Instead they made the great outdoors our place of worship.
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The New York landmark serves almost as a place of worship.
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He spent every weekend at the Gurdwara (Sikh place of worship).
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Parishioners lost the safety of their place of worship that day.
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Drive them out of your place of worship, or your communities.
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Rather, it is a place of worship of the one God.
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They're even denied the opportunity to step into a place of worship.
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Or a shooting in a place of worship, a school, a courthouse.
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And remember, these people were gunned down in their place of worship.
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Wishing to practice their faith peacefully, in their own place of worship.
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They were asked to match them up to the "correct" place of worship.
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The shooter turned his gun on people -- kids -- in a place of worship.
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They should have a place of worship close to where they work and home.
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No American should be afraid to go to work or their place of worship.
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The Sikh National Center is the Houston gurdwara, or place of worship, that Dhaliwal attended.
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It was a rare attack on a Shi'ite place of worship in the Iraqi capital.
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He volunteers at the couple's place of worship in Elmhurst, St. Adalbert Roman Catholic Church.
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These include attempted murder, criminal intimidation, promoting religious enmity and defiling a place of worship.
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Even when 11 people were gunned down in a place of worship just days ago.
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It's a place where even a place of worship is no longer safe from gun violence.
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A Dutch law prevents authorities from entering a place of worship while religious services are occurring.
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Every house of worship should be a safe place of worship, theological reflection, hope and healing.
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It was the third mass shooting in a place of worship in the last three years.
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The shrine has functioned for centuries as a place of worship for Muslims and Hindus alike.
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He teased a spiritual connection with Baldwin, whom he bonded with at shared place of worship Hillsong.
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The dudes behind California death metal upstarts Our Place of Worship Is Silence are salty as fuck.
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"A fire at any place of worship is alarming, regardless of the circumstances," the sheriff's office said.
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Every person in America should feel safe at school, the movies, nightclubs, their place of worship — everywhere.
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He spoke painstakingly about the difficulty and challenges in finally cleansing the place of worship from terrorists.
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Worshiping dear old departed Larry means, of course, also worshiping his place of worship: the Paradise Garage.
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But the fact that a pastor has done this in a place of worship is quite telling.
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Lam met a coffee roaster, several business mentors and a few investors at his place of worship.
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When he arrived, he could hear bullets flying flying from a gunman inside his place of worship.
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It's really scary to me that any public gathering, any place of worship, any school is a target.
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ICE officials are not welcome in their place of worship and personal information is shared on the internet.
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ICE officials are not welcome in their place of worship and personal information is shared on the Internet.
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CT vigil service took place at the Graves' place of worship, St. Patrick Catholic Church, in Elkhorn, Nebraska.
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The mosque in Fort Pierce, identified as Mateen's place of worship, has reported threats of violence and intimidation.
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It was at least the third mass shooting in a place of worship in the last three years.
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Being a place of worship, it lacked a dungeon, and so the region of Piedmont has built one.
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"This was an attack on Muslims near their place of worship," said May who later visited the mosque.
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Notre Dame is fundamentally a place of worship and retains great religious importance, but its meaning has broadened.
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Under Dutch law, police are barred from entering a place of worship while a ceremony is in progress.
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In 2012 a gunman walked into a gurdwara, a Sikh place of worship, in Wisconsin and killed six people.
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"No enemy of democracy deserves a place of worship nor institutional respect," Mr Sánchez said of the court ruling.
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Or is it so we can go into a nightclub, place of worship, or school to kill innocent people?
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I found in the documents displayed not a fiction or a void, but a place of worship, of value.
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"The tragedy of course is worsened by the fact [that] it occurred in a place of worship," he continued.
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The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations said the act constituted a desecration of the place of worship.
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A place of worship is expressly targeting female congregants who worship shoes — thanks to its high-heel-shaped architecture.
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Sunday's shooting was the largest mass killing in a place of worship in U.S. history, according to NBC News.
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Australian Federal Police's counter terrorism national manager said that attacking a place of worship had no place in society.
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"It's so awful that this should happen, especially in a place of worship," he said on Twitter on Thursday.
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"We visit a gurdwara as often as a mosque," she said, referring to a place of worship for Sikhs.
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Congregants alternate between calling Mr. Cahn their pastor or rabbi, and their place of worship a church or synagogue.
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"It's really scary to me that any public gathering, any place of worship, any school is a target," Madonna said.
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The MMM conversation has been extended to churches, where the official position varies from one place of worship to another.
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Far from being a Spartan, stripped-back place of worship, the complex includes a sports hall, libraries, and a gym.
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"It says that here in Britain we celebrate weapons — in a place of worship — that can kill millions of people."
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The app can also find the nearest place of worship, explain how church weddings work and recite the Ten Commandments.
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Drop by a place of worship, or spend time in meditation, and see what news your inner voice brings you.
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Americans typically want presidents of faith, but history shows they don't reflexively choose candidates from their own place of worship.
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The island's southwestern corner features an unusual blue-and-white-striped building that resembles a temple or place of worship.
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Someone from your family, social group, place of worship, or workplace could very easily fall victim to our broken system.
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"A cemevi is not a place of worship, it is a center for cultural activities," Mr. Erdogan argued in 2012.
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On top of that, he's totally down for using his gift at another popular place of worship -- Kanye's Sunday Service.
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Temple members found their place of worship desecrated with what police said were hate-filled religious phrases and black crosses.
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During an inspection of a place of worship a fire chief should have a frank discussion with the person in charge, explaining reasons why manual firefighting is not successful, and recommend the most effective way to insure survival of an irreplaceable, historic place of worship is to install an automatic sprinkler systems and smoke detectors.
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They can be people from work or school, moms from your playgroup, or people you value at your place of worship.
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For 1,2000 years the compound survived assaults by nature and man, standing as a place of worship recently for U.S. troops.
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Firefighters killed by burning place of worship fires include: The cause of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire has not been determined.
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We want to belong, to be good neighbors, to call the white man who enters our place of worship our brother.
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"Who would have thought that a place of worship and tranquility has to be prepared for something like this?" she said.
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We wandered around the side of the great, looming, palatial place of worship, the imposing white stone filling up the eyes.
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Between 2015 and 2017, he received more than 20 tickets, he says, from cops trying to shut down his place of worship.
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The magnificent place of worship where she spoke, Santa Maria Novella, is seen as a bridge between the Gothic and Renaissance styles.
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Members of the Tree of Life Synagogue — a place of worship — were brutally murdered by a gunman simply because of their faith.
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Listening to an inspiring speaker, in an audiobook or at your place of worship, is another way to feed your Sag soul.
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"Whether at a festival, place of worship, school, movie theater, or Walmart, you should always be able to feel safe," Harris tweeted.
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He could see the man who would be charged with a hate crime for killing 11 people inside his place of worship.
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Dylann Roof -- who, like Pittsburgh shooter, killed numerous innocent victims in a place of worship -- has been convicted and sentenced to death.
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Another Fort Worth place of worship, Wedgwood Baptist Church, was targeted in 1999 by a gunman who killed seven people and himself.
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Late in the city's period under Ottoman rule, the monument was also used as a place of worship by Sufi Muslim Whirling Dervishes.
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A husband and wife pair was accidentally shot in a Tennessee church after discussing church shootings with members of their place of worship.
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"What kind of message are we sending to our children when their place of worship is treated like a trash can?" she asked.
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There's nothing inherently wrong with people wanting to feel safer in the wake of hateful and devastating attacks at their place of worship.
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So, if you ever want to create your own, weird, Jason Statham-themed place of worship, these guys' basement is where you'd start.
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Temples are often forced by local governments to charge entrance fees, which mostly go to the state and not the place of worship.
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A statement by Canadian police at the time said the suspected offences occurred while he was visiting "a place of worship" in Canada.
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It has only been five days since a gunman walked into a place of worship in Texas and opened fire, killing 21 people.
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One such place is Durham, where a 1,000-year-old place of worship towers over the narrow streets of a small university town.
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We asked Ms. Petty if, in a place of worship like church, flashy fashion could distract from the deeper meaning of the holiday.
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It was the only Muslim community center and place of worship for the approximately 40 Muslim families in the city, Dr. Hashmi said.
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However, it does give the Stark family a central place of worship and helps to capture their most private moments in the weirwood network.
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While AltSpaceVR remains their primary focus for now—it's the most widely accessible—they're thinking about where to launch their next place of worship.
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Yet none of them fall outside the range of expectation, in terms of what might be on display in a historic place of worship.
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"People living at the border shouldn't have to have the government monitor when they go to the doctor or to their place of worship."
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We should never have to fear that a hate-fueled individual will fatally shoot us in our place of worship, university or movie theater.
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Of the kind that makes fun of different cultures, to the king that shoots and murders those peacefully praying in their place of worship.
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Of the kind that makes fun of different cultures, to the kind that shoots and murders those peacefully praying in their place of worship.
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Mazharuddin told the Herald that the gunman opened fire on people who were praying in the mosque shortly after entering the place of worship.
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"Jews targeted on Shabbat morning at synagogue, a holy place of worship, is unconscionable," the head of the Anti-Defamation League wrote on Twitter.
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To recruit your group, use every tool available: Facebook, LinkedIn, your school, your place of worship, your neighborhood bulletin boards, your chamber of commerce.
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"Our churches are sacred, central parts of our communities and everyone should feel safe in their place of worship, " he said in a statement.
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Ted Kennedy, where he played a key role in passing legislation making it it a federal crime to burn or vandalize a place of worship.
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Besides the charge of committing arson at a place of worship, he is charged with one count of murder and three counts of attempted murder.
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I want you to reach out to at least five people in your life, in your family, at your school, your place of worship, wherever.
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The modern St. Dunstan's Church was built in 240, but the site has had a place of worship sitting on it since Anglo-Saxon times.
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The newlyweds — who tied the knot in September two months after getting engaged — were caught by photographers as they arrived at their place of worship.
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"In addition to being a place of worship, this historic building was a New York City landmark, treasured by the people" living in the neighborhood.
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Around 400 nuns from Bhutan, Nepal, India, and Tibet live together in this place of worship, where it's not unusual for nuns speak multiple languages.
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He refused, leaving Orthodox churchgoers loyal to the Moscow Patriarchate to set up their own far more modest place of worship in a Paris garage.
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The dormant volcano is a sacred site to Native Hawaiians, who see it as a place of worship and prayer, according to the Associated Press.
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Clementa Pinckney, was one of the nine black churchgoers gunned down by a white supremacist during a Bible study in the Charleston place of worship.
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She boarded a bus to New Delhi with her two young sons, going first to a Sikh gurudwara, a place of worship, for free food.
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The gallery feels like a sanctuary, a place of worship, respect, and contemplation that fosters synchronicity between a collection of seemingly discordant and unrelated artworks.
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This was a period of radical Communist violence from 1966 to 133, when every place of worship and many symbols of the past were attacked.
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A statement by the Canadian police at the time said the suspected offenses occurred while he was visiting "a place of worship" in the country.
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In one instance, a water cannon fired a jet towards the front gate of the Kowloon mosque, Hong Kong's most important Islamic place of worship.
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Among the largest-scale shootings at a place of worship was the June 2015 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Among other things, the department asks the federal court in Virginia to grant the Islamic Center approval to use its property as a place of worship.
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"I had to remind them that we weren't trying to imitate Las Vegas, and that this was a serious place of worship and commemoration," he said.
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The Saturday shooting at the Chabad of Poway synagogue left one dead and the rabbi injured in the most recent attack at a place of worship.
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The suspect who opened fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday reportedly yelled an anti-Semitic slur before he began shooting in the place of worship.
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"This was an attack on Muslims near their place of worship and, like all terrorism in whatever form, it shares the same fundamental goal," she said.
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It has large windows overlooking lush greenery and views of Mount Iwate in the distance, a place of worship in both the Buddhist and Shinto religions.
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The suspected arson in Escondido, a city about 30 miles north of San Diego, targeted a place of worship for hundreds of Muslims in the area.
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Human Rights Watch, in a statement, said the deliberate targeting of a group of unarmed civilians in a place of worship amounted to a war crime.
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The chapel is both a nondenominational place of worship and a site-specific artwork, an installation of 14 canvases by the Abstract Expressionist painter Mark Rothko.
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The head of Sabarimala temple, a Hindu place of worship in Kerala, said that they should install machines to check whether women are menstruating or not.
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The Village Metropolitan Community Church isn't your ordinary church, however: LGBTQ people created it to have a place of worship where they'd feel included, Pink News reports.
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As the FBI investigation into Saturday's bombing continues, the Bloomington Muslim community is still waiting for the president to address the attack on its place of worship.
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"The tragedy of course is worsened by the fact it occurred in a church, a place of worship, where these people were innocently gunned down," he said.
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Image 2003 of 2 TOKYO – A large white and blue truck pulls up outside a stadium in central Japan and slowly expands into a place of worship.
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MYSTERIOUS &aposDEVIL COINS&apos DISCOVERED IN CHURCH Canterbury Cathedral, which was been a place of worship for 1,400 years, is the " mother church " of the Anglican Communion.
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Andrew McClinton, 45, who is charged with first-degree arson of a place of worship, is a member of the church congregation, according to the church's bishop.
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The setback has not daunted the city's Muslim community of about 5,000, which has continued to press for their place of worship in a series of courts.
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According to Anastasiia, All Saints' Church served as a place of worship in Maryland until the 1950s and remained empty until it was deconsecrated in the 1970s.
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I had forgotten the landmark was also a place of worship, and I was initially struck by the spectacle of piety to which Catholics seemed so unwaveringly committed.
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The court specifically stayed away from ruling on buildings that were used for religious purposes, like a church, a temple, a mosque or any other place of worship.
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A misdemeanor hate crime could involve "vandalizing a place of worship" or "assaulting someone based on their race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability," Cicilline noted.
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When Abraham came along, he and his son Ismail rebuilt the Kaaba on the foundations of Adam's earlier shrine as a place of worship of the one God.
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Our Place Of Worship Is Silence is the latest effort from a small cadre of extreme metal creatives who've been wreaking havoc across California since the early 2000s.
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Former President Carter returned to his hometown church this weekend, marking his first public appearance at his usual place of worship since he underwent brain surgery last month.
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He had also looked to infiltrate the security company that was hired by a synagogue in hopes of learning the schedule and layout of the place of worship.
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Hagatña, Guam (CNN)Father Paul Gofigan began his homily with a question for the parishioners in Guam's biggest place of worship -- the Catholic Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral Basilica.
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Under Communist rule, more Jews emigrated and the synagogue finally ceased to be a place of worship, its last rabbi leaving Hungary, after Soviet tanks crushed a 1956 uprising.
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"This desecration of a place of worship by criminals is tragic and condemnable," said a five-part statement on the verified Twitter account for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's office.
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Can we take religion out of the political picture on both sides and stop forcing the churches to be political and leave them to be a place of worship?
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As 1965 began, the most prominent Muslim place of worship in New York was Mosque No. 7 of the Nation of Islam, at Lenox Avenue and West 116th Street.
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After all, according to another Pew study, among Americans making under $30,000 a year, an equal percentage (35 percent) report going to a place of worship weekly and never.
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More seriously, Adityanath's 2014 election affidavit says he faced criminal charges including attempted murder, intimidation, promoting religious enmity, defiling a place of worship, rioting, and trespassing on burial places.
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His only child, daughter Regina Rodriguez, 33, said it was a small comfort that her father and Therese died together, deeply in love and inside their place of worship.
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If someone is streaming for the first time from a place of worship, school or hospital, there should be a different level of scrutiny on the video, he said.
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They had met car-pooling to their place of worship, which was 40 minutes away, since both are members of a small sect of Islam called Shia Imami Ismaili.
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It's a beautiful occasion to visit a place of worship or tap into your spiritual side—deep philosophical breakthroughs around your beliefs will take place, and you're feeling divinely connected.
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From Copenhagen to Los Angeles, a handful of female mosques now cater to Muslim women who want their own place of worship, just as men have had through the ages.
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Every member, he said, replied that they wanted come together more often in their place of worship—that if they were to die, what better place than at peaceful prayer?
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Outside this place of worship, I experienced hate: I was spat on, shoved out of line at a grocery store, called a "towelhead," and was even run off the road.
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There was a school, a small hospital, an interdenominational place of worship, a police station, a restaurant, eventually a mall… There were more murders per capita than most places, sure.
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The effect of MBDTF is like stepping into a place of worship; a monument to himself that's so impressive, so overwhelming, you have no choice but to surrender to it.
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Last year, the 70 village councils sent a notice to the state government, asking it to cancel all license, fearing mining will destroy their place of worship and their tradition.
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People can still obtain a permit if they wish, and in North Dakota, permitees may now carry in a church or other place of worship, if the place so allows.
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Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said agencies under former President Obama lost the understanding that religious freedoms extend beyond one's place of worship to the public square.
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The trust "has no right to discriminate on the entry of women into a public place of worship under the guise of managing the affairs of religion," the justices wrote.
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The suspect in the synagogue shooting, Robert Bowers, targeted a Jewish place of worship, made anti-Semitic statements during and after the shooting and extensively targeted Jews on social media.
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LEXINGTON, S.C. – A Baptist church in South Carolina plans to remove a hand-carved statue of Jesus Christ because some congregants believe it&aposs too "Catholic" for their place of worship.
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"Members of the Tree of Life synagogue conducting a peaceful service in their place of worship were brutally murdered by a gunman targeting them simply because of their faith," he said.
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Further, he disclosed in his 2014 election affidavit that he faced criminal cases including attempted murder; intimidation; promoting religious enmity; defiling a place of worship; rioting; and trespassing on burial places.
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The company was suddenly spamming me with a religious icon which, once I hovered over it, urged me to send a message to a place of worship I had never attended.
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We're told Beyonce's church was built in the early 1900s, but has been out of commission as a place of worship for some time due to its church members passing away.
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When I finally did step inside the squat house, it felt like a heightened amount of deference was appropriate, like walking into a place of worship that is not my own.
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In recent years, Adityanath has faced criminal charges of attempted murder, defiling a place of worship, and inciting riots in Uttar Pradesh — the state he has now been tasked with running.
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The Sunni mosque is central to Islamic life in Fort Pierce, but it has drawn scrutiny in recent years as a place of worship for young men who staged terror attacks.
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A church attended by George Washington will take down a memorial to the nation's first president, a move church leaders say is intended to make the place of worship more welcoming.
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For years this small stone hall was a place of worship for local Alevis, heterodox Muslims who are estimated to form between a tenth and a fifth of the Turkish population.
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"The purpose was not to find another Sunni place of worship but to prevent the Alevis from worshiping as they like," Mr. Gormez said during a recent interview beside the shrine.
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Its use as a Muslim place of worship saved it from the hands of British diplomat Lord Elgin, who took prized Parthenon marbles from the Acropolis some 200 years ago, Daskalakis said.
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Saturday with a semiautomatic rifle and five 10-round magazines, but fled the place of worship after firing only eight to ten rounds, prosecutors said during a court hearing in San Diego.
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As the author also points out, a more subtle female presence in early Byzantium was Holy Wisdom, or Hagia Sophia, to which the greatest place of worship in eastern Christendom was dedicated.
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Now, Samet and Charny want to be able to go back to Tree of Life -- Samet's second home for more than 50 years, Charny's place of worship for more than 60 years.
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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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Andrew McClinton, 45, was charged with arson of a place of worship for the fire at the Hopewell Baptist Church, said Warren Strain, a spokesman for the Mississippi Department of Public Safety.
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It seems Wilkerson's Miami place of worship, Vous Church, used a series of works done by artists like Typoe, Bikismo and Ahol Sniffs Glue in social media and newspaper ads ... without permission.
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To attack anyone in a place of worship is one of the most cowardly acts I can imagine, and the person responsible should be punished to the fullest extent allowed by law.
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Investigators claim that while she was held for five days in this place of worship, where the small centerpiece altar for burned offerings is overhung by a prayer bell, she was drugged.
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After receiving a stream of hate mail and death threats, the leader of a London mosque hit by a terror attack last week now fears his place of worship faces further violence.
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Abraham and Ismail later went on to build the Kaaba, the black cuboid structure in Mecca that Muslims face when they pray, together, as a place of worship of the one God.
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Matt Malone, America Media's president and editor in chief, standing in the place of worship that Marvel tucked into a corner of the organization's new offices at 216 Avenue of the Americas.
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"Not seeing people in casual contexts — like in your neighborhood and your place of worship and your school — it just completely changes the nature of the dynamic that you experience," Godsil said.
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Two years ago, a Mumbai court ruled that it was the fundamental right of women to enter any place of worship that allows men access, and that the state should protect this right.
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Called Mothering Sunday, it was traditionally a day in the middle of Lent during which those no longer home would return to their "mother" church — the main place of worship in their hometown.
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A fire that ignited Friday at a place of worship for Jehovah's Witnesses in Washington has been declared an arson, marking the state's fifth attack against the religious denomination so far this year.
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Houston (CNN)Sandeep Singh Dhaliwal was sitting in a crowd at a gurdwara -- a place of worship for Sikhs -- on a winter day in 2008 when he first heard the call of duty.
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To residents in the no-stoplight town of Sutherland Springs, Texas, population 773, the First Baptist Church had always been a place of worship and a gathering spot for neighbors, friends and family.
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While the singer didn't speak openly about his life in Zanzibar, Queen fans can now enjoy guided tours around his boyhood haunts — including his family's apartment and their place of worship, Zoroastrian temple.
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These scenarios include learning their family member, doctor and fellow member of a place of worship are LGBT, and viewing an LGBTQ co-worker's wedding picture or a same-sex couple holding hands.
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The celebrity gossip site revealed the church was built in the early 1900s but had been out of commission as a place of worship for some time due to its members passing away.
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The Al-Noor Mosque, one of the two targeted mosques in the Christchurch attack, will be one of the first to have the active shooter detection system installed at the place of worship.
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At any rate, the doors are now open, Osteen says the church is in it for the long haul and hundreds of people are now calling his place of worship a temporary home.
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As a result, Florence's main Muslim place of worship, where Mr. Elzir leads Friday prayers for as many as 1,000 people, is in a former parking garage in the center of the city.
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According to a 2013 survey, almost 20% of adults in the United States report using their phones in a place of worship, while 12% said they have used their phone in the shower.
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At St Mary's catholic church, the first place of worship to be attacked, the bombing happened after an earlier mass was over and when the church was getting ready to hold another service.
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Joyner Lucas is ripping the Catholic church for coming out against his controversial music video shot inside a place of worship ... he says they knew what they were getting into, and they profited.
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VICTORIA, Texas – A Texas mosque that was destroyed by a fire last year is opening its doors to a Unitarian congregation that lost its place of worship after a car crashed into the church.
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The site of the wartime Jewish ghetto, it is still home to the Great Synagogue on Dohany Street, the second-largest Jewish place of worship in the world, and to many other architectural jewels.
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The mosque was a place of worship for gunman Omar Mateen before he killed 49 people and wounded 53 others in June at a gay nightclub in Orlando, about 100 miles (160 km) away.
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The stained-glass windows and wall-mounted candelabras retain the air of a place of worship, while the work tables covered with squeeze bottles of paint confirm its new life as an artist's studio.
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"All people are entitled to live free from violence and fear, regardless of their religion or place of worship," said Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division in a statement.
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"When you look into the history of cathedrals across Europe, and particularly in Paris, they were first and foremost a place of worship, but also place of gathering," said Duncan Swinhoe, a at Gensler.
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Inside a place of worship there are often flammable tapestries lining stone walls, and plenty of polished wood interior decorative surfaces, and sometimes a ceiling coated with centuries of burning votive candle wax residue.
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However you define religious liberty, there is something magnificently purist about a Southern Baptist arguing passionately for the right of Muslims, or as Jefferson would call them Mahometans, to build a place of worship.
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She advises the importance of creating a ritual that represents an ending, whether by lighting a candle and saying a prayer or poem, or going to a place of worship to do something similar.
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After recovering in a Madrid hospital, Mr. Gallego returned to his hometown, where he decided to turn a family plot of land into a place of worship, without the blessing of the Catholic Church.
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In Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, Buddhist nationalists raided two madrassas in April and forced authorities to close them down on the grounds they did not have a permit to operate as a place of worship.
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The mass, which commemorates the cathedral's consecration as a place of worship, was held in a side-chapel left undamaged by the April 15 fire, with attendance limited to about 30 people wearing protective headgear.
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Philippines: A grenade lobbed into a mosque in the city of Zamboanga killed two Muslim religious leaders, the second attack in a matter of days on a place of worship in the country's restive south.
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The game uses your phone's camera, so you will get the very disconcerting impression that there is a ghost Pokémon flapping or undulating directly over your desk, your bath water, your local place of worship, etc.
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"The most obvious way this happens is through karaoke, and Jenifer Wofford's Dearly Beloved Karaoke Chapel is literally a place of worship that is giving people a site to both grieve and feel joy," he says.
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"All people are entitled to live free from violence and fear, regardless of their religion or place of worship," Acting Assistant Attorney General John Gore of the Civil Rights Division said in the Justice Department's statement.
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But Sunday's attack took more lives in an American place of worship than any previous shooting, and resulted in the largest body count of children since the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn.
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I first encountered a nontraditional place of worship when I visited Harvesters, another youth-oriented church that was founded in 2003, as a 19-year-old in search of a departure from my traditional Christian upbringing.
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For a place of worship to join the Sanctuary movement (whose supporters are mostly Christian churches but also include some synagogues and mosques) can mean helping with legal advice or simply providing a space to drop by.
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On "Kingdom Hall," he pulls from his mother's time as a Jehovah's Witness and imagines dancing and throwing away inhibition at the place of worship, despite the fact that traditionally there aren't dances at such a place.
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There were last names that matched members of my high school class, and names I'd never heard before but were all too familiar to the families I know who still attend the place of worship every week.
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In addition to the attack on the shrine in Pakistan in February, the Islamic State bombed a Sufi place of worship in Baluchistan in 2016, and has carried out targeted assassinations of Sufi clerics, including in Egypt.
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What keeps her going is the encouragement, not only from social media postings but also from the visitors who go out of their way to find a place of worship that previously existed only in their dreams.
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We must also tackle cultural barriers, and enable menstruating women and girls to participate in all activities of normal life -- from the classroom to the gym class to the workplace to the kitchen or place of worship.
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It has since become a popular place of worship for drug traffickers and criminals, as well as some who are not involved in illegal activities but still say he grants them favors in exchange for their devotion.
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"Violating a place of worship, killing priests and worshippers is not only vile, evil and satanic, it is clearly calculated to stoke up religious conflict and plunge our communities into endless bloodletting," he said in a statement.
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Michael Wolfe, 37, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to criminal mischief to a place of worship in a case considered a felony hate crime, said Todd Brown, spokesman for Florida's 18th Judicial District, which includes Brevard and Seminole counties.
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It was at once a living place of worship for the French Catholic church, and the property of the French secular state: a symbol in itself of the country's history and its present, in all its glorious contradictions.
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Neptune, the planet of illusions, delusions, fantasy, and fog, would be a great planet for you to meditate on (head to the beach for some quiet reflection, or even a place of worship: Neptune likes to get spiritual).
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"They want us to finally pass commonsense gun safety legislation, so no one has to fear being hurt or killed while at school, at work, or at their place of worship," Northam said hours after the election results.
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Zebida Bendjeddou left the mosque before the carnage erupted and spent much of Sunday night glued to her television, trading phone calls with friends and community members hungry for news of the attack on their place of worship.
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"When enforcing immigration laws, our personnel will not, except in emergency circumstances, apprehend an individual at a place of worship, a school, a hospital or doctor's office or other sensitive location," Johnson said in a February 2 memo.
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Now we must go a step further by setting up simple interfaces to help every place of worship, community center, book club, or other group keep our essential communities together when meeting in person is not possible. 6.
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Villagers are angry over the loss of the temple, which was built using donations from the community and had been a central place of worship for local rice and banana farmers for as long as anyone can remember.
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MANILA — A grenade was lobbed into a mosque in the southern Philippines before dawn on Wednesday, killing two Muslim religious leaders, in the second attack in days on a place of worship in the restive south, officials said.
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Even Strozzi's sole sacred work, the "Sacri Musicali Affetti," published in 1655, sounds the way Bernini's "Ecstasy of St. Teresa" sculpture (installed in Rome in 1652) looks: like maybe you shouldn't do that in a place of worship.
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Using a law that bars police from entering a place of worship while a service is in progress, hundreds of supporters of the Tamrazyan family have held rites non-stop at the Bethel church in The Hague since Oct.
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Notre Dame was at once a living place of worship for the French Catholic church and the property of the French secular state: a symbol in itself of the country's history and its present, in all its glorious contradictions.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered an end to hearings in a long-running dispute between Hindus and Muslims over a place of worship, laying the ground for a verdict that could lead to further divisions.
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Bethel Church in The Hague has been cycling out different religious leaders to utilize a Dutch law that prevents immigration authorities from entering a place of worship while religious services are being held, The New York Times reported Thursday.
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Here was what one might call the other Russia, a local effort to raise funds in pursuit of the somewhat quixotic task of renovating the Church of the Nativity, once the place of worship attached to an aristocratic estate.
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"Our prophet had taught us even while we fight not to kill a child nor woman nor old person nor worshiper in his place of worship," the Harakat Sawa'd Misr, or Hasam Movement, said in a statement on its Facebook page.
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Saturday's mass, which commemorates the cathedral's consecration as a place of worship, is due to be held at 1600 GMT in a side-chapel, with attendance limited to about 30 people who will wear the protective headgear for safety reasons.
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Former members agree the church had dangerous effects on its members Former Word of Life Christian Church member Nathan Ames tells PEOPLE the church had changed drastically over the years from a place of worship to an alleged house of torment.
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When you look at where we were 100 years ago and you look at where we are now, there was a lot more attachment to institutions — your union, the Elks, the Eagles, bowling, your church or other place of worship.
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"Every single community has their own place of worship, we're just asking for our own," said Ali Hassan, a 25-year-old member of the Muslim community whose family moved to Bayonne from Egypt when he was in the third grade.
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The mountain, named after the Hindu sage Agasthya, is considered sacred to the Kani, and though Venu said it is not a traditional place of worship, a statue of the sage was placed on the mountain about 20 years ago.
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Mr. Patterson, the former state senator, often carried a gun in his boot in Austin when he served as the Texas land commissioner, and he saw no difference in carrying at a place of business or a place of worship.
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It seems more than just a trek to a place of worship ... it's a showing of a united front with some of Scooter's most famous clients ... this in the wake of Taylor Swift's campaign against the manager and his Big Machine.
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Malecki says one of the keys to not being taken in by a religious-based affinity fraud is to separate your faith in a higher power from your faith in an investment advisor who shows up at your place of worship.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — A powerful car bomb near a Shiite place of worship in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 22 people and wounded at least 90 others on Friday, breaking a brief lull in militant violence in the restive region, officials said.
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The donations — more than 23,000 — will go toward rebuilding the only Muslim community center and place of worship for the approximately 40 Muslim families in the city, Dr. Shahid Hashmi, a surgeon who helped found the mosque in 2000, has said.
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Last week, several top Democrats were targeted by pipe bombs, two black Americans were killed in what appeared to be a racially-motivated murder, and a terror attack against Jewish Americans in their place of worship that left 22016 people dead.
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Many also say they do not feel at home here, and the Western Wall, the iconic place of worship in Jerusalem's Old City that attracts throngs of ultra-Orthodox Jews and tourists daily, has been the highest-profile symbol of that alienation.
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No place of worship certified by his organisation would ever disseminate such ideas; nor would imams trained with the EMB's help ever be exposed to such thinking; and the Executive would also make sure that Muslim prisoners were not exposed to extremist theology.
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" Zachary Weiss, 26, a Tree of Life congregation member whose father was filling in as a rabbi during the services on Saturday, tells PEOPLE the shooter had easy access to the synagogue — as a place of worship, it practices "an open-door policy.
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Under President Nicolas Sarkozy, France banned women from wearing the niqab in any public place, making it illegal for women to be outside the house with their faces veiled, unless they were in a place of worship or a passenger in a car.
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Decades ago, the city of Hialeah — a large blue-collar city of mostly Cuban-American immigrants outside Miami — was sued by the Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, which wanted to operate a place of worship in an old used-car lot.
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Hindu group on Saturday in a centuries-old dispute with minority Muslims over a place of worship in northern India that has been a lightning rod for tension between the two communities.
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But Rita Maestre, the spokesperson for Madrid's city council, was convicted not so much because she insulted the religious feelings of Catholics, but because she staged a protest at a place of worship, thus disrupting the right of others to practise their religion.
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FLORESVILLE, Texas (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Mike Pence traveled on Wednesday to rural southeastern Texas, where he paid tribute to the victims and heroes from a church massacre that stands as the deadliest gun violence ever committed in a U.S. place of worship.
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PARIS (Reuters) - French anti-terrorist police have arrested 10 far-right militants after an investigation showed they may have had vague plans of carrying out a violent attack on a place of worship or a person, a court official said on Tuesday.
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One of Mohammed's first acts upon taking control of the city was to go into the Kaaba and smash the idol of Hubal and the hundreds of other idols to pieces, rededicating the shrine as a place of worship of the one God.
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But in early December, the police shut down Mr. Gu's usual place of worship, the Early Rain Covenant Church in the southwest city of Chengdu, as part of what activists say is the most severe crackdown on Christianity in more than a decade.
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The US military denies it targeted a place of worship, claiming that the strike along the border of Idlib and Aleppo provinces was aimed at a building a mere 40-50 feet (12-15 meters) away believed to be hosting an al Qaeda meeting.
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And for folk who rarely darken the door of any place of worship at other times, it can seem natural to gather at the church, whether inside or outside, and ponder the lists of locally familiar names, recalling young men who left and never returned.
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Owned by former advertising CEO Andrew Torba, Gab gained national notoriety following the October 2018 Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh, in which the shooter announced his intent to attack the place of worship on Gab before killing 11 people and injuring six others.
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ZALAVAR, Hungary (Reuters) - Twice a month a few dozen Russian orthodox believers gather in a small Catholic chapel whose foundations date back to the 11th century, their temporary place of worship as they do not have a church of their own in western Hungary.
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CAPE TOWN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Neatly laid out and facing Mecca, it is the colourful prayer mats arranged in a rainbow pattern that offer the first clue that the Masjid Ul-Umam mosque in Cape Town, South Africa, is not a typical place of worship.
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But these hateful words stained my family's place of worship just a week after the Republican Party's leading presidential contender approvingly repeated a story about dipping bullets in pigs' blood and shooting Muslim rebels and two days before he won seven states in the primary.
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"The Bensalem Masjid is very pleased that a solution could be achieved, and looks forward to building a place of worship that can serve its members and their children for generations to come," Manzoor Chaudhry, a spokesman for the group, said in a statement.
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They include "having an L.G.B.T. person at my place of worship" (20023 percent of Americans are "very" or "somewhat" uncomfortable), seeing a same-sex couple holding hands (31 percent are uncomfortable) and "learning my child has an L.G.B.T. teacher at school" (37 percent are uncomfortable).
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An engaging, humorous and commanding figure, Dr. Hall relishes the history surrounding his unique position, and sees Professor Hawking's ceremony in the context of the thousands that have come before in a place of worship that was founded more than a thousand years ago.
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While companies like Amazon sell Rekognition to the feds and pitch ICE, governments around the world have become enamored of the technology's dark promise to track people "attending a protest, congregating outside a place of worship, or simply living their lives," as the ACLU puts it.
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According to Ames, the Word of Life Christian Church – where nine congregants allegedly kicked, whipped, and punched Lucas and his 17-year-old brother, Christopher, who survived the merciless, 12-hour blitz – had lost its luster, transforming from a place of worship to a house of torment.
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Attacks on innocent people gathering in a place of worship or enjoying a holiday meal are affronts to the universal values and freedoms that we hold dear, and demonstrate yet again the brutal nature of radical terrorists whose sole aim is to threaten peace and security.
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"This is the city of world civilizations, we have the Hagia Sophia and Sultanahmet mosque," he said, referring to the museum that was once a place of worship for Christians and then for Muslims, and to the mosque famed for its minarets and blue wall tiles.
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I think social media is a really powerful tool for people of common interests to convene, and get to know each other and connect, but then it's important for them to get offline, meet at the pub, meet at a place of worship, meet in a neighbourhood.
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Minutes before she was found on the side of the road early on Thanksgiving last year, missing California mom-of-two Sherri Papini ran for help at a place of worship before turning back to head to the interstate, according to authorities and newly released surveillance video.
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Since Europe's migrant crisis began last summer, a further 50,000 mostly Muslim migrants and refugees who fled wars in the Middle East and beyond became stranded in Greece after countries northwards to western Europe closed their borders, and calls for a formal place of worship have grown.
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Mohagher Iqbal, chair of the MILF peace panel, said his organization "is ready to support efforts in the apprehension of the perpetrators of the senseless violence that occurred in a place of worship while people were attending the morning mass," according to Philippine state media PNA.
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Howell describes it well: Built by Muslim migrants for use as a place of worship, this mosque, like the one on "Cairo Street," was intended to represent Islam to American observers, but the Muslims of Highland Park hoped to create a very different impression of their faith.
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Meredith's words reflect a difficult tension when it comes to the aftermath of tragic violence, particularly when that tragic violence occurs within a Christian place of worship: According to the FBI, almost 4 percent of mass shootings between 2000 and 2013 took place in a church.
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"Attacks on innocent people gathering in a place of worship or enjoying a holiday meal are affronts to the universal values and freedoms that we hold dear, and demonstrate yet again the brutal nature of radical terrorists whose sole aim is to threaten peace and security," Pompeo said.
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"Whether any authority governing a place of worship is empowered to prohibit women's entry, in clear violation of the constitutional mandate of equality, is the issue which our courts have to decide," said Flavia Agnes, a women's rights lawyer and co-founder of Majlis legal centre in Mumbai.
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The Brentwood, Long Island, native — who found fame on Sean "Diddy" Combs' Bad Boy label with 1994's "Flava in Ya Ear" — traded in the music industry for a life of faith — working at his local place of worship, the Overcomer Ministry Church, according to the Daily News.
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Louisiana's stay-at-home order includes exemptions for travel "to and from an individual's place of worship," but when a Baton Rouge pastor hosted a service of more than 300 people Tuesday night, local news channel WTVY reported, police showed up at the church to break up the gathering.
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An Edinburgh Gurdwara -- a place of worship -- was subject to an arson attack in 2018, and last year a memorial to the Sikh soldiers who fought in the British Army during the First World War was defaced just days after it was unveiled, in my hometown of Smethwick, Birmingham.
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"The Ortega regime's siege of a place of worship is unacceptable, as are the arrests of more than a dozen individuals who were attempting to aid the hunger strikers," Morgan Ortagus said in a statement on the protests in the San Miguel Archangel Church in the city of Masaya.
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The Freedom From Religion Foundation, an organization that encourages the separation of church and state, released a statement against the event Wednesday, writing, "Instead of serving 'Americans of all backgrounds,' [the breakfast] further enshrines the place of worship and religion in our political setup, acting contrary to our godless Constitution."
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Ancient Olympia's numinous site had been a place of worship long before the games began in 776 BC. The games were dedicated to Zeus, and if an athlete was caught and punished for cheating, a new statue of the father of the gods had to be erected to make amends.
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At the start of the semester the class was divided between a live lecture in the 844-seat Battell Chapel, a historic place of worship on campus, converted to a lecture hall, and one or two smaller auditoriums where several hundred more students watched a live stream of Dr. Santos.
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Trump's reaction to the tragedy at the Pittsburgh synagogue this past weekend was illustrative: After telling reporters he would probably "pass" on phoning the pipe bomb targets, he suggested the lives of innocent people freely practicing their religion in a place of worship might have been saved if there were armed guards inside.
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At least three Episcopal parishes featured in Mr Bush's adult life: Saint Martin's in Houston, a huge place of worship at the conservative end of the Episcopal spectrum; Saint Ann's, a seaside, summer-only church near the Bush family retreat in Maine; and Saint John's in Washington, DC, which many presidents have attended.
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Herman Deparice-Okomba, director of the Montreal-based Center for The Prevention of Radicalization Leading to Violence, said the sheer obscenity of someone gunning people down in a place of worship in peace-loving Canada had convulsed the country because it shattered Canadians' image of themselves as the ultimate humanistic, open nation.
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"While it is fortunate that no lives were lost, and the physical damage is repairable, the FBI recognizes the pain and anger of our communities any time a place of worship is attacked and we will work hard to hold those responsible accountable," Special Agent in Charge Rick Thornton said in a statement on Monday.
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The effect of sitting in a gorgeous, decadently decorated place of worship while listening to a powerful album of self-reflection and self-discovery is not lost on the crowd, who willingly play along as Wise asks us to turn to our neighbor and declare to them that we will be kind to ourselves.
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A panel convened to update the blue laws made other recommendations as well: streamlining the process for bars and taverns to obtain a liquor license—a notoriously laborious and labyrinthine nightmare—and allowing the state discretion when licensing liquor sales in establishments that fall within 200 feet of a school of place of worship.
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It speaks to the progressive nature of his faith leadership, as well as his background as a Professor of Theology, Ethics, and the Arts, that he sees contemporary art and ritual as a way of bridging understanding between the existing church structure and potential congregants who require a different kind of interaction with their place of worship.
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"We are at a crossroads with face surveillance, and the choices made by these companies now will determine whether the next generation will have to fear being tracked by the government for attending a protest, going to their place of worship, or simply living their lives," Nicole Ozer, technology and civil liberties director for the ACLU of California, said.
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Suicide attackers launch wave of strikes in Saudi Arabia The attack -- the deadliest of three that occurred in Saudi Arabia during in a 24-hour span -- killed four security staff in a parking lot outside the Prophet's Mosque, the grand place of worship that was created in an expansion of the original humble mosque built by the Prophet.
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All of the excuses of the first world were available to me as I walked up the stairs in The Assembly, a women's club in San Francisco, one that looks like it was once a place of worship but now hosts accomplished-looking laptop-clackers and has bottles of sweet-smelling face mist in the bathroom.
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If Uber cannot make the leap to eliminating its human drivers, it must suck as much value as it can out of its huge store of data — data that ranges from relatively anonymous information about traffic patterns to deeply intimate details like trips to a place of worship, to a gay bar, to an abortion clinic.
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Athens is the only European Union capital without an official place of worship for Muslims, and although plans for the mosque predate the arrival of a huge of influx of migrants, many of whom are from Syria and Iraq, its construction has been caught up in the polarizing debate over how to handle the recent arrivals.
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But even as the father-of-four endured poverty and isolation, the Muslim religious school, which doubles as a mosque, had remained a focal point of his community - until a month ago, when Buddhist nationalists raided it and forced authorities to shut it down on the grounds it did not have a permit to operate as a place of worship.
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Scenarios for the survey included learning a family member is LGBT, learning my doctor is LGBT, having LGBT members at my place of worship, seeing an LGBT co-worker's wedding picture, having my child placed in a class with an LGBT teacher, seeing a same-sex couple holding hands and learning my child has a lesson on LGBT history in school.
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