Near the end of the afternoon, Holstein insisted on showing me the crown jewel of his Creek archeological finds: a beautifully preserved "prayer seat," a type of rock enclosure many North American indigenous peoples visited to seek spiritual experiences.
This history indicates that the district intended to preserve the practice of prayer before football games...
And so the government of President Hosni Mubarak appeared to lean back on its standard formula for preserving authority at Friday Prayer, relying on its security forces to keep calm on the street and government religious institutions like Al Azhar to try to appease public sentiment, in this case by lashing out at the Jews in response to Gaza.
In their thatched huts, they still used the Torah to guide their prayers, preserved ancient memories of Jerusalem and kept alive a faith which had survived endless persecution and hardship.
Satya Shaw led the band of children in their prayer dedicated to preserving Mother Earth.
Traditionalists say that separation between the sexes is necessary to preserve modesty and prevent distraction during prayer, which involves bowing and deep prostrations.
May our collective prayer be that God preserve and protect the honor of all people, our nation, and our world".
Fragments of three of his prayers to Ishtar are preserved; among them is a penitential prayer in which he wonders about the cause of so much adversity.
The ultra-Orthodox insist that their young men serve the nation through prayer and study, thus preserving Jewish learning and heritage.
A poster of the band is on his bedroom wall above a printout of a Hebrew prayer thanking God for preserving his faculties and for giving him another day of life.
IN the bedroom of an ultra-Orthodox couple in Jerusalem, a man rises, takes three steps, washes his hands, and recites the morning prayer, thanking God for preserving his soul all night, and for not having created him a woman.
