They were made ghosts in their own house of worship.
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It's clear this is no longer a religious house of worship.
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A FANATIC WALKED into a house of worship and opened fire.
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Armed guards should have no place outside a house of worship.
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Then came a flash as flames damaged the house of worship.
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In short, it is a fairly typical American house of worship.
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Once again, a gunman entered a house of worship and opened fire.
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I wound up in a house of worship in northern New England.
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Bring up gun violence in your house of worship or community group.
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His estimates that the house of worship drew several thousand attendees each week.
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Bring up gun violence in your house of worship and/or community group.
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On Friday, December 7, a fire destroyed a Jehovah's Witnesses house of worship.
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Left behind was a charred, hollowed-out shell of a house of worship.
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"Everybody expects that a house of worship is a safe place," he said.
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"Matt was blind just like this beautiful house of worship," Dennis Shepard said.
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Friday's attack was the first time Wilayat Sinai targeted a Muslim house of worship.
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For a short time, a house of worship turned into a house of horror.
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And why so many women failed to find a house of worship they like?
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The original house of worship, a former blacksmith's shop, was dedicated in 1794. 42D.
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Senseless gun violence has torn apart another community — this time in a house of worship.
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Earnest also is charged with arson of a house of worship, according to a criminal complaint.
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Is Kehilath Jeshurun "flaunting" its Jewishness, or is it merely existing as a house of worship?
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When 6900 people are sadistically murdered in a house of worship, the public understandably demands action.
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Every house of worship should be a safe place of worship, theological reflection, hope and healing.
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"A house of worship is going to have its own shape, style and iconography," he said.
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Go to a church, synagogue or mosque: Going to a house of worship can endanger others.
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That remains the deadliest shooting at a house of worship in the U.S. in modern times.
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The synagogue and several members responded by suing those who had vandalized their house of worship.
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At St. George Church, Lalo steps out of the car and faces his beloved house of worship.
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During Sunday morning mass at Cairo's main Coptic house of worship, at St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral.
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What prevents the president from expressing sympathy for members of the house of worship that was attacked?
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It had more of an air of a youth club or gym than a house of worship.
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If I were a believer, that might have meant a straight shot to a house of worship.
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So she started the first Muslim house of worship in Germany where women are recognized as imams.
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But after the massacre at the Pittsburgh house of worship, synagogues like it aren't taking any chances.
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To be utterly clear: Any attack on any house of worship is heinous and should be unequivocally condemned.
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The shootings occurred during Shabbat service, normally the busiest time of the week at the house of worship.
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Phaedra Parks channeled her inner Whoopi Goldberg and rocked her little heart out in the house of worship.
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This was a baby-naming ceremony, at a sacred house of worship on the holy day of Sabbath.
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The people who never felt comfortable walking into a house of worship were happy to join him on AltSpaceVR.
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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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The house of worship was designed by acclaimed English architect Christopher Wren, and features a wedding-cake-like spire.
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President Trump appeared to place some blame on officials at the house of worship for not having stronger security.
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Originally based in Australia, the church brought its house of worship to New York City (Bieber's congregation) in 2010.
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December 11 - A bomb explodes killing at least 25 during morning mass at Cairo's main Coptic house of worship.
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It is almost as if, in stepping inside that house of worship, Devin Kelley conquered it for that god.
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Many say they haven't found a house of worship they like and so practice their faith in other ways.
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Then came a flash as flames damaged the house of worship where the man who attacked an Orlando, Fla.
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What, for example, would happen if a gunman first took out a security guard in a house of worship?
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"Churches are sacred places, and no one should fear for their safety in their house of worship," he said.
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But to many in France, Notre Dame was more than a house of worship, said French author Bernard-Henri Levy.
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The gunman walked into a house of worship outside San Antonio, Texas and opened fire on members of the congregation.
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To stand against hatred, the mosque leaders will hold a community gathering Tuesday at the house of worship, Sbenaty said.
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Consider feeling trapped in your house of worship while being watched by extremely well-armed people who want you dead.
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It seemed clear that the old house of worship, and some of the aspects that made it unique, were lost.
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No one should be afraid of their street, or the mall, or the movie theater, or their house of worship.
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But securing a house of worship poses very different challenges from securing other public places like airports, schools or theaters.
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Dan Woollett, an elder who helped build the Lacey house of worship decades ago, told CNN affiliate KCPQ he was devastated.
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He began holding rallies, bellowing insults through loudspeakers that reverberated inside the Sufis' house of worship as they tried to pray.
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A house of worship, a cathedral of sport, separated by a strand of highway, suddenly connected by the irrationality of happenstance.
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"Agencies come to their own conclusion when they look at a community concern like the concern of a house of worship."
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For Roof and potentially for Saturday's synagogue shooter, the choice of a house of worship intensified the emotional impact of violence.
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The freedom of religion is the right to exercise one's faith, whether in a house of worship, at home, or at work.
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"I am disgusted by the discovery of anti-Semitic graffiti at a house of worship in Brooklyn," Cuomo said in a statement.
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Charity is what most ordinary Americans give in order to help the less fortunate, or perhaps to help their house of worship.
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At the end of the 16th century, monks traveling south from the city of Salvador built this Roman Catholic house of worship.
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A pastor at a church near two that burned slept in his house of worship to protect it from possible arsonists. 3.
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In the case of Bernards Township, the Islamic Society bought land that was in a zone that permitted a house of worship.
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Officials with a warrant can arrest undocumented immigrants regardless of whether they're at a house of worship like a church, synagogue or mosque.
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In 2012, a man entered a Sikh house of worship in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and opened fire, killing six people and wounding three.
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When you walk around it, in it and just see the intricate thought that went into creating such a beautiful house of worship.
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Mark Dayton said if a similar incident had happened at a church or other house of worship, it would immediately be considered terrorism.
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Both Manning and Pomeroy said the congregation as a whole should decide whether to leave the house of worship, and when to return.
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I have one good friend who regularly encounters this editor at their house of worship and says that he is amiable and courteous.
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"An attack on any house of worship is an attack on all houses of worship," said Ahmed Bedier, a Muslim activist in Florida.
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What happens in the family, neighborhood, house of worship and the heart is more fundamental and important than what happens in a legislature.
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Officials have placed extra security at mosques throughout Oslo to ensure the safety of those wanting to pray in their house of worship.
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He shot fleeing women and girls, and pumped bullet after bullet into piles of motionless men and boys in a house of worship.
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"Every American has the right to attend their house of worship in safety," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement on Wednesday.
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That's what brought Steyer to the lobby of Savannah Grove Baptist Church, a predominantly black house of worship, on a recent Sunday morning.
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Kneeling is a posture of reverence, most often experienced in a house of worship as we bow in the presence of the divine.
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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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Brothers and sisters, when you have a government that says we can decide whether or not a house of worship can be constructed based upon the theological beliefs of that house of worship, then there are going to be Southern Baptist churches in San Francisco and New York and throughout the country who are not going to be able to build.
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Ten months after he first strapped on the headset, Soto founded VR Church, the first house of worship to exist entirely in virtual reality.
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The president says, under his administration, free speech does end at the steps of a cathedral, a synagogue, or any other house of worship.
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It has asked city hall for permission to tear the church down and replace it with shops, housing and a smaller house of worship.
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"Every American has the right to attend their house of worship in safety," Attorney General Jeff Sessions said in a statement announcing the indictment.
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Health officials halted all services at the synagogue the family attended, Young Israel of New Rochelle, closing the house of worship until March 8.
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The questions St. Clare's is trying to answer are ones that will soon be present in nearly every house of worship around the world.
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The fourth-century house of worship, which was built on top of a fortress constructed by the Roman emperor Trajan, is free to visit.
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ATLANTA — Ebenezer Baptist Church bills itself as "America's Freedom Church," a reflection of its lofty stature as the house of worship where the Rev.
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These horrors unfold everywhere — a movie theater, a house of worship, a mall, a yoga studio, a grocery store, a neighborhood park, in our homes.
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Giving Special Section It used to be that many people gave to their particular house of worship to get a prominent pew or extra blessings.
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The inability to build a house of worship impedes the Bensalem Masjid's ability to freely practice Islam, said Dr. Chaudhry, a member of the congregation.
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Muslims believe it was originally built by the prophet Ibrahim, the Biblical Abraham, on the site of the first house of worship built by Adam.
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In all cases, Muslims see it as the oldest house of worship for the one God; it is also called Beit Allah, House of God.
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During turns on the witness stand, Ms. Sanders and Ms. Sheppard described the havoc that turned a house of worship into a blood-soaked scene.
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While Mr. Trump was absent, political figures from both parties made their way to the house of worship on a dreary, overcast and humid morning.
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Ultimately, it took the actions of a deranged gunman in 2012 killing six worshipers in a Sikh gurdwara (house of worship) in Oak Creek, Wis.
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King delivered a sermon titled "The Death of Evil Upon the Seashore" in 1956 at this enormous Episcopalian house of worship in Morningside Heights, Manhattan.
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That case left for another day circumstances where state funds would have a closer nexus to the maintenance or repairs of a house of worship.
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Earlier in the morning, mourners began lining up outside the Canadian house of worship in 16-degree weather hours before its doors opened at 2 p.m.
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"He was just a little fella," Rodger Prater, 46, the leader of the youth group at Abba's House of Worship Center in Ada, Oklahoma, tells PEOPLE.
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The mosque is the central house of worship for Muslims in the same way that Christians attend church or Jews attend synagogue or Sikhs attend gurdwara.
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This year would have been the church's 286th anniversary as a house of worship, but the Church of St. John the Martyr is sacred no more.
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Sunday morning in the Bible Belt can only mean one thing, and I sought the wisdom of Father Google to find us a house of worship.
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The group, the American Islamic Community Center, applied to Sterling Heights, about 16 miles from downtown Detroit, to build the house of worship in August 2015.
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Matthews said he would have used foul language to describe people arguing the Clinton is politicizing the issue, but didn't want to in a house of worship.
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Citizens with a responsibility to make it harder for lunatics to acquire assault rifles and shoot up another nightclub, school, clinic, movie theater, or house of worship.
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It's worth noting that, before it became a church, New Temple Missionary used to be a different house of worship: It used to be a movie theater.
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I don't know why I had to see my good friend, a woman who embodied the Jewish value of hesed (kindness), hunted in her house of worship.
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"We wouldn't believe that something like this would happen here," Paul Buford, pastor of River Oaks Church, the other house of worship in Sutherland Springs, told reporters.
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Greg Abbott said Monday it's inarguable the church security chief saved lives when a gunman opened fire last month during Sunday services at a house of worship.
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Five stories tall with space for 1,800 worshipers, it is a major house of worship for North London, in an area known for a large immigrant population.
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"Every arson fire causes fear and anxiety in the community, but one in a house of worship especially so," Massachusetts Fire Marshal Peter Ostroskey said in a statement.
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)The caretaker of a Pakistani house of worship unleashed his pet lion on an electrician who was trying to collect late payment, local police say.
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I hope that you don't have to be religious or even a member of a house of worship to understand that we must demand more of our children.
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In 2012, a neo-Nazi gunman with white supremacist ties walked into a Sikh gurdwara - or house of worship - in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, and murdered six Sikh Americans.
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A post on the Joplin mosque's website at the time of the fire said that it was the only Muslim house of worship within a 50-mile radius.
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People should be able to go to school, a house of worship, a movie or concert, or just walk down their neighborhood street without fear of being shot.
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But after the violent attack on the church in Sutherland Springs last year, he said that each new attack on a house of worship brings back the grief.
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In another indication of the anxieties, the East London Mosque, another major house of worship, reported on Monday afternoon that had it had received a threat by telephone.
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Martinez said he removed the flag because he didn't believe the church should support the LGBTQ community since it is a house of worship, the police report read.
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I was making the case for tolerance — and for avoiding the kind of fear-mongering that might lead to zoning restrictions against a particular religion's house of worship.
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Raising money from various sources, Mr. Chaudry oversaw the purchase of four acres, aware that the zoning code required at least three acres for a house of worship.
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"The Chicago Jewish community will not be intimidated by anti-Semitic attacks on a house of worship," American Jewish Committee Director Amy Stoken said in a statement to CNN.
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ON THE eighth floor in a gritty suburb of the capital, Taipei, sits the ten-year-old Wei-ming temple, a Taoist house of worship—but an unusual one.
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Earnest was charged on Monday with one count of first-degree murder, three counts of first-degree attempted murder and arson of a house of worship, according to authorities.
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The shooting supplanted the 2015 shooting at a Charleston, South Carolina, church as the deadliest mass shooting to take place at a house of worship in the United States.
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Perhaps the only house of worship that can match its grandeur is the Blue Mosque in Istanbul, built in the early 1600s at the height of the Ottoman Empire.
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"Under my administration, free speech does not end at the steps of a cathedral or synagogue or any other house of worship," Trump said when he signed the order.
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One of his legacies is the practice of providing free meals (langar) to anyone who visits a gurdwara (Sikh house of worship), without regard for their background or social status.
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Nearly 60% said clergy at their house of worship had encouraged the congregation to vote in the general election for president, and half said the same about the presidential primaries.
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While the cathedral's opening is momentous for Coptic Christians in the country, it has also raised security concerns that the house of worship will become a target, USA Today reported.
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Now imagine, just days before the shindig, you were forced to cancel the event on account of an arcane law outlawing dancing within 500 feet of a house of worship.
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I found that out the hard way as I traveled through the Balkans and tried to go dancing, and also in Italy when trying to enter a house of worship.
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He was also reduced in rank to private and confined to his quarters, mess hall and house of worship for 60 days; he then was given a bad conduct discharge.
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"An attack on any house of worship is an attack on all houses of worship," Ismael Claudio, bishop of the Pentecostal Church of Jesus Christ in Brooklyn, told USA Today.
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St. Joseph's is the only house of worship in Battery Park City, a park-filled, state-run enclave of roughly 13,000 residents just west of the World Trade Center site.
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By targeting a house of worship, rather than a private home or business, the attacker has committed a powerful symbolic transgression: profaning a space that is both sacred and communal.
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The show's theme, as Godsill conceptualizes it, was "technological misuse and abuse," which seems disconnected from this former house of worship, in a city that still runs largely on analogue systems.
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When Barninder rides to the Glen Rock gurudwara, the young boys in the parking lot of that house of worship become magnetized, pulled in by the chrome of his Harley Davidson.
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Earnest was charged on Monday with one count of first-degree murder, three counts of first-degree attempted murder and arson of a house of worship, according to a criminal complaint.
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In August 2012, a decade after my brother Sukhpal was killed, a white supremacist entered a Sikh house of worship in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on a Sunday morning and opened fire.
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When "a seat of government begins to resemble a house of worship", he wrote, "the values of religious observance are put at risk, and the danger of religious division rises accordingly".
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As we view images of the carnage, we look for explanations for the inexplicable, feel stricken by the madness of a man who intentionally opens fire in a house of worship.
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I was taken, even moved, by the spirit, as they say, and couldn't help but join in the dancing as Mr. Franti's call to prayer brought down the house of worship.
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Pious members of the Serbian Orthodox Church attend their local house of worship several meters underground, where they gaze upon glistening stained glass windows and biblical reliefs carved into the walls.
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The event, which included Stone as a panelist, seemed more like a revival meeting at a Sunday house of worship than an academic conference, according to a reporter who was there.
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This is not only a place out-of-towners visit to snap selfies, but one where Isfahanis go to buy shoes and spices, pray in a house of worship and relax.
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Jerome Lewis, the 56-year old head of House of Worship Christian Center in Las Vegas, said shortly before offering the opening prayer for a Biden event in West Last Vegas.
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"It is disturbing enough that some sick individual would attempt to burn a house of worship to the ground, but referencing the slayings in New Zealand is beyond the pale," Craun said.
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On Saturday, one person died at a shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue outside San Diego, after a 19-year-old man with an assault weapon stormed the house of worship.
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While this temple doesn't have the historical significance of some of the other locations on the list, this house of worship is a must-see spot regardless of the time of day.
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So, while I really want you to read my book, I kind of don't want you to if we know one another through our children, our house of worship or my mother.
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In this brownstone house of worship at 15 West 19663th Street — now scorched and roofless after a fire on Sunday — Edith Newbold Jones was married in April 1885 to Edward Robbins Wharton.
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Synagogue Square, a stark, near-empty anomaly in the crowded old city, marks the site of Heidelberg's former Jewish house of worship, which was burned down by Nazi storm troopers in 1938.
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For the over 3 million visitors who travel to see Hagia Sophia every year, these elections may or may not have an impact on their experience within the great house of worship.
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Now if a swastika is drawn on a utility pole not near a Jewish-owned residence, business or house of worship, it will still be categorized as an anti-Semitic hate crime.
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To America's largest house of worship, the 40,000-member Lakewood Church, she is the statuesque blonde who spearheaded the megachurch's ministry for women and preached weekly sermonettes about the divine good life.
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The legislation, which was passed in March, created an offense for graffiti making as a hate crime and stiffened penalties for desecrating a cemetery or damaging property in a house of worship.
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State police were also helping with the investigation Monday, "because it's a house of worship and what's going on in our nation right now," New Haven Fire Department Chief John Alston told WFSB.
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Lt. Brian Murphy was wounded in the line of duty when arriving on the scene of a shooting at the Sikh gurdwara (house of worship) in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, on August 5, 2012.
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In recent years, the Muslim community has faced conflicts with other Minnesota residents, including vandalism to mosques and opposition to at least one new Islamic house of worship, according to the Star Tribune.
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As news began to spread of a shooting at the "conservative" house of worship, commentators on Twitter noted the difference between Conservative Judaism as a religious denomination and conservatism as a political philosophy.
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He may think it's uncouth to blow up one's enemies in a house of worship, but when push comes to shove he'll fall in line with whoever promises to fight the foreign hordes.
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But since that black church was attacked, the doors have been closed at this house of worship that serves the largest and oldest black congregation in the area, surrounded by mostly white suburbs.
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The vast majority of the people who responded to the poll — 0003% — said that either their religious services had been canceled or their house of worship had been closed due to the coronavirus.
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Now in its 33rd year of existence, the church is no longer just a historically significant house of worship, but home to one of Toronto's best kept secrets: the Coptic Museum of Canada.
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In his first televised comments on Saturday's deadly mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue, President Donald Trump appeared to place some blame on officials at the house of worship for not having stronger security.
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A four-minute walk takes you from the site of a triple murder across the street from a church to the sites of three more killings, each within eyeshot of a house of worship.
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The massacre at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, which left 26 dead and 20 wounded, is the worst mass shooting at a house of worship in American history and the fifth deadliest overall.
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At the Greater Target AME Church, members informed Harris' campaign team she was the first presidential candidate to visit the rural house of worship, not just in 2019 — but in its 150-year history.
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Earnest pleaded not guilty to the state charges, and to one count of arson on a house of worship stemming from a pre-dawn fire that damaged the Islamic Center of Escondido on March 24.
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"This act of hate campaign targeting a New England house of worship must be investigated by state and federal law enforcement authorities," said John Robbins, the head of the group's Massachusetts-based New England chapter.
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Few Turks oppose the mosque — although some question its size and derivative Ottoman design — but the symbolism of a house of worship dominating the monuments of Ataturk's secular republic is not lost on Istanbul residents.
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Police said the electrician visited the house of worship multiple times because his wages were overdue, and eventually got into a heated debate with the caretaker -- who then used his pet lion to attack the man.
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Las Vegas (CNN)Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, both hoping to win over Nevada's African-American electorate ahead of this week's presidential caucus, attended an aptly named house of worship on Sunday: Victory Missionary Baptist Church.
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LONDON — Police officers and counterterrorism officials in Britain were investigating attacks on five mosques Thursday, including one in which a man took a sledgehammer to smash the windows of a house of worship in Birmingham, England.
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A prominent house of worship in Southern California has been flipped — from a towering glass megachurch of a flamboyant televangelist to the new seat of the seventh-largest Roman Catholic Church diocese in the United States.
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The city of Charleston was thrust into the racially charged discussion about gun violence in June, when a white gunman fatally shot nine people at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historically black house of worship.
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Prince Edward's wife, Sophie, Countess of Wessex and 12-year-old daughter Lady Louise Windsor, entered the house of worship with Prince Andrew's daughters Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, who were back in England from New York City.
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The victims' tiny house of worship, Al-Furqan Jame Masjid, is part of a relatively small but growing Bangladeshi community in what was once a heavily Italian-American area better known as the turf of John Gotti.
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" It directed the Treasury secretary, who oversees the Internal Revenue Service, not to pursue enforcement efforts against any "individual, house of worship or other religious organization" for speaking about "moral or political issues from a religious perspective.
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The house of worship is believed to be the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak after a man who attends the synagogue, a 50-year-old attorney who works in Manhattan, tested positive for the virus last week.
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Six killings, one arrest A four-minute walk takes you from the site of a triple slaying across the street from a church to the sites of three more killings, each within eyeshot of a house of worship.
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But rest finally found him on Friday during a ceremony of prayer, speeches and hymns at the Washington National Cathedral, the neo-Gothic, Episcopal house of worship that is a fixture of American politics and religion in Washington.
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One paradox at the center of this question is that at times when the news is full of catastrophic headlines, a house of worship feels, to many people, like a natural place to go for comfort and support.
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In the 1980s, when Sikh immigrants from India began arriving in New Jersey in significant numbers, they lacked a proper house of worship, so they set up a tent on a patch of dirt and began to pray.
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Wearing glasses and dark blue jail-issued clothes, the 19-year-old was assigned a public defender as he faces one count of murder, a count of arson of a house of worship and three counts of attempted murder.
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As a New Yorker, I feel disenfranchised from the process, since the only time most candidates come to Brooklyn is for some photo op at an ethnic house of worship or to appear, fleetingly, at an ethnic street fair.
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While a fire at any house of worship would be a concern, they said, this event was especially worrying given the 9/11 anniversary, which fell this year on the day before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
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Erdogan, a pious man who has styled himself as a champion for Muslims in Turkey and beyond, spoke at the opening of a Turkish-sponsored mosque near Washington, reportedly the largest Muslim house of worship in the United States.
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Toronto's Sony Centre for the Performing Arts on a Friday night in May had the frenzied quality one expects of a house of worship, the anteroom and lobby before the show fizzing with the thrill of the true believers.
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Congregation Beth Israel, the red brick synagogue in downtown Charlottesville that is the sole house of worship for the city's Jewish population, sits one block from the Robert E. Lee statue where the alt-right rallied on August 12.
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The promise of immortality is core to many religions, but it's rarely as literal as it is at The Church of Perpetual Life, a zealous house of worship in Hollywood, Florida whose members have decided they don't want to die.
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A parent who brings their unvaccinated child under 18 years old to a business, school, house of worship, or other public building could face a misdemeanor charge carrying a sentence of up to six months in jail and a $500 fine.
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Section 2 instructs the IRS "not take any adverse action against any individual, house of worship or other religious organisation on the basis that such individual or organisation speaks or has spoken about moral or political issues from a religious perspective".
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If you find yourself sitting in a house of worship and a fellow parishioner leans over and whispers something about a can't-miss investment opportunity, you may be wise to put your prayer book down and run for the exit.
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Ferguson was arrested last fall along with several other members of the Word of Life Christian Church in Chadwicks, New York, after Lucas Leonard, 13, died from wounds he'd sustained in the alleged prolonged attack inside the secluded house of worship.
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Grass-roots patriots now mobilize to defeat Roy Moore, a far extremist who was nominated to represent Alabama in the Senate, and elect Doug Jones, who once successfully prosecuted Ku Klux Klan members who bombed a house of worship in Alabama.
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QUEBEC CITY (Reuters) - The French-Canadian student accused of killing six people during evening prayers in a Quebec City mosque had rented an apartment nearby, neighbors said on Tuesday, a sign he may have been targeting the house of worship.
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It disgusts me that, not even a week after a madman who may have been triggered by the hysteria surrounding migrants killed 11 Jews in a house of worship in Pittsburgh, Trump is back to his old playbook of demonizing immigrants.
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Although the diversity of congregations is growing nationwide, eight in 10 Americans still attend a house of worship in which one ethnic group makes up at least 80 percent of the congregation, according to the most recent National Congregations Study.
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Residents like Mr. Flores were left trying to grasp how nearly one-tenth of a community's population could be cut down in the span of a few minutes, and how such a thing could happen in a house of worship.
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"If this tax bill passes, one thing Americans won't have to worry about is whether their house of worship or local charitable nonprofit will be turned into a PAC," said the organization's executive director, Amanda Tyler, in an emailed statement.
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"It is disturbing enough that some sick individual would attempt to burn a house of worship to the ground, but referencing the slayings in New Zealand is beyond the pale," he said in a statement after the Escondido mosque fire.
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"It is horrifying that innocents were massacred in a house of worship once again, a terrifying reality for all people of faith in this country who believe that their congregations are sanctuaries of peace, safety, life, and love," the letter reads.
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A note in the car of Emanuel Kidega Samson, 25, indicated a possible plot spurred by the fatal 2015 shootings at Emanuel AME church, a historic African-American house of worship in Charleston, the newspaper said, citing unnamed people familiar with the investigation.
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A law enforcement vehicle prominently parked in front of a house of worship is also a strong deterrent to crime, said Claude Pichard, director of Training Force USA, which worked with churches across the country to improve security after the Charleston shooting.
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Time in a halfway house allows inmates to reestablish bonds with their family, obtain a driver's license, look for a job, find a house of worship, and other activities that will help them successfully transition from incarceration to freedom as law-abiding citizens.
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When Ofelia brings Nick to pray with her and he is asked "When was the last time you were in a church?" he remembers his first sighting of the undead, as he woke from a heroin stupor in an abandoned house of worship.
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"Because of the use of a Bible in the vandalism, we would urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate the possibility of a bias motive for this attack on a house of worship," said CAIR national communications director Ibrahim Hooper.
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If the play is coming out at the wrong times (when you're trying to get your kid dressed, or at your local house of worship, for example), set guidelines for when the play is appropriate using child-friendly language, Dr. Diaz suggested.
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LONDON — On a bright spring afternoon, Stereolab's Tim Gane stood on a quiet back street south of the River Thames, gazing quizzically at a church that once held Blackwing Studios, the storied recording complex inside a deconsecrated 19th-century house of worship.
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"We welcome the hate crime charge brought against the alleged arsonist and hope it sends a strong message to anyone contemplating attacking a house of worship," said Mustafaa Carroll, the executive director of the Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
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Because if the legal definition of 'church' is so myopically narrow as to mean just a house of worship, protected religious activity in this country would become a matter of private belief alone, rendering a good part of the First Amendment meaningless.
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"It was a bit different for me in a number of ways, as it caused me to relive my personal horror of October 27 as well as meet my expectation that there would be a massacre in another house of worship," Myers wrote.
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After years of negotiation, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 2011 gave the church the current site at the eastern end of Liberty Park, where it will be the only house of worship at the World Trade Center.
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"This massacre is a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or a house of worship or a movie theater or a nightclub," Obama said.
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John Earnest, arrested shortly after Saturday's bloodshed at the Chabad of Poway synagogue north of San Diego, also pleaded not guilty to a single count of arson on a house of worship stemming from a nearby mosque that was set on fire in March.
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With mass shootings in recent weeks in a house of worship, a yoga studio and a bar — not to mention the hundreds of other shootings across the U.S. in 2018 — I am beginning to think there are no safe places left in this country.
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It's heartbreaking to know that our classmates, co-workers, neighbors, and loved ones can be killed at school, a house of worship, a movie theater, a music festival, a night club, a restaurant, or even at home, and we feel powerless to stop the carnage.
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"This massacre is, therefore, a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a movie theater or in a nightclub," he said.
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Or should original language (like Quranic Arabic) and archaic language (thou and all those subjunctives in English) remind worshippers that religion is not just any old set of beliefs and practices, just as there are special rules for the Sabbath or a house of worship?
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"This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or a house of worship or a movie theater or a nightclub," Mr. Obama said.
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A quick walk from the main piazza is the archaeological complex Terme della Rotonda (free admission), an ancient thermal bath complex from the Roman Empire that was repurposed and used as a Christian house of worship beginning in the sixth century — the oldest in Catania.
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We've since learned that the shooter's alleged motive for carrying out this heinous attack on a house of worship was nearly identical to that of the Tree of Life killer: He saw Jews as a threat to the white race, who therefore needed to be eradicated.
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"Because of the use of a Bible in the vandalism, we would urge state and federal law enforcement authorities to investigate the possibility of a bias motive for this attack on a house of worship," a spokesman for the Muslim advocacy group said in a statement.
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"There is evidence to suggest Sunday's fire at a New Haven house of worship — a mosque, to be more specific, during the holy days of Ramadan, no less — was both intentional and incendiary in its nature," New Haven Mayor Toni N. Harp said in a statement.
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"While we are saddened by this hate-motivated crime against a house of worship, we are relieved that the arm of justice is long and bends toward what is right," said Mustafaa Carroll, the Council of American-Islamic Relations-Houston's executive director, in response to the verdict.
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Even if you trust in the "good guy with a gun" mythology of being protected, consider this: Nobody expects the faithful in a tiny town to get up on a Sunday morning and strap on a pistol before they head to their house of worship for prayer.
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A CITY AND A CHURCH: THE REMARKABLE HISTORY OF ST. PAUL'S CHAPEL AND THE STREETS BEYOND THE DOORS (Sunday) This weekend is the 21650th anniversary of St. Paul's Chapel, a history-rich house of worship that survived both the Revolutionary War and the attacks of Sept. 26.
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But the abandonment of a belief in a Jesus-like messiah figure generally prevailed, as did the growing use of the term "temple" in the United States to describe a Jewish house of worship, as if to imply that the ancient temple of Jerusalem had become irrelevant.
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The Finsbury Park Mosque, a major house of worship in North London, opened in 1994 and became a hotbed of Islamist militants, but it was reconstituted in 2005 with a "new ethos," according to its website, and on Monday, Christian ministers gathered there to show solidarity.
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" Obama urged for stricter gun laws, noting that the attack is a "reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a movie theater or in a nightclub.
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" President Barack Obama said Sunday afternoon that the massacre is "a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a movie theater or in a nightclub.
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" Here's what the order calls for: An easing of the ban on political involvement by religious entities The order instructs the Treasury Department not to penalize any individual, house of worship, or other religious organization that "speaks or has spoken about moral or political issues from a religious perspective.
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Most people who give to charity start off with donations to their alma mater, their house of worship or a hospital or social service agency that helped them, according to the annual Giving USA report, which found that charitable giving was up 2.7 percent, to $390 billion, in 2016.
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After the hate massacre at a Sikh house of worship in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in 2012, President Obama's quick response, Attorney General Eric Holder's remarks at the memorial service, and first lady Michelle Obama's meeting with family members all conveyed an important message: We see you and we feel your pain.
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Whether Mr. Oliver is explaining the history of Donald J. Trump's family by leading a campaign to change Mr. Trump's surname to Drumpf or starting his own house of worship to better explain how tax-exempt megachurches work, "Last Week Tonight" is continuing to perfect the art of explaining by doing.
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Had the floors of the St. Paul's Episcopal Church on Staten Island not been made of slate, the 150-year-old house of worship might have burned to the ground on Sunday, when, the police said, a person threw a burning bottle filled with flammable liquid through an open window.
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The Queen of Soul was moved to her late father's former house of worship -- where it all started for Aretha -- at the New Bethel Baptist Church in Detroit, as she's set to lie in repose for more public viewing before a star-studded lineup takes the stage in her honor tonight.
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The government's lawsuit, filed on Thursday, said the denial of the application from the group, the American Islamic Community Center, was the first time in a decade that the planning commission in Sterling Heights, about 16 miles from downtown Detroit, has denied a land use application for a house of worship.
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This would put them closer to their families and enable them to look for a job; get a driver's license; open a bank account; affiliate with a church, synagogue or other house of worship; and begin other activities to help them stay on the straight and narrow after they finish their sentences.
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While the shooters' motives appear to differ — Charleston shooter Dylann Roof is a self-professed white supremacist while the Texas shooter was motivated in part by a domestic dispute with his wife's family — the fact that both attacks were in a house of worship demonstrates a glaring lack of humanity, Graham says.
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Michael Wolfe was arrested on a charge of criminal mischief against a house of worship on Monday after surveillance video showed a man using a machete to break windows, lights and cameras at the Masjid Al-Munin mosque and leaving raw bacon at the front door, Titusville police said in a brief statement.
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"This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub," Obama declared after the Pulse shooting in Orlando, the 0003rd mass shooting of 2016.
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For some cheaper options that require a little less effort, try the Delhi Evening Tour, which includes the Ancient Hanuman Temple and the Gurudwara Bangla Sahib (a Sikh house of worship) for $22, or see the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Rashtrapati Bhavan — the official home of the President of India — for a grand total of zero dollars.
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Latinos for Trump founder warned "defend your country" from Hispanics New poll shows Trump's problems with Latino voters won't get better Trump recommits to mass deportation in fiery immigration speech The demonstrators outside the Great Faith International Ministries included ministers and other clergy who gathered on a median across from a back entrance to the house of worship.
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Since this one was at a house of worship, like the Sikh temple shooting in Wisconsin in 2012, the racist Emanuel AME church massacre in Charleston in 2015, and the First Baptist Church shooting in Texas in 2017, other faith congregations will donate generously, overwhelmingly moved to bear witness that their God loves all human beings.
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"The line between what is prohibited and what is permitted regarding campaign activity can be difficult to distinguish and IRS inquiry into the tax status of a house of worship and examination of its records and activities raise serious concerns under the First Amendment's Free Exercise Clause and under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993," Cornyn said.
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The president also termed the shooting a new reminder of "how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a movie theater or in a nightclub," a reference to other mass killings that have punctuated recent U.S. history.
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The 220-room property opened last December and has been renovated with a nod to its past: the lobby's 60-foot vaulted ceiling, brass details and large copper entry doors recall the building's days as a house of worship, and so do the pews, now repainted in bright colors, that are scattered throughout the public spaces.
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In narrowing them down from among the best dozen or so that we received, Mr. Johnson said he put himself back in the mind-set of the gatekeeper role he once held at Brown, when there were so many essays to read that he felt guilty being in a house of worship without a pile of paper in front of him.
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This house of worship was a house of extremities, from the interior design (faux Venetian with a stuffed male lion in the foyer for flair) to the people (a bishop who wore Versace-patterned tops and, when really moved by the spirit, had an inclination to wave large battle swords onstage) to the message itself (people journeyed to our church to hear the voice of God).
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Here is the key sentence: In particular, the Secretary of the Treasury shall ensure, to the extent permitted by law, that the Department of the Treasury does not take any adverse action against any individual, house of worship, or other religious organization on the basis that such individual or organization speaks or has spoken about moral or political issues from a religious perspective, where speech of similar character has, consistent with law, not ordinarily been treated as participation or intervention in a political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) a candidate for public office by the Department of the Treasury.
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