religious charity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreligiousandcharity
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religious
adjective
us//uk/rɪˈlɪdʒ.əs/
relating ...
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charity
noun
uk/ˈtʃær.ə.ti/us/ˈtʃer.ə.t̬i/
an organization whose purpose is to give money, food, or help to those who need it, or to carry out activities such as medical research that will help people in need, and not to make ...
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(Definition ofreligiousandcharityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofreligious charity
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Considered an act ofreligiouscharity, the associated ideology in kanyadan marriage deemed that nothing could be taken in exchange for the bride.
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The person concerned with the management and control of areligiouscharitywill frequently be the religious leader of the community.
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Areligiouscharityis an instrument of religion and should be respected as such.
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If areligiouscharityor denomination has an endowment that must be registered.
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Similarly, there is no reason why areligiouscharityor a public organisation with a religious impetus should insist that all its employees should be active believers of that faith.
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With areligiouscharity, there is always a body of persons, continually changing, who are interested in seeing that the objects of the religious charity are carried out.
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It is also connected with the practice ofreligiouscharity, because the meal is often given to the community for free and is associated with feeding the poor.
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There is, therefore, a very weak case for the registration of religious charities.
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There is no advantage to religious charities in that.
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The registration of religious charities has been deferred until 1964.
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Would it not be better to put in subsection (b) a special reference to religious charities which would make the matter perfectly clear?
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However, he has not made the case that religious charities will receive similar protection, and he must do so.
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Speaking on behalf of many others—and not only religious charities—there are already in the field programmes of adaptation which will require new premises.
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Secondly, all endowments must be registered, and there is no advantage to religious charities with regard to endowments.
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It raises the whole question of the position of religious charities.
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After all, what makes them religious charities is an act of faith on their part.
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Religious charities probably get on the register more easily than any other type of charity.
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Such charities are utterly different creatures from religious charities.
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If you pick and choose, we shall be in confusion about all kinds of religious charities.
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