MONROE, Ohio (AP) -- A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said.
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The Martyrdom of Sultan Ali
The Portuguese were among the foreigners who inflicted the harshest ordeals upon the Maldives. They captured the Maldives in 1558 AD and ruled the country for 15 years and 6 months. Indirectly, Sultan Hassan IX was the cause of the Portuguese conquest of the Maldives. In the year 1551 AD, the Sultan fled to Cochin where he joined the Portuguese and converted to Catholicism. Some historians have stated that he converted to Christianity to enlist Portuguese assistance to recover his kingdom. History records that after his conversion the ex-Sultan had been pressing the Portuguese authorities in Goa to send their fleets to subdue the Maldives, so that he could reclaim his throne.
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