• Meanwhile, the spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Istanbul, also intervened.

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  • Rabbi Yoel Schwartz is the spiritual leader of the IDF's Nahal Haredi unit.

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  • But the suit, apparently, has taken its toll on the spiritual leader.

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  • The development organization of Prince Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismailis, who owns the Serena hotel outside Khorog, also helped in the evacuation.

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  • The only fun comes in the historical flashbacks to the story of Buddha, played by Keanu Reeves, stripped to the waist: the spiritual leader as supermodel.

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  • Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of Shas, one of Israel's religious parties, has long indicated that he would be in favour of giving up land for peace.

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  • As the spiritual leader of one of the largest and most militant of all the Palestinian groups fighting the Israeli occupation, Sheikh Yassin was a prime target for Israelis.

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  • But they will have to convince, among others, the spiritual leader of Iraq's Shia Muslim majority, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, who has thus far insisted on full democratic participation.

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  • The body of the Sultan of Sokoto, Mohammadu Maccido - the spiritual leader of the country's estimated 70 million Muslims - was buried in Sokoto within hours of the crash.

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  • The Palestinian-born Jordanian preacher has been described as the spiritual leader of the mujihadeen and security chiefs say that he played a key ideological role in spreading support for suicide bombings.

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  • Nationalists hope that the planned visit this summer of the pope, who is the spiritual leader for the 5m-odd Ukrainian Catholics (including 4m eastern-rite Uniates, also called Greek Catholics), will boost their cause.

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  • They note that he recently ordered the release from prison of Maulana Azam Tariq, the spiritual leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba (Soldiers of the Companions of the Prophet), a radical Sunni group thought to be behind many of the anti-Shia attacks.

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  • Those the militants sought included Omar Abdel Rahman, the blind sheikh who was convicted of plotting to blow up New York City landmarks and considered the spiritual leader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and Aafia Siddiqui, a Pakistani scientist convicted of shooting at two U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan.

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  • Now then, because San Francisco is San Francisco, she devised a new campaign that has Islamic authorities, some of the highest Islamic authorities in the world, the spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sheik Qaradawi, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, president of Iran, talking about how homosexuality gets you the death penalty in Islam.

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  • In the past 18 months, King Hussein forced Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, to release the spiritual leader of Hamas in exchange for captured Israeli spies, faced down Syria's iron-willed President Hafez Assad in a vitriolic propaganda war, persuaded both Bill Clinton and his Iraqi counterpart, Saddam Hussein, to give Jordan financial aid, and intervened personally to secure the agreement at Wye between Yasser Arafat and sceptical Israeli negotiators.

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  • The Shi'ite position is less strict - within the last five years Ayatollah Ali Khamanei, the current spiritual leader of the Hizbollah movement in Lebanon, permitted the use of donor eggs and even donor sperm under certain circumstances.

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  • As the austerity debate rages on, no other person than the national spiritual leader the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby has waded in and used a word no want wants to hear: Depression.

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  • Authorities in China said an article on the Tibetan spiritual leader was posted on Mr Samdrup's website, the Associated Press news agency reported.

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  • Even Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, the late spiritual leader of Lebanon's Hizbullah party-cum-militia, conceded that more research is needed in order to understand homosexuality.

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  • The Tibetan spiritual leader's moderation is being challenged by a new generation at odds with his willingness to accept Tibetan autonomy within China rather than push for full independence.

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  • But he ought to, if he is to follow the example of the nation's top spiritual leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

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  • While the response from spiritual leader Ayatollah Khamanei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad seems vague at first glance, experts argue the regime is being quite conciliatory, even flirting with the U.S. overtures and opening the door for talks.

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  • In a more immediate, though more oblique, threat to Mr Barak's political well-being, the attorney-general recently ordered the police to investigate Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, spiritual leader of the traditionalist Shas party, for publicly cursing Yossi Sarid, the education minister and leader of the secularist Meretz party.

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  • The council, or shura, ended a meeting on Wednesday without a decision, despite a warning from the Taleban's spiritual leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar, that the US was bent on destroying them.

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  • This Radical Middle Way, sadly British government supported, is an ideological outgrowth of the ideas of Sheikh Yusef Qaradawi, spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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  • And the country's spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has blocked the new parliament's attempts to lift press restrictions.

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  • Umar Farooq, the mirwaiz, or spiritual leader, of Srinagar's Sunni Muslims (the overwhelming majority of residents of the valley), joined the dialogue with Delhi, and is optimistic that it will survive the change of government.

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  • By suggesting he is uncomfortable with the moral dimensions of capitalism, Pope Francis has created a mini-furor among both free market types who are offended, and neo-socialists seeking support from the most powerful spiritual leader in Christianity.

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  • Mario Gomez, who has been mining since he was 12, became the group's spiritual leader and requested a crucifix and statuettes of saints so the men could construct a shrine.

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