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John McCain, the Arizona Senator and Republican Presidential hopeful, was doing his best to look statesmanlike during a tour of Jerusalem's Western Wall, but it wasn't easy. As McCain approached Judaism's holiest site, a Rabbi in a Moses-like beard, all draped in flowing white robes - a publicity-seeker posing as soothsayer - called out: "Ladies and Gentlemen, John McCain, the next President of the United States." Meanwhile, a cheeky kid had wormed his way into the media mob, held up his camera-cellphone to McCain and yelled: "Say cheese...
...Presiding over the cradle of Islam and home to its holiest sites, the Saudi monarchy has long banned the open worship of other faiths, even as the number of Catholics resident in Saudi Arabia has risen to 800,000 thanks to an influx of immigrant workers from places like the Philippines and India. Mosques are the only houses of prayer in a country where the strict Wahhabi version of Sunni Islam dominates. But Archbishop Paul-Mounged El-Hachem, the papal envoy to the smaller countries on the Arabian peninsula, such as Kuwait and Qatar, has confirmed that talks are under...
...believed in a religious expression of Zionism - that they had a right to the Biblical land of their forefathers - and were ardently prepared to defend their faith and land. Many seminarians are volunteers in Israel's combat regiments. In eulogies, they were hailed as "angels" and "the holiest of the holies...
...Indiana Jones's creators understood, the Ark is one of the Bible's holiest objects, and also one of its most maddening McGuffins. A wooden box, roughly 4 ft. x 2 ft. x 2.5 ft., perhaps gold-plated and carried on poles inserted into rings, it appears in the Good Book variously as the container for the Ten Commandments (Exodus 25:16: "and thou shalt put into the ark the testimony which I shall give thee"); the very locus of God's earthly presence; and as a divine flamethrower that burns obstacles and also crisps some careless Israelites...
...SIIC). Things escalated, and a street tussle turned into a gun battle that left more than 50 people dead and roughly 500 wounded. The Sadrists took the blame for starting the episode, with many Shi'ites viewing the Mahdi Army fighters as thugs causing trouble in one of the holiest Shi'ite sites. Sadr announced his cease-fire immediately after that, stressing that his fighters would take no action against either U.S. forces or rival Shi'ite factions...