Sentence examples for church compound from inspiring English sources

But almost at the same time, a gunfight broke out at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, setting off fires in the church compound where Palestinian gunmen and noncombatants have been under Israeli siege since early April.

Eventually, we found the church compound.

The firefight started a small fire in the church compound.

The church compound is like an open-air prison.

The culture and rituals of the church compound the problem, said Canyon County Sheriff Kieran Donahue.

People flooded into a church compound in the city of Ismailia, on the Suez Canal.

Virtually all the major police stations and church compounds in Central, Rift Valley, Western, Nyanza and Nairobi Provinces have been turned into camps for internal refugees.

Duckling's creepy, insular and superstitious depiction of rural Italian life won Fulci no fans at home; his vitriolic swipes at the Catholic church compounded his problems.

And his government's feisty new tone has been met with widespread approval in a place that feels doubly betrayed: first by the abuse itself, and second by what many see as a cover-up by the church, compounded by the often opaque, legalistic language with which it defends itself.

"The civilians taking refuge in church compounds do not have protection.

The serosurvey teams set up temporary workstations in school and church compounds, health posts, and, on rare occasions where no shelter was available, under the shade of trees.