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State Representative Robert W. Churchill said that he had not been present for Harold’s speech but had heard her as the emcee of a Prayer Breakfast, which White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card and former Congressman J.C. Watts also attended...
...many moods. Some mosques bar non-Muslim visitors; others welcome them. Some pesantren strictly limit contact with strangers, Western music or the mass media, while others let students mingle freely with visitors. And whether it's the pesantren where a Sharon Stone movie is hurriedly replaced with a prayer video when visitors arrive, or the one where teenage girls can't leave their dormitories unveiled but clutter their rooms with pictures of American pop stars, the outside world seeps in. In Java, the call to prayer echoes across highways on which unveiled women ride motorbikes in Western dress...
...Nancy Gibbs, in her Essay "And on the Seventh Day We Rested?" to suggest that the U.S. needs to have Sundays off as a day of rest [Aug. 2]. A large part of the U.S. population is Muslim, and the Islamic faith designates Friday as the day of prayer. Jews observe the Sabbath from sunset on Friday until sunset on Saturday. So how can we expect a pluralistic society like America's to settle on just one day of rest? When blue laws restricting what could be sold on Sundays were enforced, Jewish and Muslim Americans could not conduct business...
...said a little prayer for George W. Bush,” Moore said. “I hope he’s not watching this race right now and eating a pretzel...
...with her brothers in 1994, Antoinette busied herself teaching disabled children, working in palliative care and delivering Meals on Wheels. "I worked day and night for two years, and I loved it," she recalls. All the while she harbored the desire for a more traditional life of prayer, and in 1995, after the death of her mother, she found the call too strong to resist. "There's no accounting for when Our Lord calls," explains Sister Veronica. "It's not something that we decide that we will do, like we're off to buy a new car or something...