Security forces surrounded the mosque and forcefully tried to disperse congregants after prayers ended.
First, churches are in a good position to help meet the needs of their own congregants.
When congregants falls ill, faith communities come together to support their brothers and sisters in need.
He told congregants that terrorist attacks on Israel were God's "judgment" of Jews who haven't embraced Christianity.
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The hundreds of congregants who used to show up for Friday evening prayers now number just dozens.
In Joplin, the torched mosque's 90 congregants invited 300 other people to join them Sunday for Eid.
Earlier attempts by Orthodox religious leaders to ban the Internet in congregants' households have largely failed, many said.
During one incident congregants shouted at him, telling him to leave, the center said in a statement released Monday.
On the recent church visit where the crime-fighter was so warmly received, many of the congregants urged him to run.
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When the white people fled the neighborhood in the 1970s, black congregants filled the pews and never changed the church's affiliation.
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Congregants, he said, should nominate a global body to elect a new Caliph, replacing the Ottoman ruler whose downfall Europe had engineered.
Over powerful loudspeakers, the congregants sing and scream and bomb out demons.
For example, churchgoers might be healthier because they have the social support of their fellow congregants, who can help them when they're sick.
There have been several requests by congregants in the Oldhams' ward to make calls for Proposition 8 but not to the Oldham household.
At Sunday's emotional church service in this farming town of fewer than 3, 000 residents, the priest told congregants his personal recollection of Wednesday's horror.
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Angry congregants gathered 300 signatures on a petition to keep the popular Yemeni cleric and throw out Mr. Ghali, who fought off the challenge.
Mr. Zwiebel told the Jewish Forward that he would continue to require congregants to consult their rabbis prior to going to the secular authorities.
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The services could last for hours, till the congregants' stomachs growled.
The earliest mutual life insurance companies in the U.S. date to the 1700s, formed by church groups to benefit their congregants in time of need.
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One of the congregants firmly behind the renovation from the beginning has been Sugerman, who says he grew up at the temple, as did his grandmother.
Mary's Catholic Church after Sunday's service, Father Boniface Onjefu hugged and consoled his congregants, and gave reassuring smiles and high fives to the church's youngest members.
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But Mr Johnson says he would be willing to put up with that if it meant an increased supply of peyote for congregants who need it.
And even when victims want to speak out, some Orthodox communities require their congregants to consult with a Rabbi before taking their accusations to the secular authorities.
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According to a survey of American Catholics by the Pew Research Center taken after Pope Benedict announced his resignation, 58% of congregants favored allowing priests to marry.
Their pastor, Stan Weatherford, made the request on behalf of some congregants who didn't want to see the couple married there, according to CNN affiliate WLBT.
Steven Thompson is careful not to preach from the pulpit: He exhorts his congregants to vote but does not preach in favor of or against any specific candidate.
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This includes the elimination of the Sunday before Election Day when many black churches hold successful "Take Your Souls to the Polls" campaigns encouraging their congregants to vote.
Congregants who wished to avoid being stopped for possession of peyote were obliged to drive through a loose patchwork of states in which church-sanctioned uses of peyote were legal.
He came to San Francisco from the Muath ibn Jabal Mosque in Detroit, where one of the congregants says his religious views split the community and the mosque's board.
The simple statement of fact that decades of research has failed to identify any demonstrable human harm from BPA is akin to heresy for the NRDC and its fellow congregants.
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