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cleric is a person who is a religious leader or a member of the clergy, typically associated with a specific religion or faith.
Clerics often perform religious ceremonies, lead worship services, and provide spiritual guidance to members of their community.
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The good bishop did subsequently issue some clarifications about what he really meant, although it has to be said that such remarks are far from untypical
of clerics of a certain generation.
According to a DOJ filing by SGR, one of the things Flynn's firm paid it to do was a «public affairs campaign» related to the chain of charter schools tied to Fethullah Gülen, the Pennsylvania - based
Muslim cleric who's accused of orchestrating a failed coup against the Turkish government last summer.
According to Golge's wife, a distant relative who was angered over an inheritance dispute told police Golge was a spy and supporter of Fethullah Gülen, the Islamic
cleric who Turkey accuses of masterminding the coup.
Islamic clerics in Osun have advised Governor Rauf Aregbesola to remain focused on his mission and not get distracted by attempts to derail his administration.
It has been an annual practice for some time now that the Regional Minister presents items and cash to the senior Muslim
clerics in support of Salla celebrations but partisan and vindictive politics has obviously been replaced our religious rights and norms in this circumstance.
New York Times: Iranian
Cleric Says Rushdie's Murder Could Stop Insults to Islam's Prophet As my colleague Michiko Kakutani explains in her review of the novelist Salman Rushdie's new memoir, an Iranian religious foundation reportedly raised the price on his head over the weekend to $ 3.3 million.
The government has failed to use every tool at its disposal to prevent the release of
radical cleric Abu Qatada, Labour argued today.
Catholic clerics who testified to the royal commission gave varying opinions about what if anything a priest could divulge about what was said in a confessional about child abuse.
Mohammed Alarefe, a Muslim
cleric from Saudi Arabia, has called for Christian football players to stop making the sign of the cross after scoring a goal.
The danger
for clerics of all stripes really is when they presume to speak for God.
The University was governed by a Board of Trustees consisting mainly of bishops and was managed
by clerics chosen by that Board.
Saraki, in a statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Yusuph Olaniyonu, said he received the news of the death of the late Islamic
cleric with sadness.
The court has insisted that Britain allow prisoners to vote, despite the overwhelming opposition of the Commons, and has blocked the deportation of radical
cleric Abu Qatada.
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, formerly the Catholic Church's most
senior cleric in Britain, has died at the... More
Those at the prayer meeting include members of various political parties, as well
as clerics from both the Islamic and Christian faiths in the state.
(CNN)- United Colors of Benetton announced Wednesday it is pulling an ad featuring a doctored picture of the pope kissing a male Muslim
cleric on the same day the ad was unveiled in response to criticism.
On Friday, a representative for Iraq's top
Shiite cleric urged citizens to take up arms and defend their country from the militants.
Should the board choose to stand by its charter division staff, the schools would simply appeal to the State Board of Education in Sacramento or the politically appointed Los Angeles County Office of Education, where only last year Magnolia received reversals after the previous LAUSD board rejected three renewals over financial improprieties arising from the chain's ties to an alleged immigration fraud ring run by Turkish
cleric Fethullah Gulen.
Last March the Iraqi Minister of Health, Ali al - Shammari, a loyalist to radical
Shia cleric Moqtada al - Sadr, resigned his post amid allegations of corruption and abuse of power.
Monsignor William Lynn is the highest - ranking
cleric accused of imperiling children by helping cover up sexual abuse.
It is difficult to even describe in words what one feels when he sees
Christian clerics involved in such violence and rage!
Eventually I managed to face off with
Cleric Beast and even though I got myself stomped into a fine paste, I finally understood those internet wankers and their incessant chants of «Praise the Sun».
Schumer and Bharara may have connections to Fetullah Gülen, a Pennsylvania -
based cleric who's been accused of facilitating the coup from the U.S., according to reports.
The Mormon
clerics urged her and Porter to seek therapy, Willoughby said, but never raised the prospect of divorce.
In 2003 Bin Laden made the dramatic gesture of requesting a fatwa from a radical
Saudi cleric authorizing the use of a nuclear bomb against American civilians (not surprisingly, it was granted).
Philadelphia (CNN)- Deliberations resume Monday in Philadelphia in the landmark trial of Monsignor William Lynn, the highest -
ranking cleric charged with endangering children by allegedly helping cover up sexual abuse.
Imagine a few privilege playing GOD with the lives and survival of over 180 million slaves who has among them varsity professors and doctorates and powerful
religious clerics with international affairs acumen; oh!Nigerians are actually the Amalakites who King Saul refused to kill that cost him his throne.
Iraq's Muqtada al - Sadr, the maverick Shiite
cleric whose political coalition beat out Iran's favored candidates to come in first in national elections, says he wants to form a government that puts Iraqis first
Jurists
not clerics will adjudicate the difficult questions concerning marriage practice.
Sen could make the same criticism of President Bush, who in the wake of 9/11 posed with Muslim
clerics at the White House to dampen anger and hostility against Muslims.
Current problems: Adulterous preachers,
pedophiliac clerics and cover - ups, «propheteering / profiteering» evangelicals and atonement theology,
The Islamic
cleric made the confession on Tuesday night when they were paraded at the Osun State Police Command headquarters Osogbo.
Philadelphia (CNN)- The highest - ranking Catholic church
cleric charged and convicted in the landmark child sexual abuse trial will remain in jail for the time being, a Philadelphia judge ordered Tuesday.
Even Roman Catholic
clerics living in Israel have claimed to be Jewish based on ethnicity.
Most believers assume that they were born into the one «true» religion with the one «true» god, though they've never even studied the beliefs of believers or other religions, relying, instead, only upon what their own
clerics tell them of the gods of other religions.
As reported in the New York Times, the Washington Post, 60 minutes, the New Yorker, the New Republic and elsewhere, by successfully maximizing state charter school laws around the country, there are at least 135 schools, operating in 26 states and enrolling more than 45,000 students that are associated or affiliated, in one way or another, with the controversial
Turkish Cleric Fethullah Gulen.
But that policy has already been criticized sharply by
conservative clerics from the country's dominant Wahhabi school of Islam and promises to be a source of continuing tension.
The impression he gave was the same impression that senior
Anglican clerics nearly always give in public: well - meaning, verbose, irrelevant, and unable to answer the big questions.
When they hear a powerful
Iranian cleric speaking politics, they sense the religious certainty underneath it.
The claim the books «were purged
because clerics felt they weren't «pertinent»» is factually incorrect.
The outcry from British politicians came after the Foreign Office initially described the announcement of the execution of 47 people, including the prominent Shia
cleric Sheikh Nimr al - Nimr, as disappointing.
A local
cleric also wished that this new airport which cost $ 108 million can accommodate the pilgrimage journey to Mecca.
Then there are the high odds against success in starting a restaurant, whether or not a
local cleric denounces it.
Just because they wear
clerics does not mean that they are teaching the truth.
Philadelphia (CNN)- The highest - ranking Catholic
Church cleric charged and convicted in the landmark Philadelphia child sexual abuse trial was sentenced to three to six years in prison Tuesday.
Even clerics get in on the action, and their ability to heal greatly changes the way the otherwise straightforward conflicts play out.
Above, Emanuel speak to the more than 200 pastors and
other clerics at the event, which was held in the «United Scout Lounge» at the ballpark.