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Locals estimate that the employment of almost 50,000 people has been affected in Jharkhand’s Deoghar area alone, owing to cancellations of the Kanwar Yatra and Shravani Mela amidst COVID-19. Amit Kumar Saha and Rohit Kumar at their pooja supplies store. The family lives behind the store and has been in the business for generations (Picture […]
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Cancellation of religious pilgrimages due to Covid threatens thousands of livelihoods
August 17th, 2021 
Awake Goy 
Posted in Jewish News 
Tags: cancellation, covid, livelihoods, pilgrimages, religious, thousands, threatens 
No Comments »Saint Margaret’s Well: From Healing Pilgrimages to Alice in Wonderland
August 8th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Saint Margaret’s Well is a sacred well outside the Church of Saint Margaret of Antioch in Binsey, a village in Oxfordshire, England. During the Medieval period, the church was a famous pilgrimage site, as its well was believed to possess miraculous healing powers. During the 17 th century, the well was destroyed, but was later […]
