Saudi's religious police enforce the kingdom's strict Islamic laws, including dress and prayer times.

BBC: Saudi Arabia plans female religious police

The judge ordered an injunction "prohibiting the warden from enforcing the policy against daily congregate prayer for Muslims, including Mr. Lindh, for whom daily congregate prayer is a sincerely held religious belief, " the court order states.

CNN: 'American Taliban' wins right to group prayer in prison

Last year the auction house sold a collection of Gandhi material, including his glasses and prayer book.

BBC: Gandhi letter

Last year the auction house sold a collection of Gandhi material, including his glasses and prayer book, which Mr Westwood-Brookes called "highly important".

BBC: Mahatma Gandhi letter to be auctioned in Shropshire

The Fellowship runs several programmes including writing letters to prisoners, supporting prayer groups and raising money to buy Christmas presents for the children of convicts.

BBC: Andy Taylor, Prison Fellowship

Justice officials, including some Jewish employees, have defended Ashcroft's prayer meetings as totally voluntary and free of any coercion.

CNN: Ashcroft's pulpit stint called 'non-official'

With 1.5m square metres of floor space, including two helipads, a giant shopping mall and a prayer area said to cater for 30, 000 worshippers, Abraj al-Bait is substantially bigger than America's two biggest buildings, the Pentagon and the Palazzo Hotel in Las Vegas, put together.

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Some of the questions direct to the candidates yesterday came from the public, including a man in Utah who asked about the power of prayer.

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