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...lost everything. I lost all my money and my false teeth. Even this head scarf I am wearing was given to me by a neighbor." Fatima Hussan, 75-year-old Palestinian resident of Rafah on the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, after the Israelis bulldozed her home...
...Decades ago, Hollywood regularly produced religious films: The Song of Bernadette, The Bells of St. Mary's, The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima. The bosses who financed these pictures may not have liked them or shared the beliefs expressed in them, but they had their reasons for greenlighting them. One is that they often made money. Another is that the mood of the country was more pious. Today, a fervent Christian conviction-so often aligned with belligerent conservatism-is, to many in the media, a threat or a joke. They don't understand religious devotion, at least...
Including freshman guard Fatima Kamara, the Big Green’s top five scorers are all underclassmen...
Shortly before his arrest, Tanzi and his wife visited Fatima, the Portuguese town to which Catholics make pilgrimages seeking miraculous interventions. His trip symbolized the pious Tanzi that Parma natives know. Indeed, upon his arrival at San Vittore prison in Milan, one of the first things Tanzi did was attend a prison Mass. He had better keep praying, because he may need a miracle to extricate himself and his company from the mess they are in. --With reporting by Jeff Israely/Parma
...centered on the cult of the Virgin Mary. He has been known to prostrate himself for hours at a time before statues of the Virgin, and believes she interceded to save him from an assassin's bullet fired on the anniversary of the appearance of Mary in apparition at Fatima. Once recovered from his wound, he made a pilgrimage to Fatima to give thanks, and the assassin's bullet is now welded into the crown of the statue of the Virgin at Fatima. His devotion to the Cult of the Virgin may not necessarily move the elites of the post...