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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Zoroastrianism</title>
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		<title>Colorado Zoroastrians have a new priest</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2007 13:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the world's most ancient faiths is also one of the world's fastest-dwindling, from millions of adherents a millennia ago to about 250,000 today. That's thanks to rules that say only Persians may belong, and that its priests must come from a certain family line.]]></description>
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		<title>Photos of Zoroastrian funeral ground stir anger</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MUMBAI, India - For centuries, the Zoroastrian dead have been wrapped in white muslin and left at a leafy funeral ground on downtown Mumbai&#8217;s Malabar Hill, where they are devoured by vultures. Only then, according to the tenets of the ancient religion, can the soul be freed. 
But with just a handful of the endangered [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zoroastrians Keep the Faith, and Keep Dwindling</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BURR RIDGE, Ill. - In his day job, Kersey H. Antia is a psychologist who
specializes in panic disorders. In his private life, Mr. Antia dons a
long white robe, slips a veil over his face and goes to work as a
Zoroastrian priest, performing rituals passed down through a patrilineal
chain of priests stretching back to ancient Persia.
After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Parsi tradition dying out for lack of vultures</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is one the most poignant images in India. Muslin-wrapped mourners carry the dead up a leafy hill to a temple, conducting an ancient ceremony in modern Mumbai. They reach the Towers of Silence and the bodies are laid on slabs of marble to be devoured by vultures and bleached by the searing heat of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zarathustra still speaks for millions</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What  does Freddie Mercury have in common with the founder of the Indian nuclear programme or Israel Philharmonic conductor Zubin Mehta? The answer is that all are or were adherents of Zoroastrianism, an ancient religion that probably exerted a deep influence on Judaism, Mithraism and Christianity. Yet far from belonging to the distant archaeological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zoroastrian fire still flickers in Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2004 16:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHAK CHAK: Zoroastrians say the sacred spring at Chak Chak, a shrine perched beneath a towering cliff face in the searing desert of central Iran, has lost none of its miraculous healing powers.
&#8220;A 32-year-old Muslim came here as a last resort when he was dying from leukaemia. I was not sure we should let a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Zoroastrians, A Luminous Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2003 14:06:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[N.Va. Temple to Unite Followers of Faith in Which Fire Plays Sacred Role
Washington Post, May 10, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33351-2003May9.html
By Bill Broadway, Washington Post Staff Writer
Washington&#8217;s small but growing Zoroastrian community will add to the area&#8217;s array of international religious buildings with a Persian-style temple located beyond an alley of cedar trees just off Hunter Mill Road in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religion in the News: Zoroastrians</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2003 21:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.thestate.com/
Associated Press, Apr. 4, 2003
MICHAEL BUETTNER, Associated Press
VIENNA, Va. - One of the world&#8217;s oldest religions is establishing a new, American temple for the faith outside the nation&#8217;s capital, the Zoroastrian Center and Darb-e-Mehr.
&#8220;You will see a magnificent building that reminds you of old Persian architecture,&#8221; said Farhad Shahryary, assistant secretary of the Temple Committee. [...]]]></description>
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