Sentence examples for religious properties from inspiring English sources

Canon Williams was central to our efforts to preserve Harlem religious buildings and an engaged and learned member of our Sacred Sites Committee, helping landmark religious properties statewide.

"It hopefully opens a discussion of state funding for very significant religious properties that have not just religious value but are an important part of the landscape," said the chairwoman of the city's Landmarks Preservation Commission, Jennifer J. Raab.

At least a quarter of religious properties have mortgages, according to an analysis of property and mortgage filings in 115 United States counties completed for The New York Times by First American CoreLogic, a data provider in California.

Among the 300 formerly religious properties represented on the ZefiroWorld Tour Operator Web site, www.go-to-Italy.com, there are small luxury hotels in former convents, and fabulously appointed villas once owned by the nobility and given to the church "so the owners could get into paradise," said Claudia Sardo Bollweg, a partner in the agency.

In looking through my collection of buttons, going back more than 20 years, I discovered reminders of some of those efforts, like "Designate Ladies Mile" and "Save the Law That Saves Our Landmarks," which spoke to the dangerous possibility of a law's being enacted that would have prevented religious properties from being designated.

Sister Chris Loughlin, a Dominican nun who works on the conservation of religious properties in Massachusetts, said that government and social agencies had taken over so many of the institutional services provided by the church that using the land on which church schools, orphanages and hospitals once sat was increasingly viewed as a sacred way of serving people.

In July, Mr. Ballinger pleaded guilty to 29 charges, including 20 counts of damaging religious property.

It allows non-Muslim minority communities such as Greeks, Armenians and Jews greater rights over religious property like churches and synagogues.

He also said the Yasukuni Shrine carried some "political symbolism" even if it was listed as a religious property in Japan.

Eizenstat's efforts began in 1995, when he was assigned the "limited mission" of helping bring about the return of Nazi-confiscated religious property in Eastern Europe.

He declined to say why Ms. Arellano was not arrested sooner at the church in Chicago, though immigration agents generally do not make arrests on religious property.