How old is prayer

It's my grounding and my anchor in life. Yasmina Abdelrazik, 23, agrees. She said her faith "gives me purpose in life". And it's kind of what I base all my aspirations around. The study polled 2, British adults in August and seems to contradict the stereotypical view that religious groups in the UK are overwhelmingly elderly. It was commissioned by The Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer, a project to build a ft 52m -tall arch made of a million bricks, each representing an answered prayer.

Its founder, Richard Gamble, said the study challenged the perception that the UK was a secular society. A separate study by Manchester Metropolitan University coming out this week suggests religious communities have boomed in the pandemic with the move online.

Dr Alana Vincent, co-investigator of the British Ritual Innovation under Covid BRIC project, said the pandemic "opened doors to those for whom worship has been inaccessible or uncomfortable". She added: "Nevertheless, we've found that the actual experience of digital worship has been disappointing and frustrating for many people.

They were easier and cheaper to produce than bound books, but because they did not have covers like books, prayer rolls are much less likely to emerge unscathed from the ravages of history. For that reason, this incredibly well preserved prayer roll is almost a miraculous discovery all of its own — especially for its historical proximity to the lore of the True Cross. The document is described in the Journal of the British Archaeological Association. Three nails, the fourth illumination. Filed under: Faith Featured Faiths.

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