Pilgrimage stories:
Blasts Kill 32 at Height of Iraq Shiite Pilgrimage
Feb 5th, 2010 - ABC News
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it was the third deadly bombing this week hitting the ceremony in which hundreds of thousands of shiites have been converging on the city of karbala. friday's attack struck during the culmination of the pilgrimage.
this week's violence took place as iraqiIn Las Vegas the NCAA Tournament really is March Madness
Mar 13th, 2010 - NY Daily News
last year, for the first time in six years, i did the responsible thing. every year since 2003, i had religiously made my pilgrimage to las vegas - including once by myself when everyone bailed on me - to watch the first weekend of the ncaa
Pope to visit Spain in November
Mar 3rd, 2010 - Forbes
vatican city -- pope benedict xvi will make a two-day visit to spain in november, with a stop in barcelona to consecrate the famed sagrada familia church, the vatican's spokesman said wednesday. the pope will first go to the western pilgrimage city
Police: Fake friar charged with molestation
Feb 24th, 2010 - San Francisco Examiner
as a franciscan monk. he admitted molesting one of the boys while they were on a religious pilgrimage to bosnia
Sex Offender Who Posed as Monk Arrested in New Molestation
Feb 23rd, 2010 - FOXNews
redwood city, calif. - a convicted sex offender who posed as a monk to gain the confidence of his victims has been arrested for allegedly molesting another teenage boy.
Pilgrimage videos from YouTube:
3:20Daniel Wesley - Pilgrimage
Official music video for Daniel Wesley's "Pilgrimage" single. Directed by Colin Minihan & Stuart Ortiz
6:17Pilgrimage trailer
Pilgrimage features Chris Sharma, Nate Gold and Katie Brown on a chill out bouldering trip to Hampi in India. See them explore and climb many stricking lines among the huge granite boulder fields. This DVD also comes with a large dose of Sharma philosophy ...
1:22Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca
www.euronews.net Preparations in Mecca for the annual Hajj pilgrimage. Over two million Muslim pilgrims were expected yin the holy city of Mecca for the haj pilgrimage amid a vast security operation to avert any militant attacks or deadly stampedes.
Pilgrimage from WikiPedia:
In religion and spirituality, a pilgrimage is a long journey or search of great moral significance. Sometimes, it is a journey to a shrine of importance to a person's beliefs and faith. Members of many major religions participate in pilgrimages. A person who makes such a journey is called a pilgrim.
Buddhism offers four sites of pilgrimage: the Buddha's birthplace at Lumbini, the site where he attained Enlightenment at Bodh Gaya, where he first preached at Sarnath, and where he achieved Parinirvana at Kusinagara.
The Holy Land acts as a focal point for the pilgrimages of the Abrahamic religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Bahá'í Faith.
In the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, the visitation of certain ancient cult-centers was repressed in the 7th century BCE, when worship was restricted to the LORD at the temple in Jerusalem. In Syria, the shrine of Astarte at the headwater spring of the river Adonis survived until it was destroyed by order of Emperor Constantine[citation needed] in the 4th century.
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