Word: worshipers
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...interview with the official Saudi Press Agency, Fahd called for: 1) Israeli withdrawal from all territory that it had occupied since the 1967 war; 2) removal of Israeli settlements in the West Bank and other occupied areas; 3) guarantees of freedom of worship for all religious groups within these areas; 4) recognition of the rights of 2 million Palestinian refugees - from the 1948 war as well as the 1967 war - for repatriation or compensation; 5) U.N. trusteeship over the West Bank and Gaza Strip during a transition period of several months; and 6) establishment of an independent Palestinian state, with...
Ultimately, of course, urban-suburban sprawl is intolerable not just because it is ugly, oppressive and dull but because it is inefficient. Says Rouse: "Suburban sprawl stretches out the distances people must travel to work, to shop, to worship, to play...
Some students noted that about 30 per cent of the Harvard war dead were not Protestant and that therefore a memorial church would be inappropriate, since Roman Catholics. Jews, Christian Scientists, and Agnostics would not worship in it. Others circulated flyers asking. "What Would Our Dead Have Wished?--A Meaningless Memorial...
Even three years ago, such scenes would have been inconceivable. But today Christianity and other religious faiths in China are coming into the open again as a result of the Communist regime's decision to begin honoring a constitutional guarantee of freedom to worship. At the height of Mao's Cultural Revolution, 1966-67, virtually every religious institution and house of worship was suppressed. It was one of the most systematic attempts ever mounted to expunge religion from the life of a nation...
...William Archibald Spooner caused a stir at New College, Oxford, with his famous spoonerisms, most of which were either deliberate or apocryphal. But a real one-his giving out a hymn in chapel as "Kinquering Kongs Their Titles Take"-is said to have brought down the house of worship, and to have kicked off the genre. After that, spoonerisms got quite elaborate. Spooner once reportedly chided a student: "You have hissed all my mystery lectures. In fact, you have tasted the whole worm, and must leave by the first town drain...