Image of Crusaders in Latvian culture
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Crusades of the 13-14th centuries changed the course of history and development of Baltic nations.
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ROME, Aug 27  - Russian Patriarch Alexy II blasted the Roman Catholic and Protestant Churches Friday for proselytising in traditionally Orthodox areas of the former Soviet Union, even as the Vatican handed over a precious icon to his Orthodox Church.
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VATICAN CITY -- The strict line on Catholic dogma by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger has earned the chief Vatican guardian of orthodoxy a host of nicknames: the Enforcer, the Fundamentalist, and Panzerkardinal, a German neologism that compares the Bavarian-born prelate to a battle tank.
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Latvian and Polish interests are in tune and active cooperation between both countries is not only within the European Union (EU) and NATO, but also by participating in various international forums, Polish ...
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Number of students is on the rise among the schools with Latvian as the language of instruction.
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The Museum of Danish Cartoon Art in Copenhagen, part of the Royal Library of Denmark, is in discussions to buy the 12 caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that ignited riots leading to 50 deaths around the world after they were published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, The Art Newspaper reported. âThe caricatures have become a part of Danish history,â Jytte Kjaergaard, a spokeswoman for the Royal Library, said. Claus Seidel, one of the cartoonists and the chairman of a Danish cartoonists association, said, âWe have generally agreed that we want a museum to have the works, but everyone still has to take a final decision for himself.â.
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Bosnia and Herzegovina's tradition of cultural coexistence - particularly impressive when set against centuries of nearly continuous internecine warfare in Western Europe - offers a compelling lesson for the ...
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BREMEN, GERMANY.- A visitor of the Paula-Modersohn-Becker museum looks at a model of Barcelona's Sagrada Familia church by Spanish architect and artist Antonio Gaudi, in the northern town of Bremen.
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Asia Societyâs glinting and glowing show of pre-Islamic art offers windows onto history, past and present.
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A photo of a bonfire taken by a Polish construction worker is creating a stir for the resemblance of the flames to a silhouette of the country's beloved son, the late Pope John Paul II.
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In the days of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Russians used to think of the Baltic states - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - as the "Soviet West", a haven from the austerity of the vast socialist ...
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A Vatican cardinal returned Saturday a precious icon to the Russian Orthodox Church in Moscow as a gift from Pope John Paul II. The Virgin of Kazan icon is an 18th-Century
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As a stranger draws near,  priest Mesganaw Tarkgn whips on an embroidered cape and raises  an ancient cross in a picture-perfect pose. He is used to the  demands of visitors to one of Ethiopia&#39;s holiest sites.
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Erano impegnati nella ricerca del sacerdote rapito
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Works by sculptor Arno Breker, favored by the Nazis for his monumental, classically inspired figures, has gone on display amid controversy over Breker's links to Adolf Hitler and Breker's flourishing career in the Third Reich.
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Latvia's top government officials today laid flowers at the eternal flame in Riga's Brethren Cemetery today to commemorate soldiers, who died in battles for Latvia's freedom.
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Latvia supports the opening of European Union membership talks with Turkey, the Foreign Ministry press office in Riga reported after a meeting of its minister Artis Pabriks with Turkish counterpart Abdullah ...