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Easter service portrays Jesus’ resurrection at Md. cemetery’s replica tomb
By Adelle M. Banks — April 19, 2019
BALTIMORE COUNTY, Md. (RNS) — Unlike the cast of cemetery workers, the crowd has no instructions to remain silent as a grave digger portraying Jesus appears in the dawn’s first light.
The ’Splainer: What is the Ayatollah Khomeini mausoleum and why was it attacked?
By Shenaz Kermalli — June 7, 2017
(RNS) The mausoleum is one of the most important symbols of Iranian pride. It’s famously referred to within Iran as 'the holy shrine.'
Restoration work completed on Jesus tomb site in Jerusalem
By Reuters — March 21, 2017
JERUSALEM (Reuters) A team of scientists and restorers has worked for the past nine months at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and focused on a small structure above the burial place.
In quest for equal rights, Muslim women win right to enter sacred Indian tomb
By guest — December 13, 2016
MUMBAI, India (RNS) In August, Bombay’s highest court agreed that nothing in Islam forbids their entry and that safety concerns were unsubstantiated.
Alfonse Borysewicz’s lonely struggle gives Catholic art a modern face
By Yonat Shimron — June 16, 2016
(RNS) His paintings are all about faith; at the same time, they speak fluently and powerfully in the language and palette of contemporary art.
Buddha statue reveals remains of mummified monk inside
By Michael Winter — February 24, 2015
(RNS) The mummy inside the gold-painted papier-mache statue is believed to be that of Liuquan, a Buddhist master of the Chinese Meditation School who died around the year 1100.
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