Word: faithfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some ways the conference was a milestone in Islamic history. Although their decisions do not have the weight of religious law, the delegates hoped that the discussions would persuade traditionalists to re-examine their faith in the light of the 20th century. For the first time in centuries, representatives of the two major Moslem sects - the Shiite and Sunnite - held a formal dialogue on their doctrine. To their surprise, they found themselves more in accord than apart. One immediate byproduct of this harmony was a resolution to meet again and form an international Islamic research center...
...many advocates of crisis intervention, the unfortunate effect of hospitalization is a basic article of faith. Their objective is to obstruct the patient's progress to an institution, and they can point to some conditional evidence of success. The annual commitment rate to state mental hospitals from San Francisco, for example, has dropped from 2,887 to 119 in the past four years-a decline in which the city's expanding complex of emergency-treatment centers was a major factor. Grady Memorial Hospital, which opened a crisis center in 1968, now treats 5,000 psychiatric emergencies a year...
Died. Zakir Husain, 72, President of India and first member of his country's minority (10%) Moslem faith to hold such high, though largely ceremonial office; in New Delhi. Amid a tradition of bitter enmity between Hindus and Moslems, the onetime university chancellor's election in 1967 was a significant step toward fulfilling the dream of the late Jawaharlal Nehru that India would become a secular, not a Hindu, state...
...group, which calls itself "Faith, the Essential Foundation," say their main concern is to rewrite the "Golden Rule" to include goodness...
...wanted my class to express any reactions they had to a group of Sierra Club photographs. Some of the children did some very innovative things; some, though, had no faith or trust in their own inner world or in their powers produce anything uniquely their own. This faith had been taken away by environments which stressed conformity and rigidity rather creativity and spontaneity...