Sentence examples for religious demonstrations from inspiring English sources

1963 Dozens Dead in Iran Riots TEHRAN — Thousands of troops acting under shoot-to-kill orders patrolled Tehran today [June 6] after new anti-government religious demonstrations erupted here and in the provinces.

Organizations like the Mostazafan serve as giant cash boxes, he says, to pay off supporters of the mullahs, whether they're thousands of peasants bused in to attend religious demonstrations in Tehran or Hezbollah thugs who beat up students.

The Djibouti Human Rights League said 29 people were killed when police fired at an unrelated religious demonstration in December.

The IOC's spokesperson replied, "[T]he IOC has a clear rule laid out in the Olympic Charter (Rule 50) which states that the venues of the Olympic Games are not a place for proactive political or religious demonstration.

But a religious ruling banning demonstrations and a heavy police crackdown appeared to have intimidated most potential protesters.

Not the foreign protesters who have flagged up issues such as Tibet and religious freedom through demonstrations in Beijing.

Sheik Ayed al-Qarni, a prominent Saudi cleric who has written best-selling books and been featured on popular television shows in Arab countries, said Sunday that he had refused an appeal in a phone call from one of Colonel Qaddafi's sons, Saadi el-Qaddafi, to issue a fatwa, or religious edict, banning demonstrations against his father's rule.

There were articles about the conflicts between secular and religious populations; about demonstrations in Tel Aviv demanding civil rights for African immigrants; about powerful rabbis making racist statements; about the addiction to cheap foreign labor ("The streets of south Tel Aviv look like a slave market in the morning," one article began).

National Olympic officials cited charter rule 50, which forbids political, religious, or racial demonstrations inside an Olympic venue, to immediately reprimand this Indigenous athlete for his actions.

MSNBC Officials fear 'catastrophic' epidemic in Eastern Europe and Central Asia 1 December 2006 - World AIDS Day was marked around the globe Friday by somber religious services, boisterous demonstrations and warnings that far more needs to be done to treat and prevent the disease in order to avert millions of additional deaths.

Among the wide range of Asian artworks are models of the universe constructed as demonstrations of religious devotion, and colorful portrayals of spiritual beliefs about the cosmos.