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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A pilgrim kisses the cross while being blessed during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Priests waiting for the Pope to arrive at mass for 150,000 people gathering at an open air mass at St Anne D'Auray. Bowls of  wafers are prepared for Holy Communion. September 19996, France
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  • Catholic priests awaiting the arrival of the Pope. 200,000 people attend an open air mass at Reims
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  • Nuns talking to member of the Swiss Guards while waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priests carrying a Tabot, a model of The Ark of the Covenant wrapped in a rich cloth and carried on the head of the priest is assisted by a deacon holding a liturgical parasol. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • 'JEWS IN SYRIA', CHIEF RABBI IBRAHIM HAMRA LIBERATING ONE OF 60 DOVES IN A PRE-ELECTION PROCESSION IN SUPPORT OF ASSAD
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  • In the village of Cocula, Mexico, villagers gather to visit the different "offrendas" in everyones homes part of the Day of the Dead celebrations.
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Victor Street Mosque, Manningham
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  • Pilgrim makes the ascent over rock and through mist and rain to the summit of Croagh Patrick. Ireland's patron saint Patrick fasted for 40 days on the summit in 441 AD. County Mayo, Ireland.
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  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
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  • Awaiting the weekly Papal Audience in St Peter's Square, the Vatican. Rome, Italy.
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  • The faitful awaiting the weekly Papal Audience in St Peter's Square, the Vatican. Rome, Italy.
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  • Priests in St Peter's Square, The Vatican. Rome, Italy.
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  • The Pope greeting the faithful from the back of his vehicle at his weekly audience at St Peter's Sqaure, the vatican. Rome, Italy
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  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
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  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
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  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Young monks chanting in prayer whilst leaning on their prayerr sticks during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7492_1.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chant their prayers to the accompanied drumming and beating of their prayers sticks in a cave during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7483_12.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A Hermit by the cave that is home. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7482_33.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A Hermit by the cave that is home. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chanting in prayer during the Timkat (Epiphany) celebrations. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priest blessing monks and priests during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Pilgrims gather for morning prayers at the edge of Met Maryam one of the undergroung rock hewn churches of lalibela. Ethiopia
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Portrait of a nun in prayer. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7437_22.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • The monastery on the extinct volcano of Mount Zikwala near Debre Zeit, Ethiopia
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  • Anglican nun visiting members of the community in East London.
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  • Nuns at the Anglican Convent of the Holy Name, Malvern
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  • Nuns n the garden at the Anglican Convent of the Holy Name, Malvern
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  • Pilgrim makes the ascent over rock and through mist and rain to the summit of Croagh Patrick. Ireland's patron saint Patrick fasted for 40 days on the summit in 441 AD. County Mayo, Ireland.
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Children studying the Koran, Victor Street Mosque, Manningham.
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Children studying the Koran, Victor Street Mosque, Manningham.
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Victor Street Mosque, Manningham
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  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
    7695_6_35.jpg
  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
    7693_4_23.jpg
  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
    7690_4_20.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A Hermit by the cave that is home. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7490_10.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chant their prayers to the accompanied drumming and beating of their prayers sticks in a cave during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7487_2a.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A Hermit  nun by the cave that is home, cut into the walls of the tunnels and passages that lead to Bet Giorgis, the most beautiful of the rock hewn churches. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7482_29.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priests carrying a Tabot, a model of The Ark of the Covenant wrapped in a rich cloth and carried on the head of the priest is assisted by a deacon holding a liturgical parasol. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7481_7.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priests carrying a Tabot, a model of The Ark of the Covenant wrapped in a rich cloth and carried on the head of the priest is assisted by a deacon holding a liturgical parasol. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7479_35a.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia.Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Priest baptises the crowd during the festival of Timkat. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7473_35.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chant their prayers to the accompanied drumming and beating of their prayers sticks in a cave during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7459_12.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A nun sorting seeds outside the cave that is her home. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. During the festival of Timkat (Epiphany), the priest blesses the water before baptising the crowd. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. A priest in prayer holding a cross during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia.As dawn breaks, nuns pray outside the tiny chapel of Bet danaghel which was constructed in honour of fifty Christian maiden nuns murdered in the fourth century by the Roman Julian Apostate. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monk in prayer with roasary beads and cross. Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7442_32.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks chant their prayers to the accompanied drumming and beating of their prayers sticks in a cave during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Crowds wait outside the Cathedral for the announcement of the miraclulous liquifaction of St Genaro's blood. A sample of the Saint's blood was saved after his execution by the emperor Diocietian who persecuted fellow Christians. The miracle of the liquificationis reputed to protect the population from unexpected lava bursts from Vesuvius.
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  • Priest blesses woman with phial of St Genaro's liquified blood. The miracle of St Genaro, Naples Cathedral. Italy. A sample of the Saint's blood was saved after his execution by the emperor Diocietian who persecuted fellow Christians. The miracle of the liquificationis reputed to protect the population from unexpected lava bursts from Vesuvius.
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  • The monastery on the extinct volcano of Mount Zikwala near Debre Zeit, Ethiopia
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  • The Jewish Ghetto in Damascus. Syria 1991
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  • 'JEWS IN SYRIA', CHIEF RABBI IBRAHIM HAMRA LIBERATING ONE OF 60 DOVES IN A PRE-ELECTION PROCESSION IN SUPPORT OF ASSAD
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  • The Jewish Ghetto in Damascus. Syria 1991
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  • Anglican nun visiting members of the community in East London.
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  • Nuns taking tea at the Anglican Convent of the Holy Name, Malvern
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  • Nun stroking a cat at the Anglican Convent of the Holy Name, Malvern
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  • A nun chasing a rabbit in the gardens of St Michael's Convent, Ham.Richmond, Surrey. England
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  • Priest at prayer at the Convent of the Holy Name, Malvern
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
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  • Musicians in the cemetery at Acatlan in Puebla State
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  • Families gather at the graveside in the cemetery at the village Acatlan, Mexico. During the celebrations of the Day of the Dead, food and flowers are brought to the graves of loved ones for a celebration oftheir life. Throughout the night and next day people will eat, drink, play music, laugh cry and remember.
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  • A truck laden with musicians and people dressed in wild costumes singing and drinking toured the villages in Oaxaca State, mexico. In San Juan Teposcolul they sang and danced with the locals. The dance of Macaritas symbolises death and is specific to the celebrations of the Day of the Dead. The belief is that by dancing and drinking with death, fear of death is overcome.
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  • Families gather at the graveside in the cemetery at the village Acatlan, Mexico. During the celebrations of the Day of the Dead, food and flowers are brought to the graves of loved ones for a celebration oftheir life. Throughout the night and next day people will eat, drink, play music, laugh cry and remember.
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  • A truck laden with musicians and people dressed in wild costumes singing and drinking toured the villages in Oaxaca State, mexico. In San Juan Teposcolul they sang and danced with the locals. The dance of Macaritas symbolises death and is specific to the celebrations of the Day of the Dead. The belief is that by dancing and drinking with death, fear of death is overcome.
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  • In the village of Cocula, Mexico, a young girl prays during the Day of the Dead celebrations. Taking the role of the Virgin of Guadalupe in a "live offrenda" in her home.
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  • Baptism. Sophia, Bulgaria. April 1989
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Children studying the Koran, Victor Street Mosque, Manningham.
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Victor Street Mosque, Manningham
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Children studying the Koran, Victor Street Mosque, Manningham.
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Victor Street Mosque, Manningham
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  • Nuns waiting for the Pope to attend his weekly audience at St Peter's Square. TheVatican, Rome, Italy.
    7690_1_2.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
    7483_26.jpg
  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Crowd waits for the miraculous liquification of St Genaro's blood which happens three times a year.  A sample of the Saint's blood was saved after his execution by the emperor Diocietian who persecuted fellow Christians. The miracle of the liquificationis reputed to protect the population from unexpected lava bursts from Vesuvius.
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  • The monastery on the extinct volcano of Mount Zikwala near Debre Zeit, Ethiopia
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  • Anglican nun visiting members of the community in East London.
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  • The "Fountain of Life" evangelical congrgation praying to be "touched by the Holy Spirit. Norflok. England
    7218_21.jpg
  • In the village of Cocula, Mexico, a young girl prays during the Day of the Dead celebrations.
    6989_20.jpg
  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Lumb Lane, Mosque, Manningham
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  • Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims at Lalibela, Ethiopia. Monks in private prayer during the festival of Timkat (Epiphany). Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • Bet Giogis, one of the twelve monolihic churches hewn out of the rock and carved into the landscape stands 15 metres high in a sunken courtyard enclosed by precipitous walls. It was built eight hundred years ago by King Lalibela helped allegedly by angels.Lalibela, Ethiopia.Lalibela in northern Ethiopia is famous for it's monolithic roack hewn churches and is one Ethiopia's holiest cities and a centre of pilgrimage for much of the country.
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  • The monastery on the extinct volcano of Mount Zikwala near Debre Zeit, Ethiopia
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Children studying the Koran, Victor Street Mosque, Manningham.
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Lumb Lane, Mosque, Manningham
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  • Bradford, in Yorkshire, is home to  the largest Muslim polulatiuon in Britain with some 75,000 lured by employment offered in the mills in the 1950's. Asian Muslims make up 18% of the population and there are sixty mosques in the town.<br />
Victor Street Mosque, Manningham
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