Sentence examples for religious preachers from inspiring English sources

Even godly men and religious preachers are embroiled in corruption and scandals of various types.

No wonder large numbers of young people in these countries are just sitting around, hoping to emigrate or falling prey to religious preachers who blame all their problems on Israel or America and promise a glorious afterlife.

To mention just three examples: 1) The seemingly magical spell (Sanskrit: dhāraṇī) from the Heart Sūtra was known by many; 2) stories from the Lotus Sūtra were painted on the walls of popular temples; and 3) religious preachers, popular storytellers, and low-class dramatists alike drew on the rich trove of mythology provided by Buddhist narrative.

In the time of Jesus, religious preachers and self-proclaimed prophets were not summarily arrested and executed.

The Brotherhood has also banned Al Azhar moderate scholars from appearing in State Radio and TV and replaced them with their own religious preachers.

"Women are the most at risk of accusation," he adds, suggesting that deep-rooted suspicions of seduction and temptation are exploited by religious preachers to justify their actions.

They are less usual when waiting to hear a religious preacher.

Awad Ibrahim, forty-six, a travel agent, from Baalbek, was dressed in a tracksuit; and Ali Hussein Abbas, twenty-nine, was from southern Lebanon and described himself as a religious preacher.

He may have inherited his rhetorical prowess from his grandfather, who had arrived in Britain in 1890 having been the maggid (or itinerant religious preacher) of Kamenets, his home village in Poland.

Fast forward a year and Sharif's mandate is dead – beaten lifeless by the volatile combination of an increasingly manic Khan and a religious preacher, Tahir-ul-Qadri, who does not even bother to camouflage his closeness to the army.

Government officials blend into a gray mass; non-government notables like the black religious preacher Father Divine and the alcoholic co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, Bill Wilson, are dwelt upon to no apparent point except to illustrate the value of self-help and problem-solving without government aid.