They placed a sign at the end of the driveway, laid prayer rugs on top of the wall-to-wall carpeting, and began meeting there for Friday worship — making it, in function if not in form, the third mosque in the state.
In India, flowers are used for various purposes such as an offering to deities in religious places for worship, making garlands and bouquets, as decorative item for various religious ceremonies and social gatherings.
We've simplified our worship, making it more informal, artistically-oriented, and relaxed.
For us, it's suggested, relativism, multiculturalism and self-worship make it nigh on impossible.
Ms. Kaplan said seeing her peers lead worship made her faith seem more accessible.
Houses of worship make up just a fraction of the universe of so-called 501(c)(3) organizations in the United States, all of which are restricted by the Johnson Amendment.
Now comes a new federal lawsuit filed on behalf of Muslim citizens and organizations saying they have been subjected to illegal surveillance that has disrupted Muslim houses of worship, made it difficult for congregants and their spiritual leaders to worship freely, and inhibited Muslims from openly associating with lawful Muslim charities and civic groups and exercising First Amendment rights.
As she addressed delegates from 44 countries and 13 Jewish and Romany organizations in a wood-paneled auditorium at the State Department, Ms. Albright made of her family's history a public reminder that differences in culture, language, history and choice of worship made life interesting.
Thus, we pray, worship, make votive offerings, sacrifice and engage in all the various rituals of popular religion.
Of course, hero worship made the crimes of a predatory priest so much easier to commit.
