St. Nicholas visits St. Mary's
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As a young child in Ukraine, Atanas Kobryn would go to bed on the eve of St. Nicholas' feast day, as anxious as any child waiting for Santa Claus.
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Hundreds of pilgrims and a new Palestinian leadership came to Bethlehem for Christmas as the town of Jesus's birth celebrated the festival with new hopes for peace following Yasser Arafat's death.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Oct. 17 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid an emotional visit Wednesday to the church revered as marking the birthplace of Jesus, before hearing from prominent Palestinians that failure of her new peace initiative could worsen their conflict with Israel.
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WHAT: "The Cisco Santa Claus Connection" This holiday season, hospitalized children who otherwise would not have the chance to meet Santa Claus will be able to see and speak with jolly old St. Nick through the magic of an Internet video telephone from Cisco(R) (NASDAQ: CSCO).
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A Roman Catholic priest on Saturday led one of the first cheerful Christmas Day celebrations in Bethlehem in years, after fighting, military curfews and a general
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U.S. President George W. Bush visits the Church of the Beatitudes on the shore of the Sea of Galilee on Friday during a Holy Land visit aimed at breathing life into Middle East peace talks.
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THE OLD Christmas carolâs âlittle townâ is now a city larger than Charleston, and itâsa depressing place. Four years ago, more than 91,000 tourists visited in a year to see Bethlehemâs religious
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ATICAN CITY, OCT. 25, 2004 .- John Paul II promoted the path to unity between Anglicans and Catholics, when he received some 80 pilgrims of the Anglican diocese of Rochester.
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Mellow chiming at the bell-towers of the Roman Catholic Cathedral of the Dormition and Assumption of Virgin Mary, the main Catholic church in Ukraine, announced to the arrival of Christmas to hundreds of ...
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Christmas decoration displays are labelled "minor ecological disaster zones" by the Bishop of Norwich..
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Pope Benedict visited Istanbul's Blue  Mosque on Thursday and appeared to pray alongside an Islamic  cleric during the visit that made him only the second Roman  Catholic Pontiff to enter a mosque.
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A Roman Catholic priest on Saturday led one of the first cheerful Christmas Day celebrations in Bethlehem in years, after fighting, military curfews and a general glum had kept most visitors away since the late 1990s.
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Pope Benedict visited Istanbul's Blue Mosque on Thursday and appeared to pray alongside an Islamic cleric during the visit that made him only the second Roman Catholic Pontiff to enter a mosque.
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UADALAJARA, Mexico, OCT. 8, 2004 .- A Lithuanian cardinal urged participants at the Theological Pastoral Symposium to look to Mary, the "first tabernacle," and to contemplate with her the mysteries ...
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MOSCOW -- A Russian icon that hung for years in the private chapel of Pope John Paul II returned home to the Russian Orthodox Church yesterday, a gesture that the ailing pontiff hopes will improve relations between the two churches.
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BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Dec. 24 -- Encouraged by renewed peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, Christian pilgrims from around the world converged on Jesus's traditional birthplace Monday to celebrate Christmas -- a palpable contrast to the sparse crowds of recent years.
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The Queen Mary 2 arrives in Sydney on her maiden voyage, set to meet the other Cunard royal liner.