Others beg for alms at traffic lights or on the streets.
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Others eke out a living by begging for alms on the streets.
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Meanwhile, Israel is financially secure and no longer needs alms from abroad.
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During the ceremonies, the king gave alms to saffron-robed, barefoot monks.
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Technically, there are three main tenets of Lent: prayer, fasting, and alms-giving.
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"Our alms houses are filled with foreigners," grumbled the Express newspaper in 2000.
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Later, the tradition expanded to include the collection of alms for the poor.
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Others, crippled and rejected by society, hopped around the central market seeking alms.
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But people became fatigued with their expectation of nightly alms and stopped giving.
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Those present gave alms — flowers, food, money — as a gesture of their religious devotion.
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"They (the victims) were traveling to different places to ask for alms," he added.
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Some Mexican priests have reportedly taken narco alms—or donations from the drug traffickers.
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"This is really an active adult facility," said Amanda Alms, general manager of The Summit.
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Some unscrupulous vendors recycle it, meaning that monks can receive spoiled food in their alms.
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But the term is also used for Hindu and Buddhist ascetics who survive on alms.
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Alms-giving of this kind provides one traditional safety net for the destitute in developing countries.
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That is why the West has lavished alms and arms on it, and overlooked its leaders' abuses.
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In September, another group launched a similar campaign in Ipanema to discourage giving alms to homeless people.
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They must rely solely on alms from the faithful and must consume them before noon each day.
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Children are sometimes maimed or burned to elicit greater sympathy and get more alms, said the report.
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Thai Buddhist devotees believe that offering alms secures them good karma in this life and the next.
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If charity is giving alms to the needy, then philanthropy is charity's more high-minded and strategic relation.
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Monks, maintaining their tradition of collecting alms every morning, wade through chest-deep water with their begging bowls.
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Other posts showed the bespectacled commander in civilian clothing giving alms to monks, or viewing potential weapon purchases abroad.
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If Fraser-Jenkins is right, perhaps active managers should worry less about seeking alpha, and more about seeking alms.
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"I think that's total B.S.," said Paige Alms, a big-wave surfer in Maui, in an interview with KQED.
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The shrine complex remains busy throughout the day and late evenings as visitors throng it for prayers and alms.
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A guy who robs a bank because he wants to give alms to the poor, it's a bank robbery.
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Buddhist monks are meant to avoid any food that involves killing, though they may eat meat received as alms.
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Now you can write in MIASMA/PLASMA crossing ALMS/AXIS at the top, because what else could it be?
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The more than 6 billion people already lifted out of extreme poverty did not get there because of alms.
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As a result, the church began looking more carefully into "narco alms," as the New York Times reported in 2011.
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The letter was signed by four big-wave surfers in the area: Valenti, Paige Alms, Keala Kennelly and Andrea Moller.
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What sort of imbecile is going to pay alms, as I keep saying, to some race or something like that?
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From the youngest to the oldest, they do this same routine every day: collect alms, or offerings, from the Buddhist faithful.
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As he sought to curb the extremists, Mr. Bilalli received death threats, including a note left in the mosque's alms box.
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There were departments in charge of alms-giving, the distribution of war spoils, hospitals, and the maintenance and health of rivers.
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All are anticipating the arrival of the monks, who will soon walk out of the nearest temples and monasteries to collect alms.
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In ordinary use it can mean fasts, prayers, pilgrimages, and the buying of indulgences, as well as giving alms to the poor.
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The subject of "Beggar Seated on a Bank" (1630) extends his hand for alms and calls out to the viewer with exasperation.
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Goats and cows chewed on garlands of marigold flowers left behind from funeral rites, and beggars and sages hung around looking for alms.
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Each time, the men demand he pays them zakat — a Muslim tax, or alms-giving, that's second only to prayer in expressing devotion.
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"Alms for your skyward sins," he groaned through the din of the growing crowd, lifting one dirty hand at her without looking up.
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He told The Los Angeles Times in 2002, "If you want to help people, Jesus said you don't do your alms in public."
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Traditionally, those alms are calorie-rich foods, either processed or homemade -- with the Buddhist faithful wanting to offer something of high value and taste.
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"There was an impression (that) we went there to ask for aid or seek alms but we only talked about investments," Khan told reporters.
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The era of U.S. foreign policy of aid handouts and alms giving to Africa generously supported by American taxpayers, without strict accountability, must end.
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As his alms bowl was filled with bags of food and packaged drinks, he transferred its contents to a bucket carried by an assistant.
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In their immediate aftermath, people were scared to go out and beg for alms, he says, afraid that another incident of mob violence might erupt.
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ANLONG VENG, Cambodia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As a Buddhist monk, Khoeum Saray's day is governed by a ritual of prayer, meditation, alms and temple chores.
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Meanwhile, gold-adorned Buddhist temples will host alms-giving ceremonies and release animals, including turtles and birds - a practice Thai Buddhists believe brings good fortune.
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The Dhammakaya temple's foundation helped organize the mass alms-giving for an estimated 20,000 monks on the runway of an abandoned airport in central Mandalay.
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And in the teachings of Islam, it is clearly written: You must give alms to the poor, perform the hajj and slaughter a he-goat.
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More than 40 years ago, I made Lesotho the centerpiece of a book, "The Alms Race," that explored why so many development projects kept failing.
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Traditionally, begging was done, well, like begging: going from place to place with a big bamboo hat on your head and beseeching people for alms.
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The concept of zakat, or alms giving, has boosted donations, as has the high proportion of tithing among the swelling numbers of immigrant evangelical Christian congregations.
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They want the satisfaction of transcendental experience, without being prepared to undergo the discpline that religion demands, in terms of prayer, self-denial or alms-giving.
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They come to beg for alms, wearing grotesque outfits: oversize veils for the women, even little girls; cotton djellabas for the men; prayer beads ostentatiously displayed.
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The man who attempted to use his own possessions to help all the needy would be permanently ruined and in due course himself live on alms.
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Of all five central pillars of Islam—the declaration of faith, the prayer, alms giving, and the pilgrimage of Hajj—the fast is kept for God alone.
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It also escalates the "alms race" between the national parties, which are competing to show their generosity to the poor by offering health care, debt forgiveness and cash.
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Shrines to various saints are scattered all over Pakistan, where they are considered places of meditation and refuge, where the homeless find shelter and alms are handed out.
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"There were 10,000 to 12,000 people, mostly women and trying to push to each other to collect alms ahead of other and that led stamped," he told Reuters.
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In that time, he's released (as Nobody) ALMS, an often disconcertingly beautiful record that carries on—sonically, at least—where the sprawling Circle, Turn, Sun & Moon drifted off.
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One of the officer's sisters had set aside about $20 of her savings, saying she would give it as alms to the poor if she heard good news.
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A five-page pamphlet with pictures of gold bracelets, diamond rings and wheat on the front spelled out instructions on how to give alms, an obligation under Islam.
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Aerial images shared on social media showed a muddy brown deluge covering vast tracts of land and residents, including monks carrying their alms-bowls, wading through chest-deep water.
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In the village of Shura, where seven Islamic State suicide bombers were recently shot dead as they rushed towards Iraqi forces, militants kept meticulous records of who had given alms.
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MUMBAI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Transgender people in India have traditionally been an invisible minority in India, seen only at traffic lights begging for alms or blessing newlyweds and newborn babies.
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He also suggests creating an independent fund for training imams by taxing halal businesses, money collected through the Muslim alms known as zakat and commerce around the pilgrimage to Mecca.
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According to their families and police, all of them were members of a Nath Panthi Davari Gosavi tribe, a nomadic group that roams India's western Maharashtra state, surviving mostly on alms.
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Bangkok's city hall will host a mass alms-offering on Friday for more than 600 Buddhist monks attended by junta chief Prayuth Chan-ocha at a public square in the city.
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Mandalay is home to the monk Wirathu, the self-styled "Buddhist bin Laden" famous for his anti-Islamic sermons, but there was no sign that he attended the mass alms-giving.
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"Medieval hospitals were religious institutions that provided a variety of services to the needy, including assisting pilgrims, providing alms to the poor and helping the sick and dying," the authors wrote.
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Islamic endowments (awqaf) and alms-giving (zakat) have been in existence for centuries and hold billions of dollars in assets around the globe, but they are often criticised for being poorly managed.
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This ritual, whose origins date back to the 14th century—a period during which Theravada Buddhism became the chosen religion of Laotian kings—is called the monks' alms round, or tak bat.
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Yet, after six decades and tens of billions of dollars in aid and loans from the U.S. and other Western countries, Africa remains a "beggar continent" hopelessly addicted to handouts and alms.
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Four prominent female big-wave surfers, Bianca Valenti, Andrea Moller, Keala Kennelly and Paige Alms, spent years fighting for equal pay in the largely male sport where they regularly risk their lives.
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Over the past two years, Bianca Valenti, Keala Kennelly, Andrea Moller and Paige Alms have argued for the right to risk their lives in a competition that men enjoy — and for equal pay.
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A year after their ordeal, the team of 12, wearing yellow T-shirts, accompanied by their coach, gave alms to monks in honor of Sergeant Saman Kunan, who died while he worked underwater.
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Yangon, Myanmar (CNN)The monks, clad in vermillion robes and flip flops, line up from old to young to receive a meal in their alms bowls -- rice, vegetables, cookies -- all donated by local villagers.
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Bands played religious music and food stands offered free drink and snacks, a form of alms giving, although big food and beverage companies have entered the festival in recent years to sell their products.
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"Because King Mongkut was a monk, he ordered that the procession should visit important Buddhist temples so the new monarch can provide alms to monks," said Tongthong Chandransu, an expert on Thai royal rituals.
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Tradition has it that the rice should be left to soak in cold water overnight to get rid of impurities, then steamed before the alms collection—but such preparations are not necessarily respected by vendors.
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Celebrations were expected to include merit-making ceremonies at Buddhist temples across Thailand and a mass alms-giving event for more than 600 Buddhist monks at a public square in the capital, Bangkok, on Friday.
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The super-wealthy now view taxes more or less the way Carnegie viewed higher wages, or alms spread among the needy: as more likely to be frittered away than if they bestowed the money themselves.
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GoPay, which is part of ride-hailing firm Gojek, has partnered with the Indonesian Mosque Council since November to enable digital donations, including "zakat," or compulsory alms giving, in its 800,000 mosques, CEO Aldi Haryopratomo said.
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After the Monday night release of his song N.E.R.D., which contains the lyrics "artists gettin' robbed for their publishing by dirty Jewish execs who think that it's alms from the covenant," listeners slammed Lupe Fiasco for antisemitism.
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In June, officials from Thailand's Public Health Department urged laypeople to offer healthier alms to monks, who pour from temples in their saffron robes each morning to roam the streets collecting their meals in the Buddhist tradition.
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There, the holy men, many of whom have renounced all material possessions including clothing, sat around fires, lectured on the Hindu faith, beckoned passers-by for blessings in exchange for alms and provided their tents to lodgers.
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About 600 people were recently detained at Mount Wutai, a Buddhist pilgrimage site in a northeastern city, for posing as monks to hustle money by fortunetelling, begging for alms and performing street shows, the state news media reported.
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CHITTAGONG, Bangladesh (Reuters) - A stampede on Monday by thousands of poor villagers outside the home of a businessman distributing alms ahead of Ramadan killed at least 10 women and injured about 50 people, police in southeast Bangladesh said.
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"The poor have been paying alms to the rich and the rich don't pay, and it's the tyrants and oppressors who are the ones getting this money," AQAP fighter Ali bin Talib al-Kathiri said in another video.
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"My biggest fear is that I will be left with a temple and a bunch of Chinese donating alms to me," the monk said from the veranda of his living quarters, surveying the vast paddy fields stretching before him.
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Underscoring his focus on the poor, Francis promoted Poland's Konrad Krajewski, who is the head of the Vatican alms office that has overseen numerous efforts to help the homeless in Rome, including setting up showers near St. Peter's Basilica.
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"Also, if you wake up early enough you can catch a glimpse of the orange robed monks walking in silence to collect alms from devotees on their way to pray at one of the 30 temples in the city."
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UNHCR said it will use some of the additional funds it expects from the alms project to help some 30,000 of the most vulnerable Syrian refugee families in Jordan, with around $180 in monthly cash support for each family.
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This chart, taken from economist Gregory Clark's A Farewell to Alms, tracks the height of male skeletons found in Europe across nearly 2000 years, and compares those data points to recent, more complete height data in the US and Sweden.
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It is not only equal to the five traditional pillars of Islam—the testimony of faith, regular prayer, giving alms, fasting during Ramadan and the pilgrimage to Mecca; it is, in fact, the most important after the declaration of faith.
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Muslims are to give contributions to charity equaling the cost of one meal at the end of the month, and many also give their required alms for the year during Ramadan, making it an active time for thinking about the poor.
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By his lights gestures and ceremonies can have value in disciplining oneself, but charity toward one's neighbor, of which giving of alms is only one expression, is free and Christian when it is done without thought for one's own benefit.
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The front of his shop and those next door are marked with the Arabic letter "z" for zakat, meaning alms, and beside it an identification number Islamic State bureaucrats assigned to record donations made at the shop for their self-proclaimed caliphate.
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DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Nations, short of funds to support millions of displaced people in the Middle East, has begun a scheme that would let Muslims make donations from the alms they typically pay state bodies for the benefit of the poor.
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One room holds spare pipes and parts for the organ upstairs, another an antique wooden alms box decorated with wreaths and images of Neptune, as well as an Italianate chair that is possibly — "I'm just guessing," said Dean Daniel — from the 16th century.
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He spends most of his time lying quietly on a modern hospital bed in a granite temple at Siddaganga, but he is still known as "the walking god", after a lifetime spent travelling the surrounding countryside, teaching and soliciting alms on behalf of the poor.
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The Times Magazine talks to a group of female surfers, including Paige Alms, above, who have insisted upon the same right to risk their lives in competition that men enjoy, and for equal pay — and they have been more successful than they ever imagined.
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The magnanimous monarch and chef is Fares Zeideia, known as Freddy, who for 14 years was a fixture on the southwestern corner of Broadway and 30th Street, clad in billowy pants with look-at-me prints, calling his subjects by name and handing out free falafel like alms.
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He's been leading the charge in implementing changes suggested by Jongjit and her team, including finding a way around the exercise restrictions and healthier menu options for the novice monks' midday meal, as the novices get one meal prepared by the temple before noon in addition to the morning alms.
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In The Girl from the Metropol Hotel, she recounts her childhood of extreme deprivation — of wandering the streets like a young Edith Piaf, singing for alms, and living by her wits like Oliver Twist, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer.
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Did they wish they'd crushed those withered grapes between their fingers and spent their days walking through fields of grass or being in love or confessing their delusions to a priest or starving like the hungry souls they were, begging for alms in the city square with some honesty for once?
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The U.N. High Commission for Refugees said it had obtained religious rulings from top Muslim clerics in Egypt, Morocco and Yemen as well as a senior Islamic scholar in Saudi Arabia, that it hoped would persuade wealthy Muslims, especially in oil-rich Gulf countries, to donate their alms directly for relief work.
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