Sentence examples for holy sanctuary from inspiring English sources

The confrontation occurred at the plaza known to Muslims as the Holy Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount.

The 12th-century canonist Theodore Balsamon wrote that "the monthly affliction banished them from the divine and holy sanctuary".

"They are turning the holy sanctuary into a machine, a city which has no identity, no heritage, no culture and no natural environment.

The most recent comparable event occurred in 1979 in Saudi Arabia, Voll said, when a man claiming to be the Mahdi took over the holy sanctuary in Mecca.

Once the Vatican had the general, the ancient tradition of holy sanctuary might oblige it to arrange an exile in some convenient St . Helena

They were appalled the following day, when Israel's border police cleared Palestinian stone-throwers from the holy sanctuary by shooting five dead and injuring scores.These provocations fell on particularly fertile ground.

Bin Laden and al-Qaida had an issue with the foreign subjugation of Muslims and, specifically, with a US presence close to the holy sanctuaries in Mecca and Medina.

We ask God to liberate Muslims everywhere and to protect our Two Holy Sanctuaries".

As home to the two holy sanctuaries of Mecca and Medina, we are the global fulcrum of Islam, in general, and Sunnism, in particular.

Bin Laden makes no mistake that Saudi Arabia is occupied: "Disbelief has surrounded the Land of the Two Holy Sanctuaries [of Mecca and Medina] like a bracelet coiled upon the wrist.

Day after day I journeyed to the holy sanctuaries of the wild, hoping to find my voice again, engaging in the humbling ritual of offering up my agonizing squeaks and squawks to the trees, only to fall on my knees, sobbing in despair, to the humus of the forest floor.