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From the Ted Talk by Nabila Alibhai: Why people of different faiths are painting their houses of worship yellow

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We'd call the project "Colour in Faith." We loved the idea and we immediately began approaching ______ of worship: ________, temples, mosques, synagogues. Door to door, we went to more than 60 ______, imams, pastors and _______. As you can imagine, bringing these communities together when prejudices are reinforced by a ______ pandemic of fear is not easy. It was complicated. We were confronted with the hierarchy of decision-making within religious ______________. For example, with Catholic churches, we were told that the archbishop would have to make the decision. And so we wrote a letter to the archbishop. We _____ a letter to the Vatican. We're still waiting to hear back.

Solution


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  2. global
  3. rabbis
  4. priests
  5. churches
  6. establishments
  7. wrote

Original Text


We'd call the project "Colour in Faith." We loved the idea and we immediately began approaching houses of worship: churches, temples, mosques, synagogues. Door to door, we went to more than 60 rabbis, imams, pastors and priests. As you can imagine, bringing these communities together when prejudices are reinforced by a global pandemic of fear is not easy. It was complicated. We were confronted with the hierarchy of decision-making within religious establishments. For example, with Catholic churches, we were told that the archbishop would have to make the decision. And so we wrote a letter to the archbishop. We wrote a letter to the Vatican. We're still waiting to hear back.

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