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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in little-known Amphawa, Thailand
ReutersAMPHAWA (Reuters) - Little known to foreigners visiting Thailand, the riverside town of Amphawa, just an hour outside of Bangkok, has long been a secret among city-dwelling Thais looking to get away from it all. Home to a quaint floating market quite...Tags: Tourism and Leisure, Bangkok (Thailand), Personal Service, Gardens and Parks, UNESCO
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French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran sees great value in interreligious dialogue
French Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran has given many lectures, speeches and homilies during his years of Vatican diplomatic service. But most of the world knows him for the two words he declared on the balcony of St. Peter's Basilica on March 13: "Habemus...Tags: Politics, Christianity, Anglicanism, Justice and Rights, Freedom of Religion
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Ex-refugees in Fort Wayne protest Myanmar violence
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Former Myanmar residents resettled in the Fort Wayne area are protesting sectarian violence in their Southeast Asian homeland. About 100 resettled refugees demonstrated Sunday at the Allen County Courthouse in Fort Wayne....
Tags: Politics, Refugee, Religion and Belief, Burma, Islam
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Buddhism in the Midwest
Inside the main hall of the Drepung Gomang Institute, gilded statues of Buddha and brilliantly colored images of fierce deities adorn the altar. As the smell of incense wafts through the air, a Tibetan monk chants a sutra, his low tones weaving a...
Tags: Arts, Richard Gere, Human Interest, Religion and Belief, Dalai Lama
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Myanmar officials blame electrical problems for mosque fire
Electrical problems were to blame for a fire that reportedly killed 13 children at a mosque and religious school in Myanmar, authorities said Tuesday, even as the blaze stirred up suspicions of an attack on Muslims. Yangon regional fire chief Kyi Win...
Tags: Politics, Human Rights Watch, Burma, Yangon (Burma), Justice and Rights
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Video/Q&A: Damien Echols of 'West of Memphis'
Details of the West Memphis 3 investigation can only be described as ridiculous. “They had one guy say that I looked at him and made him levitate. And this is in police records,” says Damien Echols, who in 2011 was freed from prison after...
Tags: West of Memphis (movie), Acupuncture, Biotechnology Industry, Chemical Industry, Pecans
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The Boy Scouts and the atheists
Change of SubjectFrom Sunday's print column, which features another collection of dispatches from Somebody Nobody Asked™, America's pre-eminent unsolicited advice columnist Dear Boy Scouts of America: All signs suggest that your national board will lift the long-... -
Judith L. Colligan, Howard County activist
Judith L. Colligan, a Howard County activist whose work included putting an end to human trafficking, aiding city children through Agape House and founding a meditation group, died Jan. 19 of heart failure at her home in Columbia. She was 71.
"Judy had...Tags: Politics, Fredericksburg (Fredericksburg, Virginia), Lobbying, Frederick (Frederick, Maryland), Religion and Belief
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Dalai Lama to speak at University of Maryland
The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader for Tibetan Buddhists, will speak in May at the University of Maryland as part of the Sadat Lecture for Peace, an annual series that has drawn world leaders such as Madeleine Albright, Nelson Mandela and Jimmy Carter....Tags: Colleges and Universities, Henry Kissinger, Comcast Center (arena), Nelson Mandela, Religion and Belief
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Travel Postcard: 48 hours in Kathmandu
ReutersKATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal's capital, Kathmandu, is an ancient town dotted with Hindu and Buddhist temples, a riot of color and dust with clogged streets where stray cows and dogs vie for rotting leftovers beside swanky malls. The city is ringed by...Tags: Climbing, Politics, Tourism and Leisure, Government, Dining and Drinking
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Tibetan exhibit at SAMA-Altoona
The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art at Altoona will feature Tibetan Treasures: The Rezk Collection of Tibetan and Nepalese Art. The exhibition, which includes approximately seventy objects of Tibetan and Nepalese art spanning eight centuries,...
Tags: Arts, Museums, Religion and Belief, Entertainment, Arts and Culture
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Lebowski lovers: The Dude and the Zen Master riff in L.A.
The Dude held court in Los Angeles on Thursday night. Or his Dudeness, or Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing. Jeff Bridges, who played "the Dude" in the Coen brothers’ cult classic film “The Big Lebowski&...
Tags: McDonald's, Lloyd Bridges, Religion and Belief, Ethan Coen
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