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History of Pilgrimages: All Roads Lead to Rome?
Reading Time: 6 minutesHistory of Pilgrimages: All Roads Lead to Rome? Podcast version A pilgrimage is a temporary journey to a “holy” place for a variety of personal or spiritual reasons, including enlightenment, healing, or transformation. Thereafter, a pilgrim returns to their regular daily life. This is the first of three articles on pilgrimages in general and…
Read MoreJerusalem in a Day, part 3
Reading Time: 4 minutesHISTORY IN JERUSALEM: ISLAMIC TRADITION In Part 1, I discussed some of the Christian sites in the city of Jerusalem. In Part 2, I discussed the Jewish tradition. In this final article, I’ll examine the third most important Muslim site in the world, after Mecca and Medina. Urusalim (Jerusalem) gets its name from the Canaanites,…
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