Sentence examples for statements of repentance from inspiring English sources

Neither Pope John Paul II nor Cardinal Edward Cassidy in any way "devalued the French and German bishops' statements" of repentance for the failings of church leaders in those countries during the Holocaust.

In the mid-1990's, for example, three American Protestant denominations issued statements of repentance -- the Southern Baptists for supporting slavery and segregation, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America for anti-Jewish writings by the Reformation leader Martin Luther, and the United Methodists for the brutality of a lay preacher who led a Civil War-era Indian massacre in Colorado.

The police also let him write a statement of repentance, but he didn't admit to committing a crime".

That you actually had a choice?' " A friend of his had been detained and released after agreeing to sign a statement of repentance.

But though I had written it, and had managed to pass it on to my mother, I never admitted to doing so and throughout my time there I never signed a statement of repentance".

"Acts of repentance for specific events are one thing but a general statement of repentance is meaningless," said historian Maurice Vaisse.

And I grieve for the fact that he never had the chance to offer a public statement of repentance and apology for his hurtful actions before his death.

The latter verses he explains in relation to the possibility of repentance: of sinning, repenting, and returning to the Garden of Eden.

Several younger speakers urged that the statement had to include a tone of repentance for complicity in racism and sexism.

Commemorating World War II's end, Prime Minister Abe offered official regret for the conflict, reiterating the statements of previous premiers, expressed "deep repentance for the war," and pledged "never to wage a war again".

Three years ago, a group of French bishops issued their own "Declaration of Repentance," known as the Drancy Statement after the train station from which Jews had been deported to concentration camps.