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National recognition for York gallery and new monastery
Edit York Press 23 Jun 2016
YORK Art Gallery and a new monastery in North Yorkshire have been honoured in the 2016 Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) National Awards ... ....
Pope Francis to visit Armenia, will avoid using ‘Genocide’
Edit Indian Express 23 Jun 2016
Pope Francis’s branding of the 1915 mass killings of Aremenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire had started a diplomatic dispute with Turkey. File photo/agencies ... He will have to tread delicately there and in half a dozen other addresses to political and religious leaders. Share This Article. Related Article ... 3 }); }); ... Before returning to Rome on Sunday, Francis is due to visit the Khor Virap monastery in the foothills of Mt....
I have found a new way to watch TV, and it changes everything
Edit Sydney Morning Herald 23 Jun 2016
I have a habit that horrifies most people. I watch television and films in fast forward. This has become increasingly easy to do with computers (I'll show you how) and the time savings are enormous ... The practice began in monasteries around the 10th century and slowly spread to university libraries a few hundred years later, and finally to the European aristocracy by the 14th and 15th centuries, according to historian Roger Chartier ... ....
Buddhist monastery found in Vadnagar
Edit The Times of India 22 Jun 2016
The Archeological Survey of India (ASI) has unearthed structures resembling a Buddhist monastery in Vadnagar city of Gujarat, a finding which could further establish the importance of the region as a thriving Buddhist centre....
MSC Cruises will launch Sir Bani Yas port calls in December
Edit The Examiner 22 Jun 2016
Cruise guests embarking on MSC Cruises Persian Gulf voyages from Dubai or Abu Dhabi this winter will have an exciting new port call to look forward to. the desert island of Sir Bani Yas in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi ... It's also the site of a Nestorian Christian monastery dating to the 6th Century AD which was last used circa 750 AD ... ....
photo: AP / Andrew Medichini
Pope, on Armenia Visit, Likely to Speak Cautiously
Edit Voa News 22 Jun 2016
During the three-day trip starting Friday, the pontiff will pray at Tzitzernakaberd, known in Armenia as the Genocide Memorial and Museum ... "We know what happened ... Before returning to Rome on Sunday, Francis is due to visit the Khor Virap monastery in the foothills of Mount Ararat, near the border with Turkey, and release doves along with Catholicos Karekin II as a symbol of their hopes for peace and reconciliation in the region....
Bend it like Sonowal on International Yoga Day
Edit The Times of India 22 Jun 2016
Guwahati/Jorhat/Kokrajhar. The second International Day of Yoga was celebrated amid zest and enthusiasm across Assam on Tuesday with chief minister Sarbananda Sonowal taking the lead from historic Majuli island by practising yoga ... Health minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and the satradhikars (head priests) of satras (Vaisnavite monasteries) practised yoga for an hour ... We have to follow their ideals to attain our avowed goals," Sonowal said....
Game Art students land top jobs before graduation! (De Montfort University)
Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
(Source. De Montfort University) Game Art. students from De Montfort University Leicester (DMU) are celebrating after landing a series of jobs before they have graduated. The roles range from working with some of the biggest companies in the industry to working on simulators to train the US military ... He said. 'It's amazing ... He said ... Warhammer ... 'It's lovely ... In just three weeks he has already designed a monastery which has gone into the game....
Nuns schooled on sexual and reproductive health in Bhutan (UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund)
Edit Public Technologies 22 Jun 2016
(Source. UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund). THIMPU, Bhutan - Nuns might seem like the last people needing sexual and reproductive health education ... Bhutan has thousands of nuns and monks living in over 200 monasteries, most of them in remote mountainous areas. Women of any age can become a nun, and many join as young as 5, missing out on a formal education ... Students in Punakha ... © United Nations/Tim Jenkins ... Reaching Bhutan's youth....
Pierre Lassonde pavilion review – OMA lifted up a park to slide in a building
Edit The Guardian 22 Jun 2016
The new pavillion for the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec is a has a sense of humour and humility, and is designed above all for showcasing art. A new pavilion for the Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec gleams modestly between elm trees ... Shigematsu worked on that project and it taught him a lesson ... It floats rather than looms ... There was a Dominican monastery on the site that the museum was criticized for demolishing in 2011....
What it’s like to be a Muslim in the CIA
Edit Vox 22 Jun 2016
It was the day after the 2009 Fort Hood shooting. I was working as a CIA analyst ... The mood was intense and somber ... Did I feel in any way awkward or conflicted as a practicing Muslim? No ... And I know my own ... and war ... The Quran says, "Had not God checked one set of people by means of another, there would surely have been pulled down monasteries, churches, synagogues, and mosques, in which the name of God is commemorated in abundant measure ... ....
Man threatens to shoot priest during Sunday Eucharist (The Anglican Communion)
Edit Public Technologies 21 Jun 2016
[ACNS, by Gavin Drake] A man who threatened to shoot a priest and hold a congregation hostage was thwarted on Sunday by police who were lying in wait at the Ancient Spanish Monastery in North Miami Beach, Florida ... The monastery dates back to AD 1133 when construction began in Sacramenia, near Segovia in northern Spain ... The monastery dates back to AD 1133 when construction began in Sacramenia, near Segovia in northern Spain....
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