The Lakota Nation holds that James Arthur Ray and the Angel Valley Retreat Center have “ violated the peace between the United States and the Lakota Nation ” and have caused the “ desecration of our Sacred Oinikiga ( purification ceremony ) by causing the death of Liz Neuman, Kirby Brown and James Shore ”.

Avraham son of Rambam, continued fighting for his father's beliefs in the East ; desecration of Maimonides ' tomb, at Tiberias by Jews, was a profound shock to Jews throughout the Diaspora and caused all to pause and reflect upon what was being done to the fabric of Jewish Culture.

The Lakota Nation holds that James Arthur Ray and the Angel Valley Retreat Center have “ violated the peace between the United States and the Lakota Nation ” and have caused the “ desecration of our Sacred Oinikiga ( purification ceremony ) by causing the death of Liz Neuman, Kirby Brown and James Shore ”.

In mid-2005, allegations of deliberate desecration of the Quran in front of Muslim prisoners at the United States military Guantanamo Bay detention camp, Cuba fueled a widespread controversy and were blamed for deadly Muslim riots.

It is claimed that the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople has been the target of attacks on occasion from 1993 to 2004, including desecration of patriarchal cemeteries and personal assaults against the Ecumenical Patriarch.

Critic Billy Stevenson described the film as Moore's " most astonishing ", arguing that it represents an effort to conflate film-making and labor, and that " it's this fusion of film-making and work that allows Moore to fully convey the desecration of Flint without ever transforming it into a sublime or melancholy poverty-spectacle, thereby distancing himself from the retouristing of the town-as-simulacrum that occupies the last and most intriguing part of the film.

*" March from NY to DC " to protest the desecration of ancient jewish cemeteries in israel

One of the most important moral concepts to the Greeks was a fear of committing hubris, which constituted many things, from rape to desecration of a corpse.

In 1761 in Nancy, several Jews from Alsace were executed on a charge of host desecration.

In Western literature he has been referred to as the " Mad Caliph ", primarily as a result of the Fatimid desecration of Jerusalem in 1009, though this title is disputed as stemming from partisan writings by some historians ( such as Willi Frischauer and Heinz Halm ).

The corpse of the duke of Qufu in the 76th was removed from its grave and hung naked from a tree in front of the palace during the desecration of the cemetery in the cultural revolution.

Some, including Canadian veterans of the Royal Canadian Legion, thought the site of the tomb deserved a military or police guard of honour as a symbol of respect and to protect it from vandalism and desecration.

Josiah had living pagan priests executed and even had the bones of the dead priests of Bethel exhumed from their graves and burned on their altars, which was viewed as an extreme act of desecration.

We should take a lesson from this kind of desecration: in attempting to show us that our human ideals are worthless, it shows itself to be worthless.

The thick smoke, from the smouldering ruins still filled the air … The wrecks of the fanes of religion stood out, then broken walls pointing heavenward, as if in mournful protest against the desecration that had been wrought.

The second disturbing discovery is that someone has vandalized the church by ripping the enormous crucifix from its place on the altar and suspending it with Christ on the cross in an upside position, which is considered a desecration.

The Cristeros nicknamed him Tarcisius, after the early Christian saint, martyred for protecting the Eucharist from desecration.

A chevra kadisha ( Khevra kadishah ) ( Aramaic: חברא קדישא, Ḥebh ' ra Qaddisha " holy society ") is an organization of Jewish men and women who see to it that the bodies of Jews are prepared for burial according to Jewish tradition and are protected from desecration, willful or not, until burial.

The society may also provide shomrim, or watchers, to guard the body from theft, rodents, or desecration until burial.

From the fifteenth century it contained as a relic a monstrance conataining a communion wafer which had supposedly been miraculously saved from desecration by the Jews, though contemporary accounts of the pogrom make no reference to such events.

He has also championed the law criminalizing the desecration of human remains, helping families preserve the dignity and respect of their deceased loved ones and has worked to keep criminals from profiting off of the sales of ' murderabilia.

It suffered both from vandalism and natural elements for many years and was seriously damaged, including the desecration of a beautiful tiled stove, before the first serious renovation started in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In 1900, after militant Canamanons heard that the Americans are closing in, burned to the ground their own “ beautiful and richly decorated church, in an act of self-immolation and in effort to save the town ’ s most concrete embodiment of its Catholic faith from desecration at the hands of the new imperialists.

Hill notes that this might be a reference to the hiding of the Hanukkah lamp to protect it from desecration.

( a ) We recommend that the Land Transfers Regulations of 1940 be rescinded and replaced by regulations based on a policy of freedom in the sale, lease or use of land, irrespective of race, community or creed, and providing adequate protection for the interests of small owners and tenant cultivators ; ( b ) We further recommend that steps be taken to render nugatory and to prohibit provisions in conveyances, leases and agreements relating to land which stipulate that only members of one races community or creed may be employed on or about or in connection therewith ; ( c ) We recommend that the Government should exercise such close supervision over the Holy Places and localities such as the Sea of Galilee and its vicinity as will protect them from desecration and from uses which offend the conscience of religious people, and that such laws as are required for this purpose be enacted forthwith.

During Emperor Ai's reign, she exerted heavy influence on his reign and forcibly extracted empress dowager titles that she should not have properly possessed ( since she was never an empress -- and Emperor Cheng's wife, Grand Empress Dowager Wang Zhengjun was still alive ) -- which would bring her hatred from the Wang clan and the eventually desecration of her tomb after her death.

Historically, these claims — alongside those of well poisoning and host desecration — have been a major theme in European persecution of Jews.

Together with the extension of Israeli jurisdiction and administration over east Jerusalem, the Knesset passed the Preservation of the Holy Places Law, ensuring protection of the Holy Places against desecration, as well as freedom of access thereto.

Zhao Yun then pushed the well over to cover up Lady Mi's corpse for fear of desecration by the enemy, before securing Liu Shan to his chest.

Although Jones believed that man was depraved by nature and that salvation was through Christ and by grace alone, yet his early revival sermons stressed opposition to social sins such as drinking, dancing, and Sabbath desecration and the possibility that they might be ameliorated by legislation as well as by individual repentance.

Additionally, well poisoning was one of the three gravest Antisemitic accusations made against Jews during this period ( the other two being host desecration and blood libel ).

Indeed, the Russian peasantry was wont to credit all the evils of the revolution in 1905, as well as Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese War, to the desecration of the image.

This sort of act is widely regarded as blasphemy and desecration of God's word, and Shia scholars condemn Muawiyah for it, arguing such a practice would today be condemned by Sunni Muslims just as much as Shia Muslims.

Many of the diabolical elements of the Witches ' Sabbath stereotype, such as the eating of babies, poisoning of wells, desecration of hosts or kissing of the devil's anus, were also made about heretical Christian sects, lepers, Muslims, and Jews ( see blood libel ).

In the early 2000s, rising levels of antisemitism among French Muslims and antisemitic acts were publicized around the world, including the desecration of Jewish graves and tensions between the children of North African Muslim immigrants and North African Jewish children.

The case of Texas v. Johnson was appealed to the United States Supreme Court, which ruled on June 21, 1989 in Johnson's favor and invalidated flag desecration statutes throughout the country.

He fled the country, and was later found guilty of religious discrimination and desecration of a national sacred treasure and sentenced to two years in prison.

they expired amid indescribable fantods, imploring the Blessed One to forgive their desecration.

People who eat human flesh are usually charged with crimes not relating to cannibalism, such as murder or desecration of a body.

It coincides with the “ abomination of desolation ” – a desecration of the temple where the Antichrist puts an end to the Jewish sacrifices, sets up his own image in the temple, and demands that he be worshiped as God.

He inflicted heavy punishment for the desecration of Jewish cemeteries.

In the Preterist approach, Revelation chiefly refers to the events of the first century, such as the struggle of Christianity to survive the persecutions of the Roman Empire, the fall of Jerusalem in 70 AD, and the desecration of the temple in the same year.

This act may be seen as a desecration of a divinely woven tapestry, as a general flouting of the strictures imposed by the gods, or simply as an act of extreme pride and lack of humility before the gods, tempting them to retribution.

The holiday was called Hanukkah ( meaning " dedication ") because it marks the re-dedication of the Temple after its desecration by Antiochus IV Epiphanes.

* 1833 – The desecration of the grave of the viceroy of southern Vietnam Le Van Duyet by Emperor Minh Mang provokes his adopted son to start a revolt.

According to the Talmud, after the Seleucid desecration of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, there was only enough sealed ( and therefore not desecrated ) consecrated olive oil left to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day.

) Uccello's predella comprises six meticulous, naturalistic scenes related to the antisemitic myth of host desecration, based on a supposed event in Paris in 1290.

It can show a desecration or debasement of someone or something, or show strong or intense emotion.

The Portuguese and Spanish soon gave up regularly calling at the island, partly because they used ports along the West African coast, but also because of attacks on their shipping, desecration to their chapel and images, destruction of their livestock and destruction of plantations by Dutch and English sailors.

Various other legal principles closely delineate which activities constitute desecration of the Shabbat.

The divisive issue of flag desecration as a form of protest first came before the Supreme Court in Street v. New York,.

Many attempts have been made to amend the Constitution to allow Congress to prohibit the desecration of the flag.

A defensive wall, commissioned by Pope Leo IV, is built around what came to be called the Leonine City as a defensive response to the Saracen desecration of Rome in 846.

Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for the state Department of Consumer Affairs, said, " We have not seen any evidence of the kind of massive desecration that being alleged ... The kind of activity they're alleging not easily hidden, especially on a willful, large-scale basis.

The accusations of a host desecration at Krems in 1420 gave Albert pretext for the destruction of the Jewish community.

Edward's remains were hidden so as to avoid desecration.

Martinelli's book evidently had an effect on public opinion ; in response to Cardinal Altieri's proposal some years later to turn the Colosseum into a bullring, Carlo Tomassi published a pamphlet in protest against what he regarded as an act of desecration.

Lord Leverhulme was so upset with his portrait that he cut out the head ( since only that part of the image could easily be hidden in his vault ) but when the remainder of the picture was returned by error to John there was an international outcry over the desecration.

Sinon tells the Trojans that the Horse is an offering to the goddess Athena, meant to atone for the previous desecration of her temple at Troy by the Greeks, and ensure a safe journey home for the Greek fleet.