Sentence examples for practising religious from inspiring English sources

BICYCLING to Economist HQ each day, it is hard to miss the advertisments on double-decker buses, urging Britons who are not practising religious believers to tick the box marked "no religion" on the 2011 census, which is taken this month.

The Bishop of Leicester, the right reverend Tim Stevens, warned the issue was creating a division between the political classes and practising religious people.

He told BBC Radio Five Live: "You can't commit crimes and describe yourself as a practising religious person".

Human rights groups say that Beijing's restrictions on practising Islamic religious customs as well as Uighur culture and language are fuelling the unrest.

All over the world, week in week out, billions more people of different faiths take time to practise their religious beliefs.

And it can make it harder for mainly Christian countries to demand that mainly Muslim ones practise greater religious tolerance a demand that the pope will, rightly, be making again when he visits Turkey next week.Above all is the risk that, far from discouraging the wearing of the veil, a ban may serve to encourage it.

Speaking about Jewishness, he would explain that he did not share or practise its religious beliefs, but did see himself as linked into a strong Jewish cultural tradition, as epitomised by Heine, Karl Ludwig Börne, Schnitzler, Kafka, Karl Kraus, Kurt Tucholsky, Freud, Mahler, Schoenberg and Kurt Weill – a list that reflected his own taste for humour, polemics, short forms, psychology and music.

"The niqab and even the hijab were forbidden before the revolution, but now we feel more comfortable to practise our religious activities".

During court proceedings Brett Ryan, suggested that Haigh use a different deck, but Justice Ginnane warned, "courts and administrators should be extremely wary about determining what is required for a person to practise their religious beliefs".

The Court was of the view that although a person is free to choose his or her own religion and to practise it, religious fervour to spread faith must be constrained by considerations of sensitivity, tolerance and mutual respect for the faith and religious beliefs of another.

Refugees cited unrelenting abuse and humiliation, constant threat of imprisonment or torture for offending someone in authority, often without even realising how they had done this, or for abetting someone else's escape or practising a banned religious faith.