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...Jesus Christ during his life, death or resurrection: wood from the stable where legend says he was born; pieces of the cross or nails used for his crucifixion; the Shroud of Turin, which the faithful believe wrapped his body before it was set in the tomb ... Had John the Baptist worn a watch, for example, it would be a second-class relic. (Had Jesus given it to him, it would be a first.) A third-class relic is anything - anything at all - that has touched a first-class relic." As Manseau is quick to point out, such categorization often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rag and Bone: In Search of the Holy Dead | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

Approximately 200 counter-protestors from Harvard and the local community gathered on Mass. Ave on the day most students were departing for spring break to demonstrate against the Westboro Baptist Church—one week after a similar protest at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman and Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Anti-Gay Hate Group Comes to Harvard | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...people literally in the dark. The largest dam will be at Myitsone, where two rivers meet to become the mighty Irrawaddy. Chinese engineers and ethnic Burmese workers are already on-site. "All we can do is pray that the dam doesn't get built," says Nlam Brang Nu, the Baptist pastor of Tang Hpre village, which will be inundated when Myitsone is completed. "It is in God's hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Scramble For A Piece of Burma | 3/19/2009 | See Source »

...Last month, the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, whose nationwide picketing activities against homosexuality have earned them a “hate group” designation, announced their plans to protest the high school’s gay-straight alliance, Project10East. Since then, the school had worked with the mayor’s office and the police department to determine an appropriate response...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman and Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Cambridge Unifies To Protest Westboro Church | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...Westboro Baptist Church was founded in 1955 by Rev. Fred Phelps with an anti-gay agenda. The group has 213 members, a majority of whom are related to Phelps...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman and Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Cambridge Unifies To Protest Westboro Church | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

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