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church Noun

— A church is a building where Christians gather and pray to God. The church across the street has a service at 10 am. Christian churches and Buddhist temples exist alongside each other. Though she prayed and attended church, as she got older she often wondered why God didn't do anything. — A church is a particular kind of religious belief or power. They asked for the help of the Catholic Church. At the time I moved from the Baptist Church to the Pentecostal Church I was about sixteen years old. Jesus Christ established a church in which men and women were equal. This country was founded on the idea of separation of church and state. People tend to leave because they don't accept certain church teachings. — A Christian religious organization, local or general. The Church (referring to the dominant religious organization of a particular time or place). — Church is a time when Christians go to a church. I'll be there after church.

Church Proper Noun

— (used with "the") A specific church denomination such as the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church is just around the corner. — A surname. Mr.Church donated the painting.

church

— noun one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship — noun a place for public (especially Christian) worship the church was empty — noun a service conducted in a house of worship don't be late for church — noun the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church our church is hosting a picnic next week — verb perform a special church rite or service for church a woman after childbirth

Synonyms church synonyms

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church English » English

temple house of worship chapel mosque church-building place of worship synagogue cathedral kirk sanctuary tabernacle sinagogue shrine parish house of prayer ecclesiastical denomination congregation church service church building minster meetinghouse house of God gathering place ecclesiastic divine service Christian church watch night verger subsect service sect school reliquary religious organization religious organisation religion recess prayer book pantheon officer office monastery mission liturgical hall flock churchy chapel service bethel

Church English » English

church Roman Catholic Church Catholic Church

Topics church topics

What do people use church to talk about?

Social behavior Religion Religious organization

Christianity

Social behavior Religion

Religious organization

What words refer to a group of believers in a particular place?

church congregation diocese parish

Social behavior Religion Religious things

Examples church examples

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Simple sentences

Whoever goes to church believes in God.

There used to be a church here.

There is a church near my house.

The Catholic Church doesn't condone the use of condoms.

That's a church.

We heard the church bells.

I go to the church on Sundays.

I love the sound of church bells.

Did you go to church today?

Defend the Church.

We always go to church on Christmas Eve.

The church is surrounded by woods and lakes.

The newlyweds are leaving the church.

Tonight we're going to church.

Even people who don't believe in the Catholic church venerate the Pope as a symbolic leader.

The recent scandals involving altar boys and religious leaders have undermined the faith people have in the Church.

We could hear the donnnng. donnnng of the church bells nearby.

The church bells are ringing.

The church is on the hill overlooking the city.

The church sits on the outskirts of town.

The church is decorated with flowers for the wedding.

The church bell used to ring at three.

All the church bells started ringing together.

The church clock gains three minutes a week.

There is usually an organ in a church.

The church is at the foot of the hill.

The church stood alone on the hill.

The church is just across the street.

The clock in the church tower struck nine.

Go straight ahead until you reach the church.

That church on the hill is very old.

Movie subtitles

A church that even now sends missionaries out all over the world!

We are the army of the Church of Jesus Christ.of Latter-Day Saints!

We are the soldiers of the army of the Church.of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!

We are the army of the Church of Jesus Christ!

Uh, we're from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Um, heh, um, um, look, maybe, maybe sometime Elder Cunningham and I could, could talk to you, maybe tell you a little bit about the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints?

Nice to meet you. And my name is Elder Church, originally from the great city of Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Today we're gonna bring lots of Africans to the church.

Oh, nowhere much, just with ten eager Africans who are now interested in the Church!

And I believe that the current President of the Church, Thomas Monson, speaks directly to God!

We let anybody who wants to join up, so long as they're willing to commit to the Church.

Do you know how to baptize someone into the Church?

I swear to dedicate my life to the Church.

Germaine, do you take Gustave to be your husband, to be faithful unto him and be part of the Church?

Gustave, do you take Germaine to be your wife, to be faithful unto her and be part of the Church?

Jeanne will want a church wedding. What will your family say?

We think she's being held at Halifax Agro-Chem in Falls Church.

At the Sabbath witches and sorcerers first desecrate the Church's holy cross.

Many women, for instance, confess that - transformed into cats - they soiled the altar during the night, while two devils in the shape of animals stood guard at the church door.

In the Middle Ages you were in conflict with the church.

We no longer sit in church staring terrified at the frescoes of the devils.

Since you are sure of your salvation. you have no need of the Church?

The Church opens its arms to you. but if you reject it, the Church will abandon you. and you will be alone. alone!

The Church is merciful.

Neither priests nor church servants beyond the grave.

Without priests or church servants.

And if it's the people across the street from that church, just tell them I don't believe and will never believe.

And weren't you concerned when she didn't return from church?

I don't know her name, - but I'd seen her before in the church.

She's being held at Halifax Agro-Chem in Falls Church.

In the Middle Ages you were in conflict with the church. Now it is with the law.

She went in the church.

The church at La Alberca.

I was walking down Church Street by those salesroom buildings.

King Westley's in it, waiting at the church. with tears streaming down his face.

Dad, Mother's planning on a big church wedding.

We've been to church and the sermon lasted 45 minutes.

News and current affairs

After all, opinion polls reveal that the Army and Orthodox Church - two hierarchical and traditional organizations - are, by far, the most trusted Romanian institutions.

Like the Roman Catholic Church in the years of Solidarity's struggle in the 1980s, the Serbian Orthodox Church is widely seen as a surrogate for our lost national identity.

He is robbed of his property by the corrupt mayor, who is paid by the Orthodox Church for the right to build a new church on Nikolay's land.

Christian-democratic parties, associated with the Catholic Church, and the liberals have been to some extent marginalized.

In Jaffa, Israel, a school run by the Church of Scotland teaches the virtues of tolerance to Muslim, Jewish, and Christian children.

When cheap paper and printing presses - the first true mass-communication technology - challenged this system, the Catholic Church and the monarchs defended the parchment-based monopoly.

What I said, instead, was this: I might, as a practicing Roman Catholic who adheres to his Church's teachings, think that homosexuality is a sin.

But Europe also found a productive balance between church and state.

The values espoused by the Church were paid their due deference.

Or if not a solution, an amelioration: the Church could allow priests to marry, or form homosexual relationships with consenting adults.

The spirit of science found a tactical ally in the Catholic Church, which held that belief in vampires defiles the resurrection of Jesus.

This position also opened another front in the Church's battle with Eastern European Orthodox Christianity, which lent theological support to vampire myths by teaching that non-decomposed bodies could not go to heaven and could be revivified by the devil.

Think of it as the order of the church choir, where individual members cooperate on the basis of a shared culture and values.

In this sense, monarchy is a little like Islam, or the Catholic Church: all believers are supposed to be equal in the eyes of God, or the Pope, or the Emperor - hence the appeal to the poor and the marginalized.

Leviathan is about a decent man whose life is ruined by the mayor of his town in collusion with the Russian Orthodox Church and a corrupt judiciary.

And some in the EU are put off by the seeming affinity of the Orthodox Church and its adherents toward Vladimir Putin's Russia, or by the region's large Muslim population.

For example, in response to attacks last year on a church in Peshawar, Pakistan, local Muslims formed human chains around churches, allowing them to hold services.

As with the Church or the divine right of kings, the system cannot be challenged without undermining the infallibility of its perfect leaders.

One of the late Pope John Paul II's unfulfilled dreams was to visit Moscow and forge a rapprochement with the Orthodox Church.

Carols, church bells, and mangers are still at the heart of mid-winter festivities, alongside the consumer binge.

When embarrassed by comments made by the pastor of his church, he delivered an exceptional speech about race in America.

More would not accept the king's assertion of supremacy over the church.

It is a fear that has echoed down through history ever since, from the Catholic Church cursing Gutenberg's movable type to the Victorian bourgeois complaining of the newly discovered freedom of the press.

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