Word: prayerfulness
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...Somalis gathered at the parade ground of the old police barracks on the city's battered coast. Guards led a tall, undernourished man, condemned to death for killing another man, to a clearing in the center. After a reading from the Koran, the man conducted his ablutions, said a prayer and was led to a post facing eight soldiers in balaclavas and armed with AKs. His hands and feet were tied and his eyes blindfolded. With the bright blue sea behind him and puffy white clouds above, and to the jubilant shouts of Allahu akbar (God is great) from...
...After four months of prayer and reflection, Len accepted that his daughter could become a nun. "Like any father, I just want her to be happy," he says. "If becoming a nun will make Katharine happy, then I support her decision...
...took her first vows and relocated to the University of Illinois' Newman Center, where she now lives and works as a campus minister. Part of her job includes spiritually advising 14 young women discerning religious life. To help them, Roy often attends their evening prayer group and organizes "Nun Runs," which are weekend field trips to area convents...
...longer. Since Vatican II and the sexual revolution, the process of deciding to become a nun has grown so complex it now has a name: discernment. For most young women, discernment lasts more than two years and involves daily prayer, spiritual counseling and convent visits. Now it also includes the Internet...
...lawyer, Daniel Saadat, points to the publicity generated by a best-selling book depicting the airport as crawling with radical Muslim employees who meet in clandestine prayer rooms in its terminals. Such scare-mongering, Saadat says, may have pressured security officials to take demonstrative action against questionable, but well publicized threats. "The way this has been handled is inverse of how investigations normally go," the counter-terror official says. "It makes you wonder what the real deal...