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For starters, clerics should not be judging other clerics; let lay members, women and men, conduct the investigations.
The Paterson Diocese had 28 clerics on its list, the Camden Diocese listed 57 clerics, the Trenton Diocese had 30 and the Metuchen Diocese listed 11 clergy.
Mr. Raisi and Mr. Rouhani are both Shiite Muslim clerics and staunch defenders of the idea of an Islamic Republic ruled by clerics, with some direct elections.
Qassim and other senior clerics have said the funds are part of Shi'ite Islamic tradition, which allows senior clerics to collect the tax and spend it in the interest of ordinary Muslims.
France was hardly passive toward extremism in the past; the Interior Ministry kicked out 40 Muslim clerics from 2012 to 2015, and another 52 people, including clerics, over the last 28 months.
"Most of the clerics he is arresting are not the hard-line clerics but the reformers—because they are popular," Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist who recently fled to the U.S., told me.
Clerics provide cover, citing objections to intoxicants in the Koran.
Some clerics worried that politics would tarnish the religious establishment.
Muslim clerics want to rebuild the site as a mosque.
As such, to those clerics, Muslims don't belong off earth.
For most of its 76 years clerics have firmly dominated.
More senior clerics also seem to be losing their sway.
Its judges and clerics decided important matters of Islamic law.
Most clerics kept quiet out of deference to the king.
Last month a council of Islamic clerics banned any involvement.
It could also extend to clerics who sexually abuse nuns.
Clerics controlled religious foundations, called bonyads, that acquired commercial businesses.
As many as 3,000 clerics had gathered for the council.
When appropriate, inmates then meet with clerics to talk ideology.
Similarly, MBS has imprisoned a number of leading conservative clerics.
Gutenberg's brainchild broke the monopoly that clerics had on scripture.
Many Coptic clerics are careful of engaging in public debate.
His new wife introduced him to radical clerics on YouTube.
The clerics there remained adamant in their support for the Taliban.
Shiite clerics became powerful leaders and held sway over large militias.
His clerics knew of the complaints, but let him chant on.
BuzzFeed News obtained a copy of the letter the clerics received.
The venomous words of the radical clerics are ticking time bombs.
Trust in clerics and the clergy has never been so low.
Mistrust of clerics is as keenly felt in the Shia south.
Husseini said he disagreed with the dour image of Muslim clerics.
For killing Taseer, clerics declared Mr Qadri a ghazi or warrior.
Ordinary Iranians understand that the ruling clerics have plundered their country.
Activists say muzzled writers include economists, academics, columnists and Muslim clerics.
So they turn to clerics for fatwas, or nonbinding religious rulings.
Grand jurors accused hundreds of Catholic clerics of secretly abusing children.
His latest comments also drew the outrage of more traditional clerics.
But precedents also exist of clerics adopting changes they initially condemned.
Wary clerics withheld permission, on the ground that Wagner was Protestant.
The arrest sweeps have targeted clerics, academics and human rights defenders.
Still, at nine, I started encountering the clerics—some of them actual "clerics," as D&D was everywhere—and getting in the kind of preteen and then teen trouble that involved mostly trickery, masquerade, and multiplayer roleplaying.
Ghani's decision came after a meeting of Islamic clerics declared a fatwa, or ruling, against suicide bombings, one of which, claimed by Islamic State, killed 14 people at the entrance to the clerics' peace tent in Kabul.
Its politicians cannot give speeches in mosques; clerics cannot lead the party.
Clerics have inveighed against the idea for years, often in ludicrous terms.
The crisis is fuelling popular discontent with the government and ruling clerics.
The investigations include reports of abuse by bishops, clerics and lay workers.
THE clerics disqualified the candidates, but they could not disqualify the people.
Clerics said they would not accept government orders about what to preach.
The fatwa matches others issued by other regional clerics in recent years.
Hailed by some as a feminist, she was reviled by conservative clerics.
And in both cases it was the clerics who won eventually, and
Salman is treading through tricky territory, boldly overruling the clerics accustomed to
He has also arrested scores of clerics in a crackdown on dissent.
Saudi Arabia's top clerics traditionally lead a Hajj sermon on this site.
Attempts to marginalize the clerics date back to the early 20th century.
Moscow forbids its clerics to officiate with those under the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
For Ms. Nafisi, Iran's clerics were not the only ones opposing her.
Saudi clerics, too, have visited the West to bring the same message.
Others highlighted the state's historical role in empowering clerics it now suppresses.
The perpetrators are often led by hard-line Salafist clerics or politicians.
Domestically, MBS had also imprisoned a host of clerics, dissidents and businessmen.
A recent wave of arrests has targeted clerics and human rights advocates.
But he acknowledged that there were Iranians who do not like clerics.
Clerics claimed that the different Pokemon were different names of the devil.
The ceasefire followed a meeting of Islamic clerics this week that declared a fatwa, or ruling, against suicide bombings, one of which, claimed by Islamic State, killed 14 people at the entrance to the clerics' peace tent in Kabul.
But the clerics, led by Mr Tayeb, have largely resisted Mr Sisi's appeal.
Imam Daiyiee Abdullah, 65, is one of the few openly gay Muslim clerics.
Now I see clerics all over TV saying God wouldn&apost want this.
Several clerics major religious leaders have called for the law to be repealed.
Spotting another "Muslim issue", past governments have let conservative clerics control family law.
He also enjoys support from Shia clerics and, remarkably, both America and Iran.
They just want Ireland's clerics brought to book and made to pay compensation.
Now clerics who push back too hard against decrees are muzzled—or arrested.
As in France, the rallies have received discreet encouragement from politicians and clerics.
Clerics there increasingly question the system of velayat-e faqih, or clerical rule.
Even so, Lindsey said, conservative clerics had clearly influenced the panel of judges.
Recent events have brought the contrast between the two clerics to a head.
Prominent clerics have also been detained in an apparent bid to silence dissent.
Unlike Khomeini, most of Iran's Shiite clerics were quietist and opposed politicized clergy.
This suggests a worrying disconnect between government, academia, clerics and Dutch-speaking youngsters.
Tahrir al-Sham on Thursday rejected a mediation initiative by prominent Islamic clerics.
He's also trying to culturally modernize the country and remove anti-Semitic clerics.
Deacons are ordained clerics who sit just behind priests in the Church hierarchy.
Clerics, officers and teachers lecture on the sinfulness and dangers of drug use.
Islamic clerics have opposed euthanasia of stray dogs, saying it contravenes God's will.
ISIS clerics falsely justified suicide bombs with quotes from the Quran, he said.
Siraji, one of the clerics, said the effort is showing some concrete results.
Shiite clerics in traditional winter robes made of camel's hair held prayer beads.
Next, he began a purge of anti-American and anti-Jewish Islamic clerics.
But there is little doubt that the clerics have been thrown off balance.
Several prominent Shiite clerics urged officials to backtrack before it was too late.
In Indonesia, the topic is a point of contention among several Islamic clerics.
The decision came after a meeting of Islamic clerics this week declared a fatwa, or ruling, against suicide bombings, one of which, claimed by Islamic State, killed 14 people at the entrance to the clerics' peace tent in Kabul, the capital.
He urged Egyptian clerics to push back against the jihadists of Islamic State (IS).
It was not immediately clear how many of the clerics were among the casualties.
Only candidates vetted by a committee of 12 Islamic clerics were permitted to run.
The clerics also recommended a ceasefire with the Taliban and Ghani endorsed the recommendation.
Many Shias hope it will quieten the worst anti-Shia utterances of Wahhabi clerics.
Such is the anger at Iran's ruling clerics, who preside over a shrinking economy.
Far from elevating clerics, say dissidents, Mr Khamenei's bullies treat them like state functionaries.
In September police detained dozens of critics, from Muslim clerics to human-rights activists.
But people quickly turned their ire to the ruling clerics and the IRGC, too.
That has sparked tensions with influential clerics upon whose support the ruling family relies.
As many clerics are keen to point out, Christmas is about more than presents.
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They shut down some nascent liberalizing reforms that had angered ultraconservative clerics, for example.
Among the founders were other nuns, priests, former clerics, a monsignor and Father Doyle.
The clerics who seized control demanded the money back, but the United States refused.
Any violent confrontation with hard-line clerics would further exacerbate a tumultuous political situation.
Clerics said they welcomed everyone, declining to comment on the politics of the visit.
Clerics, on the other hand, received an all-time low of just 16 seats.
Saudi officials and clerics have provided numerous explanations for the ban over the years.
But he also has evinced an authoritarian edge, locking up clerics, activists and businessmen.
Francis has sought to rebuild ties with Muslim clerics since becoming pope in 2013.
The clerics have little reason to trust that the U.S. will honor an agreement.
As head of a council of Muslim clerics, Amin issued fatwas condemning minority groups.
Male doctors persuaded clerics to let them operate on women, because they lacked female doctors.
The investigations include reports of abuse by bishops, clerics and lay workers filed since 2000.
Police have arrested both clerics who oppose the changes and liberal activists who want more.
It is hard to compete with vertically integrated empires run by clerics or the IRGC.
There were also suggestions clerics in Saudi Arabia could meet to issue an anti-U.
Clerics and parents are encouraged to listen and empathize rather than launch into religious lectures.
Huge billboards of frowning clerics have been replaced by neon advertisements of unveiled smiling girls.
He has broken with Wahhabi clerics by denying them the power to enforce public morality.
The modern state was founded as an alliance between the royal family and puritanical clerics.
By curbing the influence of clerics they are also weakening checks on their own power.
In September police rounded up dozens of critics, from Muslim clerics to human-rights activists.
The king's father established the modern state as an alliance between royals and puritanical clerics.
The renewal by the Saudi clerics have been echoed by officials in Egypt and Kuwait.
There were a lot of self-flagellating clerics, and dehumanizing slave owners, and kinky Nazis.
Here and there, he seems ready to try to loosen the grip of the clerics.
On Facebook, Aisha said, the clerics encouraged people in Garowe to cut the girls' throats.
Iran is cultivating influence among Shia clerics who subscribe to its theocratic vision of governance.
The commision had already recommended bringing criminal charges to clerics who failed to report abuse.
They are juxtaposed with his better-known marble and bronze busts, mostly of powerful clerics.
On this issue, the clerics, analysts, and authoritative Afghans make decisions in its right time.
Since then, the royal family governed with guidance from the clerics, who legitimized their rule.
However, its adherents can face discrimination in Iran, whose government is overseen by Shiite clerics.
Now many Saudi clerics have their own shows and are enthusiastic users of social media.
The Saudi government has locked up dozens of clerics, businessmen and activists since last year.
"It's been decades that Afghanistan is burning in the fire of war," the clerics said.
They controlled every aspect of our lives and the hard-line clerics stifled the country.
" DiNardo also said that lay people -- not just church clerics -- should be given "substantial involvement.
The groups say the kingdom has also detained journalists, clerics and activists in the crackdown.
Some clerics frown on women exercising and most girls' schools do not offer physical education.
Authorities have staged frequent crackdowns on human rights defenders, clerics, women's rights advocates and journalists.
TV.  He adds this that some students, clerics and even diplomats lack the right status.
But young people are also up against internet censorship, moral policing and fundamental religious clerics.
He blamed the clerics for everything: privatization, corruption, inequality and long days with low pay.
The government started trying to rein in what it saw as extremist viewpoints in the clergy after Islamist militant attacks inside the kingdom began in 2003, pushing hardline clerics to renounce al Qaeda and violent tactics and sacking clerics seen as disseminating radical views.
With scores of Russian clerics and bishops looking on, Patriarch Kirill also solemnly reconsecrated the cathedral.
The narrow candidate selection process has provoked an unusual public argument among senior officials and clerics.
"The clerics were furious, and accused us of teaching Christianity and anti-Islamic values," he said.
And while concerts have started to be held this year, they remain frowned on by clerics.
The uprising sprang from a young population who learn about the world online - not from clerics.
The current silence of clerics leads some officials to think that the worst danger is past.
But they always disliked the regime; worse for the clerics is the loss of their base.
Tens of thousands of people responded to the clerics' call to counter-demonstrate on January 3rd.
Now the talk is of the clerics in Najaf shaping the future of Iran's clerical rule.
Newspapers have chronicled a wave of crime, from armed robberies to the murder of Muslim clerics.
But the Guardian Council, grouping hardline conservative clerics and jurists, has already disqualified thousands of candidates.
Eight of its 17 members are women and two are themselves victims of abuse by clerics.
A group of Muslim clerics in Pakistan recently declared that it was haram to persecute them.
One of the most influential clerics in Algiers expressed his opposition to the government last week.
In 2017, Saudi Arabia launched a crackdown on dissent, arresting scores of clerics, intellectuals and activists.
Clerics trained at the Hawza have wide social and political influence, both inside Iraq and abroad.
And in arresting many conservative clerics, he seems to be downsizing religion in favor of nationalism.
Even the most rigid Muslim clerics accept that not everybody is obliged to fast during Ramadan.
Islamic clerics at one point used mosque loudspeakers to tell teachers to return to their classrooms.
Clerics led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini overthrew the monarch that year and established an Islamic republic.
The Nazi regime targeted many, Ms. Aegerter explained, like communists, clerics, homosexuals, Roma and the disabled.
The dervishes have not always been at odds with the Shiite clerics who rule the country.
The talk of jihad emanating from some of Kattankudy's hard-line clerics appalled him, he said.
Since the Boston abuse scandal erupted in the 1990s, accusations involving American clerics have sporadically surfaced.
Like hundreds of other abusive clerics, the priest was facilitated and protected by the Catholic hierarchy.
He'll say Mass tomorrow in Bogotá, and on Friday he'll beatify clerics killed in the war.
One of the country's top clerics, Hadi Khosroshahi, died last Thursday after he contracted the sickness.
While the clerics' power is more limited than it once was, their words still have impact.
During that period, in 1962, he married Effat Marashi, whose family included several respected Shiite clerics.
The independent U.N. experts voiced concern over alleged detentions of political critics, journalists and Muslim clerics.
These included the release of detained clerics and full free expression of religious belief in China.
The royal family may therefore have to buy the clerics' support, or at least their silence.
He acknowledged that sexual abuse of nuns by clerics is a continuing problem in the church.
Gamel Abdel Nasser, Egypt's president from 1956 to 1970, reined in the clerics by nationalising their endowments.
Among those arrested in 2013 were an elderly university professor, a pediatrician, a banker and two clerics.
That's why a president-elect's choice of clerics to say prayers at the inauguration is watched carefully.
Iranian clerics supported "He Who Said No"; "Omar" was funded by Sunni sheikhs in the Gulf States.
This risks a backlash from conservative clerics, so he is keen to fashion a new Saudi nationalism.
People from around the country descended on the capital, where clerics found themselves marching alongside drag queens.
Iran could resume nuclear work, as ruling clerics ape North Korea's strategy of arming themselves before talking.
Some clerics see Halloween as a form of devil worship and too closely associated with Western culture.
Senior Iranian clerics are moving there, including Ali Khomeini, the respected grandson of the Islamic Republic's founder.
As Iran sought to export its vision of Islam, Saudi royals urged their clerics to follow suit.
Leaders in the north turned to religious authority for their legitimacy, enlisting the support of Islamic clerics.
All people, he believed, have God inside them and can experience the divine without mediation by clerics.
In this staunchly Sunni city, trainee clerics now study Shia as well as Sunni schools of law.
Clerics threatened that she would be killed if she returned to perform a scheduled concert in Kabul.
While interpretation of that passage is nowadays contested, Saudi state-backed clerics had referenced it for years.
Many Saudi clerics consider Shiites heretics and accuse them of loyalty to Saudi Arabia's regional rival, Iran.
His announcements drew a furious reaction from many clerics, not just in Tunisia but across the region.
The prince has pushed back against the religious establishment, including by arresting scores of clerics and dissidents.
And by no means were all illuminators monks, nuns and clerics, nor did they all work anonymously.
On the home-front, the Saudis are monitoring religious sermons and arresting clerics who advocate for violence.
Charity networks run by Shi'ite clerics were hit when some of their accounts closed for a time.
Instead, he has sought the favor of younger clerics who boast millions of followers on social media.
And the royal family needs to keep the clerics loyal, so it cannot push them too far.
But there is a chance that on balance, things could work out surprisingly well for the clerics.
In 2011, O'Malley published the names of 159 clerics accused of sexual assault over that time period.
"What the people are going through is much more serious," he said to reporters accompanying the clerics.
B.S. had defanged the clerics, clearing the way for vast changes they most certainly would have opposed.
Public schools were told to offer physical education for girls, which clerics had argued threatened their femininity.
But they initially refused to let us talk to any fighters or clerics, or to attend funerals.
In Qeshm, protesters block a checkpoint because they fear letting in clerics coming from an infected area.
In Qeshm, protesters block a checkpoint because they fear letting in clerics coming from an infected area.
When the clerics accuse her of being sent by the Devil, she accuses them of the same.
He said that some rank-and-file clerics in Rome also saw Mr. Putin as their protector.
There have been allegations of sexual abuse against at least 100 clerics in Argentina, according to BishopAccountability.
The crackdowns have targeted clerics, journalists, academics and activists, some of whom were detained outside Saudi Arabia.
Among those arrested in 2013 were an elderly university professor, a paediatrician, a banker and two clerics.
"Our elite didn't have any religion, and so religion was literally preserved by the clerics," she said.
He is working to assist U.S. Catholic clerics on strategies to address the historic levels of persecution.
The same clerics who hate us by day come to Rabwah in the evening to eat it.
They did this in part by shutting down some nascent liberalizing reforms that had angered ultraconservative clerics.
Francis has recently insisted top clerics be held responsible for failing to swiftly crack down on pedophile priests.
He now runs the Mecca Institute, an Internet-based program to train a new generation of likeminded clerics.
In November a suicide-bomber killed 50 people at a gathering of clerics hosted at a wedding hall.
While concerts started to be held this year, concerts and music in general are frowned on by clerics.
These crimes involve a network of human traffickers, with agents, brokers, and clerics all part of the scheme.
Life for ordinary Orthodox clerics serving scattered communities across France has always been tricky, whichever bishop they obey.
This notion is foreign to Sistani and other top Iraqi clerics who believe it mires religion in politics.
They interviewed some of the same women the clerics spoke to, reviewed text exchanges, and talked to Khan.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Iran's Assembly of Experts, made up mostly of elderly clerics, has not mattered much for years.
Shaken by the takeover of Islam's holiest mosque by fundamentalists, Saudi Arabia's American-backed rulers empowered conservative clerics.
Conservative ideologues get airtime on state television, where they chide clerics for losing faith in velayat-e faqih.
For years it seemed as though clerics in Qom would determine the future of religious leadership in Najaf.
Keeping the state out of the church's business meant clerics lost the power to suppress heretics by force.
Ali al-Sistani, the Iranian-born spiritual leader of Iraq's Shias, wants clerics to stay out of politics.
His chief challenger, Ebrahim Raisi, is backed by the regime's hard core of revolutionary guards and conservative clerics.
The hall has not one but two "priest holes" where Catholic clerics could be hidden from Elizabeth's spies.
Clerics in Najaf have dithered on the kingdom's request to open a consulate in the Shias' holiest city.
By contrast one of Pakistan's most senior Deobandi clerics defended the execution, saying nobody was above the law.
Clerics, labour leaders and television hosts have been enlisted in the effort to keep people off the streets.
"This has all been engineered to criminalize the clerics," said Novel Bamukmin, head of the FPI's Jakarta chapter.
But Ghani raised the possibility of reconciliation with some militants in a speech to Islamic clerics in Kabul.
Among clerics, Jamshed had his detractors, who branded him a "disco mullah" and mocked his successful clothing brand.
Two cardinals claimed Tuesday that homosexuality was to blame for the abuse by clerics in the Catholic Church.
Conservative clerics remain powerful while human rights violations are often the result of punishments enshrined in Sharia law.
They called for better sex education in schools and urged clerics to talk about FGM at Friday prayers.
At the same time, the prince has been promoting clerics who speak of tolerance for Judaism and Christianity.
Francis recently has insisted top clerics be held responsible for failing to swiftly crack down on pedophile priests.
The forces of radical Islam derive their ideology from radical clerics like Gülen, who is running a scam.
There are Iraqi Shiite militiamen cheering for clerics who liken the enemy to foes from seventh-century battles.
The clerics also created Islamic courts, media organizations and pan-Islamic organizations such as the Muslim World League.
He even got the clerics to green-light "expressions of love" on Valentine's Day for the first time.
In the 16th century, he said, the pope gave the French king the right to appoint major clerics.
The clerics were told to write personal letters of apology for their reluctance to accept the unpopular prelate.
He wanted to shutter some shrines like those that draw pilgrims to Qom, but hard-line clerics balked.
He wanted to shutter some shrines like those that draw pilgrims to Qom, but hard-line clerics balked.
Of the 16 clerics elected to parliament, 1003 have conservative political leanings and three have more moderate leanings.
Three clerics employed by the government declined to comment when asked for their thoughts on the rescinded ban.
He has allowed women to drive and to run for municipal office, and reined in hard-line clerics.
Afghan deaths in Mr. Assad's war have forced several Afghan clerics to speak out against the Iranian strategy.
That allowed the Revolutionary Guard and conservative clerics to elect Mr. Ahmadinejad, who poisoned relations with the West.
The public is turning social-justice arguments back on the clerics, who are accused of milking the state.
In the fall, he further moved to purge the country of anti-Semitic and anti-American Islamic clerics.
Muharib, an academic, was arrested as part of a crackdown on clerics, intellectuals and activists in September 2017.
The Roman Catholic Church has guidelines for what to do when clerics break celibacy vows and father children.
For more than a century, the seminary trained generations of Orthodox clerics and leaders, including the current patriarch.
Pope Francis has blamed the abuse of power by clerics, which he calls clericalism, as the root problem.
Leading clerics, many of whom have become increasingly nationalistic, have also called for less foreign influence in the country.
A conflict with Iran is unlikely to unseat the clerics; but it will undoubtedly spread instability and Shia radicalism.
Pakistani clerics are educating and radicalizing Chinese Uighurs as well, along with Central Asians from the former Soviet republics.
In terms of Saudi Arabia, look, my biggest problem with them is they're funding radical clerics through their madrasses.
As the stories spread, six celebrated Muslim clerics and academics decided to conduct their own inquiry into the allegations.
The dissidents his regime has locked up include reformers and even clerics who argued for lifting the driving ban.
Some of the social aspects of the reforms have been criticised by some clerics and Saudis on social media.
The church immediately retorted with a legal challenge, demanding that he identify the clerics or else withdraw his assertion.
Some clerics are distancing themselves from the regime, which corners much of Iran's wealth through its vast business empire.
Pro-regime clerics, in the minds of many Iranians, became associated with an oppressive and out-of-touch state.
Having alienated the kingdom's clerics and other princes, he relies more on their support than past Saudi rulers did.
They were the so-called Islamic revivalist clerics credited with ushering in ultraconservative religious policy in the late 1970s.
Saudi clerics announced that these tombs perpetuated idolatry, in which people prayed not to God, but to human intercessors.
But much of this is anathema to the clerics who, for decades, have sought to shun the outside world.
More than 100,000 Islamic scholars and clerics on Saturday issued an edict against militancy in the name of Islam.
"It is clearly hard for Saudi clerics to condemn outright attacks on Shiites," said Mr. Bunzel, the Princeton scholar.
Germany's chief federal prosecutor launched an investigation in January into possible spying by clerics sent to Germany by Ankara.
Others can reveal the sometimes comical contortions that clerics go through to reconcile modernity with their understanding of religion.
In January, he led more than 100,000 Islamic clerics in signing a fatwa, or religious ruling, that condemned militancy.
Attacked by clerics for blasphemy, he died after his right, working arm was amputated and his tongue cut off.
My father spoke out against the laws, and the judgment of television hosts and clerics fell hard on him.
But the clerics themselves share many beliefs with the jihadists, so they are limited in their ability to criticize.
In 220006, three powerful fundamentalist clerics convinced the Assembly of Experts to select Khamenei in only a few hours.
"Jokowi has criminalized clerics and that has been very hurtful for the Muslim public," said cleric Cecep Abdul Halim.
The decision came after a meeting of Islamic clerics this week declared a fatwa, or ruling, against suicide bombings.
After the oil boom of the late '70s, Islamic clerics were enraged at the hedonistic behavior of the royals.
Memorably, the clerics issued a very unpopular fatwa in 1990 legitimizing the presence of American troops in the kingdom.
Prosecutors in various countries are taking matters into their own hands and putting clerics on trial, Ms. Doyle said.
Many young Saudis have cheered the new direction, and would love to see the clerics banished from public life.
Lawmakers from Greece's extreme-right Golden Dawn party were in attendance, as were a handful of hard-line clerics.
The government recently arrested more than two dozen people, including prominent clerics, some of whom had criticized government policies.
In a first, some three dozen Catholics under 30 will participate at the Vatican assembly, alongside nearly 270 clerics.
Other attempts to introduce virginity tests on students in some Indonesian schools faced opposition, including from among Islamic clerics.
Although the call for married clerics has been the most contentious proposal, it is presented in strikingly cautious terms.
"They killed our geniuses and replaced them with clerics," young men and women chanted in the city of Shiraz.
If philosophy presented a full account of life, the clerics grumbled, what was left for revelation and the Prophet?
MBS has also imprisoned a range of clerics and civil society activists, some of whom face possible death sentences.
More than 100,000 Islamic scholars and clerics on Saturday issued a fatwa against militancy in the name of Islam.
The majority of Saudi clerics are conservative Wahhabis, but in recent years some have started engaging with moderate interpretations.
Now, one group of influential leaders is increasingly calling on their 1.8 billion followers to jump off: Muslim clerics.
Saudi Arabia has detained several prominent clerics in an apparent move to silence potential opponents of the kingdom's absolute rulers.
Relations between Saudi Arabia and non-Arab Iran soured after the latter's 1979 revolution that brought Shi'ite clerics to power.
The clerics were disdained by the participation of Iran's Jewish minority, which included my grandfather, in the country's economic progress.
Saudi Arabia's clerics offer legitimacy and public support to a king who styles himself the guardian of Islam's holiest sites.
In fact, those clerics seem far more preoccupied with what they regard as the terrible maladies of the present day.
Because of pressure from Wahhabi clerics, women are not allowed to drive or to mix with men outside their family.
Weeks later the Saudi-based Organisation of Islamic Co-operation held a peace conference with clerics from dozens of countries.
By 2009 Yusuf's men were attacking the police and army, and killing clerics who disagreed with his interpretation of Islam.
HERE are some questions which you might expect to be discussed by clerics or theologians, but not many other people.
Saudi clerics used to urge on Sunni mujahideen against the supposedly heretical Alawite clan ruling Syria with their Iranian allies.
Its attacks have focused on religious minorities, such as Hindu clerics and nonmajority Muslims from Shiite, Ahmadiyya and Sufi communities.
The bomb killed seven clerics, four security officers and three people whose identities were unknown, a senior government official said.
In private, Saudi royals often espouse more liberal views, but they have always feared upsetting their alliance with the clerics.
"We're in religious decline," moans Sheikh Muhammad, whose despair is shared by clerics in many parts of the Arab world.
The ruling clerics in Tehran, Iran's capital, expressed outrage, threatening to crush the Kurds' experiment in self-rule in Iraq.
It is possible that some underground Catholics would rather form a schismatic church than co-operate with party-approved clerics.
"None of these clerics would have dared acquire such vast wealth under Khomeini," says Shaul Bakhash of George Mason University.
They require prolonged, one-on-one attention from teachers and clerics, and are likely to be unpopular in the West.
He was suggesting that the answer lay with the hard-liners — a loose alliance of clerics, ideologues and military commanders.
Of those, all four laymen allowed to run have declared in favour of one or another of the two clerics.
Hours before Trump's tweet, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo blasted Iran's clerics for lining their own pockets and funding terrorism.
One of the ways in which clerics developed that sense of impunity was by presenting themselves as emissaries of God.
From Moscow's viewpoint, the weekend gathering in Kiev was an assembly of "schismatic" clerics whose decisions have no legal worth.
Within days of becoming minister she made headlines by calling on clerics to let Muslims and Christians marry each other.
Hailing from a family of Islamic clerics, Suhara gave talim (sermons) to women in her village in Myanmar, she says.
This is a committee of clerics that will elect Mr Khamenei's successor should he die during its eight-year tenure.
Nevertheless, elections are fiercely contested and can bring about change within the system of rule overseen by Shi'ite Muslim clerics.
Victims of sexual abuse and their advocates have demanded that non-clerics be involved, saying bishops could not police themselves.
By the mid-2000s, Saudi money and Saudi-trained clerics were already exerting influence over the Islamic Community of Kosovo.
A Congressionally-enacted Iran Assets Recovery Plan would be a powerful weapon the ruling clerics in Iran could not ignore.
During a visit to Najaf earlier this year, I was surprised to find enthusiasm from clerics about a Saudi return.
Except, occasionally, for clerics and monks and saints, these are not injunctions we've tried very hard to put into practice.
Saudi Arabia's clerics offer legitimacy and public support to a king officially known as the guardian of Islam's holiest sites.
This year, around 200 fully fledged clerics will graduate, completing a process that requires at least ten years of study.
"Someone, a man, came to me," he said, presumably of Mr. Ahmadinejad, in the typically elliptical style of Shiite clerics.
A suicide bombing claimed by Islamic State killed 14 people at the entrance to the clerics' peace tent in Kabul.
If the young prince is ultimately trying to fight extremism, there could be protests led by clerics among the population.
This is a story of two clerics, one an American detained in Turkey and the other Turkish residing in Pennsylvania.
Though the mutual friction has been building over the years, currently is has much to do with the two clerics.
In Egypt 61% of girls are cut in defiance of a decade-old fatwa (religious edict) by senior Islamic clerics.
What remains to be seen is whether the clerics in the Assembly would submit to the wishes of the IRGC.
The Saudi monarchy monopolized political and military action; the Wahhabi clerics took charge of the religious, legal and social spheres.
They were arrested, suspended from jobs, shunned by relatives and denounced by clerics as loose women out to destroy society.
It also created a variety of semiofficial holding companies controlled by the supreme leader, senior clerics or top military commanders.
With its institutional cover-up of pedophile clerics, the church showed the Mafia a thing or two about organized crime.
The Iranian government has reportedly requested clerics close these shrines, but not all have obeyed, including the one in Mashhad.
Saudi clerics had never weaponized the podium of the prophet at the Grand Mosque so brazenly to serve the monarchy.
The hard-line clerics opposed Khatami's embrace of the press, and they shut down newspapers as swiftly as they opened.
In Iran, a body of 12 Islamic clerics called the "Guardian Council" decides who actually gets to run for Parliament.
The "system" is an Iranian ideological term for the country's political establishment: a coterie of clerics, commanders and revolutionary comrades.
A group of four top Shi'ite clerics said on Tuesday that the government actions threatened their sect's existence in Bahrain.
In 1979 they poured onto the streets to bring down the shah; now their grandchildren are turning on the clerics.
Across the Arab world people are turning against religious political parties and the clerics who helped bring them to power.
The site, in Jerusalem, is holy to both Muslims and Jews, and is overseen by Muslim clerics under Jordanian supervision.
The country's influential clerics seem to accept the government's view that this can be done while maintaining the country's traditions.
Some clerics have publicly opposed his tough stance against female genital mutilation, though officially al-Azhar agrees with him on this.
In 2014 he proposed introducing mandatory high-school classes in Ottoman Turkish, which survives today only among linguists, historians and clerics.
Some lawyers said they expect many more clerics to be charged in Australia as a result of Wilson&aposs test case.
He started a war with Iran, executed prominent clerics and top officials, suppressed dissidents and ended up having that miserable fate.
Under pressure from authorities, many activists, clerics and some militants appear have moved to Iran and other countries in recent years.
He had defied the church by marrying (a woman) and campaigning for an end to the rule of celibacy for clerics.
Its story, however, embodied the discord between those who wanted to modernize the nation and the clerics who opposed those efforts.
The tough sentences have not been enough to quell frustration, however, with high profile officials and clerics in the firing line.
The clerics sharply differ, however, from al Qaeda and Sunni militants of Islamic State in opposing violent revolt against the government.
His clerics approve the candidates who stand for election, run the various security services and the judiciary, and control the media.
The isolation experienced by elderly clerics, especially in wealthy, liberal societies, is one symptom of a crisis in the Catholic priesthood.
He blasted journalists, clerics, and intellectuals for calling to revise the hijab law and allowing people to dress as they want.
She declined his marriage proposal before the week was up and later shared her story with clerics looking into Khan's conduct.
In July he sat smiling in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia's commercial capital, with one of Iraq's fieriest Shia clerics, Muqtada al-Sadr.
Mr Rouhani's supporters say that by releasing an unusual amount of detail about the spending he aimed to embarrass the clerics.
Senior Russian clerics prefer to measure the growing role of the church by the number of parishes, rather than church attendance.
Hassan Rouhani, the president, has gone further, arguing that the unrest was due to cultural and social restrictions imposed by clerics.
Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said last month that thousands of extremist clerics had been dismissed, although he gave no timeframe.
CLERICS in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, have long struggled to justify the kingdom's decades-old ban on women driving.
There was pressure to find a theological compromise because of strategic necessity, but the clerics' hearts were never really in it.
Most of Qom's top clerics, each more learned than Mr Khamenei, have begun to bite their tongues or speak in riddles.
Over the past month the two front-running clerics have hosted DJs and footballers as warm-up acts at their rallies.
But just like real religion, not all Septons and Septas (the clerics of the Faith) are zealots like the High Sparrow.
Even though the clerics allow it, those who transition say there is still a stigma associated with being transgender in Iran.
He was taken hostage in Iraq in 2004 with three other Japanese but was freed after Islamic clerics negotiated his release.
He condemned the September 11, 2001 attacks in New York while most other high-profile clerics were muted in their responses.
A study in 2007 found that in Brazil Pentecostal churches had 18 times more clerics per believer than the majority Catholics.
It is turning into a dogma blinding them in the same way Dark Age clerics confused medical problems with demonic possession.
Their mosques seek practical solutions; whether that is foreign financing, or unsophisticated clerics from their homelands who will accept modest remuneration.
However, this vision to a large extent overlooks women whose contribution to Saudi modernisation is constrained by Wahhabism and conservative clerics.
Within a few years of the war's end, the older generation of traditional clerics began to encounter aggression from young Wahhabis.
Unexplained gaps in its ledgers deepened suspicions that the group was surreptitiously funding clerics who were radicalizing young people, they said.
Some 30 clerics, intellectuals and activists were locked up last month in what rights groups described as a "crackdown on dissent".
Their belief in another prophet after Muhammad is anathema to Shiite Muslim clerics, who consider Muhammad the final messenger of God.
The clerics argued that she had never relapsed and that her survival in first remission was rare but not impossibly so.
The primacy of Islam in Saudi life has led to a huge religious sphere that extends beyond the state's official clerics.
Over the weekend, senior Muslim clerics including royal court adviser Sheikh Abdullah al-Mutlaq declared that investing in Aramco was permissible.
But Iran's Shiite clerics view the faith as blasphemous because its founder, Baha'u'llah, declared himself to be a prophet of God.
Clerics of many religions are still making those edicts, with dire consequences for the lives and psyches of millions of people.
Women are not allowed to dance in public in Iran — and girls older than 9 are regarded as women by clerics.
Rouhani also dismissed calls from hardline clerics who had asked the government to permanently block access social media and messaging apps.
Regardless of their ties to the government, clerics are routinely attacked and stabbed in the streets by angry anti-regime individuals.
Only the government-appointed clerics associated with the Council of Senior Scholars are allowed to issue fatwas, or Islamic legal opinions.
A new front was opened in February, when Francis publicly addressed sexual abuse of nuns by clerics for the first time.
This suggests that the steady decline of the number of clerics in parliament since their peak in 1979 will only continue.
In recent weeks it has arrested more than two dozens clerics, academics and others, accusing them of being foreign-funded dissidents.
"The payroll status of clerics is, in any case, the responsibility and decision of the state," it said in a statement.
Its funding of madrassas and support of extremist clerics have paid and paved the way for the spread of deadly terrorism.
Khashoggi's disappearance comes amid a wave of arrests that have targeted clerics, human rights advocates and members of Saudi Arabia's intelligentsia.
In 2012, the Iranian musician Shahin Najafi released a satirical rap song that sparked outrage among the country's hard-line clerics.
He says he wants a chance to tell ordinary Iranians "the truth, unfiltered, unabridged" about the oppressive clerics who rule them.
In local councils, Iranian-backed political parties have solid majorities, and campaign materials stress relationships with Shiite saints and Iranian clerics.
In the weeks preceding the anniversary, Iranian clerics, politicians and commanders have been renewing their rhetorical attacks against the United States.
The Vatican confirmed that its department overseeing Catholic priests globally has general guidelines for what to do when clerics father children.
Families joined in mass protests, as vigilantes ransacked liquor stores and people kissed the foreheads of turbaned clerics leading the revolution.
A member of the Acehnese clerics' council told the crowd that the canings were thoughtful, educational and "do not violate human rights".
Shortly before the attack, the clerics had issued a fatwa against suicide bombings and urged peace talks to end the Afghan war.
The new rules ban bank employees, nearly all of whom are non-clerics, from holding consultancies or other roles with outside institutions.
As criticism of his policies grew, the authorities also expanded a crackdown on dissent, with dozens of activists, intellectuals and clerics arrested.
A suicide bombing targeted a gathering of Afghanistan's top clerics on Monday in Kabul, killing at least seven people and wounding nine.
Even without public pronouncements, Riyadh's private consternation could be discerned in the pages of semi-official media and comments by influential clerics.
As the gathering wrapped up and the clerics were about to disband, another suicide bomber struck near the site, killing seven people.
Where terrorists recruit using religious ideology, for example, clerics or Islamic scholars may be the ones best placed to deliver a counternarrative.
Saudi Arabia's supreme council of clerics, who are all ultraconservative Sunnis, said the executions were carried out in accordance with Islamic law.
There were stirring scenes in an ancient cathedral as both elderly clerics listened to hymns in Aramaic, the everyday language of Jesus.
In the midst of the mayhem, one of the most revered clerics in the Shiite branch of Islam vanished while visiting Libya.
The clerics insisted that the migrants had a well-founded fear of persecution and that their cases had not been well examined.
Khan bet correctly that there was a market for Muslims who wanted a deeper understanding of Islam without relying on traditional clerics.
One widely shared video from a Kuwaiti YouTube channel showed Sunni and Shia clerics playing tug-of-war with the lunar crescent.
In Saudi Arabia, the rulers gave Wahhabi clerics leeway to impose social norms and in return received religious legitimacy for their rule.
There are good historic reasons why Europe's clerics are averse to the political right and inclined to lean in the other direction.
The kingdom's influential Islamic clerics had long insisted that the ban on female drivers was needed to stop wives from committing adultery.
A centre-leftist politician, Yiannis Rangkoussis, made waves recently by saying that he knew of some senior clerics who were secretly gay.
Shia clerics who until recently banned Christmas trees and smashed shop windows displaying love-hearts on Valentine's Day now let them pass.
They will be astronauts in the way that people who sign up with the Universal Life Church to perform marriages are clerics.
Bahrain, home of the US Navy's 5th Fleet, continued to question, detain, and arrest Shia Muslim clerics, community members, and opposition politicians.
Most Shia follow more mainstream clerics, such as Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in Najaf in Iraq, and Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei.
Extremist clerics and secretive associations funded by Saudis and others have transformed a once-tolerant Muslim society into a font of extremism.
They say they face abuse from Wahhabi clerics, rarely get permits for places of worship and seldom get senior public sector jobs.
Their embrace of technology runs counter to the history of Wahhabi clerics rejecting nearly everything new as a threat to the religion.
"Leave us to do our job, do not interfere," cleric Imam Djamel Ghoul, leader of an independent group of clerics, told reporters.
If that's true, elections are just a beauty contest among candidates blessed by the Guardian Council of clerics, just like in Iran.
One such bombing, claimed by Islamic State, killed 14 people at the entrance to the clerics' peace tent in the capital Kabul.
Eventually, the shoving ended and the clerics brought out the group — paramedics and Franciscan missionaries who had sought safety from the crowd.
Iranian society has changed and modernized beyond recognition, but what remains a fixture are the ruling clerics with their turbans and cloaks.
After midday prayers, clerics and leaders of militant factions in Gaza, led by Hamas, urged thousands of worshipers to join the protests.
An archbishop who had accused the pope of covering up sexual abuse allegations against other clerics heightened the controversy over the weekend.
Such targeted violence has led many clerics — even those appalled by the bloodshed waged in the name of Islam — to keep quiet.
Mr. Sisi's government, which has tightened its grip on Muslim religious institutions, funds Al Azhar and pays the salaries of many clerics.
They began abducting and killing innocent people in other towns — Muslim clerics, traditional rulers, Christians and teachers, anyone who opposed their ideology.
A phalanx of dancing clerics, in mitres and purple-and-gold tunics, suggest a papal conclave performing backup at a Prince concert.
Iran is a kleptotheocracy, in which the ruling clerics and the Revolutionary Guards have built financial empires based on expropriation and theft.
At other times, she cited Muslim clerics who she claimed agreed with her, or opted for statistics about the failures of integration.
Instead, since September, Prince Mohammed has sent hundreds of clerics, intellectuals and Islamic thinkers to prison under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
Saudi clerics denounced Western movies, and even the many Arabic-language films made in Egypt, as contrary to the teachings of Islam.
Francis's edict obliges the world's one million priests and nuns to report all suspicion of sexual abuse by clerics of any level.
Qatar's ties to Iran, too, irk Saudi clerics and kings, particularly the joint and expanding development of South Pars, the world's largest gasfield.
In carrying out his transformation, Prince Muhammad is weakening the old pillars of Al Saud rule—the princes, the clerics and the businessmen.
The government's modernizing reforms, backed by Saudi Arabia's business class, have sparked tensions with influential clerics upon whose support the ruling family relies.
Officials and clerics in Indonesia have banned and rejected the idea of Valentine's Day saying they it is not part of Islamic culture.
YouTube has been criticized for years over its willingness to host videos of extremist Muslim clerics attempting to recruit people to jihadist movements.
Shortly before the attack struck, the clerics had issued a fatwa against suicide bombings and urged peace talks to end the Afghan war.
Some Moroccan clerics, seemingly keen to show their loyalty to the broader Sunni cause, echoed the charge that Shia proselytism posed a threat.
After the 1979 revolution that brought Shi'ite Muslim clerics to power, Iran would typically use hostages to extract concessions from its western adversaries.
In a country where secular sceptics and sharp-tongued clerics often have a kind of amicable, bantering relationship, things have suddenly become tetchy.
Mr Ouda is hardly the kingdom's most traditional voice; dozens of other clerics pose a bigger threat to the crown prince's cultural reforms.
Jaish al-Adl kidnapped five Iranian border guards in 2014, releasing four of them two months later after mediation by local Sunni clerics.
The Patriarch's website also published an appeal from an association of Catholic clerics and monastics in the region that put things more bluntly.
He is increasingly close to the army, happy to make common cause with hardline clerics and willing to suppress some of the opposition.
This week a book by a French journalist, Frédéric Martel, was published, claiming that 80% of the clerics in the Vatican are gay.
Under the regime of laïcité, or strict secularism, municipalities took over formal responsibility for Catholic churches; clerics and their congregations are merely users.
For one thing, it doesn't go into effect until June 2018, and it's unclear whether it will be approved by conservative Saudi clerics.
The detentions follow a crackdown in September on political opponents of Saudi Arabia's rulers that saw some 30 clerics, intellectuals and activists detained.
But he gained support among militant Shia factions in Iraq and some clerics in Iran, which was surely of concern to Saudi authorities.
She urged the Pope to take strong action against the perpetrators and those who protect them, including by removing top clerics if necessary.
Some Islamist clerics are currently in detention in Saudi Arabia following an apparent crackdown on potential opponents of the kingdom's rulers this month.
The decision came after a group of Islamic clerics from across the country met this week and recommended a ceasefire, according to Reuters.
Conservative clerics have repeatedly said women who do physical exercise are immodest, even when they are not in public or seen by men.
But each time, the Guardian Council, the body of clerics and jurists that decides who is qualified to run, threw out her candidacy.
In 2001, however, Jamshed abandoned music to join the strict Tableeghi Jamaat, which sends clerics across Pakistan and the world to preach Islam.
In practice, the militias answer to a murky network of patronage and loyalties divided among different political parties, religious clerics and external patrons.
Though he is considered a secular leader opposed to Islamists, he maintains connections to radical Salafi clerics who call for jihad in Libya.
The kingdom's clerics warn that it could lead to fornication, adultery, broken homes, children born of unmarried couples and full-blown societal collapse.
That's eight clerics accused of sexual misconduct in my personal experience—eight out of the couple of hundred priests that I have known.
The mayor was also lambasted by prominent clerics and pilloried in social media posts falsely claiming he planned to allow hundreds more churches.
"America is the enemy of the Muslim ummah (community)," Haq told a press briefing along with other clerics who preach a jihadist doctrine.
Last year, he oversaw the arrest of dozens of writers, intellectuals and moderate clerics who were seen as critics of his foreign policies.
The internet eroded the monopoly Saudi clerics had on religious interpretation, and many Saudis realized how differently Islam was practiced in other countries.
Although the Lahore clerics' fatwa is not legally binding, it also recommended that people consider harassment of transgender people a crime under Islam.
The 1992 rally was backed by the Greek Orthodox Church, which distanced itself from Sunday's demonstration, notwithstanding the presence of some radical clerics.
They have recently stepped forward to accuse clerics of abuse in India and Italy, as well as in African and Latin American countries.
The detained include prominent clerics, a journalist, a poet, at least two women and a prince, according to their friends, relatives and associates.
The protests are the worst unrest in Iran since the Islamic Revolution that put Shiite clerics in charge of the country in 1979.
And waves of arrests have scooped up clerics, intellectuals, royals, businessmen and activists who had campaigned for an end to the guardianship system.
The French Revolution was driven in part by the revulsion of starving peasants toward the overfed clerics who had taken vows of poverty.
Vatican ends secrecy rule: The Roman Catholic Church said it would abolish the high level of secrecy surrounding sexual abuse accusations against clerics.
Only weeks ago, the country experienced widespread protests that alarmed the clerics in Tehran so much they shut down the internet for days.
This has prompted creative minds to consult with Muslim clerics to dream up financial instruments that effectively pay interest without technically doing so.
The mosque project has not been opposed by the general public, with objections expressed chiefly by right-wing groups and Greek Orthodox clerics.
Saudi Arabia has begun to loosen the tyrannical hold over society enjoyed by the clerics who imposed what they considered a true Islam.
And waves of arrests have scooped up clerics, intellectuals, royals, businessmen and activists who had campaigned for an end to the guardianship system.
The French Revolution was driven in part by the revulsion of starving peasants toward the overfed clerics who had taken vows of poverty.
Far from spreading Shariah, as Islamophobes have suggested, America's Muslim clerics are focusing on a more familiar trend: youngsters blending into American life.
His legal darts have targeted actors, clerics, politicians and even belly dancers, and may play a decisive role in the next presidential election.
It is a decision facing thousands of clerics as Ukraine prepares to sever ties to the Russian Orthodox Church going back to 1686.
Clerics lost the battle to stop the introduction of television in the 1960s, and for years were hostile to satellite TV. But MbS can depend on his father King Salman, who is highly respected among conservative and senior clerics, to help him to implement his "Vision 2030" designed to prepare the kingdom's economy and its society for a future less dependent on oil.
The Council, made up of six clerics and six legal experts generally within Khamenei's orbit, has the authority to vet laws and election candidates.
Mr Rouhani won an election last year, but he is challenged by hardline clerics and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the regime's military arm.
Shortly before the attack, the clerics had issued an Islamic ruling, or a fatwa, declaring that suicide attacks are "haram" -- forbidden under Islamic law.
Shortly before the attack, the clerics had issued an Islamic ruling, or a fatwa, declaring that suicide attacks are "haram" — forbidden under Islamic law.
Hong Kong priests say a total figure of clerics under detention or house arrest in China is hard to pin down given official opacity.
Some ultraconservative clerics in Saudi Arabia, who wield power and influence in the judiciary and education sectors, had warned against allowing women to drive.
A second, much smaller band of critics is made up of Vatican-based clerics, whose objection is to the pope's treatment of his officials.
"Our clerics across the board including Shias, Sufis, Salafis, Sunnis have consensus on this ... we want to educate women about their rights," he said.
According to rules dictated by Saudi Arabia's powerful conservative clerics, women must wear an ankle-length cloak in public and are forbidden from driving.
In Egypt polls show that majorities back legal codes based on sharia, punishments from the Koran and giving clerics the power to draft legislation.
Dozens of activists, clerics and intellectuals have been arrested in the past year in a crackdown on potential opponents of the kingdom's absolute rulers.
However, the concessions have proved insufficient to many modern Iranians who are tired of a weak economy and the unimpeachable power of Iran's clerics.
That means he still needs public support from the state&aposs top clerics in order to position his reforms as Islamic and religiously permissible.
But the changes also drew backlash from conservatives, who posted clips of senior Saudi clerics in past years arguing in favor of guardianship laws.
"This shows to the public that it is not correct that Jokowi persecutes or criminalises clerics," Mahendra was quoted by Indonesia media as saying.
Bishops of the Mormon Church — or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as it's formally called — are laymen, not professional clerics.
That risks inflaming tensions with influential Wahhabi clerics with whom the ruling Al Saud has enjoyed a close strategic alliance since the kingdom's founding.
Dozens of activists, clerics and intellectuals have been arrested in the past year in a crackdown on potential opponents of the kingdom's absolute rulers.
It's true that Riyadh has a monumental task ahead in rebuilding the trust of a community that its clerics have long defamed as infidels.
It's a move sure to rile the ultraconservative clerics who have held sway in the kingdom, even if that sway appears to be waning.
The jihadists have exploited this by repeatedly launching suicide attacks on Shiite mosques and then accusing Saudi clerics of hypocrisy for condemning the violence.
The decision came after a meeting of Islamic clerics from across the country this week who declared a fatwa, or ruling, against suicide bombings.
From his office in Mecca, Mr. Ghamdi watched, frustrated that the clerics were not backing a project he felt was good for the kingdom.
So, for the country's 172 million Muslims, qazis—or Islamic clerics or judges, historically all men—are the arbitrators of all marriages and divorces.
At the same time, they fight back by blemishing in every way they can the almost aesthetic dreams the clerics have developed for Iran.
After dominating for 15 years, Iran's hard-line faction — a conservative elite of clerics, military leaders and politicians — has suffered a string of defeats.
Another Khamenei adviser, Mohammad Mirmohammadi, 71, died last week, and one of the country's top clerics, Hadi Khosroshahi, succumbed to the sickness last month.
The clerics yielded on subjects they deemed secondary when the balance of power left them with little choice and managed to preserve their authority.
Dozens of other activists, intellectuals and clerics have been arrested separately in the past two years in an apparent bid to stamp out opposition.
Islamist militants and hard-line clerics say the vaccination drive is a foreign plot to sterilize Muslim children and a cover for western spies.
The Associated Press reported that dozens of protesters stormed the shrines, apparently emboldened by some of the country's Shia clerics who supported the protests.
The extent of the outbreak has been astonishing, with leaders, top officials, lawmakers, clerics, and members of the country's Revolutionary Guard all growing ill.
The Church had often transferred clerics accused of sexual abuse without providing the new host community with "appropriate information" about them, the study found.
Mr. Ma'ruf, 75, is the chairman of the Indonesia Ulema Council, the country's largest body of clerics, which supported the prosecution of Mr. Basuki.
He joins a growing list of clerics who have reneged on hardline positions as Prince Mohammed arrests critics of his push to liberalize society.
Out of the estimated 801 Islamic clerics who put themselves forward for the 88-member Assembly of Experts, only 166 were approved as candidates.
Hamas clerics and politicians at the rear dispatching women and teenagers to the Israeli border to precipitate an armed conflict personifies cowardice and selfishness.
But Iranian clerics have long insisted that rap music is the devil's work, and censure the lifestyle of rappers and the wearing of tattoos.
There is also more universal approval of the reforms Bin Salman is making against extremist clerics and the added rights he's securing for women.
Jailing or expelling some radical clerics and detaining 200 rich princes and officials in a nice hotel seem far more palatable for obvious reasons.
A separate open letter signed by more than 70 Orthodox clerics said the convictions had been disproportionately harsh and appeared designed to intimidate protests.
Step two was a major series of cultural reforms that included purging anti-American and anti-Jewish clerics and granting more rights for women.
And the Vatican revealed to The Times that it has general guidelines for what to do when clerics break celibacy vows and father children.
And most Muslims — especially the clerics of Saudi Arabia — consider the artistic depiction of any of the prophets to be a form of sacrilege.
The Saudi clergy is powerful — a number of clerics have large social media followings, which provide a direct channel to supporters across the country.
Iran's clerics may be trying to wield influence over the Shia majority in Iraq, but instead Iraqi-inspired theology is gaining traction among Iranian seminarians.
He and his son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, welcomed well-wishers at a palace gathering attended by princes, clerics, military leaders and distinguished guests.
The clerics who hold sway in Iran regard the Baha'i faith as blasphemous because its founder, Bahá'u'lláh, declared himself to be a prophet of God.
The battles take place within the regime elite and between the country's youthful public and the sclerotic oligarchy of senior clerics who dominate its institutions.
Gilmore said some were members of Al-Islah, some were clerics, and some were out-and-out terrorists — but he conceded he couldn't be sure.
No. They simply issued a heart-felt cry of pain over their own solitude, a condition they would not wish on future cohorts of clerics.
As is often pointed out, the Catholic church does already have a small minority of married priests, including Eastern-rite Catholics and former Anglican clerics.
For example, MbS -- like his father and previous Saudi rulers -- has devoted significant effort to wooing clerics, who have great influence in the legal system.
Indeed, Iranian clerics demanded alterations to "He Who Said No" before it was released: the faces of some of the protagonists had to be obscured.
Muhammad bin Salman, the modernising crown prince, has defied clerics by allowing cinemas, open-air pop concerts and even female drivers in his puritanical kingdom.
"The eyes of the government are still on those churches that have not registered and those underground clerics that have not been approved," she said.
We can no longer allow radical clerics who preach hatred of America in mosques on American soil, seeking to radicalize young Muslim men in particular.
The pre-Islamic era is dismissed as the age of ignorance, its relics deemed ungodly, and some clerics even see patriotism as tantamount to idolatry.
Stoking their anger over the rising price of eggs, clerics in Mashhad, Iran's second city, urged hundreds of their followers to protest on December 28th.
His next steps should be to abolish the wilaya system entirely and curb the influence that Wahhabi clerics exercise over Saudi schools and social policy.
These clerics, many of whom had spoken out in the past against women working and driving, appear unwilling or unable to publicly criticize the moves.
Under Saddam Hussein, Iraq's old dictator, yearly enrolment at its Shia seminaries dropped to just a few hundred, while Iran funded training for 110,000 clerics.
The patriarchate, whose officials, including the patriarch, are required by law to be Turkish citizens, is struggling to find clerics to tend to its churches.
You gain victory points by completing quests, and you complete quests by acquiring pools of Rogues, Warriors, Wizards, and Clerics (basically just different-colored cubes).
Videos of what police say are fake attacks on Muslim clerics and schools have also been distributed on social media, heightening a mood of unease.
Every four years, it goes through a great bout of electioneering to choose a new president among candidates pre-selected by a group of clerics.
"The judges did not really take into account what was submitted from the defense team," said Lubis, noting many senior clerics had sided with Purnama.
Male and female students rarely sit together or walk around the school together without receiving disapproving frowns from clerics, old-timers and populist student leaders.
He is backed by Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards, the country's top security force, their affiliated volunteer Basij militia, hardline clerics and two influential clerical groups.
The all-male top leaders of the Knights of Malta are not clerics, but they take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience to the pope.
For example, MbS — like his father and previous Saudi rulers — has devoted significant effort to wooing clerics, who have great influence in the legal system.
For example, shortly after the midnight proclamation that "Christ is risen", clerics everywhere re-read a sermon by Archbishop John Chrysostom, who died in 407.
Saudi Arabia had some cinemas in the 1970s, but its powerful clerics closed them, reflecting rising Islamist influence throughout the Arab region at the time.
He followed with other articles, went on TV and faced off against other clerics who insulted him and marshaled their own evidence from the scriptures.
Many Saudi and Saudi-trained clerics are quietist, characterized by a devotion to scripture and prayer and a shunning of politics, let alone political violence.
Saudi Arabia had some cinemas in the 1970s but its powerful clerics closed them, reflecting rising Islamist influence throughout the Arab region at the time.
Saudi Arabia's justice system is based on sharia, or Islamic law, and its judges are clerics from the ultra conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam.
Dozens of other activists, intellectuals and clerics have been arrested separately in the past two years in an apparent bid to stamp out possible opposition.
South of Aleppo, Iraqi clerics have given rousing speeches to militiamen in fatigues urging them to fight in the name of faith and Islamic law.
Many in the Eastern Orthodox Church are weary of what they call Russian arrogance and the excessively nationalistic attitude of clerics under the Kremlin's thumb.
In return, the clerics supported the House of Saud against internal and external enemies such as Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Saddam Hussein and the Muslim Brotherhood.
The changes began with Islamic clerics, who were among the world's first religious leaders to approve in vitro fertilization as a solution to marital infertility.
While elections are relatively free and fair, a special body of Iranian clerics vets all candidates and allows only a narrow range of political debate.
There were audio recordings of Quran verses recited by well-known clerics, the sort of material that many practicing Muslims might have on their phones.
They included clerics and religious scholars along with others who had gathered to celebrate the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad, a national holiday in Afghanistan.
All clerics interviewed for this article spoke on condition of anonymity for fear that they, too, would be arrested for breaking with the government line.
Along with opening commercial movie theaters and promoting women's employment, Prince Mohammed has arrested scores of clerics, businessmen and some of his own royal relatives.
It took control of the church's top-down structure and began appointing clerics loyal to its vision of a Chinese church with no foreign ties.
A deputy health minister, a vice president and numerous officials, clerics, and members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) are threatened by the virus.
Muslim clerics poured out of the hall where Francis spoke, its walls covered in geometric Islamic patterns, and offered rave reviews of the pope's address.
That required a harsh crackdown by Iran's clerics against their own people that left thousands jailed and killed, further weakening the legitimacy of the regime.
As chairman of the Indonesia Clerics Council in 2016, Amin issued a fatwa banning Muslims from joining Christmas mass, and his testimony helped convict Purnama.
As the men in colorful suits walked around, the clerics recruiting fighters for the Shiite Islamist militias nearby didn't even throw them a sideways glance.
He subsequently reappeared to apologize for hermeneutic errors that damaged the reputation of the Islamic faith, offended senior clerics and gave succor to Iran's enemies.
This trend worries the religious establishment especially since it is occurring parallel to the erosion in the status of clerics in the last several years.
The twist in all of this is the role of Russia, in terms of its relations with the Trump administration and the ruling Iranian clerics.
The crown prince has arrested Saudi clerics, bloggers, journalists and activists, with at least one woman who campaigns for female rights facing the death penalty.
And whatever Saudi clerics may have done in the past, they are no longer spreading an intolerant, violent ideology that justifies terror against non-believers.
A coalition of prominent nongovernment organizations, meanwhile, issued a joint statement accusing the Saudi government of continuing to persecute dissidents, activists, journalists and independent clerics.
"We also know that there are more names of clerics who have hurt people in New Jersey that were not named today," the statement said.
Throughout the modern history of the kingdom, clerics have objected to what they regard as corrupting, for example women's education and permission for them to drive.
"That's ridiculous, that's outrageous," he said, adding that the meeting of Saudi clerics was to approve and issue a statement condemning the blacklisting of the coalition.
Hardline clerics in the Guardian Council loyal to Khamenei have barred hundreds of candidates from contesting the poll, questioning their loyalty to the Islamic Republic system.
He was hired by a US company, Spear Operations Group, that was funded by the United Arab Emirates to assassinate Islamist political leaders and activist clerics.
Amid a string of military defeats in eastern Syria, Islamic State leaders were in disarray, killing off rival clerics and commanders known as emirs, Mkhayar said.
For months, rumors of Khan's alleged indiscretions had circulated among Muslims in Dallas, with some clerics even making thinly veiled references to the claims in public.
The national council of clerics issued a fatwa attacking it, and the Ministry of Education responded by demanding that Mr. Royesh's civic education courses be dropped.
There was discussion of putting together a leadership council, before a handful of top clerics in the Assembly, including Rafsanjani, pushed for the nomination of Khamenei.
In a weird historical turnaround, uniformed clerics may increasingly be reproducing the function exercised in the Soviet era by a caste of officers known as zampoliti.
Why then is this exhibition of upscale, essentially unwearable garments, not usable for anyone but senior clerics or celebrities going to the Met Gala, so popular?
SINCE the horrific massacre in Las Vegas, the word "evil" has been heard with unusual frequency, on the lips of political leaders as well as clerics.
Mr Olad was told he would leave college and be turned over the next day to the care of Muslim clerics who would restore his faith.
In Somalia&aposs capital, Mogadishu, hundreds of people hurried to mosques for special prayers often observed during lunar eclipses while clerics on loudspeakers urged them along.
The platform, which consistently ranks among the most trafficked websites in the world, has served as a library for radical clerics' speeches and calls for fundraising.
Once a celebrity playboy, Khan now embraces conservative Islamic stands and keeps company with radical clerics who often espouse a philosophy that frightens Pakistan&aposs minorities.
Whatever their style, Pentecostal pastors are culturally closer to their flock than are the learned clerics of the Catholic or Lutheran churches; and they are numerous.
In a joint statement distributed on social media, Bahrain's four main Shi'ite Muslim clerics warned that the government crackdown was not limited to the political opposition.
Private schools, still barred from teaching evolution, would have a freer hand to set their curriculum and choose pedagogic materials beyond those designed by the clerics.
The clerics led crowds of protesters into Islamabad, where they fought with police, smashed up bus stations and occupied an area outside Parliament for four days.
These factors set the stage for a different dynamic in Iranian politics where the ruling clerics will be deprived of undue foreign assistance and internal stability.
"Socializing with them, especially relatives of senior clerics and high-ranking officials, is damaging the norms," he said on Tuesday, the semiofficial Tasnim News Agency reported.
It has defrocked priests, worked with local police and the pope has declared a "zero tolerance" where clerics could not appeal a conviction on technical grounds.
A sledgehammer, not a scalpel, is needed to break the stranglehold that a network of powerful princes and conservative clerics have used to block necessary change.
ALGIERS, March 11 (Reuters) - Algerian clerics told the minister of religious affairs on Monday to stop pressuring them to issue sermons in favour of the government.
Angered clerics exhorted the government to cancel the match, warning that instead of lamenting the death of Hussein, people might cheer for their earthly national team.
A group of influential Pakistani clerics including Sami-ul Haq, who runs a Islamic seminary where many senior Afghan Taliban studied, angrily condemned the United States.
Some prominent African clerics have long argued that a Western view that accepts shifting genders was poisonous to the church in Africa and should be rejected.
They believe in a mystic interpretation of Sharia, which sets them apart from Iran's Shiite clerics, who reserve for themselves the right to interpret the law.
The church's failure to hold bishops and senior clerics accountable for covering up sexual abuse has fueled enormous frustration and backlash inside and outside the church.
One of the prosecuting lawyers, Samir Sabry, claims to have filed more than 2,700 such lawsuits over 40 years, targeting actors, clerics, politicians and belly dancers.
If the changes take hold, they could mean a historic reordering of the Saudi state by diminishing the role of hard-line clerics in shaping policy.
In a far-reaching crackdown, Saudi Arabia detained at least 210 people over the past week, including clerics, a poet, a journalist and even a prince.
Though Empress In-yo supported the clerics and their cataloging of history, she wouldn't allow them to investigate her banishment and how she came to power.
The letter explicitly detailed abuses the victim said were witnessed by other clerics, including Juan Barros Madrid, who was appointed bishop of Osorno, Chile, that year.
Mr. Sisi's efforts to exert tight control over the affairs of Al Azhar are resented by many clerics, and have been a source of some tension.
Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran's Shiite Muslim clerics have codified into law hundreds of lifestyle regulations, meant to keep their flock on the right path.
Since the Islamic revolution in 1979, women have been barred from entering soccer stadiums because conservative Shiite Muslim clerics say such places are inappropriate for women.
Most Iranians can now watch more than 150 foreign-based Persian language channels, while state television, heavily salted with lectures by conservative clerics, is increasingly ignored.
Despite controlling most unelected councils, the conservative clerics and Revolutionary Guard commanders have suffered a string of political defeats, starting with Mr. Rouhani's election in 2013.
Saudi had some cinemas in the 1970s but its powerful clerics managed to close them, reflecting rising Islamist influence throughout the Arab region at the time.
The others who have vanished had the courage to critique organized religion, the influence of clerics in Pakistan and the country's powerful military on social media.
Although the hotel has been a site of numerous protests since President Trump's election, few, if any, have involved the arrest of a group of clerics.
In Medan, on the island of Sumatra, clerics from the Muslim group Muhammadiyah urged members to kill communists, according to a telegram from the U.S. consul.
But large mosques can consist of multiple buildings, sometimes only several yards apart, and are used for wedding parties, ablutions or as residences for local clerics.
Most religious events in Karachi are dominated by men and addressed by older, often-virulent clerics, but the participants at this recent lecture were all women.
Iran's authorities, led by conservative Muslim clerics, strongly dislike the pre-Islamic festival of Chaharshanbe Suri, or Fireworks Wednesday, as it would be called in English.
The prince's supporters hailed the kingdom's shake-up of a system in which clerics wielded considerable influence, and where the economy was riddled with bureaucratic bottlenecks.
In an effort to stifle dissent, M.B.S. in September cracked down and detained a few influential clerics who failed to support the kingdom's position on Qatar.
In a long letter leaked to the news media, Archbishop Viganò also called out other clerics he accused of belonging to "homosexual networks" inside the church.
The pre-Islamic era is dismissed as the age of ignorance and its relics are deemed ungodly, and some clerics even see patriotism as tantamount to idolatry.
The kingdom had some cinemas in the 1970s but the clerics persuaded authorities to close them, reflecting rising Islamist influence throughout the Arab region at the time.
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, signed the "Tomos" in Istanbul in front of clerics and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, forming the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Novaya's report also caused outrage among Chechnya's Muslim clerics, who adopted a resolution saying it had insulted the dignity and Islamic faith of Chechen men and society.
In the later years of the reign of King Abdullah, King Salman's predecessor, some senior clerics who opposed his cautious social reforms too openly lost their jobs.
In other decrees, King Salman renamed several natural reserves after deceased Saudi clerics and royal family members from the first Saudi state of the early 19th century.
KABUL –   A suicide bombing targeted a gathering of Afghanistan&aposs top clerics on Monday in Kabul, killing at least seven people and wounding 18, the police said.
Fellow clerics organised the biggest funeral since Ayatollah Khomeini's, assigned him a golden tomb next to the revolution's founder, and promised to name a street after him.
And the clerics in the holy city of Qom, who shy from mixing Islam and politics, would more vociferously have questioned the legitimacy of the Islamic Republic.
He even welcomed, albeit with a critical eye, the daring social reforms MBS has launched and his crackdown on the kingdom's ultra-conservative Wahhabi clerics opposing them.
The Indonesia Ulema Council, the country's top body of clerics, has been adamant, for example, that traditional beliefs should not be seen as on par with Islam.
On Thursday night, mosque clerics in several parts of Khartoum – acting at about the same time - used microphones to urge people to take up arms against criminals.
Thousands protested in southern cities and Baghdad on Friday, calling for the downfall of political parties, as they escalated demonstrations backed by the country's most influential clerics.
Sheikh Hasina might even find that, if she allowed voters a genuine choice, they would return her to office—with a mandate to ignore the angry clerics.
Local officials said they had recruited Muslim clerics to promote the immunisations for 400,000 children after past programmes were met with resistance and even violence by extremists.
Allies of the reform-minded president, Hassan Rouhani, now control Tehran's 30-seat parliamentary delegation, and two radical clerics were ousted from the powerful Assembly of Experts.
The bomb exploded at the entrance to a giant tent, near residential buildings in the west of Kabul, after most the clerics had left, a witness said.
Yet clerics and charities have begun to argue about how it should be spent, and non-Muslim charities are eyeing up the cash for the first time.
The kingdom has long been ruled by a pact between the Al Saud ruling family and Wahhabi clerics who impose their ultra-strict interpretation of Islamic law.
And in an era when purely spiritual messages can be hard to get across, the clerics of 2019 seem passionately protective of their share of that legacy.
He has viewed the traditional pillars of the Saudi monarchy—the clerics, the royal household and the tribes—as challengers rather than props, and cut them down.
In one town near the capital, Jakarta, a mosque manager was stabbed and a religious scholar received an anonymous letter warning that 10 clerics would be killed.
Francis will host them, as well as two clerics providing spiritual support and two lay people, at the Vatican hotel where he lives from June 1-3.
Although the QSS eventually went into terminal decline, its legacies apparently include a contingent of American Muslims who are fiercely protective of Saudi Arabia and its clerics.
Benedict, the pope emeritus who turns 20193 next week, has blamed a surge of criminal acts against children by clerics on the sexual revolution of the 1960s.
Martin was criticized by Vatican clerics for his 2017 book "Building a Bridge", in which he argued for the Church to better engage with the LGBT community.
There is no official law in Saudi Arabia that bans women from driving, but deeply-held religious beliefs that are imposed by conservative Muslim clerics prohibit it.
The docents in the joint were backroom clerics, the odd refugee from CB culture (literally "breaker, breaker"), and wallflowers hoping for a new shot at social life.
The clerics also recommended a ceasefire with the Taliban, who are fighting to reimpose strict Islamic law after their ouster in 2001, and Ghani endorsed the recommendation.
They had banned most reformist candidates for the Majlis, or parliament, and for a body of Shia clerics, the Assembly of Experts, who select the Supreme Leader.
Flush with cash from the removal of sanctions, the ruling clerics would like to modernize their aging fleet of aircraft, but it comes with an added bonus.
The latter displeased theocratic clerics like Ayatollah Khomeini who had initially supported the Shah against secular nationalists like the overthrown Premier Muhammad Mossadegh and his Marxist allies.
"Authorities continue to repress and discriminate against dissident clerics and members of the Shi'a community" the Commission on International Religious Freedom wrote in its latest annual report.
He said initial instructions to clerics from Diyanet were confusing, but the agency had clarified last month that imams were only expected to carry out religious duties.
Saudi diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks in 2015 reveal a system of funding for mosques, Islamic centers and Saudi-trained clerics that spans Asia, Africa and Europe.
But his aspirations are a tall order in a country where the royal family rules in a pact with austere and powerful Wahhabi clerics wary of modernization.
A GBA spokeswoman said the investigation was separate from a probe launched earlier this year into possible spying by clerics sent to Germany by the Turkish government.
Politicians from right and left want DITIB's influence curbed, and many, including Schroeder, are calling for the group to stop importing clerics who are trained in Istanbul.
The scorecard for MbS is looking good: oil is up, Saudi clerics have been marginalized, and the previous crown prince was forced to resign in MbS's favor.
Iranian voters were asked to choose new lawmakers in the country's parliament and a council of clerics that could be responsible for choosing the next supreme leader.
During Ramadan last year, more than a thousand people died in Pakistan from dehydration under extreme heat, despite calls from some more flexible clerics to cease fasting.
He can pool intelligence capacities to sharpen American awareness of Iran's weaknesses and tap Iranians opposed to the government of clerics to assist in challenging their grip.
He recognized that his views may not be welcomed by clerics, but called for greater harmony between the world's great religions and those who profess no faith.
Among its guidelines for the depiction of sex, violence, crime and religion in American movies was a rule that said clerics should not be used as villains.
"The forces of radical Islam derive their ideology from radical clerics like Gülen, who is running a scam," Flynn wrote in an op-ed in The Hill.
But discussing such issues in Saudi Arabia is bound to cause a backlash from the clerics, who see themselves as the guardians of the kingdom's Islamic purity.
Pakistani officials were not immediately available for comment on Trump's rejection of peace talks but its embassy in Kabul cited Pakistani clerics as declaring suicide attacks unIslamic.
He has cut down the religious establishment by stripping the religious police of the power to arrest people, and by silencing clerics who oppose his social reforms.
Neither the minister who oversees religious affairs nor our clerics have issued fatwas or told us the position of Shariah on torture, police brutality or forcible disappearances.
" He added that guilty clerics had proved "capable of skillfully covering their tracks" and that "the greater scandal in this matter is that of cloaking the truth.
On Friday, Pope Francis called on clerics who sexually abuse minors to turn themselves in, saying the Catholic Church would remove priests who prey on their flocks.
The ruling party in Bangladesh, the secular-leaning Awami League, has partnered with conservative Muslim clerics who routinely call for the persecution of religious minorities, including Christians.
The anonymous 18th-century canvas portrays the wedding of an Inca princess and a conquistador, witnessed by Inca royals in gold regalia, and black-cloaked Spanish clerics.
Finally, Pope Francis has been warmly welcomed in Colombia, where on Friday he honored two clerics who were killed during the country's five decades of civil conflict.
Instead, the pope's critics anonymously papered Rome over the weekend with posters of a grumpy-looking Francis above complaints about his removing and ignoring clerics and cardinals.
Only the voices of mainstream Muslims and independent clerics in Muslim countries can create a narrative that refutes the Islamic State's and offers a more positive alternative.
The Council's reputation was further damaged by accusations that some rejected candidates paid bribes to middle men in an effort to have the clerics reverse their decision.
In addition to his arrests of prominent clerics and dissidents, Bin Salman, in a palace coup, supplanted his cousin Mohamed bin Nayef as crown prince in 2017.
The agreement has been controversial in Iran, where clerics and opponents and President Hassan Rouhani have argued that the promised economic benefits have come far too slowly.
Its authors acknowledged that the cases drove home for them a reality that hadn't set in after other revelations of child sex abuse by Catholic clerics elsewhere.
TEHRAN — Until President Trump's inauguration, Iran's clerics felt comfortable leading worshipers in a chorus of "Death to America" while simultaneously signing a $16.6 billion deal with Boeing.
TEHRAN — Until two weeks ago, Iran's clerics felt comfortable leading worshipers in a chorus of "Death to America" while simultaneously signing a $16.6 billion deal with Boeing.
"Victims need to be believed," another person pleaded by video, urging bishops and other church leaders to work with civil authorities to hold sexually deviant clerics accountable.
Nor is it coincidental that these arrests came on the heels of arrests in September of influential, independent voices, including intellectuals, human-rights activists and popular clerics.
The clerics who recently revived the Flying Fathers hockey team hope that it will help restore their public image following widespread cases of abuse involving the church.
Although satellite television and video downloads have made the ban on commercial theaters all but irrelevant, the announcement highlights the diminishing power of the kingdom's conservative clerics.
Saudi clerics also teach that Islam prohibits any work of art representing a human being, and that the depiction of any of the prophets is especially forbidden.
If the clerics resist having their wings clipped, they are likely to openly oppose encroaching westernization just as Saudi Arabia seeks to attract and retain foreign investors.
Behzadzadeh grew up in Iran, in a resolutely secular family; even as a boy, he couldn't stomach the fundamentalist clerics brought to power by the Iranian revolution.
At least 55 people were killed in Kabul when a suicide-bomber targeted a meeting of clerics who had gathered to honour the birth of the Prophet Muhammad.
A suicide bombing targeted a gathering of Afghanistan&aposs top clerics on Monday in Kabul, killing at least four people and wounding a fifth person, the police said.
"They were killing clerics," he told Reuters during an interview via video link from a safe house, naming three Islamic scholars he said were killed by the movement.
The Saudi sources say MbS has destroyed the institutional pillars of nearly a century of Al Saud rule: the family, the clerics, the tribes and the merchant families.
Canon 33 forbids clerics in the church—bishops, priests and deacons—from having sexual relations with their wives and from having children, though not from entering into marriage.
Convinced the clerics would never punish a favourite for a crime that in Iran carries a death sentence, last month his accusers spoke out on Voice of America.
But Khomeini's successor as Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said in 2005 that the fatwa was still valid and three hardline clerics called on followers to kill Rushdie.
Increasingly, however, attention has shifted to the role of bishops in covering up for clerics, often by posting them to other dioceses where they continued to abuse minors.
It suggests that the Iranian revolutionary clerics who overthrew the shah — commanded by their leader-in-exile, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini — may have seen Mr. Sadr as a threat.
Under a pact between the Al Saud and the Wahhabi clergy dating back to the 18th century, the princes had responsibility for governing and the clerics for religion.
For decades, moves to make Archbishop Romero a saint were blocked by conservative Catholic clerics who insisted that his killing was motivated by politics, not anti-religious sentiment.
Many now call for the downfall of the ruling clerics and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the regime's praetorian guard, who also dominate much of the economy.
They included actions such as informing civil authorities of substantial accusations in compliance with local law and making sure non-clerics are involved in Church investigations of abuse.
In the event of a deal it is possible that some underground Catholics would choose to join a schismatic church rather than co-operate with party-approved clerics.
In September Iran's government, run largely by Shia clerics, sent security forces into Sunni Kurdish towns to suppress demonstrations expressing support for an independence vote in Iraqi Kurdistan.
The average age of his most visible representatives will plunge by nearly 40 years as younger clerics take over Greek-Orthodox sees in New York, London and Sydney.
"Child marriage is a form of sexual violence," said Ninik Rahayu, one of the female Islamic clerics who jointly issued an unprecedented fatwa against child marriage last year.
Image: APSome people playing Pokémon Go today are probably too young to remember that Saudi clerics declared a fatwa, or Islamic religious ban, on Pokémon back in 2001.
Family members were often aware of both radicalization and planning, but they came forward less often than authority figures such as college professors, supervisors, military commanders or clerics.
In June, local media reported the government had teamed up with Muslim clerics to tell their more than 100 million followers to choose reusable bags over plastic ones.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - With Iraq's politicians tainted by corruption and the army's standing hurt by battlefield defeats, two Shi'ite clerics have re-emerged as leaders in matters of state.
In addition, it would signal an overdue shift in the approach and policy vis-à-vis the ruthless clerics, critical to curbing Tehran's regional bullying and nuclear ambitions.
Today the Islamic Community of Kosovo has been so influenced by the largess of Arab donors that it has seeded prominent positions with radical clerics, its critics say.
In another concession, the Ministry of Religious Affairs on Sunday informed clerics that they are no longer required to submit texts of their sermons to authorities for approval.
Although the Saudi royal family relies on the Wahhabi clerics for their political legitimacy, the Islamic State accuses the monarchy of corrupting the faith to preserve its power.
But since the law's passage, many conservative clerics and religious leaders have denounced it as being in conflict with the Muslim holy book, the Koran, and the constitution.
Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad has yet to have a strategic and meaningful diplomatic relationship with leading clerics in Iraqi Shiite Islam.
In his view, that is a risky wager that depends on enough Iranians rallying around Washington, a prospect that Tehran's religious clerics could undercut with the right message.
Residents said clerics and tribesmen had tried to persuade the al Qaeda fighters to leave quietly and that they had withdrawn westward to the neighboring province of Shabwa.
"The clerics at that time were releasing fatwas that it was not right to travel to the countries of the infidels unless it was necessary," Mr. Ghamdi said.
The first irony of Mr. Ghamdi's situation is that many Saudis, including members of the royal family and even important clerics, agree with him, although mostly in private.
Flanked by Catholic clerics wearing vestments and gold crosses, Rai discussed religious tolerance and combating extremism with the king and his son, the Saudi state news agency said.
That state has rested on an enduring accommodation between the royal family and the Wahhabist clerics who control the hardline version of Islam that originated in Saudi Arabia.
Also of concern is the Assembly of Experts, an 88-seat body of clerics officially charged with selecting the replacement for the supreme leader from among its members.
It has been reported that "clerics and leaders of militant factions" falsely claimed that the "fence had already been breached" in order to encourage protesters to rush it.
Sisi has called for a comprehensive campaign to counter what he describes as the existential threat of radical jihadism, deploying moderate clerics to promote moderate Islam, for instance.
If presented with the opportunity to negotiate, for example, a de-escalation agreement in Syria or a new nuclear deal with Tehran's clerics, Trump would likely take it.
On June 14th around 100,000 Muslim clerics in Bangladesh issued a fatwa (Islamic religious edict) ruling the murder of "non-Muslims, minorities and secular activists…forbidden in Islam".
But clerics and state officials had strongly urged the fans to avoid cheering for their players or celebrating the victory, which was deemed an insult to religious values.
But there's a growing body of evidence supporting claims, both inside Iran and out, that the country's ruling clerics are lying about the real toll of the virus.
Other leading Catholic clerics around the world have resigned for turning a blind eye to sexual abuse; others were convicted of abuse themselves; and some vaguely sought absolution.
After the Second Vatican Council, in the early 1960s, Pope Paul VI created the Synod of Bishops, an assembly to promote better dialogue among clerics and the Vatican.
Residents said local clerics and tribesmen had been in talks with AQAP earlier in the day to exit quietly and that fighters withdrew westward to neighboring Shabwa province.
Three Orthodox clerics wanted to worship together: one was under Moscow's authority, another under Istanbul's and the other under the Romanian Patriarchate, which is friendly with both rivals.
Historically, the kingdom was based on an alliance between the Saudi royal family and the clerics, guardians of the kingdom's strict interpretation of Islam, known abroad as Wahhabism.
Much of it consists of close-ups as Joan (the stage actress Maria Falconetti, then in her mid-30s) confronts the sneering French clerics who are her accusers.
For decades the ruling clerics, bowing to reality, have said that people are free to do as they like, but only in the privacy of their own homes.
"Using humans, the noblest of all creatures, as a tool of war is a disrespect to humanity," the clerics said in a proclamation read moments before the bombing.
Shi'i clerics found the sorcerers' use of the Islamic notions of the "world of the unseen" (Gheyb) and of genies (Jinn) as a threat to their spiritual hegemony.
There are good reasons for this discontent: continued revelations of abuse by priests and clerics, jihad campaigns against "infidels" and homegrown Christian hostility toward diversity and secular culture.
" As Mr. Taheri's following grew, hard-line clerics started objecting to his practices, saying that he was a "false mystic" and that his group was "a deviant sect.
The victories are expected to allow Iran's more moderate political factions to ignore or ease some social restrictions enforced by Shiite Muslim clerics, for instance in organizing concerts.
So-called "rehab" centers for militants employed Wahhabi clerics to preach that obedience to the king trumped individual decisions to go and fight in defense of Muslims overseas.
Its approach to Islam has special legitimacy, its clerics have great reach, its media spread its views worldwide and it finances madrasas in poor countries to sow hatred.
He was sometimes critical of Saudi Arabia's conservative clerics, and even his royal connections could not save him from being fired as editor of national newspaper Al Watan.
While Soleimani's death is no doubt a major loss for the Iranian regime, it is unlikely the ruling clerics and their military aides were entirely unprepared for it.
This body of law is interpreted by senior clerics, who serve as judges, largely following the Hanbali School, the strictest of the four main schools of Sunni jurisprudence.
" Francis said the Vatican has "suspended some clerics, sent them away for this" and "dissolved" some orders of nuns "that were very tied up in this, a corruption.
Bishop Javier Echevarría, the last of the original generation of clerics to lead Opus Dei, the disciplined and influential global Roman Catholic organization, died on Monday in Rome.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Cossacks have been told by one of their leaders not to kiss icons or clerics' hands to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
But the decree does not alter Vatican policy that clerics should follow local law as to whether they are mandated to report alleged sexual abuse to civil authorities.
The situations I've been describing exclude, of course, those few men among clerics who are just narcissistic or sociopathic enough to take what they want, the rules be damned.
Physical education programs don't exist in the kingdom's state-run girls schools, as many conservative clerics in Saudi Arabia believe allowing women to engage in sports would be sinful.
For months in war-torn Yemen, some of America's most highly trained soldiers worked on a mercenary mission of murky legality to kill prominent clerics and Islamist political figures.
Mohamed said the film, in which the televangelist initially bends to the demands of senior officials before having a change of heart, paints clerics as unprincipled and state-controlled.
Reformists seeking more social and economic freedoms and diplomatic engagement had voiced high hopes of expanding their sway in parliament and easing conservative clerics' grip on the experts' assembly.
The passages about the missing imam are based in part on interviews with the shah's family, as well as with former officials and clerics in Iran, Mr. Cooper said.
Scores of other activists, intellectuals and clerics have been arrested separately in the past two years in an apparent bid to stamp out any opposition to the crown prince.
Along with the churches of Georgia and Serbia and the Greek clerics of Mount Athos, Jerusalem and Sinai, the largest contingent of people celebrating this weekend will the Russians.
On January 6th it was reported that 250 clerics, mainly from small conservative congregations, had signed a Dutch version of a declaration on sexuality known as the Nashville Statement.
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark on Tuesday banned five Islamic clerics and an American evangelical Christian pastor from entering the country, calling them "hate preachers" who posed threats to public order.
Having taken on the kingdom's clerics, by loosening social restrictions, and alienated other princes by consolidating power, he is more reliant on popular support than past Saudi rulers were.
In neighbouring Syria, by contrast, Christian clerics remain aligned with President Bashar al-Assad's regime, and correspondingly with the Russian-Iranian-Shia coalition which has kept him in power.
Still, clerics in Saudi Arabia have supported the imposition of male guardianship based on a verse in the Quran that states men are the protectors and maintainers of women.
Meanwhile, hard-line clerics have opposed his administration's efforts to join international anti-money-laundering conventions, fearing that could cut off support to Lebanon's Hezbollah militant group and others.
YouTube contains a library for speeches by extremist clerics like Anwar al-Awlaki, a deceased American citizen whom many terrorists have praised as a formative influence in their radicalization.
President Joko Widodo, who is seeking re-election in April, has been criticised by opponents who question his Islamic credentials and accuse him of backing the "criminalisation" of clerics.
In Friday sermons, Muslim clerics rail against those who finance holidays to Europe and lavish wedding parties with loans that can devour salaries and lead to depression and divorce.
Both the counterterrorism police and the Financial Intelligence Unit tasked with combing through the finances of radical clerics and of charities linked to them were valuable sources of information.
Much of the distrust in the polio vaccine stems from claims made by local Muslim clerics that the vaccines were contaminated with anti-fertility agents, HIV and cancerous agents.
After initial vocal opposition, Mullah Manan and Mullah Yaqoub remained quiet for months as Taliban leaders and religious clerics went back and forth trying to mediate between the camps.
The qualms of clerics, who had tried for decades to deny women the freedom to drive, had been set aside by the only man who could: the King himself.
Three of those clerics are dead, two are in prison, one was defrocked, one has agreed to leave the priesthood, and one is still in active ministry, in Rome.
All elected politicians, even the president, are ultimately under the thumb of appointed clerics, Islamic jurists and their opaque but powerful institutions, with the supreme leader at their apex.
President Joko Widodo, who is seeking re-election in April, has been criticized by opponents who question his Islamic credentials and accuse him of backing the "criminalisation" of clerics.
Conservative clerics took the anti-Purnama message to the mosques throughout the campaign, said Eva Kusuma Sundari a senior official in Widodo's party, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.
But any moves toward gender equality have been accompanied by a crackdown on dissent, including the arrest and alleged torture of women's rights activists as well as Muslim clerics.
The other side: Clerics are insisting that driving privileges for women would "invite promiscuity," damage women's ovaries, and argue women cannot drive because they only have half a brain.
GENEVA (Reuters) - Bahrain is targeting its Shi'ite Muslim community through arrests and prosecutions of clerics, activists and entertainers, a group of United Nations-appointed independent experts said on Tuesday.
Its airports receive direct flights from cities across Europe and the Middle East; its prices are good; and its laws permit foreigners to contract marriages with no clerics involved.
This produced a generation of well-educated and articulate Francophone clerics, but they did not always take the line that was expected by the church or state in Paris.
Dozens of hard-line clerics have been detained, while others were designated to speak publicly about respect for other religions, a topic once anathema to the kingdom's religious apparatus.
In the city of Eshtehard, west of the capital, protesters attacked a religious school on Thursday, forcing 500 clerics in training to flee, the semiofficial Tasnim news agency reported.
And Mr. Qaradawi, the preacher, evokes limited sympathy in policy circles even if he has been one of the most popular clerics in the Muslim world since the 1960s.
Bishop Chrysostomos of Messinia — who reacted to the measure last week by declaring that "clerics become wild beasts when you upset them" — walked out of the session on Friday.
Known as Sharia, the law strictly prohibits charging interest, or "riba," and clerics in Indonesia disagree on whether the popular cashback rebates and discounts given by digital wallets qualify.
Iran, meanwhile, is the world's largest Shiite nation and is led by clerics who seek to export the ideology of political Islam that brought them to power in 1979.
The preliminaries to both contests underlined that elected politicians are ultimately under the thumb of clerics, Islamic jurists and their opaque institutions, with the supreme leader at their apex.
I suspect that the president did not discuss his favorite author with the clerics who joined him a few days ago in the Oval Office for a prayer meeting.
One man who attended FPI preacher Bamukmin's sermon in Jakarta this month, said even if clerics were becoming more political, their congregations were smart enough to decide for themselves.
Dozens of clerics seen by the government as dabbling in politics were detained in September, a move that appears to have paved the way for lifting the driving ban.
Instead the state would pay the church an annual subsidy of €200m ($230m) a year, a sum that would not be affected by any change in the number of clerics.
He wanted to hold on to the position until he completed his appeal but came under pressure from Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, fellow clerics and abuse victims to quit.
Markus Soeder, Bavaria's premier of the arch-conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) party, introduced the decree on crucifixes in April, drawing a furious reaction from opposition politicians and prominent clerics.
It forces Ukrainian clerics to pick sides between the Moscow-backed Ukrainian churches and the new church as fighting persists in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russia-backed rebels.
In Saudi Arabia fatwas can only be issued by the group of top, government-appointed clerics and are sometimes commissioned by the ruling family to back up its political positions.
As 2016 progressed, those watching the deteriorating situation in Yemen began to notice that members of Al-Islah, and other clerics in Aden, were dropping dead at an alarming pace.
Clerics at Al-Azhar have responded angrily to the film, which they say tarnishes the image of establishment Islam just as it steps up efforts to rein in violent extremism.
"There was a meeting between the environment minister and the Indonesian Clerics' Council, which issued fatwa no 30/2016 about forest and land burning law," said ministry spokesman Novrizal Tahar.
Beyond booze, the state-backed council of clerics, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), has in recent years passed edicts condemning everything from homosexual partnerships to the wearing of Santa hats.
The silence of the clerics infuriates Haydar, who says that if mosques promoted good mental health, maybe they wouldn't be forced to weigh in on burial protocol for young Muslims.
The clerics' fact-finding document mentions at least four other women who've reported inappropriate conduct by Khan, including one who was in a secret marriage with him for two years.
" Hostility may have peaked in 1983 when Pope John Paul II came to Managua, scolded the maverick clerics and ordered Catholics to obey their bishops and avoid "unacceptable ideological commitments.
The story begins with a hostage rescue in the Tigris-Euphrates Zone — the war-torn future of Iraq and Syria, where radical clerics and warlords wage a continual, grinding war.
The arrest has soured already-strained ties between the two countries, who are at odds over the post-coup crackdown and a German investigation into possible spying by Turkish clerics.
Taking steps to prevent the radicalization of prisoners by older inmates or clerics and banning trips to Syria or Iraq have been widely touted as preventive measures Widodo could implement.
Restrictions on social media, championed by hardline officials and clerics, are putting further political pressure on Rouhani, who promised in his 2017 and 2013 election campaigns to lift such curbs.
Following my arrival in late 1995, several senior clerics told me that they chafed under these restrictions, which they described as against the real teaching of Mohammed Abdul al-Wahhab.
Against this background, a more detailed, personal story unfolds, of Emwazi's radicalization in London at the hands of older clerics who groomed an unhappy young man to take up jihad.
Hard-liners and traditional Shiite clerics, citing their interpretation of Islamic law, believe in segregating men and women at public events, as well as keeping women out of men's sports.
When it came to birthdays, which many Saudi clerics condemn, he said he did not oppose them, although his wife did, so their children did not go to birthday parties.
Embarking on a visit of Muslim, Jewish and Christian holy places in Jerusalem, William shook hands with clerics and then entered Islam's Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque.
The U.S. Catholic Conference of Bishops has indicated that more than 6,000 clerics in the United States alone have been accused of sexual abuse of minors between 1950 and 2016.
A week ago, Pope Francis issued a landmark decree making bishops directly accountable for sexual abuse or covering it up and requiring clerics to report any cases to Church superiors.
The Catholic Church in Germany acknowledged a "depressing and shameful" legacy of sexual abuse on Wednesday after a leaked study said clerics had abused thousands of children over 70 years.
The culture was highly patriarchal, and clerics, thanks to their alliance with the royal family, had tremendous power to defend the kingdom against what they considered to be corrupting influences.
In return, the Vatican may force many local communities to accept clerics appointed by China's Communist authorities rather than popular "underground" church leaders who have resisted state control for decades.
By withdrawing from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, and phasing in sanctions, the Trump administration has sought to cripple the Iranian government and weaken the power of its ruling clerics.
But under a conservative president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who came to power in 303, semiofficial bodies controlled by clerics, the Revolutionary Guards or their allies dominated the newly private financial sector.
VILLAVICENCIO, Colombia — Pope Francis acknowledged the scars of Colombia's civil conflict on the Roman Catholic Church on Friday, honoring two clerics in the country who were murdered during the war.
Many Saudis remain deeply conservative, and social strictures like the driving ban have been reinforced over the years by the kingdom's top clerics, many of them on the government payroll.
In the 16th century, the pope gave a French king the right to appoint major clerics, and Pope Pius VII signed a similar agreement with Napoleon in the 19th century.
In Germany, a Church study published in a magazine on Wednesday showed 1,670 clerics and priests had sexually abused 3,677 minors, mostly males, in the country between 1946 and 2014.
TEHRAN — To those Iranians shaking their hips and backsides to Latin American music during Zumba exercise classes, Iran's Muslim clerics — and an American company — have the same message: Stop it.
To my mind the most fascinating of these clerics was the 16th-century priest (and saint) Filippo Neri, the charismatic founder of the Oratorians and their library, the Biblioteca Vallicelliana.
But in the holy city of Qom, ground zero of the country's coronavirus outbreak, pilgrimages have continued unabated, despite health officials calling on clerics to limit visitors to the city.
Iran gradually expanded its influence in Iraq through a web of political parties, Shiite clerics and militias, and it invested heavily in Shiite religious cities like Najaf, Karbala and Samarra.
Two other minor candidates are expected to withdraw before Friday, making the race a showdown between Mr. Raisi and Mr. Rouhani, clerics who hold strongly opposing views of Iran's future.
But in Iran, where the ruling clerics consider dogs impure, taking one for a walk risks the arrest of the owner and the seizure, and possible extermination, of the animal.
Churches and clerics are free to speak out on political and social issues — and many do — but the Johnson Amendment served to inhibit them from endorsing or opposing political candidates.
Both Saudi Arabia, a Sunni majority country, and Iran, a country led by Shiite clerics, consider themselves the defenders of true Islam and have sought to undermine the other's influence.
When Mohammed bin Salman's father became king three years ago, the young prince emerged as a force for change, removing conservative religious clerics and scrapping some of their strict rules.
Last year, a group of Pakistani clerics issued a religious edict saying that transgender people with "visible signs" of male or female attributes could marry someone of the opposite sex.
Individual congregations, religious organizations and clerics have made strides in openness and acceptance, but in general the black church remains largely absent from and often hostile toward the L.G.B.T. community.
"They killed our elites and replaced them with clerics," scores of protesters chanted at a Tehran university after the downing of the plane carrying 176 people, some them Iranian students.
"They killed our elites and replaced them with clerics," scores of protesters chanted at a Tehran university after the downing of the plane carrying 176 people, some them Iranian students.
MOSCOW, March 2 (Reuters) - Russian Cossacks have been told by one of their leaders not to kiss icons or clerics' hands to try to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
Washington, D.C., is also launching a similar investigation, District Attorney Karl Racine said Tuesday, after two high-profile D.C. clerics resigned following accusations related to the Catholic sex abuse crisis.

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