Sentence examples for religious agencies from inspiring English sources

For more than a century, New York City's foster care system has been one of the nation's most privatized and the one that most relied on religious agencies.

Executives of Lutheran Services in America and Catholic Charities have criticized the part of Mr. Bush's initiative that permits aid to religious agencies that discriminate in hiring.

Coupled with a developing tech market, the opportunity for change is tangible, despite the resistance of certain government and religious agencies.

If President Obama wants to maintain the nation's educational, health care and social services network, he needs to respect the rights of the religious agencies that serve millions every year.

Charitable giving has been encouraged by many different religions, and in many parts of the world religious agencies have long collected charitable donations and distributed help to those in need.

But the problem is particularly severe now because several of the religious agencies, including the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, which controls 4,000 beds, are threatening to withdraw from the foster-care system rather than comply with a court stipulation that they provide birth-control information and limit religious exposure.

This article brings both academic debates together, systematizing and describing three types of religious agency from a transitions perspective: experimentation, upscaling, and regime support.

Discussing transition activities of religious actors at these two levels, the article highlights the religious agency in STs, thereby contrasting existing transitions research where religion is often regarded as a passive landscape variable.

Our intent is to shed light on how state surveillance and security impacts the lives of men and women in religious minority communities, altering gender roles, perceptions of citizenship, and notions of political and religious agency.

In 1801 Napoleon Bonaparte ended the Revolution, signed a concordat with the papacy, and "established" the church as a religious agency supported by and subservient to the French state.

Joel Schlachtenhaufen, a 76-year-old retired Lutheran minister from Neenah, Wis., asked him at the Omro event whether he would commit to meeting with representatives of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service or another religious agency aiding immigrants.