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...Mitri Raheb, a Lutheran pastor who is also the president and founder of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, said the presence of Christians in Gaza was “as old as Christianity”....
...Political events also left their mark on him: he painted at a time when bloody Napoleonic battles were being fought on Saxon soil, and French troops occupied his home city....
...And the words he chose to set — a combination of biblical verses, Lutheran hymns and text by the German poet Picander — are still relevant today: deeply affecting on a human scale, irrespective of faith....
...his grandfather who sailed to Iceland on wooden ships, 13 men at sea for two months, sleeping on the open decks, fishing the herring runs that had abandoned Marstrand a century before and bringing them home...
...You’ll also love them if you’re Christian: around 90 per cent of the islands’ 54,000-strong population are believers, with 85 per cent being members of the Lutheran Church....
...There is Lutheran stolidity in this barnlike late Gothic hall-church. Wood, stone, glass. Pulpit, altar, cross....
...The idea became imprinted in the minds of the public and as Lutherans settled in the US, it travelled with bells on....
...The writer Karl Ove Knausgaard remembers one hanging in his childhood home, and another in his grandparents’ place. Yet outside his home country, Astrup is “Nikolai who?”...
...In Denmark, where a mass operation smuggled 7,300 of the country’s 7,800 Jews to safety in Sweden, it has been estimated that 90 per cent of Lutheran ministers joined the rescue and resistance efforts....
...These endemic curiosities are of great interest to twitchers, but they represent just a handful of the 30 million or so birds that have made South Georgia home....
...He will not disclose how much he spends on his philanthropic projects, but he sees his work as symbiotic with the values that drove his Lutheran family to build successful businesses in the first place....
...Soini was born in 1962 to a father who had been a factory worker before becoming a consultant, and a mother who looked after local children “at our home, other homes”....
...What A former German Lutheran church built in 1869 in the Gothic revival style. There are two open-plan living/dining rooms and two bedrooms with recessed arch windows....
...Fishman writes in One Giant Leap, “on a summer day in 1969, three men climbed into a rocket, flew to the Moon, pulled on their spacesuits, took one small step, planted the American flag, and then came home...
...The statue had been hidden for many years after Lutheran reformers stripped the building of papist manifestations, but was eventually restored to its position beside the altar....
...My great-grandfather emigrated from Greece to the Bronx in New York; fought in the first world war as an American; married a German Lutheran; and set up a limousine hire agency on W 54th Street, next to...
...“It all depends on what the Brits think they can sell back home,” the diplomat adds....
...They were divided by faith into Lutherans, other Protestants, Catholics and Jews. Jewish girls were charged four times the fees of Lutherans....
...The main churches of the Saxon villages are Lutheran and in Brasov’s Black Cathedral, their choirs were to assemble and mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation....
...Hans-Wilhelm Pietz has served as the Lutheran priest of Görlitz since 1994, presiding over a lively community and four splendid churches in the town centre....
...’s childhood home....
...Her parents were both Lutheran pastors, but also politically active....
...But she faces all the usual dilemmas of a busy working home....
...And what really startled me was that when I passed through again early next morning, on my way home, people were still glued to those machines — I suspected some had been there all night....
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