Word: religione
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Despite Spain’s historical reputation as one of the most Catholic countries in Europe, and although most Spaniards still identify themselves as culturally Catholic, religion seems to be of little real importance in people’s daily lives here. Church attendance is at an all-time low and the only people I have ever seen attend Mass are elderly individuals. The tone of the pamphlet suggests a level of religious dogmatism that is clearly out of touch with the reality of modern Spain...
...devotees. Yet the Taliban in Pakistan have set about destroying such sites, which are anathema to their literalist interpretation of the Koran. "Despite our ancient religious tradition," says Ayeda Naqvi, a writer and Sufi scholar from Lahore, "we are being bullied and intimidated by a new form of religion that is barely one generation old." (See pictures of the Taliban on LIFE.com...
...Still, Naqvi, Devji and other academics doubt that governments can use Sufism to fight their political battles. As in the past, foreign meddling would likely do more harm than good. "What is needed today, more than the West pushing any one form of religion," says Naqvi, "is a propagation of the underlying values of Sufism - love, harmony and beauty." This is not easy, especially in Pakistan, where poverty, corruption and the daily toll of the global war on terrorism simmer together in a volatile brew. Set against this, the transcendental faith of Sufi mystics seems quaint, if not entirely impotent...
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...nobody else is going to get it right," one of his writers told the Washington Post on Cronkite's retirement in 1981. "And that is the reason he is number one. It comes across. People know that Walter Cronkite would never lie to them. Never. Because it is his religion...