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After that he began active proselyting.

Today, President Thomas S. Monson is the Prophet and President, and the LDS church has become known for its proselyting and humanitarian work worldwide.

However, non-Islamic proselyting was punishable by death under Sharia law, which led the Assyrians into preaching in Transoxania, Central Asia, India, Mongolia and China where they established numerous churches.

Howard W. Hunter, who was president of the church's Quorum of the Twelve at the time of the center's construction, pointed out that although there would be no proselyting from the center, it still served a valuable purpose.

At last, on December 20, 1873, pricked on by the threat of denominational proselyting among the immigrants, the Danish-Norwegian Utah Posten made its appearance, the first foreign-language publication in Utah and the first of three weeklies to bear the name through several metamorphoses during the next fifty years.

There have however been reports of possible proselytising according to non-Gakkai staff and students.

But his Christian proselytising met with only limited success.

Proselytising has been illegal in China since 1949.

It was an odd but most effective proselytising.

These attitudes are said to legitimize the proselytising of Christians from other denominations.

Throughout the 19th century, evictions and proselytising were commonplace.

Even though the Mission was established to achieve some level of conversion, there was no proselytising.

Past exhibits have included a well-curated one on the proselytising of the early Catholic Church.

He gave orders to exterminate Christianity from the kingdom and prohibited proselytising.

But the proselytising, fundamentalist new atheist movement sets itself up as more "logical" than faith, which is ridiculous.

It's run by Hare Krishna, but there's no proselytising.

Because of this neutrality requirement, students are normally prohibited from conducting religious proselytising or political activism on the premises.

One focus of his work was providing Muslims with theological tools for defending themselves against active proselytising by Christian missionaries.

I've been out proselytising among the heathens.'

The 1868 Act insured that Protestant and Catholic children would be catered for separately, preventing proselytising.

Mr Arrica's proselytising has been impeccable.

In April and May 2010, a number of foreigners, including British nationals, were expelled from Morocco for alleged proselytising.

Greater interest in the programme, arguably due to Oldfield's proselytising, led to the group being investigated by the press and becoming the subject of a controversial television play.

"There was speculation that Hunte's continuous proselytising for his [moral rearmament] beliefs even within the dressing-room told against him."

While the practice and expression of other faiths is guaranteed by law, the same legal framework tends to restrict them insofar as overt proselytising is concerned.

The Ottomans tolerated Protestant missionaries within their realm, so long as they limited their proselytising to the Orthodox Christians.

While some British Gypsum customers were eager to use EDI, others have been less quick off the mark, but the company is doing some proselytising.

The removal of internal borders and the immigrationist proselytising of the EU are, it must be stressed, one of the major causes of this problem.

Reviews in The Observer and Private Eye satirised the book for its arbitrary rejection of religious content and the proselytising of the author.

It hints at the purpose behind Adelaides - "to build bridges to people who would not normally have contact with Christians" - but there seems to be no proselytising.

Political leaders say that their proselytizing must sometimes be carried out with particular care.

This decision made room for further proselytizing, which in turn increased his influence.

Among these are several provisions that prevent the program being used for political proselytizing.

So often at these organic food events, there's such earnest proselytizing.

Missionaries have historically been given at least three weeks of training in proselytizing methods.

The first four films, made before 1985, are thinly disguised religious proselytizing.

And second, will the government ensure that religious proselytizing in the process of providing these services is forbidden?

And what might normally be seen as unwelcome proselytizing was embraced.

And if he is not the force that he was a decade ago, it may well be a result of his own proselytizing.

Proselytizing is rare, he said, echoing the comments of religious order teachers at other Catholic schools.

"John," as he calls himself, will soon take his wife and two children into a country where his proselytizing is illegal.

"Even within corporations, people look askance at environmental proselytizing," the newspaper said.

This level of opposition was even higher than the 60 percent of the public concerned about using tax dollars for religious proselytizing.

But anything that smacks of Islamic proselytizing is viewed with alarm.

In any event, the group's focus for 1994 would shift singlemindedly toward cross-country proselytizing.

Despite the proselytizing, eco-parks are not an easy sell.

His proselytizing prompted people from all over the world to seek his advice on treatment.

Of course, the administration insists that the new policy isn't intended to allow government-funded proselytizing.

The door had been opened to Muslim proselytizing.

The boy was so earnest in his proselytizing.

Those recruits, the report warns, "may have the capability for wider and more complex proselytizing."

Currently, religious proselytizing is not allowed within Israel.

In general, even true Christians administering the marriage are discouraged from actual proselytizing.

At any other time, even this small bit of proselytizing would seem misplaced; maybe next week, it would be wrong.

"We don't accept this kind of preaching," he said of the proselytizing.