Pope returns stolen relics to Ecumenical Orthodox Church
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Pope John Paul II has returned the relics of two saints stolen during the crusades to the Ecumenical Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, during a mass in Rome.
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Pope John Paul II's gift to the Russian Orthodox Church of a precious icon arrives in Moscow.
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Pope John Paul, attempting to mend relations with Orthodox Christians, on Saturday returned the remains of two of their most prominent saints 800 years after Crusaders snatched sacred relics from Constantinople.
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The federal Bureau of Prisons has decided to return religious materials that had been purged from prison chapel libraries.
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(Vatican City-AP) Nov. 27, 2004 - Pope John Paul has handed over centuries-old relics of two Orthodox saints to the spiritual leader of the world&#39;s Orthodox Christians.
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In a gesture of friendship with the Orthodox Church, Pope John Paul II on Saturday handed over the bones of two early Christian saints that were brought to Rome from ancient Constantinople centuries ago.
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Brazil's Catholic churches have long been repositories of some of the world's finest religious art. Thieves are taking advantage of doors that are always open
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Vatican City, Aug. 25--Pope John Paul II on Wednesday kissed a treasured Russian icon and sent it back to Moscow as a sign of his affection for the Russian Orthodox Church and his desire to end
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VATICAN CITY, NOV. 28, 2004 .- John Paul II returned the relics of Sts. Gregory Nazianzen and John Chrysostom to the Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, hoping the gesture would serve to &quot;reinforce our path of reconciliation.
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AN ANTIQUE wine jug stolen from a church more than 40 years ago has been returned after it was put up for sale on eBay.   The ornate flagon was stolen from St John the Baptist Church in Treswell, Nottinghamshire, in 1965.
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An Italian Renaissance painting stolen a year ago in Cyprus, possibly a Titian, has been recovered in Bulgaria in a police raid, media reported.
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Vatican archaeologists have unearthed a sarcophagus believed to contain the remains of the Apostle Paul that had been buried beneath Rome's second largest basilica.
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An Ethiopian national treasure, the ancient Axum Obelisk that was plundered by Italian fascist invaders in 1937, will be returned by Rome in April, Italy's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday.
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Pope John Paul II, seeking to heal rifts with other Christians, on Saturday handed over the relics of two Orthodox saints that were brought to Rome from ancient Constantinople centuries ago.
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A Vatican delegation has returned a centuries-old Russian Orthodox icon to Russia&#39;s Orthodox patriarch in a special ceremony. The Icon of Our Lady of Kazan, which has spent the last
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ARLINGTON, Tex. -- A thief who broke into a Greek Orthodox bishop's car made off with quite a haul, but fencing one of the stolen items could prove difficult.
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VATICAN CITY, Nov. 27 -- Pope John Paul II on Saturday handed over the bones of two saints to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, in hopes that the gesture will revive talks over unifying Roman Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity, two major forces in Christendom.