Sentences with phrase «holy sites in»

It seems, that the only way you can uncover the history and culture of the holy sites in East Jerusalem is to go there.

The Crusades were wars proclaimed by the ruling Pope against the «infidel» Muslims in the Middle East with the intent to restore Christian access to holy sites in Jerusalem and surrounding lands.

Fearing backlash, Jordan asserts Al - Aqsa custodianship — Israel captured Jerusalem's mostly Arab eastern sector from Jordan in the 1967 Six - Day War... entrusting him with the defence of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem.

Olmert offered international sovereignty over the holy sites in East Jerusalem, where sovereignty would be shared by Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, and the United States.

Heavy monsoon rains have caused flooding in northern India that has already affected 3 million people, destroying homes, farmlands and holy sites in the process.

I was bemused — also mildly bruised — by the violent elbowing and shoving of my fellow pilgrims as we approached what are arguably the holiest sites in all of Christendom.

(CNN)- An Israeli man was killed and four others were wounded early Sunday morning near Joseph's Tomb, a Jewish holy site in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, an Israeli military spokesman said.

So, UNESCO's (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) contentious decision to remove all references of Jewish ties to the holiest site in the world for the Jewish people will, in effect ignore 2,000 years of Jewish history while maintaining Islam's claim to them.

Join in with welcoming pilgrims in experiencing this holy site in the center of the Sikh universe.

The Jokhang Temple is the holiest site in Tibetan Buddhism and one of the World Heritage Sites.

Continue to Noravank to visit the monastery, then Khor - Virap (Deep Dungeon), one of the holiest sites in Armenia where Gregory the Illuminator was imprisoned.

Khaled Yamak, group director of communications, FRHI Makkah, said: «With our properties affording unrivalled views of, and access to, the Holy Ka'aba and the Masjid al - Haram - the holiest sites in Islam - our central Makkah location is ideal for pilgrims and Umrah performers visiting the city to fulfil their spiritual duties.

As with any holy site in Bali, women during their periods aren't allowed to enter any of the temple grounds.

Engaged in repetition and the recording of action, Kazem's piece connects to more critically - engaged content, like Ahmed Mater's lightboxes, which depict a bird's - eye view of Mecca, the holiest site in the Muslim world.

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In a recent interview with Fast Company, co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley explained this product is basically the holy grail of local discovery, and one that has the potential to turn Foursquare from a fun, though niche social check - in site, into a massive local data companIn a recent interview with Fast Company, co-founder and CEO Dennis Crowley explained this product is basically the holy grail of local discovery, and one that has the potential to turn Foursquare from a fun, though niche social check - in site, into a massive local data companin site, into a massive local data company.

His trip to Israel — which included meetings with top Middle Eastern political leaders and a tour of Christian holy sites with 40 evangelical activists — has fueled growing speculation that the younger Paul is seriously considering a presidential bid of his own in 2016.

The Holy Grail for online income doesn't reside in doing services on sites like Upwork or gigs on sites like Fiverr.

Right alongside my admiration for the public school students who have been so articulate and so focused in their advocacy, lies a deep anger and shame for some of the adult behavior on full display: adults creating and perpetuating fake news, doctoring video and pictures; adults pilfering from the holy ground that is the site of a mass killing; and adults attempting to steal the bright shine of these student advocates.

It was found during restoration work at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, which is built on the site believed to be where Jesus» tomb was.

To be commended to your regular attention is the Get Religion site, the very useful and unique site that pursues what it calls «holy ghosts», the traces and hints of religion in mainstream news stories and analyzes the major media's treatment (sometimes good, but often clueless or biased and sometimes very clueless or very biased, or both at once) of religion and religious people.

In his view, Buddhists, Jains, and Sikhs were part of a greater Hindu rashtra (Hindu polity), while those whose holy sites and loyalties lay elsewhere — i.e., the Abrahamic faiths — were foreign elements and therefore could be expunged.

The Western Wall is one of Judaism's holiest sites and President Donald Trump made a historic visit to it earlier today, flanked by his senior advisor and son - in - law Jared Kushner...

Islam did this in Mecca and Medina and built the Dome of the Rock and its Al Aqsa mosque precisely on the site of the Jews» holy temple in Jerusalem.

President Donald Trump placed a note in the Western Wall on Monday becoming the first sitting US president to visit one of Judaism's holiest prayer sites.

Jews pray to God in the direction of the most holy place in Judaism, the site of which has been built over and is occupied by the Dome of the Rock.

(CNN)- It was two years in the making for a television crew to get access inside one of the holiest sites of the Greek Orthodox world, the monasteries on Mount Athos in Greece.

Palestinian scouts parade playing music during a ceremony commemorating the birth of Prophet Mohammed, known in Arabic as «al - Mawlid al - Nabawi «outside the Dome of the Rock the Al - Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third holiest site, in the old city of Jerusalem on January 24, 2013.

It explains why they built the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the most important Christian pilgrimage site in the world, in Jerusalem, right above the place where they believe Jesus rose from the dead.

In 1952, a team was set in place by the world - famous, preeminent scholar, archaeologist and pioneer discoverer of Holy Land historical sites and docu «ments, Dr. William Foxwell Albright, the professor of Semitic languages at the Johns Hopkins UniversitIn 1952, a team was set in place by the world - famous, preeminent scholar, archaeologist and pioneer discoverer of Holy Land historical sites and docu «ments, Dr. William Foxwell Albright, the professor of Semitic languages at the Johns Hopkins Universitin place by the world - famous, preeminent scholar, archaeologist and pioneer discoverer of Holy Land historical sites and docu «ments, Dr. William Foxwell Albright, the professor of Semitic languages at the Johns Hopkins University.

When Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade in a speech before a French crowd at Clermont, he demanded that Christians reestablish their claim to the Holy Land and to the most sacred sites of the religion — Bethlehem, Golgotha and the Holy Sepulchre.

One would think that a Christian Prince from a church in Idaho would make a pilgrimage to the Church of the Nativity, Bethlehem, now a World Heritage site & the Church of the Holy Sepulchre *, Jerusalem, built by the Christian Prince, Constantine!

It is celebrated at midday on Easter Eve in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, on the site that church tradition holds to be Christ's burial place.

In the early fourth century, Empress Helena journeyed to Palestine and, guided by the Holy Spirit, discovered the sites of the true cross and the tomb of Christ.

Rather than making inaccurate conclusions based on a standard procedure in web - site ownership to the motive behind our efforts, perhaps if you truly are defending Christmas, you should look at the National Corporations and Media Outlets who base their whole profit predictions and financial stability on a HOLY - day that they go out of their way to hide and dilute.

Unlike Pilgrim, with its several moments of intense oneness with nature, or Holy the Firm, with its more complex treatment of nature as a site of worship, Dillard here is bound by the project of the book, which has to do with human design and artifice, to see how far she can go in resisting all humanizing of nature.

Kirill arrived in Jerusalem on his first visit to the Holy Land since becoming head of the powerful church in 2009, during which he will visit all the major holy siHoly Land since becoming head of the powerful church in 2009, during which he will visit all the major holy siholy sites.

Where was their (the Muslim worlds) sensitivity and concern for religious freedom when Buddhist temples, statues, and holy sites were being systematically destroyed in Afghanistan?

Muslim Fatimid Caliph, Al - Hakim bi-Amr-Allah had Jesus» tomb razed to the ground in 1009, along with other Christian holy sites.

Agreed, in Islam, Jerusalem is not the holiest site (maybe third after Mecca and Medina, but I no way claim to be a scholar of Islam).

To be commended to your regular attention is the Get Religion site, the very useful and unique site that pursues what it calls «holy ghosts», the traces and hints of religion in mainstream news stories and analyzes the major media's treatment (sometimes good, but often clueless....

It's a name as old as the storied shepherdess of Paddan Aram — a woman so captivating her husband pledged seven years of service in exchange for her hand, a woman whose determination to bear children sent her digging for mandrakes and bargaining with God, a woman brazen enough to steal her father's idols and hide them in a camel saddle, a woman who took her last breath on the side of the road, giving birth, a woman whose tomb survived obscurity, conquest, earthquakes, and riots to become one of the most venerated and contested sites of the Holy Land.

In Israel and the occupied West Bank Christians are mistreated by Jews and their holy sites are desecrated.

In the past, biblical archaeologists, if I may use that term, were trained mostly in the Bible and biblical languages, and they went to the Holy Land to try to find sites and artifacts that would prove scripture to be accuratIn the past, biblical archaeologists, if I may use that term, were trained mostly in the Bible and biblical languages, and they went to the Holy Land to try to find sites and artifacts that would prove scripture to be accuratin the Bible and biblical languages, and they went to the Holy Land to try to find sites and artifacts that would prove scripture to be accurate.

Jewish settlers gathered on Wednesday, June 23, outside the Abraham Mosque or Tomb of the Patriarchs, a holy site for both Muslims and Jews in the West Bank town of Hebron.

Honey Mama's sources raw cacao from Holy Kakow, who works directly with a co-op in Peru that grows, harvests and presses the raw organic cacao on site using no water.

Holy hell... is it even possible to write something on this site without somebody jumping in and making gross mischaracterizations and false assumptions?

More than 2,000 Saudi Red Crescent Authority personnel have been deployed in Makkah, Madinah and other holy sites to provide ambulance services for pilgrims.

Likewise, in the Departmental Archives of the Haute - Marne I found a lot of interesting material on de Gaulle's home in the village of Colombey — especially after his death, when the site became a holy shrine, with hundreds of thousands of visitors each year.

ISIS is killing Shia Muslims and destroying their holy sites because they see them, in their distorted ideology, as being no Muslims.

In addition to visiting Jewish religious sites, the members of the delegation got to visit holy sites of their religions and and other religions.