White-painted bride honors Bulgarian Muslim rite
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Fikrie Sabrieva, 17, will  marry with her eyes closed and her face painted white, dotted  with bright sequins. She lives 'at the end of the world',  tending a hardy Muslim culture in largely Christian Bulgaria.
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The religious faithful in Moscow are flocking to a Kremlin cathedral for a homecoming of sorts -- the return of a beloved icon, or holy picture.
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EFES, Turkey  - Turks praised Pope Benedict on Wednesday for moves to bridge the divide between Christians and Muslims as he began the part of his Turkey trip that is devoted to Christian issues.
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Lifestyle: 18 October 2004, Monday. Two Bulgarian designers- Virginia Zdravkova and Katya Genova, made a unique breakthrough on the Russian market, Bulgarian media reported.
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President Georgi Parvanov on Friday conferred Bulgaria's highest order of Stara Planina to the country's Orthodox leader Patriarch Maxim as the latter celebrated his 90th birthday.
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Pope Benedict visited Istanbul's Blue Mosque on Thursday, only the second Roman Catholic Pontiff to take such a step, in what was seen as another dramatic gesture of reconciliation to the Muslim world.
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Pope Benedict XVI is to visit a famous Turkish mosque in what is seen as a goodwill gesture to Muslims.
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President Georgi Purvanov decorated Patriarch Maksim with the Order of the Balkan Range - First Class at an official ceremony.
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Supporting Bulgaria's official Orthodox Church, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and ranking Orthodox leaders from eight nations celebrated Bulgarian Patriarch Maxim's 90th birthday at Alexander Nevski ...
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Left to right, Bulgarian nurses Cristiana Valcheva and Valya Chervenyashka, Palestinian doctor Ashraf Hajouj, and Bulgarian nurses Valentina Siropulo and Nasya Nenova speak to an unidentified man before the ...Comment
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Around twenty thousand Bulgarians demonstrated their solidarity in Sofia with five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor sentenced to death in a Libyan AIDS case.
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Just off a busy main street in central  Istanbul stands a towering statue of Pope Benedict, with a  plaque hailing him as "the benefactor of all people, regardless  of nationality or religion."
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Nuns of Mother Teresa's order marked the seventh anniversary of her death with special prayers for the children who died in Russia's school hostage crisis.
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The leaders want their faith to be enshrined as the national religion, governing marriage, divorce and family inheritance.
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Muslims celebrate the holy month with interfaith , blogs, and fasts even during competition.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Suha Daoud Tawil Arafat, 41, has been the focus of resentment and controversy among Palestinians for most of the time that she has been married to the founder and chief symbol of the Palestinian national movement.
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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II on Thursday led pomp-filled burial ceremonies for Czarina Maria Feodorovna, the Danish-born empress whose remains are to be interred in her adopted land 78 years after her death.