In the Parsi festival Fravartigan, the last 10 days of each year, each family honours the fravashis of its dead with prayers, fire, and incense.
At around eleven-thirty, afthe the mass prayer, soldiers fired tear gas at a crowd of demonstrators outside, and a cloud of it drifted into the stadium, causing a panicked stampede.
Eyewitnesses say that at about 13:00 local time (10 00 GMT) on Friday, just after midday prayers, soldiers fired on a protest in Taldou in the Houla area to disperse the crowds.
The blaze started about 11 15 a.m. inside St. Edward the Confessor Roman Catholic Church when a power cord attached to electric prayer candles malfunctioned, fire officials said.
Often there's drumming or prayer near the fire, and there's always a booth offering free coffee and sometimes cedar tea, also called "Indian Pepto-Bismol".
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Then there were other incidents: a homemade grenade lobbed at a mosque, shots fired at prayer meeting, a blast at a kebab-restaurant, and later, more deaths — a policewoman and, separately, four shoppers at a kosher grocery store.
Then there were other incidents: a homemade grenade lobbed at a mosque, shots fired at prayer meeting, a blast at a kebab-restaurant, and later, more deaths—a policewoman and, separately, four shoppers at a kosher grocery store.
On Sunday morning, residents, clergy members and activists gathered to hold prayer circles where fires had burned the night before and to clean up the streets.
The killing began when masked paramilitaries burst into a Catholic prayer meeting and opened fire.
