Sacrilege
SACRILEGE is typically defined as "violation or theft of the sacred." It originates from the Latin sacrilegium or sacer (sacred) and lego (to gather or to steal). In addition t...
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New Delhi (dpa) - India's northern state of Punjab observed a
complete shut-down on Tuesday in response to a strike call by Sikh
groups against a sect they accuse of insulti...
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VALANJOU, France, Oct 29 (Reuters) - The village church and
its steeple have dominated the skyline of rural France for
centuries, surviving feuding warlords, foreign invasion and the
upheavals of ...
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A Muslim-born woman who was forced to spend six months in an Islamic rehabilitation center because she wants to live as a Hindu said Friday after her release that she will never return to her origi...
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Roman Catholic officials reminded the faithful Monday it is sacrilegious to buy or sell religious relics, after news reports and a church Web site suggested fans of Pope John Paul II could get a pi...
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Brussels (dpa) - The most far-right group in the European
Parliament looked close to collapse on Thursday as five Romanian
deputies quit over allegedly racist comments made ...
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Global Warming: A noted Canadian climatologist gets death threats for refusing to embrace climate-change orthodoxy -- what Czech President Vaclav Klaus calls a "religion." Will skeptics suffer the ...
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Royal Philips Electronics NV reported strong increases in fourth-quarter and full-year earnings Monday thanks to the sale of its semiconductor division, a move the technology conglomerate said has ...
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Yangon (dpa) - Thousands of laymen on Thursday carried forward an
anti-military protest initiated by Myanmar's Buddhist monkhood last
week with spontaneous sh...
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Yangon (dpa) - Thousands of laymen on Thursday carried forward an
anti-military protest initiated by Myanmar's Buddhist monkhood with
defiance against the cou...
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Sacrilege
Northern Indian state shuts down over religious sacrilege
