Sentence examples for major denominations from inspiring English sources

With the exception of Bishop Fiorenza, the participants were not drawn from major denominations or national organizations.

"We are much more than churches give us credit for," she said of people outside major denominations.

This is not at all what he said in the House of Lords at the time, when he claimed that all the major denominations opposed the bill.

The decree reflects growing concern within the Roman Catholic hierarchy at the steady exodus of the faithful affecting both major denominations.

The period in the early- to mid-1700s, called the Great Awakening, in which populist evangelical preachers challenged the major denominations, is considered a spark for the Revolution.

Some experts say that in Europe, suspicion of major denominations may run higher because religious leaders directly wielded political power in the past.

(In the same period, the ranks of Southern Baptists, the other fast-growing major denomination in the country, have swelled forty per cent, to sixteen million).

About 80 percent of residents, most of whom are descendants of Dutch immigrants, belong to a major denomination church, compared with 36 percent of all Americans.

Egypt is mostly Sunni, the other major denomination of Islam.

Orthodox Christians, the major denomination of Arab Christians, have no space in that imaginary except in Protestant missionary depictions of those Arab Christians as backward.

They had held together during the controversy over slavery and through the Civil War, when major American denominations had divided.