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...And while Naples, an hour’s fast train ride from Rome, remains the heart of the tradition, Rome has expanded the culture with presepe museums and immersive experiences, bringing it beyond the home and church...
...Guèbrou spent the next 10 years there, living, as she put it, like a “hermit”. “They told me the place was blessed by the blood of Jesus Christ,” she recalled. “So I didn’t want to walk with shoes on....
...By any account of what it means to be a practising Christian — going to church, believing in the resurrection of Jesus Christ, et cetera — the majority of Brits haven’t been “Christian” for some time....
...But the high point of Francis’s trip was meeting Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani....
...The popular Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park, London, for instance, will run a concert version of its recent hit musical Jesus Christ Superstar for six weeks from August 14, to audiences of maximum 390...
...(Incidentally, for my money, Cronenberg’s scuffed aesthetic has dated at least a little better than the gleaming postmodernism of Neo and Trinity et al.)...
...At Qasr al-Yehud, a Christian site on the West Bank of the Jordan River controlled by Israel, where tradition holds that Jesus was baptised, the busloads of pilgrims who gathered on a recent morning had...
...While most people head to Manger Square where the 4th-century Church of the Nativity houses the supposed spot where Mary gave birth to Jesus, it is worth meandering....
...Ten years on from the New Atheism campaign of ultra-reductionists Richard Dawkins et al, Rees, while stating he is an atheist, declares that he shares a sense of “mystery” with those who believe in God....
...Poston’s lovely “Jesus Christ the Apple Tree”....
...“I think he’s going to win by a landslide: it will be a ‘come to Jesus’ moment in the polls,” she says of Donald Trump, the Republican candidate....
...The two were introduced when Dufferin was still an undergraduate, “starting to buy the odd bit of modern art for his giant sitting-room in Christ Church College, Oxford”....
...Mr Blatter now faces only one opponent — Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, the Jordanian former Fifa executive committee member....
...In the current campaign he has been compared to Jesus Christ by his enthusiastic supporters....
...V: Oh Lord, grant us success in this, our mission. Or, at the least, a favourable write-up in the Daily Telegraph. In the name of Al Gore, the Oiled Pelican and the Proxy Voting Form, Amen. C: Amen....
...A precocious child, Sellars apprenticed at the Lovelace Marionette Theater in Pittsburgh at the age of 10, and after high school spent a year studying experimental theatre in Paris....
...… The auction of gold watches, gaudy clocks and a Ferrari offered a flashy display of assets of the deposed Tunisian dictator Zine al-Abedine Ben Ali, but scarcely reflected the scale of his corruption...
...from the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which made it by far the most moving of all the places I visited in Jerusalem....
...until proven guilty, penalties for rape, the outlawing of pimps et al)....
...Two massacres, at the church of Our Lady of Salvation in Baghdad last October and at a Coptic church in Alexandria on New Year’s day, have reinforced this sense of a modern persecution aimed at emptying...
...Now, with the help of those who could be called, in a benign sense, the usual suspects – Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama, Rabbi Julia Neuberger et al – Armstrong has launched her Charter for Compassion...
...These will include seminal pop culture artefacts such as a smashed guitar by The Who’s Pete Townshend, and the original score of Jesus Christ Superstar....
...While Naumann et al were celebrating video’s never-been-done-before quality, Viola intuited an unlikely ancestry in the installation-like character of church art....
...Obery Hendricks is both an academic theologian and an elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and The Politics of Jesus presents scripture as a radical manifesto for change and Jesus as “a political...
...At Baghdad’s Buratha mosque, for example, thousands gather each Friday to hear the sermons of Jalal al-Din al-Saghir, who recently accused the Al-Jazeera television network of “shooting arrows of hate at...
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