Therefore, the Church supports and extends its ministry to those persons who conscientiously oppose all war, or any particular war, and who therefore refuse to serve in the armed forces or to cooperate with systems of military conscription.

However, the United Methodist Church also supports and extends its ministry to those persons who conscientiously choose to serve in the armed forces or to accept alternative service.

The general troop inspectorate is a separate section of the ministry with responsibility for coordination and fulfillment of the missions of the armed forces.

In India, the Indian Coast Guard is armed forces of union, under ministry of defence and, in contrast with some coast guard units, resembles a naval coastal defence force.

At a moment when Britain was engaged in a life-and-death struggle with France, it was impossible for the ministry to ignore the danger, recently emphasized by the fact that the independent constitution of 1782 offered no safeguard against armed revolt.

The complex is guarded by officials of the ministry as well as armed guards of the Turkish military.

By constitutional convention, the Crown's prerogative powers over the armed forces and constitutional powers as Commander-in-Chief are exercised by the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the governing ministry that commands the confidence of the House of Commons.

On July 7, 2003, the foreign ministry spokesman said that Iran had completed a final test of the Shahab 3 " a few weeks ago " that was " the final test before delivering the missile to the armed forces ," according to a New York Times report.

The Hungarian Minister of the Interior, Miklós Kozma, had been born in Ruthenia, and in mid-1938 his ministry armed the Rongyos Garda (' Ragged Guard '), which began to infiltrate guerillas into southern Slovakia and Ruthenia ( ethnic Rusyn territory ).

Following her retirement from the Mozambique ministry, Machel was appointed as the expert in charge of producing the groundbreaking United Nations report on the impact of armed conflict on children.

The ministry is headed by the Minister of National Defence, who reports to the President of Guatemala, the commander in chief of the armed forces.

The main forces involved during that period in Kabul, northern, central and eastern Afghanistan were the Hezb-i Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar directed by Pakistan, the Hezb-i Wahdat of Abdul Ali Mazari directed by Iran, the Ittehad-i Islami of Abdul Rasul Sayyaf supported by Saudi Arabia, the Junbish-i Milli of Abdul Rashid Dostum backed by Uzbekisten, the Harakat-i Islami of Hussain Anwari and the Shura-i Nazar operating as the regular Islamic State forces ( as agreed upon in the Peshawar Accords ) under the defense ministry of Ahmad Shah Massoud.

The defence ministry is responsible for combat forces, search and rescue, and intelligence operations.

In August 1938, Stalin brought Beria to Moscow as deputy head of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs ( NKVD ), the ministry which oversaw the state security and police forces.

Now, Walpole and Townshend were clearly the supreme forces in the ministry.

A more commonly accepted version of events is that he supplied French planes to the Republican forces from his position in the aviation ministry.

The ministry of defence forces numbered 132, 000, the ministry of interior 70, 000 and the ministry of state security ( KHAD ) 80, 000.

On the heels of the Great Balkan Crisis, Austro-Hungarian forces occupied Bosnia and Herzegovina in August 1878 and the empire eventually annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina in October 1908 as a common holding under the control of the finance ministry, rather than attaching it to either territorial government.

The only ministry which was protected by the occupying forces was the oil ministry.

Consequently, while the bolt action Berthier rifle was first issued in 1907 as a stop-gap to arm colonial troops, the French defense ministry was planning to leapfrog other military forces with an advanced semi-automatic infantry rifle.

Several leading Peelites ( including Gladstone, Herbert, Cardwell, and Newcastle, but notably not Graham, who was one of the driving forces behind the coalition ) accepted cabinet posts in this ministry, though some Peelites became independents or returned to the Conservatives.

Christian joined forces with Jay Haizlip, Brian Sumner, and others to create The Uprising, a skate based ministry.

In response to a sharp escalation in attacks by insurgents since the summer of 2007, Moscow sent in an additional 2, 500 interior ministry troops, more than tripling the number of special forces in Ingushetia in July.

It is said that new ministry employees are subtly reminded that the Ōkura-shō predates by some 1269 years the Nihon Koku Kempo ( New Constitution ) imposed on the nation by the U. S. occupation forces in 1947.

While the ministry of the Interior supervises police forces, it does not supervise criminal enquiries ; criminal enquiries are conducted under the supervision of the judiciary.

According to the Buddha every Buddha in the past and to come will have two chief disciples and one attendant during his ministry.

Most Protestants deny the need for this type of continuity and the historical claims involved have been severely questioned ; Eric Jay comments that the account given of the emergence of the episcopate in chapter III of Lumen Gentium " is very sketchy, and many ambiguities in the early history of the Christian ministry are passed over " Their reasons are given in detail below.

However, churches that claim apostolic succession in ministry distinguish this from doctrinal orthodoxy, holding that " it is possible to have valid orders coming down from the apostles, and yet not to have a continuous spiritual history coming down from the apostles ".

From these considerations of Scripture comes the simplest way to imitate Christ: an emulation of the moral actions and attitudes that Jesus demonstrated in His earthly ministry becomes the most significant way to feel and have knowledge of God.

After 2000, the Afghan ministry of agriculture and livestock and USAID have been helping to regrow the number of livestocks throughout the country.

" In some sense, Paul would have the teaching and admonishing ministry continue by members of the church in Colossae, one method of members admonishing each other is through the rich hymnody and musical heritage of the Christian church.

Ephrem, in his late fifties, applied himself to ministry in his new church, and seems to have continued his work as a teacher, perhaps in the School of Edessa.

Other passages, however, conflict with the teachings of the Qur ' an — as, for instance, in the account of the Nativity, where Mary is said to have given birth to Jesus without pain or as in Jesus's ministry, where he permits the drinking of wine and enjoins monogamy — though the Qur ' an acknowledges each prophet had a set of their own laws that might differ in some aspects from each other.

Uzziah reigned fifty-two years in the middle of the 8th century BC, and Isaiah must have begun his ministry a few years before Uzziah's death, probably in the 740s BC.

Köstenberger ( and separately Van Voorst ) state that the Josephus ' reference to the large number of followers of Jesus during his public ministry is unlikely to have been due to a Christian scribe familiar with the New Testamant accounts, and is hence unlikely to be an interpolation.

For example, proverbs have been used for teaching foreign languages at various levels., In addition, proverbs have been used for public health promotion, such as promoting breast feeding with a shawl bearing a Swahili proverb “ Mother ’ s milk is sweet ”, also for helping people manage diabetes, for to combat prostitution, and for community development The most active field deliberately using proverbs is Christian ministry, where Joseph G. Healey and others have deliberately worked to catalyze the collection of proverbs from smaller languages and the application of them in a wide variety of church-related ministries, resulting in publications of collections and applications ,.

Some assistant priests have a " sector ministry ", that is to say that they specialize in a certain area of ministry within the local church, for example youth work, hospital work, or ministry to local light industry.

Seminaries and bible colleges have continued this alliance between the academic study of theology and training for Christian ministry.

A key outgrowth of this theology is the United Methodist dedication not only to the Evangelical Gospel of repentance and a personal relationship with God, but also to the Social Gospel and a commitment to social justice issues that have included abolition, women's suffrage, labor rights, civil rights, and ministry with the poor.

Show us which of these two you have chosen to take over this apostolic ministry, which Judas left to go where he belongs.

Historians have long pointed out that, in 1829 – 31, it was the Ultra-Tories or " Country Party " which pressed most strongly for Reform, regarding it as a means of weakening Wellington's ministry, which had disappointed them by granting Catholic emancipation and by its economic policies.

The excavated remains of Bethabara, in modern-day Jordan, where John the Baptist is believed to have conducted his ministry.

Clement calls for repentance and reinstatement of those who have been deposed, in line with maintenance of order and obedience to church authority, since the apostles established the ministry of " bishops and deacons ".

Since the 1960s some Anglican churches have reinstituted the diaconate as a permanent, rather than transitional, order of ministry focused on ministry that bridges the church and the world, especially ministry to those on the margins of society.