Sentences with phrase «as religious leaders gained»

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CNN: Rev. Moon, religious and political leader, dies in South Korea at 92 The Rev. Sun Myung Moon — founder of the Unification Church, which gained fame worldwide decades ago for its mass weddings, as well as the Washington Times — died early Monday in South Korea, the church said.

And though Stalin executed priests and other clergy that he perceived as a threat to his power, later when he, like many political leaders, saw benefit to be gained by using religious beliefs to enhance his own power, he made an alliance with the Russian Orthodox Church, just as Putin has done today.

While not all leaders of other private religious institutions have embarked on lobbying campaigns to get school vouchers enacted into state law, it's worth highlighting another one of those schools that stands to gain from the Opportunity Scholarship Program as an example of the lengths to which taxpayer funds will fund religious education.