Sentence examples for various sects of from inspiring English sources

The various sects of worshippers of Vishnu pray to him in different ways.

Other religions include other Christian churches, various sects of Islam, Lamaist Buddhism, Judaism, and tribal religions.

Syria is hardly a den of vice, but it is an avowedly secular country where most women walk around without veils and various sects of Islam and Christians live in tolerance.

The indigenous religion of Japan, Shintō, coexists with various sects of Buddhism, Christianity, and some ancient shamanistic practices, as well as a number of "new religions" (shinkō shukyō) that have emerged since the 19th century.

Instead of destroying the Chinese culture they had conquered, the Qing embraced it, learning Chinese, moving into the Forbidden City, maintaining its Confucian bureaucracy and practising the various sects of Buddhism found throughout the empire.

Syria has embedded the roots of the various sects of Christianity, Judaism and Islam.

And today, as the world's single largest Muslim organization united under one Imam, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community combats sectarian strife by uniting Muslims of various sects under one flag of peace and pluralism.

In the coastal towns the population became mainly Sunni Muslim, but in town and country alike there remained considerable numbers of Christians of various sects.

This means setting a strategy for bringing together their peoples, of various sects and confessions, to work together on the basis of reform.

By creating a council of all the major religious leaders and heads of various sects, he sought to give Hinduism a united voice, identity and representation.

Chandra Muzaffar, president of the International Movement for a Just World, a nongovernment organization based in Malaysia, said while there may be differences among the various sects, Shiites are part of the Muslim community.