Air pilgrims face holy water ban
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Pilgrims on the Vatican's new chartered airline are told bottles of holy water present a security threat.
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Board cites traffic, water concerns in deciding against Muslim sect's proposal.
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Turkish lawmakers were set to lift a ban on Islamic headscarves at universities Saturday, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets to protest the move as a threat to secularism.
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Poles wanting to raise a glass to the pope during his visit needed to stock up beforehand. Predominantly Catholic Poland banned the sale of beer, wine and liquor in some parts of the country during Pope Benedict XVI&#039;s four-day visit.
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Modest beachwear for Muslim women is taking off with secular swimmers too
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Thailand air-dropped more than 100 million paper &quot;birds of peace&quot; onto the Muslim-majority south on Sunday, despite complaints it would create tons of garbage and not lessen
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Police ordered hundreds of thousands of pilgrims to leave the Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday after a fierce gunbattle between Iraqi security forces and gunmen near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines.
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All Indonesian airlines including  national carrier Garuda will be banned from flying to the  European Union within a week, the European Commission said on  Thursday, updating a &quot;blacklist&quot; of carriers deemed unsafe.
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Officials are considering an unprecedented proposal to ban women from performing the five Muslim prayers in the immediate vicinity of Islam's most sacred shrine in Mecca. Some say women are already being kept away.
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A ban on two-wheelers and hand carts is imposed in Baghdad ahead of an important Shia pilgrimage.
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It would violate the tenets of all the great faiths that call the Holy Land home to wish for the death of the ailing Yasser Arafat.
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A German federal court has ruled that a regional ban on Muslim teachers wearing headscarves in public schools must also apply to Christian nuns, news weekly Der Spiegel reported in an advance copy of its Monday ...
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The United States has denied entry to   four Egyptian Muslim clerics sent to Florida to officiate at   religious events during the approaching fasting month of   Ramadan, Cairo airport officials said on Friday.
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ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia  - Muslim pilgrims poured on to the plain of Arafat east of Mecca on Tuesday as the sun rose over the rocky hills for the day marking the climax of the annual haj pilgrimage.
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Pilgrims should stock up on sunblock and shoes before starting the five-day haj pilgrimage this month, a British Muslim doctor said on Friday.
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ZANZIBAR, Tanzania  - It's the eve of Ramadan, the  holy month for Muslims, but Hamedi says he will not set foot in  a mosque for the whole fasting period, or at any other time for  that matter.
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Some of the nation&#39;s largest airlines yesterday agreed to stricter inspection and monitoring of the drinking water used on their aircraft, two months after a federal study of 158 planes