In Damascus, a Christian Mass marked the day at the Mariamite Greek Orthodox Cathedral, Syria's SANA state news agency reported.

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It was a force at once inspiring and terrible, a faith with no resemblance to the Christian belief in Mass and sacraments, hellfire and damnation, sin and redemption, penance and forgiveness.

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In 1994, two wired mortar bombs planted near the altar blew up during Mass at a Christian Maronite church in Lebanon, killing 10 worshippers and wounding 60.

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After mass on Maundy Thursday before the Christian holiday of Easter, each of six villages on the Dalmatian island of Hvar in southern Croatia sends out a group that will proceed through the other villages in a circle, covering twenty-five kilometres in eight hours before returning home.

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Pilgrims from many lands joined townsfolk in the spirit of Christmas. ( 85K AIFF sound or 85K WAV sound) And Arafat, a Muslim, and his wife, born a Christian, will be the guests of honor at midnight Mass in the sixth century Church of St.

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TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina (CNN) -- As rescue armies mass across Europe, it is a natural day for the Christian community around Tuzla to think upon hope and the future.

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He has also taken the trouble to endear himself to the Vatican (and to the Christian Democratic group within the government coalition) by these days going more often to mass and by remarrying, in church, his strong-minded journalist wife.

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The act of foot-washing at the Mass of the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday is part of the Christian tradition that mirrors Jesus' washing of his disciples' feet.

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But Holy Week, the Christian festival that commemorates the last week of Jesus' life, is a solemn celebration, and once mass begins, a calm settles over the congregation.

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