Word: preaching
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...Hanson and his entourage of medieval history and pre-med tutors will don black and preach the merits of purity and decency from atop the steps. They have pledged to abstain from food and drink throughout the day and welcome any student who, too, embraces the celibate life to join them...
...outfought, outsmarted and, on occasion, paid off Philippine law enforcement. It is well funded, well armed and, observers fear, primed for regional expansion. A Philippine problem is now a world problem, and Arroyo is hoping for a world solution. The Catholic Church is calling for reconciliation, while others preach temperance. "We should not commit ourselves to the point of suicide," says political analyst Benito Lim. Arroyo appears willing to make dangerous bets, forging ahead with offers of military bases and banking reforms. "If we have to pay a price for conviction against terrorists," she says...
...attack, but because they had been sheltered from the difficult, cynical real world. The student perspective was unclouded; everyone else’s was just bitter. How else could a rational America wish to seek vengeance with a military response? It is the university’s duty to preach the mantra of peace, and to drag the misled masses away from war. Stroked by the warm glow of warped social justice and perverted tolerance, Harvard students eagerly rose to the occasion...
Omar Abdel Rahman, the jailed ringleader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, used to preach at the Masjid al-Salaam mosque in Jersey City, N.J. The day after the recent terror, two men arrested on a train in Dallas with box cutters, hair dye and more than $5,000 in cash are reported to have worshiped there recently. Two cops now stand at the mosque door...
...been so long since Attiya has visited Larik that she hardly knows the way. She finally recognizes the blue-and-white-tiled mosque where her ancestors used to preach?and where she, as a child, avoided praying. The village is more congested now, and her old family home is gone, but she knows the way to her niece's house, where she and her daughters receive an enthusiastic welcome. Attiya pays a quick visit to her maternal uncle, Muhammad Larik, a 70-year-old maulana, or religious scholar. He tried to persuade Attiya to attend a medressa when...