Word: devouting
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...little, people were going back to church. So he spent 23 hours talking to a Brazilian Dominican friar, Frei Betto. The subsequent book, Fidel and Religion, became a national best seller. Here was the apostle of Marxism expounding on his Catholic upbringing and attitudes toward religion. He recalled his devout mother and his rigorous parochial education. He had been baptized and was taught biblical history and Catholic catechism. At his upper-class Jesuit high school he absorbed the determination and discipline of these militant teachers who prophesied in his yearbook that he would make a brilliant name for himself...
...Sheba 3,000 years ago descended an unbroken line of Ethiopian Emperors down to the people's revolution in 1974. Today Axum is the capital of Tigrai province, which fought for years to gain independence but instead won control of the entire country six years ago. When the devout finally arrive back home, their neighbors will wash their feet and drink the bath water to share in the blessing...
Reason to Have Second Thoughts: A devout town. Hell-raisers need not apply...
...Thomas play for Lyndhurst High that day, then came home to scan the TV for the Marshall result. "We couldn't figure out why there was no score," Yolanda remembers. "Then came the knock at our door. It was our parish priest." Somebody at Marshall, knowing the Shoebridges were devout Catholics, had asked the priest to deliver the news...
...This is the week we devout to educating and promoting a healthier understanding of Islam on campus," said Mitsuru L. Watanabe '98, the society's president...