THAILAND: THOUSANDS GATHER FOR INTERFAITH CEREMONY IN PHUKET TO PRAY FOR TSUNAMI VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS
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THAILAND: THOUSANDS GATHER FOR INTERFAITH CEREMONY IN PHUKET TO PRAY FOR TSUNAMI VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS
- Title: THAILAND: THOUSANDS GATHER FOR INTERFAITH CEREMONY IN PHUKET TO PRAY FOR TSUNAMI VICTIMS AND SURVIVORS
- Date: 5th January 2005
- Summary: (W5) PHUKET, THAILAND (JANUARY 5, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF RELIGIOUS GROUPS PRAYING 0.06 2. SCU: BUDDHA IMAGE WITH BURNING CANDLES 0.10 3. SCU/CU: MUSLIM CLERICS PRAYING (2 SHOTS) 0.16 4. VARIOUS OF MONKS WATCHING (2 SHOTS) 0.25 5. CATHOLIC PRIEST PRAYING; PEOPLE PRAYING (2 SHOTS) 0.34 6. NUN DOING SIGN OF CROSS 0.38 7. VARIOUS OF MONKS PRAYING (2 SHOTS) 0.49 8. THAIS PRAYING 0.53 9. MONKS PRAYING 0.56 10. SCU: FOREIGN MAN PRAYING 0.59 11. MONKS DOING BUDDHIST RITE 1.05 (NIGHT SHOTS) 12. FOCUS IN: MONKS IN FRONT OF BURNING LANTERNS 1.13 13. VARIOUS OF MONKS WITH LANTERNS (2 SHOTS) 1.22 14. VARIOUS OF THAIS WITH LANTERNS (2 SHOTS) 1.30 15. SCU: FLOATING LANTERNS BEING LIT AND RELEASED 1.37 16. WS/TILT: LANTERNS BEING RELEASED IN SKY (2 SHOTS) 1.48 17. (SOUNDBITE) (English) MANOSH PANSHALAD, THE DEPUTY HEAD OF THE ISLAMIC COMMITTEE OF PHUKET, SAYING: "Just having festival with every religion praying for people effected by tsunami." 1.58 18. VARIOUS OF FLOATING LANTERNS (3 SHOTS) 2.12 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 20th January 2005 12:00
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- Location: PHUKET, THAILAND
- Country: Thailand
- Reuters ID: LVA7FTH42N6S45T8Z1DRUH5216UN
- Story Text: Thousands gather for interfaith ceremony in Phuket
to pray for tsunami victims and survivors.
Buddhists, Muslims and Christians joined together on
Wednesday to light 10,000 candle lanterns in a memorial to
the thousands who died in Thailand in the Indian Ocean
tsunami disaster.
More than 1,000 saffron-robed Buddhist monks chanted
prayers for the dead after Christian and Muslim leaders
paid their own respects in a sunset ceremony at a soccer
stadium in the southern Thai resort town of Phuket.
A handful of foreigners were among the 10,000 mourners,
many of whom were schoolchildren.
At the end of the ceremony, mourners lit golden candles
enclosed in glass lantern cases, before releasing more than
20 giant cloth lanterns into the night sky.
Buddhists believe the living can pass on blessings to
the dead through good deeds on earth. Mourners said it was
important that the three major religions had shown unity in
the face of a disaster that struck indiscriminately across
two continents on December 26.
More than 5,200 people died and 8,500 were injured in
Thailand as an undersea earthquake off Indonesia triggered
giant waves that crashed into coastal communities around
the Indian Ocean.
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