Word: prays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good Moslem-and nearly all of the 350 million people of Islam are accounted good Moslems-is not an easy one. Five times a day, the true believer must turn toward Mecca and pray; and before each prayer session, he must wash his face, arms, feet, ears and nose three times. At least once in his life, if he can, he must make the hajj, the sacred pilgrimage to Mecca. In the holy city during the hajj, rich & poor alike mingle in dense throngs under the cruel...
...woman tried to get her invalid sister out of a crumbling house; she knelt to pray, could not lift her sister again, and had to leave her behind. A young couple ran back into their swaying house to save their two-month-old baby; they were killed by the falling roof, but the baby, protected by his overturned crib, was saved. Next day the earth shook again, and many fled for the hills in fear that the island would slide beneath the sea. Panic-stricken Cephalonia police radioed to the mainland: "We are all sinking . . . The inhabitants ... are mad with...
Pink-cheeked, brown-eyed Emma had also received visits from her parents, but they did not coerce her to return. "My mother told me that God doesn't hear me pray any more because I ran away," said Emma. "She told me my soul is in hell. It is not. I have read the Bible. I know that it isn't just the Hooks* that go to heaven, like they told us. All kinds can get there if you live right...
...community life of the students. A third aspect of the program brings industrialists into contact with workers as Christian equals to air their problems together in the common context of the Gospel. In such gatherings it is not uncommon for Roman Catholics (with diocesan permission) to meet and pray with Protestants...
...strength, in his passionate belief in human liberty, to break his chain. He went to fight for the Greeks in their war of liberation from the Turks. In the midst of it all, he still found time to turn out verse and to twit an erring friend back home: "Pray who is the lady? The papers merely inform by dint of asterisks that she is somebody's wife and has children ... It is to be hoped that the jury will be bachelors...