Sentence examples for communal prayer from inspiring English sources

"The experience of communal prayer or being in a community Shabbat dinner, the hooks that most Jewish communities use, are not necessarily the appropriate entry points or avenues for everyone," Schlesinger told The Huffington Post. .

Mawlavi Mohammad, a member of Ghor's religious council, an advisory board of local mullahs, contended that Friday prayers — a religious obligation for all able-bodied Muslim men — would be voided in a community led by a woman, because women cannot preside over a communal prayer, according to religious custom.

Many refrained from attending communal prayer; some left the congregation.

The rules forbade talking, walking, standing up and communal prayer.

It would, all agreed, make landfall on Friday, after the weekly communal prayer.

IT TAKES ten Jews to form a minyan the quorum for communal prayer.

And earlier this month hundreds of thousands poured onto Jerusalem's main highway for a mass communal prayer-cum-protest, closing it to traffic for hours.

The turmoil is likely to spill into Friday after the main communal prayers in the afternoon.

Communal prayers each Friday are "a day of rage," he said.

As in a number of other Middle Eastern nations, the protesters had gathered after weekly communal prayers at central mosques.

The last time Nasreen Aboobaker attended communal prayers with other Muslims was on the major holiday of Eid al-Fitr.