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NEWS ABOUT: temple

temple stories: 10 news summaries

 Julia Roberts 
 Flick Bars Indian 
 Worshippers 
 From Temple 

Villagers none too happy with actress, who was previously considered 'Hindu-friendly'

Sep 22, 09 10:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - She may be America’s sweetheart, but villagers in India are not feeling the love for Julia Roberts after the actress caused them to be barred from their temple—at the beginning of a religious celebration, no less, the Telegraph reports. Ironically, Roberts—and her 350-member security team, derided... More »

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entertainment • India • Julia Roberts • celebrity • worshippers • Hindu • religious conflict • movies • temple • Eat, Pray, Love

(Newser) - The hallelujahs are strained in US churches these days as donations plunge at the same time demand for aid is skyrocketing, reports the Wall Street Journal. Congregations across the nation are slashing budgets and even laying off staff, including pastors. Churches and synagogues usually weather downturns well, but not... More »

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Catholic Church • Jews • religion • church • fundamentalism • Protestants • worshippers • donation • priest • synagogue • evangelicals • Baptists • pastor • baptism • temple • Catholic priest • women's issues • congregations • collection box • born again

 Gun Battle in Vienna 
 Temple Wounds 6 

Shooters stormed into temple with knives, gun

May 24, 09 9:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - A mid-afternoon shootout between members of two families at an Indian religious temple in Vienna left nine people seriously injured, Reuters reports. Authorities arrested six men who barged into the Sikh temple with knives and a gun. The men, who number among the wounded, apparently were extremists who opposed the... More »

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Austria • Vienna • Sikh • shooting • shootout • temple • gunfire

 Thai, Cambodian 
 Troops Trade 
 Border Fire 

Fighting flares around disputed jungle temple; no injuries reported

Apr 3, 09 3:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Thai and Cambodian troops have clashed near a disputed temple in a border area, CNN reports. The troops exchanged gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades after Cambodian forces "intruded" into Thai territory, according to a Thai general. A Cambodian government spokesman said the clashes began after Thai troops entered Cambodian territory.... More »

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Thailand • Cambodia • border dispute • temple

 Thais Take Coffin 
 Naps to Fix Karma 

$5 buys a few minutes in monastery's gaudy pink boxes

Oct 1, 08 7:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - As Thailand's economy slows and its government falters, growing numbers of deeply superstitious citizens are jostling into a pink coffin to "die," the Telegraph reports. At about $5 a head, monks in a monastery outside Bangkok officiate over the "dead bodies" in the coffins, before ushering in... More »

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Thailand • coffin • Buddhist monks • economy • temple • luck

 177 Killed in India 
 Temple Stampede 

Cause of crush still unknown, police blame slippery slope

Sep 30, 08 5:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - A stampede killed at least 177 worshipers at a Hindu temple in western India today, the Times of London reports. Early theories for the crush included a bomb scare and a broken barricade, but police are blaming the steep, slippery path that leads to the temple. Similar stampedes have killed... More »

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India • Hindu • religious pilgrims • stampede • temple

 Syria Car Bomb Kills 17 

14 wounded in blast near Damascus airport, temple

Sep 27, 08 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - A car bomb on the road to Syria’s main airport killed at least 17 passers-by and injured 14 others, the Daily Telegraph reports. The car, at an intersection in the country’s capital, Damascus, had held 440 lbs of explosives; the target of the bomb, which exploded near a... More »

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Syria • car bomb • explosion • Damascus • temple

140 Killed in
India Temple Stampede

40 children among the dead in mountaintop pilgrimmage

Aug 3, 08 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - At least 140 people, including at least 40 children, were killed today in a stampede when a restraining rail gave way at a Hindu temple in northern India, the BBC reports. The pilgrims were attending a 9-day religious festival. Authorities used a cable car to remove the injured from the... More »

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India • religion • Hindu • stampede • Hindus • temple

 Cambodia, Thailand
 on Brink of War 

Tensions escalate at  disputed temple in border region

Jul 23, 08 5:17 AM CDT
(Newser) - Cambodia has appealed to the UN to help defuse an "imminent state of war" with Thailand, the Daily Telegraph reports. Some 1,500 troops armed with heavy artillery are in a standoff at an ancient temple in a disputed frontier area. Cambodian officials are accusing Thailand of aggression and... More »

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United Nations • Thailand • Cambodia • border dispute • temple

 Stonehenge Riddle Solved?  

Bluestones may prove site was a healing temple

May 4, 08 3:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - A British team has excavated Stonehenge in hope of showing it was once a temple used for healing, the Los Angeles Times reports. Archaeologists focused on the site's 4,000-year-old bluestones, a twin circle of huge rocks, for proof of their origins and purpose. Shamans and witch doctors once likely... More »

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archaeology • Stonehenge • prehistoric • excavation • ceremony • temple • bluestone

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