11.   Such gifts have set the memorial apart from most secular monuments, instead inviting comparisons to religious shrines.

12.   Suspended above the ground and hence useless, the crutches are reminiscent of the ones hung in religious shrines by the faithful who have been healed.

13.   They showed Palestinians torching a yeshiva religious school and a religious shrine during the conflict.

14.   While the religious shrine honors fallen soldiers as gods, a cenotaph would give the nation a secular memorial, the newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun reported.

15.   Even the drop of one small rock can stir concern over the hotly contested religious shrine.

16.   Former Gov. Haruki Shiraishi, a defendant in a case the Supreme Court will soon decide over the legality of government donations to religious shrines, has died.

17.   For centuries, members of the Sandia Pueblo have gone to the mountain to pray, visit religious shrines and collect plants and other items for religious ceremonies.

18.   Her trip will include a visit to the religious shrine at Fatima.

19.   In a landmark ruling, the Supreme Court held Wednesday that government donations to religious shrines in Japan violate constitutional provisions that separate church and state.

20.   Indian security forces alert for attacks at the religious shrine retaliated.