The eastern sector of the holy city is one of the territories that Israel has occupied, along with the West Bank, Gaza and others, since a 1967 war.
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Prisoners offered to give up the Muslim holy book that each one is issued by the government but officials refused, considering it a tacit admission of wrongdoing.
Mr. Hess's Belgian "Trinitas" beer, named for the Holy Trinity, is now one of the brewery's mainstays.
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But when it comes to parsing holy writ, there is one big difference between Islam and most other text-based faiths.
If the results of human trials are just as good (not a sure bet), a pill to make fat people thin--one of the holy grails for drug companies--will have been discovered.
His controversial visit in 2000 to the al-Aqsa mosque compound in east Jerusalem, a site which is also holy to Jews, was one of the sparks for the second Palestinian intifada (uprising).
It is difficult to save room for dessert at Torchy's, but if you do, hop over to neighbouring food cart Holy Cacao and sip on one of its specialty "cake shakes", ice cream blended with cake.
Holy Week will see at least one break from tradition with this new papacy.
After all, as it is written in the very first stanza of the Sikh holy book, we are all one under one guiding spirit.
Like many Muslim Olympians, Khadija will be fasting for the holy month of Ramadan, which starts one week before the Games.
Tai Shan, a holy mountain south of Beijing, is one of the country's most popular tourist sites--especially among would-be grandmothers, who trudge to the top, drape red strings over trees and then return home to wait for the grandson this ritual is supposed to guarantee.
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So the traditional outdoor Nativity scene unveiled on Christmas Eve next to a giant illuminated Christmas tree in St Peter's Square has been paid for not by the Holy See but by the taxpayers of one of Italy's poorest regions, Basilicata, in the heel of Italy.
As President Obama weighed in to support the Ground Zero mosque during a White House dinner celebrating the Islamic holy month of Ramadan on Friday, one can only imagine what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed (KSM), the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, must be saying at Guantanamo.
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Lera approached one, an image of the Holy Mother, silent pain in her flat painted eyes.
It is also one of the traditional "Three Holy Mountains" - along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku, both in central Japan.
Premier League titles, FA and League Cups are one thing but Europe's holy grail is something altogether more dear to his heart.
One of Christianity's most holy places, the site's focal point is the Grotto of the Nativity, a rectangular cavern beneath the church that has been considered the site of Christ's birth since at least the 2nd century.
As with the perennial struggle over the horrors of medical malpractice, the question of whether or not to screen for cancer is one of those health-care Holy Wars that will never be resolved merely shunted off into another who-pays economic grind-down because where data ought to rule, emotion will always overrule.
The question is just one of the ten submitted by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to a government commission set up two years ago, but whose work is only now coming into fruition.
"While we were there, al-Jazeera ran a totally false report that American troops had gone and detained one of the key imams in the holy city of Najaf, which was a false report, " Mr Wolfowitz said.
Now, we know from the Holy Land Foundation (HLF) trial that ISNA is one of many Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated groups operating in America.
Dung featured in one of the artists' most controversial works, The Holy Virgin Mary.
Flower sellers line the walk to one of the most sacred shrines in Anuradhapura, the holy Bo tree.
The Monastery of the Holy Trinity is accessible by climbing 140 steep steps, making it one of the least visited.
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