Sentence examples for ceremony church from inspiring English sources

The Bishop of Rochester, the Right Reverend James Longstaff, who is tabling the proposal, told The Independent: "If you compare the costs of a civil ceremony, church services are still very good value.

Hundreds of asylum seekers could be left living in a "wasteland" following the controversial demolition of some of Glasgow's tallest buildings during the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, church groups have warned.

For years his family tried fruitlessly to get Proctor to divulge the details of this ceremony, Mr. Church said.

But, he noted, the men were taking ayahuasca as part of a religious ceremony: their church, União do Vegetal, is centered on integrating the ayahuasca experience into everyday life.

The Cross Street Unitarian Chapel in Manchester reported that it had become the first religious building in Britain to be granted a licence to perform civil partnerships, with a religious ceremony, in church.

The vicar of Ifield, Reverend Robert Goddin, was a strict Protestant who was strongly opposed to Catholic-style worship, ceremony and church decoration, and he enforced the new style rigorously.

And there was the large-scale choral and instrumental music for ceremonies of church and state, for which Andrea is best-known today.

The measure could, they feared, deprive bishops of any legal means to discipline a rebel priest who carried out such ceremonies against church rules.

Later, Danny's dad grew a funeral business out of helping out with ceremonies for church members and their families.

In baptism ceremonies, the church allows its members to "have the right of choice between the various modes as practised by the several evangelical denominations", including infant baptism.

When the Westminster government published a consultation document on same sex marriage back in March, it specifically excluded the idea of ceremonies in churches or other religious buildings.