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...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 1517 “a monk in a backwater town at the edge of Germany took on the most powerful men in Europe — the Holy Roman Emperor and the Pope — and he won.”...
...This loosely-defined group of Catholics, which included Michelangelo, secretly sympathised with the Lutheran beliefs of justification by faith alone and a more direct rapport with God....
...Can Denmark be called Lutheran when its rate of church attendance is so tiny?...
...The same is true, thousands of miles north, of the Word of Life Church in Uppsala, Sweden, where pastor Ulf Ekman built a megachurch quite alien to Swedish Lutheran traditions....
...Matters were hardly more reassuring when I arrived at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre....
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