Long-Lost Religious Icon Returned to Moscow
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Description: A religious icon missing from Russia for almost a century is returned to Moscow. Our Lady of Kazan represents the Virgin Mary and was at the center of a dispute between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Church bells pealed across Munich as Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday began a six-day homecoming to his native Bavaria in the city where he served as priest and archbishop more than a quarter-century ago.
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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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The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church emphasized Friday that Pope John Paul II is not welcome in Russia, reiterating that an icon the pontiff once hoped to return personally in a conciliatory gesture is a copy of a revered 16th-century work.
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The relics of two early Christian saints have been returned to the seat of the Orthodox Church. Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew escorted the relics of Saint John Chrysostom and Saint Gregory Nazianzen
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VATICAN CITY, AUG. 25, 2004 .- John Paul II handed over the icon of the Mother of God of Kazan to a Vatican delegation that will take it to the Orthodox patriarch of Moscow this Saturday.
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Don Giovanni and the Big Top are returning to Turkmenistan.
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A highly acclaimed version  of Dmitry Shostakovich's opera "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk" has  returned to London's Royal Opera House on the 100th anniversary  of the Russian composer's birth, bowling the critics over with  its originality.
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Madonna slipped into Moscow under a shroud of secrecy and tight security for a concert that has sparked protests and rekindled debate about RussiaÂs embrace of Western values in the post-Soviet era.
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MOSCOW -- Maintaining control over the North Caucasus region, where the plains of southern Russia give way to mountain ridges and the predominant faith changes from Orthodox Christianity to Islam, has been Moscow's headache for centuries.
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The Man and His Art rescues a nearly forgotten genius from obscurity
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Thousands of Buddhist pilgrims gathered at a temple in southern Russia Tuesday to join prayers led by the Dalai Lama, who has been allowed in the country for the first time in more than 12 years.
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A meeting between Pope Benedict XVI and Russian President Vladimir Putin next week will benefit Russia's small Catholic community, the pope's envoy to Moscow said on Vatican radio Saturday. He declined to say in a separate interview whether he expected Putin to invite Benedict to 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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Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev returned to Russia on Saturday, more than two weeks after undergoing surgery in Germany for a blocked artery in the neck, his aide said.
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Just because the icon Pope John Paul II sent to the Russian Orthodox Church is an 18th-century copy does not mean it is a fake. &quot;In the West, people think of a &#39;real&#39; original
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This morning, Latvian resident Vladimirs Kulesovs who suffered injuries in the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia, returned to Riga from Moscow by train.