religious
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The annual Commonwealth service at Westminster Abbey is usually attended by senior royals, political and religious leaders, and representatives of Commonwealth nations.
From BBC
By far the biggest surge in immigration followed the 1979 Islamic Revolution that sent the U.S.-backed shah into exile and swept religious hard-liners into power.
From Los Angeles Times
Early samurai patronage of theater, painting and tea ceremonies, as well as their religious support of Buddhism, Shinto and even Christianity, are all on display.
Instead of anchoring a modern republic in Iran’s Shiite tradition, as the revolutionaries had promised, “the supreme leader became a sort of religious monarch,” Mr. Ansari says.
The Iranian supreme leader serves for life and is the highest religious and political authority in the Islamic Republic.
From Salon
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