BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Ketut Nita Wahyuni lifts her folded hands prayerfully to her forehead as a priest leads the temple gathering. The 11-year-old is preparing to perform the Rejang Dewa, a sacred ...
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In last week’s column I wrote that we were going to Bali and concluded that we would be in a Muslim country but it turns out that the island of Bali is an exception. The minority Balinese Hindus ...
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