(Majdali, 2014) Among hundreds of sacred cities in the world, Jerusalem holds a holy uniqueness in relation to the three Abrahamic faiths traditions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. ... (British Broadcasting Corporation, 2014) The city has several important holy sites of which the "Western Wall" is undoubtedly the holiest. ... Individual pilgrims pray at a specific spot in the wall tunnel where they believe they come closest to the Holy of Holies, where it is believed the Ark of Covenant containing the Ten Commandments was kept during the First Temple. ... Jewish Law dictates that w...

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(Hallowell 2010: 85) in which tribal members gather to offer communal prayer and sacrifice to the 'Great Spirit'. ... Some of the pledgers are given visions that imparts special knowledge to them during the ceremony, the power of these visions is said to come from the Great Spirit to be shared with the tribes. According to Wambli Sina Win, granddaughter of John Fire, Chief Lame Deer Tahca Uste, a well known Lakota Holy Man from the Rosebud Sioux Indian Reservation in South Dakota, "Sundancing involves, suffering, pain and sacrifice and was never meant to be comfortable or easy. ......

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The tale states that there were three deities in the beginning: The Master of Heaven, the Producing Spirit, and the Producing Ancestor. ... Despite sharing the exact same God, and even using the same Holy Text (The Old Testament), Judaism and Christianity are divided by the fact that one group does not accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God. ... Shinto sees the world around them as split in two, between the visible world and the spirit world. ...

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