They had joined a religious order and dedicated their lives to prayer and good works.

他们参加了一个宗教团体，献身于祈祷和做善事。

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The rule governing a religious order.

命令或者要求或者发一条命令。

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The Sea Org became the church's equivalent of a religious order.

海洋机构在发号施令上变得和山达基教会有同等的地位。

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So if you have a mass killing of an ethno-religious group, carried out by a government in order to eliminate those people from their homeland, or to destroy their political and cultural potential - that is,by the conventional definition and most scholarly definitions, a genocide."

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He's covering his head in a traditional religious fashion, so in order to enter this holy place he covers his head.

他以一种传统的宗教方式包裹他的头，为了进入那个神圣的地方而包裹头。

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Celestine V, a hermit who founded the religious order that bears his name, was later canonized.

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The Jesuits are not only the largest religious order in the Church but also the most revolutionary.

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Reports in state media also accused Gambira of rejoining his religious order without requesting authorisation, Reuters news agency reports.

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