In 1914, on the eve of the First World War, Carnegie founded the Church Peace Union ( CPU ), a group of leaders in religion, academia, and politics.

In its 1982 statement on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches stated that " the primary manifestation of apostolic succession is to be found in the apostolic tradition of the Church as a whole ….

A church was planned in the 1930s but delayed by World War II: the Church of St Mary and St Petroc was eventually consecrated in 1965: it was built next to the already existing seminary.

* Froehle, Bryan ; Gautier, Mary, Global Catholicism, Portrait of a World Church, Orbis books ; Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate, Georgetown University ( 2003 ) ISBN = 1-57075-375-X

Though the Church is prohibited by the Manual from publishing membership figures, the number of branch churches in the United States has fallen steadily since World War II.

The Christian Church was a charter participant in the formation of both the World Council of Churches and the Federal Council of Churches ( now the National Council of Churches ), and it continues to be engaged in ecumenical conversations.

It works closely with Church World Service and church related organizations in countries around the world where disasters strike, providing emergency aid.

* World Orthodox Churches, at Orthodox Church in America website

** World Day of the Sick ( Roman Catholic Church )

* The Catholic Church in the Modern World by E. E. Y.

For the most part, religious traditions in the world reserve marriage to heterosexual unions, but there are exceptions including certain Buddhist and Hindu traditions, Unitarian Universalist, Metropolitan Community Church and some Anglican dioceses and some Quaker, United Church of Canada and Reform Jewish congregations .< ref >" World Religions and Same Sex Marriage ", Marriage Law Project, Columbus School of Law at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, July 2002 revision

During World War II, the Church was allowed a revival as a patriotic organization, and thousands of parishes were reactivated until a further round of suppression during Khrushchev's rule.

It is, in fact, full of theatrical codes harking back to the Dadaists ' Vox Humana experiments after World War One, Alphonse de Lamartine's " La Voix humaine ", part of his larger work Harmonies poétiques et religieuses and the effect of the creation of the Vox Humana (" voix humaine "), an organ stop of the Regal Class by Church organ masters ( late 16th century ) that attempted to imitate the human voice but never succeeded in doing better than the sound of a male chorus at a distance.

" When the LGBT-friendly Metropolitan Community Church was almost accepted into the World Council of Churches, Falwell called them " brute beasts " and stated, " this vile and satanic system will one day be utterly annihilated and there'll be a celebration in heaven.

The LDS Church grew rapidly after World War II and became a world-wide organization as missionaries were sent across the globe.

In October 1999, an executive committee of the World Methodist Council resolved to explore the possibility of its Member Churches becoming associated with the doctrinal agreement which had been reached by the Catholic Church and Lutheran World Federation ( LWF ).

In July of the same year, in Seoul, South Korea, the Member Churches of the World Methodist Council ( WMC ) voted to approve and sign a " Methodist Statement of Association " with the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification ( JDDJ ), the agreement which was reached and officially accepted in 1999 by the Catholic Church and the Lutheran World Federation and which proclaimed that " Together we confess: By grace alone, in faith in Christ ’ s saving work and not because of any merit on our part, we are accepted by God and receive the Holy Spirit, who renews our hearts while equipping and calling us to good works ... as sinners our new life is solely due to the forgiving and renewing mercy that God imparts as a gift and we receive in faith, and never can merit in any way ," affirming " fundamental doctrinal agreement " concerning justification between the Catholic Church, the LWF, and the World Methodist Council.

The 2002 edition of The World Book Dictionary does not note a negative connotation, defining it simply as: " a follower of Sun Myung Moon "; nor does the 1999 edition of the Webster's II New College Dictionary, which defines it as " a member of the Unification Church established and headed by Sun Myung Moon.

Although some of these women embraced the political and social amendments of the Revolution, they opposed the dissolution of the Catholic Church and the formation of revolutionary cults like the Cult of the Supreme Being advocated by Robespierre.

Being intended for the Church, he obtained a benefice in the cathedral of Fermo.

The Book of the SubGenius: Being the Divine Wisdom, Guidance, and Prophecy of J. R. " Bob " Dobbs, High Epopt of the Church of the SubGenius, Here Inscribed for the Salvation of Future Generations and in the Hope that Slack May Someday Reign on this Earth ( ISBN 0-671-63810-6 ) is seen as the " bible " of the Church of the SubGenius.

Samuel Bradshaw, in his Tract for the Times, Being a Plea for the Jews calls for Parliament to allot 4 million pounds for the Restoration of Israel, with another 1 million to be collected by the Church.

Being a member of the Catholic Church, Frank is repeatedly reminded by his preachers of the consequences of committing any of the deadly sins.

One purpose of Scientology, as stated by the Church of Scientology, is to become certain of one's spiritual existence and one's relationship to God, or the " Supreme Being.

Committee of the General Synod, compilers, The Book of Common Praise ; Being the Hymn Book of the Anglican Church of Canada.

Being nontrinitarian, the teachings of the LDS Church differ from other Christian churches ' theologies as established, for example, in the First Council of Constantinople.

* Winnifrith, Douglas Percy The Church in the Fighting Line: With General Smith-Dorrien at the Front, Being the Experiences of a Chaplain in charge of an Infantry Brigade London, Hodder and Stoughton, 1915 ( Available online at: archive. org )

Being a set of sermons on saints ’ days formerly observed by the English Church.

* On Being the Church in the World, 1960

" Being by God's Ordinance, according to Our just Title, Defender of the Faith and Supreme Governor of the Church, within these Our Dominions, We hold it most agreeable to this Our Kingly Office, and Our own religious zeal, to conserve and maintain the Church committed to Our Charge, in Unity of true Religion, and in the Bond of Peace ... We have therefore, upon mature Deliberation, and with the Advice of so many of Our Bishops as might conveniently be called together, thought fit to make this Declaration following ... That We are Supreme Governor of the Church of England ... "

Being a member of the Family Compact, Colborne was a strong supporter of the Church of England and British traditions.

* Colson, Charles, and Ellen Vaughn, Being the Body: a new call for the Church to be light in the darkness ( 2003 ).

The idea of translating " Herzog " in a slightly condensed form occurred to John Henry Augustus Bomberger ( 1817 – 90 ), a minister of the German Reformed Church, and then president of Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pa., and in 1856 he brought out in Philadelphia the first volume, whose title-page reads thus: The Protestant Theological and Ecclesiastical Encyclopedia: Being a Condensed Translation of Herzog ’ s Real Encyclopedia.

Being held under Byzantine auspices, with an exclusively Eastern clergy, these regulations overwhelmingly regarded the customs of the Church of Constantinople as the orthodox practice.

* Decree on Worship of the Supreme Being Source: Church and state in the modern age: a documentary history ; J. F. Maclear, ed.

The privileges of the nobility were abolished and the Church establishment replaced by a universalist cult of the Supreme Being.

Being a devout Christian, he never left the Dutch Reformed Church, the state church of the Netherlands and of its Royal Family, in spite of its sorry state, in his view.

Several influential books on the Trinity were published after his retirement: The Trinitarian Faith: The Evangelical Theology of the Ancient Catholic Church ( 1988 ); Trinitarian Perspectives: Toward Doctrinal Agreement ( 1994 ); and The Christian Doctrine of God, One Being Three Persons ( 1996 ).

* On Being the Church ( 1988 )

Adam and Fertility help Tender escape from the police as they come to arrest him, and as the brothers travel north in hiding, they return to the Creedish Church Compound, which is now the Sensitive Materials Sanitary Landfill.

The principle antagonists of the fantasy trilogy His Dark Materials are an institiution affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church known as the General Oblation Board.