They've come from all sectors and sects of the major groups here in Iraq.
Religious sects, including Pentecostals and indigenous faiths, are proliferating in places like Africa and Latin America.
Other Christian sects, including Baptists, Quakers and Mormons, faced official resistance, discrimination and worse for decades.
The Latin church is strong but has lost members to more evangelical Christian sects.
How do other religions and other sects of Islam fit into the society in Iraq?
The opposition is an uneasy alliance of sects, led by warlords jostling for position.
Protestant sects, some imported from the United States, are making headway, especially among poor Amerindians.
Millenarian sects, especially tiny ones, gleefully quote the text showing that only 144, 000 people will be saved.
Mr. ABU ALI: (Through translator): Had there been any cooperation between the different sects, security would prevail.
Since then, Mr. Mikati has navigated between Lebanon's two rival sects and political blocs loyal to Sunnis and Shiites.
In Egypt the military still rules and the more organized, radical sects in that country threaten to take over.
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Mr Norquist argues that tidy-minded outsiders exaggerate the tensions between various right-wing sects.
Nineveh has Iraq's largest minority of Christians, themselves divided into various sects, some speaking Aramaic, the language of Christ.
Under the present system, Lebanon's 18 officially recognised sects have complete control over their communities' family laws, including marriage.
Sects of believers, called Donme (turncoats), awaited his return until the 20th century.
Note that these additional grades are not mere sub-sects of what USDA Prime would be, but have more constrictive requirements.
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Nor to set standards and make sure the force was diverse, given some sects were preventing their members from joining.
Many observers fear that Syria, a mosaic of different religious sects and ethnic groups, could devolve into a religious conflict.
But the secretive community is divided into sects and tribes, some of which have done a lot better than others.
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The example of Holland proved that a toleration of sects dissenting from the established sect was safe, and even useful.
In Lebanon, online groups are creating a space that brings people from various sects and cultures closer together by demystifying their tenets.
The events have raised concern that Syria's sectarian conflict could drive a wedge between Turkey's Sunni majority and the country's Shiite sects.
"I recommend this wine for all sects of Jews, " pronounced Rabbi Brenner.
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Of course, this tension between religion and science exists not only among Christian sects, but also between sects of many different religions.
In his later years he urged tolerance among the region's many sects.
The six Christian sects sharing the church have come to blows before.
So far, so very normal about many religious ideas and sects.
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"Our Foreign Minister rejected meeting with the Syrian National Council until they widened their base to include different religions and sects, " a Foreign Ministry spokesman said.
Abraham often speaks publicly for the different sects in the ultra-orthodox community, which has strict rules governing clothing, social customs and interaction with the outside world.
Modern writers also seem not to notice that many of these vatic souls belonged to sects that were far weirder (by our standards) than any modern evangelical congregation.
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