Sentences with phrase «child beggars»

A blog posted to Missionaries in Service to Africa explain child beggars in Addis Ababa by stating, «TIA» or, This Is Africa — as if that was explanation enough.

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It is a world in which beggars are more at home than the wealthy, sinners more than the righteous, children more than their parents, and clowns and fools more than priests and scribes.

Just like we don't hang around with women who are caught in the act of adultery, we don't hang around with Samaritans, we don't hang around with powerless children, we don't hang around with women who have a bad reputation, we don't hang around with beggars or the poor or the oppressed or the criminal or the possessed or the socially marginalized or the ones who aren't allowed to come to temple with the good religious people, good gracious!

During the day several came and begged admittance: a poor woman with a sick child, a beggar, a wounded knight.

But Jesus was more accepting of women, children, aliens, beggars, leppers and even sexual minorities than OT practice, which I think represents a greater inclusiveness which should lead us to believe that love / protection /» rights» be extended to these vulnerable groups and not just the priveledge adult male population.

The buyer signed the contract smugly sure The guarded walls he'd bought would keep away The street - game children, noisy in their play; The beggars, hungry, hideous, and poor; The Bible salesmen coming door to door; Annoying relatives, who'd overstay; Do - gooder activists, with things to say....

As late as in 1531, Luther said of the parsons: «They are now poorer than before [i.e., in Roman Catholicism], and if they have wife and children they are beggars indeed.»

Stories of beggars renting children to evoke pity in Pretoria, South Africa have received considerable Internet attention.

Recall that Nigeria Politics Online reported that Kano State government on Thursday observed that there are about three million out of school children, roaming the streets of the state, as Almajirai — pupils of Quranic schools turned to beggars.

Kano State governor, Abdullahi Ganduje, on Thursday observed that there are about three million out of school children, roaming the streets of the state, as Almajirai — pupils of Quranic schools converted to beggars.

A cruel stepmother reduces her dead husband's only child to the role of scullery maid, but a kindly beggar woman and some helpful mice bring about a change in the young woman's fortunes.

One of the more upsetting depictions is that of a child being forced to have his eyes seared by heat and acid because he can earn more money as a blind beggar.

Even though the conflict officially ended in 2006, child traffickers have continued to prey on rural villagers» concerns for their children by deceiving families with promises of safety for their children and attendance at top boarding schools in the Kathmandu Valley - but the sad reality is that the children who are taken from their homes are often kept as slaves or beggars, taken to illegal...

Children's Books: The Beggar and the Bronze Ring (Illustrated Picture Book for ages 4 - 10) With Math Quizzes.

Good for: Dogs treated like children, pet parents against processed food, under - the - table beggars

It beggars belief that their predecessors were prepared to raid the damages of children brain - damaged by clinical negligence to subsidise their department.»