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Brunei bans Christmas public displays
Published on 08/01/2015
» BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN — Brunei recently banned Christmas decorations in public areas in the oil-rich kingdom as part of the Islamic legal and moral code implemented in May last year, according to the country's religious affairs officials.
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'Magical snake' in inflatable pool
Online Reporters, Published on 04/10/2015
» Two photos of a "holy man" swimming in an inflatable pool and surrounded by worshippers have drawn attention from Thai social media users.
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Myanmar Catholics welcome cardinal
Associated Press, Published on 05/01/2015
» YANGON — Church colleagues on Monday welcomed home Archbishop Charles Maung Bo, a day after his appointment by Pope Francis as Myanmar's first Roman Catholic cardinal.
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Record 6 million turn out for pope's final day in Manila
Published on 18/01/2015
» MANILA — A record 6 million people poured into Manila's rain-soaked streets and its biggest park Sunday as Pope Francis ended his Asian pilgrimage with an appeal for Filipinos to protect their young from sin and vice so they can instead become missionaries of the faith.
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In-flight Muslim prayer app launched
AFP, Published on 13/08/2013
» SINGAPORE - A Singapore-based company has launched an iPhone app alerting Muslims when to pray and in which direction they should face even when they're 35,000 feet in the air.
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Praise be to Trump
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 17/04/2022
» They opened with an invocation, summoning God's "hedge of thorns and fire" to protect each person in the dark Phoenix parking lot.
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Indonesia confronts extremists with their own brand of Islam
News, Ahmad Pathoni, Published on 17/12/2015
» Speaking to a traditional Javanese soundtrack, a Muslim cleric implores: "We invite others to join us in launching a mental revolution."
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Marvel superhero holds fast to Maya roots
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 30/04/2023
» For her big underwater scene in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Guatemalan actress María Mercedes Coroy had to hold her breath as her character, Princess Fen, gives birth in a hazy ocean world to a winged serpent son.
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They even mummified crocodiles
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 05/02/2023
» At first glance, you may think the picture is of living crocodiles moving stealthily through mud. But the animals are mummies, possibly dead for more than 2,500 years and preserved in a ritual that likely honoured Sobek, a fertility deity worshipped in ancient Egypt.
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Embalming, the dying science
Sunday Spotlight, Published on 20/11/2022
» Walk down two flights of stairs at the back entrance of the James Hunt Funeral Home in Asbury Park, New Jersey, and you reach a white-walled, linoleum-floored, fluorescently lit room, a liminal space that provides the beginning of an answer to one of the oldest and most confounding questions of the human experience: What happens to us when we die?
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