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...Last year, one of the most poignant displays was a holy family set in modern-day Ukraine, among the ruins of a bombed-out village....
...He would soon make Opus Dei a “personal prelature”, the only one of its kind in the Church. Like a diocese, the organisation was composed of lay people and clergy and would be led by a bishop....
...Ensign Peak Advisers, the investment firm owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), failed to file quarterly investment disclosures known as 13F forms and set up more than a dozen shell...
...Ensign Peak Advisers, the investment firm owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, failed to file quarterly investment disclosures known as 13Fs and set up more than a dozen shell companies...
...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....
...The second is an internal, existential one as the Mormon detective begins to quietly pick at his beliefs when confronted with the reality that there are Latter-day Saints who use their religion as justification...
...“Northern Crusades” for example) or in the requirement of villagers to attend church following the conversion of their local ruler....
...The company is partnering with another Utah-based genealogy service, FamilySearch, run by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to conduct human checks and improve accuracy....
...He has also said that the Church should rethink its depiction of Jesus as white. So what colour skin did Jesus have? “Middle Eastern. I’m terribly literal,” he laughs....
...The citizens of Gubbio built the church of San Francesco by way of thanks. From the lower town I climbed into the city’s medieval heart....
...This rite is an unbroken chain since the Last Supper: from Jesus to the apostles to bishops to priests, down to this day....
...One particular problem for Catholics and Anglicans alike is whether or not holy communion — sharing bread and wine to commemorate Christ’s sacrifice and a key part of Easter day services — can be celebrated...
...Its fourth-century rock churches, carved into mountains at impossible altitudes when Christians faced persecution, casually bear murals of a black baby Jesus, black prophets, saints and angels, at a time...
...saint, ghostly Christ....
...But when Filaret invited his former charges to pray alongside him on an important saint’s day, only four bishops showed up. No other Orthodox churches have recognised Epifany’s authority....
...’s title as Head of the Church....
...By the late 1450s he was presiding over a thriving workshop in his home town. Sadly, few works survive from the early and middle part of his career....
...“You read the New Testament and you think there are fundamental truths in it. But you wouldn’t blame Jesus Christ for the Spanish Inquisition. I think it’s the same analogy....
...At the age of 17, she entered an austere Catholic order, the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, where she remained for the next seven years....
...Jude Webber in Mexico City Christmas here is just one part of Guadalupe-Reyes — a holiday season that starts with the saint’s day of the Virgin of Guadalupe, Mexico’s patron saint, on December 12 and continues...
...The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has a huge online resource at familysearch.org....
...He was employed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Salt Lake City for projects including the 19th-century pioneer settlement of Nauvoo near Chicago, where the Mormons based their community...
...Hanging on the cross, a mauve gown covering ample hips and small breasts, she is undeniably female from the waist down, but her three-day stubble and long jaw make her resemble the crucified Jesus on a different...
..., Saint Faustina, with the caption ’Jesus I trust in you’....
...Church leaders have plenty to worry about. Increasingly, across much of western Europe, and even in the US, the birthday of Jesus has become a time to ponder the death of God....
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