prayer meeting
noun
: a usually informal gathering for worship and prayer
especially
: a Protestant worship service usually held on a week night
called also prayer service
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Gandhi’s last plea, after receiving three bullets from close range during his morning prayer meeting, was to the same deity that the Hindu right would later rally around at Ayodhya.
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Hari Kumar Atul Loke, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
Him, my mother, and the headmaster, kinda like a prayer meeting.
—Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
Every day, employees at Aurora Pro Services, a North Carolina home-repair company, would gather for a mandatory prayer meeting, according to a federal complaint.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
While Saunders worked for Aurora, the owner allegedly took attendance at the prayer meetings and reprimanded employees for not attending.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
The apology came out of a prayer meeting in 1996 between then-Sen. Sam Brownback and Negiel Bigpond.
—Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023
Cardinal Zen, who like many others has retreated from the political limelight since the national security law criminalized and punished dissent, led a prayer meeting for the Catholic Church in China on Tuesday night, following an annual tradition started by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007.
—Elaine Yu, WSJ, 24 May 2022
The event, also billed as a rally and prayer meeting, is meant to coincide with U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting at the nearby Marriott Baltimore Waterfront in November.
—Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 13 Oct. 2021
Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead by a Hindu extremist during a prayer meeting in the Indian capital in 1948, because he was considered sympathetic toward Muslims during the partition of the Indian subcontinent by British colonialists in 1947 into secular India and Islamic Pakistan.
—Ashok Sharma, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021
Hari Kumar Atul Loke, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2024
Him, my mother, and the headmaster, kinda like a prayer meeting.
—Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
Every day, employees at Aurora Pro Services, a North Carolina home-repair company, would gather for a mandatory prayer meeting, according to a federal complaint.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
While Saunders worked for Aurora, the owner allegedly took attendance at the prayer meetings and reprimanded employees for not attending.
—Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 7 Aug. 2023
The apology came out of a prayer meeting in 1996 between then-Sen. Sam Brownback and Negiel Bigpond.
—Riley Robinson, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 June 2023
Cardinal Zen, who like many others has retreated from the political limelight since the national security law criminalized and punished dissent, led a prayer meeting for the Catholic Church in China on Tuesday night, following an annual tradition started by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007.
—Elaine Yu, WSJ, 24 May 2022
The event, also billed as a rally and prayer meeting, is meant to coincide with U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops meeting at the nearby Marriott Baltimore Waterfront in November.
—Emily Opilo, baltimoresun.com, 13 Oct. 2021
Mahatma Gandhi was shot dead by a Hindu extremist during a prayer meeting in the Indian capital in 1948, because he was considered sympathetic toward Muslims during the partition of the Indian subcontinent by British colonialists in 1947 into secular India and Islamic Pakistan.
—Ashok Sharma, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Dec. 2021
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