Thursday, June 24, 2004

Anxious Country Prays to Placate 'Sweating' Deity

Anxious Country Prays to Placate 'Sweating' Deity

"KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Priests offered special prayers as hundreds of devotees thronged a shrine in a remote Nepali village on Wednesday to appease a Hindu deity after its stone idol began 'sweating,' witnesses said."