from The Daily Press, Newport News, VA, p.C2, Dec. 30, 1996: GOD'S WILL: At least 25 relig

from The Daily Press, Newport News, VA, p.C2, Dec. 30, 1996:

GOD'S WILL:  At least 25 religious pilgrims drowned in November
when an overcrowded ship sank in the Acara River in northern
Brazil; the boat was headed to the town of Acara to cerebrate the
Virgin of Nazareth.  And, in August, at least 113 pilgrims, nude
and smeared with ash, died in a snowstorm in the Himalayas
as they were en route to worship a stalagmite believed to be
the phallus of the god Shiva.