It houses the holiest of sites of Christianity and Judaism and the third holiest in Islam.
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The Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest site, stands there atop the ruins of Judaism's holiest of holies.
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The city contains the third-holiest place in Islam, the Haram Al-Sharif and the holiest one in Judaism, the Temple Mount.
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A Muslim-controlled entity governs the top of the Temple Mount, which is the holiest site in Judaism and the third-holiest site in Islam.
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Home to the third-holiest mosque in Islam as well as the holiest site in Judaism, the city poses highly sensitive issues for Muslims and Jews.
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The location is the holiest place in Judaism and the third-holiest place in Islam, and has been the site of numerous clashes over the years.
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Their trauma revolves around the question, How could a god, on the holiest day of the week, in the holiest place in our communities, allow this to happen?
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Jerusalem's Old City has the third-holiest mosque in Islam and the holiest site in Judaism, making the city's status a sensitive issue for Muslims and Jews alike.
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Jerusalem's Old City has the third-holiest mosque in Islam and the holiest site in Judaism, making the city's status a sensitive issue for Muslims and Jews worldwide alike.
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Palestinians and Israelis are killing each other over Jerusalem's holiest site Palestinians and Israelis are killing each other over Jerusalem's holiest site Tensions over Jerusalem's holiest site exploded into violence Friday, leaving at least five people dead and another in critical condition, stirring fear that greater violence could soon spread throughout the country.
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They pray outside the Jokhang temple, Tibetan Buddhism's holiest place.
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Amarnath is considered one of the holiest shrines in Hinduism.
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The attack occurred on one of the holiest Muslim holidays.
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Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar, has begun.
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Jews never spell or pronounce the holiest of God's names.
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Stephen Colbert once called it one of our holiest weeks.
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However, Mount Zion in Jerusalem is the holiest place for Jews.
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The tomb is considered the holiest place in the Christian faith.
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Islam's third holiest site, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, is in Jerusalem.
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The wall is considered one of the holiest sites in Judaism.
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That victory saved us from destruction and reunited our holiest city.
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It was Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
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Previous plans have included provisions calling for the area — which includes the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, and the al-Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Sunni Islam — to be put under international supervision.
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It's home to the majestic Taj Mahal and India's holiest city, Varanasi.
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Skyscrapers soar above Islam's holiest place, dwarfing the granite Kaaba far below.
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For Saudi Arabia, custodian of Islam's holiest places, much is at stake.
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The crusaders defiled Islam's third-holiest mosque, using al-Aqsa for stables.
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Josh Marcus doesn't care that it's the holiest day of the week.
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"It's one of the holiest sites in Sunni Islam," he told them.
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"Thai dictator try to invade the holiest stage of Buddhism," read one.
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Radwa is a mountain in Medina, the second-holiest city in Islam.
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It is the third holiest site in Islam, after Mecca and Medina.
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It's the homestretch of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar.
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Tuesday was the eve of Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism.
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It is the biggest oil exporter, and home to Islam's two holiest sites.
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Still, standing in one of the holiest places on earth, I felt uneasy.
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Saudi Arabia is the largest Arab economy and home to Islam's holiest sites.
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One of the biggest differences is that our holiest place is Mount Gerizim.
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The temple in Kartarpur in Pakistan is among the holiest sites for Sikhs.
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Ramadan is regarded as one of the holiest — and busiest — times for Muslims.
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Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest sites, bans the practice of other religions.
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That's because Kerala is home to Sabarimala Temple, one of Hinduism's holiest shrines.
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Mecca is the birthplace of Prophet Muhammad and the holiest site in Islam.
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The episode, coming on the holiest day of Judaism, has the country reeling.
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The coming month, Muharram, is the second holiest for the faithful, after Ramadan.
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Someone from the other side killed people on the holiest place for Jews.
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It is the holiest place in Islam, a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
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He therefore decides to live in the holiest city of Hindu India, Varanasi.
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Saudi Arabia's government is premised on its religious authority over Islam's holiest sites.
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The shooting happened during a celebration for Passover, one of the holiest Jewish celebrations.
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Passover ending Passover, one of the holiest Jewish celebrations of the year, ends Saturday.
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Considered the third holiest site in Islam, it is the most sacred for Jews.
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IRAN'S holiest city, and also its second-largest, has long been a conservative bastion.
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Lhasa, Tibet (CNN)This is the holiest place in Tibetan Buddhism -- the Jokhang temple.
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Their prime minister, Nechirvan Barzani, ordered the renovation of the Yazidis' second holiest shrine.
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To Jews, this is the the Temple Mount, the holiest place in the world.
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The mirror is kept at Ise Grand Shrine, the holiest Shinto site in Japan.
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Now that Mother Teresa is dead, Amma is the uncontested holiest woman on earth.
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For centuries, women have been barred from visiting the site, one of Hinduism's holiest.
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It's also a pilgrimage site, the holiest city, because Wayne is rap's holy figure.
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This is the final week of Ramadan, the holiest month in the Muslim calendar.
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There's still time for you to experience the 'gram in its purest, holiest form.
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He avoided synagogue even on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
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It is considered the second holiest Jewish site on earth after the Temple Mount.
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The Temple Mount plateau, revered by Jews as the location of their ancient temples and the holiest site in Judaism, houses Al Aqsa Mosque compound, one of the three holiest sites in Islam, where Jews are allowed to visit but not pray.
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Holiest day of the week The gunmen went into the bakery on a Friday, the holiest day of the week in Islam, and at a time when the devout would be sitting down to break their fast in the holy month of Ramadan.
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Al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine, sits in the heart of the Old City.
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Haitian singer Yanick Etienne delivers its holiest moment, calling over the island like a siren.
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Saudi Arabia is the world's biggest oil exporter, and guardian of Islam's two holiest shrines.
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"Three bomb attack in 24hrs in the holiest place for Muslims," wrote one Twitter user.
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Suicide bombings in Sri Lankan churches on Easter, the holiest day of the Christian calendar.
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Taif is perched in the mountains just east of Mecca, the holiest site in Islam.
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Saudi Arabia is home to the holiest sites in one of the world's great faiths.
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It was also the site of an ancient Jewish temple, the holiest place in Judaism.
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They also planned to visit Al-Aqsa Mosque, among the holiest mosques in the world.
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The Western Wall, which is one of the holiest sights in Judaism, is in Jerusalem.
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The chapel is one of the Roman Catholic Church's holiest places, where popes are elected.
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The site today houses the Al Aqsa Mosque compound, the third holiest site in Islam.
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How dare you take the most HOLIEST/MIRACULOUS DAY and make it a Political Statement!
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It is often considered the second holiest month outside of Ramaḍān, which begins in April.
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The mount also houses Al Aqsa Mosque compound, one of the three holiest sites in Islam.
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The Black Madonna resides in the Jasna Góra monastery, one of the holiest shrines in Poland.
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Situated on the banks of the Ganga, Varanasi is one of the holiest cities for Hindus.
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It is adjacent to the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews are permitted to pray.
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It's the least you can do to pay homage to the holiest and happiest food, pizza.
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The adjacent mosque -- Islam's third holiest -- is called al-Aqsa, which means "the farthest" in Arabic.
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The Medina attack, close to one of the holiest sites in Islam, killed four security guards.
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But Uncle Donn was a close friend of her parents, and the holiest man she knew.
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She made her first major speech on August 20033th, at Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma's holiest Buddhist site.
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The country's identity revolves around being the birthplace of Islam and home to its holiest sites.
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When you would have outbursts, they would desecrate the cemetery, because it's the holiest of places.
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They lived in a cramped apartment in Mecca, Saudi Arabia's holiest and most religiously conservative city.
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Mecca and Medina are the holiest sites for Muslims, and millions visit for pilgrimages every year.
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Before June 4, 1967, Jews were forbidden from praying at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site.
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But a US shift in the status quo of Jerusalem -- home to the third-holiest site in Islam as well as the holiest in Judaism -- and away from forging a state for the Palestinians, long seen as an important cause by other Arabs, could revive regional tensions.
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The rice belt hugs Najaf, Shiite Islam&aposs holiest city, where theologians and politicians have powerful influence.
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The Prophet Mohammed's mosque is in Medina, making it the second-holiest site in Islam after Mecca.
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"This is the holiest place in the church," said Storchan, adding that pilgrims likely frequented the site.
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Related: Meet the Death Photographers of India's Holiest City Can Virtual Reality Help us Better Understand Dying?
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They spent a decade mastering the instruments, split between the holiest city in India — Varanasi — and Kathmandu.
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Experience Mecca, developed by the Cairo-based BSocial, is an immersive VR experience of Islam's holiest site.
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One of the main hajj rituals is to walk seven times around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site.
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Zamzam is a well located within the Haram, the mosque that surrounds the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site.
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Callimachi: That dying for this cause is pretty much the holiest thing that a person could do.
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His speech Sunday will take place in a country that homes the two holiest sites of Islam.
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The edifice, contained in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, is one of the faith's holiest sites.
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It is often crowded with Muslim worshippers after prayers at al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine.
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Approximately 85,000 Iranians are expected to attend the haj pilgrimage this year in Islam's holiest city Mecca.
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The fire came just days before Easter Sunday, one of the holiest days in the Christian faith.
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Much of the Saudi royal family's legitimacy comes from their control over the two holiest sites in Islam.
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The station near the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, will be named after Donald John Trump.
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The church is one of Christianity's holiest sites, and many Christian denominations share this holy space for prayer.
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Once a year, millions of pilgrims dressed in white descend on Islam's holiest site: Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
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Karbala, about 100 kilometers (62 miles) southwest of Baghdad, is one of the holiest cities for Shiite Muslims.
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Shaken by the takeover of Islam's holiest mosque by fundamentalists, Saudi Arabia's American-backed rulers empowered conservative clerics.
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Clerics in Najaf have dithered on the kingdom's request to open a consulate in the Shias' holiest city.
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Jerusalem itself, the holiest city for the three Abrahamic religions, continues to morph — both demographically and, crucially, geographically.
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During Ramadan, the holiest month in the Muslim calendar, Muslims across the world fast from sunrise to sunset.
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Why were there no police officers posted in front of the synagogue entrance on the holiest Jewish holiday?
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It was a big job, with some 90 stations throughout a large, diverse area containing Islam's holiest sites.
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Instead, Kerry chose to allow the U.N. to classify the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, as "occupied territory".
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Raisi is currently the custodian of Astan Quds Razavi, a charity organization in charge of Iran's holiest shrine.
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At the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest site, women and men pray in sharply divided separate sections.
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Saudi Arabia stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, and organizing the pilgrimage.
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It flows through Varanasi, one of Hinduism's holiest sites and among the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.
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Locals refer to the foundation's dwellings as their "holiest place" – more meaningful than any mosque or house of worship.
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Although it's probably best known as a time of fasting, Ramadan is actually considered the holiest month in Islam.
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The utterly despicable destruction that on this holiest of days seeks to challenge the reality of the risen Christ.
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They gathered at one of Judaism's holiest sites, the Western Wall, crowding around a table covered in prayer books.
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Trump visits the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, in Jerusalem's Old City on May 22.
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I don't always do it, but it's a beautiful moment when it happens, and it's one of the holiest.
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The hajj, the yearly pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites, is required of every observant Muslim who can perform it.
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Of all the national food days out there (and there are a ton), the holiest of all is approaching.
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Tensions in Jerusalem's Al Aqsa compound, the third holiest site in Islam, earlier this year provoked days of unrest.
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Trump denounced Francis during the campaign, calling the holiest man in the Catholic faith "disgraceful" for questioning his faith.
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McMaster dodged a question Tuesday on whether the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism, is part of Israel.
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Eight bombings were reported, including during Easter services at three churches, on the holiest weekend of the Christian calendar.
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To Muslims, this is the Noble Sanctuary, home to the Al-Aqsa mosque, the third holiest site in Islam.
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All of this can be a challenge for Muslims fasting during Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar.
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Muslim pilgrims surrounding the Kaaba, the black cube at the center of Islam's holiest mosque in Mecca, in 2003.
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The black smoke rising near the resting place of the Prophet Muhammad, one of the holiest places in Islam.
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The demonstrators first took to the streets of Mashhad, one of the holiest places in Shiite Islam, on Thursday.
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Indeed, many Israelis would be devastated to see some of their holiest sites ruled over from Amman, Jordan's capital.
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Pilgrimage is an important revenue source for the kingdom, which has Islam's two holiest sites in Mecca and Medina.
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At least 51 congregants, including 10 Americans, were inside for services on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
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The violence occurred on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the calendar in Judaism when Jews fast, seeking atonement.
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The mosque's destruction comes in the holiest period of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, its final 10 days.
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Saudi Arabia stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites - Mecca and Medina - and organizing the pilgrimage.
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The Temple Mount is considered to be the holiest place in the world for Jews, while the Western Wall is the remnant of an outer wall of the Second Temple, and is especially dear to Jews as it is the location closest to what was the holiest part of the Second Temple.
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The attack, which was live-streamed on Facebook, happened during Jumu'ah, one of the holiest and most attended congregational prayers.
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As long as Saudi Arabia is the custodian of the religion's two holiest mosques, its religious direction will be decisive.
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It is also the holiest place in Judaism - the venue of two ancient temples, the last destroyed by the Romans.
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He went to the city of Amritsar in Punjab and stopped by the Golden Temple, the holiest site of Sikhism.
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To make matters worse, my high school and college exams often fell on the holiest days of the Islamic year.
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In addition to the Kotel, it is home to Al Asqa Mosque, one of the three holiest sites in Islam.
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Saudi exceptionalism matters because the kingdom is home to Islam's holiest sites and is the prime propagator of the faith.
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Saudi Arabia's clerics offer legitimacy and public support to a king who styles himself the guardian of Islam's holiest sites.
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It is the final resting place for the Prophet Mohammed and is considered one of the holiest sites in Islam.
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In the runup to the holiest day in the Christian calendar, the warnings seemed to increase in frequency and urgency.
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The site, Islam's holiest outside Saudi Arabia, is also revered by many Jews as a vestige of their biblical temples.
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The holiest rite of March Madness every spring is tracking whether Duke can dodge a humiliating first round upset loss.
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Western wall Trump will be the first sitting US president to visit the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism.
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Ramadan is the holiest month of the Islamic calendar, in which Muslims around the world fast from dawn to sunset.
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If a regular mall is a temple to consumerism, CES is the holiest shrine, the source of all consumable creation.
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Saudi Arabia's clerics offer legitimacy and public support to a king officially known as the guardian of Islam's holiest sites.
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The site includes the al Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, and the golden Dome of the Rock.
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It was formed in 1969 following an arson attack on Jersulam's al-Aqsa mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam.
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It was part of a complex renovation at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, perhaps Christianity's holiest site.
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Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam and a flashpoint between Israelis and Palestinians, caught fire in Jerusalem.
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One of the holiest mosques in Iraq was recently sprayed with disinfectant to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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It's Islamic religious reform, which can come only from Saudi Arabia, the home of Islam's holiest cities, Mecca and Medina.
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Saudi Arabia barring people from entering the country is keeping thousands of Muslims from visiting some of Islam's holiest sites.
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He is set to become the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites.
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The wall lies underneath the Al Aqsa Mosque, or Temple Mount, which is one of the holiest sites in Islam.
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The gunman entered the mosques on the holiest day of the week for Muslims and unleashed a hail of gunfire.
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The problems of summer 2017 began with a debacle over prayer at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, in Jerusalem.
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In conservative Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's two holiest sites, cinemas are banned and women's sports are discouraged as promoting sin.
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In 2016, Islamic attacked Hindu temples in eastern Brahmanbaria town over a Facebook post that made fun of Islam's holiest sites.
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Mulism pilgrims pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca, Aug.
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In the holiest city in the world, finding eligible gay bachelors wasn't a cakewalk, but gay spaces provided a vibrant refuge.
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A place that played a key part in my personal religious journey is suffering again -- this time in Islam's holiest month.
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To some, the bombings, carried out on the holiest day in the Christian calendar, has fed a narrative of religious war.
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Home to a conical temple positioned above a four-millennia-old sacred spring, Lalish is the Yazidis' holiest site in Kurdistan.
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The city's Great Mosque, a magnificent site revered as one of the holiest in Islam, once drew a stream of pilgrims.
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It is also the holiest place in Judaism because it is the ancient site of the First and Second Jewish Temples.
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Saudi Arabia stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, and its organization of the pilgrimage.
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Easter is one of Christianity's holiest days, and many Sri Lankan Christians were worshipping at church when the attacks took place.
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His 14-year-old son, Hussein, has never been to the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, one of Islam's holiest sites.
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Tomorrow, on September 2200, Muslims worldwide celebrate the holiest day of the Islamic calendar: Eid-ul-Adha, the Festival of Sacrifice.
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The religious site is also the holiest in Judaism because it was the location of the two Jewish temples in antiquity.
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But you have to get back to first principles, which was the return of the Jewish people to its holiest city.
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He's also set to become the first sitting American president to visit the Western Wall, above, one of Judaism's holiest sites.
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Every year on Good Friday, processions fill streets of cities across the world, in celebration of one of Christianity's holiest days.
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We strongly condemn the attack on the synagogue in #Halle today, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year.
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Jerusalem (CNN)The key to one of Christianity's holiest sites is held by a Muslim family, and it has been for centuries.
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The gunman shot people as they gathered to celebrate the end of Passover, one of the holiest holidays on the Jewish calendar.
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Even farther downstream, the Ganges reaches Varanasi, Hinduism's holiest city and the parliamentary constituency of India's Hindu-nationalist prime minister, Narendra Modi.
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Safety fears At least 769 people were killed in a stampede at the holiest Muslim pilgrimage site on September 24 last year.
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There are 1.6 billion Muslims around the world, and on Monday, many begin observing the holiest month of the Islamic calendar, Ramadan.
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The imposing stone walls are home to the holiest sites for Judaism and Christianity and the third most important site in Islam.
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The holiest of days in R29 culture, staffers come to work to find our kitchen laid out with bagels and schmear galore.
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Between 2 million and 3 million Muslims from around the world travel to Mecca, Islam's holiest city, for the pilgrimage each year.
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He told me that it was Eid al-Adha, the holiest days of the Islamic year, which are marked by animal sacrifices.
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T-Mobile said it's only fitting that competitor Verizon Communications released its quarterly earnings on "the holiest of high days," April 20.
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Vivica A. Fox didn't take the high road when confronted by fur protesters at her book signing ... she took the holiest road.
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The harpist-turned-cathedral-organ-wrangler Áine O'Dwyer returned to the holiest of instruments this year for two tapes of sacred dissonance.
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More than 2 million Muslims have begun the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, Islam's holiest city, in Saudi Arabia, Al Jazeera reports.
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It is also one of the holiest cities for Hindus, who consider it the eternal home of Lord Shiva, the Supreme God.
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He is considering whether to erect a tent for people to gather under during Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar.
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The two cities are Islam's holiest, and Mecca's Grand Mosque houses the Kaaba, the black cube toward which the world's Muslims pray.
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Thousands lined the streets to cheer the man who only four years earlier had unleashed a surprise attack on Israel's holiest day.
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Only a locked door prevented him from entering and harming the congregants on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
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Al-Aqsa, Islam's third-holiest shrine, is among areas Israel captured from Jordan in a 1967 war, and where Palestinians want statehood.
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The violence occurred on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism when Jews fast for 25 hours, seeking atonement.
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The gunman reportedly shot at the door of the synagogue, where 70 to 80 people were observing Judaism's holiest day, Yom Kippur.
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While in Israel, he also visited the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, and addressed the Knesset, Israel's parliament.
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So ultimately, now, as we are finishing up the holiest month of Ramadan, we just finished, it it&aposs our holiday this weekend.
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A senior security official told the AP that 25,000 protesters had demonstrated in Karbala, one of holiest places for Shiite Muslims, on Monday.
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The Church of the Holy Sepulcher, located in the Old City of Jerusalem, is considered to be one of the holiest for Christians.
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That same year Saudi rulers weathered a stunning blow: Sunni extremists laid siege to Islam&aposs holiest site in Mecca for 15 days.
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The world can ill afford instability in the biggest oil exporter, the largest Arab economy and the home of Islam's two holiest sites.
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Bombs tore through churches and hotels in three cities, in coordinated attacks aimed at Sri Lanka's small Christian community on its holiest day.
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Most religions talk about heaven as a place of endless pleasure, a paradise in the afterlife reserved for only the holiest of us.
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SBG said it was continuing to work on major government projects, such as expanding facilities at Islam's holiest mosques in Mecca and Medina.
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Two earlier High Court hearings have been set on Fridays, the holiest day in the Islamic week, and the day the attacks happened.
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President Obama and other G-250 leaders meeting in Japan made a side trip to the Ise Shrine, considered the country's holiest site.
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Entering either Mecca or Medinah, the two holiest cities in Islam, as a non-Muslim is forbidden, so don't try to sneak in.
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Tillerson called Ramadan "a month of reverence, generosity, and self-reflection" in a statement marking the beginning of Islam's holiest month on Friday.
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They are willing to sacrifice a sexual assault accuser, a revered federal judge, and the holiest of processes in their quest for power.
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On Religion Thirty years ago, amid the somber prayers of Judaism's holiest day, Rabbi Kenneth Berger rose to deliver the Yom Kippur sermon.
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Koyasan is one of the premier destinations for Buddhist pilgrims in Japan, and is considered one of the holiest sites in the country.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 1913.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 2184.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 70833.
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The two holiest sites in Mecca and Medina were closed for cleaning on March 5th, but reopened the next day, according to Reuters.
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Mecca, one of the holiest Islamic sites, is usually bustling with people making their way around the Kaaba as part of their pilgrimage.
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Describing her brother as a wise man who did something noble, she added, "The tradition of family is the holiest tradition in Judaism."
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Riyadh made the decision on Wednesday evening to restrict travel to Mecca and Medina, which are home to some of Islam's holiest sites.
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As Iran elects a new president, I drove 550 miles from its holiest city to the capital to see how people are divided.
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He had reportedly attempted to storm the house of worship, which was crowded on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
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King Salman of Saudi Arabia, home of Islam's holiest sites, spoke to Mr. Trump by telephone on Sunday but made no public comment.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 2124.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 21854.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 1003.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 23575.
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This rapturous exhibition upends Modernism's holiest genesis tale — that the male trinity of Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian invented abstract painting starting in 2188.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas condemned what he called "the grave Israeli escalation" at the complex, which houses al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest site.
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Influential Shi'ite cleric Ebrahim Raisi, the custodian of a powerful organization in charge of Iran's holiest shrine, appears to be the leading hardline candidate.
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His tomb in nearby Najaf, Iraq, is the third-holiest site in Shia Islam, and millions of Shia make a pilgrimage there every year.
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Alone of the Gulf states, Bahrain still marks Ashoura, the holiest day in the Shia calendar, as a public holiday, but divisions are widening.
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The Saudi royal family, which practices an austere and conservative strand of Sunni Islam known as Wahhabism, controls Islam's holiest shrines, Mecca and Medina.
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Many Pakistanis took to social media to express outrage at the slaying, which took place during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Muslim calendar.
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Despite playing the Church's holiest supervillain in HBO's The Young Pope, Law was unprepared for how easily the show could be turned into memes.
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The church, considered the holiest site in Christianity, was built on the location where it is believed that Jesus Christ was crucified and entombed.
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Sanders later joined his family, including some of his grandchildren, for a walking tour of St. Peter's Basilica, one of the holiest Catholic shrines. .
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The attack on the synagogue took place on Shabbat, the holiest day of the week, and Acharon Shel Pesach -- the final day of Passover.
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According to the report, the diplomat told his counterparts that Israel does not have jurisdiction over the area, considered the holiest site in Judaism.
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The flooding comes as many in the city are preparing to celebrate Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest dates on the Muslim calendar.
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The timing on Tuesday was especially cruel for a Muslim majority country, coming during the 10 holiest days of the holy month of Ramadan.
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India Two women who entered one of Hinduism's holiest sites -- and broke a centuries-old gender ban in the process -- are now in hiding.
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They killed her four months after she ordered Indian troops to storm the Golden Temple -- one of Sikhism's holiest shrines -- to flush out separatists.
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But unfavorable math hasn't stopped all three from engaging in that holiest of presidential campaign front-runner traditions: playing the running mate guessing game.
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The Orthodox Union, which governs Orthodox Jews, reminded followers it was acceptable to miss even the holiest prayers if a person has the coronavirus.
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The BBC reported that the explosion occurred near the Prophet's Mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites and the burial place of the Prophet Muhammad.
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Timothy Egan Pope Francis opened the holiest week of the Christian calendar with an admonition to the generation that will own the 21st century.
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As a result, the War on Christmas has moved one of the holiest Christian days out of the church and into the secular realm.
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The Grand Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in Islam, was closed today, as part of a package of precautionary measures by Saudi authorities.
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The president of the United States and his favorite news channel actively working to turn the holiest of holidays into a secular, nationalist triumph.
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And its status as the birthplace of Islam and home to its holiest sites gives it religious legitimacy in much of the Muslim world.
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Three attackers opened fire near Jerusalem's holiest site on Friday, wounding three Israelis, two of them critically, before they were killed, Israeli police said.
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The 25-hour fast, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, happens to fall on the last day of the company's third-quarter book.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Players from Saudi Arabia's national soccer team traveled to Jerusalem's Old City on Monday to pray at one of Islam's holiest sites.
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H. R. McMaster, to publicly affirm that the Western Wall, one of the holiest prayer sites in the Jewish faith, was part of Israel.
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The violence occurred on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism when Jews fast for more than 24 hours, seeking atonement.
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Two people were killed in a shooting near the synagogue on Wednesday, which was Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
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It had long been American foreign policy to veto any one-sided Security Council resolutions that declared Judaism's holiest places to be illegally occupied.
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Indonesia, which has the world's largest Muslim population, sends more than 200,000 pilgrims every year to Islam's holiest city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
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The officers had been guarding an entrance to Jerusalem's holiest site for both Jews and Muslims, a focal point of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
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The kingdom, Iran's key regional rival, presents itself as the guardian of Islamic orthodoxy and custodian of its holiest places in Mecca and Medina.
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But it's also home to a 300-year-old Russian Orthodox monastery, dedicated to one Russia's holiest of men, the mystic Saint Seraphim of Sarov.
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN)It is Islam's holiest shrine -- and for a few moments on Friday, it will also be the easiest to find.
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And now three suicide attacks in 24 hours in Saudi Arabia -- including one in Medina, one of Islam's holiest sites -- that left four people dead.
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New York (CNN)As one of the holiest Jewish celebrations of the year arrives, families in the Hasidic section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, face a dilemma.
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We were given an opportunity to move here and build houses in 1990 so that we could be next to our holiest site, Mount Gerizim.
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" This means that Israel's decision to build a plaza for prayer at the Western Wall – Judaism's holiest site – constitutes a "flagrant violation of international law.
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Jerusalem (CNN)President Donald Trump on Monday became the first sitting US president to visit the Western Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism.
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U.S. policy holds that ownership of the holiest site where Jews can pray, as with the rest of Jerusalem, is subject to Israeli-Palestinian negotiation.
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The Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, is a remnant of the compound of the Second Temple that was destroyed nearly 2,000 years ago.
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This brought about the British-led capture of Jerusalem and the collapse of Ottoman dominion over Islam's holiest places, whether in the Levant or Arabia.
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GCSEs this year fall during Ramadan, the holiest period in the Muslim calendar, which means that many children take the exams while fasting by day.
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The Temple Mount, or Haram al-Sharif, is home to the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Asqa Mosque, considered Islam's third-holiest site.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, is a time when many non-regular Israeli synagogue-goers take time to pray.
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Facing off with police in the packed compound outside Islam's third-holiest site, Palestinians chanted "With our soul and blood we will redeem you, Aqsa".
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For years, Mr. Ghamdi stuck with the program and was eventually put in charge of the Commission for the region of Mecca, Islam's holiest city.
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The kingdom hosts the holiest sites in Islam and bans the practice of other religions, forcing Christians to risk arrest by praying in private homes.
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Signs around the mosque warn pilgrims not to cut hair inside the complex — it turns out some people like to D.I.Y. at Islam's holiest site.
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Over in Saudi Arabia, officials abruptly stopped issuing tourist visas to foreigners planning umrah pilgrimages to the world's holiest Muslim sites in Mecca and Medina.
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The Urbi et Orbi service delivered by Pope Francis to the world is usually only given at Easter and Christmas, the holiest days in Catholicism.
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Saudi Arabia emptied Islam's holiest site for sterilization over fears of the coronavirus, an unprecedented move after the kingdom suspended the year-round umrah pilgrimage.
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The Jews of Jerusalem revolted against the Seleucids — ultimately driving them out of the city — and rededicated their Temple, the holiest place in the city.
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The Indian government is clearly trying to win some points among Muslims by pausing operations during Ramadan, one of the holiest periods of the year.
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The kingdom is often slow to offer official responses, especially on a Friday, which is considered the holiest day of the week in Saudi Arabia.
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Islam's holiest city, Mecca, Saudi Arabia, is the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad and each year millions of Muslims travel there on Hajj or pilgrimage.
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It was of utmost importance to her to meet her maker wearing the robe with which she approached the Kaaba, the holiest shrine in Islam.
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Mr. Trump is also expected to be the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem, above, one of Judaism's holiest sites.
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It's home to some of the holiest sites in both Judaism and Islam, and so both Israel and Palestine want to make it their capital.
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In the Quran, Jerusalem is the third holiest site in Islam, where Muhammad arrived after his night journey from Al-Haram Mosque (Mecca) to Al-Aqsa.
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The activists maintain that their holiest place is not down below and outside, at the Western Wall, but above and within the great enclosure (see picture).
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And if you're a super fan in need of some extra support during the holiest of dip days, don't worry, Moe's has your back yet again.
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About 250 employees keep things running, and they even work on Yom Kippur, Judaism's holiest day, when everything else in the country grinds to a halt.
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He praised Saudi Arabia's role as the custodian of Islam's two holiest sites, in Mecca and Medina, adding another odd detail to an already bizarre day.
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The Trump administration has already caused a diplomatic stir over the Western Wall, the last remnant of Judaism's Second Temple and its holiest place of prayer.
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Former Knesset member Shakib Shanan, whose son was one of two border police officers killed near Jerusalem's holiest site in mid-July, spoke at the park.
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The president earlier Monday became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the holiest site where Jews are allowed to pray.
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Saudi religious teaching had particular force because it came from the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad, the land of Islam's two holiest places, Mecca and Medina.
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Considered one of the holiest sites in Judaism, the Western Wall is in Jerusalem's Old City, however the US does not recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital.
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It also seemed to question the Jewish connection to the Western Wall, a retaining wall of the mount and the holiest place where Jews can pray.
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In Islam's holiest sanctuary in Mecca, the usually crowded courtyard around the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque, towards which all Muslims pray, was silent and empty.
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So, how does he feel about the possibility of juicers like Alex Rodriguez, Mark McGwire, Roger Clemens and others possibly being enshrined in baseball's holiest shrine?
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Indonesia: A group has begun translating the Quran into sign language, helping millions of deaf Muslims get access to their holiest book for the first time.
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The ban would expand Saudi Arabia's restrictions previously announced last week on foreigners making trips to Mecca and Medina, two of the holiest sites in Islam.
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In Islam's holiest sanctuary in Mecca, the usually crowded courtyard around the Kaaba in the Grand Mosque, towards which all Muslims pray, was silent and empty.
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The players visited the Noble Sanctuary, a compound that houses the Golden Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest shrine in Islam.
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A black flag went up on the golden dome of Imam Reza shrine in the city of Mashhad, one of the holiest sites of Shiite Islam.
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That this decision to rob the Jews of one of their holiest cities, however, could be made 40 miles from Auschwitz is an affront to decency.
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"Tonight concludes Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews when we reflect on the past year and ask forgiveness for our mistakes," he wrote.
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Wednesday is Yom Kippur, one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar, and the gunman attacked the synagogue as congregants were gathered to observe the holiday.
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"Tonight concludes Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews when we reflect on the past year and ask forgiveness for our mistakes," Zuckerberg began.
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When social openings in the kingdom were taking place four decades ago, Sunni extremists opposed to the monarchy laid siege to Islam&aposs holiest site in Mecca.
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Raisi was appointed by Khamenei in 2016 as the custodian of Astan Qods Razavi, an organization in charge of Iran's holiest shrine in the city of Mashhad.
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He recalls a celebratory atmosphere in a city that is considered one of the holiest for Shia Muslims whose residents were brutally oppressed under Saddam's oppressive rule.
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Islam has no pope, so Salman, chief guardian of Islam's two holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, is about as big as it gets in the Muslim world.
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Her second day of work just happened to be the day before Ramadan — the holiest month for Muslims, during which they fast from sun up to sundown.
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Jerusalem, revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, is home to Islam's third holiest site and has been at the heart of Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades.
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The docs show the Bureau spent $21,799 on kosher items, with the holiest Jewish holiday coming up -- which begins sundown Tuesday with a breakfast Wednesday at sundown.
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She wore her mother's original wedding ring along with her own white gold band, which features seven diamonds as a reference to the holiest number in Christianity.
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The Temple Mount, home to the Dome of the Rock and the Al-Aqsa mosque, is considered one of the holiest sites to both Jews and Muslims.
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Masud said the money from sorting trash is used to fund activities such as sending villagers on the Haj pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites in Saudi Arabia.
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In an interview, he explained the basic tenets of Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar, which begins on Monday for most of the world's Muslims.
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On a hectic day at the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites, Diaa Hadid, a New York Times correspondent, felt a sudden call to prayer.
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It's hard to ignore the fact that this is one of the holiest weeks of the year for Christians, and Justin has steeped himself in church life.
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It might have looked like it at first, on what the National Football League calls opening night, when it kicks off the holiest week of its year.
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In Mecca, Islam's holiest site, a special prayer was held after the Friday sermon for the victims of the attack, according to the Saudi news website Sabq.
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Kowtowing to the empire would mean the loss of Mandalay, the holiest city in Burmese Buddhism, and with it hundreds of years of court and monastic learning.
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The situation between 1948 and 1967 was not the norm, but an aberrant blip on the timeline of Judaism's holiest city and a result of ethnic cleansing.
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I comment that it must be difficult to oversee the preservation of one of the holiest sites in Islam with so many visitors around all the time.
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But early Monday, a white British man rammed a rental van into a congregation of Muslims leaving prayers during Ramadan, the holiest month on the Muslim calendar.
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The assassination was in response to Gandhi ordering the army to raid the Golden Temple, the holiest Sikh shrine, to flush out Sikh separatists who were inside.
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It's one of Christianity's holiest sites, but for years the shrine in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher was partially held up by an unsightly iron cage.
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What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us?
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"For the vast majority of the Muslim world, the Dome of the Rock remains the third holiest site (in Islam), which must not be given up," he said.
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This past weekend, tourists milled around St. Peter's Basilica, one of the holiest sites in the world, snapping selfies and experiencing Michelangelo's art through their phone's camera lens.
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The Israelis would have retained control over the Western Wall, and the Palestinians would have been given control of Haram al-Sharif, the third-holiest site in Islam.
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The fact that the door held likely spared the lives of the dozens of people inside the synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
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Jerusalem, revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, is home to Islam's third holiest site and has been at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades.
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Related: Photo Series Reveals the Complicated World of Juvenile Offenders Meet the Death Photographers of India's Holiest City One Explosive Photograph Sums Up America's Relationship with the Media
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Lucrative flights that carry pilgrims to Islam's holiest sites in Saudi Arabia are among the routes halted by a diplomatic spat between Iran and the two Gulf states.
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Then, Israel's leaders failed to heed warnings by the head of Mossad, Israel's intelligence service, that neighbouring Arab armies were planning to attack on the Jews' holiest day.
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The attacks -- including one in Medina, one of the holiest sites in Islam -- follow massive jihadi assaults from Turkey to Iraq that have been been tied to ISIS.
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An early Christian text called the Gospel of James describes Mary's early childhood in the holiest part of the temple, a narrative which also features in the Koran.
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On Thursday, hundreds of people took to the streets in Mashhad, one of the holiest places in Shi'ite Islam, to protest against high prices, shouting anti-government slogans.
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It refers to Jerusalem's holiest site -- known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary -- only by its Muslim name.
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Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest sites, pushed a plan in 2002 offering Israel peace with all Arab countries in return for a Palestinian state including east Jerusalem.
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He arrived in Israel after visiting Saudi Arabia, home to the two holiest sites in Islam, and will next head to the Vatican, home of the Catholic Church.
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Jerusalem, revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, is home to Islam's third-holiest site and has been at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades.
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Muslims find 'refreshment' for the soul The American Muslim Institute is a stunning $7 million mosque that opened in June, just in time for Ramadan, Islam's holiest month.
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Trudeau will be visiting the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the holiest of Sikh shrines, and state chief minister Amarinder Singh said he looked forward to meeting him there.
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Some saw a reference to the angels which hovered over the holiest part of the Jerusalem temple; others saw a symbolic allusion to Christ and the Holy Spirit.
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In Myanmar, hair can be considered sacred: The gilded Shwedagon Pagoda, one of the Buddhist country's holiest sites, is believed to be built on strands of Buddha's hair.
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New Delhi (CNN)Two women in the southern Indian state of Kerala made history Wednesday, defying religious conservatives to enter the Sabarimala Temple, one of Hinduism's holiest sites.
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A.K. knew what patter worked with Westerners, how to put at ease first-timers to India like us, now at one of the holiest places in Hindu lore.
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A family and a clergy — the whole welded together over the decades as much by oil revenues as by the legitimacy deriving from proximity to Islam's holiest sites.
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In 1998, Tamil separatists attacked one of the world's holiest sites, the temple in central Sri Lanka where a relic believed to be the Buddha's tooth is kept.
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Sin City found God on Friday ... 'cause a Las Vegas Golden Knights fan delivered a custom jersey to Pope Francis -- and the holiest guy on earth LOVED it!!!
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Saudi Arabia, with its clout in the Muslim world as the protector of Islam's holiest sites — including Mecca, in western Saudi Arabia — is often a valuable diplomatic partner.
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The country had announced Thursday that it would close its borders to foreign "umrah" pilgrims, who travel to Islam's two holiest sites located in the country, Reuters reported.
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On February 27, it banned pilgrims from entering the country and closed down two of the holiest shrines of Islam, the Kaaba and the Great Mosque in Mecca.
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Then he immediately ordered the flag taken down — worried, even then, about the ramifications of visible Israeli mastery of a site considered one of the holiest in Islam.
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The wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, is a remnant of the retaining wall that surrounded the ancient Temple Mount, the most sacred site in Judaism.
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The shooting occurred on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, while numerous synagogues have been on high alert internationally due to an increase in anti-Semitic incidents.
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" This means, among other things, that Israel's decision to build a plaza for prayer at the Western Wall — Judaism's holiest site — constitutes a "flagrant violation of international law.
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Everything from Trump's planned visit to the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, to Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum, is now seen as a potential pitfall.
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The Israelis would have retained control over the Western Wall, and the Palestinians would have been given control over the Temple Mount, the third-holiest site in Islam.
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ISIS has specifically called for more attacks on the West during Ramadan — which marks its holiest day, the Night of Power, on July 2 and which ends July 5.
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Today, on the dawn of Amazon's holiest holiday, Prime Day, we have the occasion to see, quite literally, what one of our favorite influencers is adding to her cart.
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We pass an Iraqi armored vehicle waving a flag with an image of Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohammed and one of the holiest figures for Shia Muslims.
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On Easter Sunday, one of the holiest of Christian holidays, a series of coordinated suicide bomb attacks targeting churches and hotels swept across the island nation of Sri Lanka.
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Over the past century, the Hashemites called themselves Kings of the Arabs but lost two major capitals, Damascus and Baghdad, and Islam's three holiest places, Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem.
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Alofi's The Last Tashahhud project (2015) traces the path leading to Al Madinah Al Munawara, the holiest city for Muslims after Mecca, through the mosques encountered on the way.
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It was announced that neither the Russian Patriarch nor any bishops under his authority would celebrate the Eucharist (Christianity's holiest rite) with bishops under the command of Patriarch Bartholomew.
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The city, revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, is home to Islam's third holiest site and has been at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades.
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A suicide bomber stormed a security checkpoint leading into Kadhimiya, a northwestern area housing one of the holiest sites in Shi'ite Islam, killing 17 and wounding more than 30.
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Trump chose Saudi Arabia -- home to the world's two holiest Muslim sites -- for his first overseas trip, in what his top aides have described as an overtly symbolic gesture.
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In becoming the first sitting President to visit the Western Wall -- Judaism's holiest site for prayer -- Trump could have implicitly endorsed Israeli sovereignty over the Old City of Jerusalem.
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His father isn't just Saudi Arabia's monarch: King Salman is custodian of Islam's two holiest sites, and a palace coup in Riyadh could have ramifications beyond the kingdom's borders.
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"I was shocked to hear that UNESCO adopted a decision denying any Jewish connection to the Temple Mount, our holiest site," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a statement.
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The comments also made clear that the Trump administration believes it's unrealistic to imagine a future Israeli state that does not control one of the holiest sites in Judaism.
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Sanal's climb comes amid deadly protests elsewhere in Kerala state after two women broke with centuries of conservative taboo and entered the Sabarimala Temple, one of Hinduism's holiest sites.
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NEAR SABARIMALA TEMPLE, India — As a woman and a man climbed a steep trail on Thursday leading to one of Hinduism's holiest temples, a mob multiplied with frightening speed.
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Here's his full note: Tonight concludes Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews when we reflect on the past year and ask forgiveness for our mistakes.
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Wednesday is Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, and a good excuse to read this great Tablet story about Jewish mobsters in the early 20th century.
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One of the holiest sites in Islam, 8 million people visit the Great Mosque of Mecca, or Haram Moque, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia each year, according to the BBC.
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"Behind that is the holiest of holies," Mr. Asmro explained in a hushed tone — replicas of the ark of the covenant that only the priests were allowed to view.
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His son was one of two Druze police officers killed in a shooting attack a year ago while guarding an entrance to Jerusalem's holiest site for Jews and Muslims.
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The kingdom, which hosts the two holiest sites of Islam in Mecca and Medina, welcomes millions of Muslim visitors throughout the year with a peak for the haj pilgrimage.
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Ironically, the second presidential debate of this cycle fell squarely in the middle of the High Holidays, the holiest time of the year for our Jewish brothers and sisters.
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Christiane Amanpour: The world waits with bated breath Mass funeral rallies will be held for Qasem Soleimani in Iran, and in Iraq's holiest Shia cities of Karbala and Najaf.
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Beijing (CNN)Fire appears to have engulfed the gilded roof of Tibetan Buddhism's holiest temple, though details on the extent of the damage are scarce even two days later.
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Worshippers on Friday filled the mosque's haram sanctuary, the holiest place in Islam, and spilled into nearby streets, malls, hotel lobbies and garages, listening to the sermon through loudspeakers.
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Staring at the frozen crime scene through a blur of tears, I cursed the twisted, thieving S.O.B. who had besmirched this day: the holiest day on the American calendar.
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In Beijing, the crown prince of a kingdom containing the holiest site in Islam did not challenge China on allegations of Muslim persecution in the northwestern province of Xinjiang.
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The words Mr. Trump uttered about Jerusalem sounded sweet to many Jews, who belong to a faith that has revered the city as its holiest site for 3,000 years.
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A suicide bomber stormed a security checkpoint leading into Kadhimiya, a northwestern area housing one of the holiest sites in Shiite Islam, killing 17 and wounding more than 30.
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Images of Al Aqsa — one of the holiest sites in Islam, which is also revered by Jews as the Temple Mount — have been used in generations of jihadist propaganda.
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The Bible is full of stories that lend themselves to reinterpretation, but the Crucifixion and the Last Supper were the easiest targets because they're the most somber and holiest.
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The wall is a remnant of the retaining wall that surrounded the Temple Mount, revered by Jews as the location of their ancient temples and the holiest site in Judaism.
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Saudi Arabia stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites and organizing a peaceful haj, which has been marred in the past by deadly stampedes, fires and riots.
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Each year since, Ramadan's weeks of spiritual introspection build toward Laylat al-Qadr, or the "Night of Power," believed to be the holiest night of the year, according to BeliefNet.
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Redevelopment has started, with the building of a corridor to the the Kashi Vishwanath temple, one of the holiest sites for Hinduism in India and dedicated to the Lord Shiva.
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One mural depicts women as they embark on the pilgrimage, dressed in bright colors, another shows a caravan carrying the tapestry that covers the Kaaba, the holiest site in Islam.
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He'll be delivering this grand speech in Saudi Arabia, the country that hosts the two holiest sites in Islam, to an audience of more than 50 leaders of Muslim countries.
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Flynas is weighing up Airbus' A330neo and Boeing's 787-8 jets, which would be used to carry Muslim pilgrims to Saudi Arabia, home to the two holiest sites in Islam.
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The President chose Saudi Arabia -- home to the world's two holiest Muslim sites -- for his first overseas stop in what his top aides have described as an overtly symbolic gesture.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Israel has installed security cameras near the entrance to one of the holiest sites in Jerusalem as tensions between Israelis and Palestinians edge higher after a violent week.
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"This for the kids of the king of all kings, this is the holiest thing," Chance announces on "All We Got," a thunderous hymn to the power of black music.
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" She also said that "saying 'Easter worshippers' matters bc Easter is the holiest day of the year for Christians, & to be targeted on Easter highlights how heinous the attack was.
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Despite the Temple Mount being Judaism's holiest place, the site is managed by an Islamic religious committee (waqf) with a history of destroying priceless Jewish artifacts unearthed at the site.
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Saudi Arabia, which stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites and organizing the haj, has been hit by bombings by Islamic State in the past two years.
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JEDDAH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia said on Monday that it had intercepted two missiles in Mecca province fired by Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis, who earlier denied having targeted Islam's holiest site.
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Jerusalem is home to the third holiest site in Islam and has deep resonance for Muslims all over the world, who might react to an announcement with anger and protests.
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The Yankees, cognizant of New York's large Jewish population, have traditionally requested that they be on the road for Yom Kippur, which is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
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Tlaib and Omar planned to visit one of the holiest and most sensitive sites in Jerusalem, known to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif and to Jews as the Temple Mount.
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That relationship has grown even more strained since Mr. Netanyahu reneged on a deal that would have expanded egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Judaism's holiest site.
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They were at their wits' ends about how to help more Indonesians study the Quran, Islam's holiest book, which may seem surprising in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation.
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Israelis, mostly Muslims going on pilgrimage, have for years been visiting the kingdom, which hosts the two holiest sites in Islam, but usually with special permission or using foreign passports.
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Five centuries ago this month, a German theology professor celebrated the Catholic Church's holiest feast day by nailing a single sheet of paper to the main cathedral door in Wittenberg.
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As prayers ended, congregants stood up chanting, "We sacrifice our souls and blood for you, Aqsa," in reference to the Jerusalem mosque revered as the third-holiest site in Islam.
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But nothing quite excited my own lifelong quest for being in proximity to the divine like the Pashupatinath Temple complex, Nepal's holiest Hindu shrine, where I witnessed my first cremation.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - As dark falls, Adeeb Joudeh, a Muslim, makes his way through the stone alleyways of Jerusalem's walled Old City cradling the ancient key to one of Christianity's holiest sites.
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Separately, Israeli police said they were attacked on Friday by a knife-wielding man after he emerged from a complex housing Al Aqsa mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine, in East Jerusalem.
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Iran's pretension to Islamic leadership rings hollow because Islam's three holiest cities — Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem — all lie in its enemies' hands: The Saudis control the first two; Israel, the third.
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Raisi, 57, heads Astan Qods Razavi, an organization in charge of a multibillion-dollar religious foundation that manages donations to Iran's holiest Shi'ite Muslim shrine in the northeastern city of Mashhad.
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Speaking to the reporters gathered outside the synagogue, Goldstein recalled how a pop of gunfire interrupted the peace of the last day of Passover, one of holiest days of the year.
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A suicide bomber detonated a bomb at a parking lot outside the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the second-holiest site in Islam, a Saudi security spokesman told state news agency SPA.
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For all his reputed hostility to Islam, even President Donald Trump last year praised the rulers of Saudi Arabia for hosting "the holiest places of one of the world's great faiths".
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To the right wing, that's a potentially good thing: Ceding so much land, they believe, would harm Israeli national security and leave Palestinians in control of some of Judaism's holiest sites.
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However, Turkey has avoided public criticism of Saudi Arabia, which is a regional economic power due to its oil wealth and which is also the home of Islam's two holiest shrines.
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For your final encounter with this holiest of foods, you would have to go with something truly epic, and we think we just came across the right choice, thanks to HelloGiggles.
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King Abdullah and Netanyahu also spoke on Monday about the ongoing tensions at one of Jerusalem's holiest sites, known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims.
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Tensions soared last week after Israel installed metal detectors outside the entrance to one of Jerusalem's holiest sites, known as the Temple Mount to Jews and the Noble Sanctuary to Muslims.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Bowing to pressure from the ultra-Orthodox parties, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu froze plans for an egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites.
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When Friedman arrived in Israel this week, his first act was to visit Jerusalem's Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews are permitted to pray, a symbolic departure from usual protocol.
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Jerusalem has seen one of its most tense periods in years as Palestinians protest heightened Israeli security measures near the Temple Mount-Noble Sanctuary compound, one of the city's holiest sites.
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The demonstration occurred after two women defied a longtime ban that prevented females of menstruating age from entering the Sabarimala temple, which is considered one of the holiest sites in Hinduism.
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Worshipers had come to the shrine to mark Muharram, one of the holiest months in the Islamic calendar and for Shiites a time to mourn one of their imams, or saints.
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The White House on Saturday condemned an attack in Jerusalem's Old City the previous day, which left two Israeli police officers dead near the city's holiest site for Jews and Muslims.
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Until two months ago, Rabbi Myers had rarely carried his cellphone with him on the Sabbath, the holiest day of the week, on which some Jewish people avoid technology and electronics.
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Officials say that Mr. Osborne plowed into a group of worshipers leaving the Finsbury Park Mosque in North London on June 19 during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Muslim calendar.
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He was the son and grandson of prominent jewelers, a member of one of the wealthiest families in the western region of Saudi Arabia, the Hijaz, home of Islam's holiest sites.
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In March, a massacre at a mosque in New Zealand was circulated on Facebook What we know: The Halle attack occurred on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
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He then became the first sitting president to visit the Western Wall, the holiest site for Jewish prayer, where he donned the traditional skullcap and left a note in a crevice.
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Earlier this year, UNESCO designated the Old City of Hebron and the Tomb of the Patriarchs – one of the holiest sites for the Jewish people – as part of the Palestinian territory.
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His excursion came as anger at the United States was running high over President Trump's unilateral decision to recognize Jerusalem, the third holiest city in Islam, as the capital of Israel.
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Jerusalem, revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, is home to Islam's third-holiest shrine as well as the Western Wall, which is holy to Jews — both in the eastern sector.
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Tensions over Jerusalem's holiest site exploded into violence Friday, leaving at least five people dead and another in critical condition, stirring fear that greater violence could soon spread throughout the country.
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Summit pageantry began when Abe escorted G7 leaders to the Shinto religion's holiest site, the Ise Grand Shrine in central Japan, dedicated to sun goddess Amaterasu Omikami, mythical ancestress of the emperor.
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Though the frequency of the practice, who is allowed to take it and under what circumstances, vary by congregation, it's one of the holiest and most important acts in the Christian faith.
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Palestinians want East Jerusalem - among whose shrines is Islam's third-holiest mosque, Al-Aqsa - as the capital of a state they seek in the occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.
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" When asked the same question by reporters a little while later, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer responded that "The Western Wall is obviously one of the holiest sites in Jewish faith.
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At least 60 people were reportedly killed and dozens wounded on Sunday by a car bomb and two suicide bombers in a district of Damascus where Syria's holiest Shiite shrine is located.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone on Friday and condemned a deadly shooting attack near Jerusalem's holiest site, Palestinian news agency Wafa said.
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ISIS has also not claimed responsibility for the attacks, which included a bombing near Islam's second holiest place of worship, Al-Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina, near to Prophet Mohammed's burial site.
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Al-Aqsa, one of Islam's holiest sites and a symbol for Palestinians seeking their own state, is built on a compound revered by Jews as the vestige of their two ancient temples.
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In that spirit, after concluding my visit in Riyadh, I will travel to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and then to the Vatican -- visiting many of the holiest places in the three Abrahamic Faiths.
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In that spirit, after concluding my visit in Riyadh, I will travel to Jerusalem and Bethlehem, and then to the Vatican—visiting many of the holiest places in the three Abrahamic Faiths.
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Related: Meet the Death Photographers of India's Holiest City Haunting Black-and-White Photos Reveal a Brutal War Crime's Aftermath Giant Twisted Nails and Melting Drums Give You a Taste of Cuba
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Liberal-minded Catholics had been hoping that members of the church who divorce and remarry (a situation facing millions of faithful) would be formally readmitted to the Eucharist, the church's holiest rite.
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Throughout the month of Ramadan, which is the holiest time of year in Islam, Muslims fast, attend nightly prayer services, and reflect on the role that faith plays in their everyday lives.
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The water is drawn from two sources: Gangotri, a small town in the Greater Himalayan Range and the origin of the Ganges River; and Rishikesh, one of the holiest cities for Hindus.
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That is surprising given that Jerusalem is home to the Aqsa Mosque, and that the Saudi king holds the title of custodian of Islam's two other holiest mosques, in Mecca and Medina.
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So Ms. Lieber made the decision to put "The Holy City," a virtual reality experience that lets viewers drop in on Jerusalem's holiest sites and festivals, online for free starting April 9.
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Op-Ed Contributor In 2014, on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Rabbi Barry Freundel led the congregation of his Washington synagogue in pursuit of humble repentance before God.
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Some of Jerusalem's holiest sites of worship, the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock, will close as a precautionary measure to limit the spread of coronavirus, mosque authorities announced Sunday.
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Saudi Arabia's Foreign Ministry announced it will temporarily suspend the entry of foreigners for pilgrimage and tourism purposes, preventing travel to the country's holiest sites over fears of the fast-spreading coronavirus.
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This year he has opposed his colleagues' efforts to completely condemn the U.N. for passing a one-sided resolution attacking Israel and denying the Jewish right to Judaism's holiest sites in Jerusalem.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government had committed last year to go ahead with the measure, which would allow men and women to pray together in a special section of Judaism's holiest site.
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He showed photos on his phone of the carnage: human remains, blood and shattered glass strewn across the floor of the church on one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar.
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But he couldn't get through the doors of the synagogue, and that likely spared the lives of the 70 to 73 people inside for Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
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The High Holidays, a 10-day period that include the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, and the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, are the holiest days of the year in the Jewish religion.
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Satoru Otowa of Ise Grand shrine, Shinto's holiest place, where a mirror said to have belonged to Amaterasu is kept, says many young people come for "mental health and to feel at peace".
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Jerusalem (CNN)Israel has suspended ties with UNESCO, the UN body in charge of preserving culture and history, after a draft decision that Israel says ignores Judaism's ties to the religion's holiest site.
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"If you do not move, God forbid, then tomorrow the holiest of places and the Muslims' Qiblah, Mecca, will be sold and you will find then no one to defend it," it said.
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Montreal being so close to New York, and this being an era where rap was still very coastal, the New York mid-90s aesthetic of hip-hop was the holiest thing in music.
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" He then stated his respect for Arab history and culture, the need for economic progress, and noted that "Saudi Arabia is home to the holiest sites in one of the world's great faiths.
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As Britain's interest in Arab rule lapsed, the Hashemites lost Islam's three holiest cities in rapid succession—Mecca, Medina and, after a brief tenure from 1948 to 1967, the Old City of Jerusalem.
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It's no accident that his foreign trip is organized, as he said in his speech, around "visiting many of the holiest places in the three Abrahamic Faiths"—Riyadh, Jerusalem, and Rome (the Vatican).
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The Ministry of Hajj, an important body in a country that derives much of its international standing from its management of Islam's holiest sites, was changed to the Ministry of Hajj and Umra.
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She donned her robe and was prepared to face the congregation for the first time during Judaism's holiest time of the year, when the head rabbi who'd just hired her pulled her aside.
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Ever since Mixmag speculated in the year 1994 that Sasha may be a descendent of God, the producer and DJ has remained one of dance music's holiest deities, and for a good reason.
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The kingdom stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites, Mecca and Medina, and organizing the world's largest annual Muslim gathering which retraces the route Prophet Mohammad took 14 centuries ago.
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"The Temple Mount, the very heart of Jerusalem and Israel, will remain the holiest place for the Jewish people, even if Unesco ratifies the false and unfortunate decision another 10 times," she said.
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There was a certain dissonance here: The ruling Communist Party of China, officially atheist and repressive toward many of the country's Muslims, was helping build a railway connecting the holiest sites in Islam.
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President Ashraf Ghani of Afghanistan declared a unilateral cease-fire with the Taliban to begin next week, coinciding with the end of Ramadan, one of the holiest periods of the year in Islam.
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Pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina is the backbone of a plan to expand tourism under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's economic reforms to diversify the economy away from oil.
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The wall is in Jerusalem — part of what is known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary — and is considered one of the holiest sites in Islam.
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A trailer for "Al-Asouf", meaning "winds of change" in Arabic, features explosions and firefights inside the holiest site in Islam, which Juhayman al-Otaybi and his radical followers occupied for two weeks.
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The pair, who live and work in the German capital, had spent the holiest day in the Jewish calendar secluded in prayer and switched off their mobile phones for 25 hours of fasting.
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The pair, who live and work in the German capital, had spent the holiest day in the Jewish calendar secluded in prayer and switched off their mobile phones for 25 hours of fasting.
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Mr. Trump chose Riyadh in part because Saudi Arabia is the home of Islam's two holiest sites and in part because he hopes to strengthen the Sunni Arab alignment against Shia-led Iran.
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The Kumbh Mela is one of the holiest events on the Hindu calendar, its date determined by astrology, its auspiciousness derived from a certain line up of Jupiter, the moon and the sun.
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Saudi Arabia is home to the two holiest cities in Islam, and the formation of the Islamic Republic – an alternative model of Islamic governance, involving elections – challenged Saudi dominance in the Muslim world.
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The Wall, the visible portion of which stands more than 60 feet (20 meters) high, was a retaining structure for the second Jewish temple, which stood on an esplanade in the Old City before being destroyed by the Romans in 70 A.D. The site is known to Jews as Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism, and to Muslims as The Noble Sanctuary, where al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam, and the gold-topped Dome of the Rock, now stand.
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Every able-bodied Muslim who can is supposed to go on haj at least once in their lifetime and Saudi Arabia takes great pride in its role as the guardian of Islam's holiest sites.
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During the Second Intifada in 2002, a group of poorly equipped Palestinian combatants found refuge in one the holiest sites in the world: the Church of the Nativity, traditionally considered the birthplace of Jesus.
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Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide and car bomb blasts that struck a Damascus suburb on Saturday near Syria's holiest Shiite Muslim shrine, and a monitoring group said at least 20 people were killed.
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To make things even more fun, some argue that the whole world should just follow the official moon-sighting decrees of Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and the location of its holiest sites.
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Shortly after that, four security officers were killed — as well as a suicide bomber — near the security headquarters of the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, a site considered to be the second holiest in Islam.
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On Monday, Houthis denied Saudi media reports that it had fired a ballistic missile toward Mecca, Islam's holiest site, at a time of heightened tensions between Tehran and Gulf Arab states allied to Washington.
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Some people accused Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and the custodian of its holiest places, of surrendering Palestinian rights for the sake of its alliance with Trump and his tough stand on Iran.
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"I am grateful to have experienced a deeply meaningful visit to the holiest site of my faith and to leave a private note of prayer," she posted on social media shortly after the visit.
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His trip will include a visit the one of Christianity's holiest sites, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and he will be the first sitting president to visit the Western Wall in East Jerusalem.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's government formally suspended plans on Sunday for a mixed-gender prayer space at Jerusalem's Western Wall, bowing to opposition from Orthodox Jewish politicians to reforms at one of Judaism's holiest sites.
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The devotees had congregated to mark Ashura, one of the holiest days for Shi'ite Muslims, at the mosque, about 20 km (12 miles) from Mazar-i-Sharif, the capital of Afghanistan's northern Balkh province.
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JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — It is incumbent upon every able-bodied Muslim who can afford to do so to travel to Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Islam's holiest site, at least once in his or her lifetime.
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TODAY'S NUMBER 385 miles The length of the human chain that tens of thousands of women in India formed to protest a refusal to admit women to Sabarimala Temple, one of Hinduism's holiest sites.
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Saudi Arabia, which stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites and organizing the haj, has been hit by bombings in recent years and uncovered plots to carry out attacks in Mecca.
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Perhaps most dramatically, the Orthodox have attempted through threats and physical acts of violence to keep women from performing services at the Wailing (Western) Wall, the holiest site in the world for all Jews.
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He's the chief architect at the Haram al-Sharif, as it is known in the Islamic tradition, which houses the Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam.
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If there was any doubt Justin Bieber is a true believer in Christ ... he just put all that to rest with a huge plug to his Lord and savior on the holiest of days.
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It may not have been part of the official mayoral entourage, but its dashboard was anointed with the holiest of government oils: a police placard giving it license to park where unblessed mortals cannot.
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A heavily armed assailant with a live-streaming head camera killed two people, injured two others and tried unsuccessfully to invade a synagogue in Halle, Germany, on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar.
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The new Makkah Real Estate Development Fund is invested in seven hotel towers and two commercial complexes to be developed within the King Abdul Aziz Road project in Mecca, home to Islam's holiest sites.
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From there, they journeyed by road to Jerusalem to pray at al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site, and see the Dome of the Rock, where Muslims believe the Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven.
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The father, nut-brown from the sun, sat in the shallows collecting tiny, intricately patterned shells the size of sesame seeds that he said were once collected only by the holiest of Hawaiian priests.
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But then, the status of Jerusalem's holiest places, and in particular the place known by Jews as the Temple Mount and by Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif, is a diplomatic issue like no other.
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That could quickly change, given the religious passions that swirl around the Old City, where Al Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third-holiest shrine, abuts the Western Wall prayer plaza, a vestige of two ancient Jewish temples.
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The right-wing activist has called on Jews to pray at one of Jerusalem's holiest sites, known to Muslims as al-Haram al-Sharif, or the Noble Sanctuary, and to Jews as the Temple Mount.
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Two of the more controversial settlements lie inside and adjacent to Hebron, a large Palestinian city that houses the burial place of Abraham, making it one of the holiest sites in both Judaism and Islam.
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On Monday suicide attackers targeted the US consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, a Shia mosque in Qatif in eastern Saudi Arabia, and Saudi security officers in Medina, the second-holiest site in Islam, killing four.
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Muslims celebrate Eid amid Ramadan tragedies Special ire for fellow Muslims After the acts in France and the U.S., ISIS saved a special ire for fellow Muslims during the holiest days of the holy month.
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The television series being produced outside Damascus is about a Sufi cleric called Muhiy al-Din bin Arabi, and is set in historic Mecca, the holiest city of Islam located in modern-day Saudi Arabia.
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On Sunday, just days ahead of the election, Widodo made a pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site, Mecca in Saudi Arabia, a visit many Indonesians see as aimed at underlining that he is a devout Muslim.
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Most striking of all is the Prophet Muhammad's own requirement that women and men perform the pilgrimage to Mecca together; and that when women go round the Kaaba, Islam's holiest place, they show their face.
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Read: Israel accelerates plans to build underground wall on Gaza border As they passed through the stone archway, the realization dawned on them: They had arrived at one of the holiest sites in the world.
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Engaged in repetition and the recording of action, Kazem's piece connects to more critically-engaged content, like Ahmed Mater's lightboxes, which depict a bird's-eye view of Mecca, the holiest site in the Muslim world.
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But it hasn't prevented Israelis from registering a series of knife attacks or a confrontation around the holiest places of the Old City in Jerusalem, say, without ever dwelling on the larger source of tensions.
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Angry over what it described as Saudi sabotage, Iran said Thursday that Iranian citizens would not participate this year in the hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia, the host country of Islam's holiest places.
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But the address comes with big risks, as the president is reportedly going to speak directly about Islamic extremist terrorism — a sensitive subject in a country that contains many of Islam's holiest sites, including Mecca.
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Wednesday's vote was passed during one of the most tense periods in years in Jerusalem, as Palestinians protest heightened Israeli security measures near the Temple Mount-Noble Sanctuary compound, one of the city's holiest sites.
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The other day, I got my coconuts—one of the holiest fruits in Santería—read by another high priest, and I am happy to say that it looks like I'm still on the right track.
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That Saudi warning might be expected, given that Jerusalem is home to the Aqsa Mosque and that the Saudi king holds the title of custodian of Islam's two other holiest mosques, in Mecca and Medina.
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Watch: Our South Asia bureau chief visited one of India's holiest temples to see how the country's controversial Supreme Court ruling over the right of women to enter that temple became a political lightning rod.
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The June 2017 decision by the Israeli government to withdraw from those parts of the Western Wall agreement that would have guaranteed equal status for all the streams at our holiest site reflected this tension.
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The prayers will continue only at the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina, the holiest places in Islam, SPA said, citing a decision from the Council of Senior Scholars, the kingdom's highest religious body.
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Saudi Arabia, the Sunni monarchy that controls Islam's holiest sites, sees itself as the natural leader of the Muslim world and has used its lavish oil wealth to spread its austere version of the faith.
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The 450-km (280-mile) Haramain Railway linking the two holiest cities in Islam, Mecca, and Medina, with the Red Sea city of Jeddah, was opened in 2018 and cost 6.7 billion euros ($7.3 billion).
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Dozens of people were at the synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, when the gunman tried to blast his way in - only to fail to breach the solid locked gates.
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Dozens of people were at the synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, when the gunman tried to blast his way in - only to fail to breach the solid locked gates.
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The only foreign visitors to Demre these days seem to be a small number of Russians, many of whom revere St. Nicholas as the third-holiest figure in Christianity, after Jesus and the Virgin Mary.
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Last year Khamenei named him custodian of Astan Qods Razavi, an organization in charge of a multi-billion-dollar religious foundation that manages donations to the country's holiest shrine in the northern city of Mashhad.
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was greeted by squealing crowds as he visited the Ise Grand Shrine, the holiest site in Japan's Shinto religion, near where Group of Seven leaders met last year for a summit.
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While Riyadh and its allies have welcomed Trump's harder line against Tehran, which has cast itself as the guardian of Palestinian rights, critics accuse Saudi Arabia, the custodian of Islam's holiest places, of abandoning the Palestinians.
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Security in the city - also home to Sikhism's holiest shrine the Golden Temple - has been stepped up as hundreds of visitors and groups are likely to arrive at the site, Amritsar Police Commissioner S.S. Srivastava said.
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Semitic in sensibility but written in dazzling Greek, this is a text which places the life and death of Jesus within the framework of Judaism's holiest rites but also argues that he mysteriously transcended that framework.
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A series of explosions in Sri Lanka ripped through churches and hotels on Easter Sunday, killing at least 290 people and injuring more than 500 others on one of the holiest days in the Christian calendar.
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While Riyadh and its allies have welcomed Trumps harder line against Tehran, which has cast itself as the guardian of Palestinian rights, critics accuse Saudi Arabia, the custodian of Islam's holiest places, of abandoning the Palestinians.
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AMMAN (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide and car bomb blasts that struck a Damascus suburb on Saturday near Syria's holiest Shi'ite Muslim shrine, and a monitoring group said at least 20 people were killed.
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Incensed at what they perceive as a violation of delicate decades-old access arrangements at Islam's third-holiest site, many Palestinians have refused to go through the metal detectors, holding street prayers and often violent protests.
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The prayers took place after Israel restricted access to Al-Aqsa mosque, which sits on the holiest site in the Old City, known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary and to Jews as the Temple Mount.
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That is why I chose to make my first foreign visit a trip to the heart of the Muslim world, to the nation that serves as custodian of the two holiest sites in the Islamic Faith.
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The blast hit the Qala-e Fatehullah area of the city, near the Hussainya mosque, and came as security forces were on alert for possible attacks during Ashura, the holiest celebration in the Shi'ite religious calendar.
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He added that Saturday's missile was similar to one fired from Yemen in July that was shot down close to the Saudi city of Mecca, a month before the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Islam's holiest site.
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The station, which will be built inside the walls of the Old City, will drop off passengers near the Dung Gate, which leads straight to the Western Wall, the holiest site at which Jews can pray.
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First released in 2017 through OculusVR, Experience Mecca uses 3-D modeling to give viewers a firsthand walk-through of Islam's holiest city and the rhythmic circumambulation of the Tawaf ritual that bookends each annual Hajj.
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Above, Salah Khashoggi, his son, receiving mourners in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Separately, friends and supporters held funeral prayers for Mr. Khashoggi over an empty marble slab at one of Istanbul's holiest mosques, declaring him a martyr.
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Times Insider There was a certain dissonance in the fact that the ruling Communist Party of China, officially atheist and repressive toward the country's Muslims, had helped build a railway connecting the holiest sites in Islam.
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Together with a mirror called Yata-no-Kagami, kept at the Ise Grand Shrine, the holiest site in Japan's Shinto religion, the ancient sword and jewel comprise the regalia that symbolizes the legitimacy of the emperor.
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The holiest place in Judaism, it was home to the Jewish temples of antiquity and its restraining wall built by Herod the Great - known as the Western Wall - is a sacred place of prayer for Jews.
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Iranian pilgrims would still be welcome to visit Islam's holiest sites in Mecca and Medina in western Saudi Arabia, either for the annual haj or at other times of year on the umrah pilgrimage, he said.
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Saudi Arabia's claim is pretty strong, as it is both the birthplace of Islam and the "custodian" of the two holiest places in Islam, the Prophet Mohammed's mosque in Medina and Masjid al-Haram in Mecca.
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ISE, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Wednesday made a pilgrimage to the Ise Grand Shrine, the holiest site in Japan's Shinto religion, a day before he hosts a Group of Seven (G7) summit nearby.
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While my spirituality and connection to my faith is constantly evolving, waxing and waning throughout the year, Ramadan is the holiest month of the Islamic calendar, and a time for reconnection, self-reflection and improvement, and community.
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ALEPPO, Syria (Reuters) - The remains of the medieval Umayyad Mosque's felled minaret lie in its once-elegant courtyard along with discarded mattresses, fragments of rockets and antique doors, but, after years of fighting, Aleppo's holiest monument endures.
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Indian women take part in a "women's wall" protest in support of a court order overturning a partial ban on women entering one of Hinduism's holiest temples in Kochi in the southern Kerala state on Jan. 1.
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JERUSALEM — After years of rancor over rituals at the Western Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism, the Israeli government on Sunday approved the creation of an upgraded egalitarian prayer space there for non-Orthodox Jews.
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Varanasi, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, is the holiest of seven sacred Hindu sites in India, and said to be the founding place of Buddhism, making it a destination for thousands of pilgrims and tourists.
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It is known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, where the Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock are located, and to Jews as Temple Mount, the holiest place in Judaism, where ancient temples once stood.
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Khamenei appointed Raisi in 2016 as the custodian of Astan Qods Razavi, an organization in charge of a multi-billion-dollar religious foundation that manages donations to the country's holiest shrine in the northern city of Mashhad.
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The most dangerous area is within the radial of 12 kilometers from the Mount Agung peak where all activities are closed -- including Pura Besakih, Bali's biggest and holiest Hindu temple located on the slopes of Mount Agung.
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Minhaj spent considerable time criticizing Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman and the government's handling of the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, and questioned whether Saudi Arabia, which contains most of Islam's holiest sites, properly represented Muslim values.
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Fresh off a stop in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to visit the Western Wall — the holiest place where Jews can pray — and the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
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Back in July, Hazo protested alongside Muslims against Israel's installation of security scanners at the nearby al-Aqsa mosque - Islam's third holiest site - after two Arab-Israeli gunmen shot dead two Israeli police officers at the site.
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At the New Kattankudy Grand Jumma Mosque, designed as a replica of Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, one of Islam's holiest sites, construction workers are laying intricate blue mosaics as part of the town's mosque-building boom.
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On Wednesday, it spared the lives of 83 Jews from the area and a group of young, international visitors, including 10 Americans, who had come to be with them on the holiest day on the Jewish calendar.
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Mecca is the holiest site in the Islamic world and is the place of pilgrimage, or hajj, which all able-bodied Muslims are required to do at least once in their lifetimes if they are financially able.
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Saudi Arabia already has a vibrant air travel market, with 27 airports serving its population of more than 33 million and the throngs of pilgrims who travel to the country each year to visit Islam's holiest sites.
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Although all visitors to the nearby Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews can pray, pass through metal detectors, Palestinians considered the detectors outside Al Aqsa as a symbol of Israel asserting its claim to sovereignty there.
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Judaism's holiest sites are located in Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount -- where the two ancient Jewish temples stood and were destroyed, and where Jews, wherever they are in the world, face when praying -- and the Western Wall.
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Saudi Arabia stakes its reputation on its guardianship of Islam's holiest sites - Mecca and Medina - and organizing haj, a role that Iranian authorities have challenged as part of a dispute over the handling of a crush in 2015.
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Earlier this month, reports came out that Trump would be visiting the Western Wall in Jerusalem, one of the holiest sites in Judaism, during his Israel trip — making him the first sitting US president to ever do so.
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Precisely because of the importance of Saudi Arabia—the world's biggest oil exporter and home to Islam's two holiest places—the West should urge restraint on the impetuous prince and help disentangle him from an unwinnable war. How?
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Jerusalem (CNN)The Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, will soon have a prayer space for mixed-gender ceremonies and non-Orthodox Jews following a historical Israeli Cabinet decision on Sunday to finally allow such an area.
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"We managed, in one of the ... holiest places in Jerusalem, to use this technology and this is a breakthrough," Amit Re'em, Jerusalem district archaeologist at the Israel Antiquities Authority, told Reuters of the project, which began in 2016.
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A minor diplomatic spat emerged between US and Israeli officials Monday while preparing for Trump's visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem -- the first stop by a sitting US president to one of the holiest sites in Judaism.
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The Embassy move is contentious for Palestinians, who hope to claim part of the city as their future capital, and for many in the Arab world, as it is home to some of the holiest sites in Islam.
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The embassy move is contentious for Palestinians, who hope to claim part of the city as their future capital, and for many in the Arab world, as it is home to some of the holiest sites in Islam.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's prime minister has invited all United Nations staff in Israel to attend a seminar on Jewish history, after a decision by a U.N. cultural body that failed to acknowledge Jewish ties to Jerusalem's holiest site.
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But officials say the king's decision to end the arrangement reflected his anger at Israel's rejection of a Palestinian state in the occupied West Bank and at its perceived infringements of one of Islam's holiest sites in Jerusalem.
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After several dozen books, an influential weekly radio show, frequent interview requests and his induction in January into one of French civilization's holiest — albeit most conservative — shrines, the Académie Française, Mr. Finkielkraut has no intention of shutting up.
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The influence is clear: from ingredients like hard durum wheat that led to the development of pasta, Italian food's holiest of holies, to methods of preparation, like stuffed meats and vegetables, or the use of nuts in sweets.
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Saudi Arabia, which draws millions of faithful visitors each year, has temporarily suspended foreigners from coming to the kingdom for Umrah, a pilgrimage to visit Islam's holiest sites that can be taken at any time of the year.
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It was all prepared for an iftar, the meal eaten each night after sunset to break fast during Ramadan, Islam's holiest month, and it was the first one hosted on Capitol Hill by three Muslim members of Congress.
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"I give thanks to Holiest Mary of San Juan de los Lagos because I prayed that I might go and come across the border and that I might be hired," reads the inscription on a retablo dated 1961.
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It imposed a ban on foreigners arriving for the Muslim umrah pilgrimage, Gulf Arab citizens visiting Mecca and Medina, home to Islam's two holiest sites, and tourists from at least 25 states where the virus has been found.
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It imposed a ban on foreigners arriving for the Muslim umrah pilgrimage, Gulf Arab citizens visiting Mecca and Medina, home to Islam's two holiest sites, and tourists from at least 25 states where the virus has been found.
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The agreement for the new egalitarian prayer space, adopted 17 months ago by the government after years of negotiations with Jewish leaders, was supposed to restore harmony at the ancient site, the holiest place where Jews can pray.
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Ghattas, though, gives equal weight to a more obscure uprising that unfolded just a few months later across the Persian Gulf in Mecca, when a band of Saudi militants seized the Grand Mosque, one of Islam's holiest sites.
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Not only has Mr. Trump given Russian diplomats intelligence that officials say came from Israel, but some of his aides have also publicly questioned whether one of the holiest Jewish sites, the Western Wall, truly belongs to Israel.
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By pretending away Jerusalem's Jewish heritage, the organization's decision encourages and assists radical Islamic terrorist groups, whose longstanding (and frequently stated) goal is to extinguish not only Judaism from Israel and its holiest city, but Jews as well.
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Some White House officials are seeking to move on, saying they were focused on preparing for Trump's upcoming trip, which will feature a speech warning about radical Islam in Saudi Arabia, home of the religion's holiest site, Mecca.
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The separatist issue goes back decades in India, with one of the most important clashes occurring in 1984 when Indian Army soldiers stormed the Golden Temple in Amritsar, Sikhs' holiest site, in an effort to capture separatist leaders.
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While there's a lot to be said for Rihanna's sexy pope look, my personal pick for holiest outfit goes to SZA, who looked absolutely stunning as a Weeping Madonna in custom Versace, replete with golden tears underneath her eyes.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - President Donald Trump made a historic visit to Jerusalem's Western Wall on Monday, standing before the holiest place where Jews are permitted to pray and saying a few words before inserting a note between the monumental stones.
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The man accused in the attack, Stephan Balliet, did not have a previous record and was not on authorities' radar before he tried to carry out a massacre of Jews on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on their calendar.
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Influential Shi'ite cleric Ebrahim Raisi, the custodian of a powerful organization in charge of Iran's holiest shrine, appears to be the leading hardline candidate in the presidential race, though some prominent conservatives have already thrown their weight behind Rouhani.
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Jerusalem, revered by Jews, Christians and Muslims alike, is home to Islam's third holiest shrine as well as Judaism's Western Wall - both in the eastern sector - and has been at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for decades.
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The Western Wall, known as the Kotel in Hebrew, is one of the holiest sites in Judaism because it is the closest site at which Jews can pray to where they believe the Jewish Temple stood 2,000 years ago.
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It followed a flurry of meetings between senior Saudi figures and representatives of other Christian traditions in recent months, raising hopes of more openness in the kingdom which hosts Islam's holiest sites but bans the practice of other faiths.
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Mr. Atallah is a seasoned witness to the rivalries among the Greek Orthodox, Armenian Orthodox and Roman Catholic communities that jealously share — and sometimes spar over — what they consider Christianity's holiest site, inside the Church of the Holy Sepulcher.
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With anything up to six horns on each animal, the breed is ideally suited for the manufacture of the horn traditionally blown during the Jewish New Year and the Day of Atonement, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
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Saudi Arabia - birthplace of Islam and site of its holiest shrines - does not officially recognize Israel, but Mohammed bin Salman's comments, quoted in the U.S. magazine The Atlantic, are a further sign of an apparent thawing in bilateral ties.
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The talks to delay the loan repayment, originally due to mature on July 13, came after the Saudi government failed to fully reimburse the construction firm for work at Islam's holiest location, the sources said on condition of anonymity.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Dozens of Saudi craftsmen, mostly in their 40s and 173s, are hard at work in a factory in Mecca preparing an embroidered black and gold cloth to cover the Kaaba, the holiest site in Islam.
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Also stoking the violence has been Muslim opposition to increased Israeli access to Jerusalem's al Aqsa mosque complex, which is the third holiest site in Islam and is also revered in Judaism as the location of two biblical temples.
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It was discombobulating, after the prim modernity of the train, to plunge into Harar Jugol, about 120 acres of tight-knit alleyways, encircled by 15-foot walls, which is widely considered to be the fourth holiest site in Islam.
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Muslim authorities, meanwhile, announced that the Al-Aqsa mosque in east Jerusalem, the third holiest site in Islam, would be closed indefinitely due to concerns about the outbreak, with prayers continuing to be held on the sprawling esplanade outside.
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Pilgrimage is an important revenue source for the kingdom, which has Islams two holiest sites in Mecca and Medina, and is the backbone of plans to expand visitor numbers under Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmans ambitious economic reform agenda.
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A heavily armed assailant wearing a live-streaming head camera tried unsuccessfully to invade a synagogue in a city in eastern Germany on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, then killed two people and injured two others outside.
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On a Friday -- the holiest day of the week in Saudi Arabia -- when official responses to anything can be slow, King Salman has cut through every usual boundary to take charge, and to be seen to be in charge.
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Stephan B., a German citizen, is suspected of being the gunman who on Wednesday opened fire outside a German synagogue on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, and killed two people as he livestreamed his attack.
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Also stoking the violence has been Muslim opposition to increased Israeli visits to Jerusalem's al Aqsa mosque complex, which is the third holiest site in Islam and is also revered in Judaism as the location of two biblical temples.
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But the placement of metal detectors has fueled anger among Palestinians who see the new security arrangements to enter Islam's third-holiest site as part of a larger Israeli effort to enact sovereignty over the hotly contested holy site.
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Facing the Kaaba -- Islam's holiest site and the destination for the annual pilgrimage known as the Hajj -- is one of the religion's chief requirements, in addition to performing ablution (ritual cleansing with water) and reciting verses of the Quran while praying.
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Prior to modern times, Jerusalem largely comprised what is commonly referred to today as the Old City, the eastern section of Jerusalem (sometimes called East Jerusalem) where Judaism's holiest sites are located, including the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry appealed on Sunday to both sides to continue Syrian peace talks in Geneva despite an attack by Islamic State bombers that killed more than 60 people near the country's holiest Shi'ite shrine.
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And whenever people feel a threat to their identity and origins, they can easily be induced to lash out with disproportionate force, just as medieval Christians marched to war when told that their faith's holiest places in Jerusalem were being desecrated.
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The initiative was created by Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayeb, the grand imam of the Al-Azhar University in Egypt, which is a thousand-year-old center of Muslim scholarship and clerical training considered one of the holiest seats of Sunni Islam.
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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine's state security service said it raided the residence of a senior Russian-backed Orthodox priest on Friday, who heads one of the country's holiest sites, citing a clause in the criminal code relating to whipping up religious hatred.
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Jerusalem is also the site of the Haram al-Sharif compound, the third-holiest place for Muslims, and the city is an important issue for Arabs around the world watching with concern over the status of Jerusalem and the Palestinian state.
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That was hammered home with an unscheduled Hanukkah holiday visit to the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, which is located in Jerusalem's Old City in the eastern sector captured along with the West Bank in a 1967 war.
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Pope Francis, who has only one lung and is known to suffer from sciatica, was helped back up by several priests and finished the Mass at the Jasna Gora Monastery, considered to be the country's holiest site, without further interruption.
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Mark Zuckerberg posts a message that refers to use of Facebook in last year's election: Tonight concludes Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year for Jews when we reflect on the past year and ask forgiveness for our mistakes.
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A more relevant example — given that the Mona Lisa is nowadays less a work of art than a holy relic — is the image of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the holiest artwork in Mexico City, venerated by millions of pilgrims a year.
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Yangon, Myanmar (CNN)In the warren of streets surrounding Yangon's Sule Pagoda, one of Myanmar's oldest and holiest Buddhist sites, lie a church, a Hindu temple, and a handful of mosques, one of which dates back more than 100 years.
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Also stoking the strife has been Muslim opposition to increased Jewish visits to Jerusalem's al Aqsa mosque complex, which is one of the holiest sites in Islam and is revered in Judaism as the location of two ancient biblical temples.
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Life in a country where the government's legitimacy rested largely on its custodianship of the holiest mosques in Islam was, when not brutal, brutally boring, and successive rulers had been unwilling or unable to challenge these enforcers of Wahhabi morality.
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The highly provocative visit came during the final days of the holy month of Ramadan when Muslims flock to pray at the compound's al-Aqsa mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam where non-Muslim prayer has been banned since 1187.
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Recent tensions started in July when two Israeli police officers were shot and killed in Jerusalem near the area known as the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif, one of the holiest places in the world for both Muslims and Jews.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Muslims gathered in smaller-than-usual numbers at al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem on Friday after religious authorities decided to keep Islam's third holiest site open for prayers but enact health measures to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
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NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's first coronavirus case, an Iranian theology student, has been detected in the holy city of Najaf, the health ministry said on Monday, leading authorities to briefly close the gates to one of holiest sites for Shi'ite Muslims.
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Last year he was appointed by Mr. Khamenei as the custodian of Astan Quds Razavi, a well-endowed Islamic charity in charge of Imam Reza Shrine, one of the holiest sites in the Shia branch of Islam that prevails in Iran.
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Saudi Arabia, home to some of Islam's holiest sites, will be pulling out all the stops for a man who has declared "Islam hates us" and said the United States was "losing a tremendous amount of money" defending the kingdom.
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JERUSALEM — Three old men who are better known for being young men stood on Wednesday morning where they had 250 years earlier: in Jerusalem's Old City, at the limestone retaining wall that is one of the holiest places for Jews.
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And in the future, officials want to extend the line deeper into the city, with a final station to be built inside the walls of the Old City, close to the Western Wall, the holiest site at which Jews can pray.
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A visit by such prominent non-Muslim leaders, who estimate they represent about 60 million people, is a rare act of religious openness for Saudi Arabia, which hosts the holiest sites in Islam and bans the practice of other religions.
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Mr. Netanyahu has emphasized that the language did not distinguish between Jerusalem and the West Bank and hence treated the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City and the Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, as occupied territory.
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The controversial resolution passed by Unesco in October, which attempted to classify the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, as a part of the Muslim Al Aqsa Mosque compound, is yet another step in this long tradition of conflict.
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Palestinians make up a large segment of Jordan's population, and the ruling Hashemite monarchy derives some of its political legitimacy from its historic role as custodian of Jerusalem's main Muslim shrine, the Al-Aqsa mosque, which is Islam's third holiest site.
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Saudi authorities have said that some 1.86 million Muslims from around the world are performing the pilgrimage at Islam's holiest city, one of the main pillars of Islam which every able-bodied Muslim is required to undertake at least once.
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Soleimani&aposs funeral procession, much of which was broadcast live on Iranian state TV, has made its way through many of the holiest Shiite sites, including Mashhad, and his remains will arrive in his hometown, Kerman, for his burial on Tuesday.
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Like all major faiths, Amazon has a logo (an impish, slightly lascivious smile), a spiritual leader (Space Pope Jeff Bezos), and a holiday: Prime Day, this day, the cunning Christmas-in-July scheme that serves as the online shopping giant's holiest occasion.
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JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troopers entered Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque, the third-holiest shrine in Islam, and carried out arrests on Friday in what police described as a pursuit of youths who had lobbed rocks and fireworks during clashes with its forces outside.
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The researchers then compiled the holiest images, resulting in a face that was judged by 400 survey participants as "more masculine, Caucasian, attractive, intelligent, and loving" than God's "anti-face," an aggregate of the pictures the sample of Christians did not select.
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As a result of the Muslim World League (MWL) Conference in one of Islam's two holiest cities, attended by more than 2628,28503 Muslim leaders representing 22020 countries and 27 Islamic sects, the charter sought to implement changes of an all-encompassing nature.
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Last Friday was Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest days on the Muslim calendar, but Rasul and his family — like many Bangladeshi Muslims in Houston — were too busy dealing with the fallout of the storm to stop and observe the holiday.
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Last October, for example, Israel was furious after UNESCO's executive board approved a resolution that used mainly Islamic terminology to refer to Jerusalem's holiest peak, known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Al-Haram Al-Sharif, the Noble Sanctuary.
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Saudi Arabia's well-financed proselytizing, mosque-building and religious school creating around the world had a force unlike all others because it came from the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammed, and the home of the religion's two holiest places, Mecca and Medina.
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This temple was the holiest site in a holy kingdom and contained within its walls a small sanctuary chamber, known as the Kodesh Hakodashim, or "Holy of Holies," where the very presence of this god was said to dwell in the darkness.
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Public officials announced on Monday that a woman had been arrested for "carrying out a profanation" of the "Black Madonna of Częstochowa," a revered Byzantine icon held within the monastery of Jasna Góra, a UN world heritage site and Poland's holiest Catholic shrine.
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A car bomb and two suicide bombers attacked the Sayeda Zeinab district, home to Syria's holiest Shi'ite shrine, as representatives of Syria's government and its divided opposition began convening in Geneva in an attempt to start the first peace talks in two years.
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The Grand Mosque, or the Masjid al-Haram, is the largest mosque in the world and surrounds Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba -- a cube-shaped shrine that worshipers circle during the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage that brings millions of people to Mecca.
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NOT long after the atom-bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Japan's surrender in the second world war, American soldiers reached one of the holiest shrines of the state religion, Shinto, at Ise in Mie prefecture on the main Japanese island of Honshu.
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Jerusalem is experiencing one of its most tense periods in years as Palestinians protest heightened Israeli security measures near the Temple Mount-Noble Sanctuary compound, one of the city's holiest sites, and the events have been widely reported, including by al-Jazeera.
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The tomb believed to be Christ's was opened as part of a complex renovation of the shrine that was built around it long after his death in what is today known as the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, perhaps Christianity's holiest site.
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This in turn has called into question whether Saudi Arabia, birthplace of Islam and site of its holiest shrines, can rally Arab support for a new push to end the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, with an eye to closing ranks against mutual enemy Iran.
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Head to La Santísima Flor de Lúpulo (The Holiest Hop Flower), a nanobrewery that crafts potent, regionally inspired beers — still something of a novelty in Mexico — 50 gallons at a time on a four-tap rotation (2951 pesos for a three-beer flight).
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You can see, for example, the conversion of St. Paul and the current destruction in Syria in a mere three lines: serpentine roads to Damascusodd how holiest of placesturned hells Does subsuming massive topics into this long performance diminish or trivialize them?
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Similar measures have been taken at the nearby Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, where outdoor prayers continue but only 22015 people at a time are permitted in enclosed areas, in keeping with measures taken by the Israeli government.
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The cease-fire, which Mr. Ghani said would go into effect for eight days starting next week to coincide with one of the holiest periods on the Muslim calendar, comes months after his government presented an extensive peace offer to the Taliban.
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He wants to liberalize, at least economically and socially, and so demonstrate that Islam, in the nation of its holiest cities, Mecca and Medina, is not a harsh, unbendable rule book based on ancient scripture but is rather compatible with modernity and tolerance.
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This is the holiest site in Mauritius for the nation's Hindu majority; every year during the Mahashivratri festival, Roshan told me, he walks here barefoot, three hours from his home in Rose Hill, alongside a half-million other devotees from across the island.
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It was not immediately clear how many of the casualties were civilians or members of the militia, known as K.P.F. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, which came on the first day of Ramadan, the holiest month of the Muslim calendar.
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But for Theise, the rieslings of Dönnhoff, Ott's grüner veltliners, Pierre Péters' Champagnes are not a phase you pass through on the way to future intrigues; they are the highest, holiest media for spiritual transmission that have ever, can ever, will ever exist.
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In an interview, Mr. Anas said his decision to seek out the Saudis as a third-party mediator was obvious, because of the kingdom's special status as home to Islam's two holiest sites and its support during the fight against the Soviet occupation.
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The United Arab Emirates and other Arab states are generally careful to avoid appearing too close to Israel, given longstanding disputes over the rights of Palestinians and access to the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, one of the holiest sites in Islam.
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Since then, he has had groups of 20 to 30 Chinese tourists arriving each week, trooping to cities like Douz, on the edge of the Sahara in the southwest, and Kairouan, home to one of Islam's holiest mosques, in the north-central region.
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A suicide bomber killed four security personnel outside the Prophet's Mosque in Medina, the second-holiest site in Islam, on Monday, the same day as devices exploded outside a Shi'ite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia and near the U.S. Consulate in Jeddah.
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The request to delay the payment, originally due on July 15, was because the Saudi government had yet to reimburse the construction firm for work carried out on Islam's holiest location, the sources said on condition of anonymity due to the subject's sensitivity.
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And this "half Kumbh" may by some measures end up being one of the biggest Kumbhs yet because of the state's massive promotional efforts, especially as Prayagraj – which until recently was known as Allahabad - is seen as the holiest of the four sites.
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The United Arab Emirates and other Arab states are generally careful to avoid appearing too close to Israel, given longstanding disputes over the rights of Palestinians and access to the Al Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, one of the holiest sites in Islam.
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Mecca, Saudi Arabia, one of the holiest cities in Islam, draws millions of people from around the world each year as they seek to complete the hajj, or pilgrimage, which is a mandatory duty for Muslims if they are capable of doing so.
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In a further escalation in tensions with Saudi Arabia, the Iranian government today banned its citizens from making the annual trip to Islam's holiest city, a journey required at least once in a lifetime for all Muslims financially and physically capable of doing so.
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By choosing Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest shrines, as his first destination, Trump intends to send a message about how he wants to show leadership on global issues like the fight against Islamic State militants by strengthening alliances, senior administration officials told reporters.
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Friday was the celebration of Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest days of the Islamic calendar, and the family, who are Muslim, had planned to spend it feasting on beef and wearing new clothes (the new outfits left flooded in their Katy apartment).
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Tuesday inaugurated a 6.7 billion euro ($7.87 billion) high-speed rail linking the two holiest cities in Islam, part of efforts to boost tourism revenues as the country seeks to shed dependence on oil exports.
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The emergency summit in Mecca, Islam's holiest city, on Thursday will discuss tensions with Iran following attacks on oil tankers off the coast of the United Arab Emirates and drone strikes on oil pumping stations in Saudi Arabia, both of which Tehran denies involvement in.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The artist who last year disrobed in front of the Mona Lisa recently gave Catholic pilgrims the shock of their lives as she envisaged a naked Virgin Mary at Lourdes, one of France's holiest sites of Christian worship.
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At the same time, the Israeli-Jordanian relationship has also been strained after metal detectors were installed in the area in Jerusalem known as the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif, one of the holiest places in the world for both Muslims and Jews.
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It is home to the Western Wall -- which was part of the walls around the Second Jewish Temple and is one of the holiest places for Jews to pray -- and the Dome of the Rock, where Muslims believe the Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven.
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The area is home to the Western Wall -- which was part of the walls around the Second Jewish Temple and is one of the holiest places for Jews to pray -- and the Dome of the Rock, where Muslims believe the Prophet Mohammed ascended to heaven.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran will hit back at most of Saudi Arabia with the exception of Islam's holiest places if the kingdom does anything "ignorant", Tehran's defense minister was quoted as saying on Sunday after a Saudi prince threatened to move the "battle" to Iran.
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MECCA, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Hisham Mostafa briefly forgot the war in Syria and his financial worries as he looked upon Islam's holiest sites for the first time, standing among hundreds of thousands of white-clad Muslims gathered in Mecca ahead of the haj pilgrimage.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Days after capturing Jerusalem's Old City in a 1967 war, Israel razed the Moroccan Quarter, a ramshackle neighborhood of Palestinian homes in front of the Western Wall, aiming to create an open space for Jews to pray at one of their holiest sites.
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Located just beyond Kumano Hongu Taisha—one of the holiest of the 99 shrines, or oji, that line the Kumano Kodo—Yunomine's hot springs were the sites of Japanese Buddhist ablution rituals, purification rites for pilgrims who traveled the arduous journey to visit the shrines.
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Why it matters: Every able-bodied Muslim is required to take part in the five-day pilgrimage at least once in their life to visit the Kaaba, a cube-shaped building considered the holiest site in Islam, and perform a series of other holy rituals.
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Recruits are told the war in Syria is a defense of some of the holiest shrines of the Shiite faith from attack by the Islamic State — a group their recruiters then describe as a creation of the United States to destabilize the Middle East.
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JERUSALEM, March 15 (Reuters) - Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque and Dome of the Rock will shut their doors as a precaution against coronavirus, Islamic religious authorities said on Sunday, while outdoor prayers will still be allowed at the complex that houses Islam's third holiest site.
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I'd acquiesce to the fact that it's important for us to try to stop ISIS from not only killing thousands of people but also halt their unbelievable destruction of some of the holiest and most ancient structures, monuments, and buildings history has ever seen.
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They also see a Jewish state that only recognizes one socially conservative strand of Jewry, Orthodox Judaism, as legitimate — which manifests in things like preventing liberal American Jews from praying in mixed-gender groups at the Western Wall, the holiest prayer site in Judaism.
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An evangelical Christian, Mr. Pompeo had just returned from tours of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, built on the ground where Jesus is said to have been crucified and buried, and of tunnels beneath the Western Wall, by the holiest site in Judaism.
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In Israel, he was already likely to contend with Israeli officials rattled by the administration's refusal to say outright that the Western Wall, one of the holiest prayer sites in Judaism, lies in Israel, and is not subject to territorial claims by the Palestinians.
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As home to both enormous oil wealth and Islam's holiest sites, it was the perfect place to make appeals not only to rich Saudi sheikhs and foundations but also to important donors who traveled to the kingdom on pilgrimage from all over the Muslim world.
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JERUSALEM — In an extraordinarily brazen assault early Friday, three Arab citizens of Israel armed with guns and knives killed two Israeli police officers guarding an entrance to Jerusalem's holiest site for Jews and Muslims, an emotional and volatile focal point of the Israeli-Arab conflict.
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KABUL (Reuters) - The Afghan capital Kabul braced on Saturday for further possible attacks ahead of Ashura, the holiest day on the Shi'ite Muslim calendar, a day after an attack claimed by Islamic State that killed at least five people near a large Shi'ite mosque.
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But Mr. Netanyahu tried to appeal to Israeli emotions by emphasizing that the resolution made no distinction between Jerusalem and the West Bank — considering the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City and the Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, as occupied territory.
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Marrying dirty ambience and lo-fi techno to a fabulist aesthetic with track titles such as "Darkness, and the night, and the Wolf Whisperer," this is easily one of the most intriguing experimental electronic releases to emerge from the holiest city in the Muslim world.
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Thomas Keller (The French Laundry) and Armando Manni (Manni Olive Oil) may have engineered the holiest of earthly matrimonies with their Dark Chocolate and Extra Virgin Olive Oil bar, which may at once be the healthiest and most decadent chocolate bar on the market.
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The world's largest annual Muslim gathering, bringing some two million to Islam's most sacred sites in Mecca, will also be a focus of concerns about militant violence after a suicide bomber killed four soldiers in early July in the nearby city of Medina, Islam's second holiest.
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The Western Wall is a remnant of the compound of a Jewish temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. The elevated plaza above it is the Noble Sanctuary, the third holiest site in Islam, containing the al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
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The Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif, the sacred shrine of Muslims, is also the Har HaBayit, or Temple Mount, whose Western Wall is the holiest place in Judaism, a few steps away from the Holy Sepulchre and the Mount of Olives revered by Christians.
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The dispute began July 14 when a pair of Israeli police officers were shot and killed near the al-Aqsa Mosque, in the area known as the Temple Mount or Haram al-Sharif, one of the holiest places in the world for both Muslims and Jews.
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Along with reopening its land border with Qatar, Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday that King Salman had ordered the dispatch of a Saudi Arabia Airlines plane to fly Qatari pilgrims to Jeddah at his own expense so that they could go on to Mecca, Islam's holiest city.
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In luxury hotels like the Fairmont Makkah Clock Royal Tower and the Raffles Makkah Palace, views of the holiest site of Islam are marketed as the "Haram view" and "Kaaba view," and a standard room can run anywhere from $1,500 to $2,700 a night during the hajj.
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On Wednesday, the custodian of the key to one of the holiest sites in Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, also said he would not welcome Pence to Jerusalem's Old City, though he added he knows of no specific plans for Pence to visit the Church.
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"It's one of the holiest sites for our religion and we prayed very hard these last three days that things would change and it would be open for us to be able to go in," said an American pilgrim, who gave her name only as Laurie.
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ISTANBUL — Friends and supporters of the Saudi dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi held funeral prayers over an empty marble slab at one of Istanbul's holiest mosques on Friday, declaring him a martyr and vowing to unmask those behind his murder in the Saudi Consulate 45 days ago.
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On Tuesday, the Kingdom said it will no longer allow Muslims to conduct prayers inside mosques as part of efforts to limit the spread of coronavirus but said prayers will continue only at the two holy mosques in Mecca and Medina, the holiest places in Islam.
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The Western Wall is a remnant of the compound of a Jewish temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. The plaza above known to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary is the third holiest site in Islam, containing al-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock.
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During a meeting between American and Israeli officials to discuss the visit, an American official reportedly told his Israeli counterparts that the Western Wall, one of the holiest prayer sites for Jews, was in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and not under the jurisdiction of the Israelis.
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The moment this most cliched of terms fell from Neville's guileless lips, the mood changed in the studio, with Dan Walker taking on the reverential air of a high priest, fulfilling his duties as the custodian and defender of that holiest cornerstone of punditry: the 'world class' debate.
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In our survey of the world's cities with populations above 300,000 people Mecca, the holiest city in Islam, with an average temperature of 35°C (and an average high of 44°C) in June, stands out as one of the most punishing cities in which to observe Ramadan.
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In early 2017, Sieting drew outrage for an old post he'd shared on Facebook that called for the killing of all Muslims and the nuking of Islam's holiest sites; it was among the most egregious in a recent wave of anti-Muslim statements by elected officials across the country.
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This summer, tens of thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Jerusalem for a week to protest threats to Palestinian sovereignty symbolized by Israel's installation of metal detectors at the al-Aqsa compound, one of Islam's holiest sites, after a deadly terror attack there killed two Israeli policemen.
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Joseph Michael Schreiber, 32, was arrested on arson and hate crime charges on Wednesday, three days after police say he began the blaze that badly damaged the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce on one of the holiest Muslim holidays, as well as the 15th anniversary of the Sept.
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Israelis are wondering what all the fuss is about, commenting on Facebook and Twitter about how metal detectors are normal everywhere in the world and pointing out that Jews have to pass through them to get to the Western Wall, the holiest place where they are permitted to pray.
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Brilliant white clothes, whether worn by a priest in the holiest part of the Jerusalem temple, or by an angel hovering over a river in Babylon, or by Jesus appearing to three followers in a blinding blaze, are a sign that this light is once again flowing unhindered.
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Abroad, he has not wavered from the kingdom's support for the strict and austere Salafist and Wahhabist strands of Sunni Islam, which the Saudis have been financing and exporting for decades, and which bolster its professed role as the custodian of Islam's two holiest mosques, in Mecca and Medina.
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On Wednesday, a conference of Islamic scholars in Saudi Arabia, which includes some of the holiest sites of Islam, called on the Taliban to join a peace process to end the "sufferings endured by the Muslim Afghan people with the shedding of innocent blood, the loss of sacred lives."
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Ehab Fares, the chief executive of BSocial, a digital agency in Cairo, said he could never have imagined that Mecca would be closed when he began working on an updated version of Experience Mecca, an app that offers a virtual walk-through of the Kaaba, Islam's holiest site.
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Although the nearby Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, and other holy sites, including mosques, are equipped with metal detectors, the Palestinians viewed the Israeli-installed equipment as an affront to their dignity and as an assertion of Israel's claim to sovereignty over the area.
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New Delhi (CNN)Women of all ages will be allowed to enter India's Sabarimala Temple, one of Hinduism's holiest sites, after the country's Supreme Court overturned a centuries-old ban Friday, the latest in a succession of progressive judgments to come out of the top court in recent weeks.
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An official visit to Saudi Arabia by such a senior non-Muslim cleric is a rare act of religious openness for the kingdom, which hosts the holiest sites in Islam and bans the practice of other religions but says it wants to open up more to the world.
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But security analysts and regional policy experts are skeptical that Netanyahu's latest security proposal, which includes beefed-up Israeli forces in Jerusalem's Old City and the introduction of sophisticated surveillance cameras, is enough to quell further violence and protests spurred by Israel's expanded role over Jerusalem's holiest site.
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A plan is set, and then we are off to the holiest of the holies: Per Se. It is here that chef de cuisine Eli Kaimeh prepares soft-scrambled Americauna Hen eggs with Castelmagno cheese and shaved white truffles, served to Action and his friend on a gold plate.
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On the one hand, he said, the latest developments confirmed his fears that granting ecclesiastical independence to Ukraine might be "a march in a minefield", but on the other, he felt that the Patriarchate of Moscow was at fault in using the Eucharist, Christianity's holiest rite, as an instrument of power.
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Every year, millions of pilgrims descend on Medina's Great Mosque, usually before or after the hajj pilgrimage, or during the last ten nights of Ramadan, keen to visit the tomb of the Prophet Mohammed, to pray in his mosque, to sit where he once sat, in this holiest time of year.
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Discovered off the steps of the Aztec's holiest temple during the reign of the empire's most powerful ruler, the sacrificial offerings also include a young boy, dressed to resemble the Aztec war god and solar deity, and a set of flint knives elaborately decorated with mother of pearl and precious stones.
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The move of the embassy to the city is contentious for Palestinians, who hope to claim part of the city as their future capital, and for many in the Arab world, as it is home to some of the holiest sites in Islam, as well as those of Judaism and Christianity.
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Last week Qatar said it had not been invited to the two summits Saudi is planning in Islam's holiest site to discuss the implications of drone strikes on oil installations in the kingdom and attacks on four vessels, including two Saudi oil tankers, off the UAE coast earlier this month.
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"The Western Wall is the holiest place for the Jewish people, and I decided to name the train station that leads to it after President Trump — following his historic and brave decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Israel," Yisrael Katz said, according to The Jerusalem Post.
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Items going on display in the seven-story structure in Larnaca will include some of more than 100 Torah scrolls — Judaism&aposs holiest book — that Russian authorities discovered in the Nazis&apos possession and which for decades were kept at a military installation 450 kilometers (280 miles) east of Moscow.
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A common South Asian cultural kinship insulates relations from controversies like the burning of "waste" Qurans by the United States forces in 2012 in Bagram, or propaganda leaflets dropped last week depicting a lion (the American military) chasing a dog (the Taliban), wrapped in a flag inscribed with Islam's holiest verse.
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The Saturday Profile JIDDA, Saudi Arabia — When a human crush killed more than 2,400 people during the hajj pilgrimage in 2015, the Saudi Arabian artist Ahmed Mater was nearby doing what he had spent much of the last five years doing: moving around Mecca, Islam's holiest city, and taking pictures.
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Here's the latest: Every six years, tens of millions of Hindus make a religious pilgrimage to the northern state of Uttar Pradesh to take a dip in the holy waters of the Ganges River — one of the holiest events in the Hindu calendar and among the world's largest gatherings of humanity.
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But that half of the city also contains sites holy to all three major monotheistic religions, including the Western Wall, the holiest place in the world where Jews can openly pray, and Haram al-Sharif, Arabic for "the Noble Sanctuary," a sacred site for Muslims that Israelis refer to as the Temple Mount.
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The kingdom is the world's biggest oil exporter and home to Islam's two holiest places, so the success or failure of the reforms will affect the rest of the world, starting with the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC), a regional body that also includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
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After Monday's attack, which targeted one of Islam's holiest sites -- revered by Sunni and Shia alike -- in the last nights of Ramadan, a man blowing himself up not very far from worshipers come to pay their respects to Islam's last prophet, I am met first by a feeling of numbness. Sadness. Despair.
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There's perhaps no more important blow that could be struck in the war on terrorism than to have Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam and the site of its two holiest mosques, move from being the fountainhead of the extremist ideology that we've been fighting since 9/11 to being its slayer.
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On his first foreign trip, President TrumpDonald John TrumpO'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms Objections to Trump's new immigration rule wildly exaggerated MORE has met with King Salman in Saudi Arabia, the home of Mecca and Medina, the holiest shrines of Islam.
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One week after a white supremacist terrorist murdered 51 Muslims in Christchurch, New Zealand, last March, I asked my father not to attend the Jumu'ah prayer here in the U.S. The New Zealand attack had occurred inside a mosque during the holiest prayer of the week, and its effects were palpable among Muslim Americans.
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No, moving the embassy is an essential first step toward peace: Recognition of a united Jerusalem as Israel's eternal capital should disabuse the Palestinians of the fantasy that the city will ever be divided again or that they will have sovereignty over any part of the city, let alone the holiest places in Judaism.
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The political legitimacy of the Saudi royal family rests largely on its religious credentials, which it gets at home from the support of the country's ultra-conservative Wahhabi religious establishment, and internationally from being the "custodian" of the two holiest places in Islam, the Prophet Mohammed's mosque in Medina and Masjid al-Haram in Mecca.
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He failed to gain admission to several of the holiest Muslim sites, but at the entrance to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, venerated by Christians as the site of Jesus's burial and resurrection, he captured the grooved arches and ornate Byzantine columns of the two entranceways — one of which was, and remains bricked shut.
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Saudi Arabia - which as of March 24 had registered a total of 767 coronavirus cases and one death - has taken some of the most drastic steps among Gulf Arab states by halting international passenger flights, cancelling the umrah pilgrimage to Islam's holiest sites and locking down its eastern Qatif region, where many cases are centered.
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Mr. Trump did visit the Western Wall, the holiest Jewish prayer site in the country, becoming the first sitting American president to do so — an act that some interpreted as indirect recognition since the wall is in a part of the city that Israel took control of during its 1967 war with Arab neighbors.
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The legitimacy of the Saudi royal family rests largely on its religious credentials, which it gets at home from the support of the country's ultra-conservative Wahhabi religious establishment and internationally from being the "custodian" of the two holiest places in Islam, the Prophet Mohammed's mosque in Medina and the Grand Mosque in Mecca.
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On the day before Eid al-Adha -- considered by many to be the holiest Muslim holiday -- the coalition pounded a group of farmers digging a well in rebel-held Beit Saadan, north of Sanaa, killing at least 48 people, including first responders and children, according to three security sources in Beit Sadaan, who did not want to be named.
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The outbreak of terrorism looks like the start of a new and dangerous phase in the so-called Islamic State's murderous campaign: Nearly 300 killed in Baghdad, the worst death toll in years; a triple attack in Saudi Arabia, including an unprecedented strike on Islam's second holiest city, Medina, coming after mass murder in Bangladesh, Istanbul, Orlando and elsewhere.
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JERUSALEM — In the uneasy days after President Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital, some Israelis who cheered the move paid homage — and taunted outraged Palestinians — by posting doctored photos of the Dome of the Rock with the president's surname plastered across it, as if one of Islam's holiest shrines had been reduced to the latest gold-plated Trump property.
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In Mumbai, nonbelievers are denied admission to sacred Parsi sites, including the fortresslike Atash Behrams, holiest of the fire temples, in the seaside Marine Lines district, and the great circular Towers of Silence in Malabar Hill, the city's poshest neighborhood, where the Parsis have historically left their dead to be stripped by vultures, an act of purification.
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Prince William said he was particularly looking forward to his Old City visit that included stops at the contested holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, the Western Wall, the holiest place where Jews can pray, and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where tradition holds that Jesus was crucified and buried.
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On Sunday, he is expected to pray alongside the faithful at Ireland's holiest sanctuary in Knock and celebrate Mass in Phoenix Park in Dublin, where a third of the Irish population turned out for Pope John Paul II. The pope's own advisers have warned that the church's future depends on its success in addressing the existential threat of the abuse crisis.
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At a meeting last September at the United Nations, Israeli officials presented incentives including an upgrade to the Allenby Bridge and master plans for authorizing building in Area C. Mr. Trump is scheduled to visit the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, making him the first sitting American president to visit the holiest site where Jews can pray.
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First, in order not to risk his hold on power, Netanyahu bowed to the demands of the Orthodox parties and canceled a 2016 agreement to create a distinct egalitarian prayer space adjacent to the Western Wall of the ancient Jewish temple in Jerusalem — the holiest site of the Jewish faith — where men and women of the non-Orthodox movements could pray together.
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Against that backdrop, AFAM's exhibition offers a rare opportunity to view, up close, some of the art brut and outsider art genres' holiest grails, including works by the Swiss artists Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) and Aloïse Corbaz (1886–1964), the American Henry Darger (1892-1973), and Charles A. A. Dellschau (20153-1923), a German-born immigrant to the United States who settled in Texas.
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A growing number of American Jews look at Israel and see a country that is occupying Palestinian territory and breaking up peaceful Palestinian protests using force and a Jewish state that only recognizes one socially conservative strand of Jewry, Orthodox Judaism, as legitimate — which manifests in things like preventing liberal American Jews from praying in mixed gender groups at the Western Wall, the holiest prayer site in Judaism.
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"Saudi Arabia is the custodian of the two holiest sites in Islam, and it is there that we will begin to construct a new foundation of cooperation and support with our Muslim allies to combat extremism, terrorism and violence, and to embrace a more just and hopeful future for young Muslims in their countries," Trump said Thursday in announcing his trip during a Rose Garden ceremony where the he signed a religious liberty executive order.
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