DUBAI (Reuters) - Worshippers went online to listen to sermons.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - Worshippers went online to listen to sermons.
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So, not only could the gods gaze through the eye and watch over their worshippers, but worshippers could use the eye to ask for help or protection from the gods, as well.
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A white supremacist murders nine black worshippers in a church.
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The Sunni militants consider the Yazidis to be devil worshippers.
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The political ads also tried to lure in Christian worshippers.
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The corrugated metal awning fell directly on worshippers, he said.
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Wildly happy, his mostly millennial worshippers left the world behind.
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Hostesses in white gowns and golden sashes welcomed the worshippers.
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A handful across India draw a trickle of worshippers today.
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Today the worshippers are fewer, older and praying in Mandarin.
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Police ordered worshippers to leave Dhammakaya temple by 3 p.m.
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In Paris, memorably, protesters trapped Jewish worshippers in a synagogue.
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Seeing some heartburn over guns in synagogues to protect worshippers.
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The police assaulted worshippers with batons, according to Ramees, the cleric.
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The man entered the mosque and began firing on terrified worshippers.
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The attack targeted worshippers indiscriminately, said wounded school teacher Magdy Rezk.
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As well as setting cars alight, militants opened fire on worshippers.
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A quarter of rural churches have fewer than ten regular worshippers.
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Now its four services pull in around 600 worshippers each Sunday.
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Prime Minister Erna Solberg expressed her sympathy with the mosque worshippers.
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The worshippers were spilling out of the mosques following Ramadan prayers.
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But most have resisted attempts to fill pews with digital worshippers.
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Many worshippers entered in an organized fashion but occasional scuffles erupted.
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Elderly men hand service sheets to worshippers, mostly middle-aged women.
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In Georgia, more than 80% of frequent worshippers broke for her.
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For over an hour, the worshippers prayed and talked about scripture.
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He could never have known it would save his worshippers' lives.
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Worshippers were gunned down at two New Zealand mosques on Friday.
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Palestinian worshippers had clashed with Israeli security forces before Friday's attack.
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Many Jewish worshippers take another route to Judaism's nearby Western Wall.
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They tell worshippers they're "not afraid of [the worshippers'] children" but rather "afraid of what they might do in the name of the Lord," and they move between solemn songs about rejection to upbeat celebrations of gayness.
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Werber and other worshippers opened a door leading into the basement hallway.
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In one scene, a band of "kaiju worshippers" protest an industry summit.
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"Long live Pakistan," the cleric said, as worshippers roared back in approval.
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Survivors described scenes of carnage at the churches where worshippers had gathered.
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On Fridays, worshippers would eat the pastry on their way to pray.
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ISIS murdered 20 worshippers at a church in the Philippines in January.
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Worshippers include sportsmen from well-known clubs and businessmen using nearby hotels.
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The mosque was packed with worshippers who had gathered for Friday prayers.
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Worshippers returned by the 1870s and the New York group's influence waned.
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In the aftermath, these people become creature-worshippers; they love their overlord.
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Worshippers carry palm branches in a procession, and then have them blessed.
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Many of his fellow worshippers have skirted death -- in biblical terms, resurrected.
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Indeed, all over western Europe, churches are closing for lack of worshippers.
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Do Republicans know this new flock of Trump worshippers may be frauds?
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He also asked worshippers about regular service times held at the mosque.
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The Muslim Council of Britain confirmed that a van struck hit worshippers.
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The man burst into the mosque as worshippers were kneeling for prayers.
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It further bans tattoos and piercings to promote modesty among its worshippers.
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All worshippers who visited the Christ Church in Georgetown must self-quarantine.
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Worshippers were forbidden to wear face masks, the New York Times reported.
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In Paris, priests led barefoot worshippers in processions meant to show contrition.
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Worshippers, possibly dead or wounded, lay on the floor, the video showed.
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These may be made up of school acquaintances, work colleagues or fellow worshippers.
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The attack on Friday targeted worshippers during morning prayers in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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A collection plate passed among worshippers is still quicker than a debit card.
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Then they slipped inside and set off their explosives among around 100 worshippers.
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In the province as a whole, just 11% say they are regular worshippers.
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While we stand outside waiting, the parking lot begins to fill with worshippers.
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ISIS considers the Yazidis to be devil-worshippers and wants to eliminate them.
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In 2010 gunmen entered two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore and killed 95 worshippers.
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It put the number of Muslim worshippers at the site at some 60,000.
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Bowers when he gunned down worshippers at a Pittsburg synagogue last November. The
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"(I) have come here to express Pakistan's solidarity with you," Qureshi told worshippers.
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Worshippers, possibly dead or wounded, lay huddled on the floor, the video showed.
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Many worshippers in Asia's biggest Catholic nation believe the statues can grant miracles.
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In turn, they care for their worshippers, protecting them and granting their prayers.
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Worshippers from all three were filtering in, many of them older, taking their time.
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Indonesian officials distribute money donated by worshippers for the poor at Dharma Bakti Temple.
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Only 740,000 worshippers regularly go to church on Sundays, 52% fewer than in 1970.
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Murderous hatred, which had already killed black worshippers elsewhere, has now reached the Jews.
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Inside, several hundred worshippers knelt on the tile floor, addressing Jesus Christ in prayer.
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St Peter's Lutheran Church in Monrovia, the capital, is filled with children and worshippers.
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He stands at the front of the room, looking out at his fellow worshippers.
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A few dozen worshippers, including senior military commanders and tribal sheikhs, were gathered there.
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A month later a man shot dead 26 worshippers in a church in Texas.
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Then came death threats from Islamic extremists, who mistook the rockers for devil worshippers.
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The attack also took place on a Sunday, when worshippers were gathered for mass.
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They have long suffered persecution, with many Muslims referring to them as devil worshippers.
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Worshippers spend the day giving penance or even fasting, as they did throughout Lent.
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Omarosa Manigault Newman is certainly a trailblazer in the field of opportunist Trump worshippers.
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They were regarded by Islamic State militants and other jihadist groups as devil-worshippers.
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On March 25, 2011, a few dozen worshippers gathered at al-Zawiya mosque, downtown.
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The place was busy with tourists, as well as with worshippers arriving for Vespers.
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Worshippers were finishing Friday prayers at the mosque when a bomb exploded, witnesses said.
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They also torched seven cars parked outside the mosque, which belonged to worshippers inside.
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With no room inside the overcrowded mosque, dozens of worshippers spill onto the street.
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People scrambled to escape as gunmen opened fire at worshippers, including dozens of children.
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To slaughter worshippers at church during Easter service is an act of great evil.
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Last week, a man drove a van at Muslim worshippers leaving a mosque in London.
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Palestinians said that, after the incident, Israeli authorities barred Muslim worshippers from Al Aqsa mosque.
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Vulcan finds new worshippers in the form of a factory town supporting an arms manufacturer.
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But it wasn't until Clinton delivered this line that the worshippers rose to their feet.
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Preachers ousted from their pulpits whispered invitations to meet privately to worshippers at Friday prayers.
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"We will not leave Palestinians alone," worshippers chanted at Friday prayers in Tehran, TV reported.
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"The worshippers were taken by surprise by these elements," the prosecutor said in a statement.
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He waved at worshippers and stopped momentarily to bless a group of children in costume.
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The first bomber blew herself up as worshippers rose for prayers around 5:30 a.m.
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Most egregiously, in 2010 gunmen entered two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore and killed 95 worshippers.
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Just as staggering is the vast apron surrounding the stupa, able to hold 1m worshippers.
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A man was arrested for allegedly intimidating and threatening worshippers at a mosque in Phoenix.
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As the shooting took place, many of the worshippers recited their final prayers, he added.
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After all, he hung out in Ireland with the Druids, the great worshippers of nature.
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In 2015, a white supremacist entered a South Carolina church and killed nine black worshippers.
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The mosques' worshippers had just left special prayers during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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The holy city of Qom, epicenter of the virus in Iran, remains crowded with worshippers.
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The rabbi made sure to add that, most importantly, worshippers should pray for those impacted.
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Blue stains remained on the road in front as worshippers gathered for prayers on Monday.
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In Hanoi, many worshippers wore protective masks, but most took them off during the ceremony.
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And a gunman killed 214 worshippers at a church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, in 214.
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On the other, it would allow the monk and nuns to occasionally welcome fellow worshippers.
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Al Arabiya broadcast live footage of Muslim worshippers praying in the mosque, with no interruption.
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The attack was unleashed at lunchtime local time Friday, when mosques were full of worshippers.
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Kiss the ring ... or not Worshippers around the world line up to meet Pope Francis.
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In 2017 a bigot killed six worshippers and injured 19 at a mosque in Quebec City.
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The operation came after an attack on a mosque last November that killed hundreds of worshippers.
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I remember one of the parole hearings at San Quentin and the devil worshippers turned out.
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ForwardKeys' data was from before an attack on worshippers near a north London mosque on Monday.
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Archaeologists discovered a number of offerings left by worshippers, such as Spondylus shells imported from Ecuador.
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The report comes three days after a gunman targeted worshippers at a synagogue in Poway, California.
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The Yazidis are an ancient religious minority, falsely branded as devil-worshippers by Sunni Muslim extremists.
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He then heard authorities outside and went to get help, walking past dead and injured worshippers.
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At the entrance of the church, volunteers were zip-tying worshippers' AR-15s to secure them.
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They don't want to be accused of being ridiculous or stoned or devil worshippers or something.
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The book appeared, originally in French, before the recent slaughter of Muslim worshippers in New Zealand.
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The letter follows the fatal shootings of 50 worshippers in two mosques in Christchurch last week.
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Three men armed with guns and knives attacked worshippers at the mosque near Durban on Thursday.
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Libraries were burned, mosques and synagogues destroyed, and their worshippers expelled, forced to convert, or killed.
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Worshippers had gathered there for the Sufi ritual of Dhamal, which involves music, chanting and prayer.
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"We won't leave the worshippers, the tourists, behind barricades for five to seven years," he said.
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The second bomber was among the crowd of worshippers when he blew himself up, Walizada said.
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Get ready, sun worshippers, because summer is a-coming — and it couldn't be here fast enough.
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Best Line: "It's my fucking luck that I end up with a band of fire worshippers."
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"The devil worshippers could be anywhere," writer Peter Berbergal told io9 in summing up the zeitgeist.
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Worshippers regularly found themselves praying outdoors, unable to squeeze into the city's tiny 19th-century mosque.
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Thousands of worshippers are expected at the Al Noor mosque, where the majority of victims died.
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There is a huge difference between frequent worshippers and those whose church-going is only occasional.
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The frieze is a series of depictions of worshippers moving towards the Parthenon on Athens's Acropolis.
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Attendance has greatly increased since then among worshippers from various communities, according to the mosque's website.
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For Muslim worshippers in New Zealand, some 9,500 miles from Mecca, the journey is especially difficult.
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"The stampede occurred when the worshippers were rushing to get anointed with blessed oil," Warioba said.
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He then unsuccessfully attempted to storm the synagogue, which was crowded with worshippers observing Yom Kippur.
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Worshippers knelt on prayer mats and tarpaulin on the pavement meters away from the ancient amphitheatre.
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Like other clergy members, this priest can deliver sermons and move around to interface with worshippers.
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Worshippers have said he and his girlfriend claimed the U.S. government fabricated the November 2017 mass shooting.
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Worshippers there have said he and his girlfriend claimed the shooting was fabricated by the U.S. government.
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Eight people died in a suicide bombing targeting worshippers in a mosque in Konduga in July 2018.
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Now that links across the Taiwan Strait are better, Sun-worshippers may make the pilgrimage in person.
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And Gomez has totally distanced herself from her former boo, breaking the hearts of Jelena worshippers everywhere.
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Only 740,000 worshippers regularly make it to Anglican churches on Sundays, half as many as in 1970.
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That year a white nationalist killed six worshippers at a mosque in Quebec City, the provincial capital.
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Worshippers at its Manila base wave their passports in the air as they pray for successful travels.
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He read obsessively about Dylann Roof, who killed nine black worshippers in Charleston in 2015, Vance said.
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It appears that the explosion happened first, and the attackers fired on the worshippers as they fled.
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Soul Quest makes for a contrasting presence amid Orlando's carpools of Disney-going mice and duck worshippers.
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How did we get to this place, where a man literally runs down Muslim worshippers leaving prayer?
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"What comes next will be more severe on the worshippers of the cross," the Telegram posting said.
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A minister and some worshippers speak in strange tongues, raising their arms to the sky, some crying.
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Abbas also demanded the cancellation of Israeli measures closing Al-Aqsa Mosque to worshippers, according to WAFA.
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Another attacker drove a van into Muslim worshippers near a mosque in Finsbury Park in north London.
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The cathedral is now undergoing a five-year renovation process, which means it's off-limits to worshippers.
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The temple in Kerala pays homage to the god Ayyappan and draws millions of worshippers each year.
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The church is located 22019 miles east of Cairo, USA Today reported, and will seat 8,200 worshippers.
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It is not uncommon to see worshippers shed tears as they reach this peak of spiritual cleansing.
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Yesterday, Catholic churches across Rome were ordered to close amid fears the virus would spread among worshippers.
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In Gaza, controlled by the Islamist group Hamas, calls for worshippers to protest sounded over mosque loudspeakers.
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Watch the video for the single "Names or Labels" below, which features footage of early Pentecostal worshippers.
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He offered communion and shook hands with more than 500 worshippers last week and on February 24th.
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Whatever the disruption to worshippers, the filming enabled 150m people to enjoy footage of the ancient stonework.
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It is often crowded with Muslim worshippers after prayers at al-Aqsa mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine.
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The sanctuary can hold a couple of thousand worshippers, but the stream of people arriving was modest.
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"Today Qaraqosh is free of Daesh (Islamic State)," Syriac Catholic Archbishop of Mosul Butrus Moshe told worshippers.
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But this time the victims were Muslims, worshippers who had been at prayer after breaking their Ramadan fast.
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A van driven by an anti-Muslim extremist rammed worshippers leaving a mosque in London's Finsbury Park neighbourhood.
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Last week a man drove a van into worshippers outside a local mosque in an apparent terrorist attack.
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Gandolfo entered the cathedral and sat down among mainly elderly worshippers who remained to pray after midday mass.
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Dozens of worshippers prayed and received communion, and then gathered around the traditional bonfire in the church's courtyard.
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The man who massacred worshippers in two New Zealand mosques in March used Facebook to document his actions.
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Another self-declared Islamic State province billing itself "Wiliyat Hijaz" carried out the strike, which killed 16 worshippers.
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The century-old Puttingal temple is named after a goddess whom worshippers believe lived inside an ant hill.
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"Save us from the Satans who are trying to destroy our nation," the Christian worshippers in Batticaloa chanted.
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At a mosque in Colombo, police armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles stood guard outside for hundreds of worshippers.
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Most recently, 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue were killed Saturday by a man with anti-Semitic beliefs.
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Nearly 100 Muslim worshippers who had taken cover in the mosque as the rampage unfolded were left unharmed.
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A gunman killed 50 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, streaming part of the atrocity live on Facebook.
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Gore said a man entered the synagogue and opened fire on worshippers with an AR-type assault weapon.
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The last time they played, they received death threats from Islamist extremists who took them for devil worshippers.
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Germany's religious masters have done better at hauling in revenue than at retaining worshippers, the figures would suggest.
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The campaign followed a jihadist attack in November 2017 on a mosque in which hundreds of worshippers died.
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During that time the gunman shot worshippers repeatedly, leaving more than a dozen bodies in one room alone.
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Dylann Roof was convicted for the racially motivated mass murder of 9 worshippers in a South Carolina church.
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Muslim religious leaders had called upon worshippers to enter through all gates collectively for afternoon prayers on Thursday.
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In that attack, innocent Christian worshippers were ruthlessly shot to death, including my cousin, the Reverend Clementa Pinckney.
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The banner was removed from Capitol grounds in South Carolina in 2015 after Roof killed the Charleston worshippers.
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Their name means "worshippers of God" and the Yazidi faith dates from 11th century Zoroastrianism, Islam and Christianity.
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Mahmoud called on the incensed worshippers not to commit a sin during the holy fasting month of Ramadan.
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Others, such as Jefferson, were deists—nature-worshippers who would have done nicely in Big Sur circa 1965.
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Video footage from outside the church showed yellow police tape surrounding the building as worshippers talked with police.
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The white-tiled area surrounding the Kaaba, inside Mecca's Grand Mosque, is empty of worshippers on March 229.
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Other rabbis are encouraging their worshippers to avoid physical contact with each other and wash their hands thoroughly.
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Churches may ask worshippers not to bring guns with them, but Belase says that's not a common request.
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It was over in 85033 seconds thanks to the brave parishioners who acted to protect 242 fellow worshippers.
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Horrified worshippers held each other and prayed as they watched the events unfold on the synagogue's security cameras.
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The attacker was apprehended by worshippers until police arrived, the London Central Mosque Trust said in a statement.
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Video footage verified by police showed the church attacker brandishing a long sword, shouting, and lunging at worshippers.
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Japanese worshippers who visit Mindar are reportedly not too bothered by questions about the risks of siliconizing spirituality.
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Two weeks later a van was driven into worshippers near a London mosque which left one man dead.
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In the end, both sets of worshippers may be thinking of Mr Corbyn as they cast their ballots.
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And, as I discovered through a chance message from an old schoolmate, a determined bunch of devil worshippers.
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Shoes of worshippers who fled the scene as a gunman opened fire are strewn all over the floor.
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But for 27-Eleven worshippers, 21970/27 is a celebration, a gift and the official harbinger of Slurpee Season.
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A federal law enforcement officer testified earlier that an informant said Perez believed the center&aposs worshippers were terrorists.
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Libyan Muslim worshippers gather to perform Eid al-Fitr prayers at the Martyrs' Square in Tripoli on June 4.
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The students allegedly told police they were Satan worshippers and had planned the attack over the past few days.
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As Tisha B'av draws to a close, worshippers are reminded of better days to come — namely, the High Holidays.
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The mosque's grounds, planted with flowers and sprinkled with fountains, can host an additional 70,000 worshippers, local authorities said.
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A mosque on the city's Asian side also made headlines after photos circulated of cats at home among worshippers.
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But there is a reason bikers come together to ride; a reason worshippers congregate to celebrate, pray, and mourn.
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With a tiny prayer room and simple decor of candles, cushions and rugs, the mosque has about 150 worshippers.
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Abdullah Hazrat, a senior government official, said the militants opened fire on the worshippers and one blew himself up.
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After a white supremacist's attack on mosques in Christchurch, a shocked country is mourning the 50 worshippers he killed.
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Smock pleaded guilty in December to conspiring to oppress, threaten and intimidate worshippers at the Islamic Center in 2011.
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The worshippers in Bir al-Abed were Sufis, followers of a mystical sect that many Muslim extremists consider heretical.
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The first blast struck outside a mosque in Benghazi's central Al Salmani district as worshippers were leaving evening prayers.
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Rahimi was among dozens of Muslims targeted by the gunman who firing indiscriminately at worshippers performing their Friday prayers.
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Islamic State said it carried out an attack on a mosque in Sanaa last September that killed 10 worshippers.
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up after firing on worshippers inside the mosque, a Herat provincial spokesman told CNN.
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Several vendors stand among the worshippers, selling biscuits to latecomers, or to tourists keen on participating in the almsgiving.
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They also take home bills given to them by worshippers, which will go towards buying robes or cell phones.
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Eleven of his fellow worshippers died in the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in American history, according to the ADL.
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The 30,000 worshippers there have to book online on a Wednesday to reserve a seat for the Sunday service.
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In June, a van was driven into worshippers near a mosque in north London, which left one man dead.
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The haj and year-round umrah generate billions of dollars in revenues from worshippers' lodging, transport, fees and gifts.
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They spoke of horrific scenes during the approximately 20 minutes it took the militants to kill and maim worshippers.
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Roof allegedly uttered racial epithets before shooting worshippers at Emanuel AME Church, which is a historically African-American congregation.
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Semeraz, another of Katelyn's worshippers, says that he didn't know macrophilia "was a thing" until he discovered Katelyn's website.
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Just spitballing here, but if season 6 is all about devil-worshippers, we're totally patting ourselves on the back.
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In my new hometown, mosques open their doors for worshippers to come and break their fasts together each night.
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We have the cult of Trump on the right, a demigod who, among his worshippers, can do no wrong.
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It's designed to go on Instagram, or Snapchat, precisely because that's where its worshippers are exploring their own identities.
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Wrapped in white cloth, worshippers embark on the five-day pilgrimage, considered one of the five pillars of Islam.
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For far too many politicians and gun-worshippers, periodic human sacrifice is the necessary tribute that sustains their devotion.
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Robert Bowers, 46, is accused of shooting and killing 11 worshippers at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life Synagogue on Oct.
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The holiday, in which worshippers across Christian denominations mark the resurrection of Jesus, falls on April 12 this year.
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Rabbis encourage their congregations to follow health procedures Other leaders have taken proactive steps, including sending notices to worshippers.
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In a message to his worshippers, Lee encouraged members to adhere to government instructions and avoid gathering in groups.
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This past Friday, in Nangarhar Province, near Achin, explosives brought down the roof of a mosque full of worshippers.
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Earlier this year, a gunman livestreamed himself killing 51 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Facebook.
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"There was some peculiarly abominable quality about [Cthulhu's worshippers] which made their destruction seem almost a duty," Lovecraft writes.
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Analyses of the live-streamed video from the church are suggesting that several worshippers were armed and drew guns.
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Leffingwell said that after Friday service, prayer organizers told worshippers that a nearby church would provide security going forward.
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Baluchistan police chief Moazzam Jah said there were nearly 400 worshippers in the church for the pre-Christmas service.
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The haj and year-round umrah generate billions of dollars in revenue from worshippers' lodging, transport, fees and gifts.
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Xianmuxiding thought the four men who approached her husband were fellow worshippers at the mosque at first, she said.
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Campaign volunteers were outside the Dar al-Hijrah mosque in suburban Washington this month to get worshippers to register.
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Iraqi soldiers and Yazidis, a religious community that ISIS considered to be devil-worshippers, were kept in this cell.
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Attacks on places of worship double not just as attacks on worshippers, but as attacks on the community itself.
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Muscle worshippers, fetishists, wrestlers, mixed martial artists, marathon runners, grandfathers, and submissives have all had their asses kicked here.
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Other worshippers come from cities across the island, such as Catania, Taormina or Palermo, or even from the adjacent mainland.
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Other worshippers who had been praying in the nearby Mina area ascended in buses or on foot from before dawn.
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Worshippers sang songs from England, Germany, as well as a thumping hymn from the Lumka song book from South Africa.
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Witnesses said some prostrated themselves in Jewish prayer, violating religious restrictions at the site and sparking scuffles with Muslim worshippers.
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President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered the operation after gunmen killed hundreds of worshippers at a Sinai mosque months earlier.
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THE EPISODE starts on an ordinary night in Mecca in 1979, as worshippers file into the grand mosque for prayers.
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In America facial recognition is used by churches to track worshippers' attendance; in Britain, by retailers to spot past shoplifters.
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The big picture: The attacks targeting Christian worshippers suggest a new front in the annals of violence in Sri Lanka.
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The explosions blew out the tiled roofs of churches and hotel windows, killing worshippers and hotel guests in the process.
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As Lent draws to a close, worshippers turn their thoughts to Jesus' final days before his resurrection on Easter Sunday.
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As news of the attacks spread via social media, police rushed to churches around the country and sent worshippers home.
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Photo: GettyIn March, a gunman walked into two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, opened fire, and killed dozens of worshippers.
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Opened in 2014, it houses 10,000 worshippers and oozes confidence, rising 50 metres above low-rise houses and cheap hotels.
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But by then, armed with an AR-15, the poster had entered a San Diego synagogue and fired on worshippers.
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On October 15, 30 worshippers were killed and 32 others injured in a twin suicide attack on a mosque there.
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Worshippers attending Thursday morning confessions were annihilated instantly by the fireball which exploded 500 metres above the house of prayer.
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The incident comes less than a week after 11 worshippers were killed in a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
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A group of Buddhist worshippers on a remote hilltop in Thailand believe that aliens communicate with people in the area.
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He and his partner quickly charged into the synagogue and engaged the shooter, providing some worshippers precious time to escape.
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She took the name Turiyasangitananda—Sanskrit for "the bliss of God's highest song"—and attracted a diverse congregation of worshippers.
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That followed a mass shooting at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, last October, which killed 11 worshippers.
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The same month, a van was driven into worshippers near a mosque in north London which left one man dead.
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The president's rhetoric reached its logical conclusion on Saturday when a gunman murdered eleven Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
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Late Sunday night, Muslim worshippers celebrating Ramadan at London's Finsbury Park Mosque exited services onto the nearby Seven Sisters Road.
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On March 25, the Christchurch shooter pleaded guilty for killing 51 worshippers at two mosques in New Zealand last year.
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Over the course of five minutes, he repeatedly shot worshippers, leaving more than a dozen bodies in one room alone.
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Worshippers at the Pentecostal Faith Church of All Nations in Harlem participate in one of their weekly baptism ceremonies, 1934.
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Three other worshippers were held hostage until the assailants were killed, one of them was badly wounded during the attack.
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Father Ibrahim Shomali, chancellor of the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, said worshippers should not even be required to get permits.
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But their families, neighbors, former classmates—and, in Farook's case, colleagues and fellow-worshippers—expressed only astonishment after the attack.
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MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA * Saudi Arabia said its mosques would no longer receive worshippers for daily prayers or Friday congregations.
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The parishioner who shot the gunman trained worshippers on a shooting range; it was not the assailant who trained parishioners.
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Parishioners held Sunday Mass outside the church the next morning and worshippers "gave thanks that the people inside survived," Low said.
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Upstairs, toward the front of the building, the worshippers of Dor Hadash prepared for a ceremony to name a newborn boy.
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Last year he went to Pittsburgh to deliver 11 Stars of David in remembrance of the worshippers shot dead on Oct.
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Tourists and worshippers inhabit these spaces for their respective purposes, but the groups cannot help but cross into each other's territory.
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The Star reported that worshippers at the United Believers Community Church were urged to leave the area as soon as possible.
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The day concludes with a single, long shofar blast — reminding worshippers that ultimate sovereignty is never owned by any one person.
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A bomb explosion ripped through the mosque before gunmen opened fire on the worshippers gathered for weekly Friday prayers, officials said.
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That move may have averted a second round of deadly shootings after nine worshippers had been killed at another black church.
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The annual event in Harlem attracts hundreds of worshippers for the Eid Al-Fitr prayer event in front of the mosque.
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"The attacks on tourists and Easter worshippers in Sri Lanka are an attack on humanity," former US President Barack Obama tweeted.
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Protestants wanted worshippers to have a personal relationship with God and to read the Bible in the vernacular, rather than Latin.
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The incident in Paris came hours after a van plowed into Muslim worshippers near a mosque in London, injuring 10 people.
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Friday prayers at Baitul Futuh are attended by thousands of worshippers and broadcast via satellite to 503 countries around the world.
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Militants detonated a bomb and then gunned down fleeing worshippers in last Friday's mosque attack, the deadliest in Egypt's modern history.
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A suicide bombing and gun attack on Shi'ite Muslim worshippers killed at least four people in eastern Saudi Arabia in January.
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Its the first political survey since a lone gunman killed 50 Muslim worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch on March 15.
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Israeli police threw stun grenades and smoke grenades to disperse the crowds; Muslim worshippers hurled water bottles and stones in response.
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Start one night by joining a reverent band of 30 worshippers in the freezing darkness of a mountainside south of Seoul.
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On the shore, worshippers gathered in circles to sing and dance, and a seemingly endless crowd threw offerings into the sea.
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As they pass, worshippers slide a handful of rice or biscuits inside their cloth sacks which quickly fill up with food.
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The worshippers are Christians of the Berom tribe, farmers of north-central Nigeria, who have spent 15 years fighting Fulani herdsmen.
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It's at least the second time this month that ISIS has claimed responsibility for an attack targeting Shiite worshippers in Afghanistan.
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After the work is finished, the Grand Mosque will have a total capacity of 2.2 million worshippers, up from 600,000 currently.
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Han Tun and three other veteran natkadaws claim that, starting about ten years ago, Buddhist monks began to target nat-worshippers.
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Morrison linked the measures to the shootings that killed 85033 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this year.
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Robert Gregory Bowers, 46, has been arrested and charged with the deaths of 85033 worshippers at the Tree of Life Synagogue.
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The crime has left many worshippers grieving but also fearful, because they live nearby and walk the sidewalks to attend services.
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The Great Mosque of Djenné in Mali is the largest mud-built structure in the world — it can hold 3,000 worshippers.
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The militants, according to another witness, said worshippers began to jump out of windows as soon as the militants opened fire.
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In a third attack on June 19, a man drove a van into a crowd of worshippers near a London mosque.
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The first blast on Tuesday evening hit worshippers leaving the large Bayaat al-Radwan mosque in Benghazi's central Al Salmani district.
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Shuttle buses all over the city ferry tens of thousands of worshippers into the holy arms of Yoido Full Gospel Church.
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Worshippers wear special white garments -- men wrap themselves in seamless, stitchless cloth, while women wear a simple white dress and headscarf.
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As worshippers trickled into services across the continent on Sunday morning, temperatures were taken, hands were sanitised and people sat apart.
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In 2017, she told Australia's Now to Love about her "biggest beauty regret" and sun worshippers will want to listen up.
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The attack, streamed live of Facebook, killed 51 Muslim worshippers and injured dozens of others in New Zealand's worst mass shooting.
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Later that year, there were three other attacks police described as terrorism, including one on Muslim worshippers near a London mosque.
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The gunman announced his intentions in a 74-page racist manifesto that was posted online before he opened fire on worshippers.
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These unaffiliated worshippers are the ones targeted by the proliferating number of alternative churches and Christian recreational sites captured by Abad.
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Anguished worshippers carried the bodies of dead and wounded people from the iconic building, which is covered in brilliant blue tiles.
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A lone gunman entered the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs on Sunday and killed 26 worshippers, while injuring 20 others.
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White Settlement police chief J.P. Bevering said that the gunman was shot by two worshippers who were armed and returned fire.
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In January, a suicide bombing and gun attack on Shi'ite Muslim worshippers killed at least four people in eastern Saudi Arabia.
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Rather, his focus has always been on welcoming all would-be worshippers into the fold, focusing less on whether they are "sinners" (after all, according to Catholic doctrine, we're all sinners in some form or another) and more on whether they have access to the community of worshippers, and attendant sacraments, necessary for a Christian life.
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The worshippers at the mosque were followers of Sufism, or Islamic mysticism, a branch of Islam which is seen as heretical by IS. At least 235 people have been killed in Egypt after militants bombed a Sufi mosque Friday morning, before opening fire on the worshippers as they tried to escape, according to a statement by Egypt's attorney general.
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The Yazidi, a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of ancient Middle Eastern religions, are regarded by Islamic State as devil-worshippers.
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Roof was sentenced to death last year for a racist shooting that killed nine black worshippers at a Charleston, South Carolina, church.
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Fellow worshippers called him to help victims, and he began to do CPR on one until realizing it was his own wife.
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The historic South Carolina church where nine African-American worshippers were slain is unveiling the design for a memorial to the victims.
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A man opened fire Saturday inside the synagogue near San Diego as worshippers celebrated the last day of a major Jewish holiday.
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Two days later, yet another tore through Cairo's Coptic cathedral during Sunday mass, killing at least 25 worshippers, mostly women and children.
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After the morning meal the day's meditation, eating, sweeping, cleaning were done slowly, deliberately, and, for most lay worshippers, in complete silence.
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He said authorities believed the suspect entered the synagogue, murdered the worshippers and was leaving when he encountered a uniformed police officer.
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But Hereditary goes one better than both of them by making this cult of devil worshippers simultaneously incredibly terrifying and strangely hilarious.
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Contrary to what Kanye West, who says he's never voted, might want you to believe, black Trump worshippers are not free thinkers.
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No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan has targeted Shiite worshippers in the past.
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Other worshippers were wounded in the assault on the morning service at the church near the town of Titao, the source added.
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The Jordanian Authority in charge of the site, the Islamic Waqf, encouraged worshippers to return to prayers Thursday morning inside the compound.
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Abe also expressed his condolences for the victims of a gunman who massacred at least 26 worshippers at a church in Texas.
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It is better to patronize these stores rather than, say, Etsy shops not based in South Asian or owned by non-worshippers.
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The worshippers threw bread on to the sea to draw fish toward them, so that they can symbolically bear the sins away.
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Islam and Judaism both give exclusive status to one language, classical Arabic and Hebrew, regardless of the spoken languages of the worshippers.
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"The price of a war with Iran is very high for America," Khatami told worshippers at Eid prayers in Tehran, Reuters reported.
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He said the numbers attending mass across the city had surged, now that worshippers no longer feared missiles from rebel-held areas.
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Their answer: an SPF 30 Brightening Moisturizer designed specifically for brown-skinned sun worshippers who don't want to walk around looking crazy.
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Seated side by side were four of the Catholic lay leaders who organized the demonstrations many of the worshippers had participated in.
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In 2011 a suicide bomber attacked worshippers marking Ashura, when Shiites commemorate the death of the prophet Mohammed's grandson, killing 70 people.
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He also talked about lighting a device like a molotov cocktail and then and attacking synagogue worshippers as they fled the building.
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We do know that for centuries ragged cloaks hid worn Gospels and that furtive worshippers gathered at night to hear them read.
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Efforts to find survivors in the ruins of Lading-Lading village&aposs mosque that collapsed while worshippers were praying are continuing Tuesday.
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Wang and Early Rain worshippers have been detained before and were released after a few hours or days, according to the paper.
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New Zealand is thousands of miles away from Europe, but the Christchurch attack on mosque worshippers must have raised alerts across Europe.
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A witness said the assailant shot and killed a policeman on guard before unloading on worshippers with an AK-47 assault rifle.
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The mosque's imam said he had just stepped onto the podium for his sermon when gunfire erupted and worshippers struggled to escape.
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Worshippers packed the streets around the Defence Ministry for Friday prayers, heeding a call by the SPA to challenge the military council.
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Arisen from the moonlight, you have been loosed upon this Earth to wreak vengeance on the men who have wronged your worshippers.
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The fare is as diverse as the class—ethnicity of worshippers at ADAMS varies from Bangladeshi to Jordanian, and everything in between.
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The public ceremonies aim to affirm the new identity of trans worshippers, according to guidelines published on the Church's website on Tuesday.
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Pastor Jeffers (Cedric Kyles), a genial fellow who runs the local megachurch, which seats five thousand worshippers, is concerned by Toller's state.
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Dylann Roof, the man who gunned downnine worshippers in a historic black South Carolina church in June 2015, wasassaultedin jail on Thursday.
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Worshippers read the Book of Esther during celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Purim at the Moscow Jewish Community Center, March 9.
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During that offensive, the radical Sunni Muslim group massacred, enslaved and raped thousands of Yazidis, whom they consider to be devil-worshippers.
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On Sundays, worshippers still attend services in the main cathedral, decorated with stained-glass windows and images of saints at the altar.
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Eleven worshippers were killed in October last year when a white supremacist opened fire at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.
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The Yazidis, a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of ancient Middle Eastern religions, are regarded by Islamic State as devil-worshippers.
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An elderly Tunisian pilgrim named Bakari Abdel Jalil attended in a white shirt and cap while other worshippers donned customary white robes.
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Go deeper: Global gun violence targets worshippers of all faiths New Zealand to ban guns within days in response to mosque attacks
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Just after midnight on Monday morning, a man drove a van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers outside Finsbury Park Mosque in London.
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In the coastal Mindong region of Fujian province, for centuries a Catholic stronghold, an estimated 70,000 worshippers all belong to the underground church.
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Among those over 50, the contrast was less sharp: 25% of the Canadian-born were regular worshippers while 34% of the newcomers were.
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That move prompted anger among Muslim worshippers and was condemned by Palestinian religious and political leaders, Jordan and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
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The haj and the year-round lesser pilgrimage, umrah, generate billions of dollars in revenues from worshippers' lodging, transport, gifts, food and fees.
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A relic of the second Jewish temple, most of which the Romans did destroy, the wall attracts thousands of Jewish worshippers each day.
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Dildine was fired after posting the photo online in June 2015, days after nine worshippers were shot at Charleston&aposs Emanuel AME Church.
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A 17-minute film showed him driving towards the building, then shooting at people from its entrance, as worshippers huddled on the floor.
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"For many of the muscle worshippers, there appears to be a masochistic drive in the desire to be dominated or controlled," she says.
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NEW YORK — A historic church in New York City was destroyed in a raging fire just hours after its Orthodox worshippers celebrated Easter.
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Because of its "progressivism," she said, friends back home told her that American Sufis were "fake worshippers" because of their non-traditional approach.
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Thanks to technology, today's roaming worshippers have no such dilemma; a Nigerian or Brazilian in transit can adapt while maintaining contact with home.
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The Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary was closed after last Friday's attack, and reopened Sunday for worshippers, visitors and tourists, with added security measures.
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Police say men in off-road vehicles fired upon worshippers during Friday prayers at the mosque, in the town of Bir al-Abed.
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One arrest followed an attack in north London when a van was driven into worshippers near a mosque which left one man dead.
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Israeli officials said they were a permanent measure but many worshippers refused to go through them and preferred to pray outside the compound.
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They also called for all mosques in the area to shut down on Friday and direct worshippers to the al-Aqsa Mosque instead.
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When priests in Polish churches began reading out a letter from the country's bishops supporting the initiative, female worshippers walked out in protest.
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"The attacks targeting Christian worshippers suggest a new front in the annals of violence in Sri Lanka," Ayres wrote for Axios on Sunday.
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More importantly, says Mr Abid, certain imams have stoked hardline worshippers against the Ahmadiya and Muslim satellite channels have carried anti-Ahmadiya messages.
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The crowd of worshippers here are some of the country's most religiously devout -- and they are nearly all above the age of 50.
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British news outlet The Independent reported three men shouted Islamophobic slurs as they drove past a mosque in East London, calling worshippers terrorists.
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More than 265 dioceses in the US have publicly named priests, deacons, monks, and worshippers accused of historic child abuse since August 22002.
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There has been one apparent "revenge" attack, when a man drove into a crowd of worshippers outside of a London mosque, killing one.
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Twenty worshippers traveling to a dawn Christmas service were killed in the town of Agoo, about 224 km north of the capital Manila.
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In 2012, a man shot and killed six Sikh worshippers and wounded four others at a Sikh temple near Milwaukee before killing himself.
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Syria bombing A human rights group is accusing the US of dropping bombs on a mosque in northern Syria, killing dozens of worshippers.
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Some of her worshippers, like those who were slaves or poor, sought freedom, but most of them were women seeking health and fertility.
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And when worshippers of both traditions exchange the sign of peace, they'll wave or bump elbows instead of the typical handshakes or hugs.
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Ahmad Khatami also told worshippers attending Eid prayers in Tehran that President Donald Trump's offer for direct talks with Iranian leaders was unacceptable.
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Hundreds of clergy and worshippers of various faiths were killed at temples, synagogues, churches and mosques around the world this year, AP reports.
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Visas were previously limited mostly to business travelers and the millions of Muslim worshippers who make the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca each year.
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"The attacker was apprehended by the worshippers until the police arrived and arrested him," the London Central Mosque Trust said in a statement.
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As cameramen pushed and shoved in the scrum, celebrity worshippers waited in the wings hoping for a rare encounter with the Hollywood stars.
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The United States strongly condemned "the shocking and brutal attack on innocent worshippers," U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan David Hale said in a statement.
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Abdikina Ali-Hassarn and his family moved to New Zealand from Somalia four years ago and were regular worshippers at the Linwood mosque.
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Everyone in this golden day wore that grimace of heat–as if the sun had forced his worshippers to wear identical masks of gold.
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Our thoughts are with his family and friends, particularly his fellow worshippers in the Saint Louis Park congregation of Jehovah s Witnesses in Minnesota.
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Worshippers gather near a wall of niches for cremated remains of their families' ancestors at a cemetery in Hong Kong on April 4, 2016.
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Blood sacrifices weren't unheard of back in the day, but worshippers would also prepare offerings and feasts in honor of their deceased female relatives.
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The massacre of black worshippers at a church spurred a nationwide discussion about Confederate monuments removal -- most of them are located in the South.
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Lori Gilbert Kaye was killed inside the Chabad of Poway synagogue on April 21 by a gunman who opened fire as worshippers attended services.
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Provincial police chief Moazzam Jah Ansari told Reuters volunteers from churches were also being trained to conduct body searches and identify worshippers entering churches.
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Jewish worshippers take part in the Tashlich ritual on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Israel, ahead of Yom Kippur on Sept. 17.
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Worshippers from the three congregations housed inside the synagogue, Tree of Life, Dor Hadash and New Life have all been displaced since the shooting.
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Many worshippers trudged for miles between the spot where the killings took place and the mineshaft where the bodies, doused in acid, were thrown.
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Chirrut and his companion Baze Malbus are Guardians of the Temple of the Whills — Force worshippers who have nothing to do with the Jedi.
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All that changed in 1994, after American-born Jewish extremist Baruch Goldstein massacred worshippers at Ibrahimi Mosque, killing 29 Palestinians and injuring 125 more.
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This week of mourning tells a story of immense loss, but it leaves worshippers with the message that faith will help them endure it.
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Of course, today is also known as Ash Wednesday, when worshippers attend services, start their fasting, and, most notably, wear ashes on their foreheads.
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Worshippers at the three adjoining grand churches in this hilly suburb of Pittsburgh are assiduous Christians, mostly middle- and working-class and overwhelmingly white.
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There were also historical exhibits at the Temple, including a documentary chronicling incidents of people being persecuted throughout the ages as alleged devil worshippers.
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No suspects have been arrested yet over Thursday's attack by three men armed with guns and knives in which two worshippers were also injured.
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Before Roof killed nine African American worshippers at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C., he says he was "awakened" by the Trayvon Martin shooting.
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A 48-year-old man was arrested after a van ploughed into worshippers near the mosque; one man was killed and 10 were hurt.
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According to BuzzFeed News, the UK Muslim Council of Britain has tweeted that the attack appears to have targeted worshippers at a local mosque.
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"We have been informed that a van has run over worshippers as they left #FinsburyPark mosque," the Muslim Council tweeted from its official handle.
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"We make sure everyone washes their hands at the start," says an aid worker, hoping to combat Muslim taboos on eating with devil-worshippers.
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The Yazidis, whose beliefs combine elements of several Middle Eastern religions, were the most persecuted community under Islamic State which considered them devil-worshippers.
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He then uploaded a live video of the attack to Facebook, filming himself shooting dozens of worshippers at one of the mosques he targeted.
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Robert Bowers, 85033, has been arrested and charged on 29 counts in the shooting deaths of 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue.
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Mekhennet had spoken with members in his community, as well as worshippers at the mosque he frequented, in an attempt to trace his radicalization.
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Earlier that year, following violent riots against Sufi worshippers in Kattankudy in which several people were arrested, Zahran became a target of the police.
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The Waqf council reassured worshippers in a statement that the entire compound, including its golden Dome of the Rock shrine, was being "sterilized continuously".
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There have been scattered attacks on Coptic Christian churches, including a recent bombing that killed more than two dozen worshippers at Cairo's main cathedral.
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"We have been informed that a van has run over worshippers as they left #FinsburyPark Mosque," the Muslim Council of Britain said on Twitter.
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Police and civil service officials said some worshippers had been killed but refused to give a figure as the rescue operation was still ongoing.
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Six worshippers 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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This is one of the reasons for the cultish following of the president, who can do no wrong in the eyes of his worshippers.
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While the shooter murdered 51 worshippers in cold blood, the footage was streaming live to the platform, then copied and reuploaded millions of times.
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QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb at a mosque in the Pakistani city of Quetta on Friday killed two worshippers and wounded 14, officials said.
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It is a manifest to Buddha's unbelievable will and dedication and therefore an iconic image for Buddhist worshippers and followers on his path alike.
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Hundreds more civilians have been killed in tit-for-tat violence between herding and farming communities and attacks on worshippers from the Christian minority.
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On Saturday, a gunman stormed into the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh during a service, killing 11 worshippers and wounding six other people.
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Last Saturday, a 19-year-old gunman opened fire on Sabbath worshippers in a Southern California synagogue, killing one woman and wounding three other people.
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Gary Naftalis, who represents the Newport worshippers, Congregation Jeshuat Israel, said they were disappointed by the decision granting ownership to Congregation Shearith Israel in Manhattan.
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The Archdiocese of Atfih had applied to legalize the church, which housed worshippers for 15 years after a church building law was passed in 2016.
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To kick off the festivities, Huitzilopochtli worshippers would fill a clay pot with feathers and precious stones and hang it at the base of temples.
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Mecca Governor Prince Khalid al-Faisal asked worshippers earlier this week to "leave all other matters in your countries to discuss when you are back".
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Worshippers at Congregation Chabad were celebrating the final day of Passover when a man armed with an assault-type rifle opened fire in the building.
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There was no immediate word of any violence in the mosque, whose older male worshippers said they had been allowed to exit after being searched.
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Around 250 worshippers packed the pews for a Good Friday mass at the Catholic church fortified with concrete blast walls, concertina wire and armed policemen.
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To protect themselves, peyote worshippers in Oklahoma incorporated the Native American Church, to give their sacrament legal status under the First Amendment's freedom of worship.
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Either immediately following midnight or early the next day, worshippers will break their fast with sweets and meals featuring Krishna's favorite foods, milk and cheese.
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A blood trail on the veranda of Al-Rawda Mosque in Bir al-Abd northern Sinai, Egypt, a day after attackers killed hundreds of worshippers.
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Or the one who killed eleven Jewish worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue last year—the deadliest anti-Semitic massacre in the history of the republic.
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Reuters witnesses reported some light clashes between Muslim worshippers and Israeli security forces after prayers at the entrance to Jerusalem's Old City on Sunday night.
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That became tragically apparent on October 27th, when a white-supremacist gunman, named as Robert Bowers, shot dead 11 Sabbath worshippers in Pittsburgh (see article).
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Buddhism may come close, or Hinduism, but probably not really, should you calculate the actual minutes of the day and the actual amount of worshippers.
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In the same city, Muslim worshippers had begun avoiding mosques run by other branches of Islam, a precaution unheard of before the war, Maktary said.
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And all on the same weekend that a 19-year-old used an AR-type weapon to attack worshippers at a synagogue outside San Diego.
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He said the move will ensure the safety of worshippers, and the church "will try to introduce some services" once better security was in place.
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In ancient Ireland, before the arrival of the Celts, prehistoric worshippers erected stone cairns containing chambers that that only let light in on the equinoxes.
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Senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Friday prayers at Tehran University that Muslims around the world should unite against Israel, state TV reported.
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Darren Osborne, who drove a van into worshippers outside a mosque in 2017, killing one person, had hoped to kill Labour's leader, Jeremy Corbyn, too.
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In 2014, she was one of about 7,000 women and girls captured by the hard-line Sunni Muslim fighters who view Yazidis as devil worshippers.
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Reza Aslan: Santa Muerte worshippers celebrate life Along with objects meant to be placed on the recipient's home altar, small services are also given freely.
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It hardly budged on news that several people were injured in north London early on Monday after a van rammed into worshippers leaving a mosque.
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A suicide bomber detonated himself at the gate of the mosque as other attackers stormed the building as worshippers gathered for Friday prayers, officials said.
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And since 2018 there have been 11 IS suicide bombings in Indonesia and six in the Philippines, including one that killed 23 worshippers in January.
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As worshippers fled the mosque, the second bomber, who was a few hundred meters away, also detonated his device, killing another 20 people, Abubakar said.
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Officials feared that social media could provoke more religious violence after bombings which targeted Christian worshippers at churches on Easter Sunday killed over 85033 people.
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" The lawsuit, filed Tuesday, comes after the transit agency rejected Christmas ads -- to be placed on buses -- that urge worshippers to "Find the Perfect Gift.
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The Pittsburgh synagogue where 22019 worshippers were killed last October is raising funds for victims of last week's deadly shootings at two New Zealand mosques.
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The imam, who could not explain why there had been an influx of new worshippers, spoke to the reporter outside the perimeter of the mosque.
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The Zion church had for years operated with relative freedoms, hosting hundreds of worshippers every weekend in an expansive specially renovated hall in north Beijing.
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Earlier on Friday, tens of thousands of worshippers prayed for the deceased in Mecca and Medina, Khashoggi's hometown, though the imams did not name him.
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But for worshippers at ADAMS and in mosques across the country, these upgraded security measures reflect increasingly frequent attacks against Muslims in the United States.
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Two nuns and two worshippers were also taken hostage after the attackers stormed into the church during mass, according to the French broadcaster France 3.
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Hundreds of worshippers, including survivors and relatives of the victims, gathered outside St. Anthony's Shrine, a Catholic church in the capital, Colombo, for the ceremony.
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He can be seen using GPS to navigate his way to Masjid al Noor mosque, where he opens fire on worshippers in a horrific attack.
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REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail Around the world The gunman who stormed into a Zurich mosque wounding three worshippers was found dead near the scene, police said.
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At 30, he became the lead pastor of the massive Covenant Life Church in Gaithersburg, Maryland, which at its height drew 4,000 worshippers each Sunday.
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The actor wished his The X-Files co-star Gillian Anderson happy birthday in a swoon-worthy message for all Mulder and Scully worshippers out there.
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One of those injured in Friday's blast told Reuters that an explosive device had been left next to worshippers' shoes at the entrance to the mosque.
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Image 2 of 2 KABUL, Afghanistan – Gunmen opened fire on worshippers inside a mosque in eastern Nangarhar province, killing four people, according to a provincial official.
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Bishop Basilio Yaldo preached against retribution on Friday, telling worshippers that Jesus's message of forgiveness had never been more relevant than it is today in Iraq.
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It's one of the oldest and biggest mosques in the area, drawing more than 1,000 worshippers a day and more than 3,500 for the Friday service.
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A bomb at a Coptic Christian church in Cairo killed at least 25 worshippers, two days after two bomb attacks targeted police in the Egyptian capital.
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At full capacity, it can hold 10,000 worshippers and is also the broadcasting headquarters for the organization's 24-hour satellite TV station, Muslim Television Ahmadiyya International.
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Even a priest shoos away the woman when she begs for the flowers that worshippers offer to the gods, which are said to have healing powers.
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After a massacre of Muslim worshippers in the Cave of the Patriarchs by a settler in 1994, Israeli authorities partitioned the site, and later the city.
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The haj and the year-round lesser pilgrimage, umrah, generate $3.53 billion in revenues from worshippers' lodging, transport, gifts, food and fees, according to BMI Research.
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On October 9th, in Halle, Germany, a gunman sought to enter a synagogue where 51 worshippers, some of them American, were attending a Yom Kippur service.
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Temperatures in Karachi often hit maximums of near 40 degrees Celsius in the summer, and the awning had been erected to shield worshippers from the sun.
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"Churches deserve protection from those who would harm worshippers," said Bryant, a Republican, in a Twitter post explaining his decision to sign the measure into law.
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The 22-year-old Muslim had been released from custody a day earlier, after being arrested for trying to persuade worshippers not to enter a church.
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The mosque, built on an islet about 500 metres from the coast, can only be reached at low tide and draws tens of thousands of worshippers.
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Abdul-Azim Ahmed, who has studied Britain's mosques, thinks rural ones put more effort into maintaining their websites and social-media feeds to find new worshippers.
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Along bustling Africatown Road is the Baptist church he helped establish, which still throngs with worshippers on Sundays and has a bust of him out front.
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But bloodshed returned with a vengeance on Easter Sunday when a succession of explosions ripped through three churches packed with worshippers, and three five-star hotels.
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The last major attack on a church took place as worshippers left a New Year's service in Alexandria weeks before the start of the 2011 uprising.
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"We do not profile worshippers on the basis of their ethnicity or the sort of ideas that they might have in their minds," says a spokesman.
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The incident happened 4.30am local time on Monday in the remote village of Konduga, Borno State, while worshippers were preparing for early morning prayers, police said.
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Last month, at least 20 worshippers were killed and scores wounded in a double bomb blast targeted at a mosque in Damboa town in Borno State.
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After at least two explosions, gunmen who were waiting outside the mosque opened fire at worshippers as they fled Friday prayers, state-owned Ahram Online 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 worshippers probably weren't Sufi.
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The attack started when an explosive went off in a building adjacent to the mosque, and gunmen fired at worshippers as they fled, eyewitnesses told CNN.
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Even the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which traditionally has a steady rate of membership, has seen a small decline from young worshippers.
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But for many worshippers and pastors, such as Jin, accepting the oversight and ultimate authority of the Communist Party would be a betrayal of their faith.
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First, worshippers arrive with their dogs and tie them up at the entrance gate or leave them nearby in the hopes of getting rid of them.
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Despite having a fever, she had lunch with a friend at a hotel and attended church services, coming into physical contact with many of the worshippers.
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The first suicide bomber blew himself up among worshippers as they left the mosque; the second targeted police forces who had arrived to treat the wounded.
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"It's not difficult!" he exclaims happily, explaining that his team of 70 workers are guaranteed a break around midday prayers, when the site fills with worshippers.
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Al-Umari's brother Hussein, 35, was was one of 51 Muslim worshippers killed when a gunman opened fire at the city's Al Noor and Linwood mosques.
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Worshippers are also encouraged to avoid shaking each other's hands during the customary "sign of peace" exchange, and to instead do a "nod of the head."
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A picture of a man standing outside the mosque wearing a balaclava with a threat against worshippers was flagged by the community this week, media said.
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A witness said around 100 worshippers were in the mosque hall at the time of the attack and that roughly 20 people jumped on the assailant.
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A vast hall lit by Swarovski crystal chandeliers holds ten thousand worshippers, and the mosque is ringed by manicured gardens and fountains decorated with colored lights.
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But the robot's creators say they plan to give it machine-learning capabilities that'll enable it to tailor feedback to worshippers' specific spiritual and ethical problems.
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In the wake of the horrific massacre of Muslim worshippers in New Zealand, we would do well to check in on America's own level of Islamophobia.
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The shooting occurred six months to the day after 11 worshippers were shot to death at a Pittsburgh synagogue, the deadliest attack ever on American Jewry.
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The alleged shooter also live-streamed his attack on social media, gruesomely displaying how he entered the mosque and shot worshippers as they struggled to flee.
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Now, still near the front of the sanctuary, he led a group of worshippers through some nearby doors that he knew would get them outside, to safety.
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"They came to attack," said A.H Ramees, a cleric at a mosque where worshippers say they were beaten by police who were supposed to be protecting them.
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The overarching message he brings out to potential new worshippers follows the same themes: give up your idols, follow one God and make sure you are circumcised.
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NO GROUP immediately claimed responsibility for a bomb that ripped through a chapel in Egypt's capital on December 11th, killing 25 worshippers and wounding 49 (see picture).
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The police let them jump the queue of foreigners and form a protective cordon as they perambulate the Dome of the Rock, amid curses from Muslim worshippers.
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The video showed him pulling a gun from the rear of his car and heading into the mosque, where he fired at worshippers for about two minutes.
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Inside the mosque, over the course of the previous five minutes, the gunman had repeatedly shot worshippers, leaving more than a dozen bodies in one room alone.
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Yet what wasn't captured on the video, unfortunately, were the hordes of Musk-worshippers that massed outside the conference hall for hours leading up to the talk.
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The attack started when one suicide bomber began firing on worshippers inside the mosque before blowing himself up, said Abdul Ahad Walizada, spokesman for the police chief.
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The British pound was flat at $1.2777 after a van rammed into worshippers as they were leaving a Finsbury Park mosque in North London early on Monday.
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Worshippers who were planning to celebrate Easter and the Holy Week with mass at Notre Dame have been told to attend nearby Saint-Eustache, USA Today reports.
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Central to Voodoo is the belief in sacrifice and traditional medicines as a way to heal ailments and help worshippers get closer to sprits and the afterworld.
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"The four soldiers were in front of the mosque, a moderate, quiet mosque, in between two prayer sessions, at a time when many worshippers arrived," Daragon said.
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The attacks on March 15 saw dozens of Muslim worshippers gunned down during Friday prayers at both the Masjid Al Noor Mosque and the Linwood Masjid Mosque.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday that her thoughts were with all those injured after a van rammed into worshippers leaving a mosque.
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The proposed cable car would shuttle some 3,000 tourists and worshippers per hour from Jerusalem's western part to the eastern Old City in a four-minute ride.
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Most of the time when video games tackle the subject of cults it's to give heavily armed players more robe-wearing demon-worshippers to fire rockets at.
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The explosions rocked the remote town of Damboa in Borno State late Saturday as worshippers who had gathered to celebrate Eid al-Fitr returned home, police said.
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Saturday's attack comes barely a month after two bombs exploded in a mosque in Mubi in Adamawa State, killing at least 24 worshippers and injuring many others.
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It was his second court appearance this week after a federal grand jury indicted him in the slaying of 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue.
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Part of it was the improvisational, egalitarian nature of the worship, but part of it was also the spirit of the place, the intimacy of the worshippers.
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Quetta, Pakistan (CNN)A suicide bomber attacked a church packed with worshippers Sunday in Pakistan, leaving seven people dead and more than 20 others injured, authorities say.
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Indonesia ordered a halt Thursday to a 9,000-person pilgrimage and began the process of quarantining the worshippers and checking them for symptoms amid the coronavirus outbreak.
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On Thursday, a group of Carmelite nuns stood for the first time inside a mosque, holding back tears as they talked with worshippers about the two faiths.
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The second fatal attack ever on synagogue worshippers took place in Poway, California – making the prior one at Pittsburgh's Tree of Life no longer an isolated event.
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At least 100 worshippers 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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One Riyadh cleric warned worshippers against repeating reports from TV or social media "without contemplating the danger of this news", adding that "most of them are lies".
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You wouldn't blame all white people for the actions of Dylann Roof, who walked into a church in Charleston, South Carolina, and killed nine African-American worshippers.
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Al Jazeera reports that a group of between 20 and 30 armed attackers killed a priest and five worshippers on Sunday, in the northeastern town of Dablo.
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The Japanese government's opposition to Christianity, and the subsequent movement of worshippers to practicing their faith underground, was the result of a complicated set of political factors.
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Stoltenberg, making a two-day trip to New Zealand, visited Christchurch, where 51 Muslim worshippers were killed in the attacks on two mosques by a suspected white supremacist.
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Stonehenge draws over a million tourists a year as well as hippies, druids and pagan worshippers who flock to its stones to celebrate the summer and winter solstices.
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Muslims have fled the Negombo region on Sri Lanka's west coast since scores of worshippers were killed in the bombing of the St. Sebastian church there on Sunday.
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The Christian minority in Egypt, which accounts for about 10 percent of the country's population, is particularly vulnerable, and worshippers have been the target of recent ISIS attacks.
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India's Supreme Court in September ordered the lifting of the ban on women of menstruating age entering the Sabarimala hill temple, which draws millions of worshippers a year.
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The nine worshippers were shot during a June 2015 Bible study by a man who said he intended to kill people at the church to stoke racial tensions.
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Worshippers at the local mosque in his neighborhood told local media they did not remember him, and an acquaintance from Ohio said that he could be verbally aggressive.
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Ancient Egyptians viewed these monkeys as prototypical worshippers of the rising and setting sun, itself a religious metaphor for the cycles of life and death, destruction and restoration.
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The 13-year-old was able to slip out of his home and pass along alleyways to reach his local mosque where a couple of hundred worshippers gathered.
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Other things are not so clear -- why a gunman spared him but killed 11 mostly elderly worshippers at prayer on a fall morning in Pittsburgh a year ago.
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Police arrested the girls and took them down to the station, where they allegedly confessed to the plot and told the cops they were "Satan worshippers," Hall said.
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But the banner and other Confederate symbols have come under increased scrutiny since 2015, when nine black worshippers were gunned down in a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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The raids come on the back of a major hunt for the perpetrators of the coordinated Easter Sunday attacks that killed 253 people, including worshippers attending Easter Mass.
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For sun worshippers and barbecue aficionados, summer starts on those first warm-ish nights when you can gather around a fire pit or throw dinner on the grill.
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The experience stays in my head: sitting in the pews with hundreds of worshippers and feeling lifted up toward the famous rose windows, through which morning sunlight pillared.
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Meanwhile, preparations were underway for a massive Friday prayer service to be led by the imam of one of the two New Zealand mosques where worshippers were killed.
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One truck was mounted with a machine gun, which the attackers used to gun down worshippers at the mosque, many of whom were new recruits attending Friday prayers.
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Armed police have been guarding mosques around New Zealand after 50 people were killed last Friday by a lone gunman who attacked worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch.
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Passions run high because "big money" is at stake, said Nanda, with even small temples receiving millions in cash and valuables from worshippers at festivals and auspicious days.
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Some of these changes, for example, involved transitioning from a Latin Mass into Mass said in local languages, or having the priest face worshippers instead of the altar.
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Social media giants have themselves faced new criticism in the wake of the attack after they struggled to take down and block footage of the gunman shooting worshippers.
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Suspected suicide bombers from little-known Islamic groups in Sri Lanka attacked churches and luxury hotels in the country on Easter Sunday, killing worshippers, tourists and their families.
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"The shedding of blood, the violation of the sacred houses of God and the terrorizing of worshippers are acts of corruption on the earth," Ahmed El-Tayyeb said.
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The suspect in the mass shooting that killed 50 worshippers at two Christchurch, New Zealand, mosques was charged with 85033 counts of murder Thursday, The Associated Press reports.
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Bill supporters also pointed to last month's Texas shooting, where a man fired his rifle on a fleeing gunman who had just killed 26 worshippers at a church.
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The legislation came in response to a March mass shooting where an Australian white supremacist killed 50 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, livestreaming the shooting.
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US President Donald Trump called it a "horrible and cowardly terrorist attack on innocent and defenseless" worshippers in Egypt and said terrorism and its ideology must be defeated.
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Gunmen carrying the flag of Islamic State killed more than 300 worshippers in the attack on the mosque, the worst such attack by militants in Egypt's modern history.
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Upwards of a million pilgrims sit on the mountain, blanketing the site in white, while umbrellas used to shield the worshippers from the sun provide flashes of color.
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Wellington, New Zealand (CNN)The man accused of murdering 51 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques last year has changed his plea to guilty, according to New Zealand Police.
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The Cathedral of the Nativity, adorned with Coptic icons, can accommodate more than 8,000 worshippers while the al-Fattah al-Aleem Mosque can hold nearly double the number.
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With Italy on total lockdown amid its devastating coronavirus outbreak, worshippers in the country and around the world are unable to attend churches, or even leave their homes.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - An Australian man accused of killing 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's worst mass shooting changed his plea to guilty in a surprise move on Thursday.
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Pastor Boniface Mwamposa had been drawing huge crowds by promising prosperity and cures for diseases to worshippers who step in what he calls "blessed oil" during his services.
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The suspect in the Christchurch shootings livestreamed the initial attack, leaving the tech companies scrambling to remove the disturbing 17-minute video that showed worshippers being gunned down.
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The white dude On Fridays at the Islamic Association of Raleigh, one man stands out in the sea of worshippers mainly of Middle Eastern and South Asian heritage.
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Tarrant was arrested within 21 minutes of the first emergency calls being received by police following attacks on Muslim worshippers at two Christchurch mosques on Friday, March 15.
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The bus was carrying worshippers, many of them children, to the Monastery of St. Samuel the Confessor when gunmen opened fire in a stretch of open, unmonitored road.
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For more routine weekly services, the worshippers often number 12 to 15, just about satisfying the minyan or quorum of 10 men for a Jewish act of public prayer.
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The kingdom says it is deploying extra staff and increasing coordination with haj missions from pilgrims' home countries to ensure worshippers comply with agreed schedules to perform various rituals.
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Clementa Pinckney, one of nine worshippers at Charleston historic Emanuel AME church killed during by an avowed white supremacist who told investigators he wanted to start a race war.
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Dressed all in black and wearing tactical gear, Kelley burst into the church and opened fire on worshippers as he walked down the center aisle, authorities and witnesses said.
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Brandishing an Islamic State flag, masked men in military-style uniforms fired on worshippers at a village mosque on Friday in the worst such bloodshed in modern Egyptian history.
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The Golden Coast is a breeding ground for stylish sun-worshippers who don't just break out their shorts on a seasonal basis — they've got them on all year round.
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CHARLESTON, S.C. – The Latest on plans for a memorial at a South Carolina church where nine African-American worshippers were slain in 2015 (all times local): 12:50 p.m.
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So there was little doubt who was responsible for the explosions that tore through two Coptic churches on April 9th, as worshippers celebrated Palm Sunday, a week before Easter.
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VISIT an evangelical church in America on a Sunday morning, and you are likely to be embraced, perhaps literally, by fellow worshippers, then impressed by the pastor's scriptural exegesis.
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Protesters demonstrated this week outside Surabaya's parliament against the statue, some wearing paramilitary-style outfits and waving placards that read "Demolish It" and "We are not worshippers of idols".
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Footage from the eNCA TV news network showed a large police presence at the mosque and worshippers and bystanders gathered outside, hundreds of meters (yards) away behind police tape.
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On Easter Sunday he was nevertheless sporting a crosier and mitre, sprinkling holy water onto 300 or so worshippers at a cathedral in the south-western city of Leshan.
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Yet worshippers and curious locals peeping in on its first Friday prayers—just before the holy month of Ramadan, which began this week—have no difficulty finding the place.
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It holds 1,200 worshippers, cost €20m ($22.8m) and was opened last September to much fanfare in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, the German state with the biggest concentration of Muslims.
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A clutch of police officers, automatic weapons cradled in their arms, stand over them accepting takeaway coffee from the public and homemade cookies brought out by worshippers from inside.
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While worshippers are encouraged to reflect upon their commitment to their faith and the community throughout the season, Ash Wednesday services place a special emphasis on mortality and sinfulness.
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For Saint Patrick's Pilgrimage, worshippers converge on a small island for a three-day regime of minimal food and sleep, chilly barefoot walks, kneeling on stones and rigorous prayer.
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LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Monday that her thoughts were with all those injured after a van rammed into worshippers leaving a mosque.
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BAGHDAD – Iraqi security officials say a pair of explosions has ripped through a mosque in a mostly Shiite district in Baghdad, killing at least seven worshippers, including two children.
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But every day at midnight, thousands of worshippers around the world have logged on to Instagram to lift their voices in praise and prayer, united by one hashtag: #HalleluyahChallenge.
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Think about it: It's the most solemn day of Holy Week — the day worshippers spend mourning Jesus' death — so it may feel a bit strange that it's called Good.
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When it is complete (due in 2018) the mosque will be able to accommodate 37,500 worshippers, and will come with a library, shops and parking space for 3,500 cars.
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During the arrest and trial, both the prosecution and the tabloids painted Manson as a remorseless master manipulator leading a family of brainwashed devil-worshippers through carefully coordinated attacks.
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Several people were injured in Finsbury Park on Monday after a van rammed into worshippers leaving a mosque, witnesses said, in what British police described as a "major incident".
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With more rain forecast for Beira on Thursday, Christian worshippers sang hymns on an empty patch of land where a pulpit was all that remained of their Pentecostal church.
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A gunman opened fire on worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh on Saturday, killing 11 people in the deadliest attack on the Jewish community ever in the United States.
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But according to worshippers inside the synagogue, the gunman might have taken the lives of 70 to 80 people who were inside if it weren't for a locked door.
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Witnesses told CNN that the attack started when an explosive device went off in a building adjacent to the mosque and that gunmen fired at worshippers as they fled.
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The ceremony ended with attendees and worshippers using umbrellas to snare packets of coins scattered into the air, a custom meant to signify that the novices forswear worldly treasure.
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Egypt's military said Saturday it had carried out air strikes and raids overnight against militants held responsible for killing more than 230 worshippers at a mosque in North Sinai.
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The gunmen had set up "ambush" locations and opened fire on ambulances as they were transporting wounded worshippers to al-Arish before the arrival of security services, eyewitnesses reported.
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Other cities recently saw anti-Semitic acts Swastikas have appeared in at least a handful of US cities since a massacre in Pittsburgh in which 11 worshippers were killed.
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The archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka's capital, Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith said on Tuesday that he would have told worshippers to skip mass had he known there was a threat.
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"It's a very sad situation," said 28-year-old sales worker Raees Ulhaq, as soldiers hurried on dawdling worshippers and sniffer dogs nosed their way through pot-holed lanes.
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The Thousand Oaks massacre took place less than two weeks after a man shot dead 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue, fueling the debate over gun ownership in America.
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Prosecutors say Bowers used anti-Semitic slurs and criticized a Jewish group on a social media site in the days before he killed 11 worshippers last year in Pittsburgh.
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The insurgents systematically killed, captured and enslaved thousands of Yazidis, whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions and are regarded by Islamic State as devil-worshippers.
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Ardern has said she disagrees with Trump's view that white nationalism was not a growing problem, after a suspected white supremacist killed 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch in March.
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Worshippers on Friday filled the mosque's haram sanctuary, the holiest place in Islam, and spilled into nearby streets, malls, hotel lobbies and garages, listening to the sermon through loudspeakers.
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On Saturday, the last day of the Jewish holiday of Passover, a man entered a synagogue in a suburb of San Diego and opened fire on the worshippers inside.
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The Waqf, the Jordanian Islamic authorities that manage the holy site, called on worshippers to "reject" Israel's measures by holding mass prayers on the streets of Jerusalem's Old City.
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She said at that time no one could have imagined what the Yazidis were to face at the hands of Islamic State militants who considered them devil worshippers and infidels.
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These worshippers are among the millions of "underground" Catholics in China who reject the leadership of the state-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA), which proclaims itself independent of Rome.
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The breaking point appeared to have come after the mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 Jewish worshippers and was believed to be motivated by anti-Semitism.
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WHEN Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibility for the bomb that killed nearly 30 worshippers at the Coptic cathedral in Cairo in December, it vowed to continue its "war against apostates".
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ISIS, which considers them devil-worshippers, killed and abducted thousands of Yazidis after unleashing a 2014 assault on their Mount Sinjar heartland in what the United Nations says was genocide.
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Thai Buddhism has for years been tainted by reports of misbehaving monks and mishandling of temple donations, allegations some worshippers say have eroded its relevance in the deeply spiritual country.
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India's Supreme Court in September ordered the lifting of the ban on women or girls of menstruating age from entering the Sabarimala temple, which draws millions of worshippers a year.
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Local sources said some of the worshippers were Sufis, whom groups such as Islamic State consider targets because they revere saints and shrines, which for Islamists is tantamount to idolatry.
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They'd be like, 'You're devil worshippers'—all this weird stuff—and we'd be like, 'I thought it was OK,' because we'd look at the TV and see Slipknot doing it.
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CAIRO (Reuters) - A grenade exploded on Friday outside a mosque in Yemen's capital Sanaa, controlled by the Iran-allied Houthi group, residents said, as worshippers were leaving after midday prayers.
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Israeli police spokeswoman Luba Samri said that, after prayers ended, some of the dozens of worshippers had started throwing rocks and bottles at police officers, and dispersal means were used.
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It was reported late last year that the Obama administration might soon designate as genocide the persecution of the Yazidis, a religious minority in Iraq whom IS call devil-worshippers.
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In Ottawa, Northern Order posters were found on a local mosque on the anniversary of the Quebec mosque shooting, where a far-right terrorist open fired on worshippers, killing six.
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"Most of the captives are said to be of Yazidi origin – an Iraqi religious minority, of predominantly Kurdish descent – who have been dubbed by the IS group as "devil worshippers.
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The diocese had applied to legalize the status of the church, which has housed worshippers for 15 years after a church building law was passed in 2016, the statement said.
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Social media giants, including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, are facing new criticism after they struggled to block livestreamed footage of a gunman shooting worshippers at a mosque in New Zealand.
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In the second row of worshippers, his silver head standing out against the black hair of the boys around him, the Mayor of London put his forehead against the floor.
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" She also said that "saying 'Easter worshippers' matters bc Easter is the holiest day of the year for Christians, & to be targeted on Easter highlights how heinous the attack was.
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The white nationalist who slaughtered 50 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand mosques last month livestreamed the attack as he carried it out, saluting a popular YouTube personality before opening fire.
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Pilgrims participated in a symbolic stoning of the devil, part of the haj rituals, in Jamarat before returning to Mecca, where the Grand Mosque filled with worshippers preparing to depart.
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WELLINGTON (Reuters) - New Zealand will grant permanent residency to all survivors of the mass shooting at two Christchurch mosques in which 50 Muslim worshippers were killed, it said on Tuesday.
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Hundreds of Muslims have fled the Negombo region on Sri Lanka's west coast since scores of worshippers were killed in the bombing of the St. Sebastian church there on Sunday.
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The Yazidi minority was hounded by Islamic State militants who consider them devil-worshippers and killed and captured thousands as they overran the Sinjar area in the summer of 2014.
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The group doesn't have a shelter to process the rescued animals, but they use mobile food dispensaries to feed hungry canines who get mixed up in the crowd of worshippers.
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Morning news bulletins from around the world have hopped from the brink of nuclear war with North Korea to mosque attacks, like the one in Sinai which killed 305 worshippers.
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"Iran's strong establishment will soon slap Britain in the face for daring to seize the Iranian oil tanker," cleric Kazem Sedighi told worshippers during Tehran's Friday prayer sermon, TV reported.
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But for the future top U.S.-Israel diplomat to do so is akin to the prophet Jeremiah calling most of America's Jewish voters, who overwhelmingly supported Hillary Clinton, idol worshippers.
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Meanwhile, Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz of the Orthodox Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun in New York City sent an email to worshippers saying that there will be extra hand sanitizer at the synagogue.
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Worshippers attend what Father Guy Chrispin described as a "temporary cathedral", a steel-framed edifice that seats 1,500 people in open air built by the ruins of the original church.
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Numbering about 400,000 people, Yazidis are a religious sect whose beliefs combine elements of several ancient Middle Eastern religions and are considered devil-worshippers by the hardline Sunni Islamist insurgents.
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The video, which has not been verified by CNN, appears to show an unseen attacker opening fire on worshippers in a mosque, as if they were targets in a game.
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After the New Zealand mosque massacre last month, where a right-wing extremist killed 50 Muslim worshippers, Trump said he didn't consider white nationalism to be a rising global threat.
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The collision happened just as many worshippers had broken their Ramadan fast, and finished evening prayers at Finsbury Park mosque – just around the corner from the scene of the incident.
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Crowds also gathered at other prehistoric sites in Britain, including at Glastonbury Tor, a hill in the neighbouring county of Somerset which has drawn pagan and Christian worshippers for centuries.
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LONDON, June 19 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May visited the Finsbury Park mosque in north London near the scene of an attack where a van ploughed into worshippers on Monday.
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An Oklahoma teen charged with two counts of first-degree murder for allegedly fatally shooting his parents believed they were Satan worshippers who were communicating with him telepathically, according to reports.
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In his remarks to the worshippers gathered in St. Peter Square today, Pope Francis said Mary's assumption is a reminder that salvation waits for every Christian, especially the poor and oppressed.
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During the festival, worshippers jump over their bonfires in a gesture of purification, and they perform a maypole dance, weaving ribbons around the pole ("usually badly, amid much merriment," Blake says).
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An IS affiliate that called itself the "Najd Province" — named for a region of central Saudi Arabia — said it had carried out that attack to punish what it called "impure" worshippers.
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Earlier on Friday, security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at 300-400 worshippers as they left a mosque near the capital Khartoum after Friday prayers, a Reuters witness said.
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The operation began after President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ordered the army and security forces to crush militants after gunmen killed hundreds of worshippers at a mosque in Sinai last November.
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New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced on Thursday a national ban on all military-style semiautomatic weapons, just 6 days after attacks on 2 mosques in Christchurch killed 50 worshippers.
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Gunmen tried to shoot up a church in North Sinai in October, and suicide bombers killed dozens of worshippers on Palm Sunday this year in two churches on the Egyptian mainland.
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Depending on the Mass, ministers will either sprinkle ashes over worshippers' heads or use a blend of ash and holy water to rub the sign of the cross into their foreheads.
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Evidence also suggests that the suspected Poway shooter was inspired by the Christchurch mosque massacre in New Zealand, which took the lives of 2200 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand in March.
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The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last month accused Al Jazeera of inciting violence in its coverage of clashes between Muslim worshippers and Israeli security forces at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque.
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In an attack broadcast live on Facebook, a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic weapons targeted Muslims attending Friday prayers at two mosques, killing 51 worshippers and wounding dozens of people.
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A Texas mom died shielding her "babies" from a lone shooter who walked methodically through the First Baptist Church on Sunday morning shooting terrified worshippers, her heartbroken friend shared on Facebook.
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"Unless this is done, they will continue to be considered by some – quite wrongly - as devil worshippers, giving vile people the excuse they need to attack them," she said by email.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Clashes broke out between Muslim worshippers and Israeli security forces in the Old City of Jerusalem on Thursday as the Muslim community resumed prayers inside the al-Aqsa compound.
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At the Women's Mosque of America in Los Angeles, male worshippers over the age of 12 are excluded, making the new Berkeley mosque the first of its kind in the country.
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In the now-deleted video—since reposted by another user—they appear to call Muslims "devil satan worshippers" who rape goats while circling the Islamic Community Center of Tempe on foot.
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Then, in America during the '80s, Bilquis watches one of her worshippers die of HIV in a hospital bed — another nod to the potential dangers women face for being sexually active.
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The custodian of the shrine, Abdul Waheed, called on the worshippers to visit the shrine and then attacked them with his accomplices, said Liaqat Ali Chattha, deputy commissioner for the area.
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When it was all over, Bissonnette had killed six Muslim worshippers -- 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 New York Times editorial board is praising New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern for her response to a mass shooting in her country, which killed 50 worshippers at two mosques.
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Additionally, during the first week, worshippers may fast entirely from Monday morning through Wednesday evening, and then observe the strict fast the rest of the week and throughout the Lenten period.
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The breaking point appears to have come after the deadly mass shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh that killed 11 Jewish worshippers and was believed to be motivated by anti-Semitism.
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The bombing was also the second major attack in the capital Kabul in 24 hours after a suicide attack at a Shi'ite mosque killed more than 50 worshippers on Friday night.
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A resident of the city reached by telephone said there were believed to be no casualties there apart from the attacker, as worshippers had already gone home to break their fasts.
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According to the indictment, Robert Bowers, 46, entered the Tree of Life synagogue where worshippers were gathered for Saturday morning Shabbat service, armed with an AR-15 rifle and several handguns.
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According to the minister, the stampede took place after the pastor instructed worshippers, who numbered some 10,000, to rush to one side of the stadium all at once to get anointed.
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It would be the easiest thing in the world to paint everyone in attendance as crystal worshippers who place their faith in dodgy alternative healers and prattle about little green men.
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In the Old City of Jerusalem Thursday afternoon, an attacker opened fire at police officers standing near Lion's Gate, one of the entrances for Muslim worshippers to the al-Aqsa mosque.
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Abcug in particular reportedly believed that her daughter and a sibling, whose identities were not released, were kidnapped by "evil Satan worshippers" and "pedophiles," the daughter told police according to NBC.
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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai police raided four Buddhist temples on Thursday, arresting several prominent monks and worshippers in the year's biggest such operation amid a crackdown on illegal financial dealings by temples.
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Timothy Matson and Judah Samet Timothy Matson and Judah Samet are survivors of the horrific anti-Semitic Tree of Life Synagogue massacre in Pittsburgh that left 11 worshippers dead last October.
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Kinnunen, 22020, shot worshippers Richard White and Anton "Tony" Wallace in the sanctuary before a member of the church's volunteer security team shot and killed him, according to police and witnesses.
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Nine months on from the Christchurch massacre, in which 51 Muslim worshippers who were killed at two mosques in the southern city, Ardern said she still felt a sense of responsibility.
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Seated on a pedestal whose base features small, carved worshippers gathered around a stupa, the Emaciated Buddha is also the largest object of the collection: it measures over three feet tall.
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The law's swift passage was prompted by widespread revulsion at the deaths in Christchurch, at the hands of a gunman who used legally obtained weapons to fire on worshippers at two mosques.
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Luckily, no harm came to them, though many did lose family in the western coastal city of Negombo where dozens died after suicide bombers targeted worshippers attending mass at St Sebastian's church.
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WELLINGTON, April 24 (Reuters) - New Zealand will grant permanent residency to all survivors of the mass shooting at two Christchurch mosques in which 50 Muslim worshippers were killed, it said on Tuesday.
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Christian Orthodox worshippers hold up candles lit from the Holy Fire as they gather in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem's Old City on April 7, during the Orthodox Easter.
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Like most people, Mr Locks had never heard of the Yazidi, ethnic Kurds persecuted by some Muslims as devil-worshippers for revering an angel who takes the form of a blue peacock.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Church of England is facing pressure to withdraw guidance for ceremonies welcoming transgender worshippers following a transition after more than 2,000 members signed a letter of protest.
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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - A gunman yelling, "All Jews must die," stormed a Pittsburgh synagogue during Saturday services, killing 11 worshippers and wounding six other people including four police officers, before he was arrested.
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Much of the peninsula is a closed military zone, inaccessible to journalists, but witnesses told state television that the attackers set off bombs inside the mosque, then shot worshippers as they fled.
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On Friday, a couple hundred worshippers walked through Masjid Al Noor's doors for the day's prayers, escaping from the cold wind and filing down the hall and onto the tatty green carpet.
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Francis was greeted by Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on Sunday, and will deliver a mass to 135,000 worshippers at the emirate's Zayed Sports City Stadium on Tuesday morning.
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After a series of terrorist attacks in the capital, a man from Cardiff is now believed to be responsible for another incident on a group of worshippers near a mosque in London.
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London is waking up to yet another terrorist attack that struck the Muslim community in Finsbury Park when a van drove into a crowd of worshippers killing one man and injuring 193.
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KUALA LUMPUR (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Worshippers in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim-majority country, are set to go green with a new initiative that aims to establish 1,000 eco-mosques by 2020.
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"It gave me courage," said Hazem Mohammed, originally from Baghdad, who played dead in Al Noor mosque as the gunman stood over him, wounded and surrounded by the bodies of fellow worshippers.
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CARACAS (Reuters) - On a recent Sunday morning, several hundred Catholic worshippers were at Mass inside a hillside church of a poor Caracas neighbourhood when there was a sudden commotion at the back.
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A gunman yelling, "All Jews must die," stormed the Tree of Life synagogue during Jewish sabbath services, killing 11 worshippers and wounding six others, including four police officers, before he was arrested.
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The Grinch spends the bulk of Seuss' tale with a heart the size of a kidney bean, and he truly believes he's smarter than all of the blind worshippers down in Whoville.
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The outburst comes at a time of a dramatic spike in anti-Semitic incidents in the United States and follows last month's Pittsburgh synagogue shooting in which a gunman killed 11 worshippers.
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The past 10 months have seen two deadly attacks on Jewish worshippers while they prayed in local synagogues, one in Pennsylvania and the other in California, taking the lives of 12 people.
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The Democrat's comments come after pipe bombs were mailed to his office and those of a number of other prominent Democrats, and after a gunman killed 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
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QUEBEC CITY/TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian police visibly patrolled mosques and schools in Muslim communities in several cities on Monday following the shooting attack at a Quebec City mosque that killed six worshippers.
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Dozens of worshippers stranded on the Pennsylvania Turnpike since late Friday night decided on Saturday that while they couldn't get to a church, they might as well bring the church to them.
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Thursday marked his second court appearance this week after a federal grand jury indicted him on 44 federal charges in last weekend's slaying of 11 worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue.
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The Muslim Council of Britain said Monday's attack on mosque worshippers was the most violent manifestation of Islamophobia in Britain in recent months and called for extra security at places of worship.
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May, a champion of controversial and arguably discriminatory counterterrorism policies, still managed to come out and publicly condemn attacks on Muslim worshippers as harshly as she had condemned attacks committed by Muslims.
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Kiswani said the visit of what he described as up to 800 Jewish "extremists" had not been coordinated with the Muslim authorities at the compound and accused riot police of attacking worshippers.
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At least 12 locals and six troops were injured on Saturday evening, officials told Reuters, as the worshippers on the traditional mourning procession of Muharram clashed with troops trying to stop it.
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Thousands of people in the nation of 55 million flock to Pentecostal churches, whose main source of income is "tithe", the 10% or so of income that worshippers are asked to contribute.
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A Sri Lankan government minister says the bombings on Easter Sunday were retaliation for the Christchurch massacre on March 15, in which a lone gunman killed 50 Muslim worshippers at two mosques.
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Two priests and 17 worshippers were killed when armed men, believed to be cattle herders, stormed a Catholic church during early morning Mass on Tuesday in a remote village in Benue state.
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" And even in 2012, when criticism of the policy was at its highest, Bloomberg visited Brooklyn's First Baptist Church of Brownsville and told worshippers that the policy "should be mended, not ended.
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A few days earlier, a 61-year-old member of a controversial fringe religious group — the Shincheonji Church of Jesus — was reported to have spread the virus to dozens of other worshippers.
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Federal prosecutors filed hate crimes charges against the man in custody for a horrific machete attack at a rabbi's home in a New York suburb Saturday night that injured five Jewish worshippers.
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Just over two weeks later, a Hanukkah celebration in Monsey, N.Y., turned to tragedy when a man entered the home of a rabbi and attacked worshippers with a machete, injuring five people.
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Just two days after US president Donald Trump signed an executive order banning immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim-majority countries, six Muslim worshippers at a Quebec City mosque were shot dead.
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TEN MINUTES BEFORE the Sunday morning service begins at the Free Chapel in Gainesville, Georgia, shuttle buses are ferrying worshippers from the north and south car parks to the church's 3,000-seat auditorium.
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Worshippers of R'hllor believe that the struggle between the Lord of Light and the Great Other will continue until a messianic figure, commonly called Azor Ahai, is reborn and claims his sword, Lightbringer.
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Even the Devil and his worshippers pale in comparison when one remembers that Satanism still implies a set of rules, and that most Satanists were historically either rude hippies or actual child-murderers.
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Saturday's bloodshed near San Diego came six months to the day after 11 worshippers were fatally shot at a Pittsburgh synagogue in a massacre that ranks as the deadliest ever on American Jewry.
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The Great American Eclipse of 2017 may have taken over social media, but according to Mashable, sun worshippers are starting to feel the after-effects of the astronomical phenomenon and flooding search engines.
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"A year has lapsed and nothing has been achieved on the ground," his representative, Sheikh Ahmed al-Safi, told the worshippers in a sermon in Kerbala, a holy Shiite city south of Baghdad.
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TAIPEI, TAIWAN — The Chinese government expanded its crackdown on religion over the weekend, with hundreds of police officers storming three mosques and forcibly evicting hundreds of worshippers in the southwest province of Yunnan.
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Neighboring New Zealand has adopted legislation to ban semi-automatic firearms and assault rifles after its worst peacetime shooting in March, which killed 50 worshippers in two mosques in the city of Christchurch.
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As far as police can tell, the man who murdered 50 worshippers, and critically wounded nine more, at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand on March 15th was not part of any organisation.
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A median of 52% of regular worshippers were prepared to accept legal abortion in at least some cases, compared with 85% for the non-practising Christians and 87% for those of no faith.
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The number of Buddhist worshippers at the popular Keleni Raja Maha Viharaya temple on the outskirts of Colombo seemed to have halved from last year amid stepped-up security, a Reuters witness said.
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When the gunman burst in and started shooting worshippers at prayer, Faisal was in the bathroom, just about to wash in preparation for prayer and so was able to hide from the gunman.
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Mao-worshippers in Henan province, to which Lankao belongs, say that the purges of leftist radicals that began in the late 1970s were far more wide-ranging in Henan than elsewhere in China.
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Yet temples get only a fraction of the income they are due as shops and illegal settlements encroach upon their land, said T.R. Ramesh of the Temple Worshippers Society, a Hindu advocacy group.
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That, as in the dark days of the Civil Rights movement and the murder of four little girls in an Alabama church bombing, worshippers could be targeted for the color of their skin.
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Worshippers tackled an armed woman who entered their San Diego church carrying a 10-month-old baby after she threatened to blow it up while "waving the handgun"on stage Sunday, police said.
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Similarly hateful messages were posted to 2628chan before the Christchurch, New Zealand, shooting in which a gunman massacred 28503 worshippers at two mosques and before the attack against a synagogue in Poway, Calif.
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But one of the reasons that albums like this have remained obscure is that they were recorded with a specific pursuit in mind: they were for the ashram, devotional songs for fellow-worshippers.
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The change in security led to days of protests and clashes between Palestinian worshippers and Israeli security forces before Israel, after consultations with Jordan, decided to remove the metal detectors and other measures.
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A gunman who espoused white nationalist views in his published "manifesto" killed 50 worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, on Friday, sparking a renewed debate about radicalization on the far-right.
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After prayers on Shabbat, he would invite fellow worshippers to join his "Kiddush Club," where the only price of admittance was a willingness to sip a nip of Scotch on a Saturday morning.
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ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - The mosque was packed with hundreds of worshippers for Friday prayers in Egypt's North Sinai when gunmen in military-style uniforms and masks appeared in a doorway and at windows.
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As Islamophobic political rhetoric mounts and hate crimes and incidents of mosque vandalism pile up, the personnel paid to keep worshippers safe symbolize the nagging discomfort of being a Muslim in America today.
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"We are a Jewish nation that will stand tall, we will not let anyone or anything take us down – terrorism like this will not take us down," Goldstein said he told the worshippers.
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Some of the first restrictions on worshippers in early March included being told not to kiss religious statues, but these were ramped up in recent days with the cancelation of masses across Spain.
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In an attack broadcast live on Facebook, a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic weapons targeted Muslims attending Friday prayers in Christchurch on March 15, killing 50 worshippers and wounding dozens of people.
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The Trinity Lutheran Church of Manhattan in New York posted a message on its Facebook page asking worshippers to avoid the traditional dipping of communion bread into wine, as it could spread germs.
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Some of the first restrictions on worshippers in early March included being told not to kiss religious statues, but these were ramped up in recent days with the cancellation of masses across Spain.
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The hateful symbol appeared at a time when the United States has grappled with a resurgence of anti-Semitic violence, such as the 2018 synagogue shooting that killed 11 Jewish worshippers in Pittsburgh.
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His worshippers bow to "Oldboy" (2003), the highlight of which was the consumption of a live—and plainly disgruntled—octopus, but the new movie, apart from the guillotining of fingers, is blessedly ungross.
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The site was thrust into the spotlight in March, when a gunman allegedly posted an anti-immigrant manifesto to 22019chan before murdering 51 worshippers at a pair of mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand.
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Blue dye still smeared the road as worshippers gathered for prayers on Monday, with many saying they did not understand why police had targeted the mosque as there had been few people nearby.
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In observance of the day, the palm branches that were blessed on the Palm Sunday of the previous year are burned to create ashes and used to mark worshippers' foreheads at church services.
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Additionally, during the first week of Lent, worshippers may fast entirely from Monday morning through Wednesday evening, and then observe the strict fast the rest of the week and throughout the Lenten period.
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HAVANA (Reuters) - Priests from Cuba's Afro-Cuban Santeria religion offered some solace on Thursday to worshippers facing another year of relentless U.S. sanctions, government austerity measures and shortages on the Communist-ruled island.
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Some 3,000 people headed to the beach of the resort city after prayers at the Holy Trinity Cathedral as part of celebrations involving worshippers taking off their clothes and diving into the water.
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Meanwhile, after a gunman killed 11 worshippers at a synagogue in Pittsburgh last weekend, graffiti saying "Kill all Jews" was sprayed at the Union Temple synagogue in New York City on Thursday night.
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - At least seven people died after clashes broke out between security forces and worshippers taking part in a religious ceremony marking Epiphany in northern Ethiopia over the weekend, officials said.
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Following are some deadly attacks in Britain in recent years: June 2700, 2017 - A British man drove a van into Muslim worshippers outside a London mosque, leaving one dead and injuring many more.
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In some traditions, worshippers will perform tashlich, the symbolic casting out and "washing off" of misdeeds at a body of water, reflecting the holiday's tradition as a time of repentance, reflections, and renewal.
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The recent killing of 51 innocent worshippers at a mosque in Christchurch in New Zealand is a reminder of the psychological horror that Muslims will harbor as they turn to tarawih prayers every night.
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In 2011, a bomb targeting Christian worshippers outside a church in Alexandria killed 303, and, in early April, an explosion injured 13 police officers near a police training center in the Nile Delta city.
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In 2011, a bomb targeting Christian worshippers outside a church in Alexandria killed 21, and, in early April, an explosion injured 13 police officers near a police training center in the Nile Delta city.
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In March, when some of the black worshippers arrived at the church unexpectedly, a black female was told to use the restroom at a nearby convenience store, rather than the restroom in the church.
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On Saturday evening, Catholic priest Anthony Dang Huu Nam led around 500 worshippers in prayers for the dead as they held lit candles in the modest, white-walled church in Yen Thanh, Nhung's hometown.
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On February 16th more than 80 were killed and over 200 injured when another suicide bomber targeted the throngs of worshippers at Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, a Sufi shrine in the southern province of Sindh.
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Australia and New Zealand have increased scrutiny of websites and social media companies in the wake of the Christchurch massacre in March, when 51 worshippers were killed in attacks on two New Zealand mosques.
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In the Cairo district of Shubra, where many Christians live, worshippers filled a service at St Mark's church, some following proceedings by scrolling the order of service across the screens of their smart phones.
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"It appears that a white man in a van intentionally ploughed into a group of worshippers who were already tending to someone who had been taken ill," the Muslim Council said in a statement.
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HOURS AFTER the massacre of Muslims in New Zealand last month, representatives of five other faiths stood in front of Birmingham Central Mosque and proclaimed their solidarity, as worshippers streamed out of midday prayers.
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Once known as "devil worshippers," today their belief system simply appears as arbitrary as any other ancient religion (a historic disapproval of wearing the color blue continues to make headlines in the present day).
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The massacre was the latest shooting rampage in the United States amid a fierce debate over gun control, coming less than two weeks after a man shot dead 20183 worshippers at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
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After the mass shooting of Muslim worshippers in two mosques, the suspect was heading to a third mosque when the officers managed to ram his car off the road and took him into custody.
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Nick Spencer of Theos, a religious think tank, says the Church of England is switching from a broad-based organisation, characterised by affiliation more than commitment, to a smaller grouping of more committed worshippers.
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The Egyptian army military campaign began after President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi ordered the army and security forces to crush militants after gunmen killed hundreds of worshippers at a mosque in Sinai last November.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A device discovered in a mosque near the South African port city of Durban where worshippers were attacked by armed men last week has been confirmed as explosive, police said on Monday.
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The iconic Paris structure lowered its lights the day after 11 worshippers were killed at the Tree of Life synagogue in what is believed to be the deadliest anti-Semitic attack in U.S. history.
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Worshippers from around the world will take a holy dip at the spot marking the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers with the mythical Saraswati waterway in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.
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The two websites are noted hubs for white supremacists and were banned in New Zealand earlier in March after they circulated video of the mass shooting that killed 50 worshippers at two Christchurch mosques.
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In the rush of initial reportage that followed the horrific slaughter last week of 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchurch, New Zealand, a document surfaced that purported to be the manifesto of the alleged murderer.
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Pious worshippers of the coveted Berlin techno mecca have offered bribes to get inside, designed simulators that mimic its infamous door policy, and posted grainy videos of its inner happenings (also known as berghrotica).
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In the San Diego incident in April, a gunman walked into the Chabad of Poway crowded with Sabbath worshippers, and opened fire with an assault-style rifle, killing one woman and wounding three people.
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Divisions in Iran over how it should respond to the U.S. pullout were illustrated as senior cleric Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami told worshippers at Tehran University on Friday that European nations could not be trusted.
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"This is not a refusal of worship, but an internal sacrifice made to keep the healthy and the other worshippers," Metropolitan Cyprian of Stara Zagora, a senior Church leader, said in a televised address.
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"It was decided to suspend the arrival of worshippers to prayers through all the gates to Al-Aqsa mosque starting Monday," said a statement issued by the Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs.
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"This is not a refusal of worship, but an internal sacrifice made to keep the healthy and the other worshippers," Metropolitan Cyprian of Stara Zagora, a senior Church leader, said in a televised address.
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Facebook dealt with the issue earlier this year when a mass shooter filmed himself attacking worshippers at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, an incident that left more than 50 dead and dozens injured.
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Facebook dealt with the issue earlier this year when a mass shooter filmed himself attacking worshippers at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, an incident that left more than 85033 dead and dozens injured.
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The church in Poland's capital, full of worshippers, was surrounded by police in armored cars, while protesters carried banners reading: "I do not tolerate intolerance", "Rainbow plague welcomes you" and "Archbishop Jedraszewski should resign".
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The protests in New Delhi had grown throughout the day, initially starting at the historic Jama Masjid mosque, where chants of "Remove Modi" filled the air after Friday prayers that drew thousands of worshippers.
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However, The Late Show host Stephen Colbert noted that Ardern "made it clear that her country was united," after the attack by a white supremacist on two mosques in which 50 Muslim worshippers were killed.
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As preparations for the first burials were underway for the 50 people killed last Friday in the Christchurch mosques mass shooting, Ardern singled out three worshippers, including one of the first killed in the attack.
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She was sold as a sex slave to four different ISIS fighters during their radical Islamist genocidal campaign against the ancient non-Muslim Yazidi people, whom ISIS considers to be "devil worshippers" to be liquidated.
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Martin, 72, has a simple explanation for his change of heart: He is sick of the gun violence plaguing America and his gun-loving state, where 26 worshippers died in a church massacre last year.
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Worshippers "were brutally murdered by a gunman targeting them simply because of their faith," Bob Jones, head of the FBI's Pittsburgh office, said Saturday, though he cautioned the shooter's full motive was not yet known.
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The initiative originated as an attempt to respond to the March killings of 51 Muslim worshippers in Christchruch and the subsequent spread of the video recording of the massacre and statements from the killer online.
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Harbour Church's main morning service (where worshippers have an average age of 27) starts with pastries and micro-brewed Brazilian coffee; the evening service (average age: 19) is followed by hot dogs and craft beer.
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For art worshippers, there are a number of locations that are literally secular, but few are as devoted to art as a vehicle for nondenominational communion with the sublime as the Rothko Chapel in Houston.
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Inside, nearby residents told Dela Pena, Father Teresito and a group of worshippers were decorating the church for a holy day to celebrate the life of Mary, a sacred figure in both Christianity and Islam.
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"Morocco guarantees the security of the religion and guards against those entering mosques to plant mines in the psyches of worshippers," says Ahmed Al-Abbadi, who acts as the Moroccan king's representative for religious affairs.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern announced an immediate ban Thursday on sales of "military-style" semi-automatic and automatic weapons like the ones used in the attacks on two mosques in Christchurch that killed 50 worshippers.
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He said former members of the Iraqi armed forces were kept in this cell, along with Yazidis, the religious community who suffered the most under Islamic State because the hardline group considered them devil worshippers.
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In the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria, worshippers passed through a metal detector at the entrance to Saint Mark's Cathedral, historic seat of the Coptic Pope and one of the two sites attacked last Sunday.
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The Egyptian military, which launched its campaign in Sinai after a jihadist attack in November 2017 on a mosque in which hundreds of worshippers died, says hundreds of militants have been killed in the campaign.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The family of a man suspected of driving a rented van into Muslim worshippers after they left prayers at a north London mosque said they are devastated at the "madness" of the attack.
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The same poll suggested that weekly worshippers (regardless of race or gender) were pretty sceptical about both candidates: 59% had an unfavourable view of Mrs Clinton, and 67% felt the same way about her rival.
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Whereas other Muslims shunned them as devil-worshippers (the revered Yazidi peacock, Melek Taus, represents a fallen angel associated with Satan), Kurdish fighters opened a corridor to Sinjar after IS took control of the plains.
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At midday on Holy Saturday on Corfu's Spianada square, worshippers and tourists watch the custom of "Botides," where locals decorate their window shutters with red flowers and throw large clay pots out of their windows.
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The attack began early Friday afternoon when one of three attackers blew himself up at the gate of the Imam Zaman Mosque as worshippers were attending Friday prayers, according to Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish.
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"Trump's rhetoric helps fuel the anger that drove a white nationalist to gun down 50 worshippers praying at a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand," Carson said, referring to the shooting massacre last month targeting Muslims.
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Total employed in the US: 23,390What they do, according to O*NET: Clergy perform a wide variety of tasks relating to worship, including conducting services, prayers, and providing spiritual guidance to worshippers, regardless of faith.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli police fired sound grenades to disperse Palestinians during confrontations on Sunday outside Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque where tens of thousands of Muslim worshippers gathered for the Eid al-Adha holiday, witnesses said.
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Militants killed more than 230 people at a mosque in North Sinai on Friday, detonating a bomb and gunning down worshippers in the deadliest such attack of Egypt's modern history, state media and witnesses said.
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Arabiya news channel and some local sources said some of the worshippers were Sufis, whom groups such as Islamic State consider targets because they revere saints and shrines, which for Islamists is tantamount to idolatry.
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In an attack on March 15 that was broadcast live on Facebook, a lone gunman armed with semi-automatic weapons targeted Muslims attending Friday prayers in Christchurch, killing 51 worshippers and wounding dozens of people.
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I would bring art materials with me, and in the madness of overcrowded visitors and worshippers, I would find a little space on the ground in front of the deities and start drawing or painting.
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First, the French capital is home to a group of worshippers (mainly in France but also scattered across half a dozen other countries) which styles itself the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox Christians of Western Europe.
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Sitting under a tarpaulin in front of his obliterated home, a mangle of shattered timber and broken concrete surrounding an immaculately intact green cupboard, the imam said shocked worshippers had questioned him about the quake.
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews guarded by riot police streamed their way into the Jerusalem compound revered both in Judaism and Islam on Sunday, resulting in violence between police and outraged Muslim worshippers.
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A lone gunman used a semi-automatic gun to kill worshippers gathered for Friday prayers at two mosques in the city of Christchurch on March 15 last year in New Zealand's worst peace-time shooting.
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LONDON (Reuters) - British police said it was too early to say whether a death near a mosque in north London on Monday was due to an attack by a van driver who ploughed into worshippers.
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CHRISTCHURCH AND WHITE ISLAND Nine months on from the Christchurch massacre, in which 51 Muslim worshippers who were killed at two mosques in the southern city, Ardern said she still felt a sense of responsibility.
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In a statement read on state television, the ministry said that three cells had planned the attack on worshippers and security forces at the mosque as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan nears its climax.
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Before the hajj we had taken evening strolls in Medina, the Prophet Muhammad's city, often walking by Shia worshippers chanting mournful hymns by the resting places of his family and companions in the Baqi' graveyard.
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