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• n  a member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience
• s  concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church
  religious texts
  a member of a religious order
• a  having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity
  a religious man
  religious attitude
• a  of or relating to clergy bound by monastic vows
  the religious or regular clergy conducts the service
• s  extremely scrupulous and conscientious
  religious in observing the rules of health

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• spiritual

• irreligious
• secular

News & Articles

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• Religious conservatives asked to back GOP plans
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing lingering tensions in his party, the chairman of the Republican National Committee urged religious conservatives Saturday to support the GOP's plans to expand.
  June 15, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Religious conservatives asked to back GOP plans - Quincy Herald-Whig | Illinois & Missouri News, Sports
  WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican Party's chairman is asking religious conservatives to support the GOP's plans to expand.
  June 15, 2013 - Quincy Herald-Whig
• Religious Notes
  The Religious Notes column is published every Saturday to highlight special religious services (fundraisers go in the Calendar). E-mail information to living@the-dispatch.com, bring in printed information to 30 E. First Ave. or mail it to The Dispatch, P.O. Box 908, Lexington, 27293. Notes must be submitted by noon Wednesday to run the following Saturday. Notes will run no more than two times ...
  June 14, 2013 - The Lexington Dispatch

Quotes

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• Nicolas Sarkozy in FOXNews
  French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Monday: "In our country, we cannot accept that women be prisoners behind a screen, cut off from all social life, deprived of all identity.......... The burqa is not a religious sign, it's a sign of subservience,...
• Pope Benedict XVI in Globe and Mail
  The Jewish community makes "a valuable contribution to the life of the city," the Pope said. "And I encourage all of you to continue building bridges of friendship with all the many different ethnic and religious groups present in your...
• Barack Obama in Washington Post
  Obama said "as a practical matter, it would be very difficult to execute" a division of the city. "And I think that it is smart for us to -- to work through a system in which everybody has access to the extraordinary religious sites in Old...