Sentence examples for religious visit from inspiring English sources

'This is not just a package holiday, but an obligatory religious visit, so people tend to be far too trusting,' said Nayyar.

It came after three years of negotiations propelled by the hope that it would improve relations between the two branches of Christianity as well as the two nations.Nominally, it was a religious visit.

Terry Sanderson, the president of the National Secular Society and a leader of Protest the Pope, said that while secularists objected to the government co-funding a religious visit, theresex abuse was "the one thing that the pope personally needs to answer for".

No public money on religious visits".

"We reject these religious visits," Sheik Ekrima Sa'eed Sabri, who oversees Muslim affairs in Jerusalem, said in an interview.

Doctors and nurses are interviewing religious leaders, visiting cultural centers and even traveling abroad to better understand their patients.

Hoping to end vicious cycles of revenge killings and despite the personal risk involved, the three religious leaders visited villages and cities, talking to communities about peace, tolerance and trust.

In 1990, Mr. Zamir, then a parachute company commander in the reserves, was sentenced to prison for refusing to guard a ceremony involving religious Jews visiting the West Bank city of Nablus.

Increasing numbers of religious Jews visiting the compound - which is Islam's holiest site outside Saudi Arabia and revered in Judaism as the location of two destroyed biblical temples - led to Palestinian allegations that Israel is violating a "status quo" under which Jewish prayer there is banned.

The committee was going to bring a young woman to compete in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, but a week before she was to leave, said an Olympic official from Bahrain, religious leaders visited her parents and warned them against their daughter's appearing in front of so many people in a swimsuit.

Pope Benedict XVI, who often greets religious groups visiting Rome, made a surprising welcome in his general audience: He offered best wishes to a convention of exorcists, whom he encouraged to "carry on their important work in the service of the church".