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Orlando Fringe review: 'Misa Flamenca'
As a dance, flamenco is about style: The fire in the eyes, the exquisite vestments, the dramatic posturing. Orlando's Flamenco del Sol troupe has shrewdly noticed the similarity between the Spanish dance and organized religion. The result, "Misa...
Tags: Dance, Entertainment, Religious Events, Religion and Belief, Music
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First lady could be Chicago kids' last hope
As a young girl growing up in the South, I looked forward to the fourth Sunday of August. We called it "Homecoming" at my church in Hogansville, Ga. That was when folks who had moved away from our small, rural town seeking better opportunities in...
Tags: Norfolk Southern Corporation, CBS Corp., Religious Events, McCormick Place, Symbols and Symbolism
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Tenets of Hinduism
The Akron Beacon JournalHinduism is the third-largest organized religion in the world, with almost a billion followers. Most Hindus live in India, and there is a growing population in the United States. Because Hindu temples do not require membership, there is no official count....Tags: Hinduism, Religious Events, Religion and Belief, Religious Texts, Belief and Faith
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Archaeological survey set for unmarked Mother Bethel cemetery
The Philadelphia InquirerIt's not that the old Mother Bethel Church burial ground has been lost, exactly. How does one lose a place for the dead? James Champion, an original church trustee, dead of tuberculosis, was buried there in 1813. Stephen Laws, another founder, succumbed...Tags: Anglicanism, Christianity, Arts and Culture, Tuberculosis, Gardens and Parks
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Threats daubed at Israeli woman prayer activist's home
ReutersJERUSALEM, May 20 (Reuters) - Threatening slogans were daubed on Monday outside the doorway of an Israeli activist in a Jewish women's prayer group seeking equal rights of worship for women at Jerusalem's holy Western Wall. "Your time is up," read one of...Tags: Judaism, Death and Dying Customs, Christianity, Religion and Belief, Religious Events
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Changes to psychiatric manual ignite debate over grief, mental illness and faith
St. Louis Post-DispatchEach year 90,000 parents in the U.S. confront the profound suffering that follows the death of a child or adolescent. Some of those rely on faith to help them through their grief. Others look to psychiatrists, who offer therapy or prescribe...Tags: Psychiatry, Social Sciences, Colleges and Universities, Behavioral Conditions, Teachers
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GIS to guide pilgrims, worshippers in Makkah
Arab News, Jeddah, Saudi ArabiaThe Saudi Commission for Tourism and Antiquities branch in Makkah said that SCTA is developing an application for a geographic information system (GIS) to guide pilgrims to places of their lodging and how to move around to perform the religious rituals....Tags: Travel, Career and Workplace, Tourism and Leisure, Saudi Arabia, Jeddah (Saudi Arabia)
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James Turrell shapes perceptions
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — Flying a couple of thousand feet above a volcanic field in Arizona near the Painted Desert, it's fairly easy to spot the extinct volcano known as the Roden Crater. It stands alone in the field, apart from hundreds of other...
Tags: Weather Reports, Colleges and Universities, Arts and Culture, Science and Technology, Psychology
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Tradition remains the basis of Hispanic quince parties
Miami HeraldWhenever someone would ask my mother what a quinceanera party was, she would always say it's just like a wedding, but without the groom. There's some truth in her statement. A big elaborate dress is worn, a ceremony is held and parents end up with...Tags: Mexico, Services and Shopping, Dance, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Pastor promotes power of pulpits
The Register-Herald, Beckley, W.Va.A pastor who recently spoke to a group of child advocates in Oak Hill wants to help other clergy understand the power of their pulpits in working to better the lives of children and families. In a place like West Virginia, where child poverty and broken...Tags: Family, Substance Abuse, Abusive Behavior, Separation of Church and State, Methamphetamine (drug)
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Spirit in the wind in western Anatolia
The Lebanon Daily StarCAPPADOCIA, Turkey -- A bright blue sky hanging over central Anatolia darkens suddenly and summons the kind of ferocious wind that forces the teeth to grind down on bits of sand and the locals to shutter their souvenir shops. It is the same coarse...Tags: Lebanon, International Travel, Christianity, Arts and Culture, Jerusalem (Israel)
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Review: A shattered land tries to pull back together in 'Joe Turner'
The setting for August Wilson's magnificent "Joe Turner's Come and Gone" is a boardinghouse in 1911 Pittsburgh, but the spiritual location is a crossroads between the ghostly past and the forbidding future, slavery and freedom, despair and hope. The...
Tags: Glynn Turman, Religious Events, Arts and Culture
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