Vatican returns artifact to Russian church
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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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The Russian Orthodox church said Wednesday that Japanese researchers had confirmed its doubts about the authenticity of the remains of Russia's last czar, Nicholas II.
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The Vatican has come calling for one of the paintings at the Columbia Museum of Art.
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After an appeal by the former Congressman's spurned first wife, the Vatican reverses a controversial annulment
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MOSCOW - A massive Russian church bell that hung for decades at Harvard was returned to a Moscow monastery yesterday, nearly 80 years after it and 17 others were rescued from Stalin's religious purges by a US industrialist.
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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 yesterday returned two relics taken during the Crusades, who plundered Istanbul (then Constantinople) in 1204, to Fener Greek Patriarch Bartholomeos as a gesture of friendship with the Orthodox Church.
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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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Emperor Nicholas and his family were executed in 1918. But with newly discovered remains, they're making headlines again in Russia
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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 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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Pope John Paul II's gift to the Russian Orthodox Church of a precious icon arrives in Moscow.
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A long-desired trip by Pope John Paul II to Russia could only occur if the Vatican renounces efforts to expand Rome-affiliated churches in traditional Christian Orthodox areas, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church said.
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Pope John Paul II returned the bones of two of the most revered saints in the Orthodox Church on Saturday, one in a series of gestures aimed at healing a millennium of
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VATICAN CITY, AUG. 29, 2004 .- The Icon of the Mother of God of Kazan is a symbol of unity between East and West, said John Paul II in a message sent to the Orthodox patriarch.
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Sheiks, libraries and collectors around the world have ordered the Vatican's new $8,400 limited-edition documentation of the heresy trial of the Knights Templar, officials said Thursday.
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IKITSUKI ISLAND, Japan  - One by one, the sacred relics -- a medal of the Virgin Mary, a crucifix and other revered objects -- are taken from a cupboard and placed on an altar for a Christmas Eve rite passed down through centuries from Japan's earliest Christians.