"When you join the Mulliez clan, it's like joining a religious community, " Gerard's son told a French newspaper.
Ironically, this remarkable religious community vanished even more rapidly than it took root.
Congregation has helped Jews preserve a religious community.
The researchers will also seek to establish whether different religions foster different levels of co-operation, for what reasons, and whether such co-operation brings collective benefits, both to the religious community and to those outside it.
You have to address their group interests, either as an ethno-religious community or as a clan or a tribal group, because they identify themselves in terms of one or more groups that they belong to.
Tuesday's event at The Fishing School, a religious community center in Washington, is the latest in a series of meetings Bush has planned throughout the week with leaders of spiritual and charitable groups to secure support for the proposal.
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"Religion and connection to something higher than oneself, connection to the sacred, connection to a tight-knit religious community allows you to modulate your reactions and your emotions to believe there is a broader purpose, " says Dr Kerry Morton, who is involved in a longer-term study on Adventist health.
The city's religious and community organizations reflect the richness and diversity of all five boroughs.
As I meet with political, religious and community leaders in Venezuela, this is the message I bring.
Religious and community leaders were invited to Downing Street because they were thought to have some influence over the zealots.
Of the more than 170 witnesses to appear during the hearings, including religious and community leaders, defense lawyers, legal scholars, police officers, prosecuting attorneys, etc.
The ad hoc grouping of religious, community and left-wing groups, under the umbrella of the Strangers into Citizens campaign, created a festival atmosphere in London's drenched streets.
We want religious and community leaders equipped to identify and appropriately refer our veterans to their VA Medical Center for the programs and services available to them.
Led by businessman Dick DeVos of Amway, parents, as well as business, religious and community leaders, are rallying to put on next year's ballot an exciting school choice initiative called Kids First!
Monks are highly respected both for their religious devotion and as community leaders.
But Koetsu ended his days in dignified security, as the quasi-religious head of a community at Takagamine, near Kyoto, part artists' colony and part monkish village.
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.
They are perceived as a homogenous and exclusive community, despite the fact that the differences between the different religious and cultural groups within the Asian community - between Hindus and Moslems, between Goans and Punjabis - can be as deeply divisive and mutually exclusive as those dividing Asians from their African neighbours.
"Community leaders and religious leaders never sanction violence in the home, " said Ch Supt Gary Beautridge.
And parents, religious leaders, teachers and community organizers also need to help take back the streets.
It excludes academic institutions, charities with only a few donors, community foundations and religious institutions not reporting numbers.
Partly because the state schools are horrible, partly because of community cohesion and religious commitment, 80 percent of Jewish children in South Africa study in Jewish schools.
Ibrahim Tai, the president of the Indian Muslim Council, which looks after the social and religious affairs of the Muslim community in India, said that they had "defamed" his religion.
But I think it's also worth going back to, I guess, the point I just made a minute ago, that we can't forget that many of the political leaders in this country among the black community are also religious leaders.
Partner with community, school or religious groups and get in the spirit of giving by donating products to charity auctions.
This tradition is still a part of everyday life and festive occasions, including wedding ceremonies, community and family gatherings and religious services.
Harold Metts, D-Providence, told his colleagues that he couldn't go against his religious convictions and that residents in his community are more concerned about other matters.
That outcome will be the demand of community activists, champions of religious freedom and national security professionals who will be demonstrating at the Islamic Saudi Academy's Alexandria campus at 8:00 a.m. this Tuesday morning.
Would we let even the most avid and sincere church community, individual believer, or religious parents make such choices for their adolescent children?
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The invited guests include elected officials, religious and grassroots leaders in the Muslim American community, and leaders of diverse faiths and members of the diplomatic corps.
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