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ambo, 1
1. In early Christian churches, a pulpit for reading or chanting the Gospels or the Epistles.
2. In contemporary Balkan or Greek churches, a large pulpit or reading desk.
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The cathedral parish priest said in a telephone interview from Ambon April 4 that the site of the attack was a crowded market center where sellers spread their wares on the street and where people mingle.
The Ambon and Poso jihads only partially overlapped with the Ambon and Poso conflicts.
A plane was found to take us to Ambon! A new Lion Air worker said the plane would transit Surabaya, with no de-planning required.
Seram Island on the north of Ambon Island is one of the big islands in Maluku, covering aa18,625 km2.
annulus shell specimens were collected from waters of Larat Island, West Southeast Maluku and Ambon Island waters, Ambon City (Figure 1).
"We hope that Sino is a symbol of our victory over fish poaching," Pudjiastuti said in a statement, referring to one of the ships sunk, after having witnessed two vessels being destroyed in Ambon in eastern Indonesia.
This volume compiles 26 stories by local people writing in the spirit of obasudura,o a concept evoking care for others, about their experiences before, during, and after the conflict between Christian and Muslim communities in the Maluku Islands archipelago in Indonesia from 1999 to 2002, particularly in Ambon. They include journalists, Muslim scholars, politicians, a former mayor, social activists, lecturers, photographers, women activists, artists, and students involved in the conflict.
The bomb squad started examining the Batik Air plane after it landed in South Sulawesi with 125 passengers from the eastern Indonesian city of Ambon, transport ministry spokesman J.A Barata said.
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