Word: prays
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...other hand, when fifth-grader Monette Rethford, in Norman, Okla., is told that she cannot get together with other students on school property to pray or read the Bible, it looks very much like a restriction of her freedom to worship. To publicize their own fervor, tens of thousands of students gathered around their school flagpoles to pray last Sept. 11. "I don't want a government church or a teacher opening class with prayer," says Jay Sekulow of Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism, a conservative organization specializing in church-state litigation. "But the First Amendment protects individual speech, even religious...
Hillel serves a unique role for Orthodox Jews on campus. Religious law says the students must pray twice a day and eat kosher food. So Hillel, with its religious services and kosher dining hall, becomes a necessity more than a choice. Approximately 120 students, mostly Jews, eat dinner at Hillel every night, according to Rabbi Sally Finestone...
...response to this criticism, which he calls uninformed and unjustified, Gomes says, "What I tried to do on that occasion was not simply pray in the language of my own tradition but to try to go beyond that tradition to the source of all traditions...
...Christian because that is the way in which I see the world, but I do not believe that the God to whom I pray is only the God of Christians, because the God to whom I pray has to be the God of everything and everyone...
...program designed to coax youngsters into using reference books has blossomed into a public television game show, a best-selling set of computer video games, a series of adventure books and a collection of jigsaw puzzles, all popular with kids age eight and up. "It's addictive," says Jonathan Pray, 13, an eighth-grade student in Golden, Colo., who has been prodded by Carmen into memorizing all the world's countries and their capitals...