Astride ancient caravan routes, the oasis was a raiders' stronghold until 1895, when it became the headquarters of the Sanūsī, a reformist Muslim religious fraternity.
WHEN Pope Francis became the first Jesuit pontiff, there was a surge of interest in a religious fraternity which, like it or loathe it, has played a significant role in world history, from Asia to Latin America.
Grandi was musical director to a religious fraternity in Ferrara in 1597 and held other positions there until 1617, when he became a singer at St. Mark's in Venice.
That is almost certainly the face Bosch presented to the world, in the corner of a painting of Saint John on Patmos he made for the Brotherhood of Our Lady, the city's poshest religious fraternity, of which Bosch was a leading member.
There are over 18 honor and 13 service or religious fraternities or sororities at ECU. ECU's sports teams, nicknamed the Pirates, compete in NCAA Division FBS as a full member of the American Athletic Conference (The American).
Francis will likely focus on issues of religious freedom and fraternity in his public remarks.
An officer in the royal army, Allende was a member of the elite Basque society of San Miguel, where his family was involved in mining, agriculture, commerce, politics and religious laymen's fraternities.
Their corporate cultures were so tight and cloistered that to outsiders they appeared to be a cross between fraternity house, religious cult and sanitarium.
"We've taken the thing as a human obligation, a religious obligation, an obligation of fraternity," Mr. Mourou said, and the Libyans have been "truly appreciative".
In December , 1992 during the nationwide riots that followed the demolition of a sixteenth-century mosque in Ayodhya by Hindu nationalists, hundreds of people in Bombay, mostly Muslims, were killed; retaliatory bomb attacks, allegedly masterminded by a Muslim don living in Dubai, killed nearly three hundred people, creating religious tensions among the hitherto secular fraternity of criminals.
He divided up the rest of his assets, including several properties, among individuals, religious institutions, and every guild and fraternity to which he belonged.
