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He was devastated when his son ditched medical school after being indoctrinated into his church and was inspired to become a missionary.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
28 Jan. 2025 -
Image Foreign Christian missionaries have kept their distance from Kosovo’s conversion campaign.—
Fatjona Mejdini,
New York Times,
4 Jan. 2025
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The monastery was founded here in 874, at the site of one of the country’s first Christian churches, built in 305, following a dream a hermit-monk who’d lived for ten years on the island had about the 12 apostles.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
31 Jan. 2025
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Brigham Young and the 11 other apostles had to draw strings to see who was going to talk to be the next prophet.—
Abbey White,
The Hollywood Reporter,
18 Jan. 2025
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The Army identified the soldiers killed in the crash as Staff Sgt.—
Katie Smith,
USA TODAY,
11 Feb. 2025
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The camera keeps tight on Dragan as the heavily armed soldiers approach the compartment containing him, the Muslim man and several other passengers.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
10 Feb. 2025
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Readers still should have the context that the same group of far right Trump acolytes have launched 7 different recall attempts against the governor since he's taken office, each of which have failed spectacularly.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
31 Jan. 2025
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Read More: Donald Trump’s Disruption Is Back To critics, Trump’s nominations reflect another impulse: to install obedient, often inexperienced, acolytes who will acquiesce to his demands to turn the government into an instrument for his own self-interest.—
Eric Cortellessa,
TIME,
20 Jan. 2025
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Something so impossible happened that his disciples were completely changed and declared that this dead one was now alive again.—
Lynne Silva-Breen,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Pep Guardiola will lock horns with his old disciple Enzo Maresca on Saturday night, a rematch which will be fought in very different circumstances to last summer’s season opener.—
Oli Gamp,
The Athletic,
24 Jan. 2025
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Another college at risk is Williamsburg Brooklyn’s United Talmudic Seminary, which trains more than 2,000 male adherents to the ultra-orthodox Satmar Hasidic sect in Jewish law and teachings.—
Emma Whitford,
Forbes,
3 Feb. 2025
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This minority religious population has faced systematic genocide, with the CCP detaining over one million adherents.—
Tom Rogers,
Newsweek,
26 Nov. 2024
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But the fate of the votary is to require and receive a constant renewal of faith.—
Jeff Weiss,
Spin,
21 Aug. 2023
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Many remember the Cultural Revolution as a time of Red Guard excess—of the people terrorizing the votaries of the party.—
Mary Gallagher,
Foreign Affairs,
20 June 2023
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For the past few days, West has spewed virulently antisemitic, homophobic and misogynistic hate speech via his X account to his more than 32 million followers.—
Jordan Valinsky,
CNN,
11 Feb. 2025
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The marketing stunt involves Duolingo's account on Twitter/X, which has over 930,000 followers.—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
11 Feb. 2025
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“Proselytizer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/proselytizer. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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