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Faris, our volunteer guide, took us into the old part of the city of Bahrain, where the streets are narrow and lined by local shops. It's here where you can negotiate prices, which he did mercilessly on my behalf... lol. Right after we arrived, a prayer song began to play over the loudspeaker, indicating that it was time for prayer. A practicing Muslim, Faris took us over to the mosque. I asked if I could go in with him. It was not allowed. So we wandered around for the 20 minutes or so that he went in. You can see that they take their sandals off inside the doorway.
This was Bahrain. In Saudi Arabia, the practice of prayer, I think it's six times a day, is practiced even in the malls, where all the stores close during the prayer times. If you're in a restaurant, you can eat, but they won't take your order. If you're in a store, they may let you stay inside, but most will close and lock the doors. From what I observed, most do not actively participate in the prayer time by going to the prayer room, but they just stand around and talk until the bell signifying the end of the prayer time sounds. Then it's business as usual.
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This prayer book was produced ca. 1430-40, likely in Brabant, but the contents of the calendar point to Tournai and Cambrai, and the Office of the Dead is for the Use of Liège. North Netherlandish influence, possibly connected with works by the Masters of the Gold Scrolls, is suggested by the style and iconography of its images. The manuscript is notable for its large number of miniatures - forty-eight in total - as well as the sense of narrative within them, and the diversity of the suffrages they illustrate is striking. That the original owner had a strong interest in the Passion is evident in both the choice of texts and the images. The manuscript was well-used, and accrued not only additional prayers and suffrages, but devotional objects as well - a pilgrim's badge was once attached to the corner of the image for the suffrage to relics on fol. 160r.
To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.
Delegates pause for a moment of prayer following the morning discussion and expressions of confusion in the May 12 plenary at the 2016 United Methodist General Conference. From left are Vasylyna Babych from the Ukraine-Moldava Provisonal Conference and Alexander Pererva and Alexandr Meinikov from the Southern Russia Provisonal Conference. Photo by Kathleen Barry, UMNS
Bishop Hee-Soo Jung embraces the Rev. Thomas Kim during the Feb. 23 afternoon of prayer at the 2019 Special Session of the United Methodist General Conference in St. Louis. Looking on is Bishop Jane Allen Middleton. Photo by Kathleen Barry, UMNS.
My God (oh, let me call Thee mine,
Weak, wretched sinner though I be),
My trembling soul would fain be Thine;
My feeble faith still clings to Thee.
(from A prayer, Anne Bronte)
my son, rotating prayer wheel beside the compound gate of heritage tabo monastery.
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A man showed two of my friends how to pray properly, when we visited a mosque (and therefore wore head scarves).
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Stitched for a friend going through chemo, when words just didn't seem enough.
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Thousands of people turned out for Eid prayer this morning at some 270 mosques and prayer grounds across Qatar, including the Sheikhs’ Mosque in Musheireb.
VCES second grade students shared the history of the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon (SSMO) during a Heritage prayer service on Wednesday, March 15. The Sisters honor their history by celebrating SSMO Heritage Month each March. The students prepared posters showing "then" and "now" pictures and made gifts for each of the Sisters.
In one of the many Chinese pagodas in Hoi An. Hoi An, known in Vietnam as the old city, was once major international trading city. Japanese, Chinese, Indian and Dutch traders setup shops to sell their goods. Districts developed where these people lived. At the time, Hoi An was the biggest port in Vietnam and the wares were shipped around the world.
Christian leaders across Australia are right now holding nationwide sit-ins inside the electoral offices of 7 Government politicians in 6 cities.
Today’s peaceful action of more than 50 church-goers is in response to reports that the Government is planning to send 25 babies — who were born on Australia soil to families seeking safety — to the Nauru detention centre. These Christian leaders come from the full breadth of the Australian church (including Pentecostal, Presbyterian, Baptist, Anglican and others).
The Christian leaders are committed to remaining in the MPs’ offices until the Government publicly promises that no children will be detained offshore, and that all asylum-seeker children will be released into the Australian community with their families. Sit-ins are occurring in the Sydney office of Immigration Minister Scott Morrison, as well as 6 other Government representatives in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Brisbane (details below).
“Despite Mr Morrison’s claim that if his amendments to the Migration Act passed Parliament he would release all children from Australian detention centres, his very first act after the Bill was passed was to move 25 precious babies in preparation for sending them to offshore detention in Nauru,” said Love Makes a Way spokesperson Kate Leaney. “This is not only cruel, it is a contradiction of the Immigration Minister’s own words.”
“We are here in part to pray and appeal to Mr Morrison that he, as a committed Christian, might have a change of heart and be true to his word. At Christmas, how can we celebrate the birth of Jesus who quickly became a refugee fleeing persecution and not speak out for these 25 babies whose families have also fled persecution?
“Today we call on the Government to make a public commitment that no child will be imprisoned offshore. Mr Morrison, these 25 babies born on Australian soil and the 167 children currently in Nauru must be released into the community with their families,” said Ms Leaney.
Sister Susan Connelly is currently participating in the sit-in prayer vigil at Scott Morrison’s office, "I'm a Catholic, and a Religious Sister. I am opposed to a national system which treats innocent people as criminals. The way Australia is treating asylum seekers is a slap in the face to human dignity. It is undermining Australia's ethics and integrity."
Matt Anslow is also currently participating in the sit-in prayer vigil at Scott Morrison’s office. For Anslow who grew up in Mr. Morrison's electorate of Cook, the issue of how we treat asylum seekers is more personal. "After my grandmother arrived as a pregnant Hungarian refugee she gave birth to my mother on Australian soil. Mum wasn't sent to a detention centre, she was welcomed as an Aussie, so why can't we do the same now?"
Preparations to transfer the babies are reportedly underway despite a deal made between Immigration Minister Scott Morrison and Senate crossbenchers that guaranteed children in Australian detention centres would be released. In August, while facing an inquiry into child detention, Mr Morrison said: “Nobody, and especially nobody in this Government, wants to see children in detention if it can be avoided.”
Refugee and health experts, including from the UN, Amnesty International and the Australian Medical Association, have roundly condemned Australia’s detention regime. The Australian Churches Refugee Taskforce referred to child detention as “state-sanctioned child abuse”.
Australian churches have been united in their opposition to the Government’s asylum-seeker policies, particularly child detention.
Today’s sit-ins are part of the ongoing Christian movement called “Love Makes a Way”. Since the first sit-in at Scott Morrison’s office in March this year, more than 100 Christian leaders have been peacefully arrested (and praised for their conduct by magistrates) as part of #LoveMakesAWay actions calling on the Government to adopt a compassionate approach to asylum-seekers.