Word: prays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...visions. The first was of my brothers who had died -- Abu Jihad, Abu Iyad and the others. The others on the airplane heard me say, "Wait for me, I am coming." Directly after that I saw the Al Aksa mosque in Jerusalem. Which meant that I will live to pray there...
...part documentary series on St. Paul revived her interest in religion. "What I really am is a historian of ideas," she says, "rather than a theologian, which sounds a bit narrow." She considers herself an unaffiliated monotheist who appreciates many aspects of Eastern Orthodoxy but finds it easier to pray with Jews and Muslims. "Only Western Christianity makes a song and dance about creeds and beliefs," she says. "The authentic test of a religion is not what you believe. It's what you do, and unless your religion expresses itself in compassion for all living things, it is not authentic...
...Tyler six months ago, when the court ruled he could visit only if she were away. She wrote a poem, called "A Child in the Middle," which includes the lines, "The child we see will suffer forever/ Because of the bonds they force him to sever/ Today we pray that God is with us/ And corrects this wrong and painful injustice." Yet even as she speaks of injustice, April struggles with self-imposed guilt: "I have blamed myself for a long time. A part of me knows I'm not guilty; another part feels I am." She even talks...
...generation of Trenchtown youths began to forge a harder, denser style of reggae called dancehall. Reflecting the desperate times in Kingston's ghettos, dancehall lyrics were charged with angry diatribes glorifying guns, drugs and sex, and sung often in a fast, talky style called "toasting." On Minute to Pray, Mad Cobra warns, "Original bad boy have no mercy/ Original bad boy run the country/ Them get a minute to pray and a second to die . . . We no miss the target...
...worshipper at Abu-Bakr Mosque in Brooklyn, New York, where Salem showed up a few years ago, says most of the members did not trust him. Though he tried to seem devout, the source claimed that Salem could not pray or recite the Koran properly. But members of Sheik Abdel Rahman's alleged terrorist conspiracy seem to have had no doubts. A grand jury indictment last week tells of a number of meetings at which alleged conspirators voiced fear that there might be an informer among them, then pointed a finger at one of their ringleaders. Salem was present...