Seeking the Hand Of God in the Waters
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Let's turn to history. The date: Nov. 1, 1755. The time: past 9 a.m. on All Saints' Day, a Catholic holiday. The scene: Lisbon, the devoutly Catholic capital of the devoutly Catholic Portuguese empire, shook -- first a big earthquake, then a big tsunami, then a big fire.
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By Copyright  2007 Albuquerque Journal BY JOHN FLECK Journal Staff Writer  As New Mexicans bump up against their water limits, all eyes are on the San Juan River.
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A priest says he hopes faith will help the families of two boys who drowned in a neighbour's swimming pool.
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By Bill Michelmore  The Niagara River is a lifeline running through the heart and soul of the Indian people.  Fishing, though seriously diminished, has been a source of food for centuries. The river has a powerful spiritual significance, too.
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By CRAIG BROWN  AIR and sea rescuers were searching for a missing teenage canoeist last night after his craft was found washed up on a beach on the Isle of Lewis.
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By Matt Sabo, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  Dec. 10--GLOUCESTER -- The day before Thanksgiving, John Boon ran down to York River Yacht Haven at Gloucester Point to check on his boat amid the latest nor'easter.
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For the past year, Yonas Tadesse has been trying to stave off the effects of HIV with a blend of science and faith &#151; he takes anti-retroviral medicine but also drinks a liter of holy water, blessed by a priest.
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A desire to exercise stewardship over the environment is growing among evangelical Christians.
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LOS ANGELES -- Amana Siddiqi loved swimming as a child but gave it up as a teenager because her Muslim faith required she fully cover her body in public.
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"Jesus Out to Sea" (Simon &amp; Schuster Paperbacks, 291 pages, $24.95) &#151; James Lee Burke: When a tragedy as monstrous as Hurricane Katrina befalls us, journalism can tell us what happened, and occasionally it can even explain why. But it cannot take us to that quiet place where spirit goes to heal.
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The river: it enfolds us in its icy embrace. Superficially, it isn't turbid, only an insistent, coiled, supremely powerful inertia. Stop swimming for an instant, and I can feel it push me downstream at a steady 2mph.
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By Copyright  2007 Albuquerque Journal BY JOHN FLECK Journal Staff Writer  GALLUP -- Gallup is running out of water.   Nearby parts of the eastern Navajo Nation never had much water to begin with.
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Rollie Vonlinger looked sadly across Lake Cumberland at some of the fishing spots he has hit over the past 30 years. It is going to be hard to get to some of those spots from now on, because the boat ramp he normally uses no longer reaches the water.
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K. Subramanyam, a fisherman on India's tsunami-devastated southern coast, says it will take a miracle to restore life to his battered trawler and friend "Vadivel".
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Someone somewhere covets every drop of water in the Missouri River.  Included are North Dakota communities (and a few in Minnesota) in the Red River Valley that would like to count on a share of the big river, if needed.
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By JOE MACALUSO  Where are the fish?  It's a question fishermen ask now that south Louisiana is in winter's grip: The answer's simple - in the water!  Dudley Vandenborre and Wayne Murray aren't curt with their answers.
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A search is under way for a man who is thought to have been swept overboard in the North Sea.