Sentence examples for ecumenical organization from inspiring English sources

He also founded Call to Renewal, a religious ecumenical organization committed to overcoming poverty and racism.

In 2014, he founded Repairers of the Breach, an ecumenical organization dedicated to training religious leaders to engage with progressive causes.

In May, Ms. Koski became the first female president of the Long Island Council of Churches, an ecumenical organization representing 750 local Protestant churches.

World Vision is an ecumenical organization, and employs Christians from more than fifty denominations; the American office requires that all employees confess the Apostles Creedd or adhere to the organization's official Statement of Faith.

The Moral Majority was set up as an ecumenical organization for conservative Catholics, Mormons, and Orthodox Jews as well as Protestants ("reverse ecumenism," Weyrich called it) — though Falwell never had much success in organizing the clergy from these other faiths.

The Rev. Donald Green, executive director of Christian Associates of Southwest Pennsylvania, an ecumenical organization that has worked with Mr. Gunduz, said, "Here's a guy who has tried to follow the process and do things legitimately, and now it seems the government, in its paranoia about religious workers and anyone who is an outsider, wants to deny him the access to permanent residency".

In the second half of the 20th century, however, the Christian community, especially in its ecumenical organizations, began to analyze the social problems of property and poverty from the standpoint of justice and the perspectives of the poor and oppressed.

The churches, ecumenical organizations and groups created a madang with informative booths, cultural performers, and workshops.

The EYCE is an ecumenical umbrella organization consisting of national ecumenical youth councils, denominational youth councils or bodies or international Christian youth organizations.

Building Projects Since 1976, with former President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, as high-profile participants, Habitat for Humanity, an ecumenical Christian organization, has built more than 85,000 houses, with "sweat equity" from the prospective residents, in more than 2,000 communities around the world.

For a list of other ecumenical and nonprofit charity organizations that are assisting in the hurricane relief efforts, see http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18473.