At the moment, religious education is largely determined by local authorities, and parents have the right to withdraw their offspring from religious-education classes.
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In some countries that means a more religious education (see article).
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Any mention of theological narratives must be confined to religious-education classes.
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There were no weddings or baptisms scheduled, and no religious education classes.
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Religious education serves a purpose, inculcating religious values and preserving religious traditions.
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Religious education is a great protection for a woman, especially a poor woman.
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Certainly, parents are constitutionally entitled to choose a religious education for their children.
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Though he had no formal religious education, he taught himself to read Arabic.
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"I'm shocked at our religious education," she tells a group at the Women's Ministry.
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A religious education is no longer the rarity it once was for non-Christians.
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Sometimes it is as if he were leading a one-man religious-education exercise.
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He taught language and social studies, she said, and was not involved in religious education.
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The case asks whether states may subsidize secular private education without also subsidizing religious education.
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In a largely preliterate age, Notre Dame's sculptures and paintings were sources of religious education.
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RSS members undergo a combination of religious education and military-style drills and self-defense exercises.
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His government increased the budget for religious education this year by 22017 percent, to $220 billion.
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With more religious education, it's perhaps not surprising that Israel's best demographers foresee an increasingly religious Israel.
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With only slight exaggeration, that odd bundle of statements describes the state of religious education in England.
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Instead Mr. Bianco took positions open to laypeople: director of religious education, Catholic school teacher, parish administrator.
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Mr. Naqibullah said the woman's three sons had gone away from the village for basic religious education.
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Still, supporters say they want to see Mr. Erdogan's push for religious education expanded to meet demand.
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Religious education lessons account for around a quarter to a third of the curriculum in Imam Hatip schools.
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What they do, often, is redirect public funds to religious education, including the teaching creationism as science classes.
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"Religious education was a fundamental concern of the reformation," she said, stressing the importance of education for everyone.
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The results: Six months later, those who received the religious education indeed reported feeling more guided by religion.
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Her mother, a stay-at-home parent, is also a local volunteer at St. Augustine's religious education program.
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Contrast this with the conservative arguments in this term's gun rights, religious education, L.G.B.T. rights and immigration cases.
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DeVos is stupendously rich, and a longtime crusader for charters, vouchers and using federal funds for religious education.
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He wants to enact a $20 billion school voucher program that would use taxpayer dollars to fund religious education.
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Kiryas Joel already has its own school district, where boys and girls receive a religious education in separate classrooms.
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His mother retired as the director of religious education at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church in Hanson, Mass.
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Simmons-Harris, states are free to offer parents the choice of using vouchers to help pay for religious education.
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They argued that it was time to erase "antiquated" anti-Catholic laws against public funding for private religious education.
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It must give way to voices of moderation and inclusion that can take the lead in reforming religious education.
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It wasn't weird—there was an hour of religious education each day, but aside from that, it was really fun.
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Recently, the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza published research indicating that most Polish students wanted religious education removed from public school curriculums.
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Religious education is shallow in Tunisia, so there's little theological substance to keep a young person from going to extremes.
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Turkey has also increased religious education teaching at regular state schools, some of which have been converted into Imam Hatip schools.
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"Until independence, there was just religious education and only afterwards were other subjects widely studied by Moroccans," says filmmaker Merieme Addou.
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Child welfare providers can also require children under their care to receive a religious education, including putting them in religious schools.
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In February, new legislation increased oversight of religious education and practice, with harsher punishment for practices not sanctioned by the authorities.
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That's just going to naturally involve — at least in the great swath of flyover America — that's going to involve religious education.
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Most controversial has been Mr. Erdogan's push to expand religious education, in ways that thrill his supporters and alarm his critics.
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In some parts of Germany and the Netherlands Turkey's Diyanet was even asked to provide religious education for Muslims in state schools.
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They have expanded religious education and allowed the head scarf, once banned from state offices, to be worn in colleges and parliament.
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Religious education in the Netherlands is shaped by an old compromise between Protestants and Catholics, entitling small groups to found confessional schools.
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Mary Grace Williams, who was the director of religious education at St. Joseph's then and shared a small office with Mr. Kroening.
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She had been in Mass nearly every Sunday for a decade, and she brought her daughters, now teenagers, to religious education classes.
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And it sounds as if they're trying to balance her religious education with age-appropriate lessons that different people hold different beliefs.
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The party's manifesto says that "Islam is a political ideology," and therefore any Islamic religious education should be banned from Bavarian schools.
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Since England has no syllabus for religious education, provision often depends on the whims of head teachers, says Linda Woodhead of Lancaster University.
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So far the government has failed to listen to recommendations from the Religious Education Council and others on what needs to be done.
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He was adult religious education director of a parish in Redwood City, near Palo Alto, but, distressed by its conservative bent, joined Ramparts.
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The first volume encompasses his childhood in rural Alabama, his religious education and his involvement with the sit-ins protesting Nashville's segregated businesses.
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Steve Russell of Oklahoma to exempt "any religious corporation, religious association, religious education institution or religious society" with a federal contract from Obama's directive.
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When public dollars support private religious education, taxpayers may be funding the teaching of creationism and science curriculums that reject the climate change consensus.
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While eschewing radical Islamist movements and publicly reaffirming secularism, he's given a stronger role to religious education and ramped up his own Islamic rhetoric.
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The victims were repeatedly abused by Angelo Serrano, 67, who taught catechism classes and helped organize the religious education programs at St. Lucy's-St.
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After Ms. Stockton was emancipated, the report said, Mr. Green encouraged her religious education and missionary work in what is now known as Hawaii.
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Religious education in Tunisia is mandatory but rote and shallow, so there's little theological substance to keep a young person from going to extremes.
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Saudi religious education is still based on the Wahhabi heritage and judges follow the Hanbali jurisprudence, the foundation of Wahhabi literal interpretations of Islam.
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Recently, the director of the religious-education arm of my organization (not the director of the school) asked Gina to make signs for the school.
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Opponents see in his promotion of religious education, tighter laws on alcohol, and strictures on daily life an attempt to undermine the country's secular foundations.
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Even with a concerted emphasis on family formation and religious education, there is evidence that an increasing number of Mormons are still leaving the church.
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"He would translate orally from the text in front of him, and I would type," said his younger brother Waseel Pairoz, who also pursued religious education.
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With the onset of the Cold War, Turkey's ruling, ostensibly secular elite opted for Islamization to check leftist politics, and religious education was reintroduced in 1946.
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Years ago, Cruz told me, these schools were set up with the purpose of offering a religious education at little or no cost to the students' parents.
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Critics of Islamic religious education in the schools, including many Muslims themselves, say that there is no group in the country that can speak for all Muslims.
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Simply by pruning back past precedents, the new Roberts Court can remake the law in areas like reproductive rights, public funding of religious education and police searches.
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His junta made religious education mandatory, opened new religious schools and continued to populate the state bureaucracy with members of religious fraternities, who were reliable anti-socialists.
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Montana Department of Revenue, argued at the Supreme Court last week, voucher proponents once again asked the court to clear the way for tax support of religious education.
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The report's authors also referred to verified reports that 800 to 900 children in Mosul had been abducted by the terror group for religious education and military training.
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"The service was beautiful, especially the choir and the music," she told religious education teacher David Swindells and Liam Maloney of St. Cuthbert's Catholic High School in Newcastle.
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Around one million students have been enrolled in imam-hatip schools — vocational schools designed to train imams and provide a thoroughly religious education — up from 63,000 in 2002.
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In addition to recording the experience of poverty and emotional abandonment, the book captures how a certain kind of religious education combined with neglect can deform young people.
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Soon after, however, the Montana Department of Revenue excluded religiously affiliated schools from the program, citing the fact that the state Constitution bars state funds for religious education.
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Indonesia's minister for religious affairs met with the Brunei ambassador just days after the news of Brunei's law broke, but publicly only mentioned halal certification and religious education.
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For many advocates of religious education, meanwhile, state vouchers are seen as a solution to a whole host of problems — and, yes, as a way to promote religiosity.
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"In my opinion we should not allow an association like DITIB, which evidently the mouthpiece of President (Tayyip) Erdogan is, to shape Islamic Religious Education in schools," he added.
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Irish law guarantees freedom of religious education but allows schools to admit students of a particular religious denomination "in preference to others" to protect the ethos of the school.
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Fiona Moss of the National Association of Teachers of Religious Education believes it would be better if the study of RE remained a legal requirement, only better enforced by Ofsted.
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Legislation on religious affairs that came into effect in February has raised official oversight of religious education and practice, and introduced harsher punishments for practices not sanctioned by the authorities.
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But not the Quranic teacher; I was spared that third lesson because my father had been a Marxist as a young man and retained an abiding suspicion of religious education.
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If he prevails, the ruling will be a victory for supporters of public funding for religious education and a bitter loss for those who say it will undermine public education.
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Hosffman Ospino, a Colombian who is professor of pastoral theology and religious education at Boston College's School of Theology and Ministry, said the country was ready to begin a new phase.
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Basori, who runs nine pesantrens in Garut, said Widodo has visited regularly, channeled funding, and introduced much-needed vocational training programs to complement religious education and allow graduates to find jobs.
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Tasked with subjugating unruly slaves through religious education, Turner begins to use his position to organize a revolt after witnessing the brutal treatment of his parishioners at the hands of their masters.
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Ofsted, the schools inspectorate, has also drawn attention to the phenomenon of illegal, unregistered schools, which offer dogmatic religious education to children whose parents falsely claim to be teaching them at home.
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Others worry that school choice is a way for the government to subsidize religious education (which is a no-no) since vouchers and other funding can sometimes be used towards religious schools.
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Only a fraction of the land, Islam said, would be needed for the mosque -- the rest had the potential to be developed into a park, housing and a school for religious education.
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She graduated magna cum laude from Skidmore and received a master's degree in religious education and a master's in Jewish nonprofit management from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem.
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She had been in good health, they said, and taught religious education classes at the Roman Catholic church where many members of the large extended family worshiped, St. Robert Bellarmine in Freehold.
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In 1963, Mr. Meachum graduated with a bachelor's degree in religious education from Piedmont Bible College (now Piedmont International University) in Winston-Salem, N.C., where he worked at night as a janitor.
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Wenzhou, sometimes known as "China's Jerusalem" due to its sizable Christian community, is at the forefront of a growing standoff between China's leadership and the country's devout over religious education for children.
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But even if the worst-case plan is for you to take custody (and oversee the religious education) of the baby, is it so hard to envision Sunday school at the Episcopal Church?
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The former director of religious education at the church, Angelo Serrano, 67, is currently serving a 85033-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to first-degree sexual conduct charges, according to the Times.
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The Indian state and its business allies have become increasingly enmeshed in Hindu religious education and promotion, funding ashrams, gurukuls (where students apprentice themselves to a guru and study Sanskrit) and priest education.
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Also in September, new rules were released expanding state oversight of religious education nationwide in what officials say is an attempt to create a new generation of religious leaders loyal to the party.
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The AfD has said its posters are not calling for Muslim students to be barred from schools, but for the scrapping of Islamic religious education for Muslim students, and the wearing of headscarves.
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Awareness of that danger underlies a report published this week by two influential figures in the field of religious education in England: Charles Clarke, a former education secretary, and Linda Woodhead, a sociology professor.
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His mother teaches religious education at St. Bernard Church in Mount Lebanon, Pa. His father is a partner in Pepper Hamilton, a law firm in Philadelphia; he is in charge of the Pittsburgh office.
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Kavanaugh noted that many state laws barring government funds for religious education stem from an early trend dating back to the 1800s directed against Catholics during a period of widespread hostility to Catholic schools.
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The government has cracked down on underground churches, both Protestant and Catholic, and has rolled out legislation to increase oversight of religious education and practices, with harsher punishment for practices not sanctioned by authorities.
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In the intervening decades, Blaine Amendments in Missouri and other states have seen various modifications, allowing some public funds to ultimately flow toward religious education, especially for special needs students and for religious universities.
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Ma Ba Tha runs religious education classes, provides disaster relief, legal aid and "engages in a wide range of good causes at the community level," says the report he authored for the International Crisis Group.
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Erica Faith Hagan, 22, from Murray, Kentucky, was working as a teaching assistant in English and religious education at the Colegio Bautista school in the city of Temuco, 400 miles south of the capital Santiago.
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She graduated from Trinity College in Hartford and received two master's degrees, one in religious education and the other in sacred music from Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, where she was also ordained.
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The government has cracked down on underground churches, both Protestant and Catholic, and has rolled out new legislation to increase oversight of religious education and practices, with harsher punishment for practices not sanctioned by authorities.
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Such a decision could lead to the unprecedented outcome of requiring state funding for religious education or other activities, said Rachel Laser, president of the advocacy group Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
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Whereas Christian families could get a free religious education at one of the church-run schools that have long been a part of state education in England, followers of other faiths usually had to go private.
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While the rebuke to Kavanaugh — who has highlighted his Catholic faith and religious education as an example of his integrity — is a striking one, it's important not to over-estimate the significance of the NCC's statement.
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Several natkadaws think that some, perhaps all, of the individuals perpetrating these crimes are "false monks"—either recent initiates with little religious education or thieves donning maroon robes in order to steal nats' offerings more easily.
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The kingdom is working with its neighbors to counter violent extremism at the political, religious, economic, and military levels by bolstering democracy, human rights, and diplomacy while combating radicalism by transforming religious education to promote moderation.
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She received a bachelor's degree in education in 1940 from Teachers College of Connecticut (now Central Connecticut State University), followed by a master's degree in religious education from Drew Theological Seminary in New Jersey in 1942.
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But for many Christians allowing the party to control religious education is unacceptable, as it requires putting the party before God, according to Sarah Cook, a New York-based analyst at Freedom House, an advocacy group.
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It is therefore both a moral outrage and an economic mistake that so much of the current movement in favor of school choice and religious education carries the stain of racial animosity, even in dog-whistle form.
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Both speakers at the event organised this week by Ekklesia, a religious think-tank, saw an urgent need for more and better religious education; they are, after all, distinguished religious educators so that too might be expected.
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In the crackdown, the government has banned religious education for young people in mosques, ordered that the call to prayer over loudspeakers be silenced, and sought to stamp out what it sees as Arab elements in mosques.
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"Matt had a staunch and strictly religious education in animation, and Paul a free-flowing reefer huffing one in illustration, but we work in both fields, merging our respective talents together, like a talent fondu," reads their website.
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According to Pew's Religious Landscape survey, 21968 percent of black Americans and 39 percent of Latinos say they participate in Scripture study or religious education groups at least once a month, compared with 30 percent of white Americans.
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She won a court case in June after a year-long battle with education authorities to exempt her 10-year-old son from religious education, arguing that it was contrary to human rights to force it on children.
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The "students" are mostly aged between 60 and 80 years old, and are offered 14 courses on a range of subjects—from philosophy and religious education to handicrafts and yoga—which are taught at the Strohalm community center.
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But there must also be a better effort to promote traditional Islam, encourage ordinary Muslims and educate the young in less radical interpretations — even in a country that does not provide religious education in state schools, like France.
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This relationship is called consumption philanthropy, in which people give to a religious organization or a school from which they will derive a benefit in the form of, say, a better religious education program or a new gymnasium.
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Montana's Constitution prohibits spending public money for religious education, and rather than vet the nature of each school at which a voucher might be used, the state court shut the program down for religious and nonreligious schools alike.
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Prosecutors cast Mahanna as an Al Qaeda media operative who tried but failed to receive training during a 2004 Yemen trip; defense attorneys disputed this portrayal and said he traveled there in hopes of obtaining a religious education.
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According to a government notification circulating on Weibo, China's popular microblogging site, the three mosques were targeted because local authorities considered them illegal religious sites that had organized illegal religious education in violation of China's Regulation on Religious Affairs.
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She and her family — one of the wealthiest families in Michigan — have donated millions of dollars to organizations that seek to expand religious education and push for taxpayer-funded vouchers for private schools, hurting public schools in the process.
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In recent months Hui communities from Ningxia and Gansu in the north-west to Yunnan in the south have seen private Arab-language schools closed, mosques raided for providing "illegal religious education" and Islamic-style domes removed from buildings.
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They are the students, known as talibe, of Koranic schools that human rights groups say are often a money-making scheme disguised as religious education yet founded on the exploitation and trafficking of children from several West African nations.
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Another policy agreement would ease state oversight of yeshivas, despite concerns among education advocates that the schools for ultra-Orthodox Jews, which offer both secular and religious education, leave their students with poor to nonexistent English and math skills.
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On the other side, Democratic state governments, school boards and teachers' unions argue that a ruling in favor of a disbanded voucher program in Montana could open the floodgates for publicly funded religious education while draining traditional public schools.
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LAST year in one large London school, all 24 pupils taking their GCSE exams—standard tests sat at age 2000—were entered for a qualification in religious education (RE), and emerged with results as good as in the other humanities.
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If it is unconstitutional to exclude religious schools from a program subsidizing secular private education, then it is hard to come up with a reason the same governments that subsidize secular public education aren't also required to fund religious education.
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Even if vouchers turned out to be viable (which would not be an easy thing in states that prohibit the channeling of public money toward religious education), could the system rebound quickly enough to accommodate the need that might arise?
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Mr. L'Heureux's autobiographical memoir, "Picnic in Babylon: A Jesuit Priest's Journal, 1963-67" (1967), chronicled his religious education, much of which coincided with the Second Vatican Council, a revolutionary period for the church during which it modernized many of its practices.
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And indeed, that's how the Communist Party defends the policy: It claims that Uighur simply have to follow the same rules that apply to everyone, such as requiring Communist Party members to be atheists and forbidding the religious education of minors.
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As part of the campaign, the government has banned religious education for young people in mosques, ordered that the call to prayer over loudspeakers be silenced in some places, and sought to stamp out what it sees as Arab elements in mosques.
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The problem of which partners to choose for co-operation (and how to avoid killing them with kindness) is especially acute in Belgium, which has a tradition, reflecting its Catholic heritage, of offering generous state help to religious institutions—above all, religious education.
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He's received little formal historical training and his sole credentialed degree is a bachelor's in religious education from evangelical Oral Roberts University, although he later claimed to have earned a doctorate from officially unaccredited Life Christian University on the basis of his published works.
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Whereas those on the right see parental choice as a good in itself—and as a way to expand religious education—progressives favour charter schools as a path to opportunity for poor black and Hispanic children whom urban school systems have failed for decades.
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The legacy of Soviet atheism, the lack of religious education and the threat of increased online recruitment that will accompany the government's loosening of restrictions on the internet present the government an opportunity to make its own religions tradition, free of any Middle Eastern entanglements.
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With little effort, anyone can go to the Internet and discover that Jacobs is not a rabbi but an evangelical Christian whose main religious education was obtained at the Moody Bible Institute, a Christian school that trains people to spread the faith around the world.
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WASHINGTON — A potentially landmark education case before the Supreme Court on Wednesday has pulled in heavy hitters on both sides of the school choice debate who are trying to shape a ruling that could end decades of wrangling over school vouchers and religious education.
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Her father, Melvin Kay Johnson, a church employee who worked for the religious education arm of the faith, was relocated to different cities by the church after each report, but police were not contacted, she alleges in a civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in federal court in Utah.
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Reviving Imam Hatip, or Imam and Preacher, schools is part of Erdogan's drive to put religion at the heart of national life after decades of secular dominance, and his old school is just one beneficiary of a government program to pump billions of dollars into religious education.
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The secretary's prior efforts notwithstanding, vouchers have not been taken up by large shares of the public, where they have been tried the results have been mixed at best and the American public and the high court remain uncomfortable with use of public funds to support religious education.
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Angelo Serrano entered into an agreement and pleaded guilty to sexually abusing the four young boys between 2003 and 2009 when he was teaching catechism and serving as director of religious education at St. Lucy - St. Patrick Catholic Church in the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn, court documents said.
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People who follow Uzbekistan closely say that, based on what is known so far of Saipov, he appears to be one of "a forgotten generation" of Uzbek men who left the former Soviet republic for a better life bereft of a proper religious education and unequipped to navigate the West.
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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., looking none the worse for wear after a late night presiding over the impeachment trial of President Trump, seemed to be searching for a limiting principle, one that would allow the scholarships but stop short of requiring state support for religious education in other contexts.
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But party affiliation often bows to parochial concerns here: Mr. Felder's constituents, many of whom send their children to yeshivas, want the state to provide tuition assistance for religious schools, among other faith-driven issues, and Senate Republicans have been far more receptive to taking measures that would benefit religious education than the Democrats.
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