Sentence examples for church from inspiring English sources

In 2008, WikiLeaks posted secret Scientology manuals, and lawyers representing the church demanded that they be removed.

About 500 relatives of victims are attending the ecumenical service, with hundreds more watching on large screens outside the cathedral and in a neighbouring church.

And everyone knows that the only thing that can even come close to matching a decade-old repeat of Top Gear in terms of witty banter is a dank polling booth set up in an abandoned church hall on a drizzly Thursday afternoon".

The royal commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse has heard the church still uses the defence when victims come forward.

Inside the church, there is a memorial on stained glass to a relative of mine.

For all the optimism, church insiders privately acknowledge the decline of what are often already tiny rural churches means something will have to change.

However, he would regret it if the church lost its "credibility" among non-attenders who, he says, frequently feel warmly disposed to it "thanks to generations of love and service".

Cathars ambushed him in a forest and killed him – thus giving the official church even more excuse to persecute "heretics".

The treatment of children in church-run residential homes is a key concern of the investigation, which is chaired by the retired judge Sir Anthony Hart and is considering cases between 1922 – when Northern Ireland was founded – and 1995.

During evidence on the behaviour of nuns from the Sisters of Nazareth order at two Catholic church-run children's homes in Derry, the inquiry heard that children were beaten for bedwetting and had soiled sheets placed on their heads to humiliate them.

In it Cameron admits he is "hardly a model church-going, God-fearing Christian" and that he is "a bit hazy on the finer points of our faith".