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Superstar for the Nineties
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Religious affairs
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The musical Jesus Christ Superstar, first performed 26 years ago, is being revived on the London stage. It provoked cries of blasphemy when it first appeared. An author and journalist who was inspired by it then went to see the new version.
Football and the Madonna
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Religious affairs
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Only perhaps in Catalonia could there be quite the combination of religion, politics and sport that links Montserrat abbey with Barcelona football club. The connections are explained by a journalist with the Financial Times who has a specialist interest in Spain.
Vatican watchers look for clues in chosen name to gauge way ahead
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Religious affairs
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By adopting the name Benedict XVI, the new Pope may have given a clue to the direction he might like to take the Catholic Church.
Spain's identity crisis
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Religious affairs
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Movie buffs are likely to remember the magical scene of Spain's eleventh-century Christian hero El Cid (played by Charlton Heston) dying in Valencia, only to be propped up on a horse and led out through the city gates, his eternal frame putting to flight the invading Moorish armies.
Argentina's failed crusade
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Category: Religious affairs
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TWENTY years ago this week, a military junta in Argentina invoked a 150-year-old territorial claim and invaded the British-ruled Falkland Islands, some 300 miles off the South American mainland.
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