Almsgiving
ALMSGIVING may be defined as unilateral gifts to the poor or the religious. In its purest form, the gift of alms is given gratuitously without expectation of return, and is in this sense &#...
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RAMALLAH, West Bank, Dec 5 (Reuters) - The Palestinian
Authority has shut down all alms committees in the West Bank and
Gaza Strip and accused some of corruption. Minister of Religious Affairs Jam...
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Bangkok (dpa) - Buddhist monks have put away their alms bowls in
the south of Thailand amid escalating violence in the majority-Muslim
region that on Saturday claimed the li...
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Vatican City - Pope Benedict XVI urged the faithful not to idolize
material goods and to give alms to the poor in his annual Lenten
message issued Tuesday.
Be...
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Colombo (dpa) - Sri Lankans Wednesday marked the third anniversary
of the tsunami that devastated the country's coastal areas and
claimed more than 40,000 lives with solemn ...
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For sports car aficionados, the third Saturday in March is one of the most special days of the year.That's when the 12-hour endurance race is run at Sebring, Fla., on a road course built atop what ...
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Beijing (dpa) - Police fired warning shots as scores of
officers battled to arrest up to 60 fake monks in the south-western
Chinese city of Chengdu, police and news reports ...
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Colombo (dpa) - Sri Lanka conducted religious ceremonies to mark
Tuesday's second anniversary of the tsunami that claimed more than
40,000 lives in the country as people who...
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Nearly 1,000 Buddhist monks, joined by thousands of their countrymen, marched in Myanmar's largest city Thursday in the biggest challenge in at least a decade to the iron-fisted junta, a show of st...
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Luang Prabang, Laos (dpa) - Everything is just fine in Luang
Prabang, particularly at 7 o'clock in the morning when the senior
abbot raises his hand and the monks set off to...
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Almsgiving
Palestinian government closes all alms committees
