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...Using traditional Greek Orthodox images, the interior is festooned with brightly painted iconography....
...Starmer, whose Holborn & St Pancras constituency includes the British Museum, will tell the Greek premier that an incoming Labour government would not change the law concerning the sculptures....
...Most of Gaza’s Christian community of about 1,000 people have been sheltering in the Holy Family church and the nearby St Porphyrius Greek Orthodox church since the start of the war....
...A print from the same etching state at Sotheby’s sold from the estate of the Greek shipping magnate George Embiricos for £400,000 (£508,000 with fees)....
...He is wearing a white linen shirt, unbuttoned to reveal a gold chain and Greek Orthodox cross. “What a terrible introduction to Texas,” he says, sitting down opposite me....
...Eleven spirited portraits in “Banquet of the Officers of the St George Civic Guard” (1627) form a dance of gestures, glances, hands outstretched to welcome us into the painting....
...“The Greek PM turns up in his motorcade and it’s all too exciting — George is back on the stage,” said one senior figure in the British arts, when asked why they thought Osborne was doing it....
...A plantation bell from Demerara, cast in 1772 to order the working day, was donated to St Catharine’s College in 1960....
...You will be able to find out how this Grand Tour/Greek Tragedy unfolds because the Financial Times’ travel editor has commissioned me to write about it when I return....
...The Coach & Horses, a short walk away on Greek Street, is another pub steeped in Soho history that’s also worth a visit....
...The question, as Andrew McCormick, the senior former Northern Ireland Office civil servant, posed at an event organised by the IIEA and the Cambridge Future of the Island of Ireland series at St Catharine...
...April Riding in Andalucia In 2019, George Scott pioneered riding trips through the Sierra Morena mountains of Andalucia and parts of Extremadura, where he was raised....
...First he attended the Noyes Academy in Canaan, New Hampshire, with the hopes of mastering that “Greek syntax”....
...Glasgow’s other great architect, Alexander “Greek” Thomson, is in no better shape....
...It was put to me by a Greek Orthodox monk-priest, formed by years in a monastery on Mount Athos in north Greece. We met through a question-and-answer session, courtesy of the FT....
...Here are some examples: Earlier this month, municipal lawmakers in Moscow and St Petersburg signed a petition calling for Putin’s resignation....
...It has all the ingredients of a Greek tragedy . . . I never thought it would end up like this.”...
...The 160,000-strong Orthodox Christian minority from south-eastern Moldova was celebrating Herdelez — St George’s Day — and the beginning of the pastoral year....
...The Greek journalist, who died of complications of Covid-19, was a firebrand of the anti-vaccination movement....
...With its five shiny gold domes — brought from St Petersburg — it is the first Russian Orthodox church in Cyprus, funded by the owner of a Russian construction company and a sign of the huge Russian influence...
...We in the east tend to be Greek Orthodox like my mother....
...At the Bargello, the republic’s oldest public palace, “St George” stands firmly, legs apart, handsome, with regular features, knitted brow and grave gaze, vibrant with compressed energy — an emblem of secular...
...Yet it was the Ottoman massacre in 1821 of Greeks in Constantinople, and the public hanging of the city’s Greek Orthodox patriarch, that inflamed European opinion....
...Last week I noted that we had entered the Christian period of Lent and was rightly corrected by Fr Andrew Bushell, a monk in the Orthodox Church, from the St Paul’s Foundation in Massachusetts....
...And he said-- I said, you know, I was just in St....
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