Sentences with phrase «sacred site in»

Native Americans from one the poorest reservations in the country are using cell phones, Twitter and Facebook to throw a flash mob in Times Square to save a sacred site in Arizona stolen by a multi-national mining company in Australia.

The Pisac Ruins are reputed to be the second most sacred site in Peru aside from Machu Picchu.

The Roman Baths are a well - preserved Roman sacred site in the English city of Bath.

There they could gawk and gape and revere, as high schoolers are enabled and goaded to do during spring vacation trips to sacred sites in Washington, D.C. Are the young people in American churches grasping, or able to grasp, this hero?

Visit sacred sites in the area during the Sacred Sites Open House Weekend.

He fears that the genocide may sever Yezidis from their sacred sites in the Middle East forever.

Michelle Mannion checks out Kafka, the old Jewish ghetto and sacred sites in the Czech capital — full story»

He also hints that native title rights to regulate access to sacred sites in a particular area may amount to exclusivity if they are unlikely to significantly impede navigation.

Not exact matches

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe and environmental activists have been protesting construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,886 - km) pipeline in North Dakota for several months, saying it threatens the water supply and sacred sites.

Two previous arguments by the Standing Rock tribe - that the construction had threatened sacred sites, and that the presence of oil in the pipeline would damage sacred waters, had been rejected by the court.

The ancient city of Smyrna, located on the site of today's Izmir in Turkey, the gateway to Asia and stepping - stone to Europe, is sacred soil because of what happened there one Sunday, around 2:00 in the afternoon, in February of the year 155.

There are plenty of other places they could build a new Mosque in Manhattan and the site of the former World Trade Center buildings is sacred.

In both northern California's recent Gasquette - Orleans Road Supreme Court ruling of 1988 and South Dakota's 1983 court ruling on Bear Butte, indigenous peoples lost protection of and access to sacred sites which in their view have for centuries held life - giving power and meaninIn both northern California's recent Gasquette - Orleans Road Supreme Court ruling of 1988 and South Dakota's 1983 court ruling on Bear Butte, indigenous peoples lost protection of and access to sacred sites which in their view have for centuries held life - giving power and meaninin their view have for centuries held life - giving power and meaning.

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.

Whether it involves a memorial in Little Rock, Arkansas, to a victim of the Trail of Tears, the Hawaiian tradition of pono (righteousness and balance), California New Age groups borrowing Indian rituals or New Mexico tribes arguing for the return of their sacred sites, the story of regional religious culture has to acknowledge these rich (and often contentious) roots.

This arose in the silversmith guild, which made silver replicas of the statue of Diana in the temple to be sold to visitors to that sacred site from all over the Hellenistic world.

Many sites and festivals that have a «sacred» emphasis do in practice indulge in various forms of nature worship, sometimes overt.

Breastfeeding in public, particularly in sacred sites such as churches, remains a sensitive issue for families, as noted by a recent Religion News Service article.

By giving bin Laden's body a burial in the Arabian Sea, they prevented his followers from turning any specific site into a sacred place where they could visit his body and dedicate their own bodies to his cause.

He searched in that direction for some irregular line on the distant horizon, an old ruin or sacred site to which the ancient arrow might have pointed.

Muslims own many of the small businesses in Sri Lanka, a fact that many believe has helped make them targets as Buddhist - Muslim relations have worsened in recent years amid the rise of hard - line Buddhist groups, which accuse Muslims of forcing people to convert and destroying sacred Buddhist sites.

Unfortunately there was a radical break in the history of Jerusalem in the second century, which to some degree interrupted the local tradition of the sacred sites.

There are no sacred cows though, as evidenced by the decision to shut the Ryecroft winery in McLaren Vale and shift production to the bigger Wolf Blass site.

Geoff - firstly did you copy Wenger in on that letter?The stupid decrepit old fool would not understand it anyway.Also do you believe Stephan Lefore has seen it?He is the idiot who believes we are in this position NOT BECAUSE OF THE BOARD OR OWNER and NOT BECAUSE OF THE MANAGER.Oh no.Its the FAULT OF THE SUPPORTERS.Another mindless idiot to grace this sacred site.

He seems to care very little that a number of polls have shown that the people impacted the most by the proposed mosque, New Yorkers, are overwhelmingly opposed to placement of a mosque in such close proximity to the sacred ground at the World Trade Center site.»

The peak is rated as the best observing site in the Northern Hemisphere, but for Native Hawaiians it is sacred land, and many residents oppose the project.

Simek said the scale of the rendering is most impressive, noting the Cumberland Plateau was a sacred setting, spanning hundreds of miles, in which individual sites were only parts of a greater conceptual whole.

The Web site notes that Muslim clergy invoked the concept of mundras — in which a cemetery is no longer considered sacred — in the 1920s when a Muslim university campus was planned at the site.

The site, one of five sacred mountains in China (familiar to many as a backdrop in martial arts films), has had a meteorological observatory on its peak since 1954.

The top environmental justice issues still plaguing their communities are lack of healthy foods and water, and protection of sacred sites — all at play in northern Michigan.

The Keweenaw Bay Indians are fighting for their clean water, sacred sites and traditional way of life as Kennecott Eagle Minerals inches towards copper and nickel extraction, scheduled to begin in 2014.

«The environmental justice issues facing Native American communities range from direct environmental, public health, cultural and sacred sites impacts, to lack of meaningful involvement and fair treatment in the governmental decision - making processes,» according to an emailed response by the EPA's press office.

Like New Mexico, the region around Lake Baikal in central Siberia is a land of enchantment and exploitation, offering a beautiful landscape rich with sites held sacred by the indigenous communities of the region and a target for international tourism and resource development efforts.

For example, some sacred sites are named after the long - standing vegetation communities grown in that area; yet many of the species may no longer be present under future climates.

The sacred herbs (basil, rosemary, and rue) used in the Mayan rituals, cleanses, and baths are grown in the on - site rooftop garden.

Aboriginal sacred sites are areas or places in Australia of significant Aboriginal Australian meaning within the animist context

Girls in pinafores and straw hats are preparing for an outing to Hanging Rock, where giant obelisks of red stone jut out of the earth and create a labyrinth of craggy interstices — a geological marvel and a sacred site for Aboriginal Australians.

In 1947, Britain pulled out of Palestine, leaving it in the hands of the United Nations, which went ahead with the partition that had been proposed by the British - two independent states with Jerusalem internationalized as a neutral «sacred - site»In 1947, Britain pulled out of Palestine, leaving it in the hands of the United Nations, which went ahead with the partition that had been proposed by the British - two independent states with Jerusalem internationalized as a neutral «sacred - site»in the hands of the United Nations, which went ahead with the partition that had been proposed by the British - two independent states with Jerusalem internationalized as a neutral «sacred - site».

When I watch people go to sacred sites just to snap 1,000 selfies and leave, not even taking a single moment to breathe in the air, process where they are, and look at the place through the lens of their own eyes... it's too much.

Belize was the heartland of the ancient Maya civilization and is now home to more than 600 sites, including sacred caves and enormous pyramids that are still the largest manmade structures in the country.

In order to save these island species, as well as protect sacred Chumash Native American cultural sites, the National Park Service and The Nature Conservancy embarked upon a multi-year program to help restore balance to Santa Cruz Island's naturally functioning ecosystems.

This UNESCO World Heritage site has sat as a sacred cornerstone of Japanese Zen Buddhism since its inception in 1339.

Here at Camp Nou, the nearly 100,000 - person capacity stadium home to FC Barcelona, Barcelonins make the pilgrimage to this sacred site to worship at the feet of star footballer Lionel Messi and his teammates whose club is one of the best in the world (Real Madrid fans may have issue with that statement).

Two of the most popular destinations in Israel for tourists are the sacred sites of Jerusalem and the thriving beach city of Tel Aviv, both centrally located in the center of the country to allow for easy accessibility to most landmarks.

Step lightly at this sacred site and feel the island mana while drinking in the sweeping views of the valley, mountains, and vast sapphire Pacific.

At least 29,000 people who live closest to Mount Agung's peak — a sacred site for Balinese Hindus — remain in makeshift camps and shelters across the island.

The location has been a pilgrimage site for over 2,000 years, and most visitors there wore traditional white clothing as is customary when visiting sacred locations in the Buddhist world.

Ideally placed to explore, dine and do business, Oaks Bodhgaya occupies a central location in Bodhgaya, with easy access to transportation hubs and sacred sites.

It doesn't hurt that this sacred historic site is located in the Yucatan Peninsula, just a couple of hours drive from Cancun.

The Sacred Valley was the heart of the Inca's agricultural setting and an important ceremonial region, with the sacred sites of Cuzco at one end and Machu Picchu at the other and countless ceremonial sites in between.