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...Delhi, the Pontiff met for 20 minutes with the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader. The brightest moment seemed to be a visit to the sacred shrine of Rajghat. There, at the black marble slab that marks the spot where Mahatma Gandhi's remains were cremated, the Pope paid glowing tribute to India's apostle of nonviolence...
...Punjab city of Amritsar, an uneasy truce was holding at week's end between militant and moderate Sikh groups that had earlier exchanged gunfire at their most sacred shrine, the Golden Temple. The groups were fighting for the right to rebuild a revered part of the temple complex called the Akal Takht, which was severely damaged in a June 1984 siege by the Indian army. That military action, in which at least 600 Sikhs died, inflamed unrest and ultimately led to Indira Gandhi's assassination...
...Patriots nearly joined the Holy Trinity of Boston sports teams this season. Newly-converted fans worshipped the Pats with a quasi-religious devotion normally reserved for the other teams in town. Thousands made a holy pilgrimage to the Super Bowl shrine...
...Amritsar, Punjab, there was gladness as Sikh militants celebrated Mrs. Gandhi's death. At the Sikhs' holiest shrine, the Golden Temple, militants shouted, "Indira Gandhi deserved to die!" They presented medals and gifts of cash to families of the two gunmen accused of the slaying, one of whom was killed by guards during the attack. The surviving gunman and two conspirators also charged with the murder are now on trial in New Delhi...
...Japan's brutal occupation of their country, which took an estimated 20 million lives, before and during World War II. Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone thus touched a tender nerve last August when he became the first postwar Prime Minister to make an official visit to the Yasukuni Shrine, a Shinto holy place in Tokyo honoring Japanese war dead, including convicted criminals like Wartime Prime Minister Hideki Tojo. The Chinese reacted with denunciations of a new Japanese "militarism," and last month placard-waving students from Peking University mounted a protest demonstration...