WORCESTER – The scent of incense contrasts sharply with the splashing in the water and the shrill oaths uttered in an ancient tongue. “Kusta!” the Mandaean priest – one of several dozen in the world – ...
NASIRIYA, Iraq — The bride and groom emerge from the temple to climb down the slopes of a riverbank fetid with garbage, and pause at the water’s edge to pray before wading in. “Please cleanse my soul ...
We never fight for a place or our religion.” Small numbers of Mandaean have been coming to the U.S. for decades, especially during the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s, after the Gulf War in the early 1990s ...
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