The Turin Shroud, believed by some to be Christ’s burial cloth, never fails to draw crowds as it did when it went on display for two months earlier this year.But this weekend a life-sized copy of the Shroud was due to be exposed to pilgrims of a different kind when it featured alongside the Qur’an at an international gathering of 30,000 Ahmadiyya Muslims in Hampshire.Mahmood Rafiq, a spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Community, which describes itself as leading a peaceful revival of Islam, explained that the Shroud had long been of great interest to Muslims as one of the few artefacts reliably associated with Jesus, whom Muslims revere as a prophet. He said that some Muslims also see the Shroud as proof that Jesus did not die on the Cross, but was taken down alive, because bloodstai
20 August 2015, The Tablet
Shrouded in mystery
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