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The Houthis continued to shell Dammaj area in Saada Governorate, North Yemen, with all heavy weapons until Friday evening.

Special sources told "Yemen Fox" that the Houthis Friday targeted Dar al-Hadeeth Mosque, during the Friday Prayer with mortars and all kinds of heavy weapons, resulted in an Iraqi student injured.

In this regard, the sources confirmed that a student called Moneer Khair Allah died Friday of his injury during the shelling on the region by the Houthis last Wednesday. His injury demanded taking him to hospital but Houthis refused, despite mediation by the Red Cross. This refusal caused his death, sources stated.

Media sources reported that two people were killed yesterday due to the continual attacks by the Houthis on Dammaj people and the students of Dar al-Hadeeth.

The Russian Embassy declared that 4 of its citizens, caught in Dammaj area North Yemen, were killed and that the embassy is still seeking to evacuate others still caught in the same area. Russia Today TV channel stated that the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Alexandar Locavich said that the Russian Embassy in Sana’a was seeking to evacuate a group of Russian citizens caught in Dammaj area, pointing that the Russians were studying in a religious center and were not able to return home due to the besiege imposed on Dammaj by tribal militias. As the spokesman did not indicate the number of the Russian students caught in Yemen, he stated that 4 were killed in clashes in Dammaj.

The Russian students did not want to tell their Embassy of their situation, but Russian diplomats will make every effort to return the Russian citizens to their home and support them, Locavich added.

He also said that Russia Ministry of Foreign Affairs re-urged Russian people to not travel to Yemen because of the continual critical situation there.

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Scorsese har länge fascinerats av Endo´s berättelse och har i ett förord till en upplaga bland annat skrivet: ”Hur kan man berätta om kristen tro? Berättar man om svårigheterna, kriserna, om att tro? Hur kan man beskriva trons kamp? /…/ Shusaku Endo har förstått konflikten i att tro, den mellan tro och erfarenhet. Den röst som alltid uppmanar de troende – de uppriktigt troende – att forma sin tro till den värld de lever i och sin kultur /…/ Det är en paradox, och det kan vara mycket smärtsamt, på ytan är det som att tro och ifrågasättande står i motsats, men jag tror att de går hand i hand och ger näring åt varandra. Ifrågasättande kan leda till stor ensamhet, men om den samexisterar med tron – en sann och bestående tro. – kan det resultera i en glädjande känsla av gemenskap. Det är denna smärtsamma, paradoxal fråga – vägen från visshet till tvivel, ensamhet till gemenskap – som Endo förstår så väl, och beskriver så tydligt och vackert i Silence”.

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De Botton has begun working on the first Temple for Atheists. Designed by Tom Greenall Architects, this will be a huge black tower nestled among the office buildings in the City of London. Measuring 46 meters in all, the tower represents the age of the earth, with each centimetre equating to 1 million years and with, at the tower’s base, a tiny band of gold a mere millimetre thick standing for mankind’s time on earth. The Temple is dedicated to the idea of perspective, which is something we’re prone to lose in the midst of our busy modern lives.

De Botton suggests that atheists like Richard Dawkins won’t ever convince people that atheism is an attractive way of looking at life until they provide them with the sort of rituals, buildings, communities and works of art and architecture that religions have always used.

Another Anglican, the Rev George Pitcher, a priest at St Bride's, Fleet Street, and a former adviser to the archbishop of Canterbury, "rejoiced" in the idea. "He is referring to a sense of human transcendence, that there is something more than our visceral existence," Pitcher said.

"Building a monument acknowledges that we are more than dust. Whether we come at that through secular means or a religious narrative, it is the same game.

"Atheists don't need temples," said Dawkins.

"There are better things to spend this kind of money on. You could improve secular education and build non-religious schools which teach rational, sceptical critical thinking."

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