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In Mumbai, the Jain community, which considers feeding pigeons a pious duty, has been vocal in their protests.

Moyers’ preacher-like delivery and emphasis on high moral standards in his commentaries led some people to criticize him as being a pious scold.

Secularism permeates the nation’s liberal founding documents — the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights — even as the history of Saint-Gaudens’ statue of my pious ancestor demonstrates the idealistic tenacity of religious faith.

In a double whammy to the pious, the shoes were seen as both demonic and vain and were eventually banned from London.

Al-Sharaa was referring to the fact that many Syrians, not just in the majority Sunni Muslim community, are pious.