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...Among them, I spotted the 1968 billboard of the popular Italian comedy Meglio Vedova (“Better a Widow”), starring Virna Lisi and Peter Robert McEnery....
...“Hard lessons have not been learnt,” said Peter Mumo, associate professor of religion at the University of Nairobi....
...In the Christian story of Easter, Peter betrays Jesus three times but repents and subsequently suffers martyrdom for his commitment. In the 21st century the Church universally faces similar challenges....
...Andrea di Boniauto’s unique “The Virgin and Child with Ten Saints” evokes precisely Florence’s Church of Santa Maria Novella, and was painted as a visual map of it....
...In October 2002, some 300,000 people gathered in St Peter’s Square to witness Escrivá’s canonisation....
...For hundreds of years, empires and armies have come and gone in Gaza, but holy service at the Church of Saint Porphyrius has continued....
...Sonja Hutson Diocesan Shrine of the Immaculate Conception Parish Church is a businessman who’s claimed the 2020 election was stolen and described January 6th rioters as political prisoners....
...Giovanni de’ Vecchi’s elaborate sketch “Christ in Glory” with six saints, for a Roman church, is more precisely orchestrated and was probably a presentation piece to a patron....
...As told to Tim Auld West End Woofs & Meows is at St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden, London WC2, 10am-12.30pm on 18 November....
...That the church is so overwhelmingly white and wealthy has always clashed with its view of itself as progressive, Peter Morales — who served as the first Latino president of the UUA, between 2009 and 2017...
...Ramy Tarazi, who is in the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius, said they had been unable to secure any of the aid that had managed to reach the enclave....
...A replica Taj Mahal lies a few streets away from a mausoleum built as a Renaissance-style church, its colonnaded facade topped with larger-than-life statues of saints....
...He began his career with stations such as the dramatic winged canopy of Lyon Saint-Exupéry and the super-refined Stadelhofen in Zurich....
...Fragments of this 7th-century glass have been found at St Peter’s Church in Monkwearmouth....
...Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church by Peter Ross, Headline £22, 400 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...Agnese church and Palazzo Pamphilj....
...The interior of the monastic church at Saint Naum has not changed in a thousand years....
...We’ve written before about our affection for Le Dixseptième, the old-world luxe B&B facing the pretty church of Sainte-Marie Madeleine, just off the Grand Place....
...Open Tuesday–Thursday, 6.30am–noon Website; Directions St Botolph was a seventh-century English patron saint of wayfarers, and his name was given to the four churches at the entrance to the City’s ancient...
...“Monasteries and churches were hit by shelling, by drone strikes, by air strikes,” said Bishop Yohannes, who heads Saint Frumentius Theological College in Tigray....
...Cock’s big commercial successes were Pieter Bruegel’s designs, led by “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” (1556), a magnificent grotesquerie, surrounding the hermit saint with imaginary creatures composed...
...Which item of clothing did the Church of Norway remove from clerical uniform in 1980? Who’s the only person to have presented both Blue Peter and Radio 4’s PM programme?...
...This year’s scene in St Peter’s Square comes from the diocese of Rieti, not far from Rome, where St Francis of Assisi is believed to have created the first Nativity scene 800 years ago (see below)....
...“You’re robbing Peter to pay Paul — and not even to pay Paul, but to pay Paul’s son because Paul didn’t save.”...
...Could it compose a biography-in-verse of Alan Turing, while also replacing “Turing” with “Church”? (Turing’s PhD supervisor was Alonzo Church, and the Church-Turing thesis is well known....
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