alms-giving
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The original intent of Lent, which was developed in the fourth and fifth centuries, was to fortify one’s relationship with God, oneself and the poor by focusing on prayer, fasting and alms-giving.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 24, 2017
The reason, he said, was very simple: Americans were the ones doing Allah’s work, by steadfastly upholding the Islamic tenet of zakat—a form of alms-giving that makes up one of the Five Pillars of Islam.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 24, 2016
In any event, we can, according to Catechism, help Tessa on her journey by alms-giving, prayer, and fasting.
From Slate ● Oct. 5, 2011
While forced child begging exists elsewhere in the region, the problem is most pronounced in Senegal where alms-giving is an important cultural and religious act, Wells said.
From Reuters ● Apr. 15, 2010
It has been degraded in these later years into the sense of alms-giving, so that the Christian pulpits of every denomination have too often thus been preaching charity while ignoring justice.
From The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 by B. O. (Benjamin Orange) Flower
