All continue to have worshipers and services just like before.
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Witnesses say at least two gunmen fired indiscriminately into worshipers.
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They should have had armed #Jewish worshipers in the Synagogue.
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"God has a book of life," Mugisa told his worshipers.
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Worshipers were told to keep their membership secret from relatives.
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Outside, dozens of worshipers, like Ms. Edison, still showed up.
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They shot at the worshipers indiscriminately before blowing themselves up.
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The man entered the mosque and began firing on terrified worshipers.
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The family was joined by about 300 fellow worshipers, per CNN.
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But on Monday, worshipers began a sad pilgrimage to the church.
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Last year, the abbey attracted 1.3 million visitors and 300,000 worshipers.
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Heavy clay tiles rained down on worshipers, and dozens were killed.
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The photographs focused on worshipers in African-American churches in Brooklyn.
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The men seem to be her audience or worshipers or both.
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Two worshipers were killed, sending shock waves through the tiny sect.
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For many of the worshipers, politics seemed a long way off.
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Agents learned that many worshipers suspected he was a Saudi spy.
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About 75 worshipers came on Sunday, chattering about the commotion outside.
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At her church, worshipers prayed for the program, Ms. Davydyuk said.
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On Sundays, worshipers file out in small groups to avoid scrutiny.
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The government installed video cameras over mosque doorways to monitor worshipers.
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Worshipers are also encouraged to give up something as a sacrifice.
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During the attack, Mr. Bissonette shot several worshipers in the head.
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Both branches include worshipers who run the gamut from secular to fundamentalist.
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Younger worshipers gathered outside Israeli police barricades, praying in the midday sun.
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Horrible and cowardly terrorist attack on innocent and defenseless worshipers in Egypt.
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Many worshipers interviewed said they feared an era was coming to end.
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But for two young white men, all the worshipers were African-American.
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What follows is nearly two harrowing minutes of his firing on worshipers.
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Mr. Tarrant is charged with the attempted murder of 40 other worshipers.
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They were thought to be devil-worshipers who had sex with demons.
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Worshipers were told to stay away from all mosques in New Zealand.
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Witnesses say the man strolled in and opened fire on innocent worshipers.
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Worshipers were spilling out into the rain after saying their evening prayers.
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They're also cool with worshipers coming in t-shirts, jeans and baseball caps.
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There was the usual line of Patti worshipers at the Ann Arbor bookstore.
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Worshipers flocked here to pay their respects and to see the beautiful architecture.
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When parents tried to stop worshipers from attending the church, many left home.
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The concrete church he helped build that would overflow with worshipers on holidays.
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Worshipers were overcome with terror, and some hid in the basement, he added.
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"Demonstrate, my brothers," he told worshipers at a church in the northern city.
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Worshipers were gunned down during Saturday services at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue.
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One monk walked around a crowded courtyard sprinkling drops of water on worshipers.
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Twin explosions rocked Mount Carmel Cathedral, in downtown Jolo, as worshipers celebrated Mass.
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What follows is a harrowing nearly two minutes of his firing on worshipers.
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But Mr. Buttigieg also undertook a delicate task before the African Methodist Episcopal worshipers.
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A van plowed into a crowd of worshipers who were leaving late-night prayers.
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They held several worshipers and at least one nun hostage, while another nun escaped.
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HARARE, Zimbabwe — The time came for worshipers to surrender their tithes on Sunday morning.
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Later that same month, Muslim worshipers were attacked at a mosque in Finsbury Park.
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As white churchgoers, especially evangelicals, cheered the outcome, black worshipers began to trickle away.
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Al Noor was one of the mosques where worshipers were slaughtered on March 15.
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No longer will you have to leave your house to interact with fellow worshipers.
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Last November, a gunman killed 22017 worshipers at a church in Sutherland Springs, Tex.
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JERUSALEM — The massacre of 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue has profoundly shocked Israelis.
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A witness in Notre-Dame reported on Twitter that visitors and worshipers were safe.
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Upstairs in a different room, dozens of Greek Orthodox worshipers receive the holy sacrament.
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They had seized control of the Abu Bakr mosque in Brooklyn from moderate worshipers.
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Worshipers said they viewed the metal detectors as an Israeli provocation, and a humiliation.
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The Mets won, 6-0, and the Citi Field stands were full of worshipers.
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Witnesses said worshipers, including women and children, ran from the mosque after the blast.
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It hosts its own "Olympiad," filling a stadium with worshipers from around the world.
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It's not hard to imagine worshipers filing in alongside this tableau, settling into pews.
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What follows is a harrowing nearly two minutes of his firing on the worshipers.
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Wearing an explosives belt, the attacker struck as worshipers gathered after midnight to pray.
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The entire religious work of reward and punishment as it concerned individual worshipers shifted inward.
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Greenfield turns the gods of capitalism into humans, then places them next to their worshipers.
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In Arabic, Shaytan means devil, and ISIS targeted the Yazidis as infidels and devil worshipers.
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Their worshipers have abandoned them for a new pantheon: Technical Boy, Media, and Mr. World.
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Rocks were thrown through the mosque windows while worshipers were inside on Sunday, CAIR said.
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Worshipers frequently lose themselves in a spinning frenzy, as with the well-known whirling dervishes.
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Whether the city's discerning sun worshipers would embrace such a handout remained an open question.
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Auguste Moanda-Phuati said on Friday in the mosque, where several Christian worshipers also attended.
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Worshipers sit packed tightly on the floor and attend even when sick, former members say.
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Pastors, theologians and sociologists were talking of how black worshipers were leaving white-majority churches.
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Brenton Tarrant, who is accused of killing 50 worshipers in New Zealand, displays similar traits.
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After Mr. Zaharan's followers attacked worshipers of the Sufi sect, he evaded arrest and disappeared.
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"The cathedral was born of the faith of our ancestors," Monsignor Aupetit told the worshipers.
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The worshipers then flayed the victims, and priests were said to have worn their skin.
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By touching that spot, worshipers were trying to connect with the sacred, said the Rev.
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The victims came from more than a dozen countries, and included worshipers at Easter services.
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And during services, worshipers recite alternatives to the Lord's Prayer that use more inclusive language.
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And over the last two years, gunmen have targeted worshipers at synagogues in Poway, Calif.
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Refusing to pass through the metal detectors, worshipers took the extraordinary step of praying outside.
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Inside the temple, on 75th Street in Elmhurst, he found Nepalese worshipers in native dress.
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Op-Ed Contributor On Palm Sunday, two suicide bombers killed 44 worshipers at Egyptian churches.
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Among the worshipers from St. Rose, there was a call to express solidarity with migrants.
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Some of the larger Good Friday marches around the world bring out thousands of worshipers.
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Worshipers, tiring of the journey to the cramped quarters, began drifting to other Christian denominations.
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Hours later, hundreds of angry worshipers gathered at the church gates to register their anger.
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If this were her native country of Malaysia, David might have been mobbed by worshipers.
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Several worshipers described how they once attended other, more mainline churches before discovering Beth Israel.
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Such a deal would not be welcomed by Dong and many of his fellow illegal worshipers.
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That didn't fly, so Atkinson began leading her own Christian weekly service for about 25 worshipers.
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Worshipers gather to pray in the Bhaktivedanta Manor Hare Krishna Temple during Diwali celebrations on Oct.
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Barely decipherable inscriptions on the surface suggest dates when worshipers paid to have the wood repainted.
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Mugisa glanced around his congregation of LGBT worshipers, catching the eyes of a few of them.
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The girls, who were taken to a juvenile detention facility, reportedly identified themselves as Satan worshipers.
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At Tehran University, where the regime enjoys strong popularity, hundreds of worshipers gathered for Friday prayers.
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The same sentiment reverberated through the crowds of worshipers as they streamed out of Friday prayers.
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A sense of unease is palpable among the tiny stream of early morning worshipers walking in.
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In the center will be a manicured meadow welcoming aimless wanderers, sun worshipers and cultural events.
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On Friday night, Rabbi David Ingber used the live stream service to offer comfort to worshipers.
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The priests were joined by a handful of workers and other worshipers, also in hard hats.
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When Ms. Hilton took the stage, every smartphone tilted toward her, like worshipers facing the sun.
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In 2012, Wade Michael Page, a member, killed six worshipers at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin.
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But on Sunday, worshipers received devastating news: A fire had broken out just before 4 p.m.
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The king becomes a bit overconfident, deciding to test his power against a charismatic stranger's worshipers.
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In November 2017, the militants killed 311 worshipers at a Sufi mosque in the North Sinai.
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Robert Bowers, 46, has been charged in the October 2018 shooting that left 11 worshipers dead.
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During Ramadan celebrations in May, Buddhist mobs besieged Islamic prayer halls, causing Muslim worshipers to flee.
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Families — with children in tow — have carried out suicide attacks against Christian worshipers and the police.
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In March, Francis repeatedly withdrew his hand from worshipers as they sought to kiss his ring.
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Many of them are tied to mainline Protestant churches that have experienced concurrent declines in worshipers.
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Many of them are tied to mainline Protestant churches that have experienced concurrent declines in worshipers.
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Some forms are nearly abstract; worshipers with tuning-fork bodies reach up beseechingly toward the sky.
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I cannot tell you why a person would fire into a group of worshipers at prayer.
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In a few days, an anti-Muslim gunman would slaughter worshipers at a Quebec City mosque.
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"The Muslims are nothing but devil, Satan worshipers," one of the women says in the video.
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This was meant to be a key plank in Rome's efforts to heal a decades-long rift in the Roman Catholic Church in China, which is divided between underground worshipers, priests and bishops loyal to Rome and Beijing-approved churches that some worshipers consider to be illegitimate.
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Worshipers were offering taraweeh, the extra prayer performed by Sunni Muslims at night during Ramadan, he said.
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"Horrible and cowardly terrorist attack on innocent defenseless worshipers in Egypt," Donald Trump tweeted of the news.
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Smoke rising above worshipers in the holy mosque during the last days of Ramadan agitated Muslims worldwide.
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They branded the Yazidis, whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions, as devil-worshipers.
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Roof murdered nine worshipers at the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2016.
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The officers then fired rubber bullets and stun grenades to disperse the worshipers and move them back.
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A small group of worshipers stayed behind, holding a nonviolent demonstration, facing a line of Israeli police.
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Silverman's comments came shortly after 11 worshipers were killed during a shooting inside a Pittsburgh-area synagogue.
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On Saturday, 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh were killed by a gunman.
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The temple was founded in 1997 and had about 400 worshipers at the time of the shooting.
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Now, in response to the murder in a Pittsburgh synagogue of 11 Sabbath worshipers, he anticipates another.
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Americans are on spring break, with worshipers gathering for Good Friday, Passover and Easter across the country.
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Additionally, so many Buddhist worshipers donate store-bought food that the excess is sometimes resold to shops.
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So a lot of recording artists were stigmatized and labeled as Satan worshipers, which is patently ridiculous.
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Men then marched to the front of church, near the altar, and opened fire as worshipers scattered.
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On Sunday, a single family carried out three bombings targeting Christian worshipers in the city, officials said.
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In recent years, the church has attracted hundreds of regular worshipers, despite difficulties finding a permanent home.
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According to the Israeli police, only a few dozen worshipers entered the compound for prayers on Friday.
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Bishop Budde encouraged worshipers to join the National Cathedral for online services on the next two Sundays.
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Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo, the capital, has suspended services for Roman Catholic worshipers through the weekend.
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Witnesses said the mosque gunman fired indiscriminately into the crowd of worshipers, which included men, women and children.
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Quebec mosque attack The man who attacked a mosque full of worshipers in Canada was a lone wolf.
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Morocco also contains the largest mosque outside of Mecca and Medina, with room for more than 100,000 worshipers.
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Just days after he was inaugurated, a white man shot and killed six worshipers at a Quebec mosque.
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In December 2017, a suicide bomber attacked a church packed with worshipers in Quetta, leaving seven people dead.
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This exhibition places the original textile on display alongside other objects produced in the region by Krishna worshipers.
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A suicide bomber managed to slip into the church and blow himself up, killing 25 worshipers, mostly women.
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That path led him one day to a village occupied by worshipers of Athena, the goddess of reason.
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It was the second of two attacks on Coptic churches that were packed with worshipers celebrating Palm Sunday.
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Tips have poured in, with some of the more outlandish ones blaming satanic worshipers or the Islamic State.
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The Tree of Life synagogue was the site of a mass shooting in October that killed 11 worshipers.
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Neither did the mass murder of worshipers in Charleston, S.C., nor of county employees in San Bernardino, Calif.
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Worshipers gather every Friday at the city's elaborate Hindu temples to make puka, or devotions, to their gods.
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Tens of thousands of worshipers came to the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem's Old City for Friday prayers.
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During the sign of peace, worshipers will wave or bump elbows instead of the typical handshakes or hugs.
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As the bluegrass-inflected chords of "Wake Me Up" pulsed from the organ, the worshipers sang along enthusiastically.
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Violent events like the recent attack on a mosque in the Sinai Peninsula, killing 305 worshipers, haven't helped.
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Just over a year ago, the Islamic State began carrying out mass executions of Sufi worshipers during prayer.
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In October, Robert Bowers walked into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and killed 11 Jewish worshipers.
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"We all paint in his language," effused Paul Cézanne, one of so many of the artist's later worshipers.
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He said the attacker had walked into the mosque and joined the worshipers crowded inside the small room.
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The River Church in Tampa was packed to the gills with worshipers who clearly were looking for hope.
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In New Zealand, 51 people were killed when a gunman attacked mosques filled with worshipers observing Friday prayers.
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But Commander Qanet's militia forced their way in and opened fire on the worshipers provincial police officials said.
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Ms. Abcug believed her child was being held by Satan worshipers and pedophiles, according to her arrest warrant.
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"The attacker was apprehended by the worshipers until the police arrived and arrested him," the mosque's statement read.
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"The attacker was apprehended by the worshipers until the police arrived and arrested him," the mosque's statement read.
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The fund will also provide financial support for black seminarians and black worshipers who experienced discrimination on campus.
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Sikhs in India are legendary for laying down their own lives to protect worshipers and ensure religious freedoms.
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The attack came a month after the bombing of a Cairo church that killed at least 28 worshipers.
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He and three others dragged 10 injured people from an overflow area for worshipers just outside the church.
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Local television networks broadcast images of terrified worshipers running out of the church as the attack was underway.
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He has also driven to Pittsburgh after 11 worshipers were killed at a synagogue; to Sandy Hook, Conn.
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An earlier version of this article misstated the location of the synagogue at which 11 worshipers were killed.
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Officials initially said as many as 50 worshipers could have been killed, but on Monday revised the death toll.
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The Muslim Council of Britain says the van ran over a number of worshipers as they left the mosque.
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On Saturday, Netanyahu's spokesperson for Arab Media said the site would reopen on Sunday for worshipers, visitors and tourists.
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Drawn like Jessica Rabbit, the Chevy's intense American muscle-car lines might cause import worshipers to dismiss it. Pity.
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He spoke to reporters in Yangon on Wednesday after the Pope gave Mass to a crowd of 150,000 worshipers.
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Authorities said Damon Joseph, 21, planned to kill worshipers inside a Jewish synagogue in Toledo with an assault rifle.
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The blaze was quickly extinguished by worshipers, and the FBI had offered a reward for information on the perpetrator.
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There is a Filipino church in the building where worshipers like Merry Christ Palacios, seen here, come to pray.
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The Christian minority -- who believe they are obliged to abstain from war -- counts about 100,000 worshipers in South Korea.
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In the years since the attack on the Sikh temple, its worshipers have done their best to move forward.
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Mary Lindquist made a point of telling worshipers on Sunday that she was sanitizing her hands before distributing communion.
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Did the founders really intend to empower crazy people to kill children at school or worshipers in a church?
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"I come to make some noise," he declared, as worshipers swayed to the music, shouting "Hallelujah!" with outstretched arms.
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All told, the agreement would give non-Orthodox worshipers, at least to a degree, the feeling of equal status.
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Inside, there are buttons for worshipers to wear to declare their gender identity: he/him, she/her, they/them.
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The victims included two police officers and worshipers who were entering and leaving the churches between services, he added.
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Police tracked students, photographed worshipers and used census data to map the geography of Muslim life in the city.
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He viewed Baruch Goldstein, the American-born killer of 29 Palestinian worshipers in Hebron in 1994, as an exemplar.
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I have rich relationships with my family, fellow worshipers, some good friends and a wide variety of email correspondents.
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This week, the police turned back busloads of worshipers heading to the city from other parts of the country.
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The attack, in which a gunman opened fire on worshipers attending Friday Prayer at two mosques, killed 50 people.
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For nearly two minutes, he shoots at fleeing worshipers before he runs back to his car and swaps weapons.
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"Riverdale" was accused of doing that with it's characters Betty and Veronica ... pissing off a lot of Beronica worshipers.
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Thornlie Mosque Imam Yahya Adel Ibrahim told CNN worshipers had run outside when they heard one of the cars explode.
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That result raised questions about whether all the people crowding into Trump rallies were true-blue supporters or celebrity worshipers.
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A memorial dedicated to the nine worshipers fatally shot while at Bible study at a Charleston church was unveiled Sunday.
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In Negombo, more than 100 worshipers were killed after a suicide bomber walked into St. Sebastian's Church on Easter Sunday.
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A security guard at the historic Midtown church confronted Lamparello inside the building, which had worshipers inside at the time.
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Two police officers were killed and at least 14 others were hurt, but apparently none of the worshipers were injured.
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The attack happened hours before a man drove a van into a crowd of worshipers at a mosque in London.
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His successor, King Salman, announced plans to build a ring road, subways and intercity trains to accommodate millions of worshipers.
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Now a megachurch, Hillsong is also an international empire, with the Houstons atop it and some celebrities among its worshipers.
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It was a gorgeous day in Sutherland Springs, and worshipers at First Baptist Church were singing the praises of Christ.
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According to a revised death toll, 253 people, including many worshipers attending Easter Mass services, died in the coordinated attacks.
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Justin Bieber is a believer, hypeman and dance instructor all rolled into one for a group of worshipers in Sydney.
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Security officers surrounded the church and fired tear gas into the sanctuary, where most worshipers remained trapped, Mr. Matumo said.
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Just last November, for example, militants killed more than 300 worshipers at Friday prayer in a gun and bomb attack.
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Just two weeks ago, Muslim extremists opened fire on Muslim worshipers in a mosque in Egypt, killing more than 300.
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In the pews sat roughly a dozen worshipers, some of whom had come before, some there for the first time.
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Seven Muslim worshipers gathered on Saturday night for an overnight spiritual retreat at the Islamic Center mosque in Escondido, Calif.
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These are both works by acolytes and worshipers, though they also both have the wistful timbre of the apostate's testimony.
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A handwritten note found in the van that plowed into the Muslim worshipers described Muslims as "feral" and child predators.
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Worshipers arriving at the central Assemblies of God church put down their tambourines to have their hands spritzed with sanitizer.
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CreditCreditKayla Reefer for The New York Times LOS ANGELES — "Our God!" the worshipers belted out, swaying inside a towering cathedral.
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Worshipers take their shoes off before entering the main hall of a mosque to respect the sanctity of the space.
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And Susan was one of the worst — worst in the sense that she was one of the worshipers of art.
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Father Saad will accompany five busloads of worshipers, and he will pray that the Francis factor swings in his favor.
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" At the prayer service on Wednesday, as worshipers walked in from the night, Mr. Jechura urged them, "Be not afraid.
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We rehearsed at the closed-to-the-public cathedral, and listened to the echoes of centuries of singers and worshipers.
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Witnesses said the alleged gunman fired indiscriminately into a crowd of worshipers at the mosque, which included men, women and children.
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More than 300,000 worshipers were praying when the attackers hit a checkpoint near the event this morning with guns and bombs.
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The raids came after the coordinated attacks on Easter Sunday, which killed 4 people, including many worshipers attending Easter Mass services.
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He shot and wounded six worshipers in the building, before shooting himself in a scuffle with an usher, police have said.
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Roof allegedly uttered racial epithets before attacking worshipers last June at the historically black Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.
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The Waqf, the Jordanian religious authority that administers the Temple Mount, has condemned the use of metal detectors to scan worshipers.
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It's often idealized as a space of collective reverence and aesthetic bliss, where photochemical alchemy unfolds in room full of worshipers.
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In his melodic voice, he spoke of how the oppressed should gain strength from God and one another, according to worshipers.
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And his war cry, before opening fire on worshipers, was a reference to a mega-popular YouTuber who goes by PewDiePie.
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The seats — stackable banquet chairs that the Odgaards had bought for their wedding business — were nearly full of mostly young worshipers.
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"This appalling attack on worshipers is an atrocity," said Pernille Kardel, the United Nations secretary general's deputy special representative for Afghanistan.
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Sitting on a couch as scores of worshipers filed into church, believers stopped by to kneel before him, asking for blessings.
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One of the darkest days of the year — the massacre of 11 Jewish worshipers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh on Oct.
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He was responding, in part, to widespread discontent with English translations that were literally correct but awkward and unfamiliar for worshipers.
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At least 20 people were confirmed dead in the assault, which took place just as worshipers gathered for Mass on Sunday.
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"I pray for the victims, pilgrims killed just because they were Christian," he told worshipers at St. Peter's Square on Sunday.
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According to witnesses, dozens of gunmen in off-road vehicles bombed the mosque, which was packed with worshipers at Friday Prayers.
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She is captured by the cult's maven, Danica (Rebecca Romijn), but soon escapes, proving herself a worthy opponent for demon worshipers.
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Consider this, however: We see more images in a month than the worshipers of 15th-century Flanders saw in a lifetime.
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And in August, suicide attackers stormed a Shi'ite mosque in Kabul, Afghanistan's capital, killing at least 30 worshipers and wounding dozens.
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In August, Islamic State suicide bombers stormed a mosque in north Kabul during Friday prayers, leaving at least 40 worshipers dead.
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Hamas reviews the sermons at Gaza's mosques, and those sermons now tell worshipers to join the demonstrations at the Gaza border.
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On Saturday, a sizable congregation of early-rising Woods worshipers watched a match of dueling personalities — Woods's intensity versus McIlroy's inclusivity.
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Authorities believe he entered the synagogue, opened fire on worshipers and was fleeing when he encountered a police officer, Jones said.
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Not to be outdone, Saudi Arabia's top religious leader struck back, accusing the Iranians of being pagan fire worshipers, not Muslims.
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It's small -- Friday prayers draw about a dozen worshipers to its downtown Chicago space -- but its very existence makes a radical statement.
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Authorities believe the suspect entered the synagogue, opened fire on worshipers and was fleeing when he encountered a police officer, Jones said.
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"All of us in different ways have been led to question whether we belong," Mr. Buttigieg told the pews of black worshipers.
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Worshipers pull a cross past the church following Sunday service at the temporary First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs on November 12.
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It was the early nineties and I became well-versed in the language of tabloid television: child murders, Satan worshipers, serial killers.
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In this manifesto, the shooter also references the man who killed 50 worshipers at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, last month.
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Syrians said the US airstrikes hit a western Aleppo mosque on March 16, killing at least 40 worshipers and injuring dozens more.
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Israel installed metal detectors at the entrance of a holy site, prompting an outcry from Muslim worshipers and an uptick in violence.
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Weed lovers/worshipers now have a church to call home, and naturally ... it's in Denver, and of course ... it's opening April 20.
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Make no mistake: A generation of Jordan worshipers was poised to gloat had the Thunder been able to close out the Warriors.
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The attack on June 19, when a van veered into worshipers near the mosque, left one man dead and 11 others injured.
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"Breathe deep and blow harder," intoned Pastor Grant Atwell after distributing small marijuana joints to 20 worshipers on a recent Sunday afternoon.
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The suicide bomber detonated his explosives just as hundreds of worshipers had packed into the Baqir ul-Uloom mosque, in western Kabul.
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Becoming a Hajji After five days, the Hajj comes full circle and worshipers return to the Grand Mosque for their final prayers.
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After an explosion, they positioned themselves outside the main entrance of the mosque and its 12 windows, spraying the worshipers with gunfire.
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As worshipers fled, they were confronted by masked gunmen who, witnesses said, had pulled up outside in five four-wheel-drive vehicles.
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The worshipers sat cross-legged around a circle of flowers — dried calendula, chamomile, lavender and rose petals — carefully arranged in a spiral.
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Muslim worshipers kneeling on the floor in a Quebec City mosque pocked with bullet holes from an attack over a year ago.
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But worshipers of all kinds came together to seek answers at the hospital, where the fate of loved ones was still unknown.
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The statement was inspired by the attack on two mosques in March in Christchurch, New Zealand, that left 51 Muslim worshipers dead.
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The agreement was crafted after a terrorist attack on mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in March that left 51 Muslim worshipers dead.
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Most headed straight for a narrow passageway beneath the chancel where an opening allows worshipers a view of the framed image above.
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Worshipers were attacked as they were leaving the church, he said, and at least eight were killed, along with one police officer.
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As worshipers gathered in January for Sunday Mass at a Catholic cathedral, two bombs ripped through the church compound, killing 23 people.
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Other worshipers were wounded by the gunfire at the morning service at the church near the town of Titao, the source added.
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After midday prayers, clerics and leaders of militant factions in Gaza, led by Hamas, urged thousands of worshipers to join the protests.
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Brad was among the large group of worshipers who surrounded Kanye and his choir Sunday in the parking lot of a church.
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Youngstown is also about 65 miles north of Pittsburgh, where a gunman targeted and killed 11 worshipers in a synagogue last October.
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As for offensive-funny characters, take your pick: the Bollywood eunuch assassin or "Aztec she-male worshipers," as the trailer puts it.
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So did the white nationalist, Dylann Roof, who shot dead nine African-American worshipers in a church in Charleston, S.C., in 2015.
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Authorities have said Damon Joseph, 21, of Holland, Ohio, planned to kill worshipers inside a synagogue in Toledo with an assault rifle.
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"Half of the mosque was full of worshipers — women upstairs and men downstairs, hundreds of men and women," he said, pacing barefoot.
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A tentative bond takes shape amid the humble pews and reverberant call and response, as the Pentecostal worshipers echo the resounding ministering.
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But the chapel is listed in the mall directory, and worshipers occasionally stumble in or hear about it through word of mouth.
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All Quebecers mourn the deaths of the six worshipers killed by a gunman late last month in the Quebec City mosque tragedy.
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The building can be occupied by up to 80 worshipers, but typically was used by 10 or so people at a time.
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Hasan Khan, a local official, said by telephone that the bomber's car had been parked near a gate used by female worshipers.
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And like a cathedral, the bookshop attracts fervent worshipers — up to 3,500 a day — who pay a three-euro fee (about $3.20).
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Worshipers exalted a female icon similar to the Virgin Mary and modeled on Clotilde de Vaux, with whom Comte was in love.
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Later that month, a British man, Darren Osborne, drove a van into a crowd of worshipers outside Finsbury Park mosque in London.
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And then a gunman, dressed all in black and armed with an assault rifle, opened fire on the worshipers about 11:15 a.m.
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A security guard at the historic Midtown church confronted the man inside the building, which had worshipers inside, and notified officers stationed nearby.
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The church that Congolese refugees founded in Missoula now attracts about two dozen worshipers compared with as many as 70 in previous months.
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The First Baptist Church of Arlington, on the other hand, decided it was safe to allow its 2,500 worshipers to show up armed.
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Pittsburgh Mayor William Peduto signed the ordinances into law 11 months after a gunman killed 11 mostly elderly worshipers on October 27, 2018.
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After 2,000 years, the city of Jerusalem was reunited under Jewish control, and has been open to worshipers from all faiths ever since.
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He declined to support gun control after the shooting in Pittsburgh, instead suggesting the worshipers would have been safer if they were armed.
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During the US occupation, Vodou practitioners were portrayed as cannibalistic devil worshipers and linked to the poor Haitian citizens who resisted foreign intervention.
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Catholicism grew during the same period to six million worshipers from four million, while Protestantism increased to 38 million adherents, from 10 million.
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" He's known for interacting closely with worshipers -- for example, opting for a car with an open top instead of the traditional bulletproof "Popemobile.
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In one instance, a CNN team outside Herod's Gate saw Israeli police start forcefully pushing worshipers back and pointing their weapons at them.
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The Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary was closed after last Friday's attack, and reopened Sunday for worshipers, visitors and tourists, with added security measures.
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Already there are reports of churches scanning worshipers' faces to determine who attends regularly, the better to know whom to ask for donations.
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But when Dylan Roof killed nine African American worshipers at a South Carolina church last year, little was made of his religion — Lutheran.
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On Monday, a 21-year-old man was arrested for allegedly plotting to kill worshipers in a Jewish synagogue in Toledo, officials said.
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Yet on December 9, authorities reportedly detained more than 100 Protestant worshipers from the Early Rain Covenant Church in the city of Chengdu.
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But "Rosemary's Baby" fans have to be wondering if the new couple are related to their favorite Satan worshipers, Minnie and Roman Castevet.
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Everything he cares about -- absolutely everything -- comes back to himself: his ego, his power, his money, his worshipers in their red MAGA caps.
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This linguistic link forces these pagan worshipers, whose beliefs do have a strongly nationalist tilt, to disavow any connection with neo-Nazi factions.
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He said he felt he had no choice but to kill the worshipers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015.
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The pandemic has closed holy sites across the globe, but virtual reality is providing worshipers a digital window into ceremonies during touchstone holidays.
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Many of the other worshipers at St. Rose of Lima in Short Hills, N.J., had assumed that Joanna Huang was already a Catholic.
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The targets of the attacks were Catholic worshipers attending Easter Mass and guests at high-end hotels that are popular with foreign tourists.
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Roads leading to the Old City were closed to ordinary traffic for much of Friday to ease the passage of busloads of worshipers.
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We all know about the shooting that took place there just two years ago, claiming the lives of a pastor and eight worshipers.
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Of the four worshipers, one was a lay reader, Edna Tan, who came to the United States from the Philippines 20033 years ago.
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As the cleric spoke, more smoke rose in the sky behind him, and worshipers peeled away and began to walk toward the fence.
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Hundreds of worshipers were attending a prayer meeting led by Boniface Mwamposa, a popular preacher who leads the Arise and Shine Ministry Tanzania.
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In 2004, Mr. Cruver became senior pastor of the Zarephath church, when its 100 or so worshipers still fit in the old chapel.
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To begin with, it's not available on the base Sport model that gets sun worshipers into a soft top MX-5 for $25,750.
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For Nikolai V. Burov, the museum's current director, there is no problem in having the church conduct services, which are free for worshipers.
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Louisville Metro Police Chief Steve Conrad assured worshipers his department would be providing extra security this coming Sunday to help attendees feel safe.
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As the planned rally approached, they hired a security guard to protect the schoolchildren, workers, and worshipers who passed through the synagogue's doors.
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He paused there, perched precariously, for a few seconds, and then he fell into the heaving, delirious mass of worshipers who awaited him.
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A week later, Mr. Bashir was attending Friday prayers at a mosque in Khartoum and worshipers chanted slogans asking him to step down.
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He then tried to draw the gunman's attention to himself, and away from other worshipers, by weaving through cars in the parking lot.
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Some, like Archbishop Blair, have held somber reparations Masses like the one in Guilford last month or led worshipers in special rosary prayers.
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Branding them "devil worshipers," ISIS legitimized the massacre and enslavement of Yazidis, singling them out among Iraq's many minorities for particularly inhumane treatment.
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Six worshipers were killed: Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42; Abdelkrim Hassane, 41; Khaled Belkacemi, 60; Aboubaker Thabti, 44; Azzeddine Soufiane, 57; and Ibrahima Barry, 39.
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The group claimed responsibility for its first attack inside the kingdom in May, 2015, killing dozens of Shi'ite worshipers at a mosque in Qadeeh.
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The three congregations that shared the Tree of Life synagogue are taking different approaches one year after a mass shooting left 11 worshipers dead.
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Christchurch mosque shootings In March, 50 people were killed when an Australian man opened fire on worshipers in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Sri Lanka attacks Worshipers of all faiths in Sri Lanka are being urged to pray privately at home as fears of more attacks linger.
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As worshipers closed their eyes in prayer, as hotel guests lined up for breakfast, the attackers detonated their devices -- and the effects were devastating.
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The shooting came six months after a gunman killed 11 worshipers in a synagogue in Pittsburgh in the deadliest ever attack on American Jewry.
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Dylann showed little regret during his trial for murdering 9 black worshipers during Bible study at Emanuel AME Church back in June of 2015.
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Even Nigeria's expensive internet data costs have seemingly not deterred eager worshipers who have flocked to the livestream on his Instagram and Facebook pages.
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Everyone's over it, especially Ben, who must send two of today's worshipers back to their lakeside rental before they've even sampled the cheese plate.
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Now, rabbis at the Tree of Life synagogue find themselves in a similar position, after a gunman killed 11 worshipers last month in Pittsburgh.
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These villains represent the full embrace of pro wrestling's carnie tradition, men and women (but mostly men) portraying devil worshipers, living corpses, and magicians.
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Last December, a bomber targeted a church full of worshipers in Quetta, which left at least seven dead and wounding more than 20 others.
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Another night, as I tried to find room between worshipers, a security guard shouted that I was taking space where men needed to walk.
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As such, churches in America must now balance being open and accessible to the public, while maintaining safety and security for all their worshipers.
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Analysts and civil rights advocates say Beijing is intensifying its campaign against worshipers seen as an ideological threat to the party's monopoly on power.
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For many Sri Lankans, not least this country's minority Christian community, which lost scores of worshipers to the attacks, the horror came from nowhere.
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Worshipers at a nearby Moroccan mosque angrily shooed away reporters, accusing them of fanning "Islamophobia" and stigmatizing their neighborhood as a haven of jihadists.
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The usher who seated them, sizing them up as first-time worshipers, asked what had brought them to Marble, as the church is known.
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But first he needed to cut through a mountain filled with trees, obtain support from the temple's worshipers and raise funds for the project.
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As usual, worshipers were arriving for Friday Prayer; it was the first held at the mosque since the terror attack, and everything was different.
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Muslim leaders in New Zealand said mosques across the country, including the two that were attacked, tended to attract a multiethnic group of worshipers.
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The police this month shut down the 40-year-old Rongguili Church in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, which attracted thousands of worshipers.
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But after billionaires, companies and worshipers quickly pledged more than a billion euros for the cathedral's reconstruction, protesters' anger appeared to have been renewed.
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It was the first time that Islamist militants — who have been attacking security forces and Christian churches for years — have gone after Muslim worshipers.
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In Texas, since the 2016 election, black worshipers have been leaving white churches, and some white evangelical women have tiptoed away from Mr. Trump.
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Shincheonji worshipers have been noted for their secrecy, often hiding their membership even to their parents, said former members and experts on religious sects.
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At that point, Max Privorozki, the head of the congregation, sent most of the worshipers to another windowless room, while he barricaded the door.
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When worshipers were finally escorted out of the synagogue and onto a bus, they continued their songs, surprising the bus driver, Ms. Meyer said.
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On Tuesday night, Fatemah's father, Mohammed Asef Qaderyan, 54, was killed when suicide bombers targeted worshipers at a mosque near their home in Herat.
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The synagogue was the site last October of the deadliest anti-Semitic attack on American soil, when a white supremacist killed 11 worshipers. 4.
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Ayoub Ansari, the police chief of Herat, said two armed attackers had entered the mosque, killing 20 worshipers and wounding more than 30 others.
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In the neighboring region of Dagestan earlier this year, a man opened fire on worshipers at an Orthodox church, killing at least five people.
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Regular worshipers said they were familiar with the suspect, and the authorities said they were not treating the stabbing as an act of terrorism.
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In Egypt, at least 28 people were killed by gunmen who stormed buses carrying Coptic Christian worshipers; many victims were shot at close range.
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For example, the NYPD would secretly videotape worshipers attending mosques, logging where Muslims wearing Islamic clothes ate meals and recording their lunch-counter conversations.
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In Zurich, the assailant, a Swiss citizen of Ghanaian descent, opened fire on worshipers, wounding three, and was later found dead not far away.
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As cool winds whipped through the city's streets, more than 200 worshipers braved the dawn, packing the church's pews for a quietly joyful ceremony.
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Worshipers in the most northern provinces were until recently crossing the border with Switzerland to go to Mass, before the government severely restricted travel.
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Just look to Christchurch and the 49 worshipers who should have returned home to their families and community instead of attending their last prayer.
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He had conducted well over 2003 training sessions before last October, when 11 worshipers were shot and killed at the Tree of Life synagogue.
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The pastor and his wife were charged with "inciting subversion," which can carry a 15-year prison sentence, and more than 100 worshipers were arrested.
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Self-declared white supremacist Dylann Roof was found guilty Thursday of killing nine black worshipers at a Bible study class in a South Carolina church.
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Last year on October 27, eleven worshipers were fatally shot and several others wounded inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood.
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Ever since worshipers have journeyed to the sacred lake, a cultural touchstone for the island's Indian emigrants and a link to their South Asian past.
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Sufism transcends sectarian divides in the religion, and is loathed by Islamic fundamentalists, many of whom have attacked Sufi shrines and killed imams and worshipers.
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Near the end, the city turns into a bright, Edenic landscape of verdant hills populated by naked sun worshipers, a fleeting dream of paradise lost.
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Christian worshipers saved his blood, which has become sacred, as Joseph V. Scelsa, the founder and president of the Italian American Museum in Manhattan, explained.
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The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, in the Pakistani border state of Punjab, is the second-largest mosque in Pakistan, with a capacity of 100,000 worshipers.
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The attack happened in the town of Mubi in Adamawa State as worshipers were gathering for the "fajr" dawn prayer at about 5:73 a.m.
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This was not the first deadly assault on Christian worshipers in Cairo, but the capital is not accustomed to this sort of attack on civilians.
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In the wake of the Christchurch terrorist attacks in March, in which 51 worshipers were killed at two mosques, Ms. Ardern again made world news.
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In August 2012, a man with ties to white supremacy groups opened fire inside the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee, killing six worshipers.
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The president's visit comes close to the first anniversary of the Tree of Life Synagogue shooting in that city, when a gunman killed 11 worshipers.
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White supremacist Dylann Roof, who was convicted of killing nine worshipers at a black church in South Carolina, is appealing his conviction and death sentence.
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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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Worshipers descend the stone stairs, worn smooth by millions of pilgrims over the centuries, down into the Grotto -- the spot Christians believe Jesus was born.
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Several thousand worshipers were at the church at the time, said Kessy Ekomo-Soignet, a grass-roots activist who runs a youth program in Bangui.
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The worshipers continued to attend Sunday services, expectorating and spreading the virus as hundreds of congregants loudly sang and prayed in the tightly seated church.
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But what Turkish officials here seem most proud of are the hundreds of windows, which allow outsiders and Muslim worshipers to glimpse each other's worlds.
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His troubles began, he said, when undercover security officers posed as worshipers and secretly filmed a service where he was helping to officiate in 2010.
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In Tanta, the scene of one of the two attacks on Sunday, worshipers said a bomb had been found and disabled only a week earlier.
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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told thousands of worshipers that God's backing had allowed Iran to "slap the face" of the United States with a missile attack.
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The complex had been outfitted with political messages: American flags were spread on the floor in the entrances so that worshipers could tread on them.
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Because the temple's space is small and can accommodate only about 150 worshipers, there is no room to physically house an undocumented immigrant, members said.
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President Trump on Friday called it a "horrible and cowardly" attack on "innocent and defenseless worshipers" and pushed for a border wall and travel ban.
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He recalled how the townspeople in Osogbo, who had largely abandoned the traditional religion for Islam and Christianity, initially viewed the Ifa worshipers with suspicion.
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BUCHAREST, Romania — Long past midnight, lines of worshipers snake through the central hall of the People's Salvation Cathedral, in the heart of the Romanian capital.
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"The atmosphere will be very somber," Ms. Raza said, with many Grenfell survivors and relatives of those who died among the worshipers at Al Manaar.
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At some mosques in New York, clusters of police officers wearing tactical gear and armed with semiautomatic rifles stood sentry as worshipers entered for prayer.
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Afterwards, some of the worshipers left the Episcopal service to walk to another vigil at a nearby park, where some estimates put the crowd at 50,000.
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Christianity is the lifeblood of the nation's politics and societal fabric, and is celebrated in huge, rambunctious services attended by thousands of dancing and singing worshipers.
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As mass was celebrated Saturday, dozens of Iraqi and US security forces were on standby to protect worshipers at the historic, battle-scarred Mart Shmony Church.
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It was an intimate gathering of Diplo's 50 closest worshipers, including industry heads from Mad Decent and OWSLA, A-Trak, AlunaGeorge, Makonnen, and randomly, Chris Rock.
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Everything else -- Israeli authorities imposed restrictions on Palestinian worshipers in Jerusalem's Old City, and three Palestinians were killed after clashes ensued over the restrictions, officials said.
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First, ISIS considers Sufis to be heretics, making the Sufi mosque a legitimate target in the eyes of ISIS, even though all worshipers probably weren't Sufi.
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Mr. Akonjee's sermons on Friday attracted nearly 200 worshipers, who heard him speak about the role of Islam in a diverse society in the United States.
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Hundreds of worshipers were inside the shrine of the Sufi saint Shah Bilal Noorani, and dozens were performing a devotional "dhamal" dance when the bomber struck.
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The bombings appeared to be coordinated and targeted Christian worshipers attending Easter service as well as guests at luxury hotels, according to The New York Times.
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" A report on religious discrimination published by the Justice Department in July cited concerns that worshipers "often face unlawful barriers in the zoning and building process.
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A few are notorious for calling on worshipers to do things that look, to the outside world, strange at best and abusive or violent at worst.
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People came together in synagogues and cemeteries, united in grief over the Jewish worshipers killed in a shooting but split over a visit by President Trump.
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From 2010 to 2016, according to the report, Iranian authorities detained hundreds of Christians, raiding church services, threatening church members, and imprisoning worshipers and church leaders.
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In the past year, a total of 12 worshipers were killed in the U.S. in two hate-motivated attacks on synagogues in Pittsburgh and San Diego.
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In December, a suicide bomber attacked a Methodist church packed with worshipers in the same city, leaving seven people dead and more than 20 others injured.
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The terror in Christchurch, New Zealand that killed 50 Muslim worshipers joins a growing list of attacks that used the internet to spread the killer's propaganda.
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As plumes of thick smoke rose above the mosque, witnesses said, the Afghan forces tore down a rear wall to rescue dozens of worshipers trapped inside.
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SEOUL, South Korea — At meetings of the secretive Shincheonji Church of Jesus, worshipers sit packed together on the floor, forbidden to wear glasses — or face masks.
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Susan Bro, Ms. Heyer's mother, told worshipers that her daughter had been protesting hatred by the nationalist groups when she was killed by one of them.
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At least 20 worshipers were killed and scores wounded in a double bomb blast targeted at a mosque in Damboa town in Borno State in June.
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The Prime Minister confirmed that her office received an email with Tarrant's hateful, racist manifesto nine minutes before he shot worshipers at the Al Noor mosque.
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Meditation halls are filled with the chanting of hundreds of monks and worshipers, sometimes with the aid of a karaoke-style scroll on a large screen.
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"There were about 300 worshipers inside the mosque, with women on one side," said Mohammed Ibrahim, a neighborhood leader who was surveying the destruction on Saturday.
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But these days it's as much a mecca for worshipers of high design as it is a destination for those who pray for eagles and birdies.
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Hundreds of worshipers brought AR-15 rifles to the controversial World Peace and Unification Sanctuary in rural Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday to have their marriages blessed.
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Kelley's in-laws occasionally attended services at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs but were not there when he attacked worshipers during Sunday prayers, authorities said.
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Although Brazil is still the world's largest Catholic country, the number of evangelical worshipers has been on the rise and currently represent one-fifth of the population.
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He said the move will ensure the safety of the worshipers, and that the church "will try to introduce some services" once better security was in place.
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Three days ago in London, there was the Finsbury mosque attack, in which a London man drove a van into a group of worshipers leaving a mosque.
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Over the years, Anglicanism's status as what is called the established church has been undermined by dwindling congregations and by evangelical insurgents drawing greater throngs of worshipers.
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Also on Friday, a Palestinian man, Mohammad Habash, 63, died when thousands of worshipers tried to rush through a military checkpoint from the West Bank to Jerusalem.
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The third act of this thriller, a touchstone for Jennifer Lopez diva worshipers, is devoted entirely to a drawn-out, satisfying scene of a battered wife's revenge.
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Security forces tracked the men back to that area following the attack that killed seven Coptic Christian worshipers on their way to a monastery, the ministry said.
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If it seems likelier today, it is due in part to people like Bishop Ochiagha and the worshipers here who have preserved an inheritance rejected by others.
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It then shows footage of baptisms in the United States, Tonga and Tahiti, in which worshipers are plunged into water, a metaphor for resurrection and spiritual change.
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The deaths of 11 worshipers in Pittsburgh revived questions about what signals Mr. Trump has sent, intentionally or not, to the most radical fringe elements of society.
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They cheered the outcome, reassuring uneasy fellow worshipers with talk of abortion and religious liberty, about how politics is the art of compromise rather than the ideal.
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At the Doushuai Temple, which attracts a steady patronage of worshipers and tourists, artists are very much tuned in to the functional parameters of such a site.
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One of the deadliest was in October, when suicide bombers killed at least 57 worshipers in a Shiite mosque in Kabul, the capital, and injured dozens more.
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As a lawyer, Wang Quanzhang gravitated toward controversy, taking on cases that involved religious worshipers accusing the government of persecution and activists protesting forced demolitions of houses.
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The rabbi was Jeffrey Myers of the Tree of Life congregation in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood, where 264 worshipers were gunned down during shabbat services last Saturday.
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Mr. Nasser and other worshipers are currently in litigation with Mr. Ahmed over a series of internal disputes at the mosque, Mustapha Ndanusa, Mr. Ahmed's lawyer, said.
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"One of the suicide bombers blew himself up upstairs in the women section, and one by the entrance downstairs," said one of the worshipers who had fled.
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On the night of June 17, 2015, he walked through the church's unlocked side door and joined 12 worshipers gathered for Bible study in the fellowship hall.
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Crowds streamed in several hours before his sermon began, including schoolchildren, government employees and worshipers from neighboring provinces who had been bused in from their local mosques.
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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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Ms. Meili said she could not confirm reports that, before opening fire, the assailant had shouted for the worshipers to go back to where they came from.
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On Sunday mornings, worshipers of all races are greeted with strobe lights (and ear plugs), and led in melodic prayer by a charismatic pastor in skinny jeans.
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It has been holding services in apartments and rented spaces since its founding and attracts about 200 worshipers each week — mainly young professionals, students and young families.
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Thousands of scientists, space enthusiasts and sun worshipers flocked to cities and towns along the path of the total solar eclipse that streaked across the United States.
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TEHRAN — Until President Trump's inauguration, Iran's clerics felt comfortable leading worshipers in a chorus of "Death to America" while simultaneously signing a $16.6 billion deal with Boeing.
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TEHRAN — Until two weeks ago, Iran's clerics felt comfortable leading worshipers in a chorus of "Death to America" while simultaneously signing a $16.6 billion deal with Boeing.
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At least 100 worshipers were killed in a church in the southern state of Akwa Ibom after the roof caved in during a Sunday service in 2016.
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At a regular Sunday Mass at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, a priest led worshipers in reciting a prayer for victims of abuse.
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The London-based Waltham Forest Council of Mosques, which represents 70,000 worshipers, said in a statement that it had "no confidence in Prevent" and called the program racist.
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Members of South Korea's Catholic church, which numbers about 5.6 million people, have sometimes engaged with the Pyongyang church on the understanding that it includes some true worshipers.
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In what was described as a coordinated attack, witnesses say at least two gunmen wearing black fired indiscriminately into the dozens of worshipers -- including families -- in the mosque.
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In addition to the 11 mostly elderly worshipers who were killed, six people, including four police officers, were wounded before the suspect was shot by police and surrendered.
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And of course, it's not just America: It was just six weeks ago that 50 Muslim worshipers in New Zealand were killed in terrorist attacks on two mosques.
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Dozens more worshipers stood outside under a large glass awning, watching the service through doors that were open across the front of the pink-and-cream concrete church.
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Worshipers flocked to the Church of Our Lady of Velankanni, many of them bringing their own bottles so they could collect a few of those seemingly holy teas.
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The nature of Friday's assault, a complex operation involving both a bomb attack and subsequent ambush of worshipers and ambulances by dozens of fighters, is typical of ISNS.
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Father Ebram Mikhail, the archbishop of the Helwan district, told CNN that worshipers still inside the church could hear the machine gun firing rounds for about 15 minutes.
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In October, a gunman shouting anti-Semitic slurs opened fire at a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 worshipers in what was the deadliest attack against Jews in US history.
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Two of the eight wounded were hospitalized after the incident, according to the source, who also said that worshipers leaving the mosque had not been the intended target.
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It was Sunday morning in Tripoli's old city, but only a trickle of worshipers was expected at the 19th-century Anglican church, which towered over the curling alleyways.
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In South Carolina, Dylann Roof had murdered nine African American worshipers in a Charleston church; day after day, there was news of black churches across the South burning.
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Good Friday celebrations in the parish of Saiqi, China, went on with a conspicuous absence: the worshipers' bishop had been whisked away by the government a day earlier.
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" An earlier version of this article misidentified the church leader at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church in Washington who led worshipers in the song "We Shall Overcome.
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One point made in this wry and illuminating documentary from Penny Lane is that the group that calls itself the Satanic Temple is not composed of devil worshipers.
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The victims came from at least eight countries, and included worshipers at Easter Sunday services at the three churches that were among the targets of the coordinated bombings.
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Throngs of worshipers sat on the earth around the bleach-white stupa, a large dome that represents the earth's elements and is used as a place of meditation.
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He was referring to the January killing of six worshipers at a mosque in Quebec by a gunman; the man accused of the killings espoused far-right views.
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She gave a powerful address to Parliament, in which she urged people to not speak the name of the attacker who took the lives of 50 Muslim worshipers.
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On the other side of the border, in Pakistan, is a country that was created partly so that we could enjoy beef without being attacked by cow worshipers.
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But many worshipers say they are not upset with the mall, and instead, expressed gratitude for the generosity they had been shown by the management over the years.
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Mohamed Ibrahim, who lives in a town a few miles away, described the building as an assembly hall and dining area for worshipers to gather for religious lessons.
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The group lost its lease at St. Henry's School in January, because with several hundred worshipers now on Fridays, the church said it had outgrown the small space.
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The 11- and 12-year-old girls said they were Satan worshipers and were going to drink the blood and eat the flesh of the students they killed.
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Since 2010 I've been working on a project documenting a religious revival in China, and seen new churches, temples, and mosques open each year, attracting millions of new worshipers.
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Because there are so few Jews left, it is often difficult to find a minyan, the required quorum of 10 worshipers needed to hold a service in the synagogue.
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As they gathered inside the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning, to celebrate Shabbat, none of the worshipers knew that they were going there to die.
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Wary of his status as a world-renowned star, Eminem'a guard was permanently up to ward off worshipers and those who might want to use him for financial gain.
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The suspected gunman, an Australian named Brenton Harrison Tarrant, allegedly killed 50 people after opening fire on Muslim worshipers at the two mosques, livestreaming the whole ordeal on Facebook.
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He also compared Omar's comments to the "bigoted anger of the white supremacist who killed nine African American worshipers in a South Carolina church," a reference to Dylan Roof.
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The group built their current prayer center on a quiet stretch across the street from a Goodwill and a Walgreens in 2000 to accommodate a modest number of worshipers.
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Black and white worshipers joined hands in prayer at the funeral of Philando Castile, who was shot by a police officer during a traffic stop in Minnesota last week.
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Kill everything at the bottom of the stairs — including the harmless worshipers (they're worth 30 Souls apiece!) — and follow the path straight to another set of stairs, leading down.
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Authorities say the accused killer sat with the worshipers for close to an hour before removing a handgun from his fanny pack and opening fire while hurling racial insults.
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Typically located at the entrance of Shinto shrines or in spots that hold special religious significance, they signal to worshipers a transition from the profane world to the sacred.
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It also means blues, zydeco from bayou country and a Jazz Fest touchstone, the gospel tent, where singers, preachers and choirs of everyday worshipers belt out praises and gratitude.
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A since-removed stream of the service at West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement shows two worshipers firing back at the shooter after he fires a shotgun.
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The authorities said the site would remain closed to worshipers until the investigation of Friday's events was completed, and that it was likely to reopen gradually after the weekend.
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They attacked three vehicles traveling in convoy — two buses carrying worshipers from the nearby province of Beni Suef, and a pickup truck carrying laborers, all headed to the monastery.
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Twenty minutes into the service, only seven pews had worshipers, in a church that had standing-room-only crowds on major holy days before the arrival of the militants.
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Indeed, the pope made his own pilgrimage on Saturday afternoon to the Basilica of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico's patron saint, to celebrate Mass before tens of thousands of worshipers.
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Thousands of worshipers, including families with their children, had gathered at the more than 800-year-old shrine for the Sufi ritual of Dhamal, which involves music, chanting and prayer.
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Thousands of worshipers, including families with children, had gathered Thursday at the more than 800-year-old shrine for the Sufi ritual of Dhamal, which involves music, chanting and prayer.
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In 2016 it apologized for "racial sins" that included "the segregation of worshipers by race" as well as "the participation in and defense of white supremacist organizations," among other things.
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After Israel achieved independence that year, an Arab coalition invaded, with Jordan capturing the Old City, destroying historic synagogues, desecrating Jewish cemeteries and barring Jewish worshipers from its holy sites.
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Worshipers come to the grove, a UNESCO World Heritage site, at pivotal moments of their lives, to visit her shrine and pay tribute in the form of offerings and prayers.
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The metal detectors at the center of the current controversy were installed last week to screen would-be worshipers trying to ascend to the al-Aqsa Mosque plaza for prayer.
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Israeli police added extra security and imposed age restrictions on worshipers allowed into the holy site, but midday prayer on Friday -- often the flashpoint for clashes -- passed in relative calm.
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Over the past two years, officials and residents said, the authorities have torn down crosses from 1,200 to 1,700 churches, sometimes after violent clashes with worshipers trying to stop them.
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The killer, Devin Kelley, 26, dressed in black and wearing a human-skull mask, stormed into the church sanctuary and opened fire on worshipers with a semi-automatic assault rifle.
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He has warned worshipers that new biometric passports, required by the European Union in return for visa-free access to Europe, were "satanic" because they contained a 13-digit number.
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The president pivoted to terrorism, calling it "one of the gravest threats to religious freedom" and condemning recent attacks by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria on Christian worshipers.
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The music is certainly alluring: Donizetti wrote lovely choruses for the Christian worshipers; memorable arias, like Severo's ode to Paolina; and passionate duets, like the one in the second act.
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In the five years since the attack on the Sikh temple, by an Army veteran with ties to white supremacist groups, its worshipers have done their best to move forward.
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Pastor Lewis remembers a black woman weeping in her seat, and was thankful that he finally had an answer for black worshipers questioning how their church truly felt about racism.
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Habib Ullah, one of the worshipers, said the main room of the mosque was still being refurbished — carpet had not yet been laid — but people still turned out for prayer.
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Here's the latest: New Zealand tried to come to grips with grief and horror after a gunman targeted worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch on Friday, killing at least 24.
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The floor creaked under worshipers' feet as they made their way to a pew, and a plaque in the vestibule commemorated past members who had fought in the Great War.
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They sang "Joy to the World," and Pastor Emerson gave a sermon warning the worshipers of darkness in the world and called on them to be a source of light.
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Richard Allen, a former slave, encouraged black worshipers to form their own congregations after being forced to sit in the balconies during some of the traditionally white Philadelphia church services.
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These are the faithful congregants who show up early, cut the bagels for the social hour afterward, greet the worshipers and hand out the prayer books at the sanctuary door.
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The police said that 180,000 Muslim worshipers had attended noon prayer at Al Aqsa Mosque in the Old City on Friday, the third Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan.
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On Monday, a sign outside the main prayer room used four pictographs to remind worshipers to wear long enough shirts so that their lower backs were not exposed during prostration.
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The bowl-shaped haircut worn by the white supremacist who killed nine black worshipers in Charleston, S.C., stands among the most disturbing and distinctive images that extremists have shared online.
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He localized the issue by noting that a white supremacist used an assault weapon to massacre nine black worshipers at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston in 2015.
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Medical centers said that at least 87 others were wounded in the double blast, which targeted worshipers late Tuesday as they left the Al-Radhwan mosque in the city's east.
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Later, Cleaver said that Leary required worshipers around him, and that the Panthers were done with "the whole silly, psychedelic drug culture, quasi-political movement" with which he was involved.
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There was no proper fire protection plan in place, not even a plan to evacuate tourists or worshipers in case of a blaze, Mr. Prunet said in a separate interview.
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A 25-year-old gunman wearing a mask killed a woman outside the Burnette Chapel Church of Christ and then shot and wounded six worshipers inside during a Sunday service.
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He plans to start small, conducting workshops and gathering worshipers like a latter-day John the Baptist—urging the world that the Messiah is coming whether you like it or not.
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Rosanne Solis is recounting the harrowing moments she and a group of worshipers cowered in silence on Sunday as 26-year-old Devin Kelley opened fire on the rural Texas church.
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Siblings, a husband and wife and a grandfather of three were among the 11 worshipers — decent, generous and faithful-hearted — slain at Saturday morning services in a Pittsburgh synagogue, authorities said.
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An imam leading prayers at the Shejaiya protest site called on several hundred worshipers to rise up against "the occupier," and urged them to "be creative" in their modes of protest.
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It's here that we learn the Tesseract once resided in Asgard under the protection of Odin, but it was eventually brought to Earth and left in the care of Asgard worshipers.
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As more details emerge about the mass shooting in a Pittsburgh synagogue, worshipers and officials on the scene are speaking out about the rampage that killed 11 people and injured six.
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Prior to attacking dozens of Muslim worshipers, the killer posted a manifesto, outlining why he planned to commit mass murder, and he livestreamed a portion of the gruesome act on Facebook.
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Worshipers had come to the shrine to mark Muharram, one of the holiest months in the Islamic calendar and for Shiites a time to mourn one of their imams, or saints.
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There are publications and objects items pertaining to Satan worshipers, flat-earthers, witches, magicians, alchemists, mesmerizers, Theosophists, spirit photographers and other imaginative and often fraudulent cosmologists, lunder glass on 35 tables.
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On Monday, unidentified men broke into a temple in Hathazari, near the city of Chittagong, stealing gold jewelry and cash left by worshipers at a Hindu festival, the Hathazari police said.
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Goldberg and her team have a much better handle on both Meyerism and what might draw worshipers to it in season two, and that keeps the rest of the show afloat.
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One lay nun whose order has deep roots in Mindong said Bishop Zhan would have difficulty running the diocese because most worshipers are in the underground church and support Bishop Guo.
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Also targeted in the crackdown were the 1,500-member Zion Church in Beijing, which was closed in September, and the Rongguili Church in Guangzhou, which attracted thousands of worshipers each week.
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Officials say that Mr. Osborne plowed into a group of worshipers leaving the Finsbury Park Mosque in North London on June 19 during Ramadan, the holiest month in the Muslim calendar.
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Perhaps that explains why Notre-Dame seems to hold within it a quiet spirituality, even for nonbelievers, and attracts even more worshipers and tourists than Saint Peter's Basilica in Vatican City.
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During Ramadan, the Muslim holy fasting month, the staff at St. Paul's, some of whom are Muslim, carry boxes of food to the mosque for worshipers there to break their fast.
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In late April, about 30 nomadic Fulani herdsmen were blamed for storming St. Augustine's Roman Catholic Church in the rural Middle Belt and killing at least 17 worshipers and two priests.
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So will a Tuareg, a straw and leather mat that's gone from the mosques of Mauritania (where worshipers use them as prayer mats) to Manhattan hot spots like the Ace Hotel.
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" When he walked from his apartment to the store, he added, "I experience that enlargement of the soul felt by ancient worshipers as they blissfully approached the temples of their gods.
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After a white British man rammed a van into a group of worshipers leaving a mosque on Monday, the city with a culture of tolerance is confronted with long-simmering tensions.
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But Ms. Sanders, in her third round of testimony during the proceedings, said the percussion of gunfire, which began as the worshipers closed their eyes in benediction, haunted her each day.
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"I want state that I am morally opposed to psychology," wrote the young white supremacist who would murder nine black worshipers at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, S.C., in June 2015.
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According to officials, the 11- and 12-year-old girls said they were Satan worshipers and were going to drink the blood and eat the flesh of the students they killed.
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Video of the attack on Friday worshipers and a 0003,000-word manifesto filled with anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim sentiment were posted online to an account under the name Brenton Tarrant.
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CDT (1005 GMT) about an explosion at the Dar Al Farooq mosque, after a bomb was thrown through the window of the imam's office while worshipers were gathered for morning prayers.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Two suicide bombers attacked a church packed with worshipers on Sunday in southwestern Pakistan, killing at least nine people and injuring at least 35 others, several critically, officials said.
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Two worshipers were killed and seven others were wounded when a suicide bomber and a gunman struck a mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia on Friday, the Interior Ministry said.
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In a video that appeared to have been filmed inside the mosque and that was distributed by Shiite activists, a blast is heard and worshipers chant "God is great," followed by gunfire.
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Sebastian's church which lost more than 100 worshipers in the attack—decided to use a VPN to post photos of the destruction on its Facebook page to ask for help and prayers.
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Before opening fire in the synagogue Saturday, killing 11 worshipers attending morning services, the alleged gunman, Robert Bowers, had attacked HIAS, a Jewish organization that helps refugees, on the messaging platform Gab.
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In Mexico, it has become the religion of choice for transgender, gay and lesbian worshipers, prostitutes, felons and drug traffickers, as well as little old ladies, police officers, doctors, nurses and judges.
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Singh had a democratic eye, and he took pictures of everything: cities, towns, villages, shops, rivers, worshipers, workers, construction sites, motorbikes, statues, modern furniture, balconies, suits, dresses and, sure, turbans and saris.
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Amid a scene of scantily clad sun worshipers, the best friends Reza Farahan and Mike Shouhed gaze at different objects of desire: Mr. Farahan at musclebound guys, Mr. Shouhed at voluptuous women.
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Manshaus was arrested after allegedly opening fire inside the Al-Noor Islamic Centre in Baerum, on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital Oslo, where worshipers were preparing to mark Eid-al-Adha.
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An interlude in which Cole is pursued by the high school quarterback is long and aimless, and Cole's alliance with a more age-appropriate classmate to vanquish the devil worshipers is tepid.
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Speaking after prayers at the mosque, where dozens of worshipers from North Africa, Africa and the Middle East knelt on the floor, Mohamed said many Muslims were still reeling from the attack.
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At the foot of an ancient Viking burial mound, one of the prime sledding spots near the Swedish village of Runtuna, a circular gathering of pagan worshipers was completing a sacrificial ceremony.
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The current Dhaka extreme metal scene is comprised a slew of raw and cultish worshipers, the demo-era days of Schuldiner, Becerra, and Quorthon nourishing the spoils of their own underground resistance.
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The carnage came just 11 days after the fatal shooting of 11 worshipers at synagogue in Pittsburgh, nine months after 17 people were gunned down at a high school in Parkland, Fla.
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Mr. Trudeau's apology came less than two weeks after a gunman opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 worshipers, and at a time when anti-Semitism is rising across North America.
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No one was killed in the attack and police reported worshipers were able to overpower the assailant, but the incident still raises serious concerns about the spread of radical right-wing rhetoric.
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For most of the year, the holy site's prayer area is divided into separate halls for Jewish and Muslim worshipers, with separate entrances and each side administered by its own religious authority.
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DAKAR, Senegal — A fire that erupted during a religious festival in rural Senegal attended by thousands of people has killed at least 22 worshipers and injured more than 100, government officials said.
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Few people believe that this stirring, which is moderate by United States standards, contributed directly the shooting Sunday inside Quebec City's largest mosque, in which six worshipers were killed and eight injured.
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The suspect ran, but worshipers found a number of written ramblings on white boards at the mosque after the suspect left, including the phrase "Merry Xmas" and references to Jesus and God.
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Robert Bowers, armed with an assault rifle and three handguns, charged into the sanctuary of the Tree of Life temple, yelling "all Jews must die" before spraying bullets indiscriminately on the worshipers.
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On special occasions, the vast plaza around the dome is the scene of spectacular gatherings — tens of thousands of monks in orange and worshipers in white — that rival an Olympics opening ceremony.
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More than two dozen gunmen traveling in five vehicles stormed the mosque when it was at its most crowded, during Friday Prayer, exploding a bomb and then spraying the worshipers with gunfire.
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Leaders advised Muslim worshipers not to go through the metal detectors, but to pray outside of them instead, creating dramatic, massive scenes Friday of thousands of men bowed in prayer in the street.
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Monday's attack came a day after six people, including a priest, were killed by gunmen who opened fire on worshipers in a Catholic church in Dablo in the central part of the country.
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Local affiliates of the Islamic State group and Saudis inspired by its ideology launched several attacks in Saudi Arabia between 2014 and 2016, killing dozens of people, including security officers and Shiite worshipers.
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In January, she became the first female pastor of the historic Emanuel AME Church, where nine black worshipers were gunned down by a man who said he wanted to start a race war.
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It's impossible to convey the legitimate danger strong style trucks in to skeptics who think of pro wrestling as "merely" a series of stunts performed by fake devil worshipers and middle-aged businessmen.
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The brutal killing of Hassanen has shaken the local Muslim community -- especially as she was attacked hours before a man drove a van into a crowd of worshipers at a mosque in London.
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Where they used to focus on individual ministry -- especially if someone was sick or in trouble -- many open their doors only on Sunday, deliver sermons and dismiss worshipers until next Sunday, he said.
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There was serious concern in the aftermath of the bombings, which were claimed by ISIS and targeted Christian worshipers, that there would be retaliation against the Muslim community, creating another cycle of violence.
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Roll Call reports that Mark Harris, the Republican nominee in North Carolina's 9th District, often told worshipers at his Baptist services that women should "submit" unto their husbands as they would to God.
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Laid out under glass on 19803 tables, there are publications and objects by and about Satan worshipers, flat-earthers, witches, magicians, alchemists, mesmerizers, theosophists, spirit photographers and many other imaginative, often fraudulent cosmologists.
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A few late worshipers trickled in and joined the circle, hastily removing their shoes and respectfully bowing in the direction of Sheikha Fariha, who had the bearing of a slightly bossy school principal.
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Over the past year, the Pentagon has determined that Sikhs and earnest pagan worshipers of Norse gods may wear beards in the ranks, but "Pastafarian" followers of the Flying Spaghetti Monster may not.
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Laid out under glass on 22011 tables, there are publications and objects by and about Satan worshipers, flat earthers, witches, magicians, alchemists, mesmerizers, theosophists, spirit photographers and many other imaginative, often fraudulent cosmologists.
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Laid out under glass on 35 tables, there are publications and objects by and about Satan worshipers, flat earthers, witches, magicians, alchemists, mesmerizers, theosophists, spirit photographers and many other imaginative, often fraudulent cosmologists.
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Laid out under glass on 35 tables, there are publications and objects by and about Satan worshipers, flat-earthers, witches, magicians, alchemists, mesmerizers, theosophists, spirit photographers and many other imaginative, often fraudulent cosmologists.
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The site of Trump's 2005 wedding to Melania, the gothic stone building was crowded with worshipers, who were politely chided to put away their camera phones as the President and his wife entered.
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Voting rights groups charged that this would crimp African-American voter turnout, in part by eliminating one of the Sunday voting days on which black churches typically transported worshipers to a voting site.
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But even by recent standards in Egypt, where militants have blown up Christian worshipers as they knelt at church pews and gunned down pilgrims in buses, the attack on Friday was unusually ruthless.
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Since 2016, when the militant group released a video describing Sufism as a "disease," it has claimed attacks that have killed at least 130 worshipers at Sufi shrines, most of them in Pakistan.
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Their concept is a liberal mosque that will host weekly prayers led alternately by a female and male imam with worshipers of both sexes separated on either side of the same prayer hall.
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At the prayer hall, built in 1987 after the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev relaxed restrictions on religion, female worshipers sit on one side while their husbands, fathers and sons sit on the other.
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Mohammed Mahmoud, the 30-year-old imam of the Muslim Welfare House, was praised for helping to form a protective ring around the suspect after he was apprehended by a group of worshipers.
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Last week, suicide bombers claimed by the Islamic State barged into a Shiite mosque in the western city of Herat as worshipers were standing for evening prayer and killed at least 37 people.
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New Delhi, India (CNN)Abdul Samar was praying at a mosque in the northeast of India's capital on Tuesday evening when protesters stormed in brandishing weapons, attacking worshipers and setting the building ablaze.
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" 'Darkest days' On Tuesday, Ardern had used her first appearance in Parliament since the attack to praise the "extraordinary courage" demonstrated by mosque worshipers and police during one of the country's "darkest days.
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The carnage at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church against African-American worshipers was carried out by a racist gunman who was able to buy his weapon because of shoddy enforcement of gun control laws.
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In a rare public sermon today, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told tens of thousands of worshipers that God's backing had allowed Iran to "slap the face" of the U.S. during the countries' recent tensions.
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Forty-four worshipers celebrating Palm Sunday were brutally ripped apart by bombs and left burning to death, leaving behind church walls and pews stained with innocent blood and torn bodies left lying lifeless.
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Goldstein, another follower of Kahane, murdered 29 Muslim worshipers and wounded 125 others in a shooting attack at the Ibrahimi Mosque, also known as the Cave of the Patriarchs, in Hebron in 1994.
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The government has also provided weapons to some residents near mosques to offer some protection, another indication that the security forces are stretched thin and cannot ensure the safety of worshipers at mosques.
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The mass murder Saturday of 11 Jewish worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue by a gunman, who allegedly told police "I just want to kill Jews," ramped up pressure on King's backers to drop him.
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After a man fatally shot 11 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue last month, U.S. President Donald Trump said their deaths could have been prevented if an armed guard had been stationed inside the temple.
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These provisions were far short of steps many Democrats and gun control groups argued were needed to stop the shooting deaths of school children, concert-goers, church worshipers and others throughout the United States.
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When Camilla and Charles visited a mosque in Cairo in 2006, Camilla wore a loose-fitting coat over her trousers and a scarf wrapped around her head to respect the worshipers in the space.
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The group blew up a Russian airliner carrying more than 200 people, massacred dozens of Coptic Christians in their churches, and slaughtered more than 200 worshipers at a Sufi Muslim mosque in the Sinai.
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It lacks a dome and a minaret, which hold special religious symbolism, and the worshipers have no easy way to wash their hands, feet and heads before prayer, as called for in the Quran.
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But, even though it's only 15 years old, only a fraction of the station is still used for travel, and a motley crew of artists, vendors, and worshipers are filling the void left behind.
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During their time in Manchester, the bomber and his family worshiped at the nearby Didsbury Mosque, which hit the headlines in 2011 when it was claimed that worshipers had raised money for the LIFG.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Gunmen disguised as police officers attacked a Shiite shrine packed with hundreds of worshipers in the Afghan capital late Tuesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding dozens, officials and witnesses reported.
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Characteristically, they were never passive worshipers but became passionate movers in a Jewish revival on the Upper West Side of Manhattan that stressed more intimate, egalitarian, small-group circles rather than large temple services.
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In Washington, the Episcopal and Catholic dioceses also closed public services, after an Episcopal rector who gave Communion and shook hands with worshipers became the first confirmed Covid-19 case in the nation's capital.
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He tried to distract the attacker in a move that many fellow worshipers have described as heroic, weaving through cars in the parking lot, attempting to draw the gunman's attention away from the mosque.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The Australian man accused of fatally shooting dozens of Muslim worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, has been charged with carrying out a terrorist act, the police said Tuesday.
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The leader of the Catholic community, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, the archbishop of Colombo, the capital, said he would have told worshipers not to go to Easter Mass, had he known of the impending danger.
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Many of the shuttered churches are small Pentecostal groups that meet in tents or flimsy buildings, and some preach a brand of so-called prosperity gospel that encourages worshipers to donate beyond their means.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. — I was watching CNN at home in Atlanta on the night of June 17, 2015, when the first reports were broadcast about the massacre of nine worshipers at a church in Charleston.
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A federal judge ruled that Dylann S. Roof, who murdered nine black worshipers at a Charleston, S.C., church, is competent to face the sentencing phase of his death penalty trial, which starts this week.
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While the gunman had been opening fire on innocent worshipers, I had been posting video of my toddler learning how to tackle a bike track, and idly complaining to a friend about the heat.
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Worshipers who had jumped out of windows and fled barefoot from the siege described scenes of panic and bloodshed after gunmen entered the compound in a residential area in the north of the city.
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Officials from Hamas and other militant factions addressed the worshipers, urging them into the fray and claiming — falsely, to all appearances — that the fence had been breached and that Palestinians were flooding into Israel.
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Worshipers carry a "mikoshi," or a portable shrine, in the sea during a festival to wish for calm waters in the ocean and good fortune in the new year in Oiso, Japan, Jan. 1.
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Database of hate symbols: The Anti-Defamation League added 36 entries — including the bowl-shaped haircut worn by the white supremacist who killed nine black worshipers in Charleston, S.C. — to its longstanding online catalog.
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The local parish, Holy Redeemer, was run by an order of priests called the Redemptorists, and was unusually large, with 14 Masses each Sunday for up to 20,000 worshipers, he recalled in a Dec.
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Similar measures have been taken in Japan, South Korea and Iran, where several million worshipers have been deprived of the existential comfort of attending religious ceremonies in a moment of grave uncertainty and confusion.
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The Council voted to remove the Forrest monument from what is now Health Sciences Park in 2015 — soon after a Confederate-flag-waving white supremacist murdered nine black worshipers at a Charleston, S.C., church.
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Located on the grounds of Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, the detailed memorial is a result of conversations between architects and grieving family members to honor the nine worshipers shot and killed in June 2015.
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It does not mention the recent attack on a mosque in Quebec City, or the racially motivated attack by Dylann Roof on a church in South Carolina, in which nine black worshipers were shot dead.
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Trump said he would visit hospitalized police officers and other people wounded in Saturday's mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue that killed 11 worshipers in the deadliest ever attack on America's Jewish community.
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That same month, Facebook faced renewed criticism over its content moderation efforts when a Facebook Live video that appeared to show a gunman massacring worshipers in Christchurch, New Zealand, threatened to spiral out of control.
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Perhaps the most captivating among the collection are scenes brought to life by the people recorded in them, from pilgrims to musicians and dancers at religious festivals to priests and worshipers congregating on temple steps.
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Asian bourses strengthened on Monday as markets geared up ahead of Brexit negotiations between the U.K. and the European Union and kept an eye on a deadly attack on worshipers leaving a mosque in London.
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But Big Love always returns to what draws people to their churches again and again: Their fellow worshipers feel like family, and they offer a sense of community the rest of the world often lacks.
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Ms. Ardern drew international praise for her ability to mix compassion with concrete action in the wake of a recent mass shooting in her country, in which dozens of worshipers at two mosques were killed.
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As Christians in Sri Lanka gathered on Sunday morning to celebrate Easter Mass, powerful explosions ripped through three churches packed with worshipers, leaving hundreds of victims amid a havoc of splintered and blood-spattered pews.
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In February, militants aligned with the Islamic State attacked worshipers at the tomb of a Sufi philosopher in a remote part of southern Pakistan, killing more than 80 people, whom the militants described as polytheists.
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But the political system is depressingly accustomed to processing incidents like the killing, by apparent white supremacists, of two black shoppers at a grocery store outside Louisville and 22016 worshipers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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In February, Darren Osborne, 48, was found guilty of murder for driving a van into Muslim worshipers outside the Finsbury Park Mosque, in North London, in June 2017, killing one person and wounding nine others.
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Lawmakers in New Zealand have introduced legislation to create a registry of all firearms in the country after a deadly shooting in Christchurch earlier this year targeting Muslim worshipers left more than 50 people dead.
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Editorial The terrorist attacks on two Coptic churches in Egypt, filled with Palm Sunday worshipers, were appalling in their cruelty, striking at a Christian community that is historically vulnerable in a predominantly Muslim Arab state.
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But on Friday, as he was praying at Linwood mosque in Christchurch, an armed man started shooting indiscriminately at worshipers -- first outside the mosque, then through the windows as women and children huddled inside, screaming.
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Ethiopians have long chewed khat, but the practice tended to be limited to predominantly Muslim areas, where worshipers chew the leaves to help them pray for long periods, especially during the fasting times of Ramadan.
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But in the hours after a 28-year-old man opened fire inside a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing at least 50 worshipers and wounding 20 more, Anning opted to blame the Muslims themselves.
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Unidentified armed men, who on Monday stopped a group of worshipers during a Catholic parade in the remote village of Zimtenga, in the Kongoussi area of the country's northwest, set children free but killed four adults.
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In any other week, these would've been the top stories: A gunman stormed a mosque in Quebec City on Monday, with shooter Alexandre Bissonnette -- a right-wing Trump supporter -- killing six worshipers and injuring eight more.
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Militants reportedly set off explosives and rained down gunfire on worshipers at the crowded mosque in the Sinai Peninsula in what is being called the deadliest attack on Egyptian civilians by Islamic extremists, according to CNN.
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One of those men was reportedly 26-year-old Devin Patrick Kelley, who had just moments before opened fire on a group of worshipers at the church, killing at least 183 people and injuring 20 others.
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Worshipers were at the mosque until roughly an hour before the fire was reported, and many area Muslims had to find alternative plans Monday for Eid al-Adha because of the extensive damage to the center.
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The spate of attacks in Indonesia's second-largest city began Sunday when a family of six carried out suicide attacks on three Christian churches as worshipers arrived for morning services, killing 2202 people and injuring 40.
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The spate of attacks in Indonesia's second-largest city began Sunday when a family of six carried out suicide attacks on three Christian churches as worshipers arrived for morning services, killing 13 people and injuring 40.
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The arson, along with an earlier assault on a congregant outside the mosque and other episodes there, has left worshipers scared, said Mohammed Malik, 113, a businessman who has attended the mosque for nearly a decade.
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In Philadelphia, a pig's head was thrown at a mosque; in Austin, torn pages of the Quran smeared with feces were left for worshipers at a mosque; and in Connecticut gunmen opened fire on a mosque.
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In a local mosque, next to a shrine draped in gold fabric and topped with flowers, CNN spoke to worshipers who said they had been harassed and terrorized by Hashim and other radical Muslims for years.
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In tiny storefronts and suburban megachurches, worshipers mourned the deaths of five Dallas police officers at the hands of an African-American sniper who was aiming to kill white officers at a demonstration against police violence.
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CAIRO — Militants detonated a bomb inside a crowded mosque in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday and then sprayed gunfire on panicked worshipers as they fled, killing at least 2130 people and wounding at least 216 others.
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Here's the latest: New Zealand tried to come to grips with grief and horror unlike anything in its modern history after a gunman targeted worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch on Friday, killing at least 2150.
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But the narrowly tailored action falls short of the type of comprehensive legislation gun control advocates and many Democrats say is needed to stop the shooting deaths of school children, concert-goers, church worshipers and others.
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Archaeologists in Mexico say they have found the first temple dedicated to a deity called the Flayed Lord, an important god in the Aztec Empire whose worshipers were said to wear the skin of sacrificial victims.
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ATLANTA — A federal judge refused on Monday to declare Dylann S. Roof, the white supremacist who murdered nine black worshipers at a Charleston, S.C., church, incompetent to face the sentencing phase of his death penalty trial.
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"Please could you stop killing your own people?" he asked the commander, whose irregulars had just opened fire on a couple of dozen pro-government worshipers inside a mosque, during prayers, killing five and wounding 37.
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So for people who do want a bit of privacy — worshipers, young people visiting Planned Parenthood, those visiting a queer space, survivors hiding from an abuser — they no longer have a real choice about their privacy.
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Attendance at Holy Week services at St. Mark's Cathedral in Alexandria soared after the bombing, clerics said, as worshipers defied their fears and crowded into a church whose pillars and altars were shrouded in black cloth.
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Trump's failure to do more to point out that the worshipers who died in Christchurch were Muslim represents a double standard, given that he has been much clearer in ascribing a religious motivation to other killings.
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KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants disguised as shepherds who were tending a flock of sheep attacked a Shiite mosque in Kabul on Friday as worshipers were leaving, killing five people and wounding at least 143 others, officials said.
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Devin Kelley, the 26-year-old gunman, stormed into the Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church on Sunday and opened fire on worshipers with a semi-automatic assault rifle in the deadliest mass shooting in modern Texas history.
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The man accused of killing 11 Jewish worshipers and injuring six at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday legally purchased the guns used in the massacre, as well as several others, authorities have confirmed.
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Trump believes that, as the crossroads of the world's religions, a unified Jerusalem must remain open to all worshipers, and the reality is that any threat to Israel's rule over the city would imperil that free access.
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There is nothing Democrats can do to make their Republican colleagues side with upstanding patriots like Taylor and Kent — who embody the virtues conservatives once venerated — over their dear leader and the mad rantings of his worshipers.
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Worshipers at a mosque in Quebec reportedly heard the phrase "Allahu Akhbar," the very phrase they recite in morning prayers, uttered by their white supremacist attacker just before he opened fire and killed six Muslims this January.
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He wore his kurta and ran around the hall as the young imam preached about tolerance and requested donations so the worshipers could purchase their own space and finally leave the rented space in an Afghan restaurant.
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" The organization also argued family groups were separated by six feet during the service, staff wore gloves, worshipers were given sanitizer when they entered the church, and the church spent $100,000 for a "hospital grade purification system.
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I joined a long queue of worshipers carrying gifts of money and flowers and got a peek at the Sri Sri Jagadiswari Kalimata Thakurani idol, bright red tongue visible and a foot placed onto a man's chest.
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Arriving by helicopter, the king was greeted by a Palestinian honor guard, as well as by a huge poster of his image and that of Mr. Abbas superimposed on crowds of Muslim worshipers inside the Aqsa compound.
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But several new cases have emerged in towns across South Korea, most of them Shincheonji worshipers who have attended church services in Daegu or people who have traveled to the city or have met people from there.
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At issue was an official demand that the mosque provide 107 parking spots for its 150 worshipers, instead of the ratio of one spot for every three users required of the township's churches, synagogues, restaurants and auditoriums.
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Do they see the relationship between the violence in Oklahoma City and the shooting of nine black churchgoers in Charleston, S.C., in 2015 or the murder of 11 Jewish worshipers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh in 2018?
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The murder of 50 Muslim worshipers in New Zealand, allegedly by a 28-year-old Australian white supremacist, will be long scrutinized for the way violent hatreds are spawned and staged on social media and the internet.
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John Hagee (Jews "have everything but spiritual life") and white nationalists, one of whom committed perhaps the deadliest attack against Jews in American history, massacring 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in October.
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MEXICO CITY — In a stinging rebuke to Mexico's church hierarchy, Pope Francis on Saturday told bishops that they had lost their way in "gossip" and "intrigue," and challenged them to "begin anew" and tend to the church's worshipers.
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Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN)Pakistan's military has launched a crackdown on what it says are terrorists with ties to Afghanistan after a suicide attack on a packed shrine in the southern city of Sehwan killed at least 88 worshipers.
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Yet it is torment, not bliss, that most marks the lives of this little band of worshipers, who are seeking in stringent religion a refuge from worldly suffering: a dead child, a grim marriage, a life in bondage.
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The government decision is meant to give visitors and worshipers a third option — an easily accessible and visible space south of the men and women's sections, in the area known as Robinson's Arch, dedicated to pluralistic, egalitarian prayer.
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New Delhi (CNN)Food shared among participants in a religious ceremony is believed to have caused at least 11 deaths and put more than 90 worshipers in hospital, police in the southern Indian state of Karnataka said Saturday.
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But on a sweltering August weekend, worshipers of the mosque and other local residents grappled with grief and safety concerns after the mosque's imam, Alauddin Akonjee, and his assistant were shot and killed on Saturday after afternoon prayers.
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After a third straight James masterpiece in elimination games, a generation of committed Jordan worshipers heaved a sigh of relief as its main man Michael remained the face of the one-season standard for end-to-end excellence.
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LUCKNOW, India — At least 24 people were killed and 20 others were injured in a stampede that occurred Saturday as worshipers were crossing a crowded bridge to reach a Hindu religious ceremony in northern India, the police said.
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His home, a converted gable-roofed church that once attracted worshipers, had without his knowledge been designated a Pokémon "gym," a place where players who reach Level 5 in the game must go to train their Pokémon characters.
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The outbreak has centered on Daegu, a city of about 2.5 million in the country's southeast, after a 61-year-old Shincheonji congregant — known as Patient No. 31 — is believed to have infected many other worshipers during services.
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The worshipers in Glen Rock include Gurbir Grewal, New Jersey's attorney general, and Ravi Bhalla, the mayor of Hoboken, along with Mr. Bhalla's older brother Amardeep Singh, a founder of the Sikh Coalition, a national civil rights organization.
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Welcomed by tens of thousands of cheering worshipers who lined the streets and thronged piazzas, Francis traveled to the two towns in southern Italy where the Capuchin friar, also known as St. Pio of Pietrelcina, lived and died.
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But while it's true that white supremacy is deadly and needs to be confronted — something our vote-obsessed president blindly ignores — without the weapons of mass murder, 50 New Zealand worshipers would still be alive; 17 Parkland, Fla.
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Christchurch shooting: An Australian white supremacist charged with killing 51 worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand last year changed his plea to guilty, eliminating worries that he would try to make the process a platform for hate.
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A message posted on a Facebook page associated with a parish in the archdiocese in Chiapas said the worshipers were returning from a weekend pilgrimage to the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Mexico's most important Catholic shrine.
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The Australian who in March last year murdered 51 worshipers at mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, claimed in his manifesto that he had traveled to Ukraine; during the attacks he wore a symbol used by the Azov Battalion.
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But the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that 49 people had been killed in what the group described as a massacre of civilians who were undergoing religious instruction in an assembly hall and dining area for worshipers.
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In addition to a weekend flea market, the nearby streets hold Galerie St. John, a Baroque chapel-turned-antique shop that now draws worshipers of gilded clocks, Chinese screens, painted porcelain, exquisite glassware and Art Deco silver sets.
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Launched by the American Jewish Committee, a global Jewish advocacy organization, the #ShowUpForShabbat campaign is a reaction to last Saturday's massacre, when 11 worshipers were gunned down at a synagogue in one of Pittsburgh's most vibrant Jewish communities.
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During a three-hour stay in Pittsburgh, the President and first lady somberly laid stones atop the 11 Star of David markers planted in the ground outside the Tree of Life synagogue, where 22018 worshipers were gunned down.
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Local authorities and media said a gunman yelling "All Jews must die" stormed the synagogue during Saturday services and shot worshipers, killing at least eight people and wounding six others including four police officers before he was arrested.
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Kelley's troubled Air Force background has been a focus of investigators in the tiny Texas town of Sutherland Springs since he stormed into a church there on Sunday with a semi-automatic assault rifle and opened fire on worshipers.
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Read: Jordan walks a tightrope in Jerusalem Before the age restrictions were announced, authorities said they expected more clashes Friday, as Muslims leaders in Jerusalem asked mosques to close for Friday prayer so that worshipers go to al-Aqsa.
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Mr. Morel's parents, brother and cousins were at the hearing, as were worshipers from the mosque the victims attended, Al-Furqan Jame Masjid, which was just a few blocks from where they were killed after an afternoon prayer service.
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The Poway shooter also said he was inspired by the Christchurch shooter and the suspect in the killing of 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last October, the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
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Salman Firuzi, one of the worshipers present at the mosque during the blast, said about 500 men were on the ground floor, where the bomber detonated his explosives, and a similar number of women were on the second floor.
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We got the "Greenleaf" star -- he plays Bishop Greenleef -- at LAX where he said checking worshipers just seems necessary now in the wake the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs ... at least until Congress passes some serious gun control legislation.
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A few worshipers in jeans and flannel shirts will lead the congregation in hymns whose mountain music melodies, like "I'll Fly Away," evoke the tribe's pre-exile home in North Carolina and are sung in both Cherokee and English.
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Guilty plea in New Zealand attack: A white supremacist charged with killing 51 worshipers at two mosques in New Zealand last year unexpectedly changed his plea to guilty today, about two months before he was scheduled to face trial.
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Some of the victims were killed as worshipers gathered for Mass at St. Anthony's Shrine in Colombo; St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, about 20 miles north of Colombo; and Zion Church in the eastern city of Batticaloa, officials said.
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He was "a really great guy, a pure person," said Bzhar Ahmad, 55, a retired government worker who had just emerged from noon prayers at the town's Amadi Grand Mosque, with a group of other Muslim worshipers nodding agreement.
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Federal prosecutors brought a case against Dylann S. Roof in the killings of nine worshipers in a Charleston, S.C., church in part because they wanted to send a message that the federal government considered the massacre a hate crime.
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Around 100 worshipers crammed into a long, chilly room under fluorescent lights to listen to readings from the Bible, sing and watch a video advising them to dress for worship as they would for a meeting with the president.
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JERUSALEM — The Muslim authorities in Jerusalem instructed worshipers to remain outside the Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday, even after Israel removed the metal detectors from entrances to the holy site that had prompted days of violent clashes and bloodshed.
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He recognized the essential role the chapel played for regular worshipers and wanted to make sure they were kept updated, collecting phone numbers and addresses (both the traditional postage version and email), to encourage them to make the move.
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For nearly 600 consecutive evenings, a group of worshipers has prayed the rosary outside the locked doors of Our Lady of Peace, a Roman Catholic Church on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, trying to keep their church alive.
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The ascetic, Naga Baba Prayagrajgiri, had twice before joined the throngs of Hindu worshipers who flock to Prayagraj every six years to pray and bathe at the confluence of India's great rivers — two of them worldly, the third divine.
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A leader of the Sikh community in the US, who experienced their own tragedy when a gunman killed six worshipers at a temple in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, in 2012, is encouraging Sikhs to go to Shabbat services this weekend.
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Forced to spend most days on the couch in his Christchurch home, he is beginning a long recovery from the nine gunshot wounds he suffered in March when a terrorist fired on Muslim worshipers in this New Zealand city.
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The area had been busy with worshipers attending Ramadan prayers, and though Mr. Ali had collapsed just before the attack, several of those who went to his aid said he had been alive before being struck by the van.
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Willie Wilson, one of several Democrats who plan to take on incumbent Mayor Rahm Emanuel in next year&aposs election, handed out $300,000 to about 2,000 worshipers at a church on Chicago's South Side Sunday morning, an aide told WGN-TV .
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In the wake of the 22016 massacre of several worshipers at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston by a white supremacist, there's been a renewed push to remove some of these Confederate monuments and rename streets and squares honoring the Confederacy.
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"Think of your own church or synagogue or temple, and mosques like this will be very familiar," he said, standing shoeless at the podium in observation of the custom that calls for worshipers to remove their footwear before entering the mosque.
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British authorities say Darren Osborne, who killed a man and injured nine when he drove a vehicle into a crowd of worshipers outside a London mosque last year, had voraciously read Robinson's propaganda in the weeks leading up to the attack.
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When a white supremacist shot to death nine worshipers at a South Carolina church in 250, it evoked memories of the murder of four black girls in Birmingham, Alabama, who died in the infamous 16th Street Baptist Church bombings in 1963.
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In the years that followed, the Police Department secretly built files on Muslim neighborhoods, recorded sermons at mosques, collected license plates of worshipers and documented the views of everyday people on topics such as drone strikes, politics and foreign policy.
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Charleston, South Carolina (CNN)Former Attorney General Eric Holder took a veiled swipe at Bernie Sanders Sunday, urging worshipers at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston to hold politicians who have stood against gun reform accountable at the ballot box.
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To take two more recent examples, a Britain First supporter drove his car into worshipers outside a London mosque last year, and an Italian gunman, a former candidate for the Northern League, shot six African immigrants during a rampage last month.
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An email exchange from June 2015 revealed that after a white nationalist shot and killed nine black worshipers at a church in Charleston, S.C., Mr. Miller appeared concerned about the removal of Confederate merchandise from e-commerce websites like Amazon.
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At a Turkish mosque in Molenbeek run by Diyanet, Turkey's state-controlled religious affairs agency, the imam, who speaks only Turkish, expressed revulsion at the March attacks in Brussels and said that he and his worshipers never tolerate extremist views.
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An assault in a town in the North Sinai last week killed more than 300 worshipers at a mosque, in the latest indication that the four-year-old militant insurgency centered there threatens Egyptian civilians as well as security forces.
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Locals pray for deceased relatives, there are religious processions by boat and on the streets, and worshipers crawl from the entrance of a church toward an altar where they pay homage to a shrine of religious relics, among other ceremonies.
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In the wake of the 2015 massacre of several worshipers at Emmanuel AME Church in Charleston by a white supremacist, there's been a renewed push to remove some of these Confederate monuments and rename streets and squares named after them.
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Worshipers, many of whom either survived the shooting or are relatives of those wounded or killed, still gather every Sunday, face the pulpit, put their backs to the front doors and sing gospel hymns, as they did 29 years ago.
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In 1990, at the height of the terror between insurgents from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and a Sri Lankan military accused of slaughtering civilians, worshipers gathered in the evening for prayer at the Meera Grand Jumma Mosque in Kattankudy.
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KILIS, Turkey — Two large Turkish flags, flattened by the rain, cover the blasted-out windows of the 17th-century mosque in Kilis, where a rocket fired by Kurdish militants in Syria slammed into the dome this week, killing two worshipers.
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But his stop at the church, where he spent time with a small group of worshipers who had given up on catching a glimpse of him on the highway, is etched in local memory as nothing less than a miracle.
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Even as the number of Australians who identify as Christians has fallen in recent years, Pentecostal churches, like Horizon and Hillsong, the global megachurch, have drawn a surge of new worshipers, especially appealing to young people with a contemporary worship style.
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Two male attackers, wearing full-length burqas to hide explosive vests and automatic weapons, entered the mosque in the city of Gardez in Paktia Province, first firing at the worshipers and then detonating the vests, according to the Afghan police.
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There were no immediate claims of responsibility, but the worshipers were Sufis, whose mystical form of Islam is considered heretical by Sunni extremists, and the Egyptian military has been battling an affiliate of the Islamic State in the Sinai for years.
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The comments come nearly a week after a string of explosive devices were mailed to prominent Democrats and former intelligence officials who were critical of and criticized by the president, and a gunman killed 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue.
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Public symbols of the Confederacy including the Confederate flag have been the center of controversy across the U.S. South after a white gunman allegedly shot dead nine black worshipers at a historic church in Charleston, South Carolina in July 2015.
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The alleged leader of the group allegedly met last week with other members to discuss a plot to launch 10 separate attacks throughout Germany, including assaults on mosques similar to those last year in New Zealand that killed 51 worshipers.
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Even in a country where mass shootings have become a fact of life, it was nearly impossible for most Americans to make sense of a gunman walking into Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh and murdering 11 worshipers in cold blood.
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Britain First emerged in 2011 as an offshoot of the far-right British National Party, and while it has shown some interest in electoral politics, it is best known for its confrontational tactics, particular its storming into mosques and intimidating worshipers.
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It had been nearly a year since 11 worshipers were shot to death by an anti-Semitic gunman at Shabbat service — months of therapy, of reciting their names in the mourner's kaddish, of tending to the endless, agonizing logistical demands of mass tragedy.
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As evidence, the official pointed to actions taken by Facebook this spring during the Christchurch terrorist attack—a massacre of more than 50 Muslim worshipers in New Zealand that was streamed in real-time over the internet by a shooter using Facebook Live.
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The Grand Mosque, or the Masjid al-Haram, is the largest mosque in the world and surrounds Islam's holiest site, the Kaaba -- a cube-shaped shrine that worshipers circle during the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage that brings millions of people to Mecca.
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The decision to impose age restrictions came in the aftermath of clashes between Muslim worshipers and Israeli security forces Thursday, the latest unrest to emerge since two police officers were killed close to the entrance of the holy site on July 14.
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Worshipers must "uphold the principle that religions in China must be Chinese in orientation and provide active guidance to religions so that they can adapt themselves to the socialist society," according to a government white paper on religious freedoms published earlier this year.
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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday visited the Pittsburgh synagogue attacked by an anti-Semitic gunman and lit candles for each of the 11 slain worshipers, while thousands protested his presence in the city and victims' families began burying their dead.
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The realizations almost always began with the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, and a sense that white church leaders or fellow worshipers did not want to talk about how a black teenager walking home from a 7-Eleven could end up dead.
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A man carrying a knife and a hunting rifle opened fire on worshipers on Sunday at an Orthodox church in Kizlyar, in the Dagestan region of Russia, killing at least five people and wounding several others, according to a Russian state news agency.
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In a park across from Al Noor Mosque, where 42 worshipers were killed, traditional Friday Prayer became a communal event, drawing together Muslims from afar, relatives of the dead and New Zealanders in headscarves experiencing an Islamic service for the first time.
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CreditCreditMichela Buttignol When a gunman slaughtered 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue on a Shabbat morning last month, American Jews were left with a jumble of intense emotions: horror and fear, certainly, but also an old embattled feeling, centuries in the making.
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But during recent prayers, the message - delivered to rows of worshipers clad in warm winter cloaks and jackets - took a somewhat different turn, to the need for action on climate change and environmental concerns, through measures such as reducing litter and planting trees.
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Shortly after midnight, a van rammed into a group of pedestrians near the Finsbury Park Mosque, in North London, and the imam of a nearby community center was credited with preventing an angry mob from attacking the driver after worshipers subdued him.
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The cathedral, a Gothic landmark on the Île de la Cité in the Seine, across from the headquarters of the Paris police prefecture, was sealed off, and about 900 visitors and worshipers were told not to leave until the situation was declared safe.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia — A wave of deadly bombings on Sunday and Monday and evidence of more planned have shaken Indonesia just ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, with entire families — including children — carrying out suicide attacks against Christian worshipers and the police.
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Consider this: Dylann Roof, an admitted white supremacist, was not charged with terrorism for killing nine black parishioners in South Carolina in 2015; nor was Robert Bowers, an avowed racist and anti-Semite, for killing 20173 worshipers at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.
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MOSCOW — Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday declared Jehovah's Witnesses, a Christian denomination that rejects violence, an extremist organization, banning the group from operating on Russian territory and putting its more than 170,000 Russian worshipers in the same category as Islamic State militants.
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The grove, in the primary high forest just outside the city of Osogbo in southwest Nigeria, contains over 21990 shrines and is visited by Osun worshipers, traditional healers who gather the medicinal plants that grow there, and tourists from all over the world.
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Hundreds of worshipers had been inside the Reigners Bible Church International in the city of Uyo on Saturday for the consecration of a church founder, Akan Weeks, as its bishop when the building's metal girders fell and its corrugated iron roof caved in.
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Finalists ProPublica, The Washington Post BREAKING NEWS REPORTING "I don't think there's a single person on the staff who didn't contribute" to covering the shooting deaths of 11 worshipers at the Tree of Life synagogue, said Keith Burris, the paper's executive editor.
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Three months before 11 worshipers were slain in a Pittsburgh synagogue in what authorities have described as an anti-Semitic rampage, the synagogue's rabbi wrote about the continuing scourge of mass shootings in American schools and the political inaction so far to address it.
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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - A federal grand jury on Wednesday charged the man accused of killing 11 worshipers in a Pittsburgh synagogue with additional hate crimes and firearms offenses, as the Jewish community held more funerals for victims of the worst anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
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Anne Speckhard, director of the International Center for the Study of Violent Extremism (ICSVE), told CNN that churches were "probably an opportunity of time," given the large number of worshipers gathered at events on Easter Sunday, the most important date in the Christian calendar.
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Joel's Sunday service at Lakewood Church -- the first since massive flooding in Houston and backlash he received for how he handled it -- was packed with thousands of worshipers, with the pastor taking a moment to re-explain the delay in opening his doors to evacuees.
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As we previously mentioned ... Ye brought his choir out for the weekend trip, where they're set to take the stage at 7 PM CT (5 PM PT) at the Lakewood Church -- a place thousands of worshipers come out each week to hear Joel and co.
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In the days since the tragedy, our staff and supporters have struggled to come to grips with the idea that anyone could be so incited by our work welcoming and protecting refugees that he would invade a sanctuary and take the lives of 11 worshipers.
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ST. PAUL — A Baptist preacher delivered a eulogy in a Roman Catholic cathedral, black and white worshipers joined hands in prayer, and nearly every inch of pew was occupied as friends, family and supporters mourned the death of Philando Castile at his funeral on Thursday.
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In a surprise development late Tuesday, a federal judge in Charleston, S.C., ordered a competency evaluation and delayed jury selection in the death penalty trial of Dylann S. Roof, the avowed white supremacist accused of killing nine worshipers at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in June 2015.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand will attempt this week to use the terrorist attack that killed 51 Muslim worshipers in Christchurch mosques in March to demand that the biggest internet platforms do more to stamp out violent and extremist content.
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Just how widely became clear this week when it emerged that Mr. Sellner received a 1,500 euro donation — about $1,700 — a year ago from Brenton Harrison Tarrant of Australia, who is accused of killing 50 Muslim worshipers in Christchurch, New Zealand, two weeks ago.
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Islamists carried out three deadly terror attacks in the U.K. last year, at a cost of 35 lives, compared to one by a far-right extremist, who killed one person when he drove his car into a crowd of worshipers outside a London mosque.
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It's been an awful few days, with the slaughter of 11 worshipers by an anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant gunman at a Pennsylvania synagogue, and the efforts, apparently by a deranged Floridian supporter of President Trump, to send pipe bombs to prominent Democrats and Trump critics.
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After midday prayers, the atmosphere grew even more charged when officials from Hamas and other militant factions addressed the worshipers, urging them into the fray and claiming — falsely, to all appearances — that the fence had been breached and that Palestinians were flooding into Israel.
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After the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in 2017, in which 26 worshipers were killed by an enraged gunman with an assault rifle, the Texas legislature passed a law that explicitly permitted licensed concealed-carry owners to bring their guns into places of worship.
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Iran's supreme leader struck a defiant tone in a rare public sermon on Friday, calling the United States an "arrogant power" and telling tens of thousands of chanting worshipers that God's backing had allowed his country to "slap the face" of the United States.
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In 2006, the Indian Young Lawyers Association filed a Public Interest Litigation before the Supreme Court, again challenging the custom on the grounds that it violated the constitutional right to equality under Article 14, and freedom of religion for female worshipers under Article 25.
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During Saturday morning prayers at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh in October 2628, 28503 worshipers were murdered and six wounded by a gun-wielding assailant who reportedly spouted anti-Semitic insults during the attack and had earlier targeted Jews on social media.
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Hundreds of thousands of Muslim women descend on Mecca in Saudi Arabia each year to take part in the Hajj, but in recent weeks some female worshipers have told CNN they experienced incidents of sexual abuse or harassment while participating in the five-day pilgrimage.
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (Reuters) - A former U.S. serviceman who shot 26 worshipers to death during Sunday prayers in Texas was embroiled in a domestic dispute with his in-laws and had sent threatening text messages to his wife's mother before the massacre, officials said Monday.
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LONDON — A man accused of driving a van into Muslim worshipers outside a London mosque, killing one person and injuring nine others, was found guilty of murder on Thursday, after a trial that raised questions about the radicalizing influence of far-right groups in Britain.
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Her status as a potential candidate for national high office was boosted in 2015 when she ordered the Confederate battle flag to be pulled down at South Carolina's state capitol grounds after a white supremacist gunman shot dead nine black worshipers at a church in Charleston.
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SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas (Reuters) - The modest Texas church where a gunman massacred more than two dozen worshipers last week reopened as a memorial on Sunday, giving the public its first glimpse of the site where one of the most shocking mass shootings in U.S. history unfolded.
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Acts of violence anywhere fly in the face of this principle, but ones in houses of worship do so even more heinously because they attempt to threaten the very reason worshipers have gathered -- to share the two-fold love they feel called to embody and express.
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Before his death in 2015, King Abdullah ordered the installation of the world's largest folding umbrellas in the piazzas outside the Grand Mosque, to shelter worshipers from the blistering sun as they offered prayers, read the Quran or simply basked in their proximity to this holy site.
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Mr. Roma, whose best known work includes black-and-white images of worshipers in African-American churches and portraits of people at the Brooklyn criminal courthouse, has received two Guggenheim fellowships and had solo shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the International Center of Photography.
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Those accounts, from around the time of the Spanish invasion in the early 1500s, say that worshipers of Xipe Tótec sacrificed people, usually prisoners of war, by having them fight a series of combatants in a kind of gladiatorial ritual — or by killing the prisoners with arrows.
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Any Muslim is welcome to join: men or women, Sunni or Shiite, transgender, gay or straight "We want to send a signal to political Islam," Ms. Ates, wearing a long, white tunic trimmed with gold, told a packed room on the opening day, when journalists outnumbered worshipers.
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Then Mr. Goldstein led the group to St. Peter's Church, not far from 1 World Trade Center, and stopped into the antechamber to discuss the 1806 Christmas Riots, set off by a gang attacking Irish Catholic worshipers leaving the church after midnight Mass on Christmas Eve.
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Mr. Kinnunen took a seat toward the back of the simple sanctuary, an auditorium with a carpeted stage, a wooden altar inscribed with "This Do in Remembrance of Me" and a pair of water jugs that had been stuffed with bills and coins collected from worshipers.
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And after watching television coverage of the US travel ban affecting people from Muslim-majority countries, a white nationalist terrorist in Canada walks into a mosque and murders six worshipers in cold blood to send a message to Muslims that they were not welcome in Canada either.
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Worshipers, sightseers and staff were ushered out, and someone went up to check the most vulnerable part of the medieval structure — the attic, a lattice of ancient wooden beams known as "the forest" — but no fire was found, Rémy Heitz, the Paris prosecutor, said on Tuesday.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — Less than a month after 103 Muslim worshipers in the city of Christchurch were fatally shot in terrorist attacks on two mosques, New Zealand passed a law banning most semiautomatic weapons on Wednesday — a measure supported by all but one of Parliament's 120 lawmakers.
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Three members of his congregation were among those killed when a man armed with an assault rifle and three handguns on Saturday stormed the Tree of Life temple in the city's heavily Jewish Squirrel Hill neighborhood yelling "All Jews must die" as he opened fire on worshipers.
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This week, reporters dredged up the online pasts of two monsters: a Florida man who was arrested for sending pipe bombs to at least a dozen of President Trump's critics, and a neo-Nazi sympathizer who opened fire in a Pittsburgh synagogue, killing 11 worshipers on Saturday morning.
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In 1987, Archbishop Iakovos appointed him the pastor of St. Nicholas Church downtown — a spiritual retreat for office workers on weekdays and a parish church on Sundays for about 40 to 50 worshipers who commuted to Lower Manhattan from Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens, New Jersey and Westchester County.
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Today investigators went to the home of the Sayfullo Saipov in Paterson, New Jersey, a rented apartment right behind the Omar Mosque where he apparently attended services and where authorities questioned other worshipers and family and friends looking for clues to explain Saipov&aposs loyalty to the Islamic State.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In 1994, an American-born Jewish settler named Baruch Goldstein opened fire on Muslim worshipers in the Cave of the Patriarchs, an ancient building in central Hebron that stands over the putative tomb of Abraham, "father of multitudes" and founding prophet of Judaism.
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On any given Sunday, you can visit any of the congregations across the country affiliated with the Assemblies of God, the Church of God in Christ and other Pentecostal churches, and witness people singing, dancing, speaking in tongues -- and laying hands on individual worshipers while praying for them.
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Opinion UMUAKA, Nigeria — In August, under a bright blue sky and in front of 19973,500 worshipers, Bishop Gregory Ochiagha performed the first traditional Latin ordination in Nigeria since the vernacular liturgy was introduced after Vatican II. Near the end of the Mass, the 86-year-old bishop nearly fainted.
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Regular worshipers at Sacred Heart Church in Lyndhurst, N.J., and visitors from around the globe at St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth Avenue packed the pews and listened intently to what church leaders had to say about the sex abuse revelations that continue to pain Catholics and haunt the church.
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Eleven weeks after a federal jury condemned Dylann S. Roof to death for killing nine worshipers at a black church in Charleston, S.C., state prosecutors announced on Friday that they would end a separate case by allowing him to plead guilty to murder in exchange for a life sentence.
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I hadn't planned to visit, but I was in Oklahoma City and thought it was an appropriate stop, given the latest outbreak of white power terror, an attack on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, that took the lives of 50 Muslim worshipers and maimed dozens of others.
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