Sentence examples for open a church from inspiring English sources

The Xao men had come to worship in the legal Hanoi church and to apply to the government for permission to open a church of their own.

He is outraged when he learns that Jessie borrowed the money to give it to a Pentecostal preacher from New Orleans who wants to renovate the storefront below her apartment and open a church.

After serving as an Army chaplain in World War I, he petitioned the Brooklyn bishop for permission to open a church for blacks, who were then being excluded from Catholic services in German, Irish and Italian neighborhoods.

There are ministers who have no theological training who say 'I've been called to the ministry,' and that's sufficient [for them to open a church].

Bertram and Felicia Dahl initially got a supportive response from the local government of Beebe, Arkansas, when they announced their intentions to open a church in the garage behind their home, but Mayor Mike Robertson completely changed his mind upon hearing that the Dahls' place of worship was a pagan church, reports Arkansas Matters.

Open a church bank account.

TARA BAHRAMPOUR Correction: February 11 , 2001 Sunday A chart on Jan . 28outlining the history of St. Nicholas Antiochan Orthodox Cathedral in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn, mislabeled the period in which Arabic-speaking Orthodox Christians formed an association and opened a church in Manhattan.

City and church leaders alike say there are several reasons that the conflict never escalated here, including the fact that even though the Latter-day Saints only opened a church here in 1981, a smaller branch of the Mormon Church, the Community of Christ, has been here largely uninterrupted since the 1830s.

In March, the Mormons also opened a church on what had been vacant land at 1815 Riverside Drive in the Inwood section of northern Manhattan, a two-story, red-brick building with a chapel, 21 classrooms and a gymnasium that doubles as a cultural center.

In addition to funding church start-ups in Panama, Mexico, the Dominican Republic, California, and Florida, Rivera opened a church in New Rochelle in March 2014 that his foundation renovated at a cost of $3 million.

It is dismayingly hard to open a Christian church anywhere, despite Anatolia's long Christian heritage.