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"These findings suggest that a parent's belief in the importance of religion may be a more robust factor than a parent's attendance at religious services and make one wonder whether religious importance might be more strongly associated with teaching and beliefs about suicide within the home than is service attendance, or whether some other mechanism might be responsible," they noted.
The official said the compounds were initially hired as residential quarters where they had started holding religious service. 'In each of the six places, at least 100 to 200 people gathered for service without informing the police,' he said, adding the decision had been taken purely on account of security of the worshippers.
But the reality is that not all detainees have the same access to religious services and materials.
I have no objection at all to a religious service involving as many as choose to be involved.
Ten of the 12 states with the highest self-reported religious service attendance are in the South, along with Utah and Oklahoma.
In his suit, Klingenschmitt claimed that the political rally was actually a religious service and that the Navy had violated his First Amendment rights.
Table 5 complements the results in Table 4 by comparing attitudes to a broader range of social policy issues across religious sub-groups using data from the 2009 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes where religiosity is defined, as noted earlier, by the frequency of attendance at religious services. These results indicate that, compared to the other two groups, those who attend a religious service at least once a month (identified here as the religious in practice group) are more supportive of government efforts to reduce the income gap, and are more concerned about the negative impact of cutting welfare benefits for the unemployed.
RESPONDING to the Examiner article (Celebrations in place of funeral tradition, January 24) I would agree that many people today want a celebration of the person's life - and there is absolutely no reason a family should not have that within a religious service.
Chaplains and volunteers are crucial in religious service divisions, especially in trying financial times.
WHENEVER I ATTEND ANY TYPE OF religious service, like most people I follow all the prescribed rituals and do my best to keep an open mind and heart.
Jennifer Glanville, a sociologist in the college of liberal arts and sciences at the university, who led the study, said other research had noted a link between religious service attendance and positive educational outcomes in the United States, but this was the first one to look at why.
The Methodist Chapel at Eshott, Morpeth, has undergone a pounds 30,000 renovation and the first religious service at Eshott Hall Estate has been held for the first time in 60 years.