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Washington Post, United States

For the second year, the Empire State Building will shine its world-famous tower lights in green on Tuesday, September 30 and Wednesday, October 1, 2008 for its annual celebration of Eid-al-Fitr, the Festival of Fast-breaking, which marks the end of Ramadan.The lighting for Eid is an annual event in the same tradition of the Empire State Buildings yearly lightings for Christmas and Hanukah. The Empire State Buildings tower lights are world renowned for celebrating different nationalities, holidays, parades, and events of importance to the world.

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Tim Ross, Education Correspondent, Evening Standard. 01.09.08
England's first Hindu state school opens its doors to pupils this month amid fears that it will fuel racial segregation. continue reading

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Cyber worship (using cyber space for worship), continues to appear in different sites and appeal everyone. We have in the past included Rabbi offers prayer for Web porn surfers / God.com: Web Analytics Series no.2 / The Christian Prayer While Logging Onto the Internet. And, much more in my book: Cyber Worship.

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By JOSH L. DICKEY
Associated Press Writer

LOS ANGELES (AP) - When a mysterious biblical philosopher wrote what would become Ecclesiastes 1:9, he may as well have been staring into the liquor cabinet: "What has been done will be done again," his thoughts roughly went. "There is nothing new under the sun."

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"IDOL worship? or IDLE worship? or IDEAL worship?" quotes Inbarajan S, based on emails circulating from a yahoo.group discussion board.
"Doll or Idol or Ideal... Which Worship?" Asks another blogger.
"Would you like your GOD's bulldozed like garbage...
and treated like this...
Maimed? Desecrated? And you create a hue and cry when some statue in the city gets desecrated?
We just got to Think, Decide & Act......... But it would be great if you can do it to avoid real desecration.

Respect Religion, Spirtuality not by celeberating it in a desecrated manner."

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By Kristy Locklin
FOR THE TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Thursday, August 21, 2008

A high school aptitude test told Judy Connor that she'd make a great nun.

Twenty years after that fateful trip to the guidance counselor's office, the once "sporadically practicing Catholic" took her vows of poverty, chastity and obedience in 2004 and became a Sister of Divine Providence in McCandless.

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When a friend or colleague (or a colleague's family member) dies, it's human to consider 'what can I do to make him / her feel better?' And, in the case of others, we need to ask or know: is there a specific practice, custom or behavior that I should be aware of?

And, for this if you are looking for Funeral Etiquettes (To Do and NOT to Do, Dress, What to say, Gifts and other expressions of sympathy, appropriate behaviors to observe) in Islam / Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Baha'i, or in any faith, religious / spiritual group, Ask me

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