Chancellor Willy Brandt (who had personally resisted Nazism from the start) visited Warsaw in 1970 and dropped to his knees in the ghetto to express repentance, the famous and historic Kniefall.
Tashlik, also spelled Tashlikh, orTashlich, (Hebrew: "you will cast"), traditional Jewish religious ceremony, still observed by Orthodox Jews, that entails visiting a body of water following the afternoon service on Rosh Hashana (or, if this falls on the Sabbath, the following day) and reciting biblical verses expressing repentance and forgiveness of sins.
Shia Muslims express repentance and bereavement on Ashura.
Even some of the defendants at the Nuremberg trials expressed repentance.
García was meeting one of the few members of the Basque separatist group Eta prepared to express genuine repentance for the killing of 829 people over the past 43 years.
Commemorating World War II's end, Prime Minister Abe offered official regret for the conflict, reiterating the statements of previous premiers, expressed "deep repentance for the war," and pledged "never to wage a war again".
WASHINGTON, April 29 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe expressed "deep repentance" over Japan's role in World War Two in a speech to the U.S. Congress on Wednesday, even as he declared Tokyo's emergence as a global security player in the face of China's rising power.
Repentance always expresses itself in a changed life; you turn from sin and to Jesus Christ; then, accept your free gift of salvation by faith in Jesus' redemptive death through grace from God. Express reliance upon God: Specifically, confess your spiritual need and acknowledge for yourself Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour.
At the national convention, the Episcopal leadership might pass a series of resolutions expressing its regret and repentance for the pain it's caused, and will promise, I think, to use extreme caution before doing it again.
"When my friend apologizes to me for a sin he has committed," he said in the speech, "the appropriate response is for me to thank him, to welcome his repentance and to express my desire to continue our discussion".
