Sentence examples for evangelical sect from inspiring English sources

Protestants have been active among the Seri and Yumans, achieving their greatest success with the Seri, who in the 1950s were all converted by an evangelical sect and largely abandoned their non-Christian practices.

Edmund Gosse, in Father and Son, his memoir of a mid-nineteenth-century English childhood, relates how the Crimean War penetrated even his stringently pious, unworldly family, which belonged to an evangelical sect called the Plymouth Brethren: "The declaration of war with Russia brought the first breath of outside life into our Calvinist cloister.

Leaders of other evangelical sects were divided over whether to encourage their congregations to watch.

Protestant evangelical sects have made astounding inroads in Brazil — traditional Catholic territory — in recent years.

Now there are many people joining the new fundamentalist evangelical sects seeking to cleanse themselves of the Umbanda sin.

Umbanda's strength was the ability to imagine an alternative reality better than the present but the evangelical sects' genius is to have helped their followers change reality.

There are evangelical sects that worry over witches still, and laws on the books criminalizing witchcraft (in Canada, it's still in the federal Criminal Code), but the demonizing has now been replaced by witch-boosterism.

Of course, the Pope's real interest is in numbers, and apart from the various Pentecostal and evangelical sects, with whom he does not do serious ecumenical business, the big numbers for his Christian moral crusade lie in some sort of reconciliation between the Eastern and the Western Churches.

In Brazil, considered the world's largest Roman Catholic country, the Church has been losing ground to evangelical sects in recent decades.

In America particularly literalism took hold, and especially after the Civil War, it took root in the evangelical sects — especially Baptists — of the South (Numbers 1998).

It's important to note that The 700 Club has been on TV since 1966 and is viewed by a million people daily, so this man's words have an outsized influence in many of America's Protestant evangelical sects.