Groups connected with religious organizations or clubs can rope in large groups of investors.
BRADY-MYEROV: Garvey points out courts have exempted religious organizations from the Civil Rights Act in other matters.
The office is the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, so we're not just focused on religious organizations.
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Yet, more than 900 million people use Facebook including many politicians, thousands of non-profit groups, celebrities and even religious organizations.
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They range from Bible-based programs run by conservative religious organizations to coed, inclusive groups, including one founded on the basis of pagan beliefs.
The letter was signed by Nina Shea of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and leaders of seven other U.S. religious organizations.
Although religious organizations receive an estimated 35% of all charitable dollars, only 1% of gifts reported on the Million Dollar List are directed toward religious organizations.
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Conservative groups and some religious organizations have argued against making any change, saying it would dilute the Boy Scout message of morality and potentially destroy the organization.
And when that right is secured, same-sex couples should not, without very good reason, be allowed to force dissenting religious organizations to recognize or facilitate their marriages.
Before I brought the idea to our church council, I wanted assurance from Oak Lawn Baseball and Softball that, one, there was no ban on religious organizations providing sponsorship.
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Many people are uneasy about a party with ties to religious organizations - in this case, Komeito is linked to the controversial Buddhist Soka Gakkai - being in government.
DiIulio said the effort would build on existing law -- a portion of the 1996 welfare reform bill -- that allows religious organizations to participate in federal anti-poverty programs.
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"We're talking here about not government giving religious organizations money, we're talking really about leveling the playing field and making it possible for these organizations to compete fairly, " DiIulio said.
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"The quality of architecture is invariably high in the religion category, which I think is because communities and religious organizations are often commissioning these projects, " opines Paul Finch, World Architecture Festival program director.
The bill was backed by several religious organizations, including the American Jewish Committee, the U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops, the National Association of Evangelicals and the Jewish Federations of North America.
We ought to have religious organizations doing it.
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On tables inside a big tent, the staples of earthly salvation: baby food, carrots, peanut butter, orange juice, shoes and diapers, all of it free, all of it donated from religious organizations around the country.
But the more interesting criticism comes from some religious organizations themselves, which are worried that they will lose their sense of mission once they have to compete for federal dollars and abide by federal regulations.
As drafted, the bill would enable religious organizations to choose to conduct same-sex marriages if they wish -- but includes provisions intended to make sure no religious organization or person is forced to do so.
The case, viewed as a barometer on the degree to which religious organizations can regulate employees' lives, is the second lawsuit filed in the last two years against the archdiocese over the firing of an unmarried pregnant teacher.
Jon O'Brien, president of Catholics for Choice, an advocacy group that supports birth control, said he is skeptical that relying on insurance companies to implement a "work-around" for employees of religious organizations will prove to be an effective solution.
"Nonprofit religious organizations like universities, hospitals or charities with religious objections won't have to arrange, contract, pay or refer for coverage of these services for their employees or students, " said Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, an official at the Department of Health and Human Services.
After the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995, Congress overruled FEMA's refusal to provide aid to damaged churches, they said, and after an earthquake in Seattle in 2002, the Justice Department stepped in and directed FEMA to assist religious organizations damaged by the quake.
Without more explicit (and testable) details, it is always possible that these benefits would be generated anyway in society, perhaps by religious organizations or the mass media, or that they could be delivered more economically by less fashionable methods, such as reinstituting the draft or spending more money on the police.
The city's religious and community organizations reflect the richness and diversity of all five boroughs.
His research reveals they are significantly more likely to participate in community service initiatives, join civic, religious or business organizations and be politically involved.
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Its work led to the first Global Interfaith Network on Population and Development, launched in 2008, with the participation of more than 160 faith-based organizations and religious leaders.
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In the last several years, church leaders have been trying to shore up the religious identity and mission of organizations that call themselves Catholic, including trying to bar groups from saying they have ties with the church if bishops believe the organizations stray from church teaching.
"The policy change under discussion would allow the religious, civic, or educational organizations that oversee and deliver Scouting to determine how to address the issue, " he said.
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