Sentences with phrase «illiterates among»

Therefore, painting became at once the vehicle for the communication of the gospel to illiterates among the faithful and the expression of the faithfulness of people of immense power and station.

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Sufi orders prevailed among the illiterate and naïve tribes of Africa because illiterate people rely completely on others for an understanding of their religion, while an educated Muslim would turn to the Qur» an to know what Islam really is.

Second, my major ministry, the San Francisco Network Ministries, is among people long ago abandoned by the church — the frail elderly poor, the homeless, addicts and alcoholics, illiterates, people with AID»S / ARC who are living in poverty, prostitutes and other victims of our culture's «sex industry,» and people with various mental and physical disabilities struggling to live on meager benefit payments.

Muslim nations are among the most illiterate in the world.

The 1983 report A Nation at Risk, found that about 13 percent of all 17 - year - olds in the United States could be considered functionally illiterate, and that functional illiteracy among minority youth could run as high as 40 percent.

Twenty - eight percent of suburban fourth - graders were functionally illiterate in 2011, no better than the levels four years ago; this compares poorly to the one - and two - point declines, respectively, among big - city and rural districts.

Fifty - three percent of the Dominion State's young black men in fourth grade were functionally illiterate in 2011, a mere one point decline from nine years ago; this trails the eight percentage point decline nationwide, and the even more dramatic 13 - and 16 point declines in functional illiteracy among young black male fourth - graders in respectively, Florida and Alabama.

Voices of calm reason, such as Stokes, Zeke or Engelbeen (and voices of impatient reason such as Mosher) are * completely * drowned in a bottomless pit of angry paranoid illiterate nonsense — so that layman lurkers can hardly discern them among all the confused and confusing pseudo-science.

Among energy market illiterates the argument goes that, because the -LSB-...]

This myth is prevalent mostly among the illiterate.