Word: faithfully
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...attend Wellesley, her parents dispatched her and her sister Agnes to a convent in the Netherlands. In the beginning, she was desperately lonely, but eventually she ``was able to find in myself the place that was meant for God,'' she later said. For the rest of her life, her faith sustained her, and she attended daily Mass for as long as her health permitted...
...20th century would visit on the Chosen People. The Jews of Europe would come close to extinction in the Nazi Holocaust. Many of the traumatized survivors would be repressed and secularized by more than four decades of communism. The fathers would be forced to turn away from their faith, and their children would grow up in ignorance...
...Final Solution. Yet today Jewish identity in Central Europe is taking root in the very soil on which the vast majority of the 6 million perished. The young are discovering their Jewish heritage. And they, in confirmation of the prophecy, are bringing Judaism back to the parents whose faith had been so ruthlessly stamped out by one dictatorship after another for a half-century...
...some of the younger Jews are drawing their elders back to the faith. ``My parents never had a special religious attitude before,'' says Zoltan Radanyi, 21, who is studying at the Budapest Pedagogium, an institution allied with the seminary, to become a religion teacher. ``They read every book I read in class. When we go to synagogue together, I often advise my father on what scripture to read...
Hrnicek says he believes Epps discriminated andcontinues to discriminate against his faith,infringing on his First Amendment rights...