From a SOCIAL STUDIES TEST, where Phoenix earned a 91% (or an A-)

Good friends at COP28.#Melodi pic.twitter.com/g0W6R0RJJo

— Giorgia Meloni (@GiorgiaMeloni) December 1, 2023

Narendra Damodardas Modi: India and Italy will keep working together for global prosperity.

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LAURA LLOYD: Daal is one of the staple dishes of India and South Asia.

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Good job,,,

Delighted to call on Prime Minister @RishiSunak on #Diwali Day. Conveyed the best wishes of PM @narendramodi.

India and UK are actively engaged in reframing the relationship for contemporary times.

Thank Mr. and Mrs. Sunak for their warm reception and gracious hospitality. pic.twitter.com/p37OLqC40N

— Dr. S. Jaishankar (@DrSJaishankar) November 12, 2023

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"6. Work traditional Hindu (and Biblical) values into your life, like simplicity, renunciation, spirituality and humility, against which there is no law. A life reflecting the reality of 'a still and quiet soul' (Psalm 131) will never be despised by Hindus."

"7. Know Hinduism, and each individual Hindu. It will take some study to get a broad grasp of Hinduism and patient listening will be required to understand where in the spectrum each Hindu stands. Both philosophi­cal and devotional Hinduism should be studied with the aim of understanding what appeals to the Hindu heart. Those who move seriously into work among Hindus need to become more knowledge­able in Hinduism than Hindus themselves are. Some study of the Sanskrit language will prove invaluable. Remember the Biblical pattern from Acts 17 of introducing truth to the Hindu from his own tradition, and only secondarily from the Bible. Bridge from Hindu scripture to the Bible and Christ."

Narendra Modi: The Christian community has continued to play an important role in giving direction to society.

Wikipedia: A yogi is a practitioner of Yoga, including a sannyasin or practitioner of meditation in Indian religions. The feminine form, sometimes used in English, is yogini.

中华人民共和国外交部: take all measures necessary to safeguard national security.

Sandra Bernhard: the difference between tikkun and karma is that with tikkun you have more control and more options of changing it as opposed to being passive and a victim to it. I don't believe in karma. I believe in tikkun, and I'm making my tikkun every day. You make corrections in your life.

אין כמו ללכת לים עם חברים!

There's nothing like going to the beach with friends!@narendramodi pic.twitter.com/bmVNbQNdgt

— Benjamin Netanyahu - בנימין נתניהו (@netanyahu) July 6, 2017

Mithil Aggarwal: There are currently 18,000 Indians working in Israel, mostly as caregivers, according to the Indian foreign ministry.

Reuters: India's growth will depend on its successful transition to a manufacturing-dominated economy from a services-dominated one.

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"Following a short trip to visit his family back in India, Raj returns to Israel for his work as a caregiver to an elderly man, only to be greeted by a Filipino woman who seems to have taken over his job."

Remnant of Esther: Doubting Thomas Apostle to the Persian Empire from Ethiopia to India

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Iran Supreme Court 🧑🏽‍⚖️: merely preaching Christianity, and promoting the "Evangelical Zionist sect," both of which apparently means propagating Christianity through family gatherings [house-churches] is not a manifestation of gathering and collusion to disrupt the security of the country, whether internally or externally.

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by Sidnie White Crawford, updated by Joshua Aaron Alfaro: Esther raises questions about how to live as a Jew in diaspora. Can one be Jewish without God or religious observance? What does it mean to live as a Jew? Esther differs from other biblical diaspora stories by the marked absence of God or any overt religious elements. Esther becomes the model for the Jew living in diaspora or exile.

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Wikipedia: The Taj Mahal (Persian: تاج محل ; lit. "Crown of the Palace"), is an ivory-white marble mausoleum on the right bank of the river Yamuna in the Indian city of Agra. Abdul Hamid Lahauri, in his book from 1636 Padshahnama, refers to the Taj Mahal as rauza-i munawwara (Perso-Arabic: روضه منواره, rawdah-i munawwarah), meaning the illumined or illustrious tomb.

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Wikipedia: A nazar is an eye-shaped amulet believed to protect against the evil eye. In Persian and Afghan folklore, it is called a cheshm nazar (Persian: چشم نظر) or nazar qurbāni (Persian: نظرقربانی). 🧿

Phoenix's Great~Grandfather is Persian.

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Wikipedia: Iran–Philippines relations (Persian: روابط ایران و فیلیپین : Tagalog: Ugnayang Iran at Pilipinas) refer to foreign relations between Iran and the Philippines.

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Ken Spiro: Darius II succeeds Achashverosh as King of Persia. He is believed to be Esther's son and he allows the Jews to finish the job they had started under Cyrus. This is a very special time in Jewish history when the Jews make a second attempt at getting it right.

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Ask The Rabbi: While we do not know a lot about what happened to Esther one thing that we do know is that she had a son, Darius, who became King Darius II (Old Persian: 𐎭𐎠𐎼𐎹𐎺𐎢𐏁, Persian: داريوش دوم). She brought him up to be favorable to the Jews

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Yosef Farhi: At the age of 9, King Daryavesh allowed the Jews to rebuild the Temple

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From the Rib: Purim teaches us that in certain cases, intermarriage is unavoidable for assimilated Jews and can sometimes even benefit the Jews by creating ties with other cultures; if Esther had not married Achashverosh, she would never have been able to save the Jewish people.

Wikipedia: Cultivation of the tulip began in Iran (Persia), probably in the 10th century.

Mother's Day 💐 Tulips for Mercedes Millano Evangelista Fabro Rivera~Khan from Anthony Hamid Khan 🎁

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Wikipedia: The Mongols had no churches or monasteries, but claimed a set of beliefs that descended from the Apostle Thomas, which relied on wandering monks.

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Wikipedia: Black pepper is native to the Malabar Coast (the southwestern coast) of India

Martyrdom of St. Thomas by Peter Paul Rubens

Cureton 1864, p. 33: India and all its own countries, and those bordering on it, even to the farther sea, received the Apostle's hand of Priesthood from Judas Thomas, who was Guide and Ruler in the Church which he built and ministered there". In what follows "the whole Persia of the Assyrians and Medes, and of the countries round about Babylon… even to the borders of the Indians and even to the country of Gog and Magog" are said to have received the Apostles' Hand of Priesthood

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"Prospective tomb of Darius II in Naqsh-e Rustam, Iran."

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B. K. Gohain: Me Dam Me Phi (pronounced as 'may daam may phi') means that the spirits of the dead are worshipped as gods by their descendents.

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"Gourmet Indian Sweets & Snacks"

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"Through St. Thomas the error of idolatry vanished from India" (Translated by Athanasius Kircher in China Illustrata (1667), Office of St. Thomas for the Second Nocturn, Gaza of the Church of St. Thomas of Malabar, Chaldean Breviary).

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Chris Stefanick: Karma is trendy, but it's also a lot darker and less hopeful than people realize. It's a system that holds you in bondage to your own sins.

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DALE H. MOORE: One tradition, found in the Royal Chronicles and other native works, claims that the Apostle Thomas was responsible for the introduction of Christianity into Ethiopia.

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JOEL VELDKAMP: Church tradition holds that Christianity was first brought to Mesopotamia – what is today called Iraq – by the Apostle Thomas.

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RAMZI GARMOU: It was St. Thomas the Apostle who brought the Gospel to Persia and established our Church.

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"The clerics were said to be from the Church of Pakistan, a union of Protestant churches including the Methodists and the Anglicans."

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WIKIPEDIA: Thomas found himself in the service of the Indo-Parthian (Southern Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Northern India) King, Gondophares. The Apostle's ministry resulted in many conversions throughout the kingdom, including the king and his brother.

KELSEY ZORZI: Afghanistan’s Christians are estimated to number between 10,000 and 12,000.

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"In general, musical sounds, singing, and dancing are important ritual components in the process of exorcizing an unwanted spirit from a body" (Crapanzano 1987).

"May 16, 1805: Henry Martyn, a well-educated Englishman, arrives in India to aid William Carey with translation work (see issue 36: William Carey)."

Narendra Damodardas Modi Jorge Mario Bergoglio

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"Pesaha appam (unleavened bread) and Pesaha milk prepared during Passover by Saint Thomas Christians of Kerala, India."

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Johannes Nugroho: In Tibetan Buddhist tradition, a practitioner's first loyalty is to the guru.

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Wikipedia: According to Kurt E. Koch, Thomas the Apostle possibly traveled into Indonesia via India with Indian traders.

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Wikipedia: In the 6th century BC, the Persian soldiers of the Achaemenid Empire during the rule of Darius the Great baked flatbreads with cheese and dates on top of their battle shields 🍕🍕

Celia Pincus: I've never been a person who has worn a Jewish star necklace or anything like that, so I feel like I don't have an identifier. I don't think I’m concealing my identity, but I am definitely not broadcasting it to the world.

Eylon Levy: we are asking all citizens to avoid displaying any outward signs of their Israeli or Jewish identity