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Why did people become monks or nuns in medieval times?
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Bethlehem nuns in West Bank barrier battle
By Yolande Knell BBC News, Jerusalem
The barrier Israel has been building in and around the West Bank is set to deprive a Christian community of its land, and appears to have caused an unholy row between some...
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What no outraged Christians here today?
none to answer my question about rapture either? .
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Six Buddhist monks caught performing illegal gambling activities.
18 hrs ago - Odd News 1:24 | 314,989 views
Buddhist monks in South Korea were caught on tape drinking, smoking and participating in illegal gambling.
http://news.yahoo.com/video/oddnews...
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Dirty monks...
A vow of celibacy on their prelate?
Was it to prevent the monks and nuns from getting too frisky of celibacy on their prelate?
Was it to prevent the monks and nuns from getting too frisky with each.
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Brave Burmese Buddhist Monks Head Protest
These monks are taking on a ruthless regime. They are on the world stage. Please pay attention to them -- make it a cause celebre -- because if we don't, they'll probably be secretly slaughtered. Aung San Suu ...
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Don't want to take the focus off the monk's protest, so the circumstances and I see they have been joined by nuns now
I hope they are OK and I also will be praying monks "disappear....
To the protest, which I hope will prove effective btw .
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"I've no idea what they're talking about," Sister Simone Campbell, head of Network, a Catholic social justice lobby, told the BBC.
"Our role is to...
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Sister Marsha Luther, is that you?
I don't really know the relationship between nuns and the rest of the church, but I've....
Actually, I think monks 0 posts.
Of the church, but I've always got the feeling nuns are rather independent.
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Is there such a thing as a women who is a Catholic monk? I just read about a woman who is referred to as such.
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The words 'monk' and 'nun' happen/GraphicDesign.htm Female monks What's next? Male nuns The Greek word translated as monk centuries ago....
This is not true.
monks and nuns, not just as far as gender goes.
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This interview is part of a series of conversations with faith-inspired activists, based on interviews led by Katherine Marshall for the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University and the World Faiths Development Dialogue...
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He is famous because he is the only honest monk who rides his own E-bike ratter than the Cambodian monks who use to hire moped taxis ....
Thanks for sharing that!
In Phnom Penh there lives since I guess 15-or 20 year an American monk.
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....and more time railing against gay marriage, contraception and abortion. Basically, they should stop thinking for themselves.
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But yea, its just ....
The Nuns and the current Church is due to the current leadership (and given the age of the average Nun the Pope thinks a group of Nuns could do to fight Gay Marriage if they decided to spend more time doing so.
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Buddhism not much different to all the other religions -- Monks have booze up. I acknowledge I know little enough about Buddhism but as a religion it did seem to me to be at least an acceptable alternative to the monolithic rule bound judeo christian ...
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After the Reformation there was a problem with the surplus children of Ireland gave parents more... .
This led to monk wars) gave monks and nuns a bad name.
The defeated samurai and other soldiers were often sent off to be monks.
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BREAKING NEWS: Macedonia Police Detain 17 Monks, Nuns, Believers
Tuesday, May 22, 2012 (3:37 pm)
By BosNewsLife News Center in Budapest with reporting by BosNewsLife's Stefan J. Bos
Dark clouds hanging over Ohrid Archbishopric churches...
SKOPJE/BELGRADE...
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What do you expect from renegade bulgarians? you people need a good ass kicking EVERYONE NOT ARRESTED BY GRUEVSKI PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND .
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