John Cassian, who had visited his monastery, dedicated to him several of his " Conferences ".

In Fidei Depositum, Pope John Paul II declared that the Catechism of the Catholic Church was " a valid and legitimate instrument for ecclesial communion and a sure norm for teaching the faith, and stated that it " is not intended to replace the local catechisms duly approved by the ecclesiastical authorities ( Vatican ), the Diocesan Bishops and the Episcopal Conferences ".

It arises from the spirit of Gaudium et Spes of the Second Vatican Council and the social encyclicals of Pope John XXIII, and more specifically, the Episcopal Conferences of Medellín in 1968 and Puebla in 1978.

Relativism: The Central Problem for Faith Today, was an address given by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger ( Pope Benedict XVI ), during the meeting of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith with the presidents of the Doctrinal Commissions of the Bishops ’ Conferences of Latin America, held in Guadalajara, Mexico, in May 1996.

Under Pope John Paul II, the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, in 1984, sent the circular letter Quattuor abhinc annos to the presidents of the Episcopal Conferences, granting diocesan bishops an " indult " ( permission ) to authorize, under certain conditions, celebrations of the Tridentine Mass as contained in the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal by priests and laypeople who requested it.

However, the majority of the important decisions are held not in the main meetings themselves, but at the informal ' retreats ': introduced at the second CHOGM, in Ottawa, by Prime Minister of Canada Pierre Trudeau, but reminiscent of the excursions to Chequers or Dorneywood in the days of the Prime Ministers ' Conferences.

Conferences, usually delivered by the prior, on this important part of the Christian and priestly life were given especially to the interns.

The Club's Biennial Wilderness Conferences, launched in 1949 in concert with The Wilderness Society, became an important force in the campaign that secured passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964.

In 1911, he began a series of important conferences in physics, known as the Solvay Conferences, whose participants included luminaries such as Max Planck, Ernest Rutherford, Marie Curie, Henri Poincaré, and ( then only 32 years old ) Albert Einstein.

Since its formation, the World Church Leadership Council has been the deliberative and consensus forming body for a number of important decisions, such as the 2002 Statement on Homosexuality, formation of mission centers, and setting of dates for specially called World Conferences.

He addressed the important world Methodist Ecumenical Conferences in London ( 1901 ) and Toronto ( 1911 ).

He also organized the important Gatlinburg Conferences, which are still held under the name Householder Symposia.

The main objective of the Forum 2000 Conferences is “ to identify the key issues facing civilization and to explore ways to prevent the escalation of conflicts that have religion, culture or ethnicity as their primary components .” Forum 2000 aims to provide a platform to discuss these important topics openly and to enhance global dialogue.

The community forums, known as Conferences, are supervised by conference hosts who guide conversations and may enforce conference rules on civility and / or appropriateness.

* Coenobitical Institutions and Conferences of St John Cassian.

This is similar to the position taken in the Conferences of St. John Cassian.

Cassian endeavored in his thirteenth chapter of Conferences section eleven to demonstrate from Biblical examples that God frequently awaits the good impulses of the natural will, before coming to its assistance with His supernatural grace.

Cassian wrote two major spiritual works, the Institutions and the Conferences.

The ideas expressed by Cassian to which critics have pointed as examples of his alleged Semipelagianism are found in his Conferences, in book 3, the Conference of Abbot Paphnutius ; book 5, the Conference of Abbot Serapion ; and most especially in book 13, the Third Conference of Abbot Chaeremon.

* The Conferences and The Institutes by John Cassian

However, his scheme was taken from that described by John Cassian, in his two major spiritual works, the Institutes and the Conferences, in which he described the monastic practices of the Desert Fathers of Egypt.

After the Second World War ( 1939 – 45 ), and the Tehran, Casablanca and Yalta Conferences, the Allies by the Berlin Declaration of June 5th, 1945 had assumed supreme authority over Germany.

In November 2006 the New York Times published a two-part series about state based free market think tanks that described how the Mackinac Center ’ s biannual Leadership Conferences had trained nearly 500 think tank executives from 42 nations and nearly every state.

It had over 3000 churches, over 1200 traveling preachers, 2500 local preachers, about 140, 000 members, and 22 Annual Conferences, presided over by four bishops.

Proxy letters from a number of Union Conferences were held by the General Conference Secretary enabling the session to convene legally ( a provision enabled in the 1949 corporate registration ), though the proxy holder still only had one vote regardless of the number of proxies held.

By the early 1960s the Ministry of Defence thought the Pugwash Conferences were “ now a very respectable organization ” and the Foreign Office stated that it had " official blessing " and that any breakthrough may well originate at such gatherings.

This had emerged from the International Conferences called by Battaglia Comunista between 1977 and 1981.

In 1981, the last year for conference signing days, recruits had to sign both conference and national letters-of-intent if their school was in the Big East or Southwest Conferences.

It was established in 1957 to provide a permanent organization to support the goals of the Technical Lighthouse Conferences, which had been convening since 1929.

It had its origins at the First and Second National Conferences on Athletic Administration in Colleges and Universities, held in Louisville, Kentucky in 1959 and 1962.

The failure to establish the EDC resulted in the 1954 amendment of the Treaty of Brussels at the London and Paris Conferences which in replacement of EDC established the political Western European Union ( WEU ) out of the earlier established Western Union Defence Organization and included West Germany and Italy in both WEU and NATO as the conference ended the occupation of West Germany and the defence aims had shifted from Germany to the Soviet Union.

Many in the Japanese military ( both Army and Navy ) had disagreed with Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's idea of attacking the U. S. Fleet at Pearl Harbor when it was first proposed in early 1941, and remained reluctant after the Navy approved planning and training for an attack beginning in spring 1941, and through the highest level Imperial Conferences in September and November which first approved it as policy ( allocation of resources, preparation for execution ), and then authorized the attack.

The merger, which had been in discussions since 1929, came eventually between the Church of India, Pakistan, Burma and Ceylon ( Anglican ), the United Church of Northern India ( Congregationalist and Presbyterian ), the Baptist Churches of Northern India ( British Baptists ), the Church of the Brethren in India, which withdrew in 2006, the Methodist Church ( British and Australia Conferences ) and the Disciples of Christ denominations.

In particular, the Institutes had a direct influence on organization of monasteries described in the Rule of St. Benedict ; Benedict also recommended that ordered selections of the Conferences be read to monks under his Rule.

By 1958, the Indian Pediatric Society had organized nine National Pediatric Conferences in different cities in India.

COAG grew out of the Premiers ' Conferences, which had been held for many decades.

" They recorded two full length albums, performed with several major label acts, and had songs aired on three consecutive seasons of MTV's " The Real World " The band toured nationally with CIY Believe Conferences ( also original band ) and played festivals, state fairs, and teen conventions, everything from bars to churches, parties to high school auditoriums.

This term had been casually used by excavators for many of the “ ancient people ” since the early explorations of Richard Wetherill, and had been informally used in the work of the Pecos Conferences.

However, on critical matters, extraconstitutional conferences were called to obtain final imperial approval for specific courses of action, which had already been previously decided upon by the civilian government, elder statesmen ( genro ) and / or the military authorities at Liaison Conferences ( Renraku kaigi ).

Every year, the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software ( ETAPS ) sponsors the International Conference on Compiler Construction ( CC ), with papers from both the academic and industrial sectors.

Three International Eugenics Conferences presented a global venue for eugenicists with meetings in 1912 in London, and in 1921 and 1932 in New York.

The parties to the convention have met annually from 1995 in Conferences of the Parties ( COP ) to assess progress in dealing with climate change.

Since the UNFCCC entered into force, the parties have been meeting annually in Conferences of the Parties ( COP ) to assess progress in dealing with climate change, and beginning in the mid-1990s, to negotiate the Kyoto Protocol to establish legally binding obligations for developed countries to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.

From 2005 the Conferences have met in conjunction with Meetings of Parties of the Kyoto Protocol ( MOP ), and parties to the Convention that are not parties to the Protocol can participate in Protocol-related meetings as observers.

More significantly, this change in television contracts ultimately would lead to significant realignment of college conferences, with the biggest change being the dissolution of the Big Eight and the Southwest Conferences and the formation of the Big 12.

" As for the actual sign of peace to be given, the manner is to be established by Conferences of Bishops in accordance with the culture and customs of the peoples.

Because Pugwash affiliated itself with the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the Council ruled such a connection would be " political ".

The resolutions of the Lambeth Conferences have never been regarded as synodical decrees, but their weight has increased with each conference.

The Liaison Conferences were intended to assist in integrating the decisions and needs of the two military sections of Imperial General Headquarters with the resources and policies of the rest of the government.

Throughout the 1980s, a series of National UCR Conferences were with members from the IACP, Department of Justice, including the FBI, and newly formed Bureau of Justice Statistics ( BJS ).

Dissatisfaction among some Methodists with regard to the increasingly exclusive power of clergy, particularly bishops, and the exclusion of laymen from the councils of the Church, including the Annual ( regional ) and General ( national ) Conferences.

Consequently, the reunification process was broadened to include all three major " streams " of American Methodism, and resulted in a Uniting Convention being convened in 1939 with representatives of the General and Annual Conferences of the three separate bodies as delegates.

The only larger D-III conferences are two single-sport groups — the cross-country league operated by the Middle Atlantic Conferences, with 17 members ( for both men and women ), and the New England Football Conference ( NEFC ), with 16.

In conjunction with the Pugwash Conferences, he received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995 for their efforts towards nuclear disarmament.

In parallel with the Pugwash Conferences, Rotblat also joined with Einstein, Oppenheimer, Russell and other concerned scientists to found the World Academy of Art and Science which was proposed by them in the mid-1950s and formally constituted in 1960.

Building on the biennial Wilderness Conferences which the Club launched in 1949 together with The Wilderness Society, Brower helped the Club win passage of the Wilderness Act in 1964.

and saw them as a nucleus of an international federation that was to meet at regular intervals to administer justice and develop international law procedures for the peaceful settlement of disputes, asserting " that a definite political union of the states of the world has been created with the First and Second Conferences.

The latter two, together with the Washington Naval Conference in 1921-22 and the Geneva Conferences ( 1927 and 1932 ), resulted in agreements between the major powers on navy vessel numbers, armaments and the rules of engagement in the inter-war period.

# Regional Conferences held in the East Coast, Midwest and West Coast provide students with annual conventions promoting education, activism, leadership, culture, performance and friendship.

Conferences are generally held in either the White House or Colquhoun International Centre ( CIC ), both of which are equipped with modern information systems and audio-visual aids.

Daniel arap Moi the former President of Kenya who ruled for 24 years was KADU's chairman and attended the Lancaster House Conferences with Ronald Ngala.