Religion: The principal religion is Christianity, with about70% of the population adhering to the Cook Islands Congregational Christian Church, and Roman Catholic. 宗教:主要信基督教,70%人属于库克群岛公理会基督教会以及天主教。
Over the bare limbs of the trees, which now swayed in the wintry wind, rose the steeple of the Union Park Congregational Church, and far off the towers of several others. 光秃秃的树枝在寒风中摇摆,树梢后面耸立起联合公园公理会教堂的尖顶,再远处,还有好几个教堂的塔楼耸立着。
congregational
[ adj ]
relating to or conducted or participated in by a congregation
of or pertaining to or characteristic of a Congregational church
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Congregational \Con`gre*ga"tion*al\, a. 1. Of or pertaining to a congregation; conducted, or participated in, by a congregation; as, congregational singing.
2. Belonging to the system of Congregationalism, or to Congregationalist; holding to the faith and polity of Congregationalism; as, a Congregational church.
The issue came to a head last May when Dumbarton United Methodist Church in Washington approved a new congregational policy, affirming same-sex unions and announcing two lesbians would exchange vows in a "holy union" ceremony.
Executions usually take place in public squares outside mosques after the noon congregational prayers on Friday, the Islamic Sabbath.