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...On top of the usual birth of Jesus story, where wise men follow stars and angels proclaim tidings of great joy to shepherds, there are also subplots, back stories and romances....
...Within the Church, Opus Dei members have been in charge of the Vatican’s press office and its bank....
...Parsing the Lord’s Prayer and picking up from the line “For thine is the kingdom”, she said, “We live in the kingdom of Fife, and we have ‘commandments’ — have white teeth, have lovely hair....
...The show includes an illuminated manuscript from 1487, illustrating Jesus’s dictum that “It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.”...
...The Café Below, in the church’s crypt, is an oasis away from the noise of the streets; it’s library-quiet, in fact, and pleasantly cool on a hot summer’s day....
...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...
...The Farmaceutica remained in the ownership of the church until 1866, when the property was confiscated by the kingdom of Italy, under whose ownership it remained until 1946 when Santa Maria Novella was privatised...
...the very hour of Christ’s coming.”...
...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...
...It’s part of the island of Ireland and the United Kingdom. It’s religious and it’s secular. It’s provincial and it’s international....
...“The day I got to Florence, I bought this Italian leather coat with a zip at the front and then a hat, and I thought, ‘oh my god, I look so cool’,” she says....
...She walks home to find the picture of Christ in her living room impaled with a kitchen knife. “Sorry, Jesus,” she mutters....
...The writer is an Episcopal priest and rector of All Saints’ Church in Brooklyn, New York Episcopalians in the US (and 21 other countries and territories) are watching the latest conflict in the Church of...
...“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. I went 10 years [with] no shoes.”...
...For the Laffertys — an influential Latter-day Saint (LDS) clan, referred to as Utah’s very own Kennedys — Brenda’s Mormonism is deemed a little too lax and modern, her personality too meddling....
...her days in Nigeria and sets in motion a deftly wrought, intergenerational portrait of middle-class black British family life....
...saints, a new generation is honouring the styles, subjects and forms of the late 14th, 15th and 16th centuries....
...Stückl is the director of the Oberammergau passion play, the world’s most famous re-enactment of the last five days of Jesus’ life....
...Charlemagne, crowned Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day in 800, led the religious reforms of his day and made Christian Europe a new intellectual powerhouse....
...He was worshipping at the altar of other crypto gods, too....
...Its founder, excommunicated Presbyterian minister Moon Sun-myung, claimed to have been charged by God with completing Jesus Christ’s unfinished work on earth....
...There are birds in the trees, ducks in the stream and people pottering up and down the street that winds past the church towards an ice-blue sea. Above, however, sorcery is afoot....
...Everything Bach wrote was for the glory of God and dedicated to him at the end of each manuscript: Soli Deo Gloria. There is Lutheran stolidity in this barnlike late Gothic hall-church....
...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....
...The latter is screened here....
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