Word: faithful
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...Kidjo shows no signs of mellowing. If anything, her travels with unicef and her gathering fame have only strengthened her faith in music as the great unifier. Running through a sales report for her last album, she was amazed to discover that she's a hit in Malaysia, a place she says she can hardly envision. She was just as astonished to be contacted by an American scientist studying the effect of music on the brain who told her that when he played her music to Inuit fishermen, they registered thought patterns indicating overwhelming serenity. "Two years ago," she adds...
...tragedy at certain times, and to cause tragedy for some at other times. Assigning blame or praise to religion for what we have done is as flawed as thinking that as an atheist country we would never have had slavery or never have had the Civil Rights Movement. The faith that most Americans have doesn’t necessarily make them better or worse people, only people who can sleep better at night...
Religious discourse should always remain as a part of our national discourse. Those who want to remove faith from discussion are as flawed in thinking as those who want to replace discussion with faith. As the next presidential election approaches, religion will be a central issue in terms of abortion, stem cells, Mormonism, gay rights, and numerous other issues. God matters now and will matter in the future because of who we are, and because we need all the help...
...take a while for the smoke to clear, but one thing is for certain: neither Lebanon nor Israel fully understands its enemy and the nature of the relationship between the Palestinians and al-Qaeda, which is strengthening. The hope is that overwhelming military firepower will defeat unbendable faith, and, for our part, let's hope they have better success than we've had in Iraq...
While India's image makers may want the world to believe that business is the country's new religion, for many here there are older faiths - and faith-driven feuds - that matter more. At least five people were killed Friday in the southern city of Hyderabad, when a bomb exploded in a mosque crowded with worshipers attending Friday prayers. Police say they found and defused two other bombs close by. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for the attack...