Sentence examples for religious ordinances from inspiring English sources

Beeswax is used for candles (religious ordinances often specify its use for church ceremonial candles), for artificial fruit and flowers, and for modeling wax.

Of his teaching, only one saying is preserved in the Talmud; it enjoins the duties of study and scrupulous observance of religious ordinances.

The only time you would know that my husband had a responsibility I didn't was in the exercising of specific religious ordinances.

Given only to men living in accordance with church teachings, it is used in religious ordinances, church administration, and in individual expressions of devotion such as in giving blessings of healing.

Without any advantages or other religious ordinances than are supplied by the annual visit of a priest from Barra, these very interesting people thirst for education, and would make considerable sacrifices to obtain it.

The Justice Department is also arguing, in a case involving a baker's right not to make a wedding cake for a gay couple, that there should be an exemption to gay-rights ordinances, based on religious beliefs.

He criticizes the more traditional concept of Sunni ethics that is limited to compliance with the ordinances of the religious law (sharî'a) and following the example of the Prophet Muhammad.

It is commonly assumed that those involved in the Revolution were a bunch of Islamists whose sole desire was guarding religious values and implementing Islamic ordinances.

Despite the reference to religious protection included in the ordinance, some of its opponents portrayed the vote as a battle for religious liberty, evoking memories of clashes over so-called "religious freedom" laws in Indiana and Arkansas last spring and in Arizona last year.

862, 87 L.Ed. 1313 (1943), for example, dealt with Jehovah's Witnesses who had gone door to door with invitations to a religious meeting despite a local ordinance prohibiting distribution of any "handbills, circulars or other advertisements" door to door.

Ten years later, then president Zia ul-Haq passed an ordinance curtailing the religious freedom of Ahmadi Muslims.