Sentence examples for jerusalem church from inspiring English sources

The Jerusalem church under James, the brother of Jesus, was the mother church.

Barnabas was a hellenized Jew who joined the Jerusalem church soon after Christ's crucifixion, sold his property, and gave the proceeds to the community (Acts 4 36 37).

Last year, Georgians were enraged when a fresco of Rustaveli, in a Jerusalem church under the care of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate, was defaced, then badly restored.

He was the chief spokesman for the Jerusalem church at the Council of Jerusalem regarding Paul's mission to the Gentiles (Acts 15:13) and final visit to Jerusalem (Acts 21 18).

Peter was the most prominent figure in the Jerusalem Church up to the time of his departure from Jerusalem after his imprisonment by King Herod and his subsequent release in the New Testament account (Acts 12 1 17).

The documentary A Polite Bribe — co-produced by TED DEUTSCH '91 and directed by Robert Orlando — explores the Apostle Paul's role in the beginnings of Christianity and an offering of gold he made to the Jerusalem church.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Church leaders in Jerusalem shut the Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Sunday in protest at a new Israeli tax policy and a proposed land expropriation law which they called an unprecedented attack on Christians in the Holy Land.

JERUSALEM (RNS) The church body authorized by the Vatican to oversee the Catholic Church's property in Israel has asked Israel's attorney general to indict a Jewish extremist who, it says, recently incited violence��against Israel's Christian churches.

His poem "And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time" (1808) has become famous as the nationalistic hymn "Jerusalem", sung at party conferences and church services, which is absurd.

The citadel encloses a set of buildings, the notable ones being the fort built in 1620, the Masilamaninathar Temple built in the 13th century, the Zion Church built in 1701, New Jerusalem Church built in 1718, the Town Gateway built in 1792, the Danish Governor Bungalow built in 1784 and a series of tomb stones built during the 17th and 18th centuries.

JERUSALEM (RNS) Many artistic renderings of biblical figures hang in churches and museums, but no one really knows what they and their contemporaries looked like.