James Meeks, founder and senior pastor of Salem Baptist Church, a predominantly black congregation, has been engaged in worship with another predominantly white mega-church, Willow Creek, led by its founder and senior pastor, Bill Hybels.
Indeed, explicit in their worship of demand above everything else is that money saved will lie dormant.
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Georgia is a proudly Christian country, and the significance of wine in religious worship is reinforced by superstition and custom.
In Idle Worship, the entire point of interaction is to have fun.
They have also been eager to include Indian ritual in Catholic worship, just as European pagan practices have been allowed to infiltrate Christmas celebrations.
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Set in the dense forests of the Kii Mountains overlooking the Pacific Ocean, three sacred sites - Yoshino and Omine, Kumano Sanzan, Koyasan - linked by pilgrimage routes to the ancient capital cities of Nara and Kyoto, reflect the fusion of Shinto, rooted in the ancient tradition of nature worship in Japan, and Buddhism, which was introduced from China and the Korean Peninsula.
But even more troubling we see some parallels to the rumblings all around the world where people continue to fall out with one another and think they simply cannot share common ground in a common future with people who worship God in a different way or have a slightly different heritage.
Khanna began his movie career in the 1966 film Aakhri Khat (The Last Letter), but his breakout role came three years later in the highly successful Aradhana (Worship), in which he played a dashing pilot.
He attended services at the Old-New Synagogue, the oldest surviving Jewish house of worship in Europe.
Even so, there is little evidence that problems at the top are affecting Catholic worship in Brazil.
Fear of people who look different, or come from a different place, or worship in a different way.
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Stock in media-worship-object, Apple (AAPL), is trading about 14% below its all-time high.
On a recent night at United Methodist in Brooklyn, all lights were out in the small worship space before 10 p.m.
What we see from these examples of contemporary Chinese heroes is a new kind of Chinese hero-worship in the context of regional and international competition.
People in these areas worship and conserve their historic beauty.
In Christian commentaries on the Hebrew Scriptures, it is stressed that Sukkot was associated with the advent of the Messiah and with the coming of all nations to worship in Jerusalem.
If migrants are not satisfied by that, they have choices: what meets their eye as they leave mass is a smart new Pentecostal church, with worship in Portuguese as well as English.
Tracing its roots back to the time of slavery in the late 1700s, the minister who started the first AME church did so after his former church demanded African Americans worship in a segregated balcony.
" It said Christian evangelicals in Catalonia also cited barriers "in establishing places of worship.
You would have been hard-pressed to find a seat in a house of worship.
In many places of worship, both men and women kneel to images of a mother with a child.
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We have the right to pray in our houses of worship without being victimized by a mentally unstable young man and his assault weapon.
The training was conducted in cooperation with ILAM (Instituto Latinoamericano de Museos), INTERPOL, UNIDROIT and a police officer specializing in securing places of worship.
He is not afraid to ask for money in a place of worship, nor is he shy about taking funds from people who are not wealthy.
The new holy book compiles Guru Ravidass' writings, which until now were predominantly found in sacred Sikh scriptures that the sect placed in its houses of worship.
He said he did not want gay people to be "excluded from a great institution", but would not force any groups to hold ceremonies in their places of worship.
This beach is also Tahiti's widest stretch of sand and if you tire of surfing, settle in for some sun worship and meet friendly picnicking Tahitian families or groups of young people drinking beer.
Holder also declared the attack at the Sikh gurdwara, or house of worship, in a Milwaukee suburb to be "an act of terrorism, an act of hatred, a hate crime "that is anathema to the founding principles of our nation and to who we are as an American people.
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These no doubt brought him to the attention of the citizens of Lancaster, a farming community north of Worcester, who in 1815 commissioned him to design their joint meetinghouse and place of worship. (In Massachusetts, church and town activities were not separated until 1830.) Construction was under way during the next two years.
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