The faith would become so deeply ingrained that in the seventeenth century both nations would defend their religious affinity with a passion that verged on bigotry.

Mr. Tavener is an honorary Eastern Mystic: actually, he is English, but his religious affinities are for Greek Orthodoxy.

But "A River Runs Through It" makes the Macleans' unexpressed emotions and religious affinity with the natural world moving and believable.

Bosnia has used Iran and other Muslim countries far less out of cultural and religious affinity than out of desperation and self-interest.

In 1930 the statistic for religious affinity was counted with 1698 catholic and 37 non-Catholics.

The Russians share an ethnic, religious and cultural affinity with the Serbs.

This attention initially was based on a natural and religious affinity toward and support for Israel and world Jewry.

Sixty percent of Iraqis were Shi'ites, after all, and shared not just a religious affinity with Iran but a mutual hatred for Saddam's regime.

The United States may regard Israel as its primary ally in the Middle East, based on "common democratic values, religious affinities, and security interests".

There are halls dedicated to ethnic or religious affinities, halls for athletic teams, halls for aspiring writers, halls for students in the performing arts.