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NEWS ABOUT: pilgrims

pilgrims stories: 4 news summaries
Suck it, Plymouth

 Provincetown: Pilgrims 
 Landed Here First 

Plymouth rivalry heats up as P-town seeks rightful place in history

Nov 22, 09 12:26 PM CST
(Newser) - Provincetown, Mass., wants you to know: The Pilgrims landed here first. Sure, the fresh water was lacking, the sand not so great for growing things, and the Native Americans were a bit scary, causing them to move a few weeks later to Plymouth—the same Plymouth that gets all the... More »

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pilgrims • Thanksgiving • Plymouth • Plymouth Rock • Provincetown

 Pope to Kids:
 Spurn 'Spiritual Desert' 

Young should change lives of 'quiet despair,' Benedict pleads

Jul 20, 08 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pope Benedict XVI called on young Christians to revive spirituality by rejecting modern society's greed and materialism, AP reports. At a mass of 350,000 young pilgrims in Sydney, and a global TV audience of millions, the pope called for "a new age in which hope liberates us from... More »

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Pope Benedict XVI • Christianity • religion • Mass • pilgrims • Sydney • Roman Catholicism • World Youth Day

40 Iraq Shiite Pilgrims
Killed in Blast

Tent explodes as pilgrims take a
break during a days-long trek

Feb 24, 08 10:00 AM CST
(Newser) - At least 40 people were killed today when a suicide bomber detonated an explosive vest amid a crowd of Shiite pilgrims during a trek south of Baghdad. A tent where the marchers stopped for food exploded in Iskandariyah in the second attack on Arbaeen, a day when millions descend on... More »

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Iraq • Sunni • Shiite • suicide bombing • Sunnis • bomb • pilgrims • Arbaeen • pilgrimage

Religious Pilgrims Perish in Bus Crash

26 Poles die, 24 injured after apparent brake failure in French Alps

Jul 22, 07 12:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Twenty-six people died and 24 were injured today when a bus carrying religious pilgrims plunged off a bridge in the French Alps. Forty-nine Polish nationals and two drivers were on a tour of European Roman Catholic shrines when their coach slammed through a wall onto a riverbank and burst into... More »

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Catholic Church • Poland • France • pilgrims

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