of the 14th century.
(2) Atmaca, who belongs to the Gregorian-Armenian church in Istanbul, said that he nevertheless holds the current pontiff in high regard.
(3) In later years, the church built a business empire that included the Washington Times newspaper, the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, Bridgeport University in Connecticut, as well as a hotel and a car plant in North Korea.
(4) Living by the "Big River" as a child, Cash soaked up work songs, church music, and country & western from radio station WMPS in Memphis, or the broadcasts from Nashville's Grand Ole Opry on Friday and Saturday evenings.
(5) Part of his initial lump sum will be donated to a fund to replace a hall destroyed by fire in an arson attack four years ago at St Luke’s Church in Newton Poppleford.
(6) Alfred Liyolo, 71, one of Congo’s leading sculptors , sold several bronzes to the palace in Gbadolite and designed a church and tomb for Mobutu’s first wife; all were lost or destroyed in the looting.
(7) A federal judge struck down Utah's same-sex marriage ban Friday in a decision that brings a nationwide shift toward allowing gay marriage to a conservative state where the Mormon church has long been against it.
(8) Another is that the churches were in very densely populated areas and the police did not want to go in and create more damage."
(9) He is also an active member of the Unitarian church, having returned to religion after the birth of his children.
(10) "My future was probably to become an officer [running my own church] and go to London to the William Booth College," she says.
(11) The church was the Cypriot Orthodox led by Archbishop Makarios.
(12) McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.
(13) But Detre declined to comment on a report on the Guido Fawkes website that Westminster Advisers, run by the Labour supporter and former councillor Dominic Church, organised a cross-party meeting at the end of 2010 which was shown the Crosby Textor research .
(14) Is he saying that the Orthodox church is also subject to public spending cuts?
(15) In the target areas, church and community members will sponsor health fairs and discussions of adolescent pregnancy at church and at parent-teacher association meetings.
(16) Already the demand for such a liturgy is growing among clergy, who are embarrassed by having to withhold the church's official support from so many of their own flock who are in civil partnerships.
(17) Officers across the country are dealing with hundreds of cases involving abuse in the past in institutions including schools, churches and children's homes and a number of allegations relating to high profile people.
(18) The Rt Rev Stephen Lowe, the Bishop of Hulme, who speaks for the Anglican church on urban life and faith, is less sanguine.
(19) A lot of our people had to come to make sure the church was kept safe and to get the children out safely."
(20) The incident in Aswan that sparked Sunday's protest was an attack on a church that attackers claimed was being built illegally.
Protestantism
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being protestant, especially against the Roman Catholic Church; the principles or religion of the Protestants.
Example Sentences:
(1) Protestantism, Catholicism, Judaism and Islam all get both barrels.
(2) This new protestantism drained followers even from Candomblé, the African religion brought by the slaves.
(3) Since 1990, the number of people identifying with no religion in particular has almost doubled to 46 million, largely at the expense of Catholicism and mainstream Protestantism.
(4) He cited the loss of empire and the dilution of Protestantism as a unionist ideology and the primacy of European markets over English and imperial ones.
(5) This could be a part of efforts against the penetration of western hostile forces.” While the Communist party considers itself an atheist organisation, authorities recognise five “official” religions: Buddhism , Catholicism, Islam, Protestantism, and Taoism.
(6) He later remembered this environment as a "very austere one with a philosophy of life, a rigid Protestantism, from which one cannot escape easily".
(7) But as active Protestantism and the sectarian Orange Order waned in strength after the 1950s, the base of Scottish Toryism was chipped away.
(8) The explosive growth of Protestantism and Catholicism came as a surprise to Chinese society,” the Beijing-controlled newspaper claimed, adding that many non-Christians did not feel comfortable about the “exaggerated” crosses placed on some churches.
(9) Most branches of Protestantism are represented, with Methodists, Baptists, Adventists and so on.
(10) Having become too close to Protestantism, he is taken by God and replaced by the more orthodox Peter II, a designation that no real occupant of the post has ever been arrogant enough to adopt.
(11) The video, which features the same high production values common in the group’s media releases and computer generated scenes of old Islamic battles, begins with a recounting of the early history of Christianity and an outline of the schisms that led to the creation of the Coptic, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches, as well as the development of Protestantism.
(12) In Korea, adherents of Protestantism grew from little more than 2% of the population in 1950 to 20% today.
(13) And as was once the case in Liverpool, working-class Toryism was inextricably linked with Protestantism and anti-Catholic sentiments.
(14) Likewise, the infertility of Charles II's wife, Catherine of Braganza, led to the succession of James II, a practicing Roman Catholic, whose attempts to undermine the Church of England led to the Glorious Revolution of 1788 and the preservation of English Protestantism.
(15) The first was a common Protestantism, whether in the established or dissenting churches.
(16) The demand for Islamic Reformation is just another brand of Islamophobia | Jason Wilson Read more I know it was some time ago that you were in the seminary, but surely you remember that the Reformation created Protestantism.
(17) It is the fantasy unity of Catholicism, Protestantism and Romanticism.
(18) The second was the continued threat of a Catholic power, France, which had demonstrated its own intolerance for Protestantism in the flood of Huguenot refugees who enriched this country.
(19) For while its attachment to Islam leaves it set apart in a land founded by pilgrims and among a racial group devoted largely to Protestantism, its belief in racial separatism left it with few allies in the Islamic or white world.
(20) In later life, FitzGerald often spoke of his desire to bring together the southern Catholic tradition of his father with the northern Protestantism of his mother, Mabel.