He called his new church the Cosmotheist Community Church.

When Pierce bought the West Virginia property, he named it the " Cosmotheist Community Church " and applied for federal, state, and local tax exemptions.

Pierce founded the group in 1974 about the same time as he created the Cosmotheist Community Church ( www. cosmotheism. net ).

* 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — later renamed Community of Christ — is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois

* Barnabas Community Church, Shrewsbury, England, UK

Community of Christ, the former Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( RLDS ), is opposed to capital punishment.

There are also churches for Roman Catholic, Methodist and other denominations, including Cheddar Valley Community Church, who not only meet at The Kings of Wessex School on Sunday, but also have their own site on Tweentown for meeting during the week.

In 1970 Alston was commissioned by the Community Church of New York to create a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. for $ 5, 000, with limited copies produced.

In particular, the Metropolitan Community Church was founded specifically to serve the Christian LGBT community.

" Clay Witt, a minister in the Metropolitan Community Church, explains how theologians and commentators like John Shelby Spong, George Edwards and Michael England interpret injunctions against certain sexual acts as being originally intended as a means of distinguishing religious worship between Abrahamic and the surrounding pagan faiths, within which homosexual acts featured as part of idolatrous religious practices: " England argues that these prohibitions should be seen as being directed against sexual practices of fertility cult worship.

Troy Perry preaching in 2006 at a Metropolitan Community Church.

Advertisement promoting religious tolerance of homosexuality in the United States paid for by the Metropolitan Community Church.

* Colorado Community Church, an interdenominational church in Denver, Colorado, USA

Originally published in 1835 as Doctrine and Covenants of the Church of the Latter Day Saints: Carefully Selected from the Revelations of God, editions of the book continue to be printed mainly by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) and the Community of Christ ( formerly the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( RLDS Church )).

The " doctrine " portion of the book, however, has been removed by both the LDS Church and the Community of Christ.

Officials of Community of Christ ( formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ) first published an edition of the Doctrine and Covenants in 1864, based on the previous 1844 edition.

A modern revelation that resulted in some " disaffection " and " led to intense conflict in scattered areas of the RLDS Church " is contained in the Community of Christ version's Section 156, presented by Prophet-President Wallace B. Smith and added in 1984, which called for construction of the Independence Temple and the ordination of women to the priesthood, among other changes.

( Community and Parish of Saint George Thebarton, Adelaide, South Australia | St. George Greek Orthodox Church, Adelaide )

In the Community of Christ, which was formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, an evangelist is an office in the Melchizedec Order of the priesthood.

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

" 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.

Community Christian Church ( Kansas City, Missouri ) | Community Christian Church, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and located adjacent to the Country Club Plaza

But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.

On the eve of the `` great debate '' on the proposal to give the President broad powers to make across-the-board tariff concessions which could practically bring us into the Atlantic Community, we should face the alternatives on this proposition.

Community esprit de corps has been the protective shell which has made the achievement possible.

At the same time, Angola has promoted the revival of the Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries ( CPLP ) as a forum for cultural exchange and expanding ties with Portugal ( its former ruler ) and Brazil ( which shares many cultural affinities with Angola ) in particular.

" Ever since the time of my ancestor Ali, the first Imam, that is to say over a period of thirteen hundred years, it has always been the tradition of our family that each Imam chooses his successor at his absolute and unfettered discretion from amongst any of his descendants, whether they be sons or remote male issue and in these circumstances and in view of the fundamentally altered conditions in the world in very recent years due to the great changes which have taken place including the discoveries of atomic science, I am convinced that it is in the best interest of the Shia Muslim Ismailia Community that I should be succeeded by a young man who has been brought up and developed during recent years and in the midst of the new age and who brings a new outlook on life to his office as Imam.

Administration to the sick is one of the eight sacraments of the Community of Christ, in which it has also been used for people seeking spiritual, emotional or mental healing.

The Community acquis or acquis communautaire (; ), sometimes called the EU acquis, and often shortened to acquis, is the accumulated legislation, legal acts, and court decisions which constitute the body of European Union law.

The City of New York has an official television station run by the NYC Media Group and broadcasting from Bronx Community College, and Cablevision operates News 12 The Bronx, both of which feature programming based in the Bronx.

The Basque Autonomous Community is an administrative entity within the binational ethnographic Basque Country incorporating the traditional Spanish provinces of Biscay, Gipuzkoa, and Álava, which retain their existence as politico-administrative divisions.

After years of operating profits at Community Newspaper and losses at the Herald, Purcell in 2006 sold the suburban chain to newspaper conglomerate Liberty Group Publishing of Illinois, which soon after changed its name to GateHouse Media.

The four left the Labour Party as a result of policy changes enacted at the January 1981 Wembley conference which committed the party to unilateral nuclear disarmament and withdrawal from the European Economic Community.

The three basic types of community organizing are grassroots organizing, coalition building, and " institution-based community organizing ," ( also called " broad-based community organizing ," an example of which is faith-based community organizing, or Congregation-based Community Organizing ).

Community colleges carry on the tradition of adult education, which was established in Australia around mid 19th century when evening classes were held to help adults enhance their numeracy and literacy skills.

The motivation for community colleges was a new way of thinking about education and training in Canada ( more specifically in Ontario ), and was economically based as opposed to the much earlier start in the United States of Junior and Community Colleges which was driven by an integrative social policy.

He spent his first winter using his upside-down boat for shelter, which is reflected in the architecture of the village's Community Centre.

Regional treaties include the Andean Pact, now known as the Andean Community, which also includes Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru, the bodies and institutions making up the Andean Integration System ( AIS ).

The university also houses an independent nonprofit organization, Community Impact, which strives to serve disadvantaged people in the Harlem, Washington Heights, and Morningside Heights communities.

There is also Croatian Democratic Community of Bosnia and Herzegovina ( HDZBIH ) which is considered Croatian Conservative Party and Serbian Democratic Party as Serbian Conservative Party.

Some of these were founded by Jewish converts themselves, like the Community of Our Lady of Zion, which was composed of nuns and ordained priests.

Another similar program is the National Civilian Community Corps, part of the AmeriCorps program, a team-based national service program to which 18-to 24-year-olds dedicate 10 months of their time annually.

* 2009 – The Treaty of Lisbon, which amends the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, which together comprise the constitutional basis of European Union, comes into effect.

* European Free Trade Association, a European trade bloc which was established as an alternative for European states who did not join the then-European Economic Community.