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- Western Christians celebrate Easter in Jerusalem
- JERUSALEM AFP — Christian pilgrims from around the world on Sunday flocked to celebrate Easter in Jerusalem's Old City where many believe Jesus was resurrected after his crucifixion 2,000 years ago. Thousands of faithful filled every nook and cranny of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a cavernous labyrinth...
- Research articles 2008-03-23
- Christians celebrate Easter, pope calls for Tibet solution
- PARIS AFP — From the foothills of the Himalayas to a rain-soaked Saint Peter's Square, Christians around the world celebrated Easter Sunday amid messages of renewal, peace and hope. At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI called for "solutions that will safeguard peace and the common good" in Tibet, the...
- Research articles 2008-03-23
- Pope baptises former Muslim during Easter vigil
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday baptised a former Muslim among seven converts to Roman Catholicism during an Easter vigil mass at St Peter's Basilica. Magdi Allam, a 55-year-old Italian journalist of Egyptian origin, is an editorial writer and deputy publisher of the Corriere della Sera...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Pope baptises former Muslim during Easter vigil
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday baptised a former Muslim among seven converts to Roman Catholicism during an Easter vigil mass at St Peter's Basilica. Magdi Allam, a 55-year-old Italian journalist of Egyptian origin, is an editorial writer and deputy publisher of the Corriere della Sera...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Tibetans in remote Catholic enclave see Easter services curtailed
- CIZHONG, China AFP — The Tibetan Catholic Church in Cizhong, a Christian enclave on the threshold of the Himalayas, has seen its Easter services curbed after anti-Chinese riots in Lhasa caused the region's deadliest tensions in two decades. As a result, this tiny community of less than 1,000 souls...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Pope set to celebrate Easter mass
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope Benedict XVI was set to celebrate on Sunday an open-air Easter mass in St Peter's Square, followed by his traditional "urbi et orbi" to the city and the world blessing. The mass and blessing beginning at 0930 GMT were due to be broadcast live...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- A shilling for Queen Elizabeth: the era of state regulation of church attendance in England, 1552-1969
- Throughout Christian history, churchgoing has been widely regarded as one of the most important and tangible expressions of religious observance. Yet, before the Reformation, failure to attend services was subject solely to ecclesiastical sanctions, such as admonition, penance, and excommunication, as applied by the Episcopal courts. Partly as a consequence,...
- Research articles 2008-03-22
- Nonprofit agencies : ranked by total local revenue in fiscal 2006
- NONPROFIT AGENCIES (1) Ranked by total local revenue in fiscal 2006 ...
- Research articles 2007-12-03
- Ritual time in British Plantation Colonies, 1650-1780
- Four thousand miles of ocean divided the plantation colonies of the first British Empire from the English metropole, a great physical distance that was augmented by the cultural divergence that divided those slave societies from England. Colonists in Barbados, Jamaica, and South Carolina thus made the re-creation of English ritual...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- Off-road rules: should you be able to drive anywhere you damn well please? An alliance of local officials and timber, mining, and off-road-vehicle lobbyists—along with their friends in the White House—have dug up a Civil-War-era statute to stake
- For Kiley Miller and John Rzeczycki, owners of 160 acres of wild desert outside Moab, Utah, Easter brings jeeps. Hummers, too, and modified pickups, and stripped-down rock crawlers--by file tens of thousands they descend on Moab for the annual Easter Jeep Safari, one of the nation's largest off-road-vehicle events. The...
- Research articles 2007-07-01
- Polar bear cub Knut prompts Easter crush at Berlin zoo
- BERLIN AFP — About 125,000 people descended on Berlin zoo over the Easter weekend to get a glimpse of Knut, the polar bear cub who has become a global sensation, the zoo said on Monday. About 300,000 extra people have visited since the four-month-old cub, who was rejected by...
- Research articles 2007-04-09
- Holy vision: BBC brings Easter forward to save money
- LONDON AFP — The BBC on Monday defended a decision to record an upcoming Easter religious show last November, saying it saved money by recording the programme at the same time as a Christmas cathedral broadcast. The two episodes of the weekly Sunday religious show "Songs of Praise" were...
- Research articles 2007-03-26
- Church's new way to tell Easter tale
- telling the story The Rev Rob Hilton LINDLEY Methodist Church is using modern museum tactics to tell the story of Easter. The church is hosting The Journey, an interactive experience. Transformed to represent the dramatic stages of the Easter story, the church will be filled with a...
- Research articles 2007-03-12
- Wycombe hold Chelsea to keep Cup dream alive
- WYCOMBE, England AFP — Jermaine Easter extended his remarkable run of scoring to keep Wycombe's dream of a place in the League Cup final alive after a 1-1 draw with Chelsea in the first leg of their semi-final. The League Two side are 71 places below the Premiership champions in...
- Research articles 2007-01-10
- Putin praises church on Orthodox Easter
- MOSCOW AFP — President Vladimir Putin gave the Russian Orthodox Church credit for helping to revive "family values" and maintain social order following the collapse of Soviet communism. "The fruitful actions of the Russian Orthodox Church... in preserving civil peace and harmony in the country and resolving pressing social...
- Research articles 2006-04-23
- Pope leads millions around the world in Easter celebrations
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope Benedict XVI voiced growing concern over Iran's nuclear drive, the Darfur tragedy and other conflicts in his first Easter message, as Christians worldwide celebrated their faith's most joyous day. But comments from several Christian leaders on the celebration of Jesus Christ's resurrection showed concern...
- Research articles 2006-04-16
- Pope urges talks with Iran over nuclear crisis in Easter message
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope Benedict XVI called for peace across the world in his first Easter message, his 79th birthday, voicing hopes for a resolution to the conflict over Iran's nuclear drive. An estimated 80,000 pilgrims packed St Peter's Square and nearby streets as Benedict led his first...
- Research articles 2006-04-16
- Jerusalem enjoys busiest Easter for years
- JERUSALEM AFP — Thousands of Christians from around the world attended church services in Jerusalem on Easter, in the busiest Easter weekend since the start of the Palestinian uprising five years ago. Many pilgrims retraced the final steps of Jesus Christ on the Via Dolorosa through the narrow streets...
- Research articles 2006-04-16
- Pope celebrates Easter vigil mass full of symbolism
- VATICAN CITY AFP — Pope Benedict XVI celebrated Easter vigil mass in St Peter's Basilica, calling the Resurrection of Christ the "most crucial leap into a totally new dimension." In a liturgy filled with the symbolism of Christ's passage from the dead to the living, he told thousands of...
- Research articles 2006-04-15
- Israel allows Palestinian Christians to Easter services
- JERUSALEM AFP — The Israeli army has said that it would give permission to 34,000 Palestinian Christians to travel from the West Bank in order to attend festivities over the upcoming Easter weekend. The main services will be held in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre on Good Friday...
- Research articles 2006-04-09
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