Sister Marie Theo, a Dominican and member of the Vatican’s first ever athletics team. Read Christopher Lamb's report on the new squad, Vatican Athletics.
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More than five million people turned out in downtown Quiapo district in Manila on Wednesday to honour a life-size statue of Christ known as the Black Nazarene. The life-size statue of Jesus was carved from dark wood in Mexico in the 16th century in Mexico and taken to the Philippines in 1606. Here, devotees pull the rope from the Black Nazarene. Many believe that the statue, and the attendant rope, have healing powers.
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Devotees try to touch the life-size statue of the Black Nazarene as it passes through Chinatown, Manila
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Workers move Adas Israel synagogue one block south to its new location to be incorporated into the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C. on January 9, 2019. The 142-year-old structure is D.C. oldest synagogue. Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI
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An exterior view the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ, the biggest cathedral in the Middle East, in the new administrative capital during the Coptic Orthodox Christmas Eve
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Metropolitan Kirill of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye conducts a Christmas liturgy at the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity. The Russian Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas according to the Julian calendar.
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A Christmas liturgy at the Epiphany Cathedral in Tomsk, Russia. T
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Malu Dreyer (SPD), Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate, looks through a star at a reception for the 'Star Singers'. The Prime Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate received the singers from the dioceses of Mainz, Limburg, Speyer and Trier as well as from the parishes of St. Peter and St. Emmeran in the State Chancellery
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An expert in wood restoration is working on the historic Buchholz-Grüneberg organ in the Demmin church of St. Bartholomaei. Experts have begun to save the organ from destruction by the woodworm.
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