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Croatia Charges Right-Wingers for Pro-Priest Protest
Charges have been pressed against 13 people who rallied in front of a Catholic church in Sirobuja, a suburb of the coastal city of Split, flouting a ban on public gatherings during the coronavirus epidemic, Croatian media reported on Tuesday.
TV Prayers Fill Gap for Montenegrin Believers in Pandemic
The town centre in Tuzi. Photo: BIRN/Samir Kajosevic
Since Montenegro banned public gatherings on March 18, only priests and clerics can enter and pray in churches and mosques until the epidemic is over.
The Papess Joanne | Athens | March 8, 15 & 22
As part of its 80th anniversary celebrations, the Greek National Opera has commissioned composer Yiorgos Vassilandonakis to write a new opera based on Emmanouel Rhoides' controversial 1866 novel "The Papess Joanne." Regarded as heretical at the time of its publication, the novel explores the fascinating legend of Papess Joan and argues that the Catholic Church covered up her existence.
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Catholic church in Lesvos to celebrate St. Valentine's Day
The Catholic Church of the Assumption of Virgin Mary in Lesvos will celebrate St. Valentine's Day with two high mass liturgies on Thursday and Friday, state-run news agency ANA-MPA reported Tuesday.
The Assumption church is one of the numerous churches that claim to keep relics of Saint Valentine.
REVOLUTION 30: 23 - 31 December 1989 events in Bucharest and in other Romanian cities
Romania was the only country facing wide spread violence during the 1989 revolutions; officially, 1,104 people died and 3,300 were injured. Nicolae Ceausescu's dictatorship, believed to be the most brutal and repressive in Eastern Europe, was without doubt one of the main reasons for such a tragic end - as the work ''The 1989 Revolutions in Central and Eastern Europe.
Acts of violence against religious spaces rise 6 pct in 2018; soar against Jews
Authorities in Greece recorded 591 acts of violence against spaces of religious significance in 2018, an increase of 6 percent compared with the year before that, though incidents against Jewish spaces almost doubled.
Pope receives 33 people from crowded Lesvos camp
Pope Francis on Thursday received 33 refugees brought to the Vatican from the notorious Moria camp on Lesvos.
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EP debate: Romanian Revolution, the moment of the country's return to Europe
The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 was the first step made by the Romanians and Romania in what concerns their return to Europe, European Commissioner for Transport Adina Valean told the European Parliament plenary session on Monday, with MEP Traian Basescu added that in December 1989 the Romanians were determined to say "no" to communism, by even scarifying their lives, and they joined t
Saint Pope John Paul II's relic, carried in procession on Bucharest's streets
Bucharest, Oct 20 /Agerpres/ - Four bishops, dozens of priests accompanied by believers will carry in the procession, on Sunday, the relic of Saint Pope John Paul II on the streets of Bucharest. The procession will start from the monument of Saint Pope John Paul II, located near the seat of the Apostolic Nunciature of Bucharest.
The Bulgarian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate Elevated into Eparchy
Pope Francis has elevated the Bulgarian Catholic Apostolic Exarchate of Sofia Diocese into Eparchy in Bulgaria assigning it the name of "Eparchy of Saint John XXIII of Sofia for Catholics of Byzantine-Slavic rite in Bulgaria".