Sentences with phrase «old is the spiritual leader»

The 61 - year - old is the spiritual leader of the global Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, whose friendliness toward the West and whose criticism of other Muslims has earned the sect allies at the highest level of the U.S government, even as it faces mortal enemies in other parts of the world.

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Most likely, it reflects the old Ottoman millet system, in which patriarchs were both spiritual and secular leaders, expected to represent their entire communities at the sultan's court (though Copts did not, as far as I know, constitute a millet in Ottoman times).

When I asked the 21 - year - old student leader of the trip what was the chief motivation behind him and his fellow undergraduates making the journey, he replied that it was primarily a spiritual motivation: «Because it is an overwhelming experience to be united with so many other young people in praying together and witnessing to the joy of being pro-life.

The role of these spiritual leaders is not to repudiate the older world view entirely, but to shed new light on it so that it can be remembered that God's Spirit manifests itself always in new ways to meet new needs.

Transfer from Guatemala City to Antigua Guatemala, before arriving in Antigua Guatemala is the visit to the ruins of Old Resume guided by a Mayan spiritual leader who will explain the meaning of this place for the Maya worldview.