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...Underlining the importance of family and military service to young German readers, it featured pictures of neatly decorated gingerbread next to a helmet and gun and a bright, floral wreath with a swastika...
...For hundreds of years, empires and armies have come and gone in Gaza, but holy service at the Church of Saint Porphyrius has continued....
...In years past, attendance at Sunday service was mandatory, and it was only in 1951 that Swedish Lutherans were legally allowed to leave the church without offering a good reason....
...Volunteers began showing up, offering food and water, said Connie Phillips, chief executive of the Lutheran Social Services. A “scramble” for beds would follow....
...“As long as you can maintain the roof and the services, why not have a bigger house? You can’t have too many rooms.”...
...Take this piece of truly lunatic logic: Johann Andreas Schmidt, a Lutheran theologian, wrote in 1679 that the Moon would be too inclement for vineyards, which meant there could be no Communion....
...It goes without saying that President Trump is not this man, yet for all his many failings he may possibly do us the service of knocking the small-government dogma out of his party....
...They were divided by faith into Lutherans, other Protestants, Catholics and Jews. Jewish girls were charged four times the fees of Lutherans....
...Soon enough it became clear that Ms Merkel’s intentions had been lost in translation: the zelebrieren she had in mind was a solemn commemoration, more akin to a Lutheran church service than independence...
...Krasnoyarsk He’s back Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former governor of California, and Emmanuel Macron, the French president, after the One Planet Summit in Paris Dresden Dawn Silhouettes, from left, of the Lutheran...
...The main interest was in hearing how composers developed from the spartan word-setting of the Lutheran period through Romanticism to the inventiveness of the present-day....
...This handsomely presented, two-disc set surveys the wealth of church music that the Reformation inspired in Germany, not least music written specially for the Lutheran service....
...Under the auspices of a stern Lutheran priest in Frankfurt, hard-favoured Banco Popular has been wedded to Santander in nuptials for which investors in the former are paying dearly....
...Complaints swirl about salaries and pensions that are lower than in the west, and public services and future prospects that are poorer....
...While he was in the army, the communist security services tried — unsuccessfully — to recruit him as an informer. At college, his intellect quickly stood out....
...This was something even highlighted by Pope Francis in a remarkable recent act of reconciliation when he joined leaders of the Lutheran church in Sweden for a joint prayer service in which he praised Luther...
...Both men are religious, but Marriott is a high-ranking member of the Mormon church while Sorenson is the son of a Lutheran missionary....
...As a European policy maker quips: “In conduct matters, there is a Lutheran mindset that dictates there must be punishment.”...
...The daughter of two Lutheran ministers — and an inspiration for the hit Danish television thriller Borgen — was preceded in Brussels by a reputation for steely determination beneath homespun charm....
...A native of Amherst, Massachusetts, she benefited from early links with Germany: her mother imported old Mercedes-Benz car parts and her father, a Lutheran minister and Smith College theology professor,...
...Venice cleaved to its republican liberty even as it paid lip-service to Rome, thereby clearing a space for the sensuality of Titian, Tintoretto and Veronese....
...Beyond the fun element, the intention was to recapture something of the congregational nature of a Lutheran church service....
...Sweden has private hospitals and schools while Denmark has privatised ambulance and fire services. How does Scotland’s Nordic desire play out in Scandinavia?...
...“It’s difficult to be a married couple in the foreign service,” Burce Warlick admits....
...From their home within sight of the Zionskirche, a Lutheran church that became a centre of dissent in the last years of communist East Germany, Ms von Storch and her husband run a campaign group, a think-tank...
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