He said it could be another month before he returned to his duties as executive director of Desire Street Ministries, an inner-city ministry based in Decatur, Ga.
Abuse survivors said they were concerned that some priest perpetrators would be returned to ministry based on technicalities.
Mr. Colson, a born-again Christian, has spent the last 24 years as head of a prison ministry based in Virginia.
Adam Burt, a senior associate pastor with Morning Star New York, an interdenominational ministry based in Manhattan, officiated at All Souls Church in Manhattan.
But Focus on the Family, the radio ministry based in Colorado, was a newcomer to the cause of an immigration overhaul.
So did the Rev. Jerry Falwell, the founder of the Moral Majority, a conservative religious group, and Dr. James C. Dobson, the president and founder of Focus on the Family, a ministry based in Colorado.
"We are in a pluralistic society, and we understand that," said the Rev. Raymond Rivera, president and chief executive of the Latino Pastoral Action Center, a ministry based in the Bronx that receives about 25percentt of its budget through government grants.
National religious organizations including the Knights of Columbus, the Catholic fraternal group; Focus on the Family, a ministry based in Colorado Springs that is led by James C. Dobson; and the American Family Association, based in Mississippi and led by the Rev. Donald E. Wildmon, have been major contributors to the "Yes on 8" campaign.
Analysis of half a century of temperature readings collected since Alert's weather station opened in the spring of 1950 show barely any changes in recorded temperatures, said Henry Hengeveld, the science adviser on climate change for Environment Canada, a federal government ministry based in Ottawa.
But many of its exhibits, including an 8-meter model of a cell, will be featured by Answers in Genesis, a fundamentalist ministry based in Florence, Kentucky, in a brand-new $11 million museum.
Ministry of Health and Social Affairs (hereafter: health ministry): based on our interviews and documents, the health ministry did not consider medical or clinical research policy to be its core tasks.
