Iran's 'double-edged sword' In 1987, Iran's religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa (a legal decision handed down by a religious leader) allowing sexual reassignment surgery.
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Can we talk more about Carolyn Hax, my religious leader?
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A Bohra religious leader was convicted of being an accessory.
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" Trump called a religious leader questioning a person's faith "disgraceful.
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In Iranian Shiism, the senior religious leader makes political decisions.
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For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.
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As a religious leader, he would pose no threat, he argued.
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Any attempt to vilify this religious leader is deeply disappointing and misplaced.
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Just like her, her father was close to another powerful religious leader.
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"For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful," Trump said.
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"It could be with a psychologist or a religious leader," Dr. Harwick says.
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As the NYT notes, Graham was a bit of an unusual religious leader.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's religious leader, says Americans lifted sanctions only "on paper".
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Mallory once called the religious leader "the GOAT," or greatest of all time.
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Mr. Putin drank tea with a senior religious leader and visited a mosque.
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A prominent religious leader and separatist, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, was giving a sermon.
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Erdogan has counted on being seen as the religious leader of the country.
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The government's choice to kill Nimr wasn't just about this one religious leader.
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"For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful," Mr. Trump said.
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I respect Francis as a person and religious leader, I visited him privately afterward.
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Isn't that the kind of stuff you would expect a religious leader to say?
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Harvey Weinstein ran Miramax the same way an abusive religious leader rules his cult.
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Approximately 85033 senior Muslim civil and religious leader from across the globe toured the camp.
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"For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful," he told a rally.
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A well-known religious leader asked by the government to mediate has had no success.
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He soon found himself humiliated when a young religious leader forced him to pray publicly.
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That name is Nimr al-Nimr: a prominent religious leader from Saudi Arabia's Shia minority.
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The men are gathered outside as a religious leader chants Shia mourning hymns for the departed.
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A beloved religious leader was among the dead after mud swept into his home in Montecito.
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For those not familiar with the term, an Imam is the religious leader of a mosque.
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But he made clear he preferred a nondenominational religious leader who had experience with family life.
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She's married against her will, raped, and repeatedly branded a whore by a zealous Protestant religious leader.
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"For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful," Mr. Trump said at a rally.
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No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.
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In the early 1990s, polio workers approached Shahbuddin Razvi, a mawlana (or religious leader) in the area.
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"No religious leader, no priest is gonna give information that Al Gore or Leonardo did," Bingham said.
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Andersen Brower pointed out that the interaction in some ways mirrored Kennedy's meeting with the religious leader.
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Do you think going to a therapist is different then confiding in a pastor or religious leader?
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One religious leader upset about the prayer on Monday was Rabbi Jason Miller, who lives in Detroit.
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Mr. Ismaël is a kadi, the judicial representative of the head Islamic religious leader in the area.
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Morrissey-Berru also did not hold herself out to the public as a religious leader or minister.
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" "No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.
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He gave it to a local religious leader before it reached scientists, who studied it for 9 years.
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Donald Trump promptly bit back: "For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful," he said.
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"Please help me report this," he said, linking to the Facebook page of a religious leader in Pakistan.
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The town's religious leader is the pastor of the 146-year-old New York Baptist Church, Donald Thomas.
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The messianic religious leader has to be coming up with ever new visions and messages from the divine.
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When writing an obit for a religious leader, is there an obligation to pay tribute in any way?
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" Trump responded with a statement that said, "For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.
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As a religious leader, the archbishop could travel across the Lebanese-Israeli border without being subject to inspection.
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After prayers, a local religious leader, who declined to be named, told Reuters that there would be no compromise.
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" Trump wasted no time retaliating in a statement: "For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.
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Mr Singh is far from the first religious leader in India to make money or a spectacle of himself.
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It does not even have a religious leader with the recognized status of a Pope to negotiate an armistice.
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Dolan said the religious leader and Trump have the potential to collaborate in a way that advances world peace.
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HILLEL THE ELDER, a first-century religious leader, was asked to summarise the Torah while standing on one leg.
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William Barber II, a black religious leader whose events have become a must-stop for the 2628 Democratic contenders.
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This could be a family unit, neighbor, or as is often the case, a church group or religious leader.
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The pope's border visit set off a brief and unusual public tiff between the businessman and the religious leader.
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Michael Cromartie, a longtime conservative religious leader in Washington and no lefty, was critical of their lack of transparency.
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"The village is ruined," said Mawlawi Sadaqat, a local religious leader who led prayers as the bodies were buried.
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Every religious leader I met asked that the United States keep the door open to refugees from their communities.
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Indeed, the Korean artist is taking on the steep challenge of changing how the world pictures the crucified religious leader.
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Whatever you may think of that particular comment, a charismatic religious leader will always reserve the right to spring surprises.
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Imam Siraj Wahhaj, 68, is the religious leader at the Masjid At-Taqwa in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn.
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The accused are all Dawoodi Bohra, a small sect of Shia Islam led by a religious leader based in India.
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A religious leader like Falwell in particular, Scott said, was key to convincing undecided voters and on-the-fence churchgoers.
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Trump had previously declared the religious leader to be "very political" for his plans to pray for refugees in Mexico.
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It has blamed the malicious influence of the religious leader Fethullah Gulen, although support for the coup was much broader.
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Like a religious leader, he's fallen out of favor, no longer in tune with the hidden forces of the world.
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"We are going to prayer here on Friday," Imam Gamal Fouda, the mosque's religious leader, told the New Zealand Herald.
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Mr. Vanier, a Canadian religious leader who founded the charity in 1964, died in Paris last year at age 90.
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According to the AP, Whaley is from rural North Carolina, and she became a religious leader without any formal training.
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The board policy called for the delivery of a prayer by a member of the clergy or another religious leader, but it also allowed the board president to solicit a volunteer from the board or the audience to deliver the remarks if the religious leader did not appear, according to the 9th Circuit ruling.
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" In response, Trump said, "No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.
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The bottom line is Pryce has shown himself capable of capturing the motivations and contradictions that make up a religious leader.
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The child had attended a funeral of a religious leader the previous day in Greenville, Sinoe County, according to the WHO.
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However, sometimes the Muslim religious leader (marabout) of these schools will send their young charges out to beg on the streets.
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William Barber II, the black religious leader in Washington whose events have become a must-stop for the 2020 Democratic contenders.
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Even a religious leader who attends births and marriages in the Minawao Refugee Camp said the refugees needed to go home.
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The influential religious leader, Maulana Samiul Haq, was a mentor to several prominent Taliban leaders at his seminary in northwestern Pakistan.
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But Africa also presents pastoral problems that seem at times beyond the reach of any religious leader, no matter how charismatic.
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Monday night at a rally in Michigan, Pence brought out a religious leader, Loren Jacobs, to pray for the shooting victims.
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The religious leader was rushed to a hospital when his personal staff returned, but doctors said he died from blood loss.
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William John Henry Boetcker, a religious leader in the early 1900s whose conservative, individualist philosophies were in line with Reagan's worldview.
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When that happens, the key figure behind the scenes will be Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the Iraqi Sh'ias' supreme religious leader.
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Not to be outdone, Saudi Arabia's top religious leader struck back, accusing the Iranians of being pagan fire worshipers, not Muslims.
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We got word of a religious leader, Alauddin Akonjee, and his assistant being fatally shot coming out of their mosque in Queens.
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But if the goal of the nationwide alert was to bar Sheikh from ever working as a religious leader again, it failed.
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That might be dismissed as special pleading by a religious leader but it should not be; the risk he describes is real.
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On a recent Sunday in September, Bharpoor, a religious leader in the local Sikh community, led prayers at a temple in Tokyo.
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In the fall of 1967, he brought together a group of followers, called the "Family," telling them he was a religious leader.
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After a separate news event a day later, Steed Pierce said only one other religious leader came up to talk to her.
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One religious leader in Ghana decided that the idea, despite concerns about the drugs and intimations of cultural imperialism, was worth testing.
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Abdul Hashem, a 73-year-old religious leader, said he was with a group of men at the mosque before afternoon prayers.
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The mantle of leadership has passed on to another man, Asang Tulku, believed to be a reincarnation of a previous religious leader.
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But no Muslim religious leader has yet stressed the crucial gap between divine purposes and dry legalism as powerfully as Jesus did.
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Istanbul, Turkey (CNN)TV personality and Syrian religious leader Zaher AlShurqat fought ISIS by teaching that ISIS' brand of cruelty was not Islam.
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About 2,300 people gathered beneath a canvas tent emblematic of Graham's 1949 Los Angeles revival that marked his breakthrough as a religious leader.
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Speaking at a campaign rally in South Carolina, Mr Trump said that "for a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful".
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Sekulow's advocacy on behalf of the group's aggressive proselytizing brought him to the attention of Pat Robertson, the religious leader and conservative activist.
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"It seems all of these people were attending the funeral of a religious leader," WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib told a briefing in Geneva.
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Trump has called on Turkey to return Brunson to the U.S. and has said the religious leader is being persecuted for "no reason."
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I think that is a beautiful thing, and I hope it happens to every single religious leader breathing on this earth at this moment.
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The child had diarrhea and vomiting and was confused after attending the funeral of a religious leader the previous day, according to the WHO.
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The 9th Circuit panel said some faiths were not represented on a list the board used to select the religious leader for the prayer.
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Her reporting on the sexual abuse of a young woman by a local religious leader made international news, but led to threats and harassment.
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Fethullah Gülen is an imam (Muslim religious leader) who was born and raised in Turkey and has been active since the 1960s and '20113s.
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Erdoğan's government has accused many of these prisoners of being followers of religious leader Fethullah Gulen, the man he blames for organizing the coup.
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For a Western Muslim convert to be allowed to go on hajj, he or she must present documentation from an imam (Muslim religious leader).
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The sentence awaits approval from the country's grand mufti, Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam — Egypt's highest religious leader and official interpreter of Islamic law.
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Despite being a Shia religious leader, al-Sadr is no friend of Shia-majority Iran, which supported his rival al-Amiri in the vote.
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" Trump responded by criticizing the pope, saying "No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith.
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One religious leader, César Vázquez, who is running for governor, said Mr. Serrano took advantage of high-profile killings to inflate his own profile.
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Nonetheless, the appeals court concluded that her role in the school was that of a religious leader and that the ministerial exception therefore fit.
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If you're a religious leader, you can give a sermon about climate and run a collection drive to support one of the groups above.
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At least 30 people have been killed during violent protests in India over the rape conviction of controversial religious leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh.
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The Voice of Rao's status as a political and religious leader also lets the show's creators examine the role religion plays in an advanced civilization.
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He fled the village of Sakruli in the Indian state of Punjab in 1992 after he was persecuted as a Sikh religious leader, he said.
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Among his missions was to seek the extradition of Mr. Gulen, the religious leader blamed by Mr. Erdogan for orchestrating the July 2016 coup attempt.
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Bob Vander Plaats, an Iowa religious leader and a national chairman for Mr. Cruz, said Mr. Trump's complaints had heightened doubts about his managerial acumen.
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Tapper cited comments from Farrakhan in 2016, in which the religious leader said that Ellison had met with him in a hotel suite in Washington.
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"No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion and faith," he said during a rally in South Carolina.
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The court had in June recommended passing the death penalty to Egypt's top religious leader, the Grand Mufti, who can approve or reject the recommendation.
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" A self-described counterpuncher, Trump fired back at a campaign stop in South Carolina: "For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful.
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An operation this week killed Haji Imam, a senior religious leader who was considered to be in line to succeed ISIS leader Omar al-Baghdadi.
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Then-Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru offered the religious leader asylum along with tens of thousands of other Tibetans who had followed him into exile.
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Additionally, the Sunni-led monarchy has recently revoked the citizenship of the country's most prominent Shiite religious leader, Sheikh Isa Qassim, leaving him vulnerable to deportation.
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Doe says they had sex, which the lawsuit argues was the culmination of years of exploitation, an influential religious leader taking advantage of a struggling teen.
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If Trump had wanted to be a religious leader, Drollinger allowed during one of our lunches, he would most likely fall short of the Bible's specifications.
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Authorities have not yet identified any of the victims, but a beloved religious leader was among the dead after mud swept into his home in Montecito.
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"For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful," then-candidate Trump said during a campaign event at a private South Carolina golf course.
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His first major work was inspired by a rural bridge where villagers had been told by a religious leader to seek refuge during a flash flood.
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An aide to the vice president told the newspaper that Pence was unaware which religious leader would lead a prayer at the campaign event on Detroit.
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Speaking to Channel 12, Peretz described himself as striving to balance respect for others, no matter their sexual orientation, with his duties as a religious leader.
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The country has targeted Gulen, a roughly 76-year-old Turkish-born religious leader living in self-exile in rural Pennsylvania, for more than two decades.
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The unexpected death of the religious leader, Ayatollah Khomeini, in 1989, plunged the country into 40 days of required mourning, just before spring semester final exams.
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Not all people have a pastor, rabbi, imam or other religious leader in their life, especially one they would want to handle such a big event.
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After the post drew criticism on Twitter as being beneath a religious leader, Mr. Falwell responded that he did not need to adhere to strict religious standards.
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Some have refused, fearing that it could jeopardize their fidelity to the pope as their religious leader and the independence of the local Church on doctrinal matters.
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His government runs many of the country's daily affairs, but the ultimate power rests with the supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the unelected Guardian Council.
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Honoring this pastor at the Capitol is inappropriate; it is less about the death of an iconic religious leader and more about the country's current cultural war.
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The last straw came in 1639, when his wife, Grietje Reyniers, was accused of insinuating that the wife of the colony's religious leader had herself solicited prostitution.
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But in 1979, when religious leader Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the monarchy and set about transforming Iran into a theocratic Islamic state, the tonbak's fortunes took a tumble.
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" Trump added, however, that he thought it was "disgraceful" for a religious leader "to question a person's faith," noting that he is "proud to be a Christian.
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His mother sent him to Touba, where she grew up, and stripped him of his passport unable to return to Harlem without the approval of a religious leader.
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But when a religious leader does it, and also explicitly marks spending money on their merchandise as an act of religious faith, things get a little more worrisome.
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Once the science of kings, astrology has become an outsider's spiritual practice — beholden to no prescriptive theology and no major religious leader, just the wisdom of the charts.
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For each tip-off a team is set up; perhaps a health worker, a religious leader, a social worker, someone from the parent network and a school employee.
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In 2014, Mr. Sadr announced that he would withdraw from politics, and he has since cast himself as a religious leader who champions the poor, regardless of sect.
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Imagine this friend at your wedding, sauntering into the spotlight and offending the religious leader who was kind enough to give you the nice room with the windows!
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The religious leader condemned escalating tensions between the U.S. and North Korea last year, warning that "a good part of humanity" was at risk in a major conflict.
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Le Pen recently refused to wear a headscarf for a meeting with Lebanon's top Sunni religious leader, walking out when presented with a veil to cover her hair.
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"Many women come here to complain," said Ms. Rakia Modi, a religious leader who created the center three years ago and has counseled women for nearly two decades.
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For example, a search for the Dalai Lama, the religious leader, would turn up state media accounts within China that accused him of stirring up hatred and separatism.
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The well-known Chilean religious leader has since been accused of sexual abuse as part of the investigation into allegations against members of the Marist Brothers religious community.
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House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made the right decision in asking Graham's family to allow the evangelical religious leader to accept the honor.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigeria's military shot at Shi'ite Muslim protesters marching in the capital Abuja on Monday to demand the release of their religious leader, according to a Reuters witness.
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Al-Ahmed said among those executed was Shiite religious leader Sheikh Mohammed al-Attiyah, whose charges included seeking to form a sectarian group in the western city of Jiddah.
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But there's also the bartender who offers the one safe refuge for those looking for a drink, or the devout religious leader who cares for the homeless and poor.
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There is one figure in Iraq who can stop the violence and guide Kurdistan in negotiations with Baghdad: Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani, Iraq's highest-ranking Shia religious leader.
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Falwell has used his role as a religious leader to endorse political candidates, including Trump, for whom he stumped in a Washington Post essay, comparing him to Winston Churchill.
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Traditionally a mohel is a rabbi, a cantor or another religious leader who performs the brit milah, or bris, a circumcision ceremony, on an 8-day-old Jewish boy.
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What happened in the motel room, the lawsuit argues, wasn't a romantic tryst but the culmination of years of exploitation, an influential religious leader taking advantage of a struggling teen.
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The settlement with Mangal was reached thanks to mediation by the Emir of Kano, Muhammadu Sanusi II, a former central bank governor and a respected religious leader in northern Nigeria.
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GENEVA, April 28 (Reuters) - Nine people have died and eight are sick in Liberia after attending the funeral of a religious leader, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
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But the Indian government has also sought at times to rein in the religious leader at crucial moments in the relationship with China, and this is certainly one of them.
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In prison, Malcolm Little became Malcolm X, finding his vocation as a religious leader through the teachings of Nation of Islam (NOI) leader Elijah Muhammad, a former sharecropper from Georgia.
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"This is the risk of becoming a spokesman for a coalition that wants to make Indonesia to be led by a nationalist, moderately religious leader," he wrote in the letter.
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Duterte, 73, made the apology during a two-hour meeting with religious leaders at the Malago Clubhouse, but clarified that he was not saying sorry to any church or religious leader.
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In the last season, Cersei epically blew up her capital, King's Landing, and killed off her adversaries -- the religious leader, the High Sparrow, and her former daughter-in-law, Queen Margaery.
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Why it matters: Ellison came under recent fire by conservative media following a WSJ report that he had dinner with religious leader Louis Farrakhan and Iranian president Hassan Rouhani in 2013.
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That was just one of a few observations the exiled religious leader of Tibet made of the Republican presidential candidate, when he impersonated him on UK television show Good Morning Britain.
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In the nation's capital, hundreds of church-goers have been asked to undergo self-quarantine after a religious leader tested positive for the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, over the weekend.
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Impoverished farmers, his parents sent him at an early age to neighboring Senegal where he begged for years on the streets as a Quranic student, or talibé, for a religious leader.
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The religious leader comes to the US, eventually, where his influence grows, prompting interest from a fictional CNN reporter (Jane Adams) and even the president of the United States (Dermot Mulroney).
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That event puts new pressure on the marriage of a religious leader in the civil rights movement and his wife, a writer who thinks it may be time to move elsewhere.
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"If you are a religious leader that also holds a license by the state of Colorado, you cannot offer these services as a licensed medical and mental health professional," she said.
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EDT: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has called for the extradition of Pennsylvania-based religious leader Fethullah Gülen, who he believes is behind the recent failed coup in Turkey, The Guardian reported.
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IT IS probably unprecedented in American electoral history for the world's most influential religious leader and the world's most powerful political leader both to criticise a presidential candidate in the same week.
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Back in the 1980s, Sheela led a group of people who found spiritual comfort and fulfillment in the Rajneesh movement—a collective of followers of the Indian religious leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
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"It is a reminder to all of us that we are the next generation," said Eli Rubenstein, a Toronto religious leader who serves as education director for the March of the Living.
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Holocaust hero Raoul Wallenberg, former South African president Nelson Mandela, the Dalai Lama, business magnate and religious leader Karim Aga Khan and Pakistani Nobel Peace Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai are the others.
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" "No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith," he said, adding that Mexico's government has "made many disparaging remarks about me to the Pope.
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ON APRIL 25th a court in the city of Jodhpur sentenced a 77-year-old religious leader known as Asaram Bapu to life imprisonment for the rape of a 16-year-old girl.
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A religious leader preparing to attend the prayer service when the attack took place, Farid-uddin Masud, had recently denounced militancy and led a drive to collect signatures condemning it as un-Islamic.
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In addition to being a religious leader, Macario is also hailed as a hero in the Silver Spring community, after he helped rescue neighbors in his apartment building from a gas explosion fire.
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The Washington Post referred to him in a headline for his obituary as "an austere religious leader," sparking criticism that the newspaper made light of the extreme brutality for which he was known.
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"The court pointed out that Moses was a lawmaker as well as a religious leader," said Monica Miller, senior counsel at the American Humanist Association, who argued the case in the Fourth Circuit.
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But what was most striking about this man, who the team said may have been a chieftain or religious leader, was that someone had shoved a handful of sheep teeth into his mouth.
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Mr. Graham's standing as a religious leader was unusual: Unlike the pope or the Dalai Lama, he spoke for neither a particular church (though he was a Southern Baptist) nor a particular people.
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Attahullah Khogyani, the provincial governor&aposs spokesman, said three other people, including the mosque&aposs religious leader, were wounded in the attack, which took place on Sunday evening in the district of Surkh Rod.
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ABUJA (Reuters) - Nigerian police fired teargas at hundreds of Shi'ite Muslim protesters on Tuesday during a second day of clashes in the capital Abuja over the imprisonment of their religious leader, Reuters witnesses said.
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The report says O'Reilly, who was in a VIP section in St. Peter's Square during the pontiff's weekly general audience, shook hands with the religious leader as a Vatican newspaper photographer snapped a photo.
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Mr. Bernard, a spiritual power broker who was the first religious leader to step down from President Trump's evangelical advisory board last year, said his new development would act as a bulwark against gentrification.
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A religious leader can currently endorse a candidate in their personal capacity, but they cannot do so within the confines of their church, mosque or synagogue or use their staff to help a candidate.
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Al-Shabaab had hunted down and killed a number of fighters who defected in the ensuing months, but one slightly larger contingent under religious leader Abdul Qadir Mumin has remained defiant, and protected by bodyguards.
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Nearly 200,000 supporters of the religious leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh and his Dera Sacha Sauda sect descended on the town of Panchkula ahead of the court verdict last week, according to the Hindustan Times.
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Mike Pence is facing backlash for inviting a religious leader, who is part of the sect known as "Jews for Jesus," onstage at a memorial for the 11 people killed in the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting.
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Rep. Keith Ellison, deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, is defending a 2013 meeting with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani and explaining that he did not know religious leader Louis Farrakhan would be in attendance.
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Erdogan blames the West for helping alleged coup plotters and their sympathizers, and he's upset Washington won't hand over an exiled religious leader in Pennsylvania he accuses of being the mastermind of the coup attempt.
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A firebrand religious leader with millions of loyal followers, Sadr gained infamy shortly after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion by directing deadly attacks against American troops with his Mahdi Army, which also attacked Iraq's Sunnis.
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"Our faculty has said you cannot be a competent religious leader if you cannot engage effectively another faith tradition," said Alice W. Hunt, president of Chicago Theological Seminary, which offers an online master's of divinity.
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As any religious leader worth his or her salt can surely tell you, there's no better way to work up an appetite than a bit of proselytizing followed by a hearty round of spiritual enlightenment.
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I think in tracing the life of a religious leader, it would almost go without saying that he or she had won the respect and admiration of those who put them in positions to lead.
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The admired religious leader spoke of "concentration camps" in Europe today, where migrants too often languish, having left war-torn or collapsing Arab countries and facing growing hurdles to resettlement in an increasingly unwelcoming continent.
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Lucille R. DiBartolo, the bride's maternal grandmother, and Muhammad Virani, an uncle of the groom and a past religious leader at the Richmond Ismaili Jamatkhana, a mosque in Richmond, British Columbia, led the event. Mrs.
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Rather, it says that if a religious leader endorses a candidate, then his church cannot receive the significant benefit of tax exemption, and that people cannot, therefore, make a tax-deductible contribution to that church.
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After an overloaded ferry sank in 2014, killing more than 300 people, South Koreans were shocked to learn that the ferry company was controlled by a religious leader often condemned as heretical like Mr. Lee.
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About 60,000 Muslims call Houston home, and about 700 — according to Ahmadiyya Youth Association representative Waqas Hussain — are members of the Ahmadiyya community, a movement of followers of 19th-century Punjabi religious leader Mirza Ghulam Ahmad.
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A former psychologist, her 2014 novel "The Books of Jacob," for instance, is set on the Polish-Ukrainian border and tells of an 18th-century Jewish religious leader who forced conversions of fellow Jews to Catholicism.
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In 2017, Trudeau apologized after the office of the ethics commissioner said he had broken conflict-of-interest laws by accepting a vacation on a Bahamas island owned by the Aga Khan, an Ismaili religious leader.
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Her father, a religious leader named Choi Tae-min, is said to have befriended Ms. Park in the mid-1970s by claiming that he could help her contact her dead mother, who was assassinated in 1974.
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The protesters are calling for Park's resignation after it was revealed that she shared secret documents with her longtime advisor Choi Soon-sil, even though the religious leader didn't hold an official position in the government.
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Archbishop Welby, the principal religious leader in the Church of England, says it was not until one of the victims reached out to the church in 2013 that he learned of the accusations against Mr. Smyth.
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"No leader, especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith," Mr. Trump said, going on to claim that the pope was being used for political purposes by the Mexican government.
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But unlike some of the more secular media activists ISIS has targeted in Turkey previously, AlShurqat was a deeply pious man and a religious leader to his community in the town of Al Bab in Aleppo, Syria.
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The police operation marked the beginning of the end for York, a pseudo-religious leader who eluded justice for decades while amassing a nationwide following for his bizarre blend of religion, mysticism and claims about alien life.
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The Gandhara text is narrated by Shakyamuni Buddha, the religious leader also known as Siddhartha Gautama, and tells the story of the 13 Buddhas who preceded him, his own emergence and the prediction of a future Buddha.
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His choice to come back into the spotlight as a peppy young religious leader hosting genuinely fun-looking group sing-alongs in beautiful natural environments may not be a cynical one, but it's certainly a smart one.
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" The latter was directed by the rising young director Timofey Kulyabin, who drew headlines last year when a religious leader in Russia threatened to bring him to court for staging a supposedly blasphemous production of Wagner's "Tannhäuser.
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Several gave nearly identical, implausible accounts: They had no political views, but had been approached by a religious leader out of the blue, and had been given money and drugs in exchange for engaging in random violence.
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ISTANBUL — Turkey's foreign minister said Sunday that the United States was "working on" extraditing Fethullah Gulen, the Muslim religious leader who is wanted in Turkey on charges that he instigated a failed coup there two years ago.
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In 2015, a prominent Tibetan religious leader, Tenzin Delek Rinpoche, 65, died while serving a prison sentence on charges of "terrorism and inciting separatism" after his request for medical parole to treat a heart ailment went unanswered.
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He also won a plurality of the white evangelical vote, with 2186 percent to Donald J. Trump's 2000 percent, after receiving crucial endorsements in the state from the religious leader Bob Vander Plaats and from Representative Steve King.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Eleven people have died and five are in hospital, Liberian officials said on Friday, after contracting a mystery illness the World Health Organisation (WHO) said was linked to attendance at the funeral of a religious leader.
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Government-appointed negotiator Irene Santiago said that a religious leader who had been acting as an emissary to seek a corridor for civilians held hostage had taken ill and the authorities were waiting for him to get better.
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"Saudi Arabia cannot hide its crime of beheading a religious leader by severing political relations with Iran," Rouhani was quoted as saying by state news agency IRNA in a meeting with Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen in Tehran.
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Perhaps the most courageous action of a liberal religious leader was taken by Howard Moody, minister of New York's Judson Memorial Church, who preached—and practiced—what might be understood as an American Protestant version of liberation theology.
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Imagine what kind of impact it would have if every child, parent, teacher, religious leader, and community official had a frank discussion about what these groups are claiming, why they're wrong, and why talking to them is dangerous?
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In a scene that proves emblematic of Noga's prickly, contradictory but warmhearted character, one of the boys, a descendant of a revered religious leader, or tzaddik, clambers down a drainpipe hoping to sneak in through the bathroom window.
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"She only said three things to the people - they should live peacefully, the government is there to help them, and they should not quarrel among each other," Lewa said, quoting information from a religious leader who was present.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Thursday it was deeply concerned about the Myanmar army's filing of a lawsuit against a religious leader who told President Donald Trump the military oppressed Christians in the Buddhist-majority country.
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At Friday's funeral for Gharib's aide Rami Salman in the town of Ramlieh, Druze men in traditional black clothes with white turbans or skullcaps stood with their hands folded in front of them as a religious leader chanted.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's army said on Monday it had dropped a criminal complaint against a religious leader who told U.S President Donald Trump the military was oppressing Christians, days after the United States voiced concern about the lawsuit.
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After an overloaded ferry sank in 2014, killing more than 300 people, South Koreans were shocked to learn that the ferry company was controlled by a religious leader who had been shunned as a heretic by mainstream churches.
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Moreover, its leaders have declined to distance themselves with religious leader Louis Farrakhan, who the Anti-Defamation League has called "the most popular anti-Semite in America," and who is on the Southern Poverty Law Center's list of extremists.
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The scandal has proven a deep and strange one for the company and country, which, according to charges, involves the funneling of money to Choi Soon-sil, the daughter of a religious leader said to have sway over Park.
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Sheikh Abdul Mahdi al-Kerbalai, who delivered the Friday sermon in the holy city of Kerbala on behalf of the aged and reclusive religious leader praised "the magnificent performance in helping our people trapped in the theater of operations".
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New Delhi (CNN)The appointment of a polarizing Hindu religious leader as the next chief minister of an Indian state with almost 20163 million Muslims has raised concerns about the country's direction under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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In Baghdad, U.S. military officers estimate that 10 percent to 20 percent of the 300 officers who run the Iraqi military's Operations Command have an affinity or association with either the Badr militia or the Shi'ite religious leader Muqtada al Sadr.
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A religious leader whose convictions informed his politics, and not the other way around, Graham showed America that theological convictions and a deep religious faith could exist for their own sake, and not be made subordinate to Republican partisan aims.
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During the speech, the religious leader put forward three messages about needing one another, technology's relationship to social inclusion, and the "revolution of tenderness"; choosing to end the speech on a note about unity and what may lie ahead for humanity.
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In the co-chairs' refusal to explicitly denounce Louis Farrakhan, who has made virulent anti-Semitic comments in his speeches as a religious leader, Kabas sees many of the issues she pointed to in 2017 as having only grown worse.
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Maulana Sami ul Haq was a religious leader and a former Pakistani senator who ran an Islamic seminary in northwest Pakistan that produced many of the Afghan Taliban's leaders during the Afghan jihad against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s.
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YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar religious leader is facing a legal complaint from an army officer after telling U.S President Donald Trump the military was oppressing and torturing Christians in the Buddhist-majority country, he and a court official told Reuters.
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In 2014, six people were killed when followers of another religious leader, the guru Rampal, fought pitched battles with police who were attempting to arrest him after he repeatedly failed to appear in court in connection with a murder trial.
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BEIRUT, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Lebanese businessman Samir Khatib said on Sunday there was a consensus for nominating Saad al-Hariri as prime minister again to form a new government, speaking after a meeting with Lebanon's top Sunni Muslim religious leader.
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From 1991 to 2001, he served as the lay religious leader of the Beth El Synagogue in St. Johnsbury, Vt. In the 1980s, alight with his newfound faith, Mr. Lester went to Arkansas in search of Adolph Altschul, his great-grandfather.
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Kuczynski's decision not to escalate the conflict with Popular Force and his willingness to meet Fujimori at the behest of a religious leader has angered leftists who rallied behind him to defeat her in one of the tightest elections in Peru's history.
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But after Pope Francis recently suggested that Mr. Trump was not Christian because of his promise to build a wall along the Mexican border, the real estate mogul took offense, saying it was "disgraceful" for a religious leader to question someone else's faith.
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Read more: See inside the Vatican — home to the world's most powerful religious leader, where 9 miles of museums house some of the most stunning works of art The family lives in Verona and came to Rome just for Wednesday's general audience.
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While Pence did not invite Jacobs to the rally directly — he was invited by state GOP congressional candidate Lena Epstein, who is running in Michigan's 11th District — he nevertheless specifically invited the religious leader to the stage to pray for the Pittsburgh victims.
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Meanwhile, Women's March leader Tamika Mallory, a black woman, has been criticized for her political closeness to the African-American religious leader Louis Farrakhan, whose October description of Jewish people as "termites" is only the latest in a career of anti-Semitic rhetoric.
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We have got you covered with Joe Lieberman on the very big battle to come, religious leader Bob Vander Plaats on the holy war -- yes, you heard me right -- yet to come, then Republican Senator Rand Paul, yes, on whether any of this gets done.
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Instead, Wenders was invited to follow around the most important religious leader on earth by some guy in the Vatican who apparently likes his films enough to overlook the fact that he's currently a Protestant and doesn't speak a word of the pope's native Spanish.
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As it turns out, the religious leader in question featured in Erasmus quite recently, but his receipt of one of philanthropy's most renowned awards (the Templeton Prize, which acknowledges those who "affirm life's spiritual dimension") seems a good enough reason to mention him again.
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The Democratic National Committee (DNC) no longer appears on a list of Women's March 85033 sponsors, sparking speculation that the body representing the Democratic Party has dropped its sponsorship of the event amid controversy over the leaders' association with anti-Semitic religious leader Louis Farrakhan.
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She is the daughter of a religious leader named Choi Tae-min who is said to have befriended Ms. Park in the mid-1970s with a claim that he could help her contact her dead mother, who was killed by an assassin in 1974.
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On these pages was a story scribbled in the curvy cursive loops of the religious leader who told my mother that she had once been a brave pioneer on the edge of the Western frontier defending hard-won land from the onslaught of Indians.
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New violence arose near the town of Arbinda in Burkina's Soum Province on Sunday night, when a religious leader and six of his family members were killed by unidentified armed men, the ruling Movement of People for Progress party said in a statement on Wednesday.
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Mr. Awlaki, whom everyone at the Qaeda training camp called "sheikh" out of respect for him as a religious leader, spoke at length with the Nigerian, then 23 and the son of a wealthy banker, about what he saw as the religious obligation of jihad.
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Washington (CNN)Congressional leadership announced last week that it would commemorate the life of evangelist Billy Graham by having him lie in honor this Wednesday, a rare accolade for any American and an official embrace of the religious leader from the halls of government.
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The malicious code used by Newsweek Media Group websites as part of an ad fraud scheme has been found on sites owned by Christian Media Corporation, an online publisher that, just like NMG, has close ties to a controversial religious leader and the university he founded.
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Park was impeached last month after the country learned that she was being influenced by the daughter of a cult-like religious leader named Choi Soon-sil, who was given access to sensitive information and seemingly had some control over policy, despite not holding any government position.
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While the religious leader is seen as a thorn in China's side under ordinary circumstances, his visit to Tawang is being seen by Beijing as especially provocative because the town is part of the 84,000 square kilometers of Indian territory that China officially claims as its own.
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But either way, the Oprah boomlet is a chance to recognize her real importance in our culture — and the sheer unpredictable weirdness, perhaps eclipsing even Donald Trump's ascent, that might follow if our most important religious leader tries to lay claim to temporal power as well.
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The rise of this fringe party, the Agricultural People's Front of Peru (Frepap), is one of the effects of a political upheaval in the copper-rich country that has toppled much of the ruling class - leaving an enigmatic religious leader in charge of the country's no.
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If they're up for it — I'm aware they may not be — it might be helpful to sort through these issues with an independent third party to guide the conversation: a religious leader, a member of your community that you all trust, even a professional family counselor.
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In the 1990s, a process to find the reincarnation of the 11th Panchen Lama, another important religious leader in Tibetan Buddhism, ended in division and controversy after the Dalai Lama's chosen candidate disappeared and a successor selected by the Chinese government was put in his place.
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His oldest brother and youngest brother both predeceased him — lost to senseless religious violence in Kashmir, having been brainwashed by the prominent religious leader Hafiz Saeed into believing that it was their patriotic duty to journey to the contentious India–Pakistan border and get shot at.
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Without "the blood of these dear ones and their continuous steadfastness, only God would know what fate would await Iraq and others", said Seyyid Ahmed al-Safi, who delivered the Friday sermon in the holy city of Kerbala on behalf of the aged and reclusive Shi'ite religious leader.
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"Tonight I urge every public official, every religious leader, every business and professional man, every workingman, every housewife — I urge every American — to join in this effort to bring justice and hope to all our people — and to bring peace to our land," he said during the signing ceremony.
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At the turn of the nineteenth century, the Newport Ashkenazi staged a year-long occupation of Touro Synagogue at the turn of the century, after the New York Sephardim from Shearith Israel shut them out of the building in a dispute over the appointment of a new religious leader.
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Not to diminish the importance of craftsmanship or provenance (one of the show's stars is a necklace that once belonged to Begum Salimah Aga Khan, a former wife of the wealthy religious leader), but examining jewelry's role in a wider cultural role is the aim of the exhibition.
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Though the 211th-century earl is popularly credited with inventing the sandwich, true sandwich historians should note that Jewish religious leader Hillel the Elder is recorded as having put meat and herbs between slices of Matzah all the way back in the first century CE, alongside other non-western flatbread eaters.
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Whatever the five justices were thinking on February 7th, letting the state kill a man before federal courts could fully review the rule that blocked his religious leader from counselling him in his final moments seems irreconcilable with the motto inscribed on the Supreme Court building: "equal justice under law".
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Over the past year, many Afghans in Iran have sought advice about returning from the office of Grand Ayatollah Mohaghegh Kabuli - a senior Afghan religious leader based in the holy city of Qom, according to an administrator in the office who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the subject.
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"I think that the embrace of the philosophy of King and the emphasis on the need for justice reflects a lens of blackness and a deep consciousness about what it means to be an American politician running for president," said Green, whose father, Bishop Samuel L. Green, is an influential religious leader in South Carolina.
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ROME — Bill O'Reilly, the powerful Fox News host forced out of his prime-time position on Wednesday amid a barrage of sexual harassment allegations, spent the morning of his firing briefly meeting Pope Francis in St. Peter's Square during the pontiff's weekly general audience, shaking hands with a religious leader he once lectured over immigration.
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Though many people around her worried about whether her emaciated frame was the result of devotional fasting or severe depression, she later described this period as transformational, thanks largely to an encounter with the Swami Satchidananda, an Indian religious leader who toured America in the late sixties and appeared at Woodstock, where he opened the festival.
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"The biggest thing I said to the president is, we are here tonight to say to you, Mr. President, and to you, First Lady Melania, and to Ivanka and to Jared, we love you and we believe in you," the first religious leader, a man, said, referring to the president's daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner.
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When she finally worked past the shame to open up to someone she trusted in private, all she got in return was a reminder of why she'd felt ashamed to begin with — and a clear indication that she shouldn't talk about this anymore: I finally broke down and "admitted" the incident to a religious leader I was very close with.
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My work on African-American prophetic preaching shows that King's clarion calls for justice were offspring of earlier prophetic preaching that flowered as a consequence of the racism in the U.S. First, let's look at some of the social, cultural and political challenges that gave birth to the black religious leader, specifically those who assumed political roles with the community's blessing and beyond the church proper.
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Now he has gone further, pushing for the reinstatement of the death penalty (a step that would certainly put an end to Turkey's hopes of joining the European Union, which is fundamentally opposed to capital punishment), and blaming the United States for allegedly supporting the mutiny, while demanding the extradition of a religious leader and former Erdogan ally, Fethullah Gulen, who is in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania.
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"Of course, the Saudi government, in order to cover up its crime of beheading a religious leader has resorted to a strange measure and has severed its ties with the Islamic Republic," Rouhani said during a meeting with Danish Foreign Minister Kristian Jensen in Tehran, adding that "undoubtedly, such moves will never hide that great crime," according to Iran's state-run Press TV. Rouhani defended those who have reacted angrily to the mass execution.
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However one rates the pope's visit to Egypt and whatever one thinks the proper role of a religious leader should be, the pontiff's message of faith, humility, peace, tolerance, dialogue and tenderness — that last a quality he urged on political leaders in a recent TED talk — is a reassuring departure from the cynicism, cruelty, populism and tribalism on the rise in so many corners of the world, especially in traditional bastions of democracy and freedom.
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In a similar way, the U.S. disappoints Turkish expectations in not responding positively to Turkey's request for the extradition of Sufi Muslim religious leader Fethullah Gülen, who they assert directed the coup attempt from his self-imposed exile in Saylorsburg, PA. The visit of Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag on May 8 was widely believed to be another effort by Turkey to secure the extradition of Gülen, regardless of the reportedly weak evidence submitted for the extradition request.
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