Posts Tagged Religion

Monsoon floods kill 102 in India, strand pilgrims

Indian people use a boat to cross a Tibetan market along the banks of the Yamuna River, in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. India’s prime minister said Wednesday that the death toll from flooding this week in the northern state of Uttrakhand had surpassed 100 and could rise substantially. The flooding has affected several states and the capital, New Delhi, where nearly 2,000 people have been evacuated to government-run camps on higher ground. Authorities there said the situation would ease as the level of the Yamuna River was expected to start receding Thursday afternoon. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)

LUCKNOW, India (AP) — India’s prime minister said Wednesday that the death toll from flooding this week in the northern state of Uttrakhand had surpassed 100 and could rise substantially.

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Jodi Arias film: a new case of fatal attraction

This TV publicity image released by Lifetime shows Tania Raymonde portraying convicted killer Jodi Arias in a scene from the Lifetime movie "Jodi Arias: Dirty Little Secret," premiering Saturday, June 22, at 8:00 p.m. EST. (AP Photo/Lifetime, Jack Zeman)

NEW YORK (AP) — She doesn’t boil a pet bunny. But Jodi Arias displays wicked knife technique in a new Lifetime movie that could have just as well been titled, “Fatal Attraction for Cable News.”

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Faith leaders asked to help members get legal help

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — When Grace Liverman needed to write a will, the 66-year-old who suffers from lupus and other health problems didn’t know where to turn. So she called her pastor at Hamilton United Methodist Church in Nashville.

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Turkey’s ‘standing man’ to join ranks of icons?

This is a  June 11, 1963 file photo of Thich Quang Duc, a Buddhist monk, burns himself to death on a Saigon street South Vietnam  to protest alleged persecution of Buddhists by the South Vietnamese government. (AP Photo/Malcolm Browne, File)

The image was stark: a silent, solitary figure standing in passive defiance to the Turkish prime minister’s demand for protesters to clear Taksim Square in central Istanbul.

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Venezuela’s cardinal: Pope should urge coexistence

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is greeted by far left-wing activists holding a photo of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, as he arrives to make a press statement, in Rome, Sunday, June 16, 2013. Maduro is scheduled to meet Pope Francis Monday, June 17, during a private audience at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Pope Francis should pressure Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro to focus on promoting democracy and peaceful coexistence to ease tensions with the socialist government’s opponents, the Catholic Church’s top representative in the country said Sunday.

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