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Since the campaign began, worshippers in Riyadh and Jidda have reported hearing sermons promoting tolerance, denouncing terrorism and warning against radical interpretations of the doctrine of jihad. On a recent Friday, the sermon was mundane at Jidda's Juffali Mosque, which is next to Chop-Chop Square, so called for the work of the executioners who practice there. On the agenda were the importance of good deeds, kind words and the rejection of pagan customs...
...Hakim's uncle Mohammed Said al-Hakim. A bomb exploded outside al-Hakim's home, injuring him and killing three. Al-Sadr has denied any involvement in that attack. Moments before last week's blast, al-Sadr was across town at the grand mosque of Kufa, delivering a sermon in which he condemned the attack on the older Hakim. "It was the act of criminals and should be punished," al-Sadr said...
...form or another. The mix-up was made official by Pope Gregory the Great in 591: "She whom Luke calls the sinful woman, whom John calls Mary [of Bethany], we believe to be the Mary from whom seven devils were ejected according to Mark," Gregory declared in a sermon. That position became church teaching, although it was not adopted by Orthodoxy or Protestantism when each later split from Catholicism...
...Religion is also a hot topic on the airwaves. In China's eastern Fujian province, a handful of radio programs discuss family values and declining morality among today's youth. But anyone steeped in Christian code words recognizes that the show is little more than a thinly veiled religious sermon?and the authorities either haven't caught on or think the program is too innocuous to shut down. "Loving your neighbor is very important," says one caller to a Xiamen city radio show. "We must all remember that." In Indonesia, where the Muslim majority isn't forced to hide...
...Angeles. Though best remembered as TV's Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, Stack was most impressive in seminal films by Ernst Lubitsch (To Be or Not to Be), Budd Boetticher (The Bullfighter and the Lady) and William Wellman (The High and the Mighty). His rugged looks and sermonizing voice made him a natural lead, but beneath this facade lay an edgy undertone of obsessiveness. Stack later appeared in Airplane! and, as host of Unsolved Mysteries, brought his sermon-on-the-mount voice to semi-plausible stories of missing persons and unquiet ghosts...