Word: prayerful
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...Ayesha Begum plaintively told of how she had spent two days searching for the bodies of her husband and two children. She had not found any of them. "Why," asked the widow, fighting back tears, "why is Allah so unkind as to keep me alive?" Her question, like her prayer, was unanswered...
...pray for them?" he had asked finding her prayer income comprehensible...
...inner city, Ilana's parents rent a cottage on the beach next door to Anne's cousins, a recently widowed Orthodox Jew named Ezra Dinn and his young son, David. The sounds that come from the Dinn's house during the course of the summer, the Kaddish or prayer for the dead, the morning prayers and Sabbath hymns, catch Ilana's ear while she is sitting on the beach building sand castles or reading on the porch with her mother. Soon, the exoticism of the yarmulkas, the Sabbath rituals and the dietary restrictions, attract Ilana and draw her near...
...questions dealt with prayer in public schools, the Equal Rights Amendment, the death penalty and school desegregation. Among the seven relating to abortion was one asking whether "a 'viable' fetus is a human being." The eight-page letter was sent by three conservative Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee--Jeremiah Denton of Alabama, Orrin Hatch of Utah and John East of North Carolina--to Joseph Rodriguez, a Democrat nominated by Reagan for a New Jersey federal judgeship...
...Carmelite rule calls for a strict regimen based on silence and prayer. However, an experimental charter approved by the Vatican in 1977 allowed more leeway for the 13,000 nuns, who live in 826 convents across 72 nations, with the largest group in Spain. Though four-fifths of these nuns favor the moderate reforms, a strict traditionalist faction has been lobbying against them...