• Most are surprised to learn the authentic teaching of the church is that whenever there is conflict between one's conscience and church teaching, one must always obey one's conscience. (ncronline.org)
  • Omani prisoner of conscience Saeed Jaddad was released from prison on 26 August, having served nine months of a one-year prison sentence under Oman's cybercrimes law for a blog he wrote in October 2014. (amnesty.org)
  • Birtukan Mideksa is a fellow at Harvard University's WEB Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research and a former prisoner of conscience in Ethiopia. (aljazeera.com)
  • But peaceful political activities are not the only way to become a prisoner of conscience in Ethiopia. (aljazeera.com)
  • to follow the dictates of conscience. (dictionary.com)
  • The natural law as it manifests itself within each person's conscience, where its dictates are expressed by certain basic tendencies of nature, evaluated and regulated by right reason. (catholicculture.org)
  • In this unperverted state conscience (where the Bible is unknown) is an invaluable blessing as it would lead to salvation if its dictates were followed. (raptureready.com)
  • Le mouvement Wake Up Schools soutient les éducateurs dans leur désir d'amener les pratiques de la pleine conscience et de l'éthique appliquée dans leur vie de façon à trouver le bonheur et la liberté, et aussi de façon à pouvoir partager ces pratiques avec leurs collègues et élèves dans leurs écoles. (plumvillage.org)
  • Grâce à la pleine conscience, les enseignants et les élèves peuvent faire l'expérience de plus de paix, apprendre à prendre soin des émotions difficiles et construire les conditions nécessaires à une école heureuse et à un monde heureux. (plumvillage.org)
  • Wake Up Schools est un mouvement mondial qui croit au pouvoir transformateur de la pleine conscience, surtout dans les lieux d'apprentissage. (plumvillage.org)
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  • With prisoners of conscience still languishing in its prisons, Ethiopia must receive the clear message - especially from allies like the United States - that continued human rights violations will not be tolerated. (aljazeera.com)
  • The average time served by these prisoners of conscience, whose only crime was refusing to participate in war or the preparation for war, was 16.5 years, almost three times as long as the average time served for violent crimes in current history. (truthout.org)
  • This is why conscientious objection - affirmation of the human conscience - is so threatening to the US military and government, and why there is a history of attempts to suppress it. (truthout.org)
  • the following guidelines, as well as those from U.S. bishops, are helpful for any troubling conflict between conscience and church teaching. (ncronline.org)
  • The extent to which conscience informs moral judgment before an action and whether such moral judgments are or should be based on reason has occasioned debate through much of modern history between theories of basics in ethic of human life in juxtaposition to the theories of romanticism and other reactionary movements after the end of the Middle Ages. (wikipedia.org)
  • Of course, Catholic teaching also emphasizes that an individual's conscience does not exist in a vacuum: 'Conscience must be informed and moral judgment enlightened. (ncronline.org)
  • Conscience is a cognitive process that elicits emotion and rational associations based on an individual's moral philosophy or value system. (wikipedia.org)
  • The weakness of this justification is shown by examining philosopher Harry Frankfurt's account of what he calls "volitional necessity," which clarifies the structure of the argument that invocations of conscience imply. (ssrn.com)
  • We will give a scene that happened at a camp meeting to illustrate: A sermon had just been preached on the necessity of confession in order to an easy conscience. (raptureready.com)
  • Conscience affirms this same necessity and the sufficiency of Jesus' sacrifice. (raptureready.com)
  • RÉSUMÉ la prise de conscience et la connaissance des pratiques concernant les déchets biomédicaux sont très importantes pour tous les milieux de soins. (who.int)
  • Conscience thus manifests in Buddhism as unselfish love for all living beings which gradually intensifies and awakens to a purer awareness where the mind withdraws from sensory interests and becomes aware of itself as a single whole. (wikipedia.org)
  • Conscience approves this affirmation. (raptureready.com)
  • Affirmation of conscience and support for conscientious objectors, or COs - helping people get out of the military - is an important part of a larger anti-war strategy, and one with real, concrete and measurable results. (truthout.org)
  • The term "conscience in branding" relates to the keynote speaker Nicholas Ind and his research on how organizations through their branding can, and should, be more responsible. (lu.se)
  • Only when conscience is gladly followed in its incitements to right it may be said to answer the definition often given "the voice of God in the soul. (raptureready.com)
  • In common terms, conscience is often described as leading to feelings of remorse when a person commits an act that conflicts with their moral values. (wikipedia.org)
  • conscience of feelings of guilt? (medscape.com)
  • If Republicans have genuinely relocated their fiscal consciences, they'll listen. (dictionary.com)
  • She had a guilty/troubled conscience . (merriam-webster.com)
  • Recent Examples on the Web Out of a guilty conscience , our mother eventually spilled the beans about her past. (merriam-webster.com)
  • Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press , 25 Aug. 2023 The only person other than Julien who's immediately welcoming of Zoya is Obie, whose rich, guilty conscience is desperate to mingle with anyone with less money than him. (merriam-webster.com)
  • Thomas Floyd, Washington Post , 16 Dec. 2022 In the final scenes, when Lucia and Mia wheedle their way into his suite for a threesome, Dom can't hold onto his guilty conscience . (merriam-webster.com)
  • Chron , 6 Nov. 2022 Although Macbeth is referring to his guilty conscience , university students Prakrit Jain and Harper Forbes really do think about the arachnids all day. (merriam-webster.com)
  • 2022 One of the Ukrainian refugees who arrived in this border town Friday was a 64-year-old named Anatoly who was carrying a bag of clothes and a guilty conscience . (merriam-webster.com)
  • NBC News , 4 Mar. 2022 Stop stalking your former classmate on Facebook to soothe your guilty conscience . (merriam-webster.com)
  • These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'guilty/troubled conscience. (merriam-webster.com)
  • Religious views of conscience usually see it as linked to a morality inherent in all humans, to a beneficent universe and/or to divinity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Global Conscience Initiative is a registered not-for-profit organisation, independent of any government, political or religious affiliations. (idealist.org)
  • Nor must he be prevented from acting according to his conscience, especially in religious matters. (ncronline.org)
  • The Center on Conscience & War - known at the time as the National Service Board for Religious Objectors - worked with churches to organize a Civilian Public Service Program, allowing COs to perform civilian service instead of non-combat military service. (truthout.org)
  • You may have heard that there's a new Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights. (medscape.com)
  • I'm not going to argue that individuals shouldn't try to follow their personal values, but I don't think it's right when we create a Conscience and Religious Freedom Division that doesn't capture patient values, interests, and rights along with those of providers. (medscape.com)
  • This faculty is called conscience. (churchofjesuschrist.org)
  • In it He speaks His mind, and here is set up somewhere in man a something or faculty we call conscience‑voice of God‑spark of the Divine remaining in the soul of man, and it agrees fully with the word. (raptureready.com)
  • Common secular or scientific views regard the capacity for conscience as probably genetically determined, with its subject probably learned or imprinted as part of a culture. (wikipedia.org)
  • The diverse ritualistic, mythical, doctrinal, legal, institutional and material features of religion may not necessarily cohere with experiential, emotive, spiritual or contemplative considerations about the origin and operation of conscience. (wikipedia.org)
  • This research investigated with the aid of Piaget's clinical method, the influence of two professional areas on the conscience building process of the strategies used for the resolution of a problem with the Tower of Hanoi game. (bvsalud.org)
  • there, evil people are tormented by prior denial of their own higher nature, or conscience, and "to all time will they be guests for the House of the Lie. (wikipedia.org)
  • If the only place in the universe where man, made in the image of God, can encounter God is the human heart or conscience, then the strategy is to prevent this encounter by keeping people so preoccupied with worldly concerns that there is no time in the day to turn inward. (all.org)
  • Joining the upstart bank during its founding year in 1980, Blom says even then -- long before the contemporary financial crisis, before S&Ls, junk bonds, and Gordon Gecko taught us to hate Wall Street the first time around -- mainstream banking's absence of social conscience was conspicuous. (thetyee.ca)
  • During World War I, protection for conscience was written into the 1917 draft law, though it was flimsy: In order to qualify, one had to be a member in good standing with a church that had a statement of peace at the time the draft law was passed. (truthout.org)
  • A call to arms aimed at politically like-minded Americans, time and again The Conscience of a Liberal argues that a grassroots movement of progressives can defy the odds. (umn.edu)
  • On November 5, 2007, the Executive Board resolved to change the name to Global Conscience Initiative (GCI) to better represent its new mission of involving all citizens in the peace-building process. (idealist.org)
  • GCI's vision is to build a strong global conscience, through which the citizens of Cameroon can work together to promote and protect all basic human rights as enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. (idealist.org)
  • By encouraging and empowering civil society to play an active role in supporting peace and development, reawakening the consciences of government and providing educational and workshop opportunities for individuals from all areas of society, GCI strives to help strengthen the communities with which it works. (idealist.org)
  • We'll give them awards or pat them on the back a lot of times, you know, credit them for being effective fighters and killers, but we never explain to them why it's okay, so that when they do what they've been trained so well to do, they can be at peace with their consciences for the rest of their lives. (popmatters.com)
  • Very well, we gave God the benefit of the doubt and secured peace of conscience! (raptureready.com)
  • Conscience, as is detailed in sections below, is a concept in national and international law, is increasingly conceived of as applying to the world as a whole, has motivated numerous notable acts for the public good and been the subject of many prominent examples of literature, music and film. (wikipedia.org)
  • The film, made with cooperation of the U.S. Army, shows repeated examples of soldiers in training - shooting, marching, yelling en masse, "Blood, blood, blood makes the green grass grow! (popmatters.com)
  • He wonders whether next season he will be able to win his job back or whether the state of the virus will have improved enough for him to return with a clear conscience . (dictionary.com)
  • Instead, straighten your civic backbone and push back in clear conscience . (dictionary.com)
  • St. Thomas Aquinas says: 'Anyone upon whom the ecclesiastical authority, in ignorance of the true facts, impose a demand that offends against his clear conscience, should perish in excommunication rather than violate his conscience. (ncronline.org)
  • Can you eat Maine bluefin tuna with a clear conscience? (pressherald.com)
  • Human law, on the other hand, is binding only insofar as it agrees with the natural law of conscience. (catholicculture.org)
  • Let it not be supposed because conscience, when unperverted by repeated sin, agrees with God's word, that men do what they agree to be right. (raptureready.com)
  • The Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote in his Meditations that conscience was the human capacity to live by rational principles that were congruent with the true, tranquil and harmonious nature of our mind and thereby that of the Universe: "To move from one unselfish action to another with God in mind. (wikipedia.org)
  • Commonly used metaphors for conscience include the "voice within", the "inner light", or even Socrates' reliance on what the Greeks called his "daimōnic sign", an averting (ἀποτρεπτικός apotreptikos) inner voice heard only when he was about to make a mistake. (wikipedia.org)
  • It is important for every person to be sufficiently present to himself in order to hear and follow the voice of his conscience. (all.org)
  • Conscience is the voice of God to the heathen, without the revealed ward of God, as is also God's revelation in nature, another voice, and, if the heathen follows the light of these, salvation will ensue. (raptureready.com)
  • The Chinese concept of Ren, indicates that conscience, along with social etiquette and correct relationships, assist humans to follow The Way (Tao) a mode of life reflecting the implicit human capacity for goodness and harmony. (wikipedia.org)
  • Code of Conscience has been developed in partnership with the Raoni Institute, which represents the Kayapó indigenous group and its mission to stop unfettered Amazonian destruction, as well as the Amazon Environmental Research Institute (IPAM), and the Peabiru Institute which promotes social diversity throughout the region. (wpp.com)
  • What If More Bankers Had a Social Conscience? (thetyee.ca)
  • I love funky music with a conscience. (bostonglobe.com)
  • This is a crucial question for those who love the church but find their consciences bid them to, in the words of ' 'Sensus Fidei' in the Life of the Church ,' 'deny assent' on teachings about birth control, women's roles and LGBT human rights, for example. (ncronline.org)
  • The Committee on Conscience mandate is to alert the national conscience, influence policy makers, and stimulate worldwide action to confront and work to halt acts of genocide or related crimes against humanity. (ushmm.org)
  • Responsible dissent begins as an act of conscience and continues as part of a committed life in the Church. (ncronline.org)
  • The Conscience of a Liberal candidly discusses Senator Paul Wellstone's life experiences and the coming-of-age of his political views. (umn.edu)
  • From his earliest childhood memories to the college classroom, from rural Minnesota farm fields and the defense of workers' rights to his 1990 election campaign promises of politics for the benefit of the people, The Conscience of a Liberal candidly discusses Wellstone's life experiences and the coming-of-age of his political views. (umn.edu)