Police Come to a Temple – level 2

21-02-2017 07:00

There is a controversial Buddhist temple sect in Thailand. Its leader faces criminal charges. He is 72 years old, and people have not seen him in months.

Thai police attack the temple. The police want to arrest the leader, but we do not know if he was there.

The temple is closed now, and there are around 3,000 police officers there.

Difficult words: controversial (if something is controversial, people have different opinions about it, or they do not like it, or they do not understand it fully), temple (a building for a god, such as a church, a synagogue, or a mosque), sect (a group of people with a very specific religion, often extreme or even dangerous), face criminal charges (when the police want to talk to you because they think that you did something wrong).

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