I gave it to Thich Nhat Hanh, the spiritual leader from Vietnam.
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The spiritual leader went into exile in 1959 after a failed uprising.
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He couldn't heed or protect a spiritual leader he considers a pervert.
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Markel described McKelvey's role as the "cultural/spiritual leader" of the company.
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He couldn't respond to this, because he is a spiritual leader now.
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Which made me the spiritual leader in my household, which was weird.
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Lee is the founder and spiritual leader of Shincheonji Church of Jesus.
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For others, he's a spiritual leader whose ideas changed the world forever.
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He also served as an imam, or spiritual leader, at a mosque.
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A week earlier, a Muslim Sufi spiritual leader was found hacked to death.
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Last year the spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shias, Isa Qassim (pictured) lost his.
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The spiritual leader first talked of a temple in 1988, Dr. Patel said.
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Ahead of the celebrations, here are ten facts about Tibet's spiritual leader: 1.
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Gere is a Buddhist and a longtime friend of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader.
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India granted asylum to the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, in 1959.
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The Dalai Lama, Buddhist monk and spiritual leader of Tibet, also has trouble meditating.
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We have the high priest who is the spiritual leader for all the Samaritan.
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On that occasion, Altan Khan gave the spiritual leader the title of Dalai Lama.
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Francis, leader of the world's 1.2 billion Roman Catholics, prayed in the basilica with Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the world's 80 million Anglicans, and Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of up to 300 million Orthodox Christians around the globe.
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Outgoing US President Barack Obama met with the spiritual leader four times during his presidency.
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In 2012, a man threw ink at spiritual leader Baba Ramdev during a press conference.
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Earlier this month, a 65-year-old Sufi Muslim spiritual leader was hacked to death.
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Malcolm wrote the letter in 1959, turning to his spiritual leader for some marriage counseling.
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It's headed by Damian Lazarus, who just may be the spiritual leader of dance music.
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"He was a sort of spiritual leader, as magnetic as he was tragic," Morvan remembers.
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Bashir, who is considered the spiritual leader of JI, denied involvement in the Bali bombings.
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Milli Muslim League (MML) - PARTY LEADER: Saifullah Khalid, supported by spiritual leader Hafiz Saeed - LEGAL STATUS: Banned in Pakistan for its association with spiritual leader Hafiz Saeed, who is on a U.N. terrorism list in connection with 2008 Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people.
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It's also the foremost organization to arrange itself around a spiritual leader, known as the khalifa.
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This year, the spiritual leader of the small but loyal Druze community will light a torch.
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He is the spiritual leader of Dera Sacha Sauda, a controversial spiritual sect founded in 1948.
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Singh is the spiritual leader of Dera Sacha Sauda, a controversial spiritual sect founded in 1948.
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The Druze spiritual leader at the time declared Christians would never again live in the area.
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The compound houses the tomb of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the spiritual leader of the 1979 revolution.
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Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Mohamed Badie and dozens more were given life sentences, judicial sources said.
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Officials offered "virtually nothing beyond that he was the spiritual leader of the Taliban," he said.
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Over time, Mreeh won support from Druze elders, including its spiritual leader in Israel, Sheikh Muwafaq Tarif.
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He became a spiritual leader and celebrity icon with a long list of famous followers and friends.
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The latest is Ayatollah Sheikh Isa Qassim, regarded as the spiritual leader of the country's Shia majority.
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Hours later, Mr. Obama met with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader at the White House as planned.
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The sword belonged to Omar Saïdou Tall, a military and spiritual leader who fought off French colonialists.
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China still denounces the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, and bans his image throughout the region.
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Within the hijra world, gurus fulfill the hybrid role of den mother, godfather, spiritual leader and pimp.
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Mr. Toole's next retweet was of a post by the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
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The spiritual leader, Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh — known as "the guru of bling" — has millions of followers.
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She has a small but loyal fanbase, in part rooted in her years as a spiritual leader.
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Put all this to Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's intense but approachable chairwoman and spiritual leader, and she is unfazed.
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He is the first Hindu to serve as the chief religious or spiritual leader of an American university.
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He said he was the Caliph Ibrahim, the self-anointed spiritual leader of a 20183 billion-strong religion.
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Zahran appears to have been the spiritual leader of the bombers, and may have radicalized several of them.
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Ali al-Sistani, the Iranian-born spiritual leader of Iraq's Shias, wants clerics to stay out of politics.
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He's called a father because of his role as the spiritual leader of the world's 1.2 billion Catholics.
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Qatar hosts some of the movement's prominent figures, including the spiritual leader and Egypt-born Yusuf al-Qaradawi.
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But the Tibetan spiritual leader was shuffled out through a back door, dodging a pile of garbage bags.
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Flamboyant spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh was convicted Friday in a case that dates back to 1999.
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China restricts religious operations in Tibet, and spiritual leader the Dalai Lama remains in his decades-long exile.
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The posts were stepping stones to his becoming the spiritual leader of Boston's large and influential Catholic community.
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The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, fled from the crackdown and was granted asylum in India.
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Author and spiritual leader Marianne Williamson was the most-googled candidate on Tuesday, perhaps for a similar reason.
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Mr. Jenkins, its spiritual leader, belonged to the Nation of Islam until he split with it in 1978.
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The race is organized by the followers of the Indian spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy, who died in 2007.
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Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama fled to India in 1959 following a failed uprising against the Chinese.
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The council is being organized by his rival, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christianity.
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Reuters found that the sect had become a key instrument in China's campaign to discredit the Tibetan spiritual leader.
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The Tibetan spiritual leader spoke to a Reuters reporter on the sidelines of a media briefing in Geneva today.
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Still, politically Mongolia irked China in November after Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama visited Ulaanbaatar, the country's capital.
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The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader arrived in Mongolia on Friday to meet Mongolian Buddhist leaders, according to his website.
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After a failed revolt against Chinese rule in 353, the 235th Dalai Lama -- Tibet's spiritual leader -- fled to India.
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But that has not deterred all the recent U.S. presidents before Trump from meeting the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
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This is not the first time that a spiritual leader has denounced chess as a distraction from religious devotions.
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Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, based in Najaf in Iraq, is the spiritual leader of most Shias, especially Iraqi ones.
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China views him as a separatist, but Tibet's spiritual leader says he only wants genuine autonomy for his homeland.
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The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, is expected to teach at the Kalachakra gathering from Jan.
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"She was very fiscally sound," said Rabbi Sanford Akselrad, the synagogue's spiritual leader and one of Ms. Rosen's friends.
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The author and spiritual leader was the most-searched candidate on Google and became the subject of endless memes.
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Forty-seven people, including the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Mohamed Badie, were sentenced to life in prison.
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The author, spiritual leader, and friend to Oprah Winfrey announced that she is ending her presidential bid on Friday.
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We forged a quick camaraderie, including with our pastor, who was as much friend and peer as spiritual leader.
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After a failed revolt against Chinese rule in 1959, the 14th Dalai Lama -- Tibet's spiritual leader -- fled to India.
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The spiritual leader of the terrorists targeting Manhattan, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, aka "the Blind Sheik," was also arrested.
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The American singer has angered her legions of Chinese fans after meeting with the Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader.
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Tibetan Buddhists consider their exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, to be an incarnation of Avalokitesvara, a Bodhisattva of compassion.
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During a nine-month trial, his defense attorney argued the cleric was a spiritual leader being prosecuted for his speech.
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They include New Delhi's sheltering of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader whom Beijing considers a separatist traitor.
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The Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, has rebuked his coreligionists for persecuting the Rohingya, saying they should "remember Buddha".
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Yet perhaps none of the potential nominees has been as head-scratch-worthy as author and spiritual leader Marianne Williamson.
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But Doluz insists that's another spiritual leader who has taken up residence on the island with a band of followers.
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Interviewed by Piers Morgan on Good Morning Britain, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism let his hands do the talking.
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The pontiff, who is the spiritual leader of billions of Catholics, tied one's view of immigration with their Christian identity.
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Kava - once the drink of chiefs and spiritual leader - is the Pacific's favorite tipple and a major export for Vanuatu.
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A parallel domestic presence is that of Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, the Hindu spiritual leader who counts Ms. Cleveland among her devotees.
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"He wanted to speak more independently, without taking advice from elders," said the mosque's imam, or spiritual leader, M.T.M. Fawaz.
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Pastor Jarrid Wilson's church, Harvest Christian Fellowship, is remembering the late spiritual leader with a service held in his honor.
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The HBO series will return January 13, but with a new leading man playing a new kind of spiritual leader.
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But she wrote no commercial recordings in the 1980s or '90s, instead focusing on her role as a spiritual leader.
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The Argentinean-born spiritual leader has made poverty and Latin American struggles major parts of his tenure leading the Vatican.
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One of the suspects, Arjan Babaj, was described by investigators as the chief recruiter and spiritual leader of the group.
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The Tibetan spiritual leader has hinted in recent years that he might be the last person to hold the title.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Tibetans mark the 80th anniversary of the enthronement of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Saturday.
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China has long claimed rights to Tibet, but many Tibetans hold allegiance to the country's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
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A spiritual leader for the protest organizer, the Islamic Defenders Front (FPI), insisted its actions on Friday would be peaceful.
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Asked if he was worried China might appoint its own Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader said it would be foolish.
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The Father Mulcahy character was the spiritual leader of the medical complex in South Korea, the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital.
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Bundy would need least two to three years, as John Tanner, a spiritual leader trying to spiritually redeem Bundy, told prosecutors.
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At trial, several said they were persuaded to go when the group&aposs spiritual leader, Ali Al-Timimi, said after Sept.
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Hongya is the birthplace of the 14th, and current, Dalai Lama, Tibet's exiled spiritual leader who is reviled by China's government.
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A best-selling author and spiritual leader — he disdains "self-help guru" — his company had earned $2250 million the previous year.
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On Sunday, the American singer posted a series of pictures on Instagram of her posing with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader.
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But prominent figures such as Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of the kingdom's Shi'ite Muslim majority, were not on the list.
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Their exchange of wedding vows will be officiated by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion.
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Gabbard, like her predecessors, firmly rejects the idea that she is part of a political initiative tied to her spiritual leader.
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Although he defined himself as an artist first, Mr. Creme was also an unconventional spiritual leader and a student of esotericism.
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For years, China's Communist Party has accused the exiled Dalai Lama, the widely revered Tibetan spiritual leader, of supporting Tibetan independence.
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In Jordan a few weeks ago, I spoke to Abu Qatada, the so-called spiritual leader of al Qaeda in Europe.
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He is seen as a spiritual leader in the community with an almost supernatural relationship to the animals: a crocodile whisperer.
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Mr. Sadr is the coalition's spiritual leader and was not himself a candidate for office, so he cannot become prime minister.
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It is difficult to write about a man who was a revered spiritual leader as well as a keen political operator.
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Erdogan has demanded the U.S. extradite Fethullah Gulen, a Sunni Muslim spiritual leader with a worldwide following who lives in Pennsylvania.
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The company lost its spiritual leader, and an "operations" guy like Cook didn't have the instincts to create another disruptive product.
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The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, who lives in exile in India, plans to teach at the Kalachakra.
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The 14th spiritual leader of Tibet, who recently marked 60 years in exile from his homeland, is known by what title?
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The museum celebrates the life of Swami Vivekananda, a philosopher and spiritual leader who became a fierce proponent of Indian nationalism.
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At this point, the origin story of Bon Iver's falsetto-blessed spiritual leader Vernon is as well documented as Captain America's.
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Although officially atheist, China in 1995 selected Gyaltsen Norbu as Tibet's 11th Panchen Lama, the number-two spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, global spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, boosted Poroshenko's hopes of securing approval for an autocephalous church.
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But Batiz is an especially improbable example of the C.E.O. as spiritual leader—her gospel is late capitalism taken to its extreme.
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They are indigenous Iraqis and Eastern Rite Catholics whose spiritual leader is the Patriarch of Babylon, according to the Chaldean Community Foundation.
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China views the Buddhist spiritual leader as an agitator and has repeatedly rejected calls for new autonomy for his homeland of Tibet.
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In the shock, pain and confusion that often accompanies such calamities, the president is the nation's pastor and priest — its spiritual leader.
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As Amma, a Hindu spiritual leader who has been called "the hugging saint," may tell you: Hugging is a natural human need.
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One is, notwithstanding his weaknesses, a spiritual leader of extraordinary maturity; the other, his strengths aside, is a thin-skinned, petulant narcissist.
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The sword belonged to Omar Saidou Tall, a prominent Muslim spiritual leader in the 214s in what is now modern-day Senegal.
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If you're not familiar, Williamson, who will turn 67 on July 8, is an author, spiritual leader, and friend to Oprah Winfrey.
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There was a small demonstration earlier this week during his visit to Madison, Wisconsin, according to people close to the Tibetan spiritual leader.
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You could visit the quaint hill town of Tawang in Arunanchal Pradesh, the birthplace of the Tibetan spiritual leader the sixth Dalai Lama.
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Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, and Amy Klobuchar, alongside author and spiritual leader Marianne Williamson, spoke forcefully against the rise of anti-abortion legislation.
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Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, a man accused by Beijing of being a dangerous separatist, is a fellow peace prize laureate.
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Aly Khan was the son of the Aga Khan III, the spiritual leader the Ismaili Shia Muslims, and heir to his father's position.
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So the fact that he s come out as this spiritual leader endorsing the scientific movement is unprecedented and was an incredible honor.
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Such indoctrination, along with compulsory political study in monasteries, aims to reduce the appeal of the Dalai Lama, Tibet&aposs exiled spiritual leader.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, would also be present, the official said.
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A year earlier, its spiritual leader, A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, a 69-year-old immigrant from India, founded it in New York.
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"When a spiritual leader like the pope calls out our moral responsibility toward the environment, it's a pretty big thing," Mr. Gutierrez said.
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By contrast, Beijing doesn't give the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists, the Dalai Lama, any say over the appointment of monks or abbots.
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After an unsuccessful revolt against the Chinese occupation of Tibet, the 20113th Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, fled the capital Lhasa in secret.
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"We are not just protecting these lands for our people, but all people," Jonah Yellowman, a Navajo medicine person and spiritual leader, said.
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And Lester is a longtime friend to the reserve catcher David Ross, a team elder and the spiritual leader of the 2016 Cubs.
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It has also scaled-back top level official contacts with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in northern India.
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Tibetans are barred from publicly worshiping the Dalai Lama, a Buddhist spiritual leader, and say that their language and culture have been suppressed.
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"Within 48 hours, I received myself about 75 death threats, via text messages and Facebook," said Imam Ismaeel Chartier, the mosque's spiritual leader.
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When the current Catholic Speaker [Paul Ryan] is leaving, he's asking only the second Catholic spiritual leader on the House floor to leave.
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China views the Dalai Lama, Tibet's Buddhist spiritual leader who fled into exile in India after the failed uprising, as a dangerous separatist.
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Prayuth Chan-ocha is still on a manhunt for Phra Dhammachayo, the controversial spiritual leader of the Dhammakaya movement, a powerful Buddhist sect.
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His funeral was attended by Pope Tawadros II, the spiritual leader of Egypt&aposs Coptic Orthodox Christians, one the world&aposs oldest Christian communities.
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Al-Sadr's word carries weight with Shiites beyond Iraq's border, and the spiritual leader called for them to protest, too -- including in Saudi Arabia.
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In 2014, Pope Francis met the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, at the Aedicule, to promote unity.
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Bashir is best known as the "spiritual leader" of the homegrown terror network that carried out the 2002 Bali bombings which killed 202 people.
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Rise of Boston's spiritual leader Law was born in Torreon, Mexico, on November 4, 1931, to Helen and Bernard Law, an Air Force colonel.
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Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, who lives in India and who China considers a dangerous separatist, is also facing the cold shoulder.
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Sardinia-based Meridiana - owned by the Aga Khan, a tycoon and spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims - is under a government-sponsored restructuring plan.
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The patriarchate, the seat of the spiritual leader of some 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide, endorsed Ukraine's request for the new church in October.
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He is venerated by large sects like the Satmar and Viznitz Hasidim as the spiritual leader who established Hasidic culture and philosophy in Hungary.
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Beijing has bristled at the Modi government's public embrace of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader whom it regards as a dangerous splittist.
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Ukraine in October secured approval to set up an independent church from the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul, the global spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians.
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Francis already has ties to other Orthodox leaders, especially with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, considered the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians.
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"The way that we live is finally being acknowledged," says Jonah Yellowman, a Navajo spiritual leader, at his home overlooking the buttes of Monument Valley.
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And it's actually incredible that any American Catholics would bother to support Donald Trump if they truly believed that Pope Francis was their spiritual leader.
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Just last week, Rick Grimes—the constant and spiritual leader of AMC's The Walking Dead—was said to be killed, or so we were warned.
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The assassination team was repatriated in return for an antidote for Meshaal and the release of Hamas's spiritual leader, Ahmed Yassin, from an Israeli jail.
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New Delhi (CNN)Deadly clashes broke out Friday in northern India after a controversial spiritual leader was found guilty of raping two of his followers.
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Tenzin Delek was a senior supporter of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet who fled to India after a failed uprising in 1959.
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From India to South Carolina, followers of Meher Baba, a spiritual leader born in Pune, India, in 1894, will observe silence in his honor today.
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Daza singled out the hard-line Democratic Center party and its spiritual leader, Colombia's former president, Álvaro Uribe, a fierce critic of the peace process.
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Beijing accuses him of seeking independence for Tibet, but the spiritual leader insists that he is only seeking the autonomy promised by the Chinese government.
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In a statement released by the spiritual leader in 2011, the Dalai Lama said it was inappropriate for the Chinese government to supervise his reincarnation.
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His Holiness Gyalwang Drukpa, the spiritual leader of the Drukpa lineage, says as a child he believed the Buddhist beliefs about women to be misguided.
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There were widespread fears of a schism ahead of the talks, which were convened by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of Anglicans.
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In April, China slammed India's decision to host Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in the region, saying it could cause serious damage to relations.
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One by one his couriers went away and he became a largely spiritual leader for what was left of the Colombos after the RICO trials.
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Zuckerberg calls Maguire the "internal and external spiritual leader" for the Connectivity Lab—he's on top of the science, but he never loses sight of Internet.
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In a letter addressed to Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, pledged 1 million rupees ($14,400) to Odisha.
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But some rank-and-file Egyptian Christians feel their spiritual leader has been too deferential to the president and too slow to articulate the community's complaints.
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China considers the exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader a dangerous separatist, and ministry spokesman Lu Kang told a regular briefing the meeting would encourage "separatist forces".
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According to the US Department of State, Robow, born in 1969, had served as an al-Shabaab spokesperson and also served as the group's spiritual leader.
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But she eventually decided to vote for Rouhani, she said, because former president Mohammad Khatami, spiritual leader of the pro-reform movement, had publicly backed him.
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Only a week later did state media report that Tenzin Delek, a supporter of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, had died of a heart attack.
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A major trial of a spiritual leader convicted of raping two females in India is blocking millions of people from getting the internet on their phones.
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In April, China slammed India's decision to host Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama in the same region, saying it could cause serious damage to relations.
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Beijing views the Nobel Peace Prize laureate as a dangerous separatist and has denounced the 83-year-old spiritual leader as a "wolf in monk's robes".
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When the Dalai Lama visited Britain again three years later, Mr. Cameron avoided him, something the Tibetan spiritual leader suggested was because of concerns about trade.
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Today, from Ahmednagar, India, to South Carolina, followers of Meher Baba, a spiritual leader born in Pune, India, in 1894, will observe silence in his honor.
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Up to 100,000 Tibetan Buddhists live in exile in India, 60 years after their spiritual leader took refuge there after a failed uprising against Chinese rule.
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Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, who leads the Church of England and is the spiritual leader of the world's 80 million Anglicans, endorsed the guidelines.
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INTERNATIONAL An article on Saturday about the killing of a Pakistani Muslim spiritual leader referred incorrectly to Mullah Muhammad Omar's education before he founded the Taliban.
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Prosecutors have portrayed Ibn Wahhaj, the son of a prominent New York Muslim cleric, as the leader of the group and Leveille as its spiritual leader.
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Francis had already met with other Orthodox leaders, including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who is considered the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians.
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Lady Gaga, plus Bjork and Bon Jovi, are blocked in China after they met or expressed support for the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.
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Iraq's influential Shia spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, in his Friday sermon in the southern city of Karbala, was strongly critical of the Kurdish move.
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" The spiritual leader of the peacekeepers was a commissioner named Pravin Lal, who opined that "the free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny.
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As the spiritual leader of nearly three million Catholics in the nation's second-largest archdiocese, Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan remains a force to be reckoned with.
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But in the summer of that year, Mr. Birshtein went to see Douglas Coe, a lay minister and spiritual leader of the Fellowship Foundation, about Mr. Levinson.
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The Dalai Lama, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, cuts the ribbon during the dedication ceremony of the new interfaith temple at the Tibetan Cultural Center in Bloomington, Ind.
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ON MAY 16th the Aga Khan (pictured, left), the spiritual leader to 15m of the world's Shia Ismaili Muslims, opened a Global Centre for Pluralism in Canada.
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A shaman, or spiritual leader, would drink the tea and touch the forehead of other village men, relaying the messages he received from God through the hallucinations.
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Child welfare advocates called for her parents and spiritual leader to be prosecuted, saying they encouraged her to continue when the fast had clearly become life-threatening.
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Today, from Ahmednagar, India to South Carolina, followers of Meher Baba, above, a spiritual leader born in Pune, India in 1894, will observe silence in his honor.
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But opponents of the spiritual leader say his conviction has nothing to do with proselytizing for a cult, saying he has had "illegitimate" sexual relations with women.
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In the late 1940s, she had an open affair with Prince Aly Khan, the son of the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of millions of Ismaili Muslims.
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The author and spiritual leader has been soliciting donations to pay off her campaign debt since dropping out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary earlier this month.
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Their backgrounds vary, but they include an antigovernment protester, a children's rights activist, an ayatollah, a spiritual leader and a Lebanese computer technology specialist convicted of espionage.
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Another spiritual leader was Naftali Tzi Weisz, the grand rabbi of the Spinka sect of Hasids in Brooklyn, who was locked up for a charity donation scheme.
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It has shut down the main opposition parties, jailed or stripped the citizenship of prominent dissidents and put the top Shi'ite spiritual leader under de facto house arrest.
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Yet it was only after his encounter with a sheikh called Hazreti Shamsuddin of Tabriz that Rumi was transformed into a spiritual leader who inspired a separate tradition.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN)A Sufi Muslim spiritual leader was hacked to death in Bangladesh, the latest in a flurry of similar attacks across the country, police said Saturday.
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This time around, the author, spiritual leader, and friend to Oprah Winfrey came armed with some sharper points, leaving a bit of her trademark love talk at home.
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"We have the team in place, we have the enthusiastic spiritual leader at the helm in Tim and everything is full speed ahead," he said in an interview.
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His funeral was held this week and attended by Pope Tawadros II, the spiritual leader of Egypt&aposs Coptic Orthodox Christians, one the world&aposs oldest Christian communities.
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And Obama criticized Turkey's crackdown on the political opposition, intellectuals, activists and journalists and wouldn't extradite spiritual leader Fetullah Gulen, on whom the Turkish blames July's coup attempt.
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"My main aim was always to protect Bhagwan," she said then, of her spiritual leader Osho Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, still grinning as she was led away in handcuffs.
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Because of an editing error, an earlier version of this obituary misstated when Mahant Swami Maharaj became the spiritual leader of the Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha sect.
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Many of the others added to the list are figures associated with the Muslim Brotherhood who have made Qatar a base, including Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi.
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Rabbi Daniel Swartz is the spiritual leader of Temple Hesed of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and executive director of the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, a national nonprofit.
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The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, lives in northern India, and many Tibetans who live under Chinese rule try to make pilgrimages to see him.
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Last week, the spiritual leader visited the American Embassy School in New Delhi and spoke for an hour and 40 minutes with the children who attend the school.
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Against this backdrop, there remains one wild card that could present a real challenge to Iranian domination: intervention by Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader.
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Abdel Rahman was an esteemed scholar of Islamic jurisprudence before becoming spiritual leader of Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, a violent offshoot of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood, during the 1970s.
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In his first televised speech after the result, Rouhani appeared to openly defy conservative judges by praising the spiritual leader of the reform camp, former President Mohammad Khatami.
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Our reviewer, Alex von Tunzelmann, called the book "a fair, thorough and nuanced portrait" of a spiritual leader who "drew no distinction between his private and public life."
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"We believe the ruh stay with us for 40 days after death," says Pak Nur, a spiritual leader at Nahdlatul Ulama, a school in Indonesia that practices religious studies.
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He did not comment on the potential cost of a stake in Meridiana which is owned by the Aga Khan, a tycoon and spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims.
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The Dalai Lama is cherished as a spiritual leader in predominantly Buddhist Mongolia, but China regards him as a dangerous separatist and warned the visit could damage bilateral relations.
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Beijing calls Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama a dangerous reactionary who seeks to split off nearly a quarter of the land mass of the People's Republic of China.
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" The Tibetan spiritual leader added, "Now I think America is learning lessons on the importance of ecology…on the east coast, floods, and on the west coast, [forest] fires.
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And in an increasingly religiously polarized America — in which political and religious identity have all but fused — a spiritual leader who rejects those binaries is exactly what we need.
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It has been shattered by China's campaign to crush separatism and eradicate support for the Dalai Lama, their spiritual leader who fled to India after an uprising in 1959.
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Next, they swarmed Lady Gaga's Instagram page after the American pop star met the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibet, condemned as a separatist by the Chinese government.
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But Muscovite religious scholars have a very different reading of church history and insist that their own hierarch, Patriarch Kirill, is the legitimate spiritual leader of the eastern Slavs.
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He was installed as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury in March 2013, becoming the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, composed of about 85 million members around the globe.
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A Hindu spiritual leader from the holiday island of Bali, I Gusti Ngurah Harta, said Purnama's guilty verdict meant minorities could be disadvantaged before the law in the future.
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According to Honolulu Magazine, Gabbard often deflects questions about the influence of Chris Butler, a spiritual leader of an off-shoot from the Hare Krishna movement, on her family.
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Investigators believe the group&aposs spiritual leader, Madani Ceus, ordered the girls kept in a car without food or water for days as the others waited for the apocalypse.
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Their first stop was at the Tree of Life synagogue, where the president and his family lit candles and were greeted by Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, the congregation's spiritual leader.
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It's particularly jarring when the petite, gray-haired Ms. Stork acknowledges that she volunteered to carry out assassinations — twice — while serving the spiritual leader known as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh.
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Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, the Muslim spiritual leader of Kashmir who is considered a moderate separatist, contests that India has true plans to engage politically with the people of Kashmir.
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But one day in 2015, Ali Gormez, a local Alevi spiritual leader, arrived to find government officials had repurposed it as a mosque for the country's Sunni Muslim majority.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is "alarmed" by Bahrian's decision to revoke the citizenship of the spiritual leader of the country's Shi'ite Muslim majority, a spokesman said on Monday.
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She has for years been outspoken about China's human rights record and has met on multiple occasions with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader vilified by China.
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Ukraine secured approval on Thursday from a synod in Istanbul, seat of the global spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, to establish what is known as an "autocephalous", or independent, church.
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But Bahrainis suggested it might be linked to speeches made at the home of Ayatollah Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shi'ites after authorities stripped him of his citizenship.
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Bahraini security forces were seen deploying around areas of tension, including Duraz village, where the spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shi'ites has been confined since authorities revoked his citizenship last year.
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Bloggers and scientists, Hindus and humanitarians, free-thinkers and foreigners, religious minorities and academics, have all been targeted, many of them meeting similarly brutal ends as the Sufi spiritual leader.
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Many of its leaders, including former President Mohamed Mursi and Supreme Guide - or spiritual leader - Mohamed Badie, have been sentenced to death after mass trials of thousands of Muslim Brothers.
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A source familiar with the case said the cleric was Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader Ayatollah Isa Qassim, who had his citizenship revoked by the authorities less than a month ago.
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Bahrain has also since revoked the citizenship of the spiritual leader of the country's Shi'ites, Ayatollah Isa Qassim, and charged him with collecting funds without a permit and money laundering.
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For its part, China has long chafed at India's hosting of the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, as well as its resistance to the Belt and Road Initiative.
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Bahrain has stepped up a crackdown on critics, shutting down two main political groups, revoking the citizenship of the spiritual leader of the Shi'ite Muslim community and jailing rights campaigners.
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Though the Dalai Lama is cherished as a spiritual leader in the predominantly Buddhist Mongolia, China regards him as a dangerous separatist and warned the visit could damage bilateral relations.
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That included Egypt-born cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi, a spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, and Qatar Charity, a state body which carries out aid projects with the United Nations.
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GABORONE (Reuters) - Botswana will host the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, next month, officials said on Thursday, risking a backlash from China, a major investor in the African country's economy.
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Beijing is angry at India's increasingly public engagement of the Dalai Lama, including hosting the Tibetan spiritual leader in a territory controlled by India but claimed by China in April.
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The Orlando Magic jumped into action to help out the victims in the nightclub shooting -- volunteering at a blood center and dispatching the team spiritual leader to help grieving families.
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Jany Leveille, a Haitian national described as the spiritual leader of the group, is charged with being in the United States illegally and in unlawful possession of firearms and ammunition.
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Liliya and Alexander Vilenchik, whose families came from Moscow and St. Petersburg, were married in the Jerusalem hills in July by Nardy Grun, a secular rabbi or humanistic spiritual leader.
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Now that's been followed by an ethics investigation of his family's vacation on a private island owned by the Aga Khan, the billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims.
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Qizhala also pledged that the government in Tibet would "take a clear-cut stance in the fight against the Dalai clique", a reference to exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
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China was upset when exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, whom it considers a dangerous separatist, visited the contested stretch of land on the India-China border this month.
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Reports of attacks on religious minorities have increased in recent weeks, though, including the killings of a Sufi spiritual leader and his daughter and an attack on a Bangladeshi Christian.
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Meridiana, which offers flights to and from the island of Sardinia and other destinations in Italy, is owned by the Aga Khan, a businessman and spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims.
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He was tried en masse with Mohamed Badie -- the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood -- as well as more than 100 alleged members of the outlawed group, according to state media.
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He was tried en mass with Mohamed Badie -- the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood -- as well as more than 100 alleged members of the outlawed group, according to state media.
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David Conner, the Dean of Windsor, will conduct the service and Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans, will officiate for the exchanging of vows.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – More than $8 million was awarded Wednesday to a woman who alleged that the spiritual leader of a cult forced her to work without pay for a decade.
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Last year, Weibo removed a Chinese-language fanpage of John Oliver's show after the satirist interviewed Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, according to a previous moderator of the fanpage.
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Thousands of followers of the spiritual leader Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh created a settlement called Rajneeshpuram, which ended up antagonizing a local town called Antelope and later the entirety of Wasco county.
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The four Arab countries named in a statement 59 people, including Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi, and 12 entities, among them Qatari-funded charities Qatar Charity and Eid Charity.
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Meridiana, which offers flights to and from Sardinia and other destinations in Italy, was until now fully owned by the Aga Khan, a businessman and spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims.
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After a failed uprising against Chinese rule nearly six decades ago, tens of thousands of Tibetans including spiritual leader the Dalai Lama fled into exile in neighboring India and other countries.
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Confirming the visit, a Greek government official said Francis would be accompanied to Lesbos by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians.
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China has a long history of repression of the Uighurs and has tried to squash opposition to Chinese rule in Tibet, including by exiling the Dalai Lama, Tibetan Buddhists' spiritual leader.
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This year marks the 60th anniversary of a failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule in 1959, which resulted in Tibet's Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, fleeing into exile in India.
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"The greatness of this pontificate is that the spiritual intuition he has on our world -- in politics, on the environment -- he is truly a spiritual leader," said Faggioli, the church professor.
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Editorial employees, they said, were encouraged to attend weekly "Fa study" sessions outside work hours, during which they would gather to study the teachings of Falun Gong's spiritual leader, Li Hongzhi.
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The Tibetan spiritual leader had been scheduled to attend a peace conference in Johannesburg, on the invitation of fellow Nobel Peace Prize laureates Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu and F.W. de Klerk.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Tibet can exist within China in the same spirit as the European Union sticks together, the territory's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, considered a dangerous separatist by Beijing, said.
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They have revoked the citizenship of the Ayatollah Isa Qassim, the spiritual leader of the country's Shi'ite majority, who is also on trial on charges of money laundering which he denies.
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But reports of attacks on members of religious minority groups have resumed in recent weeks, among them the killings of a Sufi spiritual leader and his daughter and a Bangladeshi Christian.
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The ride of some 400 miles (640 km) would start in mid-April at Green Grass, South Dakota, home to the spiritual leader of all the Lakota, Arvol Lookinghorse, Ivan's brother.
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Last month's visit of the Tibetan spiritual leader sparked the ire of Beijing and resulted in fresh Chinese tariffs on Mongolian commodity shipments and a temporary closure of a key border crossing.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, at the White House on Wednesday despite a warning by China that it would damage diplomatic relations.
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" The presumed spiritual leader of the community is as readily taken in by Dr. Vlad as the others, confiding in him that "repentance and sorrow for sin is woven into our DNA.
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Speaking to journalists in North India, the Tibetan spiritual leader expressed his grief over the ongoing violence inside Buddhist-majority Myanmar on Friday, saying the Buddha would have "definitely helped" the Rohingya.
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MUMBAI, India — Pramukh Swami Maharaj, the spiritual leader who engineered the global expansion of a socially conservative Hindu sect that grew to be the largest in the United States, died on Aug.
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The decision follows a synod in October presided over by the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul, the global spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, which endorsed Ukraine's request for an "autocephalous", or independent, church.
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"I always saw Martin Luther King Jr. as this incredible spiritual leader, who spoke in a way that inspired people in emotional tones," said the photographer Steve Schapiro of his famous subject.
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Announcements boomed from surrounding mosques at the time calling for a Sufi spiritual leader to be killed, said Sahlan Khalil Rahman, secretary of a trust that oversees a group of Sufi mosques.
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Urged by a call in June 2014 from Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's influential Shiite spiritual leader, for volunteers to defend their nation, young men and old formed a pickup army.
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Lady Gaga faced a temporary ban on performances and sales in China in 2017 after she met the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader whom the Communist Party denounces as a separatist.
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Indian officials have dismissed China's criticism of the Dalai Lama's second visit to Arunachal Pradesh in eight years, saying he is a spiritual leader who has a devoted following in the region.
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The images and information considered noteworthy by the app include files linked to Islamic extremism, such as ISIS propaganda, and pictures of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, according to the reports.
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While hundreds gathered today with drums and Tibetan flags opposite the United Nations building in Geneva to listen to the Dalai Lama, there was no sign of protests against the Tibetan spiritual leader.
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The phone call follows on from President Barack Obama's meeting with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, last week at the White House despite China warning it would damage diplomatic relations.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry called the Dalai Lama a "deceptive actor" on Tuesday, after the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader said in an interview that Chinese hardliners have parts of their brains missing.
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Also attending are the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, the spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican communion; members of the South Sudan Council of Churches; and other African Catholic and Presbyterian Church leaders.
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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met him on the tarmac, along with the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians and the archbishop of Athens, who is the head of the Church of Greece.
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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion of millions of Christians globally, received the crown prince at Lambeth Palace in central London, where the two talked for an hour.
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Meridiana, which offers flights to and from the island of Sardinia and other destinations in Italy and elsewhere, is owned by the Aga Khan, a businessman and spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims.
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Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain designated dozens of people with alleged links to Qatar as terrorists, including Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi, and 12 entities, among them Qatari-funded charities.
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At the migrants camp, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians, reminded Europeans and their leaders that Christians and others are judged on how they treat the powerless.
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The decisions to shut down the opposition group and to revoke the citizenship of its spiritual leader, and the arrests of human rights activists, suggest a new crackdown on the island, analysts say.
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Pat Conroy, earlier Tuesday morning for a cup of coffee, Ryan told reporters at his weekly news conference, following a high-profile resignation -- and a rescinding of that resignation -- by the spiritual leader.
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New Delhi (CNN)Authorities in Nepal raided one of the ashrams of a spiritual leader -- whose supporters believe he is the reincarnation of Buddha -- while investigating the disappearance of four of his followers.
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Poroshenko's comments came after the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, home to the global spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, announced it had drafted a constitutional charter for an "autocephalous", or self-governing, Ukrainian church.
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The speech by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, carried by state media, came after Bahrain's Sunni authorities stepped up measures against the island's Shi'ites and stripped their spiritual leader, Ayatollah Isa Qassim, of his citizenship.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians worldwide on Sunday presented the head of the Ukrainian church with a decree granting it independence from Moscow, a historic split strongly opposed by Russia.
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Remarks by its foreign minister this past month were the latest sign that another country had withered under pressure from China over the contentious issue of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader.
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But reports of attacks on members of religious minority groups have resumed in recent weeks, including the killings of a Sufi spiritual leader and his daughter and an attack on a Bangladeshi Christian.
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Following his ouster, Morsy was tried en masse with Mohamed Badie -- the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood -- as well as more than 100 alleged members of the outlawed group, according to state media.
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Morsy was tried en masse with Mohamed Badie -- the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood -- following his ouster, as well as more than 100 alleged members of the outlawed group, according to state media.
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What is known, though, is that this abrupt departure helped transform Rumi into the spiritual leader who would inspire a Sufi order, the main feature of which is the "sema" or whirling dervish prayer.
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Javier Bardem is in talks to play Stilgar, the leader of the nomadic Fremen who take in Paul and later make him their spiritual leader as he leads a rebellion against the Harkonnen family.
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Exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said Wednesday he has "no worries" about Donald Trump's election as U.S. president, adding that he expects the businessman will align his future policies with global realities.
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church wants to become fully self-governing, or autocephalous, and has sought the support of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, the spiritual leader of the world's roughly 250 million Orthodox Christians.
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Danish-Chinese relations have improved markedly since a low point 10 years ago, when Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen met the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who Beijing brands as a dangerous separatist.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama will meet the Dalai Lama at the White House on Wednesday, a move certain to anger China which considers the exiled Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader a dangerous separatist.
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Pierre, whose official title is papal, or apostolic, nuncio, explained that the pope's role as a spiritual leader is different from leadership positions in other organizations because his focus is essentially evangelical and religious.
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The Kiev authorities handed over the use of St. Andrew's to the Ecumenical Patriarch, the global spiritual leader of Orthodox Christianity who sits in Istanbul, while courting the patriarch's support for Ukrainian church independence.
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PRAGUE (Reuters) - Czech ministers and senior parliamentarians held a private meeting with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama on Tuesday, risking upsetting China just as Prague is trying to boost ties with Beijing.
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Several big name musicians have been blocked from performing in China, including Lady Gaga, Bjork and Bon Jovi, who have all met or expressed support for the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
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Welby, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion consisting of some 85 million Christians globally, said his mother, Jane Williams, and his late father Gavin Welby were both alcoholics when he was a child.
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That marks a sharp contrast with the Czech Republic's first post-communist president, Vaclav Havel, a Soviet-era dissident and personal friend of the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Chinese-ruled Tibet.
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But the quest has gained impetus since he returned from a visit to Istanbul in April, when Poroshenko sought the backing of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians.
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"Our spiritual leader, His Holiness Pramukh Swami Maharaj's dream, was to build a temple for the Indian community in Suffolk and Nassau Counties," said Dr. Vipul Patel, an oncologist who is also a volunteer.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guards on Tuesday condemned Bahrain's decision to revoke the citizenship of the spiritual leader of its Shi'ite Muslim majority, saying the move would encourage a rebellion in the country.
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Child welfare advocates called for a spiritual leader and the parents of a 13-year-old girl to be prosecuted after the girl, Aradhana Samdariya, died in October 2016 after a 68-day fast.
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For Tibetans, December 10th did mark an important and poignant anniversary: 30 years to the day since their exiled spiritual leader, the 14th Dalai Lama, was in Oslo to receive the Nobel peace prize.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader, handed a Tomos of Autocephaly containing a decree of independence to the newly appointed Metropolitan Epiphanius of Ukraine, cleaving millions of Ukrainians from the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Forces entered the home of Shi'ite spiritual leader Isa Qassim aiming to round up suspects wanted in security cases, the interior ministry said, but activists say the raid targeted Shi'ite Muslims and used excessive force.
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Phoebe Philo took over as head designer at Céline in 2007 and became the house's spiritual leader, as well as an aesthetic guru for thousands of women — known as "Philophiles" — enamored of her minimalist aesthetic.
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On Wednesday, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is revered by some Lebanese and Iraqi Shiites as a spiritual leader, inveighed against the protests — a signal of the danger he sees lurking in them.
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Rahim's account was blocked in early September at the request of police in the state of Haryana, according to the Times of India, shortly after the spiritual leader was convicted on two counts of rape.
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After the rampage on Tuesday that left eight people dead, "it&aposs the same feeling again," said Imam Mohammad Qatanani, spiritual leader of the Islamic Center of Passaic County, the region&aposs most influential mosque.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The spiritual leader of the Church of England said he would vote in favor of Britain remaining in the European Union, hailing the bloc as a force for peace and reconciliation on Sunday.
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In 1982 he left the industry for five years and became a follower of the spiritual leader Osho, a guru with a following in both India and abroad who combined different religious and philosophical teachings.
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His warm attitude marked a contrast with the Czech Republic's first post-communist president, Vaclav Havel, a Soviet-era dissident and personal friend of the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Chinese-ruled Tibet.
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Other longtime sore points between the neighbors include China's ardent backing of Pakistan, India's arch rival, and New Delhi's sheltering of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader whom Beijing considers a separatist traitor.
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In a letter seen by Reuters on Thursday, China's diplomatic mission in Geneva raised objections about the presence of Tibet's spiritual leader on the panel of Nobel laureates, being held at the Geneva Graduate Institute.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Milan welcomed Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Thursday and gave him an honorary citizenship on a visit to the northern Italian city, angering China, which sees him as a separatist.
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Yet in the last decade, they have seen remarkable recovery, in part because of foreign assistance, much of it from the foundation of the Swiss-born Aga Khan, a spiritual leader of the Pamiri population.
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Many feel they should be consulted on the appointment of their spiritual leader — an issue that could come up in other Chinese dioceses where the future of as many as 30 underground bishops is uncertain.
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Iraq's most senior Shiite spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has urged the protesters and the security forces to end the violence, while the prime minister has called on the protesters to go home.
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Mercedes-Benz apologized to Chinese consumers on Tuesday for an Instagram post showing one of its luxury cars along with a quote from exiled Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, whom Beijing considers a dangerous separatist.
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Last year, the singer Lady Gaga reportedly had her entire repertoire banned in China after she met with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, to discuss topics like meditation and finding inner peace.
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Despite the president-elect's derogatory comments towards minority groups throughout his campaign, the 81-year-old spiritual leader believes that once Trump is actually in the Oval Office, he'll reign in some of the vitriol.
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The demonstrations were given a boost after a representative of the Shiite community&aposs spiritual leader, the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, offered his solidarity with the protesters during Friday sermon, but called for peaceful demonstrations.
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Rabbi Scialom Bahbout, 72, the community's spiritual leader, discussed Europe's migrant crisis with a visitor in the small "campo", or square, that is at the center of a maze of alleyways, some narrower than outstretched arms.
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Sufi spiritual leader hacked to death in Bangladesh Jubilant crowds gathered outside the jail on the news of his death -- processions of people handed out sweets and several used shoes to hit posters bearing Nizami's face.
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China routinely denies accusations by exiles and rights groups of rights abuses in Tibetan parts of the country and insists it allows freedom of religion, blaming exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama for promoting unrest.
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Washington (CNN)President Barack Obama met privately at the White House Wednesday with the Dalai Lama, a session that predictably sparked anger among Chinese officials who accuse the Tibetan spiritual leader of sponsoring a separatist movement.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Church of England's spiritual leader will house a family of Syrian refugees in a cottage at his official London residence, Lambeth Palace, from next month, a local councillor said on Wednesday.
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Pebbles and Amy, then ages 12 and 14, were "married" to Tony Alamo, then 823 years old and a spiritual leader of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, an apocalyptic group with a compound in Fouke, Arkansas.
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Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain on June 8 named 59 people, including Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yousef al-Qaradawi, and 12 entities, among them Qatari-funded charities Qatar Charity and Eid Charity, as terrorist.
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Six of the Karen people - led by their spiritual leader, who is said to be 106 years old - filed suit in 2012, claiming compensation, and asserting their right to land they say belonged to their ancestors.
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Authorities said the five killed were among a group that attacked security forces during a raid in Diraz, the village of Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader Ayatollah Isa Qassim, and that nearly 300 people were also arrested.
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Other longtime sore points between the two governments include China's ardent backing of Pakistan, India's arch rival, and New Delhi's sheltering of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader whom Beijing considers a separatist traitor.
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Indian comedian and television actor Kiku Sharda has been arrested for imitating self-styled spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, famous for his films and rock music videos, and hurting the religious sentiments of his followers.
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In an article written for the Mail on Sunday newspaper, Welby, spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion of millions of Christians globally, said Britons remain deeply divided over Brexit after negotiations got under way last week.
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The 83-year-old Tibetan spiritual leader was pressed by the BBC on a comment he made in 2015 that if he were followed by a female Dalai Lama, she would need to be physically appealing.
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For its part, Modi's government has upset China with its public embrace of Tibetan spiritual leader Dalai Lama, whom the Chinese regard as a dangerous separatist, and growing military ties with the United States and Japan.
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Rebekah Neumann, the wife of CEO Adam Neumann and a WeWork cofounder, was also thought of as a "spiritual" leader and talked to the whole company from time to time, particularly about social projects, Markel said.
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China denies accusations by exiles and rights groups of rights abuses in Tibetan parts of the country and insists it allows freedom of religion, blaming the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama for promoting unrest.
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Catholics in both parties condemned Ryan's ouster of Patrick Conroy, a Jesuit priest and the House's spiritual leader since 2011, while Democrats of all religious stripes accused Ryan of injecting politics into the traditionally nonpolitical role.
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President Hassan Rouhani of Iran said on Tuesday that his country would continue to abide by the agreement, but Ayatollah Khamenei, the spiritual leader for the past 29 years, wields the ultimate power in the nation.
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Cory Booker said, as he brisk-walked into the event, that he admired Williamson as the thing she was before declaring herself a presidential candidate — a guru, a spiritual leader, a faith healer, an author, whatever.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Friday rebuked India for inviting exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to visit a contested stretch of land on the India-China border, warning it would harm relations between the neighbors.
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In his documentary, "Leaving Fear Behind," many Tibetans talked about their love for the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, and how they thought the 2008 Beijing Olympics would do little to improve their lives.
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OTTAWA — Last Christmas, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada and his family were basking in the Caribbean sun on a private island owned by the Aga Khan, the billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims.
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It has also more than doubled a prison sentence imposed on the head of al-Wefaq, Sheikh Ali Salman, revoked the citizenship of the Shi'ite majority's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Isa Qassim, and arrested prominent activist Nabeel Rajab.
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Movements across the Islamist spectrum from the Muslim Brotherhood to al Qaeda issued statements mourning him, and several leaders from Egypt's Islamic Group, which views the sheikh as a spiritual leader and renounced violence in 23, attended.
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Iraq and Lebanon protests: Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is revered by some Lebanese and Iraqi Shiites as a spiritual leader, strongly condemned the protests — a signal of the danger he sees lurking in them.
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Those on trial included the photojournalist Mahmoud Abu Zeid, known as Shawkan; the spiritual leader of the now-banned Muslim Brotherhood, Mohammed Badie; and Osama Morsi, the son of the former president, who is also currently detained.
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Ivan Looking Horse, a spiritual leader at the Cheyenne River Sioux reservation in Eagle Butte, said they had prepared for an even longer shutdown in the midst of a harsh South Dakota winter along the Cheyenne River.
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DUBAI, May 23 (Reuters) - Bahrain's interior ministry said it had launched a security operation on Tuesday in the home village of the country's Shi'ite Muslim spiritual leader, the site of a sit-in encampment of his followers.
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The spiritual leader of the Church of England, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, said on Sunday he would vote in favour of Britain remaining in the EU, hailing the bloc as a force for peace and reconciliation.
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The policy appears to reflect increasingly harsh restrictions on the Himalayan region&aposs traditional Buddhist culture, largely aimed at reducing the influence of the region&aposs spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who lives in exile in India.
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Bashir, 81, who is considered the spiritual leader of the Islamist group Jemaah Islamiah (JI), was convicted in 2010 under anti-terrorism laws for links to militant training camps in Aceh province and jailed for 15 years.
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The move against al-Wefaq was one of several steps taken by the Sunni-led government against its opponents that have drawn international criticism, including revoking the citizenship of the country's Shi'ite spiritual leader Ayatollah Isa Qassim.
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Lodi Gyaltsen Gyari, who as a top envoy for the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, helped promote their homeland's cause abroad and negotiated unsuccessfully for decades with Chinese officials, died on Monday in San Francisco.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A Pakistani Muslim spiritual leader known as the "father of the Taliban" was killed Friday evening by a knife-wielding attacker who sneaked into his bedroom, officials said, further roiling the country's combustible religious tensions.
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For months, activists and Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the spiritual leader of Iraq's Shiites, have been calling for a range of reforms, including shrinking the size of government, improving services, cutting wasteful spending and fighting corruption.
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The Egyptian-born Abdel-Rahman, who lost his eyesight due to childhood diabetes and grew up studying a Braille version of the Koran, remained a spiritual leader for radical Muslims even after more than 20 years in prison.
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Others who attended the retreat were the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, who is spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican community, members of the South Sudan Council of Churches, and other Catholic and Presbyterian Church leaders from Africa.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The spiritual leader of Bahrain's Shi'ite Muslim majority went on trial on Wednesday on charges of collecting donations illegally and money laundering in a case that has increased tensions in the Western-allied Gulf Arab state.
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Every Sunday night, my friends and I would feast on curries of epic proportions, learn about mantras and meditation beads, and engage in an inevitably spirited conversation with the temple's spiritual leader, a recovered drug addict named Touka.
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It's on the level of a cult—I'm thinking of cases like David Koresh [and the Branch Davidians] where there's families and children living in one household under the auspices of a spiritual leader that's brought people together.
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Guru growing vegetables in jail Ram Rahim Singh, the spiritual leader who was convicted of raping two of his followers and sentenced to 20 years in jail, will spend his time behind bars growing vegetables and pruning trees.
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Their beliefs run so deeply that they have gone so far as to criticize the spiritual leader of more than a billion Catholics, Pope Francis, as a "leftist politician" because he has acknowledged existing harms to the environment.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China should hold talks with Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, U.S. Ambassador to China Terry Branstad told Chinese officials during a trip to the Himalayan region where he criticized Beijing for interfering in religious freedom.
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Tibet's current spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, whom Beijing brands a dangerous separatist, had announced his own choice of a six-year-old boy, but he was taken away by authorities and has since vanished from public view.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Bahrain has revoked the citizenship of the spiritual leader of the kingdom's Shi'ite Muslim majority, the state news agency reported on Monday, prompting protests outside his home and a sharp rebuke from an Iranian paramilitary chief.
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Following four days of closed-door talks led by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, its spiritual leader, the Church said its U.S. branch, the Episcopal Church, would be barred from decision-making on issues of doctrine and strategy.
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We applaud the leadership of the worldwide spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, His Holiness Mirza Masroor Ahmad, who has urged the international community to help Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar attain their basic human rights and freedoms.
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In December 2017, the previous commissioner found that he broke the law by accepting a helicopter flight for his family to a private island owned by the Aga Khan, the billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims.
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Bashir was the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah (JI), an Islamist group linked to al Qaeda blamed for the 2002 bombing of nightclubs on Bali island that killed more than 200 people, most of them tourists, including 88 Australians.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Foreign Ministry said on Monday it would retaliate after the president of Slovakia, Andrej Kiska, met visiting exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama, a man accused by Beijing of promoting independence for the Himalayan region.
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China has also been concerned that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's avowedly nationalist government has stepped up public engagement of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who lives in exile in India and whom it regards as a "splittist".
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A major border crossing between China and Mongolia has imposed new fees on commodity shipments between the two countries, amid a diplomatic row sparked by the visit to Ulaanbaatar of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama last week.
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Separately, a group of 200 to 300 protesters led by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, spiritual leader of the Sioux nation, marched from a nearby campground to a police barricade, where they held a quiet prayer ritual and ceremonial dancing.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - A court in Bahrain on Sunday convicted the spiritual leader of the country's Shi'ite Muslims of collecting funds illegally and money laundering and sentenced him to one year in jail suspended for three years, local media reported.
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) - The Tibetan community in Nepal called off plans to mark the birthday of their spiritual leader the Dalai Lama after their request for a public celebration was rejected over security concerns, a government official said on Sunday.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The spiritual leader of the Church of England may lead five days of prayer with other Churches after Britain's March 29 exit from the European Union in an attempt to ease Brexit divisions, The Sunday Times reported.
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Now, and more about food and hospitality than you'd think, check out Vince Dixon in Eater, with a history of the complicated African-American spiritual leader and restaurateur Father Major Jealous Divine, founder of the International Peace Mission movement.
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At a meeting with Mr. Khosla, members of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association asked that the university at least refrain from referring to the Dalai Lama as a "spiritual leader" and that he be prevented from discussing politics.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese hardliners have parts of their brains missing, exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama said in an interview aired this week, comments likely to infuriate Beijing, which views the Nobel Peace laureate as a dangerous separatist.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - Patriotism is the "mission" of religion in China, but greed is tainting Tibetan Buddhism, says the government-appointed second-highest spiritual leader of the faith, who was chosen by Beijing to win the hearts and minds of Tibetans.
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ULAANBAATAR (Reuters) - A major border crossing between China and Mongolia has imposed new fees on commodity shipments between the two countries, amid a diplomatic row sparked by the visit to Ulaanbaatar of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama last week.
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MIREYI, Uganda (Reuters) - Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans, prayed on Wednesday with South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda, home to a nearly million fugitives from a four-year civil war in the world's youngest nation.
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It emerged as a symbol of Tibetan independence after Chinese troops flooded the region in the 1950s to enforce the young Communist government's territorial claims; the Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, fled to India, where he established a government in exile.
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Ever since Baghdadi was publicly presented as "caliph" by the group in the Great Mosque of al-Nuri in Mosul in July 2014, his followers have held him to be the supreme political and spiritual leader of all Muslims worldwide.
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Maneka Gandhi, the minister for women and child development, told the Hindustan Times newspaper this weekend she would write to state governments and the Bohra spiritual leader - the Syedna - to issue an edict to end FGM because it is a crime.
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The search in the village of Awamiya came amid rising anger in neighboring Bahrain after authorities stripped the spiritual leader of the kingdom's majority Shi'ite Muslims of his citizenship over alleged links to Iran and accusations he was fomenting sectarian tensions.
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A U.S. State Department spokeswoman and a White House official referred Reuters to the Dalai Lama's office when asked whether the Tibetan spiritual leader and his representatives had asked for a meeting with Trump and whether any such meetings were planned.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - China said on Tuesday U.S. pop star Lady Gaga's meeting with exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama had unleashed "anger" in the country, as internet users criticized her for meeting a man China condemns as a separatist.
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SPETSES, Greece – The spiritual leader of the world&aposs Orthodox Christians has arrived on the Greek island of Spetses to host an environmental conference to seek backing from other religious leaders in a global campaign to take action against climate change.
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Egypt has sentenced the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood to life in prison on Monday, in addition to handing down lengthy prison or death sentences for 35 others, reported state-run news agency Al-Ahram and other news outlets.
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The Communist Party's control over religion in Tibet can only increase, the region's top official was quoted as saying on Thursday, vowing to step up efforts to expose the "sinister intentions" of exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
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Nine years ago, another promising politician had to figure out what to do about a spiritual leader who became a magnet for criticism: as a candidate, Barack Obama defended his pastor, the Reverend Jeremiah Wright, until, finally, he abandoned him.
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It was carried out by a group of students from North South University in Dhaka, who were incited by the sermons of the spiritual leader of Ansar al-Islam at the time, a 45-year-old cleric named Jasim Uddin Rahmani.
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Yes, but: At least two-dozen influential executives and energy leaders including the heads of BP, ExxonMobil, Eni, Equinor, and BlackRock traveled to the Vatican for the event, and Pope Francis is the spiritual leader of the world's 1.3 billion Catholics.
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He was inspired, he said, by a request from Tibet's spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who asked him to take insights from contemplative practice out of their religious context and use them to develop strategies to help improve people's lives.
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The proposal on priests and church property has also fueled skepticism in Istanbul, the seat of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who is regarded as the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians and under whose direct jurisdiction certain Greek churches fall.
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The government inaction, aggressive security response and increased violence has led Iraq's Shiite spiritual leader, the highly influential Ali al-Sistani, to publicly oppose all mainstream politicians who have held power in recent years from involvement in Iraq's government formation.
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Lee Man-hee, the founder and spiritual leader of Shincheonji Church of Jesus, held a news conference on Monday and apologized for South Korea's coronavirus outbreak, which has, in large part, been traced to the secretive sect's Daegu city branch.
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Mr. Levi, now 21, is the spiritual leader of the Namutumba Abayudaya, one of nine Jewish communities in Uganda that stem from the conversion roughly 2500 years ago of a local leader called Semei Kakungulu, who then created a sect.
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Just days after Indian comedian Kiku Sharda was arrested for mimicking spiritual leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh, the latter finds himself in trouble after a police complaint from a Hindu organisation over a video where he poses as the Hindu god Vishnu.
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Like all major faiths, Amazon has a logo (an impish, slightly lascivious smile), a spiritual leader (Space Pope Jeff Bezos), and a holiday: Prime Day, this day, the cunning Christmas-in-July scheme that serves as the online shopping giant's holiest occasion.
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" In an email, one of the anonymous creators of Forkgen—known to me only as social media intern "Two"—wrote that "[Craig Wright] is our spiritual leader but we wouldn't dare let him touch the code as he might screw it up.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - The daughter of the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood and her husband have been unlawfully detained in Egypt for the past year without formal charge, U.N. human rights experts said on Thursday, calling for the couple's release and compensation.
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ULAANBAATAR, Dec 13 (Reuters) - A major border crossing between China and Mongolia has imposed new fees on commodity shipments between the two countries, amid a diplomatic row sparked by the visit to Ulaanbaatar of the Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama last week.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A self-proclaimed "godman" may have trafficked and enslaved dozens of women including minors at several retreats in Delhi and across the country, officials said Tuesday, in the latest case of an Indian spiritual leader accused of sexual abuse.
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If you live your life with a genuine concern for the well-being of others, you will feel better about yourself, and in turn, feel more confident, says His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
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Telia said it had sold its 60 percent stake in Tajik operator Tcell to the development fund founded by the Aga Khan, a businessman and spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslims, also known for owning the largest horse-racing operation in France.
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But through top assistants like Sheela Silverman and her husband, John Shelfer, (whose names do appear on such documents), Rajneesh has developed a complex and lucrative international financial empire that belies his claim to be a purely spiritual leader oblivious to worldly affairs.
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Ingram's work, Souls a-Stirring, took up the legacy of another key female spiritual leader in Philadelphia, Jarena Lee, the first woman preacher of the A.M.E. Church and the first African-American woman to publish an autobiography in the US (in 1836).
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Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the Iraqi who is the global spiritual leader of all Shiites, has criticized Tehran's interference, and in September, he refused to meet with a top Iranian cleric who had been dispatched by Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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He is among the majority of the faithful hoping that Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader for the estimated 300 million Eastern Orthodox believers worldwide, will defy Russia and grant independence — known as "autocephaly" in the church — to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
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They were greeted by Rabbi Jeffrey Myers, the spiritual leader of the Tree of Life congregation, who spoke to the president on the history of the synagogue and the carnage there on Saturday as they lit 11 candles to honor the dead.
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But in a lawsuit filed Thursday, the spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church said the manuscripts were stolen and demanded their return, asserting that they had been taken during World War I from a monastery in Kormista, a village in northern Greece.
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In 2011, in a move to democratize the system of government, the Dalai Lama gave up his political and administrative powers and chose to remain as just a spiritual leader, but he is still far and away the community's most influential figure.
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Some of those dings have come from his holiday plans: He and his family spent part of the recent Christmas holidays on a private island in the Bahamas as guests of the Aga Khan, the billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims.
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Schism: The spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide recognized the independence of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in a four-hour ceremony in Istanbul, formalizing a split with the Russian church to which it had been tied for more than four centuries.
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When the movie was screened in theaters in Nepal and India—where there is historically, and still remains, the largest influx of Tibetan refugees—grown men wept and old women prostrated to the image of their spiritual leader on aisles between the seats.
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"Before, it was just a bunch of personal animosities against Islam expressed online, but now these scattered movements are becoming more defined," said Zakee Pitakumpol, an academic at Prince of Songkla University and deputy secretary to the Sheikhul Islam, Thailand's Islamic spiritual leader.
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Tibet's current spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, whom Beijing brands a dangerous separatist, had announced his own choice of a six-year-old boy to replace the previous Panchen Lama, but he was taken away by authorities and has since vanished from public view.
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My background is in documentary, so the first thing I did when I got involved in the project was to go out to the reservation to learn more about the community, and what everybody said was what a great spiritual leader Sitting Bull was.
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A Sufi Muslim spiritual leader was found hacked to death in a mango orchard in the Rajshahi district of northwest Bangladesh on Friday, the latest victim in the recent string of brutal attacks across the country targeting religious minorities, academics, secular bloggers and activists.
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After speaking with the Dalai Lama at the 84th annual U.S. Conference of Mayors in Indianapolis, Indiana, during a panel hosted by Ann Curry, the singer shared several photos herself with the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, and her fans in China were not pleased.
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A fresh round of protests is also likely because the residents of the south have received key backing from the country&aposs top spiritual leader, Grand Ayattollah Ali al-Sistani, who has called on the government to find immediate solutions to the region&aposs problems.
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But setting off the war of words that finally broke relations was Saudi Arabia's execution on Saturday of Sheikh Nimr, who had called for the overthrow of the Saudi royal family and served as a spiritual leader for protesters from the kingdom's Shiite minority.
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Joko Widodo, the president of Indonesia, announced that he was pardoning Abu Bakar Basyir, a cleric who was the spiritual leader of Jemaah Islamiah, an Islamist terrorist group that killed over 200 people by exploding bombs in a tourist resort in Bali in 2012.
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In a new video for track "Spiritual Leader," directed by Endless Endless, Chang puts this electro-human drum fusion on full display with the help of Sunhouse's Sensory Percussion set, which allows him trigger various samples that allow him to make each hit sound electronic.
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Self-styled Indian spiritual leader turned rock singer turned actor Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh rose to international fame when he was featured in the 'Do Not Play section of Jimmy Fallon's The Tonight Show, which is devoted to the worst music around the world.
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Speaking at a summit in Delhi, prominent figures including Indian President Pranab Mukherjee, Tibetan Spiritual Leader the Dalai Lama, Princess Charlene of Monaco, former President of East Timor Jose Ramos-Horta, said it was time to speak with one voice for the rights of children.
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Free Tibet also said that a Tibetan woman, Mang Gha, 33, was detained Tuesday after walking through a town in Ngaba Prefecture, which includes Ngaba County, holding up a portrait of the Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader who fled to India in 1959.
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At a news conference last week with the delegation from Tibet, regional Communist Party boss Wu Yingjie surprised many journalists in attendance when he fielded several questions from foreign news outlets, including Reuters, on sensitive topics such as exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.
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Rabbi Myers, who was hired just over a year ago by the Tree of Life congregation, which numbers a few hundred families, has found himself serving as a spiritual leader to an entire country in shock after the massacre, which left 11 people dead.
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Bishop O'Brien, who was the spiritual leader of more than 400,000 Catholics, signed an agreement admitting that he had known of accusations of sexual abuse by priests, but at the time, prosecutors said there was no evidence that he had engaged in criminal sexual misconduct.
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But after he became the spiritual leader of a back-to-the-land organic farming movement on the island of Borneo, regarded by his followers as the messiah who succeeded Muhammad, the government locked him up for the second time on charges of blasphemy.
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ISTANBUL — The spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide recognized the independence of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in a four-hour ceremony in Istanbul on Sunday, formalizing a split with the Russian church to which it had been tied for more than four centuries.
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Bahrain, where the U.S. Fifth Fleet is based, is pursuing a crackdown on the opposition in a campaign that had also included a court shutting down a main opposition society and a decision to strip the spiritual leader of the island's Shi'ite Muslim majority of his citizenship.
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"Your Majesty, today we rejoice for the way in which God's loving care has fearfully and wonderfully sustained you, as well as Prince Philip marking his 95th birthday today," Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion said in his sermon.
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NXIVM's supporters have said it was a self-help group that wanted to change the world for the better, but federal prosecutors claim it was actually an illegal pyramid scheme that funneled money to its leaders and offered its spiritual leader, Keith Raniere, access to sex slaves.
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"I think the community may actually benefit if Satoshi did choose to come back and become a spiritual leader who could provide guidance and reconcile the community towards consensus," said Yu. For now, it doesn't seem like the real Satoshi Nakamoto is interested in coming forward.
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Those tensions crept into Saturday's prayer meeting when Catholicos Karekin II, the supreme patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church and spiritual leader of about 93 percent of Armenia's population of three million people, accused Azerbaijan of bombing Armenian villages in April and violating a tenuous cease-fire.
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BEIJING/TAIPEI (Reuters) - China on Wednesday warned Taiwan not to allow exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama to visit, after a high-profile Taiwan legislator invited him to the self-ruled island Beijing claims as its own, a trip that would worsen already poor ties.
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Known for his inflammatory rhetoric, he has also been accused of being the spiritual leader of Indonesia's homegrown terror network, Jemaah Islamiyah, and is said to have inspired many of those involved in the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2003 J.W. Marriott bomb attack in Jakarta.
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JUST OVER a year has passed since the Patriarch Kyrill of Moscow, the Russian spiritual leader and ally of President Vladimir Putin, went to Istanbul to make one final attempt to dissuade another Orthodox prelate, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, from recognising an independent church in Ukraine.
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For the first time in more than 20 years, the group is hosting its spiritual leader from Mumbai, India, and tens of thousands of other Bohras from around the world will come to be near him during the holy month of Muharram, which starts on Thursday.
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"Whakaari is my connection to the ocean, to the land, and to the environment around me ... we are one and she's our ancestor," said the 51-year old Māori spiritual leader whose genealogy is depicted in the tattoo art known as a 'tā moko' adorning his face.
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"Whakaari is my connection to the ocean, to the land, and to the environment around me ... we are one and she's our ancestor," said the 51-year old Māori spiritual leader whose genealogy is depicted in the tattoo art known as a 'tā moko' adorning his face.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of Eastern Orthodox Christians worldwide, recognized the independence of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine in a four-hour ceremony in Istanbul, formalizing a split with the Russian church to which it had been tied for more than four centuries.
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But there is a persistent sense that it just would not work in Iraq, which has a much larger native Sunni population and tradition, and Iraq's clerics in Najaf, including Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, the world's pre-eminent Shiite spiritual leader, oppose the Iranian system.
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Tensions have been high in Western-allied Bahrain since last year over a government crackdown on the opposition that had included the banning of a main Shi'ite Muslim group, plans to ban another secular society and the trial of the spiritual leader of the kingdom's Shi'ite Muslim community.
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"Sound of My Voice" (2012), directed by Zal Batmanglij, also looks at the draw of a spiritual leader (Brit Marling, a co-writer of the film) from an outsider's perspective, after skeptical documentary filmmakers set out to infiltrate a cult in the basement of a Los Angeles home.
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Rajab was arrested earlier this month on unspecified charges in what appears an escalating crackdown by the Sunni-led government that also included a court shutting down a main opposition society and a decision to strip the spiritual leader of the island's Shi'ite Muslim majority of his citizenship.
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The community's spiritual leader, the Rabbi Pierpaolo Pinhas Punturello, who is an emissary of Shavei Israel, an organization based in Jerusalem that assists those searching for their Jewish heritage, said that he had noticed a growing interest in the Jewish heritage of Sicily and other parts of southern Italy.
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The Ecumenical Patriarch does not wield the power enjoyed by the Pope in the Roman Catholic Church but is traditionally regarded as the 'first among equals' among the patriarchs of the self-governing Orthodox churches and also as the spiritual leader of the roughly 300 million Orthodox Christians worldwide.
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Current position: Spiritual leader, author and activist Age: 20203 Born: Houston Undergraduate: Pomona College (left after 2 years) Date candidacy announced: January 28, 2019 Previous roles: In 2014, Williamson ran as an independent in California's 33rd district congressional race and placed fourth out of 16 candidates, winning 13.2% of the vote.
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In a series of moves over the past three weeks, authorities closed down the main Shi'ite opposition al-Wefaq Islamic Society, doubled the prison sentence on the group's leader, Sheikh Ali Salman, detained prominent rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab and stripped Ayatollah Isa Qassim, Bahrain's Shi'ite spiritual leader, of his citizenship.
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"If you put them in separate colonies, in settlements and under barbed wire, that kills the whole purpose of trying to build, again, a community, which is based on mutual trust and respect," Farooq, also considered the region's spiritual leader by many Kashmiri Muslims, said in an interview in Srinagar.
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DHARAMSHALA, India (Reuters) - The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, said on Monday it was possible that once he dies his incarnation could be found in India, where he has lived in exile for 60 years, and warned that any other successor named by China would not be respected.
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In March earlier this year, spiritual leader and Art of Living founder Sri Sri Ravi Shankar joined forces with other faith leaders and institutions to launch an Interfaith Solar Alliance in order to mobilize Hindu religious leaders to solarize ashrams and advocate the benefits of solar to their followers around the world.
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Mohammed Badie, the spiritual leader of the banned Islamist party, was found guilty for his involvement in the violent clashes in the governorate of Ismailia in July of 2013 that took place in response to the ouster of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, who was also a senior member of the Brotherhood.
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He allowed himself to be the overarching "spiritual" leader of an idea that spread like a virus on the internet whose attraction to young and deranged men as far away as Libya, Brussels and Paris was so strong that they would take the lives of others and their own just to be associated with it.
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"The pope, as a world religious and spiritual leader, has the potential to speak well in this situation" and win the trust of both Buddhist nationalists and members of the Rohingya community, said Benedict Rogers, a human rights advocate based in London with the group Christian Solidarity Worldwide who has written several books about Myanmar.
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OTTAWA — Canada's federal conflict-of-interest and ethics office confirmed on Monday that it is investigating the propriety of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his family's spending part of the Christmas holidays as guests of the Aga Khan, the billionaire philanthropist and spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, on a private island in the Bahamas.
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And as the bishops chose one of their number, a 39-year-old prelate called Epifany Dumenko (pictured, above centre), as their primate, the Ukrainian head of state hailed the election as a landmark in national history: a moment at which Ukrainians stood up to Russia's worldly leader Vladimir Putin and its spiritual leader Patriarch Kirill of Moscow.
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After Mossad -- Israel's intelligence agency -- tried to poison Khaled Meshaal -- the political leader of the Palestinian militant group Hamas -- on Jordanian soil, King Hussein refused to release the captured Israeli agents until Israel delivered an antidote for Meshaal and released the spiritual leader of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, who was serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison.
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After a backlash in China over a Mercedez-Benz ad on Instagram that quoted the Dalai Lama – the Tibetan spiritual leader seen by Beijing as a separatist – Daimler deleted the post and its CEO Dieter Zetsche wrote a letter expressing deep regret for the "hurt and grief" his company's "negligent and insensitive mistake" had caused the Chinese people.
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And then Crowley published his manifesto, explaining what he was doing, why he was doing it, how he'd done it, what his goals were and that he'd keep publicizing it all in hopes that others would copy him–albeit not before running it by Ted Westervelt, the spiritual leader, and vocal twitter proponent, of the pro-rel movement.
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But three targets were hooked in: Karim Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, who wired over $20 million in March 2016; Corinne Mentzelopoulos, owner of the prestigious Château Margaux wine estate, who sent over $6 million that same month; and Inan Kirac, a wealthy Turkish businessman, who sent $47 million in November and December 2016.
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The 200+ page amended legal complaint describes a sickening pattern of victim grooming perpetuated by Gothard, including allowing his victims use of his credit card, bringing them along on his travels, lavishing praise and confessions of love and affection, and repeated inappropriate sexual touching of the very young girls placed in his care as a spiritual leader, counselor, and authority figure.
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Three people were hooked, according to court testimony: Karim Aga Khan IV, the spiritual leader of Ismaili Muslims, who wired more than $20 million in March 2016; Corinne Mentzelopoulos, owner of the prestigious Château Margaux wine estate, who sent over $6 million that same month; and Inan Kirac, a wealthy Turkish businessman, who sent $47 million in November and December 2016.
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Interviews with former employees, public financial records and social media data illustrate how a secretive newspaper has been able to leverage the devoted followers of a reclusive spiritual leader, political vitriol, online conspiracy theories and the rise of Trump to become a digital media powerhouse that now attracts billions of views each month, all while publicly denying or downplaying its association with Falun Gong.
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As the pair flee between the Earth and Moon (and back again), we come across anonymous Chinese intelligence officials, American secret service, and a travel blogger / poet, all while a Chinese black unit called Red Spear works to hunt them down — both to close the loop on the original murder, but also to prevent Qi from becoming a sort of spiritual leader for a restless global population.
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A world-famous spiritual leader and author of New Age tomes such as A Woman's Worth and A Return to Love (the latter of which was plugged by none other than the high priestess of the genre, Oprah Winfrey), the brassy, straight-talking, highly charismatic Williamson has attracted fans all over the world, including celebrities like Katy Perry, Kim Kardashian, Nicole Richie, and Laura Dern.
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