cleric

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Recent Examples on the Web What Israel does next will be pivotal The Shiite cleric was born in 1964 in the southern Lebanese village of Deir Qanoun En Nahr. Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024 The pope and the mosque's top cleric, Grand Imam Nasaruddin Umar, signed a joint declaration urging Catholics and Muslims to encourage their leaders to fight climate change and religious intolerance. Peter Weber, theweek, 5 Sep. 2024 During his trial, then Dearborn Police Chief Ronald Haddad testified that a Muslim cleric in Dearborn told him of his concern of the potential reaction of youth, saying that for some Muslims, burning a Quran is worse than a thousand deaths. Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 20 July 2024 Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz, on at least five occasions as governor of Minnesota, hosted a Muslim cleric who celebrated Hamas‘s Oct. 7 attack last year on Israel and promoted a film popular among Neo-Nazis that glorifies Adolf Hitler, the Washington Examiner found. Gabe Kaminsky, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Aug. 2024 See all Example Sentences for cleric 

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“Cleric.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cleric. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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