Sentence examples for clergies from inspiring English sources

It enabled entire populations to read the Bible in their own language, liberating them from Latinate clergies that had kept them in superstitious serfdom.

So we have many clergies, many mujtaheds who are now silent because they cannot do anything.

For the moment, however, their group of roughly 55 rebel clergy has to rely on stubborn faith.

The striking workers are part of a coalition of unions, campaign groups, clergy and community members.

Both decisions, which mark a major shift in the Church of Scotland's attitudes to gay clergy, come as voters in Ireland prepare for an historic referendum on Friday on the legalisation of same-sex marriage.

"The struggle with nazism and fascism meant, especially among the clergy and church leaders, that nationalism had been seen as deviant and selfish and arousing darker, dangerous passions," he said.

About 600 protesters took part in the demonstrations, including a Welsh nationalist MEP, Scottish nationalist, Green and Labour members of the Scottish parliament, clergy, and the folk singers Roy Bailey and Leon Rosselson.

Catholic clergy were always welcome at Old Trafford and Matt laughed at the way Denis Law once pestered him for an introduction to a priest, a guest of Paddy Crerand.

This in part reflects an inherent caution on the part of many of the senior clergy - an instinct towards political quietism - but it also reflects the social and political change that has occurred throughout the country over 30 years.

Fisher called on the government to institute an independent redress scheme for victims of clergy abuse.

This is Lewis' "preacher novel" and concerns the gamboling fraudster Elmer Gantry's fluctuating success within the clergy.