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...official ceremony taking place at home. Italy's laws are more accommodating, but dress and behavior codes in Italian churches are strict, and Italian priests have little tolerance for some practices that have become standard elsewhere, like a bride and groom writing their own vows or incorporating a Buddhist blessing into the ceremony. Locals whose towns or villages have become popular destination wedding sites also have mixed feelings about the lucrative traffic. "There's a certain amount of resistance, irritation with the late-night partying," says Sarah DeKlein of Aisleaway, a London-based company. But some destination weddings are simple...
...FREED. THICH QUANG DO, 74, prominent Vietnamese Buddhist dissident; from house arrest; in Ho Chi Minh City. Do, a leader of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, had been confined to a monastery since 2001 for agitating for religious freedom and human rights. A Communist Party newspaper said Do was released because of the government's "humanitarian policies." But some observers speculated the authorities might be trying to blunt the strong international condemnation over the recent 13-year jailing of another dissident, Pham Hong...
...Akshobhya Buddha The founder of a Taiwan-based Buddhist association received this 1,300-year-old head?sawed from its torso at the Four Gate Pagoda in northeastern China in 1997?as a gift from his disciples. He returned it to China...
...presence of suspected JI operatives in southern Thailand. Acting on the scoop, the official dispatched field agents to the porous southern border town of Sungai Kolok to check assertions that four JI members had fled through Malaysia and into southern Thailand, a Muslim stronghold in a predominantly Buddhist country. He didn't expect the agents to find much. But when they combed through embarkation cards of individuals who had passed through immigration in Sungai Kolok, agents turned up the name of Mas Selamat Kastari, an alleged JI operations chief in Singapore and the suspected mastermind behind a foiled plan...
...Suddenly, two pickup trucks carrying men with shaved heads and religious robes pulled up to the bridge and implored the cars to stop so they could pay their respects to Suu Kyi. They looked like Buddhist monks, but area residents told TIME these men were actually convicts plucked from a prison in nearby Mandalay. As some of Suu Kyi's aides alighted to speak with the "monks," several truckloads of men from the Union Solidarity and Development Association, a military-backed civilian group, turned up wearing white armbands and blocked the motorcade front and back while other thugs spilled...