Sentence examples for shattered churches from inspiring English sources

The scars of the earthquakes that accompanied previous eruptions are also evident in the shells of shattered churches.

One witness said he saw about sixty people stream out of the shattered church, some bleeding.

The movie touches gracefully on religion in an unsanctimonious manner in the man's references to God, the campfire discussions between the father and the old man (played by Robert Duvall) who briefly joins them, giving his name as the Old Testament prophet Eli, and in a crucial scene set in a shattered church.

"So many Christians in the world are suffering," he said during his weekly speech in September after a deadly Taliban-linked bombing shattered a church in northwest Pakistan.

This is part of why we are so surprised and shattered when church leaders fall we forget that they are sinful human beings, just as in need of grace and accountability as the rest of us.

CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand -- Churches shattered by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake were yielding up their dead on Friday (Feb. 25) as clergy and parishioners grieved and searched for places to worship on Sunday.

His novel "The House of Doctor Dee" evoked an Elizabethan manor overlooking the river, and in another novel, "Hawksmoor," the orderly world of London's great Baroque churches was shattered by glimpses of the charnel ­houses, Celtic sites and Roman temples that lie buried beneath their watery crypts.

As painful as this is to church leaders, the fullest disclosure of abuses is a minimal prerequisite for rebuilding the laity's shattered confidence that their church might once more be entrusted with the care of tender children.

Even before its scheduled opening in October, the garden has touched on the delicate and often contentious issue of how to acknowledge a scandal that has shattered the Roman Catholic church for much of the decade.

A 10 foot (3 m) tall stained-glass window in the St. Teresa of Avila Church was shattered.

Many villages in the region are little more than temporary shelters dotted with shattered buildings and burnt-out churches.