They argue that the Koranic authority for this is the story of God's destruction of the city of Sodom because of its citizens' sins.
She describes the Byzantine empire's appropriation of the Mother of God as protectress of the city of Constantinople and its rulers and the intricate metaphysical groundwork which made that change possible.
The City of God is one of the poorest districts of Rio de Janeiro and also has one of the largest black populations in the city.
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He later revisited that stark childhood with his performance as Knockout Ned in the acclaimed film City of God.
"People are trying to get out of this god-forsaken city, " she said, "and you are planning to come back!"
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In 2000 he moved to Rio de Janeiro to prepare to make City of God, having been drawn to the project after reading the book Cidade de Deus, written by Paulo Lins.
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But there is still a long way to go: the only time Barack Obama saw a sizeable number of Afro-Brazilians was on his visit to the Cidade de Deus slum, made famous by the movie City of God.
Raging below are the roiling contours of the fierce seas God has created to punish the prophet for defying a divine order to preach in the sinful city of Nineveh.
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Outside the building we're staying in, the non-stop, looped recordings of "God is great" continue to sing plaintively across the city from half a dozen mosques.
Columbia is bad enough with all its racism and fascism, but the universe where Comstock trains Elizabeth to attack New York City and god knows where else is probably the worst of all possible universes.
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None will protect us, God forbid, from the smuggling and deployment of a WMD into a major city.
We can only target certain sections of the city and form a perimeter around them and hope to God that we're not overrun.
"Thanks to God for the agreement that we reached ... to end the crisis in Sadr City which left hundreds of martyrs and more than this number of wounded, " said al-Sadr spokesman Sheikh Salah al-Obeidi.
The United States had been founded by descendants of emigrants from Protestant Britain and Holland who viewed their new land as a "city on a hill" that would initiate the "new Israel" and the Kingdom of God on Earth.
And the people of our city stood in the dark each night, waving flags, and calling out, "God bless you, " as the trucks hurtled by.
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