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Recent Examples of pastor
Detroit Free Press On a Friday afternoon in April 14 years ago, a Christian pastor known for burning Qurans stood in front of Dearborn City Hall along Michigan Avenue railing against Islam.
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Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2025
In mid-December, nearly 200 new migrants gathered in a prayer circle in Little Village, said pastor Matt De Mateo.
—Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
Within days Cynthia Mans had invited Natalia to move in with her and her husband, Christian pastor Antwon Mans, and their 10 children.
—Danielle Bacher, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
After Olea’s arrest, a youth pastor at the church told the Key Biscayne Independent that Olea had to be warned several times not to be alone with his students and was once reported after being seen alone with a high school student aide and massaging her lower back.
—Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 3 Jan. 2025
In mid-December, nearly 200 new migrants gathered in a prayer circle in Little Village, said pastor Matt De Mateo.
—Laura Rodríguez Presa, Chicago Tribune, 2 Jan. 2025
Within days Cynthia Mans had invited Natalia to move in with her and her husband, Christian pastor Antwon Mans, and their 10 children.
—Danielle Bacher, People.com, 2 Jan. 2025
After Olea’s arrest, a youth pastor at the church told the Key Biscayne Independent that Olea had to be warned several times not to be alone with his students and was once reported after being seen alone with a high school student aide and massaging her lower back.
—Ana Claudia Chacin, Miami Herald, 2 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastor
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Wiley, the rector of Trinity Episcopal Church in Towson, will lead an outdoor prayer service at the house of worship Tuesday night as a way of blessing the people of a country that have so often seemed bitterly divided over politics.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
5 Nov. 2024
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It is considered a holy day of obligation in the Catholic church, said Monsignor Walter Rossi, rector of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C.—
Saleen Martin,
USA TODAY,
31 Oct. 2024
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The committee members, all clergymen, had been summoned to report on the progress of their work.—
Kasra Naji,
Foreign Affairs,
17 Aug. 2016
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At the same time, Ukrainian authorities have become increasingly suspicious of anyone with links to the Russian Orthodox Church, arresting and convicting clergymen of spying for Moscow.—
Ivana Kottasová,
CNN,
16 Dec. 2024
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Better would it have been had the vicar never been born.—
SPIN Staff,
SPIN,
30 Sep. 2024
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Atkinson both sends up and deepens stock characters like the vicar, who here has lost his faith; a major who doesn’t feel cut out for civilian life; and the batty lady of the manor, who appears to have arrived via time machine from the Victorian era.—
Yvonne Zipp,
The Christian Science Monitor,
17 Sep. 2024
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Writing in the eighteenth century, Smith compared energetic and often sensationalist Methodist preachers with the more reserved and cerebral parsons of the Church of England.—
Shadi Hamid,
Foreign Affairs,
18 June 2024
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The other is her violent stepfather, who, in this version, is also the church’s parson (Steven Pasquale).—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
19 Mar. 2024
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Pentecostalism was about two decades old at the time, and its early practices of interracial worship, speaking in tongues, and divine healing were subjects of lively conversation among the relatively staid and respectable churchmen of mainline Protestantism.—
Andrew Cockburn,
Harper's Magazine,
19 Aug. 2024
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If the dominant Spaniards of The Betrothed are unjust, self-interested, and pompous, few of the Italians — including churchmen — are any better.—
David Harsanyi,
National Review,
25 Jan. 2024
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German shepherds and huskies might even enjoy being outdoors in the cold weather, and may not be the answer for these dogs.—
Alice Gibbs,
Newsweek,
10 Jan. 2025
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After that point, Bring Them Down is off to the races, revealing itself as a gripping, bloody turf war-slash-Western, played out between Abbott’s shepherd and his duplicitous young neighbor.—
Damon Wise,
Deadline,
31 Dec. 2024
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From political infighting among an international coterie of bishops, to nosy clerical gossiping, to Isabella Rossellini as a nun with ulterior motives, to car bombs, the movie — based on an airport novel of the same name by Robert Harris — is arguably overwrought and overstuffed, if endlessly fun.—
Alex Abad-Santos,
Vox,
12 Jan. 2025
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There were rabbis, imams, bishops and deacons from across the city, reflecting the diversity of the victims and New Orleans.—
Carlie Kollath Wells,
Axios,
6 Jan. 2025
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Each week, Maricopa and Pinal county reporter Sasha Hupka reports and curates must-know campaign news, insider exclusives and service-style voter tips from Arizona’s largest and most talented elections team.—
Rafael Carranza,
The Arizona Republic,
19 Nov. 2024
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Fiennes is backed by a stellar supporting cast that, in addition to Tucci's firebrand Bellini, included John Lithgow as a sanctimonious curate and Carlos Diehz as Cardinal Benitez, intriguing and comforting in his calm stillness.—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
2 Sep. 2024
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“Pastor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastor. Accessed 24 Jan. 2025.
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