Word: clergymen
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...ground level into real, geographical divisions. The poor, who tend to be more fundamentalist, live mostly in dust-blown shanties on the outskirts of town. There, they clan together, Pathans with Pathans, Baluchis with Baluchis, seeking to replicate their tribal life from their homelands. In some ghettos the clergymen have banned television, women wear burqas and the only education on offer for youngsters is the mesmeric recitation of the Koran at local madrasahs. Crimes are punished by elders inside the community according to Koranic law, and the police never hear about the transgressions or the rough justice...
...Vatican prefers to do things quietly. So, sometimes, did Boston's Bernard Cardinal Law. For years, when sexually abusive clergymen were brought to his attention, he quietly transferred them from one parish to another. By last April, as the scandal over pedophile priests escalated, Law, the most powerful of the American prelates and a favorite of the Vatican's, had come to symbolize the reckless indifference of Roman Catholic Church officials. That was when he first traveled unannounced to Rome to offer his resignation to Pope John Paul II, who quietly refused to accept it. Despite the growing uproar...
Since Pakistan's parliamentary elections in October, Musharraf has faced growing opposition in the National Assembly. Jamali's party, the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid), which Musharraf hoped would do his bidding, fell far short of a majority, and the President has had to contend with angry anti-American clergymen and wily old pols from parties that he tried to crush...
...dictatorship in civilian clothes. What he got was the opposite: an angry rabble of political enemies in the 342-seat National Assembly. The Pakistan Muslim League, which was to carry out Musharraf's bidding, fell way short of a majority. Suddenly, he had to contend with wrathful, anti-American clergymen and wily old pols from the traditional parties that he had tried to crush. Everybody was itching for a fight...
...adopted by U.S. bishops, which recommends a zero-tolerance policy that would remove from priestly duties any clergyman who had ever molested a minor, and also requires all sex-abuse charge to be reported to the police. Instead, the Vatican called for further study by a panel of eight clergymen - four appointed by Rome, four by the U.S. bishops - to reconcile their differing views on how to approach an issue that has sparked a crisis of confidence among the American faithful...