Standing Rock

Activists — who prefer the term "protectors" — camp near an access road to Mauna Kea in Hawaii to protest a planned telescope atop the mountain. (RNS/Jack Jenkins)

In Hawaii, Mauna Kea 'protectors' fight telescope project with prayer

With objections both environmental and religious, thousands have flocked to the camp at Mauna Kea to block construction of the mountaintop Thirty Meter Telescope.

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