'Oldest church' thrills Norway
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Remains in southern Norway are believed to be those of the country's oldest church.
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The Guinness Book of World Records has ruled that a church steeple in Germany, not the famous leaning tower of Pisa, is the most tilted tower in the world.
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Archeologists working near Stonehenge in England have discovered an ancient religious complex containing a treasure trove of artifacts that may finally illuminate the lives and religious practices of the people ...Comment
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One Sunday in the summer of 2003, the Rev. Ake Green, a Pentecostal pastor, stepped into the pulpit of his small church in the southern Swedish village of Borgholm. There, the 63-year-old clergyman delivered a sermon denouncing homosexuality as "a deep cancerous tumor in the entire society" and condemning Sweden's plan to allow gays to form legally recognized partnerships.
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A 700-year-old church began its slow journey to a new home Thursday, moving at just over one mph atop a huge flatbed truck as it was transported from an eastern German village being turned over to open-pit coal mining.
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A walk through the Tarn River valley in southern France is a reminder of ages gone by. Descend the verdant hills of Midi-PyrÃ©nÃ©es and you&#39;ll pass centuries-old villages, and shepherds dotting the hillsides.
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By Sarah N. Lynch, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Jun. 2--A high-profile Mesa church that grabbed headlines several years ago for the construction of its unusual monolithic domes is seeking to expand its walls once again.
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BEIRUT -- Few places seem to indicate how far this country has come from civil war than the sunny hipness of the Virgin Megastore that fills a blond-stone building in the heart of the new Beirut. Lebanon's largest mosque is being built nearby amid a cluster of lovely churches, a sign that the religious tolerance shattered by years of fighting between Christian and Muslim militias in these same streets is on the rise.
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By Jeff Hansel, Post-Bulletin, Rochester, Minn.  Jun. 4--FOUNTAIN -- To the vandals who ravaged the Root Prairie Lutheran Church, the parishioners have a message for you.   They want you to know that they'll forgive you.  "You can break into a church.
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The temperature hung below zero on the first day of the Norwegian II class at Kultur Hus, just the kind of weather that would have made the students' Scandinavian ancestors feel at home when they settled here a century and a half ago.
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The train ride is not the longest in the world, nor the fastest or the steepest, but the Flaam Railway line that climbs a mountain peak from a deep Norwegian fjord offers one of the most staggeringly beautiful views in the world.
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By Marvin Read, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Mar. 10--To say that the Rev. Gary Fearn's church is not mainstream is an understatement.
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Norway's capital could not have been further removed from the chaos and bloodshed of the Middle East. Yet it was as a result of top-secret meetings here that two veteran warriors decided it was time to talk peace.
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BOMBAY -- For centuries, this city has been the citadel where Zoroastrianism, one of the world's oldest religions, has persevered in the face of overwhelming odds.
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The towering Ulm cathedral brought pilgrims for centuries to this town on the Bavarian border, but today security officials say a nondescript mosque in an old factory is the new magnet, drawing Islamic extremists around the country.
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It is one of the oldest, most profound questions, posed by some of the most learned minds of every faith throughout the course of human history.
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Plans for what would be one of Germanyâs largest mosques are rattling an ancient city to its foundations.