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Gay Muslim Filmmaker Parvez Sharma Risks Death In Pilgrimage To Reconcile Faith And Sexuality
2015-06-09 18:25:42| IT Services - Topix.net
MARCH 28: Director Parvez Sharma and producer Sandi Simcha attend the 20th Annual GLAAD Media Awards at the Marriott Marquis on March 28, 2009 in New York City. LONDON, June 8 - Millions of Muslims each year make the arduous and exhausting haj pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, but for one filmmaker, it was a journey that could have cost him his life.
Faith groups seek climate deal boost from Pope, pilgrimage
2015-06-08 11:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: A "People's Pilgrimage" to highlight the effects of climate change and an upcoming papal encyclical on the environment aim this month to invigorate political will for an ambitious new deal to curb global warming. On Monday, former Philippines' climate change commissioner Naderev "Yeb" Sao kicked off a six-month journey around the world to places hit hard by climate change, beginning in the Pacific island state of Vanuatu, still struggling to recover from the devastation caused by Cyclone Pam in...
Philippine climate campaigner launches global pilgrimage
2015-06-05 07:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Agence France-Presse: After a high-profile stint as the Philippines' top climate envoy, demanding world powers do more to fight global warming, Yeb Sano is embarking on an epic pilgrimage to force change. Sano will this weekend begin a global odyssey to places vulnerable to climate change, starting with the cyclone-devastated Pacific island nation of Vanuatu and Australia's Great Barrier Reef. He is leading a "People's Pilgrimage", culminating in a 60-day trek to Paris for a United Nations summit in December when...
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Electrician On Trial for Theft of Codex Pilgrimage Guide
2015-01-26 20:27:00| Electrical Construction & Maintenance
The former electrician for Spain's Santiago de Compostela cathedral has been accused of stealing a priceless 12th century Codex Calixtinus. Content Classification: Curated read more
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Dalai Lama in Discussions Over Pilgrimage to China
2014-10-04 19:46:32| IT Services - Topix.net
The Dalai Lama, the Tibetan spiritual leader, indicated on Thursday that he had had discussions with Beijing about making a pilgrimage to Wutai Shan mountain in northern China's Shanxi Province, in what would be his first visit to the region since he went into exile in 1959. In an interview with Agence France-Presse in Dharamsala, the Indian town that is now headquarters to Tibet's exile government, the Dalai Lama said, "It's not finalized, not yet, but the idea is there."
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