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... that a Grand Illumination is an outdoor
ceremony involving the simultaneous activation of electric
Christmas lights and is derived from an
English tradition of placing lighted
candles in the windows of homes and public buildings to celebrate a special event? (2005-11-28)
... that Bangor Cathedral in
North Wales was completed without a tower or spire because of a cracking foundation? (2005-11-30)
... that in
Baroque Rome, when the Austrian-born artist-designer Johann Paul Schor was not collaborating with
Bernini, he might be called on to design sculptural architecture to be executed in
sugar at a banquet? (2006-01-18)
... that Anna of Kashin, a
Russian medieval princess, was twice
canonized as a holy protectress of women who suffer the loss of relatives? (2006-03-07)
... that the highest distinction among the Caloyers, a
Greekmonastic order, involves spending one's entire life alone, confined in a cave on top of a mountain? (2006-05-31)
... that
Epiphanius's most important work, the Panarion, is ironically the only surviving source of information on several
early Christiansects that he sought to eliminate with his writing? (2006-06-16)
... that Onesimos Nesib, who translated the
Bible into
Oromo language, was accused of blasphemy because he delivered his sermons in his native language and not
Amharic, and the local
Ethiopian Orthodox priests could not understand? (2006-07-16)
... that the reconstruction of Kecharis Monastery (pictured) in
Armenia was delayed a decade due to an
earthquake,
war, blockade, and the collapse of the
USSR? (2006-08-25)
... that several years prior to the downfall and execution of the
Romanov dynasty, the image of
God's Mother disappeared from their patron Fyodorovskaya icon (pictured)? (2006-09-08)
... that in the medieval Greek monastery of Hosios Loukas (pictured) infirm pilgrims were encouraged to sleep by the side of the local saint's tomb in order to be healed by
incubation? (2006-09-22)
... that the money for the construction of the Washington Memorial Chapel(pictured) at
Valley Forge was raised in small increments (nickels and dimes), raising the building a few feet at a time? (2006-11-04)
... that the Korpela movement was a short-lived
cult during the
1930s in Northern
Sweden and
Finland whose controversial sexual rituals eventually led to the arrest of 60 followers? (2006-11-28)
... that Dr. Matthew Lukwiya convinced
nurses who refused to treat patients during an 2000
Ebola outbreak in northern
Uganda to return to work? (2006-12-08)
... that owing to a fictitious 13th century account,
St.Gratus of Aosta(pictured) is typically depicted carrying the head of
John the Baptist? (2006-12-09)
... that one of the finest
khachkar memorial stones is located at Goshavank Monastery in
Armenia, the place where the law of Armenia was first codified by
Mkhitar Gosh in the late 12th and early 13th century? (2006-12-18)
... that Squad Five-O grew from an indie band and eventually signed to the general market label
Capitol Records before disbanding in 2006? (2007-02-13)
... that the view that
Jesus and
John were lovers, considered a
blasphemy, evolved during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries? (2007-02-20)
... that Anne-Marie Javouhey, the founder and abbess of a new religious order, was one of the first women to establish
missions in
Africa? (2007-02-25)
... that Henry le Chen was put in control of a
sheriffdom by
King Edward I, despite being a senior royal councillor during the reign of
King John, whom Edward deposed? (2007-02-25)
... that in constructing the Via della Conciliazione (pictured),
Benito Mussolini ordered the demolition of an entire
Roman neighborhood, and the forcible
eviction of its residents to settlements outside the city? (2007-02-25)
... that the Evangelist portraits of early medieval
Gospel Books used compositions taken from the
pagan author portraits of the Late Classical period? (2007-02-26)
... that when John Horden sent his
Cree-language translation of the Bible back to England, the printers returned it with a printing press but no instructions on how to operate it? (2007-02-27)
... that Albinus of Angers, who as bishop reportedly used diocesan funds to ransom people captured by pirates, thereafter became the
patron saint against pirate attack and of coastal communities as far away as
Poland and
New Jersey? (2007-03-04)
... that Amaro spent three hundred years standing at the gate of the Earthly Paradise without being allowed in, according to the Life of Saint Amaro? (2007-03-04)
... that shortly after Jonah of Manchuria died in 1925, he is said to have appeared in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed? (2007-03-30)
... that the 800,000-member Global Pastors Network continues the legacy of
Bill Bright by attempting to, in their own words, "win 1 billion people to
Christ"? (2007-04-04)
... that Alexander of Bergamo is thought to have survived the
decimation of the
Theban Legion for their conversion to Christianity only to be individually beheaded later for the same reason? (2007-04-05)
... that in one type of
Anglo-Saxontrial, the accused tried to prove innocence by swallowing a piece of bread and cheese, called "corsned", without
choking? (2007-05-12)
... that the Lutheran liturgical calendar includes several biblical personages as “Saint” though it is commonly believed that Lutherans “do not have saints”? (2007-06-19)
... that African American
Methodist preacher and missionary John Marrant undertook a mission to the
Cherokee while he was a teenager? (2007-06-21)
... that during the annual
romeria from the Guadalajara Cathedral to the Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan, the statue of Our Lady of Expectation is accompanied by more than 3,000,000 people? (2007-07-03)
... that the Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Mirror of Human Salvation) (one page pictured) was one of the most popular illustrated books of the
Middle Ages? (2007-07-05)
... that the known writings of Caius, Presbyter of Rome exist only in fragments, many of which were preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of
Eusebius of Caesarea? (2007-07-19)
... that the Baptist Foundation of Arizona (BFA) filed for the largest bankruptcy of a religious organization in U.S. history after its 600 million dollar fraud went undetected by the same
Big Five firm that audited
Enron? (2007-07-25)
... that the Yangzhou riot of 1868 almost led to a
Sino-
British war because many Chinese believed that English missionaries were stealing children? (2007-08-06)
... that
Catholic bishop and
Visigothic political leader Masona built the first
hospital in
Spain and endowed it with farms to provide its patients with food? (2007-08-07)
... that German leaders of the World Confederation of Labour were sentenced to
Nazi concentration camps in the 1930s for their political opposition to the growth of authoritarian governments in Europe? (2007-08-24)
... that after spending seven years traveling across the
Saskatchewan District, Rev.
Robert Rundle was allowed to establish a mission in 1847, only to be forced to leave a year later due to health issues? (2007-08-26)
... that every Byzantine Emperor under the Angeloi dynasty was overthrown in a violent coup d'état? (2007-09-20)
... that of the nine children born of Martina, Heraclius' wife and niece, four died in infancy, one had a twisted neck and another was deaf & dumb? (2007-09-20)
... that Julius Joseph Overbeck was unable to be received into the Orthodox Church as a priest for his Western Rite project because he had married after his
ordination as a
Roman Catholic priest? (2007-10-04)
... that the firm formed by John Brogden to build
Manchester Victoria station and various railroads to the rapidly expanding
Manchester in mid-19th century began as a contractor to undertake the sweeping, cleansing and watering of the city? (2007-11-11)
... that the Raphael Cartoons(example pictured),
tapestry designs from 1515 which are among the most influential works of
Renaissance art, remained torn into strips for 175 years? (2007-11-12)
... that the spread of Christianity in Asia is believed to have reached
China during the
Tang Dynasty, where it was known as the Luminous Religion? (2007-12-09)
... that
Wales had one of the highest
literacy rates in
eighteenth century Europe thanks to the wealthy Bridget Bevan(pictured), who sponsored a system of "circulating schools"? (2007-12-16)
... that the only elements of the Nativity of Jesus in art(example pictured) to span the whole history of its depiction are the
baby, the
ox and the
ass? (2007-12-16)
... that John Rogers, who helped to prepare a version of the
Hebrew Bible, also helped to introduce the
man engine, an important reform in
Cornish mining? (2007-12-18)
... that the semantron, intended for summoning
Eastern Orthodox Christians to worship, has been used as a deadly weapon in church brawls? (2007-12-21)
... that when the old All Saints Church, Marple was replaced by a new church 30 metres away in 1880, the tower from the old church was retained and is now used as a free-standing bell-tower? (2007-12-24)
... that, upon
exhumation, the 10th century saint Rasso was found to be 2 meters (6' 6") tall, although, given that his grave was 2 and a half meters, he had earlier been thought to be even taller? (2007-12-24)
... that according to the Christmas Price Index it will cost your true love US$78,100 to buy you all those gifts this year? (2007-12-25)
... that Philippine Christmas lanterns, called Parols (pictured), are also used in Christmas celebrations in
Austria,
Canada and
California? (2007-12-25)
... that as well as serving as the assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, Kent R. Hill has also published books and served as the president of the
Institute on Religion and Democracy? (2007-12-26)
... that when St Hilary's Church in
Wallasey,
England burnt down in 1857, a new church was built separately, leaving the
tower of the old medieval church as a free-standing edifice? (2007-12-27)
... that the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque in
Istanbul features a
cypress tree with a chain that was swung between two people who gave contradictory statements to determine which one was telling the truth? (2008-01-14)
... that William Melmoth's
1711 work The Great Importance of a Religious Life Consider'd went through thirty editions and sold over 420,000 copies by the end of the century? (2008-01-14)
... that writer Ngaire Thomas was forced at the age of 15 to apologise in front of 600 members of her church congregation for "
fornicating" with her cousin, when in fact she had only kissed him? (2008-01-15)
... that the Directa Decretal (385 AD) was a strongly-worded letter by
Pope Siricius reminding priests of the perpetual
celibacy required of them? (2008-01-16)
... that St George's Church, Brighton(pictured) became so popular after
Queen Adelaide started attending that in order to increase its seating capacity, master builder
Thomas Cubitt built an extra gallery in one week? (2008-01-20)
... that, according to legend, the
Northumbrianprincess and
saintOsana's grave is said to have trapped the
concubine of the
priest of the church in which she was buried? (2008-02-06)
... that John Percival, when
headmaster of
Rugby School, gained the
nickname "Percival of the knees" because he was concerned about "impurity" and insisted that boys secure their
football shorts below the knee with elastic? (2008-02-12)
... that rubrics were originally anything written in red letters in a
manuscript, but now most often mean instructions, especially for officiating
clergy, or
scoring tools for tests in education? (2008-02-13)
... that the First Presbyterian Church of Chester, New York, has worshipped in three different buildings, all in different locations, in its history? (2008-02-26)
... that "Maphriyono" (
Maphrian) meaning, "to make fruitful", or "one who gives fecundity" is another term for
Catholicos of India? (2008-04-04)
... that
Portland,
Oregon–based evangelical minister Luis Palau has collaborated with government leaders, and 500
Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address
homelessness? (2008-04-04)
... that Mavia was an
Arabqueen who in 378 AD personally led her troops out of southern
Syria in revolt against
Roman rule? (2008-04-07)
... that Moses, the first
ArabOrthodoxbishop, administered his duties while journeying with a nomadic confederation of Arabs in the fourth century? (2008-04-07)
... that according to his
hagiography, Saint Severus of Naples temporarily brought a man back from
death in order to testify on the size of his
debt and save his
widow from slavery? (2008-04-07)
... that the Pentecostal Union of Romania has experienced rapid growth in recent years due to conversions and high birthrates, with some families having up to 18 children? (2008-04-14)
... that when St. Andrew's Church in
Pasadena was built in the 1920s, it was compared to "a jeweled crown on the head of a
Byzantine queen"? (2008-04-19)
... that
Academy Award winner Going My Way was filmed at St. Monica's (pictured), and the irascible old Irish priest character was based on its pastor? (2008-04-22)
... that Annie Armstrong, for whom the
Southern BaptistEaster collection for domestic
missions is named, resigned from the missionary organization she founded vowing never to serve the SBC again? (2008-04-25)
... that Kloster Wienhausen, a medieval convent in Germany (pictured), has the world's oldest surviving example of
rivet eyeglasses? (2008-04-25)
... that the bronze of Mary (pictured) atop Mary Star of the Sea, known as the "Fishermen's Church," is lit at night so she can be seen from the
Port of Los Angeles harbor? (2008-04-28)
... that the photographs taken of Peter Jones in 1845 (pictured) are the oldest surviving photographs of a
North American Indian? (2008-05-04)
... that the annual Chembuduppu festival at St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally is held in commemoration of non-
Christians bringing
rice to feed hundreds of voluntary labourers during its construction? (2008-05-04)
... that visiting
Cistercian monks could extend the hospitality of Stratford Langthorne Abbey, near
London, by supplying wine and beer for themselves and oats and hay for their horses? (2008-05-06)
... that McCarty Church(pictured) in
Los Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s? (2008-05-08)
... that in 1687 Philippe Couplet published Confucius Sinarum Philosophus(pictured), the first known
Western translation of a
Chineseliterary work? (2008-05-09)
... that De Doctrina Christiana, identified as
John Milton's attempt to define his own particular
Christian theology, was suppressed by the government of the day and not published until 150 years after his death? (2008-05-10)
... that the 5th-century
Sassanian Emperor of IranYazdegerd I(pictured on coin) was given the
epithets of Ramashtras ("the most quiet") as well as Al Khasha ("the harsh")? (2008-06-12)
... that the Hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden" was both a title and
attribute of
Mary and a type of actual garden? (2008-06-30)
... that
ScottishmissionaryCarstairs Douglas compiled the first comprehensive
Amoy-English Dictionary in 1873, which, with revisions, is still in use today? (2008-07-01)
... that according to legend, a
spring came up on all three spots where the severed head of
CatholicmartyrSaint Baudilus bounced after his martyrdom in
Nîmes? (2008-07-21)
... that the
excavation at Norton Priory,
Cheshire, in the 1970s revealed the largest floor of
mosaic tiles to be found in any modern excavation? (2008-07-21)
... that the Rev. William Plenderleath's book Memoranda of Cherhill was first published 95 years after the author's death? (2008-07-24)
... that a low side window in the 12th-century St Helen's Church, Hangleton, may have been used as a
hagioscope by
lepers wanting to listen to services without entering the building? (2008-07-27)
... that the Turin-Milan Hours(pictured) is thought to have involved at least 11 artists, and became physically separated into at least five sections? (2008-08-14)
... that Czesława Kwoka, a
PolishCatholic child victim of the
Holocaust, was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation? (2008-09-02)
... that carved
Romanesque stone heads (pictured) were added to the walls of Temple Cronan in
Ireland as decoration during renovation in the 12th century? (2008-09-09)
... that
Abandon's music was first discovered when a
record label manager was dining and got distracted by hearing them play a concert next door? (2008-10-31)
... that the roof of the 12th-century St Nicolas Church, Portslade had to be
jacked back into place over several months in 1959, having moved a
foot (30 cm) out of alignment over the centuries? (2008-11-01)
... that Leo the Mathematician, called by some the cleverest man in 9th century
Byzantium, invented a system of beacons to warn of Arab raids and a fabled levitating throne for the emperor? (2008-11-20)
... that Holy Land USA(pictured), a
Connecticut theme park intended to replicate
Bethlehem and
Jerusalem of the biblical era, once attracted more than 40,000 visitors annually? (2008-12-14)
... that the origins of the Church of Caucasian Albania date to Saint Eliseus' efforts in the first century AD to spread
Christianity to the area? (2008-12-21)
... that Paschal Eze resigned as editor-in-chief of The Daily Observer, a newspaper in
The Gambia, after being pressured by management not to publish stories about a certain politician? (2009-01-13)
... that, according to theories by Dennis MacDonald, the earliest books of the
New Testament are responses to the
HomericEpics, thus "nearly everything written on early Christian narrative is flawed"? (2009-01-23)
... that the popular
Calypso Carol was written by an Englishman, Michael Perry, while still a student, and only became famous by accident? (2009-01-23)
... that in May 1776, the future
Chaldean Patriarch Yohannan Hormizd was consecrated
metropolitan bishop with right of succession at the age of 16 by his uncle, Patriarch Mar Eliya XII Denkha? (2009-01-29)
... that
Rome needed eight years to confirm the election of Peter Jarweh as Patriarch of the
Syrian Catholic Church because he had received funds from Protestant missionaries to buy a printing press? (2009-03-08)
... that
Grammy-nominated
CCM musician Ayiesha Woods was the first female to receive a "Producer of the Year" award at the Gospel Music Marlin Awards? (2009-03-31)
... that according to the
magico-medical text Cyranides, miscarriages caused by female demons such as Gello can be prevented by wearing an aetite as an
amulet? (2009-04-06)
... that ChristianCinema.com gives
filmmakers a place to submit screening copies of their work with the possibility of being distributed and promoted by the website? (2009-04-13)
... that the Qedarites, a prominent
Arab tribal confederation between the 8th and 4th centuries BC, were named after the second son of
Ishmael named Qedar? (2009-04-24)
... that the linguistic works of Daniel Gravius are used by modern scholars to shed light on the society of the 17th-century
Siraya people of
Taiwan? (2009-05-02)
... that a former minister at Hove Methodist Church,
England, spoke so forcefully during sermons that
Communioncruets would sometimes be sent crashing to the floor? (2009-05-10)
... that New York's Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church(pictured) secured its original building, a union church, by growing the fastest out of the several denominations that shared it? (2009-06-01)
... that following the Grue Church fire on
Pentecost 1822 in
Solør,
Norway, in which at least 113 people perished, a law was passed prescribing that all doors of public buildings must swing outwards? (2009-06-07)
... that St Mark's Church, Brighton was originally planned as a school's private chapel, but served as a public church for nearly 150 years before the school took it over? (2009-06-09)
... that the former Union Chapel,
Brighton's oldest
Nonconformist place of worship, was converted into a
pub after 300 years of religious use? (2009-06-10)
... that Bible translations in the Middle Ages were rare because "the vernacular appeared simply and totally inadequate" for such a prestigious work? (2009-06-23)
... that Robert Keable's 1921 novel Simon Called Peter propelled him to prominence when it sold 600,000 copies, was cited in a double murder trial, and referenced in The Great Gatsby? (2009-07-08)
... that in 1861, plans to build St John the Evangelist's Church closer to
Burgess Hill town centre than first agreed caused local landowners to place a newspaper advert with their strong objections? (2009-07-14)
... that King Kot aMweeky of the
Kuba Kingdom told his people that William Henry Sheppard(pictured) was his deceased son, in order to spare Sheppard's life? (2009-07-16)
... that during the first recording session of
Sanctus Real's album The Face of Love, the studio was 90°
F and "nobody wanted to be there"? (2009-07-22)
... that the first newspaper in
Hawaii was printed by students of Lorrin Andrews in 1834, on a printing press brought to the islands in 1820? (2009-07-29)
... that in 1904 the whitewash was removed from the west wall of St. George's church, Trotton leading to the discovery of an unprecedented 600-year-old wall painting? (2009-07-29)
... that descendants of 17th-century members of the congregation of the Vrouwekerk, a medieval church in
Leiden, the
Netherlands, include four
U.S. presidents? (2009-08-01)
... that on Reek Sunday, in a tradition of the past 1,500 years, thousands of people from across the world have embarked on an annual national
pilgrimage up
Croagh Patrick, some barefoot? (2009-08-03)
... that Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas address was interpreted differently throughout Europe by contemporaries and remains a "lightning rod" of historical interpretations? (2009-08-06)
... that
blackBaptist minister and former
slaveR. H. Boyd had so much success in religious publishing that it caused a split in his
denomination? (2009-08-15)
... that William of Pagula's book Oculus Sacerdotis, intended to be a manual for parish priests, was written in such a way that many of the priests couldn't read it? (2009-09-07)
... that the married Western Ukrainian Clergy became a hereditary caste that dominated western Ukrainian society? (2009-10-06)
... that the Rev. George W. Bridges libelled anti-slavery activists
Escoffery and
Lecesne when he said they wanted to "sheath their daggers in the breasts of their white inhabitants"? (2009-10-07)
... that a church in Worthing, England (pictured), has the world's only known replica of the
Sistine Chapel ceiling, hand-painted at two-thirds scale by an untrained artist? (2009-10-09)
... that the exact location of the city of
Cialis, where Bento de Góis became convinced in 1605 that
Cathay is
China, has been a subject of debate among later historians? (2009-10-28)
... that
church services may be held in
Serbia under the crown of a zapis, a large
oak with a cross inscribed into its bark, sacred for the village at which it is situated? (2009-10-30)
... that missionary John D. Paris(pictured) had one of his churches occupied by a self-proclaimed prophet who predicted the end of the world in 1868? (2009-11-11)
... that the documentary film Collision spotlights several days of debate between prominent atheist
Christopher Hitchens and conservative theologian
Douglas Wilson? (2009-11-13)
... that Maesyronnen Chapel in
Powys,
Wales, was one of the earliest
Nonconformist chapels to be built in the country, and that it is still in use as a chapel? (2009-11-16)
... that once Li Yingshi, a decorated veteran of the
Korean War of 1592–1598, converted to Catholicism, it took him and two
Jesuits three days to find and
burn all the prohibited books in his library? (2009-11-23)
... that the Los Angeles Times wrote that a motorist passing the playground at Precious Blood Church(pictured) might think "he'd been transported to a Catholic school in circa-1950s Chicago or Pittsburgh"? (2009-12-01)
... that St George's Church, Worthing established three mission chapels in
the town, including a tiny hut jokingly known as "The Cathedral"? (2009-12-07)
... that in 1999, Robyn Regehr made his
National Hockey League debut with the
Calgary Flames less than four months after breaking both legs in a car accident that doctors feared would end his career? (2009-12-09)
... that the 2009
television movieA Dog Named Christmas was based on a novel by Greg Kincaid, who said his family hated the story when he originally wrote it? (2009-12-25)
... that the bronze Gniezno Doors, of about 1175, are the only
Romanesque doors in Europe decorated with scenes from the life of a saint (his murder pictured)? (2010-01-08)
... that prior to the 10th century in
Western art, no attempt was made to portray God the Father in terms of a human form? (2010-01-08)
... that next to the 19th-century St Botolph's Church in
Heene,
West Sussex, stand the "somewhat scanty" remains of its 13th-century predecessor? (2010-01-15)
... that St Andrew's Church(pictured) in
Worthing,
West Sussex, stood unused for two years after its completion as controversy raged over the "Worthing Madonna"? (2010-01-16)
... that the medieval chronicler
Matthew Paris accused the medieval bishop Hugh of Wells (d. 1235) of being biased against monks, calling him "an untiring persecutor of monks"? (2010-01-17)
... that the last two buildings used by the Makawao Union Church were built atop the foundation of a 19th-century
sugarcane mill in
Maui,
Hawaii? (2010-01-28)
... that all of early
14th centuryEurope was consecrated under the protection of Our Lady of Europe(statue pictured) in
Gibraltar where devotion has continued for over 700 years? (2010-02-01)
... that Dwight Baldwin, a 19th-century missionary to
Hawaii, is credited with saving hundreds of lives as a physician despite having only an
honorary degree in medicine? (2010-02-05)
... that the depictions of fish on the
medieval statue of St Christopher in
Norton Priory,
Cheshire, England, are so realistic that five different species can be identified? (2010-02-12)
... that Minuscule 642, manuscript of the New Testament, was brought from the Greek Archipelago to England by
Joseph Carlyle, orientalist? (2010-03-09)
... that the "restrained and dignified" Zion Chapel is the oldest
Nonconformist church in
East Grinstead—a
West Sussex town with a long history of Protestant Nonconformity and alternative religion? (2010-03-09)
... that the phrase "peace on earth, good will to men" derives from the Annunciation to the shepherds(pictured), but reflects a dispute over a single letter in the
Greek text of the
New Testament? (2010-03-25)
... that
American writer-director Patrick Coyle first publicly showed his 2009 film Into Temptation at the hospice where his father stayed? (2010-03-27)
... that a 19th-century vicar of St Mary's Church(pictured) in
Slaugham,
West Sussex, resolved a dispute about
pews by paying some boys to enter the church and to burn them? (2010-04-03)
... that, according to legend, Osogovo Monastery was spared from destruction by the
Ottomans after they were overcome by its spiritual force? (2010-04-19)
... that the cathedral of the Lopushna Monastery(pictured) in northwestern
Bulgaria, built in the 1850s, employs vernacular
Gothic decorative features? (2010-05-22)
... that the medieval English clergyman Ralph Foliot (d. c. 1198) donated 20 books to
Hereford Cathedral on his death? (2010-05-24)
... that the 12th-century All Saints Church, Patcham, largely unchanged since the 14th century, was rebuilt or restored four times in a 74-year period from 1824? (2010-05-25)
... that the medieval English monk Adam of Eynsham wrote the Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis, one of the fullest and most trustworthy
hagiographies from the Middle Ages? (2010-05-26)
... that in his depiction of the Denial of Peter episode (pictured),
Rembrandt portrayed
Jesus in the distance, his hands bound behind him, turning to look at
Peter who faced away from him? (2010-06-06)
... that St Michael's Church in
Guiting Power,
Gloucestershire, (pictured) was formerly in the middle of the village but, due to demolition of buildings, it now stands at its southern end? (2010-06-11)
... that although the
Welsh church of St Pabo, Llanbabo has a 14th-century monument to
Pabo Post Prydain, its supposed 5th-century founder, there is no good evidence that he founded the church? (2010-06-12)
... that the crypt of St. Paulinskirche(pictured) in
Trier allegedly contains the remains of approximately one dozen of the martyred soldiers of the legendary
Theban Legion? (2010-06-13)
... that the 16th-century
chancel window of the
Welsh church of St Cristiolus, Llangristiolus, has been described as "almost too big to fit" in the east wall? (2010-06-16)
... that while the 19th-century writer
Samuel Lewis described the
Welsh church of St Mary, Tal-y-llyn(pictured) as "a small edifice of no interest", it is now one of the most highly rated
listed buildings in the country? (2010-06-18)
... that in 1565 "commissioners for removing superstitious ornaments" took various idolatrous items from the first chapel on the site of Holy Trinity Church, Horwich, in
Greater Manchester? (2010-06-28)
... that during the early Middle Ages the
Gothic rulers in Western Europe established their own (
Arian) churches alongside the Roman churches of their subjects? (2010-07-12)
... that the Ethiopian Garima Gospels(pictured) was redated by radiocarbon testing to between 330 and 650, making it one of the oldest illuminated Christian manuscripts in the world? (2010-07-30)
... that, unlike many other monasteries and churches of the time, Marko's Monastery experienced almost no damage after
Skopje fell under
Ottoman rule? (2010-08-07)
... that a work based on legends from the Regina Coeli Church in
Mexico City was performed by the "Fenix Novohispano" National Theater Company? (2010-08-21)
... that the
font dating from about 1300 in St John's Church, Throapham,
South Yorkshire, depicts human faces from the three continents that were known at the time of its carving? (2010-08-23)
... that the first five columns of Lectionary 283, a Greek manuscript of New Testament gospel lessons housed at the Biblioteca Communale in
Siena, are written in gold? (2010-09-08)
... that Ancient Church Orders is a genre of early Christian literature which has the aim to offer authoritative prescriptions on matters of moral conduct, liturgy and church organization? (2010-09-12)
... that English minister Samuel Eyles Pierce was accused of
antinomianism by his congregation in
Truro, and that even his wife withdrew her financial support of his ministry? (2010-09-15)
... that art historian Andrew Ladis has described
Domenico di Bartolo's Madonna of humility, painted in 1433, as one of the most innovative devotional images from the early
Renaissance? (2010-09-17)
... that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton,
Lancashire, was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel? (2010-09-19, 2010-09-20)
... that Lucius Walker blamed
Ronald Reagan for a 1988 river boat attack by
Contra rebels in
Nicaragua in which two were killed, saying he had come "face to face with the terrorism of our own government"? (2010-09-23)
... that the only Christian bookstore in
Gaza closed after its owner was beaten and murdered by armed extremists? (2010-10-02)
... that the
nave of the Church of All Souls, Bolton,
Greater Manchester, (pictured) was built without pillars to give the congregation an excellent view and to enable them to hear the sermon clearly? (2010-10-03)
... that according to a local legend, the medieval Church of St Demetrius in Patalenitsa,
Bulgaria, was rediscovered thanks to a thunderbolt striking a cherry tree? (2010-10-03)
... that the
Miraj township of Wanlesswadi is named for William James Wanless, who founded the first missionary medical school in
India? (2010-10-06)
... that the first use of
bronze doors on an Italian building is attributed to the Amalfi Cathedral, and they came from
Constantinople? (2010-10-07)
... that the two claiming
Melkite Patriarchs, Ignatius III Atiyah and Cyril IV Dabbas, were both consecrated on the same day, April 24, 1619, but in different places? (2010-10-07)
... that St Michael's Church, Michaelchurch, Herefordshire is notable for its 13th-century wall paintings and the presence of a reconstructed
Roman altar? (2010-10-09)
... that while St Bartholomew's Church, Furtho was being used for storage of the
archives of the Northampton Record Society during the Second World War, all of its windows were destroyed by a bomb? (2010-10-11)
... that
professional wrestler and
Maori Anglican Church member Ike Robin was once said to be "so absorbed in his preaching that he failed to notice that the congregation comprised only his dog"? (2010-10-17)
... that most of the memorials in St Cuthbert's Church, Holme Lacy,
Herefordshire, (example pictured) are to the Scudamore family, which owned the church land until 1909–10? (2010-10-29)
... that St Peter's Church, Wolfhampcote stands isolated in a field, surrounded by mounds remaining from a
desertedmedieval village, disused canal workings, and a redundant railway? (2010-11-05)
... that in April 2010 the world's first glass summit cross was erected on the Schartwand (2,339 m) in
Salzburg's
Tennengebirge mountains? (2010-11-14)
... that American Baptist missionary George J. Geis was working at the Kachin Bible Training School he had established in Kutkai at the time of his death in 1936? (2010-11-18)
... that the
font in St Peter's Church, Adderley,
Shropshire, has an inscription in
Latin which translates as "Here wickedly the first man enjoyed the apple with his wife"? (2010-11-18)
... that the Areopagus sermon was the most dramatic and fullest speech of the missionary career of
Apostle Paul? (2010-11-21)
... that St Matthew's Church, Langford, Oxfordshire has two
Anglo-Saxon carved stone reliefs of the
Crucifixion, and that in one of them Christ's left and right arms have later been swapped over (pictured)? (2010-11-21)
... that when Central Methodist Church(pictured) in
Eastbourne was completed, some worshippers were hauled to the top of the spire in a box to eat a celebratory breakfast? (2010-11-28)
... that how to tell which of the two possible Saint Catherines is shown marrying Jesus in a painting of the Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine(example pictured)? (2010-11-30)
... that feathers from a dead swan, which crashed into scaffolding at All Saints Church in
Roffey during construction, were incorporated into the church's
antependium? (2010-12-23)
... that when St. John's Cathedral(pictured) was built in
St. John's,
Antigua, it was criticized by
ecclesiastical architects for being like "a pagan temple with two dumpy pepper pot towers"? (2011-01-12)
... that two of the illustrations in the Leofric Missal, a 10th and 11th century
illuminated book from England, depict a method of divination derived from
Coptic Egypt? (2011-01-14)
... that St Mary's Church, Pentraeth,
Wales, was decorated in the 18th century with paper garlands, perhaps to celebrate parishioners' weddings? (2011-01-27)
... that American minister and
Free Will Baptist theologian Ransom Dunn rode over thousands of miles of frontier on horseback, collecting donations for the opening of
Hillsdale College? (2011-02-01)
... that the first church built on the site of St Deiniol's Church, Llanddaniel Fab, Wales (pictured), is said to have been established by St Deiniol Fab himself in 616? (2011-02-08)
... that the 15th-century church of St Twrog, Bodwrog, Wales, has some bull's head decorations, showing its link with a prominent local family of that time? (2011-02-09)
... that
Scrivener said that few Greek
New Testament manuscripts from the 12th century were equal to Codex Ephesinus in "weight and importance"? (2011-02-18)
... that the churchyard of St Caian's Church, Tregaian, Wales, contains the grave of a man who died in 1581 aged 105 with over 40 children and 300 living descendants? (2011-02-23)
... that the Beeldenstorm was a wave of riotous destruction of church art and property that spread across the
Low Countries in August 1566? (2011-03-06)
... that the
font in St Peter's Church, Sudbury, was removed in the 17th century to be used as a
horse trough, but was returned to the church when the horses refused to drink from it? (2011-03-15)
... that instead of being topped by a dome, the roof of the 6th-century Belovo Basilica in southwestern
Bulgaria consisted of a row of
baldachin-like arches? (2011-03-26)
... that St Mary's Church, in
Sandwich,
Kent, was damaged by the French in 1217 and again in 1457, and by an earthquake in 1578? (2011-04-09)
... that Mammotrectus super Bibliam, a guide book to understanding the
Bible, was popular in the 15th century, but was criticized in the 16th century? (2011-04-12)
... that for much of the
Middle Ages, church
altars were hidden from view at points in services by curtains hung from a ciborium(example pictured)? (2011-04-29)
... that Bayside Church held its 2011 Easter services at the
Power Balance Pavilion (formerly Arco Arena), attracting nearly 17,000 people? (2011-05-27)
... that the tall tower of the Anglican Church of St Mark in Preston, Lancashire, was built to rival the height of the steeple of the nearby Catholic
Church of St Walburge? (2011-06-17)
... that in 1463 Thomas Bettz left
£26 13s 4d in his will—a fortune in those days—to help pay for the repair of the bells of St Martin's Church in
Ruislip? (2011-06-20)
... that walls and the ceiling of the Unionskirche (Union Church) in
Idstein are covered with 38 oil paintings from the
Dutch Golden Age school of
Rubens? (2011-06-20)
... that in 2011, International Christian Concern lauded the release of an Afghan man who had been imprisoned for nine months for converting to Christianity? (2011-06-21)
... that Celestial City, Imeko, was founded by the Prophet "Papa" Samuel Oshoffa, who left 34 wives and 150 children when he died? (2011-06-23)
... that writer
Arthur Mee was once advised not to mistake Greatham Church(pictured) for a haystack? (2011-07-08)
... that
Pepsi allowed
Madonna to retain her $5 million dollar fee, despite cancelling their sponsorship deal following the controversy over the music video for "Like a Prayer"? (2011-07-09)
... that Elizabeth Gatford, who endowed a charity that distributed bread to the poor at Horsham General Baptist Chapel, was buried in four coffins? (2011-07-10)
... that the nonconformist liturgy of the Octagon Chapel(pictured) in Liverpool, UK, was criticized by
Job Orton: "Grieved I am ... to see such an almost
deistical composition"? (2011-07-16)
... that the scheme of stained glass by
Shrigley and Hunt in Christ Church, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, has been described as "one of their best and most important ensembles"? (2011-08-03)
... that it took over half a century to identify Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1? (2011-08-25)
... that after 26 nuns signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion, the
Vatican stated that all but two had recanted, leading 11 others to issue a statement of solidarity denying that they had done so? (2011-08-27)
... that Emerentia was reputed in the late 15th century to be the great-grandmother of Jesus? (2011-08-30)
... that the Old Church of
Helsinki was intended to be a temporary building that could serve the parish until consecration of the
Helsinki Cathedral? (2011-09-01)
... that after its 1688 re-
gilding, the Coventry Cross(replica pictured) was so bright that people could hardly bear to look directly at it on a sunny day? (2011-09-15)
... that although
Daniel is portrayed as a young man by
Rubens in his depiction of Daniel in the lions' den, Daniel would have been over eighty according to biblical chronology? (2011-09-21)
... that after St Gwenllwyfo's Church in Anglesey, Wales, was abandoned in 1856 in favour of a replacement, its medieval roof took nearly 100 years to collapse? (2011-09-26)
... that a club started by two undergraduates in 1839 was central to the spread of Victorian restoration which determined the character of most English churches and cathedrals today? (2011-09-27)
... that after hearing a sermon by
George Whitefield, a member of Ditchling Chapel said he would "tear the church to pieces" and founded his own church, the Bethel Chapel? (2011-10-19)
... that a 19th-century rector of St Mary's Church(pictured) in
Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, Wales was awarded a gold medal for his attempt to save a boat during a gale? (2011-11-01)
... that although St Cynfarwy was active in
Anglesey, Wales, in the 7th century, the age of the church dedicated to him(pictured) cannot be ascertained due to extensive rebuilding? (2011-11-28)
... that one 19th-century writer condemned the partial demolition of the old church dedicated to St Nidan in
Anglesey, Wales, saying that its replacement(pictured) was "a painfully impressive example of architectural bad taste"? (2011-11-29)
... that a study conducted by the
BBC series Son of God concluded that the skin of
Jesus Christ would have been "olive-coloured" and "swarthy"? (2011-12-08)
... that
Strict Baptists travelled from miles around to the remote Zoar Chapel(pictured) in
East Sussex, so stables for 40 horses were built at the back? (2011-12-08)
... that in 1884 Frederick Stanley Arnot determined that the
Zambezi, the largest river flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa, rose near Kalene Hill? (2011-12-22)
... that Intercession of Christ is the Christian belief in the continued intercession of
Christ and his advocacy on behalf of mankind, even after he left the earth? (2012-01-08)
... that the American minister George Went Hensley taught that Christians should eschew baseball and embrace venomous snakes? (2012-01-09)
... that Germanus of Winchester, an eleventh century English
abbot, carried the newly discovered
relics of a saint from their discovery location to
Ramsey Abbey with his own hands? (2012-01-15)
... that in medieval
typology,
Isaac carrying wood up the mountain for his sacrifice is the most common parallel for Christ carrying the cross? (2012-01-17)
... that because he believed the American government had been infiltrated by communists, one young US Marine discharged himself from the officer training program and joined the
Rhodesian Security Forces instead? (2012-01-28)
... that Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Bishop of
Mangalore Diocese from 1965 until his death in 1996, was the longest-serving bishop in the diocese's history? (2012-02-02)
... that the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, now regarded as iconic, was replaced in 1873 after being said to have "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"? (2012-02-02)
... that in Christian doctrine, the Humiliation of Christ was willingly accepted by him? (2012-02-02)
... that 16th-century parishioners of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bolney built the church's 66-foot (20 m) tower (pictured) in "an inspired community effort involving the whole village"? (2012-03-06)
... that, in the past, every landowner in the parish of St Margaret's Church in
West Hoathly,
West Sussex, was responsible for maintaining a specific section of the churchyard wall? (2012-03-07)
... that
Hans Uwe Hielscher played the 1500th weekly organ recital during market time at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden in a series he initiated some 30 years earlier? (2012-03-27)
... that Etropole Monastery(pictured), the most important literary centre of northern
Bulgaria in the 16th through 18th centuries, later sheltered national hero
Vasil Levski in a specially built hideout? (2012-03-29)
... that former churches in
Chichester,
West Sussex, have been converted into a doll museum, a betting shop and a Chinese takeaway, among other things? (2012-04-11)
... that the remains of the Bogdan Saray in
Istanbul lie inside a tire shop? (2012-04-13)
... that poet
William Wordsworth said of the site of Holy Trinity Church, Brathay(pictured), "there is no situation out of the Alps, nor among them, more beautiful than that where this building is placed"? (2012-04-13)
... that the 2012 Preston Passion featured thousands of Preston residents and included Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs from
Handel's Messiah? (2012-04-20)
... that the Balaban Aga Mosque in Istanbul, built in the
Byzantine era, was demolished in 1930 because it stood in the way of a new road? (2012-05-08)
... that the 1941 film Christmas Under Fire features people celebrating Christmas underground? (2012-05-12)
... that the Danish theological movement Tidehverv, represented in
parliament from 2001 to 2011, published combined pamphlets by
Martin Luther under the title "Against the Turk and the Jew" in 1999? (2012-05-12)
... that
Steven Curtis Chapman's song "Yours" was the 45th number-one single of his career? (2012-05-14)
... that the ruin of St Mary's Kirk, Auchindoir, in northeastern Scotland has a highly decorated, stone
sacrament house(pictured) set inside a former window? (2012-05-26)
... that when three men wearing gloves, masks and balaclavas were found on the roof of a church(pictured) missing £100,000 worth of lead, they were let off because police said they "might be there just for the view"? (2012-06-11)
... that
Casting Crowns' 2007 album The Altar and the Door sold 129,000 copies in its first week, the largest opening-week sales for a Christian album with no secular media support? (2012-06-28)
... that
Franciscan monk Pedro de Aguado wrote a history of northern South America in the late sixteenth century, which was not published for over 300 years? (2012-07-11)
... that St Cuthbert's Church(pictured) near
Edenhall in
Cumbria, England, has a
nave and a
chancel dated from the 12th century, a tower from the 15th, and a
vestry and stained glass windows from the 19th? (2012-07-21)
... that Puritan Reverend John Wilson implored
Mary Dyer(pictured) to repent and not be "carried away by deceit of the devil" before her execution in Boston as a
Quaker martyr? (2012-07-26)
... that a stained glass window in St Oswald's Church, Ravenstonedale,
Cumbria, is to the memory of "the last female martyr burnt at
Tyburn for the cause of the Protestant religion" in 1685? (2012-10-10)
... that
Mother Teresa's father Nikollë Bojaxhiu was the only Catholic member of the city council of
Skopje and his company constructed the city's first theater? (2012-10-23)
... that All Saints Church in
Lydd is the longest parish church in
Kent at 199 feet (61 m)? (2012-10-24)
... that it has been suggested that Father Christmas in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letters may have been an inspiration for Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings? (2012-12-25)
... that
Progressive American journalist Benjamin Orange Flower(pictured) once defended
Christian Science, claiming its followers were the recipients of a "persistent campaign of falsehood, slander and calumny"? (2013-01-11)
... that 19th-century British missionary Samuel Lyde sparked months of anti-Christian rioting in
Palestine after killing a beggar? (2013-01-12)
... that the 4th-century Brescia Casket(pictured) has been called "among the most formidable and enduring enigmas in the study of
early Christian art"? (2013-01-28)
... that the founder of the Dami Mission church predicted the world would end on October 28, 1992, but used donations from his followers to purchase
bonds that did not mature until after that date? (2013-02-07)
... that Giovanni Battista Agucchi(pictured), who became secretary to
the Pope in 1623, was a friend of artists and a writer on
Baroque art theory? (2013-03-05)
... that Saeed Abedini, an
Iranian American Christian pastor, was sentenced to eight years in prison in
Iran on charges of undermining national security? (2013-03-12)
... that in art Doubting Thomas(pictured) normally thrusts his fingers into the wound of Jesus, but the
Gospel of John does not say whether he did this? (2013-03-31)
... that one of the
Easter traditions in Poland includes making and displaying of the Easter palm, the tallest of which can reach over 30 metres (98 ft)? (2013-03-31)
... that throughout the 400-year history of Combermere Abbey(pictured), various of its
abbots and
priors were excommunicated, assaulted, murdered, and accused of forgery and covering up murder? (2013-04-08)
... that William O. Cushing(pictured), writer of the words of
the hymn that inspired
Rangers'
Follow Follow anthem, gave his entire life savings to a blind girl for her to receive an education? (2013-04-19)
... that in 1317, a
canon from Beeston Priory had to travel to
Rome to seek absolution from
Pope John XXII for attacking the Bishop of Norwich with a sword? (2013-05-26)
... that a now nonexistent sixteenth-century crucifix inscription in Roholte Church(pictured) is considered to have been one of the oldest of its kind? (2013-05-28)
... that only two small fragments remain from 1,333 square feet (123.8 m2) of
Giotto's Navicella mosaic (copy illustrated) in
Old St. Peter's Basilica? (2013-06-09)
... that Dejan was one of the prominent figures of the
Serbian Empire? (2013-06-10)
... that St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch, Wales, contains a reading desk made out of 15th-century bench ends, one of which is decorated with a carving of a mermaid? (2013-06-12)
... that during his stay at the Kolobeng Mission,
David Livingstone wrote in his memoir that the soil temperature in the sun at noon reached 134 °F (57 °C)? (2013-07-02)
... that St Peter's Church, Ropsley, built in the 11th century, had a stained glass window erected in 1949 in honour of a
Royal Air Force fighter pilot? (2013-07-11)
... that the recent popularity of Amish romance novels has been seen as a reaction to the increasing popularity of erotic fiction such as Fifty Shades of Grey? (2013-07-13)
... that in 2011, the teaching ministry of Christian pastor Chip Ingram was broadcast to 100 million households in Arab countries? (2013-07-13)
... that the 2013 album Extol marks the reunion of the
band of the same name after a five-year hiatus? (2013-07-14)
... that after the destruction in 1941 of most of St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill, it was later rebuilt, retaining the exterior as before but creating a new interior? (2013-07-28)
... that as head of the English-language section of the
Vatican Secretariat of State, Leo Cushley has been responsible for accompanying the
Pope during all his visits to English-speaking countries? (2013-07-31)
... that Barking Abbey's(pictured) former
abbesses include three saints, three queens, two king's daughters, and the sister of
Thomas Becket? (2013-08-24)
... that the medieval
triumphal cross(pictured) in Öja Church on the Swedish island of
Gotland has been called "Gotland's most admired wooden sculpture"? (2013-08-24)
... that George of Izla's execution was instigated by Gabriel of Sinjar after a theological debate in Ctesiphon? (2013-09-02)
... that English and French monarchs were believed to possess the supernatural touch that could cure a form of
tuberculosis known as the
King's Evil(ritual pictured)? (2013-09-03)
... that American aid workers
Heather Mercer and
Dayna Curry's memoir, Prisoners of Hope, recounts them killing 150 flies a day during their 2001 imprisonment by the Taliban? (2013-09-07)
... that both German soldiers and Polish
concentration camp prisoners were treated at a war-time hospital close to Lärbro Church in
Sweden? (2013-09-15)
... that The Sand-Covered Church(pictured) is a 14th-century Danish church partly demolished in the 1800s when the sand from the nearby dunes threatened it, leaving only the church tower still visible? (2013-09-22)
... that because American Christian missionary Hulda Stumpf protested against
female genital mutilation in Kenya, she was killed and perhaps ritually cut in retribution? (2013-10-11)
... that during the
Armenian Genocide, Christian missionary George E. White(pictured) claimed that girls were being sold for "$2 to $4 each"? (2013-10-26)
... that the diary of Christian missionary Elizabeth Barrows Ussher is said to have described "unspeakable cruelty"? (2013-10-27)
... that an additional clock face was added at a higher level to the tower of All Saints Church, Thornton Hough because its founder could not see the lower one from his house? (2013-12-03)
... that the organ in Christ Church, Port Sunlight, is believed to be the largest extant four-
manualWillis II organ still in its original condition and in everyday use? (2013-12-07)
... that Elizabeth Hussey allowed the first of the tracts by the anonymous satirist
Martin Marprelate to be printed on a secret press at her home at
East Molesey in October 1588? (2014-01-01)
... that the carol "We Three Kings" (
Magi pictured) was the first American
Christmas carol to be featured in the "prestigious" and "influential" British collection Christmas Carols Old and New? (2014-01-06)
... that Hezekiah Balch helped found
Tusculum College, the first American college west of the Appalachian Mountains? (2014-01-10)
... that the hymn Soldiers of Christ, Arise is known as "The Christian's bugle blast" due to the military-based call to arms in its lyrics? (2014-01-15)
... that Asia Bibi is the first woman in Pakistan to be sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy? (2014-01-30)
... that the extended version of
Lecrae's single "Round of Applause", from Church Clothes 2, was featured by
Pepsi as one of "three songs you need to hear right now"? (2014-01-30)
... that the Moravian Church Mission Ships were a series of twelve ships that made an annual voyage from London to the church's mission stations in Labrador every summer between 1770 and 1926? (2014-03-31)
... that the Sterbelied "Valet will ich dir geben" is described in a subtitle as a song of consolation, in which a pious heart bids farewell to this world? (2014-04-16)
... that ten copies of the Goražde Psalter(page pictured), printed in 1521, are known to exist today? (2014-04-17)
... that the third verse of Martin Schalling's death song "Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr" concludes Bach's St John Passion in its first and fourth version, ending with "praise you for ever"? (2014-04-18)
... that rapper
Da' T.R.U.T.H. was able to experiment with diverse musical styles on Heartbeat because he released it through his own, newly established label? (2014-05-20)
... that Stop the Music, the debut album by brother-sister hip hop duo New Breed, features a
Latin influence that highlights the duo's
Puerto Rican heritage? (2014-05-24)
... that on the album Tunnel Vision, Tunnel Rats leader Dax Reynosa responded to claims that his group was too aggressive with the line "I pull a pistol out my pocket and I cock it"? (2014-06-11)
... that the compilation album Underground Rise, Vol. 1 features about thirty-five rappers, and was recorded almost entirely over a single weekend? (2014-06-11)
... that "The Summons" includes 13 questions asked in the voice of Jesus? (2014-06-12)
... that Below Paradise by
Tedashii explores his efforts to come to grips with the death of his young son? (2014-06-15)
... that the album Tunnel Rats by the hip-hop collective
of the same name featured a more mainstream and diverse production style than previous albums? (2014-06-15)
... that the founder of All Saints Church, Scholar Green,
Cheshire, died during its construction, and the church was completed and paid for by his son? (2014-06-23)
... that CCM Magazine called the debut album by Christian pop singer V. Rose an "upbeat pop production set to spiritually-grounded lyrics"? (2014-06-23)
... that although once celebrated, a renovation completed in 1914 of medieval Dalhem Church(pictured) has been called a "harsh and loose reconstruction of the
Middle Ages"? (2014-07-02)
... that the Counter-Reformation in Poland concluded successfully with the
Repnin Sejm of 1768, which abolished legal discrimination against religious dissidents? (2014-07-14)
... that Anton Bruckner's Ave Maria for seven voices, the first
motet composed after his studies, was sung by his choir in the
Linz Cathedral(pictured)? (2014-11-05)
... that Robert Cade led the research team that formulated
Gatorade, which has significant medical application in the treatment of dehydration? (2015-01-02)
... that the truncated spire of St Paul's Church, Seacombe(pictured during reconstruction) was restored to its original height using a stainless-steel frame? (2015-01-13)
... that Luther's German Te Deum, "Herr Gott, dich loben wir", was set by
Bach in cantatas for New Year's Day and by
Mendelssohn to celebrate the millennium of the German Reich? (2015-01-15)
... that English missionary James Sibree helped design and build approximately 50 churches in
Madagascar in addition to writing books about the island's flora and fauna? (2015-01-15)
... that some of the doors of the Fru Alstad Church(pictured), Sweden, have bullet holes dating to the 17th century? (2015-01-25)
... that medieval Gislöv Church in Sweden may have been built for an exiled Norwegian bishop? (2015-01-26)
... that although the
Greek Orthodox bishop of
Korçë, Photios, took initiatives for the promotion of the local education, he was assassinated in 1906 for not supporting
Albanian cultural activity? (2015-01-28)
... that Christian Socialism in Utah prompted a debate on whether "socialism or individualism was taught by the New Testament as a basis for Christian government"? (2015-02-08)
... that a church's 1510 spiral of justice(pictured) declares: "Justice suffered in great need. Truth is slain dead. Faith has lost the battle"? (2015-04-23)
... that the stones of Surb Karapet Monastery(pictured), destroyed during the
Armenian Genocide, were used to build houses in a Kurdish village? (2015-04-24)
... that according to legend, the twin towers of Färlöv Church in Sweden were built by a
knight's wife to let him know he had twins? (2015-04-28)
... that the unusual round tower of the medieval Hammarlunda Church probably served a defensive purpose? (2015-05-02)
... that Head of Christ(pictured) by
Correggio was likely intended for private devotion? (2015-05-02)
... that Ziona of Baktawng village,
Mizoram, India holds the world record as head of the "world's largest existing family" with 39 wives, 94 children, and 33 grandchildren, all living? (2015-05-02)
... that "The God of Abraham Praise" has been called the Christian "hymn born in a synagogue"? (2015-05-10)
... that the spire of the Sacred Heart Church in Fiji has a neon light in the form of a cross, which is used by ships for navigation? (2015-05-12)
... that Hebron Church was founded by German settlers in 1786, making it the first organized
Lutheran church west of the
Shenandoah Valley? (2015-05-13)
... that in 2013, Lecrae(pictured, left) became the first artist to reach No.1 on the
Billboard 200 and the Top Gospel Albums charts? (2015-05-15)
... that Thomas Olivers was buried in
John Wesley's grave, despite Wesley's erstwhile complaint that Olivers was "murdering" his magazine? (2015-05-15)
... that it's not entirely clear why Hammarlöv Church has a round tower? (2015-05-21)
... that Salve Regina, composed by
Arvo Pärt to venerate the
Golden Madonna of the Essen Cathedral (detail pictured), "builds very gradually to a late, majestic climax"? (2015-05-23)
... that
Clarence Darrow claimed judges would say, when passing a death sentence, "May God have mercy upon your soul", because they felt they didn't have the authority to destroy souls? (2015-05-28)
... that while on tour in Brazil to promote its new album Omen, the band
Antestor was attacked by
Satanistblack metal fans angered by the Christian beliefs of the band members? (2015-05-30)
... that the burial shroud of Moldavian Princess consort Maria of Mangup(pictured) is both the oldest found in a Romanian monastery and "the most beautiful one"? (2015-06-07)
... that the order in which
Mass-goers kissed the pax led to disputes and sometimes violence in the Middle Ages? (2015-06-26)
... that St John's Church, Silverdale, is notable for the high quality of the stone carvings in its interior? (2015-06-29)
... that
Paul Gerhardt's hymn "Du meine Seele singe" (You my soul sing), a paraphrase of
Psalm 146, became known for a melody beginning with a rocket motif? (2015-06-30)
... that Bach's cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, probably served for both a memorial service and for job applications, and certainly for the Third Sunday after Trinity in 1714 and 1723? (2015-07-01)
... that "Praise to the Living God" can be used in both Jewish and Christian worship as a hymn written for interfaith use? (2015-07-04)
... that the Lutherkirche in
Wiesbaden has two great organs, one behind the altar (pictured) built by
Walcker in 1911, the other opposite built by
Klais in the 1970s? (2015-08-02)
... that the clergyman Arthur Wagner had such a large collection of valuable books and manuscripts that it took three days to sell them after his death? (2015-08-29)
... that the text of
Bach's "Fürchte dich nicht", BWV 228, a
motet for a double choir composed for a funeral, contains two verses by
Isaiah that both begin with "Do not fear"? (2015-09-09)
... that St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata(pictured), the largest in the city, was the first Episcopal Church of
Asia and the first to be built in the overseas territory of the
British Empire? (2015-09-13)
... that
Arvo Pärt composed De profundis, a setting of Psalm 130 in Latin for men's choir, organ and optional percussion, after he left Estonia for the West? (2015-10-06)
... that 13 years after Lydia Emelie Gruchy graduated her theological studies with honors, she was finally ordained in 1936 as the first female minister of the
United Church of Canada? (2015-12-30)
... that Marianne Katoppo, who wrote the book Compassionate and Free. An Asian Woman's Theology, found the term feminist theology "too loaded"? (2016-01-05)
... that while Caroline Stephen's book was considered a "Quaker classic" even 100 years after publication,
her brother had dismissed it as "another little work of hers"? (2016-01-07)
... that places of worship in Woking borough include Britain's first mosque, a Buddhist temple in a former asylum and an Eastern Orthodox church in a cemetery? (2016-01-12)
... that Larycia Hawkins, American professor at
Wheaton College, was suspended after she wore a
hijab and made comments regarding Christianity and Islam in December 2015? (2016-01-14)
... that at least seven denominations trace their history to
a Pentecostal church founded by Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate, the first American woman to serve as bishop in a nationally-recognized denomination? (2016-01-17)
... that historian and priest Zenovie Pâclișanu was imprisoned by both Austria-Hungary and Communist Romania, the latter incarceration proving fatal? (2016-01-17)
... that Swedish politician Julia Kronlid has worked as a volunteer at a hospital clinic in
Papua New Guinea? (2016-01-27)
... that St. Paul's Church, Rusthall, has been viewed as a symbol of the wealth of
Tunbridge Wells due to the churchyard being "chockablock with expensive tombstones and memorials"? (2016-02-05)
... that
Lecrae released the mixtape Church Clothes 3 without any prior announcement? (2016-02-07)
... that Elizabeth Rebecca Ward was known as "The Poet Laureate of the Home"? (2016-03-02)
... that the tower attached to All Saints Church in
Huntsham,
Devon dates to the 14th century, but the rest of the church was completely rebuilt by
Benjamin Ferrey in 1854–56? (2016-03-09)
... that when
Changsha was invaded in 1930, Maud Russell refused to leave the city and, after mistakenly being thought to have perished, a memorial service was held for her? (2016-03-21)
... that while still in school, Chinese social and Christian activist Deng Yuzhi decided to be an independent woman, remain unmarried, and live the life of a "new woman"? (2016-03-24)
... that Ieremia Cecan, a regional leader of the
Romanian Nazi Party, campaigned for the unification of the Orthodox and Catholic churches? (2016-04-09)
... that one of the oldest parts of the medieval St Mellons Church(pictured) is the base of the
font, which was made from an old
Norman pier? (2016-04-12)
... that the Flag of the Church in Wales was adopted following the split of the Church in Wales from the Church of England? (2016-04-16)
... that the 12th-century baptismal font of St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yn-Neubwll, was moved away for safekeeping when the church was closed? (2016-04-28)
... that the vicar of St Trygarn's Church did not live in the parish in the mid-19th century? (2016-05-04)
... that Emilia Baeyertz preached to crowds on Christianity but her son, Charles Nalder Baeyertz, was concerned about the moral dangers of "a prevalence of bad English"? (2016-05-09)
... that American slaveholders altered "O'er the Gloomy Hills of Darkness" because they felt they could not sing a hymn that endorsed educating "the Negro"? (2016-05-09)
... that the Welsh Church (Burial Grounds) Act 1945 restored the legal right for the Church in Wales to look after burial grounds after they had been doing so unofficially? (2016-05-15)
... that rather than accept his appointment as a bishop in
Cyprus, the Christian saint Demetrian is said to have fled his home and hidden in a cave? (2016-05-23)
... that Wingfield W. Watson, an Irish immigrant to the United States, became a religious leader of the
Strangites and wrote several publications in support of their beliefs? (2016-05-28)
... that the 12th-century Fuentidueña Apse(pictured) in New York's
Cloisters museum was originally part of a
Romanesque church likely built as the chapel for a fortress defending against
Moorish invaders? (2016-06-23)
... that the July 7 opening date for the Ark Encounter theme park was chosen to correspond with Genesis 7:7? (2016-06-29)
... that the Berger Kirche(pictured), more than a thousand years old, is now used as a cemetery chapel and concert venue? (2016-07-22)
... that Beatus vir ("Blessed is the man") (B pictured) begins the
Latin text of two
psalms, one notable in art and the other in music? (2016-07-24)
... that African
CITES delegates sang the former Zimbabwe national anthem "Ishe Komborera Africa" after winning a vote to export African elephant ivory, while conservationists cried? (2016-07-30)
... that Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski(pictured), one of the earliest promoters of a
Unified Europe, proposed a customs union, a central bank, and a single currency as far back as 1885? (2016-08-11)
... that Edwin Stevens, reporting from his missionary position in
Qing-era China, felt their recent erections indicated apprehension, and penetration was difficult? (2016-08-21)
... that citizens of the
Province of New York unofficially adopted the George Rex Flag(pictured) to protest against freedom of religion granted to Catholics in Quebec? (2016-08-23)
... that
pioneer doctor Priddy Meeks once told sick patients via messenger to "jump all over the city creek, crawl back into your tent and cover up warm"? (2016-09-17)
... that the naturalisation of
Handel(pictured) as a British citizen came via an Act of Parliament which required him to enter into communion with the Church of England? (2016-10-06)
... that on one occasion, protesters used a foghorn to discourage Mormons in Ireland from meeting? (2016-10-09)
... that in 1595, the Chantry House in
Bunbury,
Cheshire, was leased for 2,000 years for the rent of a red rose? (2016-10-11)
... that the Christian song "Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart" was credited as unknown authorship when first released in 1986, despite being written by Henry Smith in 1978? (2016-12-24)
... that "The Babe in Bethlem's Manger" is thought to be a traditional
Kentish folk carol but its tune is described as being "very much of the 18th century"? (2016-12-25)
... that Natalie Sims co-wrote the
Iggy Azalea song "
Work", which sold over one million copies in the US? (2016-12-27)
... that Puaaiki, a blind preacher from Maui, was a former
hula dancer for King
Kamehameha II? (2016-12-30)
... that The Shaker Quarterly, which began publication in 1961, helped revive interest in the
Shakers? (2017-01-01)
... that "Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort" by
Luther was titled "A hymn for the children to sing against the two arch-enemies of Christ, and His Holy Church, the Pope and the Turks"? (2017-02-25)
... that the Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton, was built in 1869 and was recently restored, only for its roof and interior to be destroyed by fire in February 2017? (2017-03-03)
... that although Parmenian is considered by some historians to be the most important
Donatist writer of his day, none of his works survive? (2017-03-14)
... that in earlier paintings of a sacra conversazione ("holy conversation"), the figures are rarely shown speaking (example pictured)? (2017-03-18)
... that the Rest on the Flight into Egypt is a popular subject in Christian art, but the earliest known example (pictured) only dates to about 1379? (2017-03-20)
... that the 17th-century German hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" has been described as "one of the most exquisite strains of pious resignation ever written"? (2017-03-20)
... that Giyorgis of Segla(pictured) was imprisoned by emperor
Dawit I because of his controversial views on the
Sabbath? (2017-04-02)
... that during the March 1605 papal conclave, a fight broke out that was so noisy that people outside opened the doors early because they thought a new pope had been elected? (2017-05-26)
... that Reverend Arthur Broome was one of the founders of the
RSPCA and, as guarantor for the society's debts, went to
debtors' prison when it declared bankruptcy? (2017-05-29)
... that the Marriage (Wales) Act 2010 was passed by Parliament to bring the marriage law of the disestablished Church in Wales into line with the established Church of England? (2017-06-03)
... that Cardinal Agagianian (pictured), leader of a small Eastern church, was twice a serious papal candidate? (2017-06-22)
... that Mkrtich Khrimian(pictured), head of the
Armenian Church, endorsed an armed struggle against the Ottoman Turks? (2017-06-26)
... that the hymn "Breathe on Me, Breath of God" was described as being so simple it belied the education and knowledge of its author, Professor Edwin Hatch? (2017-07-02)
... that Paul Abels, the first openly gay minister to serve in a major Christian denomination in the United States, was nearly removed from his pastorate after he
came out in the 1970s? (2017-07-19)
... that "Von guten Mächten", a poem written by
Dietrich Bonhoeffer in prison in 1944 where he faced execution, became a hymn with several melodies? (2017-10-10)
... that
Prince of WallachiaRadu Paisie was deposed by his
Ottoman overlords in 1545, with measures taken to prevent his "abscond[ing] with the treasury"? (2017-10-13)
... that facing the rise of Nazi ideology,
Otto Riethmüller compiled the song "Sonne der Gerechtigkeit" for young people from hymns by three authors of two earlier centuries? (2017-11-08)
... that a
Hiroshimapeace bell was donated to the Aegidienkirche, the ruin of a Gothic church that was left as a war memorial? (2017-11-18)
... that the hospital in Southern Rhodesia where Theresa Robinson Buck worked was renamed in her honour after her death? (2017-11-19)
... that the simple hymn "Nun laßt uns Gott dem Herren", used at the end of a meal, became a model for other songs of thanks? (2017-11-23)
... that in 1975,
Solzhenitsyn visited the Paris office of the YMCA Press and presented a book with an inscription thanking the publisher for all his work for Russian culture? (2017-11-24)
... that Bach's setting (pictured) of the
chorale "Es ist genug" ("It is enough"), with a melody beginning with an unusual
whole-tone sequence, was quoted with variations in Alban Berg's
Violin Concerto? (2017-11-26)
... that Ireland national rugby union team player Dr. Claire McLaughlin gained the nickname "McSwaplin" owing to her swapping medical shifts in order to play rugby? (2017-12-10)
... that the bells of St Stephen's in Ealing(belfry and spire pictured) caused complaints, were later moved to the Docklands, and were finally installed in
St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen? (2017-12-22)
... that Silvia Correale, the first female
Postulator in the Vatican, focuses on guiding potential Argentine saints through the
beatification process? (2018-01-07)
... that after the American Civil War, "Fighting Parson" Fountain E. Pitts helped grow poppies to make
opium in Nashville, Tennessee? (2018-01-12)
... that statesman Costea Bucioc, who reputedly survived a poisoning attempt at the
Moldavian court, was later impaled by the Ottoman army? (2018-01-14)
... that many modern
Bible scholars consider the story of the prophet Jonah a work of
satire? (2018-02-16)
... that Satan frequently appeared as a comic relief figure in late medieval
mystery plays, in which he "frolicked, fell, and farted in the background"? (2018-02-23)
... that the recognition of Marițica Bibescu(pictured) as Princess-consort of
Wallachia involved "complicated maneuvers", including the ousting of an
Ecumenical Patriarch? (2018-02-28)
... that David Meade's prediction of a hidden planet named
Nibiru hitting Earth on September 23, 2017, was based on what he says are coded messages hidden in the
Giza Pyramids in Egypt? (2018-03-09)
... that the
Church FatherOrigen drew heavily on the teachings of
Plato and tried to harmonize Greek philosophy with Christian teachings? (2018-03-10)
... that Leon Tomșa, who passed laws limiting Greek immigration to
Wallachia, was reportedly a Greek oyster-monger? (2018-04-07)
... that on 12 April 1945, a white flag was hung from the tower of the Große Kirche Aplerbeck(pictured), one of two churches after the same design by
Christian Heyden, to signal capitulation? (2018-04-12)
... that R. A. Hardie, a Canadian physician and missionary to Korea, was the catalyst for the 1903 Wŏnsan Revival and also inspired the
Great Pyongyang Revival of 1907? (2018-04-13)
... that before taking over
Moldavia in 1561, Iacob Heraclid(pictured) had been executed in effigy and staged his own death? (2018-04-19)
... that Ralph Abernathy(pictured), mentor and friend of
Martin Luther King Jr., led a demonstration protesting the use of federal funds for the
Apollo 11 project when many Americans lived in poverty? (2018-05-04)
... that the
Romanesque cross basilica St. Georg in Aplerbeck from the 12th century fell into such disrepair that its street was named Ruinenstraße? (2018-05-04)
... that the Father Serra statues in
Ventura, California, have been vandalized and called "a direct slap in the face" of Native American cultures? (2018-05-09)
... that the Sunday Observance Act 1695 banned the playing of sports on Sunday in Ireland, and parts of the act are still in force in Northern Ireland? (2018-05-18)
... that creating human hair
wreaths is a part of Mormon folklore, and a wreath containing hair from prominent church leaders was on display in the
Salt Lake Temple until 1967? (2018-07-07)
... that the centenary of the Protestant Church Wilnsdorf in 2013 was celebrated by the same hymn, and a sermon from the same biblical text, employed at its consecration? (2018-07-12)
... that the Serra Cross(pictured) in
Ventura, California, was sold in response to a threatened lawsuit challenging the use of public funds to maintain a religious symbol on public land? (2018-07-18)
... that followers of the second-century
Carpocratian Christian leader Marcellina venerated Greek philosophers alongside Jesus? (2018-08-06)
... that the
antependium of Lyngsjö Church has been said to be "better suited for the high altar of a cathedral than a countryside church"? (2018-08-09)
... that the South African composer
Stefans Grové wrote a setting of Psalm 138 for choir, children's choir, African drums,
marimba, and string orchestra? (2018-08-14)
... that Telfair Hodgson was the original financial backer and first managing editor of The Sewanee Review, the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the United States? (2018-08-19)
... that Kloster Gnadenthal(building pictured) was a
Cistercian nunnery from 1235, a Protestant women's Stift from 1564, and became an ecumenical community in 1969? (2018-09-27)
... that in 1833, Ursula Newell Emerson drew some of the earliest surviving manuscript maps of Hawaii for instructional use? (2018-10-07)
... that American missionary Clarissa Chapman Armstrong led Bible study meetings for Queen
Kalama in Hawaii while her husband served as Minister of Public Instruction under King
Kamehameha III? (2018-10-12)
... that Schloss Weilburg, a Baroque garden palace, contains a Renaissance palace (engraving pictured)? (2018-10-16)
... that the citizens of
Târgoviște, Romania, put a jinx on
boyarEmanoil Băleanu, which was seen as being fulfilled when his wife died in childbirth? (2018-10-31)
... that the 1227 Gothic church of the
CistercianMarienstatt Abbey escaped demolition because it became a parish church in 1831? (2018-11-06)
... that in 1800, a reviewer of Francis Hews's writings was unsure whether he should be sent to "
Bridewell for correction, or to
Bedlam for a cure"? (2018-11-14)
... that the church of St. Nikolai, the oldest building of
Kiel, was destroyed in World War II and restored with a simpler interior (pictured)? (2018-12-24)
... that "
Joy to the World" is one of the hymns based on Psalm 96, "Sing to the Lord a new song"? (2019-02-04)
... that paintings of Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene(example shown) reflected the position of both Catholic and Protestant churches that people should not flee to avoid the
plague? (2019-02-22)
... that
Bach set the phrase "Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks" from Psalm 75 in German to begin
a cantata, and in Latin in his
Mass in B minor? (2019-02-28)
... that Ten Talents, a 50-year-old
vegetarian and
vegan cookbook that is still in print, was the first to feature recipes for
soy milk ice cream shakes? (2019-03-08)
... that the Chandos Anthems, psalm settings by
Handel(pictured) as composer in residence at
Cannons, were described as a "panorama of the composer's creative output"? (2019-03-10)
... that
Jules Van Nuffel, founder and conductor of the choir at the
Mechelen Cathedral, set Psalm 93, Dominus regnavit, for choir and organ – but it was Psalm 92 for him? (2019-03-16)
... that Raymond Butt compiled a directory of "every station,
halt, platform and stopping place on the British railway passenger network"? (2019-03-16)
... that the Good Friday hymn "My Song Is Love Unknown" asks what Jesus had done to deserve crucifixion? (2019-04-19)
... that the 1862 Easter hymn "Christ Is Risen! Christ Is Risen!" (visual depiction shown) by
Gurney was virtually unknown until two revised versions were sent to the United States? (2019-04-21)
... that
Church Fathers such as Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, and Lactantius accepted the association of the angelic descent myth with the "sons of God" passage in Genesis 6? (2019-04-21)
... that Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in
Namirembe, Uganda, but distrusted her students and censored their mail? (2019-04-23)
... that although the Transylvanian nobleman János Gerendi refrained from eating blood and animals that had been strangled, he did not keep all the
Old Testament laws? (2019-06-03)
... that Matthias Goethe, who was born in
Prussia and trained to become a Catholic priest, became a
Lutheran pastor and established congregations in Australia, the United States, and Mexico? (2019-06-16)
... that after Christian bakers refused to decorate a cake in support of gay marriage, the UK Supreme Court ruled that no one could be forced to promote a message with which they disagree? (2019-06-25)
... that when Joseph Wood was appointed as head master of
Harrow School, he was by far the oldest to be appointed since the retirement of Thomas Thackeray in 1760? (2019-07-03)
... that Armenian pianist
Tigran Hamasyan believes that God intervened in the recording of his album Luys i Luso? (2019-07-13)
... that
James Kyle, Roman Catholic bishop of Aberdeen, designed a
Buckie parish church so grand that it is known locally as the Buckie Cathedral(pictured)? (2019-09-05)
... that billionaire Max Auschnitt bribed Romanian authorities, and worked with "an anti-Semite, but a civilized one", to help Jews escape the Holocaust? (2019-09-11)
... that in 1894, the Ringkirche was the first Protestant church to follow the
Wiesbadener Programm of
Johannes Otzen, which focused on providing a clear view of the combined altar, pulpit, and organ areas (architect's sketch shown)? (2019-09-23)
... that the
nave entrance doors of St Rufus Church in
Keith, Moray, Scotland, incorporate a two-sided memorial to the First and Second World Wars? (2019-10-15)
... that water seeping from a statue of Jesus in Mumbai was initially called a miracle, but turned out to originate from a nearby overflowing drain? (2019-10-26)
... that as a 10-year-old, Lin Mei-hong joined a dance troupe in Taiwan founded by the Italian priest Gian Carlo Michelini, and later choreographed for the troupe? (2019-11-24)
... that in later life, Paul Mickelson bought the
organ upon which he had made his first recording as a solo artist at
NBC? (2019-12-25)
... that "The Sinner's Redemption" was called a "rude old carol" favoured by peasants? (2019-12-25)
... that Tetsu Yasui(pictured), who was raised by devout Buddhists, later converted to Christianity and served as president of
Tokyo Woman's Christian University for 17 years? (2019-12-26)
... that a
cantata titled God is Now, based on the hymn "Gott ist gegenwärtig" and scored for choir, big band, organ, and live electronics, premiered on the 250th anniversary of
the hymn writer's death? (2019-12-31)
... that leaders within the Independent Network Charismatic Christianity movement do not aim to grow churches, but rather seek to influence the "seven mountains of culture"? (2020-01-10)
... that a verse from Psalm 85 inspired artworks depicting the kiss of Justice and Peace (example shown)? (2020-01-28) ... that a verse from Psalm 85 has inspired artworks depicting the kiss of Justice and Peace? (2021-07-03)
... that the bell of the Church of the Good Shepherd(pictured), one of New Zealand's most photographed buildings, commemorates photographer and explorer Edward Sealy and his granddaughter? (2020-01-29)
... that three cannonballs were discovered in the roof of the Church of St Cuthbert, Bellingham, during renovation works? (2020-01-30)
... that American missionary Vernon Andy Anderson noted that those accused of witchcraft in the
Belgian Congo were likely to be women over 55 and subject to murder by vigilantes? (2020-02-06)
... that 2019 concerts in the 19th-century Bergkirche in
Wiesbaden, Germany, included Pärt's Passio and Handel's Messiah? (2020-02-26)
... that Asmundtorp Church(pictured), built between 1895 and 1897, was financed with returns from Swedish farmsteads that were donated to the church during the
Middle Ages? (2020-03-05)
... that Heidi Cruz, wife of U.S. senator
Ted Cruz, is the primary breadwinner of the family? (2020-03-08)
... that Kakwkylla(depiction shown), a female saint venerated in Sweden and Germany during the late
Middle Ages, may have originated from a misunderstanding of
an Irish abbot's gender? (2020-03-10)
... that Riverside Church in
Manhattan includes a movie theater, gymnasium, and observation deck, and formerly contained a bowling alley? (2020-04-10)
... that the 1775 Easter hymn "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" became popular in both the United Kingdom and the United States, albeit with different words? (2020-04-12)
... that a wall and a statue of
Mary that survived the World War II bombing of St. Kolumba in
Cologne have been incorporated into a chapel within the
Kolumba art museum? (2020-05-06)
... that the churchyard of the Church of St Thomas à Becket in
Box, Wiltshire, includes a pyramidical tombstone (pictured, right) said to have been contrived to prevent the deceased's wife from dancing on his grave? (2020-05-14)
... that an annual church service is said to have been held at the Gospel Oak in
Polstead, Suffolk, for more than 1,000 years? (2020-05-17)
... that the producers of the 1990 American comedy film Home Alone were threatened with legal action by the French director of 3615 code Père Noël, who alleged that it was a remake of his film? (2020-05-17)
... that the Norwegian band Vardøger formed, recorded music, disbanded, re-formed to release Whitefrozen, disbanded again, re-formed to release Ghost Notes, and then disbanded yet again? (2020-05-18)
... that the Protestant Film Commission was founded partly in response to the sympathetic portrayal of Catholics in
Hollywood films of the 1940s, while Protestants were played for laughs? (2020-06-02)
... that St Anselm's Church, Pembury, a Catholic church for former Anglicans, once used an altar on wheels? (2020-06-18)
... that The Cincinnati Enquirer commended makers of the 1950 film Again Pioneers for basically telling the Protestant churches that sponsored the production that they "are not doing their jobs"? (2020-06-20)
... that the 1949 film Prejudice drives its point home by having characters use many
ethnic slurs, including "nigger", "wops", "dagoes", "dirty Jew", and "dumb Swede"? (2020-06-27)
... that Storkyrkan,
Stockholm's oldest church, was the first church in Sweden where
Mass was celebrated in Swedish? (2020-06-28)
... that as health minister of Indonesia, Johannes Leimena focused on
preventive care in rural regions, contrasting with prior colonial policy? (2020-07-03)
... that the founders of the literary journal Irreantum hoped it would become the source for nationwide publishers to access the best of
Mormon literature? (2020-07-25)
... that the
Doric columns used in Christ Church in
Byculla, India, were imported from England? (2020-07-27)
... that St. James Church in New York City was once occupied by a veterans' organization, an Indonesian church, and a group for Chinese senior citizens? (2020-07-29)
... that the Viklau Madonna(pictured) is one of the best-preserved 12th-century wooden sculptures in Europe? (2020-07-29)
... that during the
Congo Crisis, American Methodist bishop Newell Snow Booth was threatened at gunpoint by a soldier before being released by an officer who recognized him? (2020-07-30)
... that
Kanye West premiered his song "Wash Us in the Blood", which discusses mass incarceration, slavery, genocide, and drug-dealing, at a Christian opera? (2020-08-01)
... that after the American Revolutionary War, only five of First Presbyterian Church of Newtown's congregants remained, so a nearby Dutch church took them in? (2020-08-02)
... that students and adults of three different religions visited the Armenian church in
Kuzguncuk, Istanbul, as part of a social activity organized by the local women residents of these religions? (2020-08-08)
... that Jewish homes in the
Diaspora often feature a mizrah wall hanging (example pictured) to indicate the direction of prayer towards Jerusalem? (2020-09-06)
... that on the single "Bra Off" from
Natalie Lauren's album Handle with Care, Lauren asserts that women should not be subject to insult, assault, or
sexism when they do not wear a
bra? (2020-09-19)
... that
Newcastle architect Gibson Kyle lay in wait and caught a burglar who was absconding with 33 lb (15 kg) of lead belonging to
Richard Grainger? (2020-09-21)
... that
Kanye West used an extended version of his track "Jesus Is Lord" under the title of "Every Knee Shall Bow" for his film Jesus Is King? (2020-10-04)
... that limpa, a sweet Scandinavian rye bread, was historically leavened with fermented brewer's
wort? (2020-10-10)
... that Saint Ninnoc(depicted) is often shown with a stag lying at her feet, said to represent the at-risk women who came under her guardianship? (2020-12-01)
... that the
lehenga was the traditional dress of women belonging to the Bettiah Christian ethnoreligious community of India? (2020-12-03)
... that after a visit to a
ragged school, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, in which he uses the ghost of Jacob Marley(illustrated) as a mouthpiece for his own views on social responsibility? (2020-12-24)
... that John Montgomery Cooper advanced the theory that both South American and North American Indians were "marginal peoples" who were cultural relics from prehistoric times? (2021-01-10)
... that The Gospel of Afranius, a 1995 Russian novel and polemic challenging an American evangelical
apologist text, has not yet been translated to English? (2021-01-15)
... that according to a chaplain at
Nonnberg Abbey, an abbot was immediately struck blind after stealing one of Saint Erentrude's relics 300 years after her death? (2021-01-18)
... that after the Dreikönigskirche escaped destruction in World War II, it became Frankfurt's leading venue of church music performances (example pictured)? (2021-01-19)
... that virtuoso organist Frederick Swann was seen weekly on television by an estimated audience of 20 million viewers in 165 countries? (2021-01-20)
... that the Christuskirche in
Idstein-Walsdorf received this name in 1993, 600 years after a first chapel in the village was mentioned? (2021-01-24)
... that clergyman David Williamson's time as an outlaw is commemorated in the traditional Scottish song "
Dainty Davie"? (2021-01-25)
... that after Saint Eustadiola, a 7th century
abbess in
Bourges, France, prayed with her nuns for rain during a drought, they got drenched before they were able to return to the convent? (2021-01-26)
... that Dax Reynosa began his hip-hop career as a
battle rapper who would burn the rhyme books of defeated opponents, and later co-produced a documentary depicting battle rap in
Los Angeles? (2021-02-02)
... that although
Dallas minister Walker Railey was acquitted of the attempted murder of his wife in a criminal court, a civil court awarded an $18 million judgment against him? (2021-02-02)
... that Gore Vidal's novel Live from Golgotha has been called a "masterpiece of blasphemous vulgarity"? (2021-02-03)
... that rapper Zane One does not listen to much hip hop music, and her debut album features samples from classic rock and folk songs? (2021-02-06)
... that the Dreikönigskirche in
Dresden, a Baroque church completed in 1739, was bombed in 1945, not restored until 1984, and served as the seat of the state parliament from 1990? (2021-02-10)
... that the English clergyman Frank Thewlis was related to Prime Minister
Harold Wilson and wore a red handkerchief in his jacket pocket when preaching to show his support for Wilson's
Labour Party? (2021-02-19)
... that philanthropist Sidney Hill began a new life in England as a gentleman farmer, adding stables to the estate, a dairy and Langford Bullock Palaces for his prized
shorthorn cattle? (2021-02-20)
... that the Indonesian drama film Ave Maryam focuses on a forbidden romantic relationship between a Roman Catholic nun and her pastor? (2021-03-01)
... that Millie Dienert was called the "first lady of prayer" for her work on behalf of evangelist
Billy Graham? (2021-03-21)
... that the music styles in the discography of mewithoutYou range from screamed post-hardcore vocals to acoustic campfire songs? (2021-03-22)
... that so many people attended the golden-jubilee celebrations for the pastor of Galeed Chapel in Brighton in 1932 that they had to be held in a different church? (2021-03-23)
... that Dalby Church(pictured) may once have been part of a Danish royal palace complex? (2021-03-27)
... that when Canadian preacher Perry F. Rockwood criticized the Presbyterian church in 1947, he was ordered to recant and burn his sermons? (2021-04-05)
... that Grote Stadskerk, a church located in the historical
centre of
Paramaribo, is the first and the largest church of the
Moravian congregation in Suriname? (2021-04-07)
... that the miracles that established Saint Glodesind's claim to sainthood did not begin until 25 years or more after her death, and many of them occurred over 200 years later? (2021-04-18)
... that one of the Cehennemağzı Caves in northwestern Turkey features a very old Christian church, which was used as a secret place of worship in the
first years of Christianity? (2021-05-03)
... that the 11th-century Dalby Gospel Book is the first medieval manuscript known to have existed in Denmark? (2021-05-07)
... that the Heiligen-Geist-Kapelle in Bruck, a unique late-
Gothic chapel with a star
rib vault(pictured), was almost demolished to make room for a highway? (2021-07-04)
... that the Basilica of Saint Maternus in
Walcourt, Belgium, contains one of the oldest preserved Marian devotional statues in Western Christianity? (2021-07-07)
... that when Cordula Wöhler was expelled from a Lutheran pastor's household for converting to Catholicism, she wrote
a poem that became one of the most popular
hymns to Mary in German? (2021-07-21)
... that, while drunk, Romanian government minister Gheorghe Chițu allegedly had a dentist "pull out the roots of all his molars and his front teeth", resulting in permanent neurological damage? (2021-07-27)
... that New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral(pictured), praised upon completion as the "finest church edifice on the American continent", was funded mostly by poor Irish Catholic parishioners? (2021-08-13)
... that three verses from Psalm 86 became part of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah, including the opening "Lord, bow thine ear to our pray'r"? (2021-08-18)
... that the steel-framed Church Missions House(pictured) in New York City predates the city's first steel skyscraper? (2021-08-19)
... that Phyllis Le Cappelaine Burke helped found the
Sydney chapter of the St. Joan Social and Political Alliance, which advocated for equal rights for women? (2021-08-22)
... that all stanzas of the 1963 song "Herr, gib uns Mut zum Hören" (Lord, give us courage to listen), with text and tune by Kurt Rommel, begin with a prayer for courage? (2021-12-03)
... that during W. Sterling Cary's presidency of the
National Council of Churches in the 1970s, the council voted to support gay rights for the first time in its history? (2021-12-11)
... that
Salvatorian priest Pankratius Pfeiffer saved hundreds of Jews in Rome during the Second World War? (2021-12-13)
... that William Rounseville Alger's(pictured) 1857
Fourth of July speech was so controversial that the city of Boston refused to print it for seven years? (2021-12-27)
... that Chninkel, a Franco-Belgian comic mixing Tolkien-like fantasy with Biblical themes, has been translated into several languages? (2021-12-30)
... that
Dante used the third circle of hell(illustrated) to discuss contemporary Florentine politics rather than the sin of
gluttony? (2021-12-30)
... that Nothgottes(interior pictured), a pilgrimage destination in the
Rheingau since the 14th century, is a monastery of
Cistercians from Vietnam? (2022-01-06)
... that
Kanye West's "24" was recorded in tribute to
Kobe Bryant a few days after his death? (2022-01-18)
... that the text of "In dir ist Freude" ("In Thee is Gladness") was written in the 16th century to a 1591 dance song melody by
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and first published in a collection of Christmas carols? (2022-01-19)
... that Saint Juliana Olshanska is said to have appeared to Archimandrite
Peter Mogila to reproach him for the lack of respect paid to her relics? (2022-02-12)
... that the organ in Hastings Unitarian Church had previously been in three other Unitarian churches? (2022-02-17)
... that a London shipbuilder founded Wellington Square Baptist Church in Hastings out of gratitude for his daughter's health improving while staying in the seaside town? (2022-02-20)
... that Cheok Hong Cheong sold bananas for a decade, after which he became superintendent of the Church of England of Melbourne? (2022-02-26)
... that the second college founded by David Nelson was known as an "
abolitionist factory"? (2022-03-05)
... that two sculptures from 1428 (one pictured) in the Church of Saint Quentin in
Tournai are among the earliest examples of a style that was to dominate most of Europe for the following century? (2022-03-10)
... that John C. Young served as president of
Centre College for nearly 27 years, longer than any other president in the school's history? (2022-03-20)
... that Jean Webster daily served hundreds of people free food directly out of her home kitchen for over a decade? (2022-03-22)
... that "What do you hope to achieve with this?" were the last words of the Nigerian college student Deborah Yakubu while being lynched for alleged
blasphemy? (2022-06-01)
... that James McChord was elected to the presidency of
Centre College by its board of trustees, but died before he could take office? (2022-06-03)
... that after bombing in World War II, the surviving tower of the Friedenskirche, a Lutheran church in
Stuttgart, was combined with a new concrete structure? (2022-06-11)
... that the Patriarchy really does control the sisters of the Monastery Saint Claire in Nazareth? (2022-06-14)
... that Red Jordan Arobateau adopted "Red" as his first name after dyeing his hair red because he thought the color represented sensuality and eroticism of his work? (2022-07-02)
... that based on the biblical principle of omnia sunt communia,
Thomas Aquinas argued that theft is not a
sin if the thief genuinely needs what they are stealing? (2022-07-13)
... that
Kanye West recorded "Everything We Need" as a new version of his leaked track "The Storm"? (2022-08-01)
... that Joseph-Alfred Archambeault threatened to excommunicate a writer who criticised the Catholic Church's opposition to the theory of evolution? (2022-08-01)
... that within the graveyard of the Category A–listed Crossmichael Parish Church, there is a memorial (pictured) to William Gordon of Greenlaw that is itself
designated Category A in its own right? (2022-08-09)
... that Akron Baptist Temple(pictured) once featured 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) red lettering that flashed? (2022-08-10)
... that despite two 16th-century books often being referred to as the Edwardine Ordinals, the word "ordinal" was not applied to them until the 17th century? (2022-09-13)
... that despite the commercial success of previous
Kendrick Brothers films, star
Kirk Cameron said that Lifemark was unable to secure a distributor due to its pro-life stance? (2022-10-02)
... that the nonconformist minister Ichabod Chauncey was banished from England under the
Religion Act 1592 and spent two years in exile in Holland where he published a defence of his actions? (2022-11-06)
... that in 1772, Gowan Pamphlet(pictured) was ordained while still a slave? (2022-11-08)
... that the Maria Advocata(pictured) is one of the oldest icons of Mary, mother of Jesus, and that according to legend it was painted by Luke the Evangelist? (2022-12-20)
... that use of the 1604 Book of Common Prayer was authorized by the king of England, but later outlawed by Parliament? (2022-12-30)
... that while at high school, Johann Georg Seidenbusch declared to
Our Lady: "ad carissimam Sponsam te eligo" (I choose thee as my dearest Bride)? (2023-01-05)
... that the medieval
baptismal font of Löderup Church in Sweden contains a depiction of a ship with a dragon's head at the stem, similar to a
Viking ship? (2023-01-05)
... that Romanian poet Dimitrie Stelaru said that he once traveled to Paris by truck, adding "I hardly remember anything, I was drunk the whole time"? (2023-01-17)
... that the
particular church to which one belongs determines the right rite and the use to use? (2023-02-18)
... that Jane Dempsey Douglass became the first woman to head a worldwide communion of churches in 1990? (2023-02-21)
... that Minuscule 1689, a Greek minuscule manuscript of the
New Testament, went missing for nearly 100 years after it was moved during World War I for safety reasons? (2023-02-24)
... that in 1785, at the age of 24, James Freeman convinced his congregation to adopt his revised prayer book, which contributed to
King's Chapel becoming the first Unitarian congregation in the United States? (2023-02-25)
... that the 14th-century St Mary's Church, Mablethorpe, in
Lincolnshire, England, is constructed of material classified as random mixed rubble, red brick and slate? (2023-03-16)
... that in a recent book, David Bentley Hart – a
New Testament translator and proponent of the existence of fairies – engages in dialogues with his dog Roland (both pictured)? (2023-04-06)
... that during the time of the
Church Fathers, the velatio nuptialis was used by the church to validate the sacrament of marriage and emphasize its importance? (2023-04-11)
... that The Vision of God sparked controversy in Mexican radio? (2023-04-12)
... that 19th-century American evangelist
Dwight L. Moody was converted to Christianity in the stock room of a shoe store by his Sunday School teacher Edward Kimball? (2023-05-06)
... that a photograph inspired by one of
Leonardo da Vinci's paintings shows 14 Israeli soldiers and was described as a "homoerotic challenge to Israeli machismo"? (2023-05-18)
... that Luo Wenzao(pictured) became the first
Catholic bishop from China in 1685, after initially declining the appointment in 1677? (2023-05-24) ... that Luo Wenzao became the first
Catholic bishop from China in 1685, after initially declining the appointment in 1677? (2024-05-24)
... that one
abolitionist said that William L. Breckinridge's anti-slavery views would "disqualify [him] from political usefulness"? (2023-05-27)
... that evangelist Bob Harrington would drive miles out of his way to avoid the sight of a steeple? (2023-05-28)
... that to prevent bishops from opposing the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, reformers had the entire papalist party arrested during a debate? (2023-06-08)
... that Emmanuel Zheng Manuo was the first Chinese student in Europe and the first Chinese
Jesuit priest? (2023-07-19)
... that because of violent reactions – such as
Jenny Geddes's on 23 July 1637 (pictured) – to a Scottish prayer book,
Walter Whitford kept loaded pistols visible to his congregants while using the book? (2023-07-23)
... that Chinese missionary Tan See Boo moved to Singapore to work for the
Presbyterian Church, but later returned to China to persuade Christians to leave the Presbyterian Church? (2023-08-27)
... that Minuscule 1582, a Greek manuscript of the New Testament Gospels, has an ancient note before
Mark 16:9–20 which casts doubt on the authenticity of these verses? (2023-10-23)
... that according to Christian tradition, the cloth used to shroud the body of Christ was made of sindon? (2023-10-26)
... that the Retable of the Virgin of Montserrat(pictured) was commissioned by a merchant, perhaps as a sign of gratitude for his safe return from a shipwrecked journey from
Savona to
Valencia? (2023-11-15)
... that the pastor John Littlejohn went from selling pornographic literature to sailors as a youth to protecting the Declaration of Independence? (2023-12-21)
... that on Christmas Eve in 1818, the Christmas carol "Stille Nacht" ("
Silent Night") was first performed in the Nikolauskirche in
Oberndorf, Austria? (2023-12-24)
... that Dimitrie Ralet, a pioneer Romanian orientalist, commended
Ottoman reformers for not "blindly adopting what we in Europe take to mean civilization"? (2023-12-28)
... that when Abbess Stephanie of Courtenay's niece's marriage to the king of Jerusalem was annulled, the court's reasoning was so flimsy that a noted jurist had to ask Stephanie to explain it to him? (2024-01-04)
... that two towers remain (pictured) of the otherwise almost completely demolished Abbey of Saint Winnoc, because they were used as
daymarks by sailors? (2024-01-26)
... that a street in
Bucharest was once named after Ioniță Tunsu, an outlaw who used to visit his girlfriend there? (2024-02-04)
... that the only proposal from the 1749 book Free and Candid Disquisitions to be implemented by the
Church of England was a prayer "for the ceasing of the distemper" of cattle? (2024-02-05)
... that Lewes Friends Meeting House, built in 1784, replaced an earlier building whose proximity to a slaughterhouse made it "unfit to sit in"? (2024-03-18)
... that in the 3:16 game, Tim Tebow threw for 316 yards with 31.6 yards per completion, the ratings for the game were 31.6, and the opposing team's time of possession was 31 minutes 6 seconds? (2024-04-08)
... that within the Armenian Rite, it takes 40 days and more than 40 flowers, herbs, and spices to create the
chrism known as myron? (2024-04-10)
... that the Federal Aviation Administration uses the brightly lit Oakland California Temple(pictured) as a navigation beacon, despite complaints about light pollution? (2024-04-10)
... that Syncletica of Alexandria, a 4th-century saint and
Desert Mother, was called "an upper-class girl who does not care about her body"? (2024-04-14)
... that the 18th-century hymn "Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed" has been criticised because its lyrics have singers call themselves a "worm"? (2024-06-03)
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... that a Grand Illumination is an outdoor
ceremony involving the simultaneous activation of electric
Christmas lights and is derived from an
English tradition of placing lighted
candles in the windows of homes and public buildings to celebrate a special event? (2005-11-28)
... that Bangor Cathedral in
North Wales was completed without a tower or spire because of a cracking foundation? (2005-11-30)
... that in
Baroque Rome, when the Austrian-born artist-designer Johann Paul Schor was not collaborating with
Bernini, he might be called on to design sculptural architecture to be executed in
sugar at a banquet? (2006-01-18)
... that Anna of Kashin, a
Russian medieval princess, was twice
canonized as a holy protectress of women who suffer the loss of relatives? (2006-03-07)
... that the highest distinction among the Caloyers, a
Greekmonastic order, involves spending one's entire life alone, confined in a cave on top of a mountain? (2006-05-31)
... that
Epiphanius's most important work, the Panarion, is ironically the only surviving source of information on several
early Christiansects that he sought to eliminate with his writing? (2006-06-16)
... that Onesimos Nesib, who translated the
Bible into
Oromo language, was accused of blasphemy because he delivered his sermons in his native language and not
Amharic, and the local
Ethiopian Orthodox priests could not understand? (2006-07-16)
... that the reconstruction of Kecharis Monastery (pictured) in
Armenia was delayed a decade due to an
earthquake,
war, blockade, and the collapse of the
USSR? (2006-08-25)
... that several years prior to the downfall and execution of the
Romanov dynasty, the image of
God's Mother disappeared from their patron Fyodorovskaya icon (pictured)? (2006-09-08)
... that in the medieval Greek monastery of Hosios Loukas (pictured) infirm pilgrims were encouraged to sleep by the side of the local saint's tomb in order to be healed by
incubation? (2006-09-22)
... that the money for the construction of the Washington Memorial Chapel(pictured) at
Valley Forge was raised in small increments (nickels and dimes), raising the building a few feet at a time? (2006-11-04)
... that the Korpela movement was a short-lived
cult during the
1930s in Northern
Sweden and
Finland whose controversial sexual rituals eventually led to the arrest of 60 followers? (2006-11-28)
... that Dr. Matthew Lukwiya convinced
nurses who refused to treat patients during an 2000
Ebola outbreak in northern
Uganda to return to work? (2006-12-08)
... that owing to a fictitious 13th century account,
St.Gratus of Aosta(pictured) is typically depicted carrying the head of
John the Baptist? (2006-12-09)
... that one of the finest
khachkar memorial stones is located at Goshavank Monastery in
Armenia, the place where the law of Armenia was first codified by
Mkhitar Gosh in the late 12th and early 13th century? (2006-12-18)
... that Squad Five-O grew from an indie band and eventually signed to the general market label
Capitol Records before disbanding in 2006? (2007-02-13)
... that the view that
Jesus and
John were lovers, considered a
blasphemy, evolved during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries? (2007-02-20)
... that Anne-Marie Javouhey, the founder and abbess of a new religious order, was one of the first women to establish
missions in
Africa? (2007-02-25)
... that Henry le Chen was put in control of a
sheriffdom by
King Edward I, despite being a senior royal councillor during the reign of
King John, whom Edward deposed? (2007-02-25)
... that in constructing the Via della Conciliazione (pictured),
Benito Mussolini ordered the demolition of an entire
Roman neighborhood, and the forcible
eviction of its residents to settlements outside the city? (2007-02-25)
... that the Evangelist portraits of early medieval
Gospel Books used compositions taken from the
pagan author portraits of the Late Classical period? (2007-02-26)
... that when John Horden sent his
Cree-language translation of the Bible back to England, the printers returned it with a printing press but no instructions on how to operate it? (2007-02-27)
... that Albinus of Angers, who as bishop reportedly used diocesan funds to ransom people captured by pirates, thereafter became the
patron saint against pirate attack and of coastal communities as far away as
Poland and
New Jersey? (2007-03-04)
... that Amaro spent three hundred years standing at the gate of the Earthly Paradise without being allowed in, according to the Life of Saint Amaro? (2007-03-04)
... that shortly after Jonah of Manchuria died in 1925, he is said to have appeared in a dream before a crippled boy saying "Here, take my legs. I don't need them anymore," and the boy woke up completely healed? (2007-03-30)
... that the 800,000-member Global Pastors Network continues the legacy of
Bill Bright by attempting to, in their own words, "win 1 billion people to
Christ"? (2007-04-04)
... that Alexander of Bergamo is thought to have survived the
decimation of the
Theban Legion for their conversion to Christianity only to be individually beheaded later for the same reason? (2007-04-05)
... that in one type of
Anglo-Saxontrial, the accused tried to prove innocence by swallowing a piece of bread and cheese, called "corsned", without
choking? (2007-05-12)
... that the Lutheran liturgical calendar includes several biblical personages as “Saint” though it is commonly believed that Lutherans “do not have saints”? (2007-06-19)
... that African American
Methodist preacher and missionary John Marrant undertook a mission to the
Cherokee while he was a teenager? (2007-06-21)
... that during the annual
romeria from the Guadalajara Cathedral to the Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan, the statue of Our Lady of Expectation is accompanied by more than 3,000,000 people? (2007-07-03)
... that the Speculum Humanae Salvationis (Mirror of Human Salvation) (one page pictured) was one of the most popular illustrated books of the
Middle Ages? (2007-07-05)
... that the known writings of Caius, Presbyter of Rome exist only in fragments, many of which were preserved in the Ecclesiastical History of
Eusebius of Caesarea? (2007-07-19)
... that the Baptist Foundation of Arizona (BFA) filed for the largest bankruptcy of a religious organization in U.S. history after its 600 million dollar fraud went undetected by the same
Big Five firm that audited
Enron? (2007-07-25)
... that the Yangzhou riot of 1868 almost led to a
Sino-
British war because many Chinese believed that English missionaries were stealing children? (2007-08-06)
... that
Catholic bishop and
Visigothic political leader Masona built the first
hospital in
Spain and endowed it with farms to provide its patients with food? (2007-08-07)
... that German leaders of the World Confederation of Labour were sentenced to
Nazi concentration camps in the 1930s for their political opposition to the growth of authoritarian governments in Europe? (2007-08-24)
... that after spending seven years traveling across the
Saskatchewan District, Rev.
Robert Rundle was allowed to establish a mission in 1847, only to be forced to leave a year later due to health issues? (2007-08-26)
... that every Byzantine Emperor under the Angeloi dynasty was overthrown in a violent coup d'état? (2007-09-20)
... that of the nine children born of Martina, Heraclius' wife and niece, four died in infancy, one had a twisted neck and another was deaf & dumb? (2007-09-20)
... that Julius Joseph Overbeck was unable to be received into the Orthodox Church as a priest for his Western Rite project because he had married after his
ordination as a
Roman Catholic priest? (2007-10-04)
... that the firm formed by John Brogden to build
Manchester Victoria station and various railroads to the rapidly expanding
Manchester in mid-19th century began as a contractor to undertake the sweeping, cleansing and watering of the city? (2007-11-11)
... that the Raphael Cartoons(example pictured),
tapestry designs from 1515 which are among the most influential works of
Renaissance art, remained torn into strips for 175 years? (2007-11-12)
... that the spread of Christianity in Asia is believed to have reached
China during the
Tang Dynasty, where it was known as the Luminous Religion? (2007-12-09)
... that
Wales had one of the highest
literacy rates in
eighteenth century Europe thanks to the wealthy Bridget Bevan(pictured), who sponsored a system of "circulating schools"? (2007-12-16)
... that the only elements of the Nativity of Jesus in art(example pictured) to span the whole history of its depiction are the
baby, the
ox and the
ass? (2007-12-16)
... that John Rogers, who helped to prepare a version of the
Hebrew Bible, also helped to introduce the
man engine, an important reform in
Cornish mining? (2007-12-18)
... that the semantron, intended for summoning
Eastern Orthodox Christians to worship, has been used as a deadly weapon in church brawls? (2007-12-21)
... that when the old All Saints Church, Marple was replaced by a new church 30 metres away in 1880, the tower from the old church was retained and is now used as a free-standing bell-tower? (2007-12-24)
... that, upon
exhumation, the 10th century saint Rasso was found to be 2 meters (6' 6") tall, although, given that his grave was 2 and a half meters, he had earlier been thought to be even taller? (2007-12-24)
... that according to the Christmas Price Index it will cost your true love US$78,100 to buy you all those gifts this year? (2007-12-25)
... that Philippine Christmas lanterns, called Parols (pictured), are also used in Christmas celebrations in
Austria,
Canada and
California? (2007-12-25)
... that as well as serving as the assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, Kent R. Hill has also published books and served as the president of the
Institute on Religion and Democracy? (2007-12-26)
... that when St Hilary's Church in
Wallasey,
England burnt down in 1857, a new church was built separately, leaving the
tower of the old medieval church as a free-standing edifice? (2007-12-27)
... that the Koca Mustafa Pasha Mosque in
Istanbul features a
cypress tree with a chain that was swung between two people who gave contradictory statements to determine which one was telling the truth? (2008-01-14)
... that William Melmoth's
1711 work The Great Importance of a Religious Life Consider'd went through thirty editions and sold over 420,000 copies by the end of the century? (2008-01-14)
... that writer Ngaire Thomas was forced at the age of 15 to apologise in front of 600 members of her church congregation for "
fornicating" with her cousin, when in fact she had only kissed him? (2008-01-15)
... that the Directa Decretal (385 AD) was a strongly-worded letter by
Pope Siricius reminding priests of the perpetual
celibacy required of them? (2008-01-16)
... that St George's Church, Brighton(pictured) became so popular after
Queen Adelaide started attending that in order to increase its seating capacity, master builder
Thomas Cubitt built an extra gallery in one week? (2008-01-20)
... that, according to legend, the
Northumbrianprincess and
saintOsana's grave is said to have trapped the
concubine of the
priest of the church in which she was buried? (2008-02-06)
... that John Percival, when
headmaster of
Rugby School, gained the
nickname "Percival of the knees" because he was concerned about "impurity" and insisted that boys secure their
football shorts below the knee with elastic? (2008-02-12)
... that rubrics were originally anything written in red letters in a
manuscript, but now most often mean instructions, especially for officiating
clergy, or
scoring tools for tests in education? (2008-02-13)
... that the First Presbyterian Church of Chester, New York, has worshipped in three different buildings, all in different locations, in its history? (2008-02-26)
... that "Maphriyono" (
Maphrian) meaning, "to make fruitful", or "one who gives fecundity" is another term for
Catholicos of India? (2008-04-04)
... that
Portland,
Oregon–based evangelical minister Luis Palau has collaborated with government leaders, and 500
Christian pastors, to rally volunteers to address
homelessness? (2008-04-04)
... that Mavia was an
Arabqueen who in 378 AD personally led her troops out of southern
Syria in revolt against
Roman rule? (2008-04-07)
... that Moses, the first
ArabOrthodoxbishop, administered his duties while journeying with a nomadic confederation of Arabs in the fourth century? (2008-04-07)
... that according to his
hagiography, Saint Severus of Naples temporarily brought a man back from
death in order to testify on the size of his
debt and save his
widow from slavery? (2008-04-07)
... that the Pentecostal Union of Romania has experienced rapid growth in recent years due to conversions and high birthrates, with some families having up to 18 children? (2008-04-14)
... that when St. Andrew's Church in
Pasadena was built in the 1920s, it was compared to "a jeweled crown on the head of a
Byzantine queen"? (2008-04-19)
... that
Academy Award winner Going My Way was filmed at St. Monica's (pictured), and the irascible old Irish priest character was based on its pastor? (2008-04-22)
... that Annie Armstrong, for whom the
Southern BaptistEaster collection for domestic
missions is named, resigned from the missionary organization she founded vowing never to serve the SBC again? (2008-04-25)
... that Kloster Wienhausen, a medieval convent in Germany (pictured), has the world's oldest surviving example of
rivet eyeglasses? (2008-04-25)
... that the bronze of Mary (pictured) atop Mary Star of the Sea, known as the "Fishermen's Church," is lit at night so she can be seen from the
Port of Los Angeles harbor? (2008-04-28)
... that the photographs taken of Peter Jones in 1845 (pictured) are the oldest surviving photographs of a
North American Indian? (2008-05-04)
... that the annual Chembuduppu festival at St. George Orthodox Church, Chandanapally is held in commemoration of non-
Christians bringing
rice to feed hundreds of voluntary labourers during its construction? (2008-05-04)
... that visiting
Cistercian monks could extend the hospitality of Stratford Langthorne Abbey, near
London, by supplying wine and beer for themselves and oats and hay for their horses? (2008-05-06)
... that McCarty Church(pictured) in
Los Angeles gained attention for its pastor's decision to racially integrate his white Protestant church in the mid-1950s? (2008-05-08)
... that in 1687 Philippe Couplet published Confucius Sinarum Philosophus(pictured), the first known
Western translation of a
Chineseliterary work? (2008-05-09)
... that De Doctrina Christiana, identified as
John Milton's attempt to define his own particular
Christian theology, was suppressed by the government of the day and not published until 150 years after his death? (2008-05-10)
... that the 5th-century
Sassanian Emperor of IranYazdegerd I(pictured on coin) was given the
epithets of Ramashtras ("the most quiet") as well as Al Khasha ("the harsh")? (2008-06-12)
... that the Hortus conclusus or "enclosed garden" was both a title and
attribute of
Mary and a type of actual garden? (2008-06-30)
... that
ScottishmissionaryCarstairs Douglas compiled the first comprehensive
Amoy-English Dictionary in 1873, which, with revisions, is still in use today? (2008-07-01)
... that according to legend, a
spring came up on all three spots where the severed head of
CatholicmartyrSaint Baudilus bounced after his martyrdom in
Nîmes? (2008-07-21)
... that the
excavation at Norton Priory,
Cheshire, in the 1970s revealed the largest floor of
mosaic tiles to be found in any modern excavation? (2008-07-21)
... that the Rev. William Plenderleath's book Memoranda of Cherhill was first published 95 years after the author's death? (2008-07-24)
... that a low side window in the 12th-century St Helen's Church, Hangleton, may have been used as a
hagioscope by
lepers wanting to listen to services without entering the building? (2008-07-27)
... that the Turin-Milan Hours(pictured) is thought to have involved at least 11 artists, and became physically separated into at least five sections? (2008-08-14)
... that Czesława Kwoka, a
PolishCatholic child victim of the
Holocaust, was the subject of a 2007 award-winning mixed-media presentation? (2008-09-02)
... that carved
Romanesque stone heads (pictured) were added to the walls of Temple Cronan in
Ireland as decoration during renovation in the 12th century? (2008-09-09)
... that
Abandon's music was first discovered when a
record label manager was dining and got distracted by hearing them play a concert next door? (2008-10-31)
... that the roof of the 12th-century St Nicolas Church, Portslade had to be
jacked back into place over several months in 1959, having moved a
foot (30 cm) out of alignment over the centuries? (2008-11-01)
... that Leo the Mathematician, called by some the cleverest man in 9th century
Byzantium, invented a system of beacons to warn of Arab raids and a fabled levitating throne for the emperor? (2008-11-20)
... that Holy Land USA(pictured), a
Connecticut theme park intended to replicate
Bethlehem and
Jerusalem of the biblical era, once attracted more than 40,000 visitors annually? (2008-12-14)
... that the origins of the Church of Caucasian Albania date to Saint Eliseus' efforts in the first century AD to spread
Christianity to the area? (2008-12-21)
... that Paschal Eze resigned as editor-in-chief of The Daily Observer, a newspaper in
The Gambia, after being pressured by management not to publish stories about a certain politician? (2009-01-13)
... that, according to theories by Dennis MacDonald, the earliest books of the
New Testament are responses to the
HomericEpics, thus "nearly everything written on early Christian narrative is flawed"? (2009-01-23)
... that the popular
Calypso Carol was written by an Englishman, Michael Perry, while still a student, and only became famous by accident? (2009-01-23)
... that in May 1776, the future
Chaldean Patriarch Yohannan Hormizd was consecrated
metropolitan bishop with right of succession at the age of 16 by his uncle, Patriarch Mar Eliya XII Denkha? (2009-01-29)
... that
Rome needed eight years to confirm the election of Peter Jarweh as Patriarch of the
Syrian Catholic Church because he had received funds from Protestant missionaries to buy a printing press? (2009-03-08)
... that
Grammy-nominated
CCM musician Ayiesha Woods was the first female to receive a "Producer of the Year" award at the Gospel Music Marlin Awards? (2009-03-31)
... that according to the
magico-medical text Cyranides, miscarriages caused by female demons such as Gello can be prevented by wearing an aetite as an
amulet? (2009-04-06)
... that ChristianCinema.com gives
filmmakers a place to submit screening copies of their work with the possibility of being distributed and promoted by the website? (2009-04-13)
... that the Qedarites, a prominent
Arab tribal confederation between the 8th and 4th centuries BC, were named after the second son of
Ishmael named Qedar? (2009-04-24)
... that the linguistic works of Daniel Gravius are used by modern scholars to shed light on the society of the 17th-century
Siraya people of
Taiwan? (2009-05-02)
... that a former minister at Hove Methodist Church,
England, spoke so forcefully during sermons that
Communioncruets would sometimes be sent crashing to the floor? (2009-05-10)
... that New York's Hyde Park Reformed Dutch Church(pictured) secured its original building, a union church, by growing the fastest out of the several denominations that shared it? (2009-06-01)
... that following the Grue Church fire on
Pentecost 1822 in
Solør,
Norway, in which at least 113 people perished, a law was passed prescribing that all doors of public buildings must swing outwards? (2009-06-07)
... that St Mark's Church, Brighton was originally planned as a school's private chapel, but served as a public church for nearly 150 years before the school took it over? (2009-06-09)
... that the former Union Chapel,
Brighton's oldest
Nonconformist place of worship, was converted into a
pub after 300 years of religious use? (2009-06-10)
... that Bible translations in the Middle Ages were rare because "the vernacular appeared simply and totally inadequate" for such a prestigious work? (2009-06-23)
... that Robert Keable's 1921 novel Simon Called Peter propelled him to prominence when it sold 600,000 copies, was cited in a double murder trial, and referenced in The Great Gatsby? (2009-07-08)
... that in 1861, plans to build St John the Evangelist's Church closer to
Burgess Hill town centre than first agreed caused local landowners to place a newspaper advert with their strong objections? (2009-07-14)
... that King Kot aMweeky of the
Kuba Kingdom told his people that William Henry Sheppard(pictured) was his deceased son, in order to spare Sheppard's life? (2009-07-16)
... that during the first recording session of
Sanctus Real's album The Face of Love, the studio was 90°
F and "nobody wanted to be there"? (2009-07-22)
... that the first newspaper in
Hawaii was printed by students of Lorrin Andrews in 1834, on a printing press brought to the islands in 1820? (2009-07-29)
... that in 1904 the whitewash was removed from the west wall of St. George's church, Trotton leading to the discovery of an unprecedented 600-year-old wall painting? (2009-07-29)
... that descendants of 17th-century members of the congregation of the Vrouwekerk, a medieval church in
Leiden, the
Netherlands, include four
U.S. presidents? (2009-08-01)
... that on Reek Sunday, in a tradition of the past 1,500 years, thousands of people from across the world have embarked on an annual national
pilgrimage up
Croagh Patrick, some barefoot? (2009-08-03)
... that Pope Pius XII's 1942 Christmas address was interpreted differently throughout Europe by contemporaries and remains a "lightning rod" of historical interpretations? (2009-08-06)
... that
blackBaptist minister and former
slaveR. H. Boyd had so much success in religious publishing that it caused a split in his
denomination? (2009-08-15)
... that William of Pagula's book Oculus Sacerdotis, intended to be a manual for parish priests, was written in such a way that many of the priests couldn't read it? (2009-09-07)
... that the married Western Ukrainian Clergy became a hereditary caste that dominated western Ukrainian society? (2009-10-06)
... that the Rev. George W. Bridges libelled anti-slavery activists
Escoffery and
Lecesne when he said they wanted to "sheath their daggers in the breasts of their white inhabitants"? (2009-10-07)
... that a church in Worthing, England (pictured), has the world's only known replica of the
Sistine Chapel ceiling, hand-painted at two-thirds scale by an untrained artist? (2009-10-09)
... that the exact location of the city of
Cialis, where Bento de Góis became convinced in 1605 that
Cathay is
China, has been a subject of debate among later historians? (2009-10-28)
... that
church services may be held in
Serbia under the crown of a zapis, a large
oak with a cross inscribed into its bark, sacred for the village at which it is situated? (2009-10-30)
... that missionary John D. Paris(pictured) had one of his churches occupied by a self-proclaimed prophet who predicted the end of the world in 1868? (2009-11-11)
... that the documentary film Collision spotlights several days of debate between prominent atheist
Christopher Hitchens and conservative theologian
Douglas Wilson? (2009-11-13)
... that Maesyronnen Chapel in
Powys,
Wales, was one of the earliest
Nonconformist chapels to be built in the country, and that it is still in use as a chapel? (2009-11-16)
... that once Li Yingshi, a decorated veteran of the
Korean War of 1592–1598, converted to Catholicism, it took him and two
Jesuits three days to find and
burn all the prohibited books in his library? (2009-11-23)
... that the Los Angeles Times wrote that a motorist passing the playground at Precious Blood Church(pictured) might think "he'd been transported to a Catholic school in circa-1950s Chicago or Pittsburgh"? (2009-12-01)
... that St George's Church, Worthing established three mission chapels in
the town, including a tiny hut jokingly known as "The Cathedral"? (2009-12-07)
... that in 1999, Robyn Regehr made his
National Hockey League debut with the
Calgary Flames less than four months after breaking both legs in a car accident that doctors feared would end his career? (2009-12-09)
... that the 2009
television movieA Dog Named Christmas was based on a novel by Greg Kincaid, who said his family hated the story when he originally wrote it? (2009-12-25)
... that the bronze Gniezno Doors, of about 1175, are the only
Romanesque doors in Europe decorated with scenes from the life of a saint (his murder pictured)? (2010-01-08)
... that prior to the 10th century in
Western art, no attempt was made to portray God the Father in terms of a human form? (2010-01-08)
... that next to the 19th-century St Botolph's Church in
Heene,
West Sussex, stand the "somewhat scanty" remains of its 13th-century predecessor? (2010-01-15)
... that St Andrew's Church(pictured) in
Worthing,
West Sussex, stood unused for two years after its completion as controversy raged over the "Worthing Madonna"? (2010-01-16)
... that the medieval chronicler
Matthew Paris accused the medieval bishop Hugh of Wells (d. 1235) of being biased against monks, calling him "an untiring persecutor of monks"? (2010-01-17)
... that the last two buildings used by the Makawao Union Church were built atop the foundation of a 19th-century
sugarcane mill in
Maui,
Hawaii? (2010-01-28)
... that all of early
14th centuryEurope was consecrated under the protection of Our Lady of Europe(statue pictured) in
Gibraltar where devotion has continued for over 700 years? (2010-02-01)
... that Dwight Baldwin, a 19th-century missionary to
Hawaii, is credited with saving hundreds of lives as a physician despite having only an
honorary degree in medicine? (2010-02-05)
... that the depictions of fish on the
medieval statue of St Christopher in
Norton Priory,
Cheshire, England, are so realistic that five different species can be identified? (2010-02-12)
... that Minuscule 642, manuscript of the New Testament, was brought from the Greek Archipelago to England by
Joseph Carlyle, orientalist? (2010-03-09)
... that the "restrained and dignified" Zion Chapel is the oldest
Nonconformist church in
East Grinstead—a
West Sussex town with a long history of Protestant Nonconformity and alternative religion? (2010-03-09)
... that the phrase "peace on earth, good will to men" derives from the Annunciation to the shepherds(pictured), but reflects a dispute over a single letter in the
Greek text of the
New Testament? (2010-03-25)
... that
American writer-director Patrick Coyle first publicly showed his 2009 film Into Temptation at the hospice where his father stayed? (2010-03-27)
... that a 19th-century vicar of St Mary's Church(pictured) in
Slaugham,
West Sussex, resolved a dispute about
pews by paying some boys to enter the church and to burn them? (2010-04-03)
... that, according to legend, Osogovo Monastery was spared from destruction by the
Ottomans after they were overcome by its spiritual force? (2010-04-19)
... that the cathedral of the Lopushna Monastery(pictured) in northwestern
Bulgaria, built in the 1850s, employs vernacular
Gothic decorative features? (2010-05-22)
... that the medieval English clergyman Ralph Foliot (d. c. 1198) donated 20 books to
Hereford Cathedral on his death? (2010-05-24)
... that the 12th-century All Saints Church, Patcham, largely unchanged since the 14th century, was rebuilt or restored four times in a 74-year period from 1824? (2010-05-25)
... that the medieval English monk Adam of Eynsham wrote the Magna Vita Sancti Hugonis, one of the fullest and most trustworthy
hagiographies from the Middle Ages? (2010-05-26)
... that in his depiction of the Denial of Peter episode (pictured),
Rembrandt portrayed
Jesus in the distance, his hands bound behind him, turning to look at
Peter who faced away from him? (2010-06-06)
... that St Michael's Church in
Guiting Power,
Gloucestershire, (pictured) was formerly in the middle of the village but, due to demolition of buildings, it now stands at its southern end? (2010-06-11)
... that although the
Welsh church of St Pabo, Llanbabo has a 14th-century monument to
Pabo Post Prydain, its supposed 5th-century founder, there is no good evidence that he founded the church? (2010-06-12)
... that the crypt of St. Paulinskirche(pictured) in
Trier allegedly contains the remains of approximately one dozen of the martyred soldiers of the legendary
Theban Legion? (2010-06-13)
... that the 16th-century
chancel window of the
Welsh church of St Cristiolus, Llangristiolus, has been described as "almost too big to fit" in the east wall? (2010-06-16)
... that while the 19th-century writer
Samuel Lewis described the
Welsh church of St Mary, Tal-y-llyn(pictured) as "a small edifice of no interest", it is now one of the most highly rated
listed buildings in the country? (2010-06-18)
... that in 1565 "commissioners for removing superstitious ornaments" took various idolatrous items from the first chapel on the site of Holy Trinity Church, Horwich, in
Greater Manchester? (2010-06-28)
... that during the early Middle Ages the
Gothic rulers in Western Europe established their own (
Arian) churches alongside the Roman churches of their subjects? (2010-07-12)
... that the Ethiopian Garima Gospels(pictured) was redated by radiocarbon testing to between 330 and 650, making it one of the oldest illuminated Christian manuscripts in the world? (2010-07-30)
... that, unlike many other monasteries and churches of the time, Marko's Monastery experienced almost no damage after
Skopje fell under
Ottoman rule? (2010-08-07)
... that a work based on legends from the Regina Coeli Church in
Mexico City was performed by the "Fenix Novohispano" National Theater Company? (2010-08-21)
... that the
font dating from about 1300 in St John's Church, Throapham,
South Yorkshire, depicts human faces from the three continents that were known at the time of its carving? (2010-08-23)
... that the first five columns of Lectionary 283, a Greek manuscript of New Testament gospel lessons housed at the Biblioteca Communale in
Siena, are written in gold? (2010-09-08)
... that Ancient Church Orders is a genre of early Christian literature which has the aim to offer authoritative prescriptions on matters of moral conduct, liturgy and church organization? (2010-09-12)
... that English minister Samuel Eyles Pierce was accused of
antinomianism by his congregation in
Truro, and that even his wife withdrew her financial support of his ministry? (2010-09-15)
... that art historian Andrew Ladis has described
Domenico di Bartolo's Madonna of humility, painted in 1433, as one of the most innovative devotional images from the early
Renaissance? (2010-09-17)
... that when St Mary's Church, Tarleton,
Lancashire, was closed and replaced by a new church nearer the centre of the village, it was used as a mortuary chapel? (2010-09-19, 2010-09-20)
... that Lucius Walker blamed
Ronald Reagan for a 1988 river boat attack by
Contra rebels in
Nicaragua in which two were killed, saying he had come "face to face with the terrorism of our own government"? (2010-09-23)
... that the only Christian bookstore in
Gaza closed after its owner was beaten and murdered by armed extremists? (2010-10-02)
... that the
nave of the Church of All Souls, Bolton,
Greater Manchester, (pictured) was built without pillars to give the congregation an excellent view and to enable them to hear the sermon clearly? (2010-10-03)
... that according to a local legend, the medieval Church of St Demetrius in Patalenitsa,
Bulgaria, was rediscovered thanks to a thunderbolt striking a cherry tree? (2010-10-03)
... that the
Miraj township of Wanlesswadi is named for William James Wanless, who founded the first missionary medical school in
India? (2010-10-06)
... that the first use of
bronze doors on an Italian building is attributed to the Amalfi Cathedral, and they came from
Constantinople? (2010-10-07)
... that the two claiming
Melkite Patriarchs, Ignatius III Atiyah and Cyril IV Dabbas, were both consecrated on the same day, April 24, 1619, but in different places? (2010-10-07)
... that St Michael's Church, Michaelchurch, Herefordshire is notable for its 13th-century wall paintings and the presence of a reconstructed
Roman altar? (2010-10-09)
... that while St Bartholomew's Church, Furtho was being used for storage of the
archives of the Northampton Record Society during the Second World War, all of its windows were destroyed by a bomb? (2010-10-11)
... that
professional wrestler and
Maori Anglican Church member Ike Robin was once said to be "so absorbed in his preaching that he failed to notice that the congregation comprised only his dog"? (2010-10-17)
... that most of the memorials in St Cuthbert's Church, Holme Lacy,
Herefordshire, (example pictured) are to the Scudamore family, which owned the church land until 1909–10? (2010-10-29)
... that St Peter's Church, Wolfhampcote stands isolated in a field, surrounded by mounds remaining from a
desertedmedieval village, disused canal workings, and a redundant railway? (2010-11-05)
... that in April 2010 the world's first glass summit cross was erected on the Schartwand (2,339 m) in
Salzburg's
Tennengebirge mountains? (2010-11-14)
... that American Baptist missionary George J. Geis was working at the Kachin Bible Training School he had established in Kutkai at the time of his death in 1936? (2010-11-18)
... that the
font in St Peter's Church, Adderley,
Shropshire, has an inscription in
Latin which translates as "Here wickedly the first man enjoyed the apple with his wife"? (2010-11-18)
... that the Areopagus sermon was the most dramatic and fullest speech of the missionary career of
Apostle Paul? (2010-11-21)
... that St Matthew's Church, Langford, Oxfordshire has two
Anglo-Saxon carved stone reliefs of the
Crucifixion, and that in one of them Christ's left and right arms have later been swapped over (pictured)? (2010-11-21)
... that when Central Methodist Church(pictured) in
Eastbourne was completed, some worshippers were hauled to the top of the spire in a box to eat a celebratory breakfast? (2010-11-28)
... that how to tell which of the two possible Saint Catherines is shown marrying Jesus in a painting of the Mystic marriage of Saint Catherine(example pictured)? (2010-11-30)
... that feathers from a dead swan, which crashed into scaffolding at All Saints Church in
Roffey during construction, were incorporated into the church's
antependium? (2010-12-23)
... that when St. John's Cathedral(pictured) was built in
St. John's,
Antigua, it was criticized by
ecclesiastical architects for being like "a pagan temple with two dumpy pepper pot towers"? (2011-01-12)
... that two of the illustrations in the Leofric Missal, a 10th and 11th century
illuminated book from England, depict a method of divination derived from
Coptic Egypt? (2011-01-14)
... that St Mary's Church, Pentraeth,
Wales, was decorated in the 18th century with paper garlands, perhaps to celebrate parishioners' weddings? (2011-01-27)
... that American minister and
Free Will Baptist theologian Ransom Dunn rode over thousands of miles of frontier on horseback, collecting donations for the opening of
Hillsdale College? (2011-02-01)
... that the first church built on the site of St Deiniol's Church, Llanddaniel Fab, Wales (pictured), is said to have been established by St Deiniol Fab himself in 616? (2011-02-08)
... that the 15th-century church of St Twrog, Bodwrog, Wales, has some bull's head decorations, showing its link with a prominent local family of that time? (2011-02-09)
... that
Scrivener said that few Greek
New Testament manuscripts from the 12th century were equal to Codex Ephesinus in "weight and importance"? (2011-02-18)
... that the churchyard of St Caian's Church, Tregaian, Wales, contains the grave of a man who died in 1581 aged 105 with over 40 children and 300 living descendants? (2011-02-23)
... that the Beeldenstorm was a wave of riotous destruction of church art and property that spread across the
Low Countries in August 1566? (2011-03-06)
... that the
font in St Peter's Church, Sudbury, was removed in the 17th century to be used as a
horse trough, but was returned to the church when the horses refused to drink from it? (2011-03-15)
... that instead of being topped by a dome, the roof of the 6th-century Belovo Basilica in southwestern
Bulgaria consisted of a row of
baldachin-like arches? (2011-03-26)
... that St Mary's Church, in
Sandwich,
Kent, was damaged by the French in 1217 and again in 1457, and by an earthquake in 1578? (2011-04-09)
... that Mammotrectus super Bibliam, a guide book to understanding the
Bible, was popular in the 15th century, but was criticized in the 16th century? (2011-04-12)
... that for much of the
Middle Ages, church
altars were hidden from view at points in services by curtains hung from a ciborium(example pictured)? (2011-04-29)
... that Bayside Church held its 2011 Easter services at the
Power Balance Pavilion (formerly Arco Arena), attracting nearly 17,000 people? (2011-05-27)
... that the tall tower of the Anglican Church of St Mark in Preston, Lancashire, was built to rival the height of the steeple of the nearby Catholic
Church of St Walburge? (2011-06-17)
... that in 1463 Thomas Bettz left
£26 13s 4d in his will—a fortune in those days—to help pay for the repair of the bells of St Martin's Church in
Ruislip? (2011-06-20)
... that walls and the ceiling of the Unionskirche (Union Church) in
Idstein are covered with 38 oil paintings from the
Dutch Golden Age school of
Rubens? (2011-06-20)
... that in 2011, International Christian Concern lauded the release of an Afghan man who had been imprisoned for nine months for converting to Christianity? (2011-06-21)
... that Celestial City, Imeko, was founded by the Prophet "Papa" Samuel Oshoffa, who left 34 wives and 150 children when he died? (2011-06-23)
... that writer
Arthur Mee was once advised not to mistake Greatham Church(pictured) for a haystack? (2011-07-08)
... that
Pepsi allowed
Madonna to retain her $5 million dollar fee, despite cancelling their sponsorship deal following the controversy over the music video for "Like a Prayer"? (2011-07-09)
... that Elizabeth Gatford, who endowed a charity that distributed bread to the poor at Horsham General Baptist Chapel, was buried in four coffins? (2011-07-10)
... that the nonconformist liturgy of the Octagon Chapel(pictured) in Liverpool, UK, was criticized by
Job Orton: "Grieved I am ... to see such an almost
deistical composition"? (2011-07-16)
... that the scheme of stained glass by
Shrigley and Hunt in Christ Church, Lancaster, Lancashire, England, has been described as "one of their best and most important ensembles"? (2011-08-03)
... that it took over half a century to identify Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 1? (2011-08-25)
... that after 26 nuns signed A Catholic Statement on Pluralism and Abortion, the
Vatican stated that all but two had recanted, leading 11 others to issue a statement of solidarity denying that they had done so? (2011-08-27)
... that Emerentia was reputed in the late 15th century to be the great-grandmother of Jesus? (2011-08-30)
... that the Old Church of
Helsinki was intended to be a temporary building that could serve the parish until consecration of the
Helsinki Cathedral? (2011-09-01)
... that after its 1688 re-
gilding, the Coventry Cross(replica pictured) was so bright that people could hardly bear to look directly at it on a sunny day? (2011-09-15)
... that although
Daniel is portrayed as a young man by
Rubens in his depiction of Daniel in the lions' den, Daniel would have been over eighty according to biblical chronology? (2011-09-21)
... that after St Gwenllwyfo's Church in Anglesey, Wales, was abandoned in 1856 in favour of a replacement, its medieval roof took nearly 100 years to collapse? (2011-09-26)
... that a club started by two undergraduates in 1839 was central to the spread of Victorian restoration which determined the character of most English churches and cathedrals today? (2011-09-27)
... that after hearing a sermon by
George Whitefield, a member of Ditchling Chapel said he would "tear the church to pieces" and founded his own church, the Bethel Chapel? (2011-10-19)
... that a 19th-century rector of St Mary's Church(pictured) in
Llanfair-yng-Nghornwy, Wales was awarded a gold medal for his attempt to save a boat during a gale? (2011-11-01)
... that although St Cynfarwy was active in
Anglesey, Wales, in the 7th century, the age of the church dedicated to him(pictured) cannot be ascertained due to extensive rebuilding? (2011-11-28)
... that one 19th-century writer condemned the partial demolition of the old church dedicated to St Nidan in
Anglesey, Wales, saying that its replacement(pictured) was "a painfully impressive example of architectural bad taste"? (2011-11-29)
... that a study conducted by the
BBC series Son of God concluded that the skin of
Jesus Christ would have been "olive-coloured" and "swarthy"? (2011-12-08)
... that
Strict Baptists travelled from miles around to the remote Zoar Chapel(pictured) in
East Sussex, so stables for 40 horses were built at the back? (2011-12-08)
... that in 1884 Frederick Stanley Arnot determined that the
Zambezi, the largest river flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa, rose near Kalene Hill? (2011-12-22)
... that Intercession of Christ is the Christian belief in the continued intercession of
Christ and his advocacy on behalf of mankind, even after he left the earth? (2012-01-08)
... that the American minister George Went Hensley taught that Christians should eschew baseball and embrace venomous snakes? (2012-01-09)
... that Germanus of Winchester, an eleventh century English
abbot, carried the newly discovered
relics of a saint from their discovery location to
Ramsey Abbey with his own hands? (2012-01-15)
... that in medieval
typology,
Isaac carrying wood up the mountain for his sacrifice is the most common parallel for Christ carrying the cross? (2012-01-17)
... that because he believed the American government had been infiltrated by communists, one young US Marine discharged himself from the officer training program and joined the
Rhodesian Security Forces instead? (2012-01-28)
... that Basil Salvadore D'Souza, Bishop of
Mangalore Diocese from 1965 until his death in 1996, was the longest-serving bishop in the diocese's history? (2012-02-02)
... that the First Congregational Church of Litchfield, now regarded as iconic, was replaced in 1873 after being said to have "not a single line or feature ... suggesting taste or beauty"? (2012-02-02)
... that in Christian doctrine, the Humiliation of Christ was willingly accepted by him? (2012-02-02)
... that 16th-century parishioners of St Mary Magdalene's Church, Bolney built the church's 66-foot (20 m) tower (pictured) in "an inspired community effort involving the whole village"? (2012-03-06)
... that, in the past, every landowner in the parish of St Margaret's Church in
West Hoathly,
West Sussex, was responsible for maintaining a specific section of the churchyard wall? (2012-03-07)
... that
Hans Uwe Hielscher played the 1500th weekly organ recital during market time at the Marktkirche in Wiesbaden in a series he initiated some 30 years earlier? (2012-03-27)
... that Etropole Monastery(pictured), the most important literary centre of northern
Bulgaria in the 16th through 18th centuries, later sheltered national hero
Vasil Levski in a specially built hideout? (2012-03-29)
... that former churches in
Chichester,
West Sussex, have been converted into a doll museum, a betting shop and a Chinese takeaway, among other things? (2012-04-11)
... that the remains of the Bogdan Saray in
Istanbul lie inside a tire shop? (2012-04-13)
... that poet
William Wordsworth said of the site of Holy Trinity Church, Brathay(pictured), "there is no situation out of the Alps, nor among them, more beautiful than that where this building is placed"? (2012-04-13)
... that the 2012 Preston Passion featured thousands of Preston residents and included Surely He Hath Borne Our Griefs from
Handel's Messiah? (2012-04-20)
... that the Balaban Aga Mosque in Istanbul, built in the
Byzantine era, was demolished in 1930 because it stood in the way of a new road? (2012-05-08)
... that the 1941 film Christmas Under Fire features people celebrating Christmas underground? (2012-05-12)
... that the Danish theological movement Tidehverv, represented in
parliament from 2001 to 2011, published combined pamphlets by
Martin Luther under the title "Against the Turk and the Jew" in 1999? (2012-05-12)
... that
Steven Curtis Chapman's song "Yours" was the 45th number-one single of his career? (2012-05-14)
... that the ruin of St Mary's Kirk, Auchindoir, in northeastern Scotland has a highly decorated, stone
sacrament house(pictured) set inside a former window? (2012-05-26)
... that when three men wearing gloves, masks and balaclavas were found on the roof of a church(pictured) missing £100,000 worth of lead, they were let off because police said they "might be there just for the view"? (2012-06-11)
... that
Casting Crowns' 2007 album The Altar and the Door sold 129,000 copies in its first week, the largest opening-week sales for a Christian album with no secular media support? (2012-06-28)
... that
Franciscan monk Pedro de Aguado wrote a history of northern South America in the late sixteenth century, which was not published for over 300 years? (2012-07-11)
... that St Cuthbert's Church(pictured) near
Edenhall in
Cumbria, England, has a
nave and a
chancel dated from the 12th century, a tower from the 15th, and a
vestry and stained glass windows from the 19th? (2012-07-21)
... that Puritan Reverend John Wilson implored
Mary Dyer(pictured) to repent and not be "carried away by deceit of the devil" before her execution in Boston as a
Quaker martyr? (2012-07-26)
... that a stained glass window in St Oswald's Church, Ravenstonedale,
Cumbria, is to the memory of "the last female martyr burnt at
Tyburn for the cause of the Protestant religion" in 1685? (2012-10-10)
... that
Mother Teresa's father Nikollë Bojaxhiu was the only Catholic member of the city council of
Skopje and his company constructed the city's first theater? (2012-10-23)
... that All Saints Church in
Lydd is the longest parish church in
Kent at 199 feet (61 m)? (2012-10-24)
... that it has been suggested that Father Christmas in J. R. R. Tolkien's The Father Christmas Letters may have been an inspiration for Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings? (2012-12-25)
... that
Progressive American journalist Benjamin Orange Flower(pictured) once defended
Christian Science, claiming its followers were the recipients of a "persistent campaign of falsehood, slander and calumny"? (2013-01-11)
... that 19th-century British missionary Samuel Lyde sparked months of anti-Christian rioting in
Palestine after killing a beggar? (2013-01-12)
... that the 4th-century Brescia Casket(pictured) has been called "among the most formidable and enduring enigmas in the study of
early Christian art"? (2013-01-28)
... that the founder of the Dami Mission church predicted the world would end on October 28, 1992, but used donations from his followers to purchase
bonds that did not mature until after that date? (2013-02-07)
... that Giovanni Battista Agucchi(pictured), who became secretary to
the Pope in 1623, was a friend of artists and a writer on
Baroque art theory? (2013-03-05)
... that Saeed Abedini, an
Iranian American Christian pastor, was sentenced to eight years in prison in
Iran on charges of undermining national security? (2013-03-12)
... that in art Doubting Thomas(pictured) normally thrusts his fingers into the wound of Jesus, but the
Gospel of John does not say whether he did this? (2013-03-31)
... that one of the
Easter traditions in Poland includes making and displaying of the Easter palm, the tallest of which can reach over 30 metres (98 ft)? (2013-03-31)
... that throughout the 400-year history of Combermere Abbey(pictured), various of its
abbots and
priors were excommunicated, assaulted, murdered, and accused of forgery and covering up murder? (2013-04-08)
... that William O. Cushing(pictured), writer of the words of
the hymn that inspired
Rangers'
Follow Follow anthem, gave his entire life savings to a blind girl for her to receive an education? (2013-04-19)
... that in 1317, a
canon from Beeston Priory had to travel to
Rome to seek absolution from
Pope John XXII for attacking the Bishop of Norwich with a sword? (2013-05-26)
... that a now nonexistent sixteenth-century crucifix inscription in Roholte Church(pictured) is considered to have been one of the oldest of its kind? (2013-05-28)
... that only two small fragments remain from 1,333 square feet (123.8 m2) of
Giotto's Navicella mosaic (copy illustrated) in
Old St. Peter's Basilica? (2013-06-09)
... that Dejan was one of the prominent figures of the
Serbian Empire? (2013-06-10)
... that St Peter's Church, Llanbedrgoch, Wales, contains a reading desk made out of 15th-century bench ends, one of which is decorated with a carving of a mermaid? (2013-06-12)
... that during his stay at the Kolobeng Mission,
David Livingstone wrote in his memoir that the soil temperature in the sun at noon reached 134 °F (57 °C)? (2013-07-02)
... that St Peter's Church, Ropsley, built in the 11th century, had a stained glass window erected in 1949 in honour of a
Royal Air Force fighter pilot? (2013-07-11)
... that the recent popularity of Amish romance novels has been seen as a reaction to the increasing popularity of erotic fiction such as Fifty Shades of Grey? (2013-07-13)
... that in 2011, the teaching ministry of Christian pastor Chip Ingram was broadcast to 100 million households in Arab countries? (2013-07-13)
... that the 2013 album Extol marks the reunion of the
band of the same name after a five-year hiatus? (2013-07-14)
... that after the destruction in 1941 of most of St Mary's Church, Walton-on-the-Hill, it was later rebuilt, retaining the exterior as before but creating a new interior? (2013-07-28)
... that as head of the English-language section of the
Vatican Secretariat of State, Leo Cushley has been responsible for accompanying the
Pope during all his visits to English-speaking countries? (2013-07-31)
... that Barking Abbey's(pictured) former
abbesses include three saints, three queens, two king's daughters, and the sister of
Thomas Becket? (2013-08-24)
... that the medieval
triumphal cross(pictured) in Öja Church on the Swedish island of
Gotland has been called "Gotland's most admired wooden sculpture"? (2013-08-24)
... that George of Izla's execution was instigated by Gabriel of Sinjar after a theological debate in Ctesiphon? (2013-09-02)
... that English and French monarchs were believed to possess the supernatural touch that could cure a form of
tuberculosis known as the
King's Evil(ritual pictured)? (2013-09-03)
... that American aid workers
Heather Mercer and
Dayna Curry's memoir, Prisoners of Hope, recounts them killing 150 flies a day during their 2001 imprisonment by the Taliban? (2013-09-07)
... that both German soldiers and Polish
concentration camp prisoners were treated at a war-time hospital close to Lärbro Church in
Sweden? (2013-09-15)
... that The Sand-Covered Church(pictured) is a 14th-century Danish church partly demolished in the 1800s when the sand from the nearby dunes threatened it, leaving only the church tower still visible? (2013-09-22)
... that because American Christian missionary Hulda Stumpf protested against
female genital mutilation in Kenya, she was killed and perhaps ritually cut in retribution? (2013-10-11)
... that during the
Armenian Genocide, Christian missionary George E. White(pictured) claimed that girls were being sold for "$2 to $4 each"? (2013-10-26)
... that the diary of Christian missionary Elizabeth Barrows Ussher is said to have described "unspeakable cruelty"? (2013-10-27)
... that an additional clock face was added at a higher level to the tower of All Saints Church, Thornton Hough because its founder could not see the lower one from his house? (2013-12-03)
... that the organ in Christ Church, Port Sunlight, is believed to be the largest extant four-
manualWillis II organ still in its original condition and in everyday use? (2013-12-07)
... that Elizabeth Hussey allowed the first of the tracts by the anonymous satirist
Martin Marprelate to be printed on a secret press at her home at
East Molesey in October 1588? (2014-01-01)
... that the carol "We Three Kings" (
Magi pictured) was the first American
Christmas carol to be featured in the "prestigious" and "influential" British collection Christmas Carols Old and New? (2014-01-06)
... that Hezekiah Balch helped found
Tusculum College, the first American college west of the Appalachian Mountains? (2014-01-10)
... that the hymn Soldiers of Christ, Arise is known as "The Christian's bugle blast" due to the military-based call to arms in its lyrics? (2014-01-15)
... that Asia Bibi is the first woman in Pakistan to be sentenced to death on charges of blasphemy? (2014-01-30)
... that the extended version of
Lecrae's single "Round of Applause", from Church Clothes 2, was featured by
Pepsi as one of "three songs you need to hear right now"? (2014-01-30)
... that the Moravian Church Mission Ships were a series of twelve ships that made an annual voyage from London to the church's mission stations in Labrador every summer between 1770 and 1926? (2014-03-31)
... that the Sterbelied "Valet will ich dir geben" is described in a subtitle as a song of consolation, in which a pious heart bids farewell to this world? (2014-04-16)
... that ten copies of the Goražde Psalter(page pictured), printed in 1521, are known to exist today? (2014-04-17)
... that the third verse of Martin Schalling's death song "Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr" concludes Bach's St John Passion in its first and fourth version, ending with "praise you for ever"? (2014-04-18)
... that rapper
Da' T.R.U.T.H. was able to experiment with diverse musical styles on Heartbeat because he released it through his own, newly established label? (2014-05-20)
... that Stop the Music, the debut album by brother-sister hip hop duo New Breed, features a
Latin influence that highlights the duo's
Puerto Rican heritage? (2014-05-24)
... that on the album Tunnel Vision, Tunnel Rats leader Dax Reynosa responded to claims that his group was too aggressive with the line "I pull a pistol out my pocket and I cock it"? (2014-06-11)
... that the compilation album Underground Rise, Vol. 1 features about thirty-five rappers, and was recorded almost entirely over a single weekend? (2014-06-11)
... that "The Summons" includes 13 questions asked in the voice of Jesus? (2014-06-12)
... that Below Paradise by
Tedashii explores his efforts to come to grips with the death of his young son? (2014-06-15)
... that the album Tunnel Rats by the hip-hop collective
of the same name featured a more mainstream and diverse production style than previous albums? (2014-06-15)
... that the founder of All Saints Church, Scholar Green,
Cheshire, died during its construction, and the church was completed and paid for by his son? (2014-06-23)
... that CCM Magazine called the debut album by Christian pop singer V. Rose an "upbeat pop production set to spiritually-grounded lyrics"? (2014-06-23)
... that although once celebrated, a renovation completed in 1914 of medieval Dalhem Church(pictured) has been called a "harsh and loose reconstruction of the
Middle Ages"? (2014-07-02)
... that the Counter-Reformation in Poland concluded successfully with the
Repnin Sejm of 1768, which abolished legal discrimination against religious dissidents? (2014-07-14)
... that Anton Bruckner's Ave Maria for seven voices, the first
motet composed after his studies, was sung by his choir in the
Linz Cathedral(pictured)? (2014-11-05)
... that Robert Cade led the research team that formulated
Gatorade, which has significant medical application in the treatment of dehydration? (2015-01-02)
... that the truncated spire of St Paul's Church, Seacombe(pictured during reconstruction) was restored to its original height using a stainless-steel frame? (2015-01-13)
... that Luther's German Te Deum, "Herr Gott, dich loben wir", was set by
Bach in cantatas for New Year's Day and by
Mendelssohn to celebrate the millennium of the German Reich? (2015-01-15)
... that English missionary James Sibree helped design and build approximately 50 churches in
Madagascar in addition to writing books about the island's flora and fauna? (2015-01-15)
... that some of the doors of the Fru Alstad Church(pictured), Sweden, have bullet holes dating to the 17th century? (2015-01-25)
... that medieval Gislöv Church in Sweden may have been built for an exiled Norwegian bishop? (2015-01-26)
... that although the
Greek Orthodox bishop of
Korçë, Photios, took initiatives for the promotion of the local education, he was assassinated in 1906 for not supporting
Albanian cultural activity? (2015-01-28)
... that Christian Socialism in Utah prompted a debate on whether "socialism or individualism was taught by the New Testament as a basis for Christian government"? (2015-02-08)
... that a church's 1510 spiral of justice(pictured) declares: "Justice suffered in great need. Truth is slain dead. Faith has lost the battle"? (2015-04-23)
... that the stones of Surb Karapet Monastery(pictured), destroyed during the
Armenian Genocide, were used to build houses in a Kurdish village? (2015-04-24)
... that according to legend, the twin towers of Färlöv Church in Sweden were built by a
knight's wife to let him know he had twins? (2015-04-28)
... that the unusual round tower of the medieval Hammarlunda Church probably served a defensive purpose? (2015-05-02)
... that Head of Christ(pictured) by
Correggio was likely intended for private devotion? (2015-05-02)
... that Ziona of Baktawng village,
Mizoram, India holds the world record as head of the "world's largest existing family" with 39 wives, 94 children, and 33 grandchildren, all living? (2015-05-02)
... that "The God of Abraham Praise" has been called the Christian "hymn born in a synagogue"? (2015-05-10)
... that the spire of the Sacred Heart Church in Fiji has a neon light in the form of a cross, which is used by ships for navigation? (2015-05-12)
... that Hebron Church was founded by German settlers in 1786, making it the first organized
Lutheran church west of the
Shenandoah Valley? (2015-05-13)
... that in 2013, Lecrae(pictured, left) became the first artist to reach No.1 on the
Billboard 200 and the Top Gospel Albums charts? (2015-05-15)
... that Thomas Olivers was buried in
John Wesley's grave, despite Wesley's erstwhile complaint that Olivers was "murdering" his magazine? (2015-05-15)
... that it's not entirely clear why Hammarlöv Church has a round tower? (2015-05-21)
... that Salve Regina, composed by
Arvo Pärt to venerate the
Golden Madonna of the Essen Cathedral (detail pictured), "builds very gradually to a late, majestic climax"? (2015-05-23)
... that
Clarence Darrow claimed judges would say, when passing a death sentence, "May God have mercy upon your soul", because they felt they didn't have the authority to destroy souls? (2015-05-28)
... that while on tour in Brazil to promote its new album Omen, the band
Antestor was attacked by
Satanistblack metal fans angered by the Christian beliefs of the band members? (2015-05-30)
... that the burial shroud of Moldavian Princess consort Maria of Mangup(pictured) is both the oldest found in a Romanian monastery and "the most beautiful one"? (2015-06-07)
... that the order in which
Mass-goers kissed the pax led to disputes and sometimes violence in the Middle Ages? (2015-06-26)
... that St John's Church, Silverdale, is notable for the high quality of the stone carvings in its interior? (2015-06-29)
... that
Paul Gerhardt's hymn "Du meine Seele singe" (You my soul sing), a paraphrase of
Psalm 146, became known for a melody beginning with a rocket motif? (2015-06-30)
... that Bach's cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, BWV 21, probably served for both a memorial service and for job applications, and certainly for the Third Sunday after Trinity in 1714 and 1723? (2015-07-01)
... that "Praise to the Living God" can be used in both Jewish and Christian worship as a hymn written for interfaith use? (2015-07-04)
... that the Lutherkirche in
Wiesbaden has two great organs, one behind the altar (pictured) built by
Walcker in 1911, the other opposite built by
Klais in the 1970s? (2015-08-02)
... that the clergyman Arthur Wagner had such a large collection of valuable books and manuscripts that it took three days to sell them after his death? (2015-08-29)
... that the text of
Bach's "Fürchte dich nicht", BWV 228, a
motet for a double choir composed for a funeral, contains two verses by
Isaiah that both begin with "Do not fear"? (2015-09-09)
... that St. Paul's Cathedral, Kolkata(pictured), the largest in the city, was the first Episcopal Church of
Asia and the first to be built in the overseas territory of the
British Empire? (2015-09-13)
... that
Arvo Pärt composed De profundis, a setting of Psalm 130 in Latin for men's choir, organ and optional percussion, after he left Estonia for the West? (2015-10-06)
... that 13 years after Lydia Emelie Gruchy graduated her theological studies with honors, she was finally ordained in 1936 as the first female minister of the
United Church of Canada? (2015-12-30)
... that Marianne Katoppo, who wrote the book Compassionate and Free. An Asian Woman's Theology, found the term feminist theology "too loaded"? (2016-01-05)
... that while Caroline Stephen's book was considered a "Quaker classic" even 100 years after publication,
her brother had dismissed it as "another little work of hers"? (2016-01-07)
... that places of worship in Woking borough include Britain's first mosque, a Buddhist temple in a former asylum and an Eastern Orthodox church in a cemetery? (2016-01-12)
... that Larycia Hawkins, American professor at
Wheaton College, was suspended after she wore a
hijab and made comments regarding Christianity and Islam in December 2015? (2016-01-14)
... that at least seven denominations trace their history to
a Pentecostal church founded by Mary Magdalena Lewis Tate, the first American woman to serve as bishop in a nationally-recognized denomination? (2016-01-17)
... that historian and priest Zenovie Pâclișanu was imprisoned by both Austria-Hungary and Communist Romania, the latter incarceration proving fatal? (2016-01-17)
... that Swedish politician Julia Kronlid has worked as a volunteer at a hospital clinic in
Papua New Guinea? (2016-01-27)
... that St. Paul's Church, Rusthall, has been viewed as a symbol of the wealth of
Tunbridge Wells due to the churchyard being "chockablock with expensive tombstones and memorials"? (2016-02-05)
... that
Lecrae released the mixtape Church Clothes 3 without any prior announcement? (2016-02-07)
... that Elizabeth Rebecca Ward was known as "The Poet Laureate of the Home"? (2016-03-02)
... that the tower attached to All Saints Church in
Huntsham,
Devon dates to the 14th century, but the rest of the church was completely rebuilt by
Benjamin Ferrey in 1854–56? (2016-03-09)
... that when
Changsha was invaded in 1930, Maud Russell refused to leave the city and, after mistakenly being thought to have perished, a memorial service was held for her? (2016-03-21)
... that while still in school, Chinese social and Christian activist Deng Yuzhi decided to be an independent woman, remain unmarried, and live the life of a "new woman"? (2016-03-24)
... that Ieremia Cecan, a regional leader of the
Romanian Nazi Party, campaigned for the unification of the Orthodox and Catholic churches? (2016-04-09)
... that one of the oldest parts of the medieval St Mellons Church(pictured) is the base of the
font, which was made from an old
Norman pier? (2016-04-12)
... that the Flag of the Church in Wales was adopted following the split of the Church in Wales from the Church of England? (2016-04-16)
... that the 12th-century baptismal font of St Mary's Church, Llanfair-yn-Neubwll, was moved away for safekeeping when the church was closed? (2016-04-28)
... that the vicar of St Trygarn's Church did not live in the parish in the mid-19th century? (2016-05-04)
... that Emilia Baeyertz preached to crowds on Christianity but her son, Charles Nalder Baeyertz, was concerned about the moral dangers of "a prevalence of bad English"? (2016-05-09)
... that American slaveholders altered "O'er the Gloomy Hills of Darkness" because they felt they could not sing a hymn that endorsed educating "the Negro"? (2016-05-09)
... that the Welsh Church (Burial Grounds) Act 1945 restored the legal right for the Church in Wales to look after burial grounds after they had been doing so unofficially? (2016-05-15)
... that rather than accept his appointment as a bishop in
Cyprus, the Christian saint Demetrian is said to have fled his home and hidden in a cave? (2016-05-23)
... that Wingfield W. Watson, an Irish immigrant to the United States, became a religious leader of the
Strangites and wrote several publications in support of their beliefs? (2016-05-28)
... that the 12th-century Fuentidueña Apse(pictured) in New York's
Cloisters museum was originally part of a
Romanesque church likely built as the chapel for a fortress defending against
Moorish invaders? (2016-06-23)
... that the July 7 opening date for the Ark Encounter theme park was chosen to correspond with Genesis 7:7? (2016-06-29)
... that the Berger Kirche(pictured), more than a thousand years old, is now used as a cemetery chapel and concert venue? (2016-07-22)
... that Beatus vir ("Blessed is the man") (B pictured) begins the
Latin text of two
psalms, one notable in art and the other in music? (2016-07-24)
... that African
CITES delegates sang the former Zimbabwe national anthem "Ishe Komborera Africa" after winning a vote to export African elephant ivory, while conservationists cried? (2016-07-30)
... that Theodore de Korwin Szymanowski(pictured), one of the earliest promoters of a
Unified Europe, proposed a customs union, a central bank, and a single currency as far back as 1885? (2016-08-11)
... that Edwin Stevens, reporting from his missionary position in
Qing-era China, felt their recent erections indicated apprehension, and penetration was difficult? (2016-08-21)
... that citizens of the
Province of New York unofficially adopted the George Rex Flag(pictured) to protest against freedom of religion granted to Catholics in Quebec? (2016-08-23)
... that
pioneer doctor Priddy Meeks once told sick patients via messenger to "jump all over the city creek, crawl back into your tent and cover up warm"? (2016-09-17)
... that the naturalisation of
Handel(pictured) as a British citizen came via an Act of Parliament which required him to enter into communion with the Church of England? (2016-10-06)
... that on one occasion, protesters used a foghorn to discourage Mormons in Ireland from meeting? (2016-10-09)
... that in 1595, the Chantry House in
Bunbury,
Cheshire, was leased for 2,000 years for the rent of a red rose? (2016-10-11)
... that the Christian song "Give Thanks With a Grateful Heart" was credited as unknown authorship when first released in 1986, despite being written by Henry Smith in 1978? (2016-12-24)
... that "The Babe in Bethlem's Manger" is thought to be a traditional
Kentish folk carol but its tune is described as being "very much of the 18th century"? (2016-12-25)
... that Natalie Sims co-wrote the
Iggy Azalea song "
Work", which sold over one million copies in the US? (2016-12-27)
... that Puaaiki, a blind preacher from Maui, was a former
hula dancer for King
Kamehameha II? (2016-12-30)
... that The Shaker Quarterly, which began publication in 1961, helped revive interest in the
Shakers? (2017-01-01)
... that "Erhalt uns, Herr, bei deinem Wort" by
Luther was titled "A hymn for the children to sing against the two arch-enemies of Christ, and His Holy Church, the Pope and the Turks"? (2017-02-25)
... that the Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton, was built in 1869 and was recently restored, only for its roof and interior to be destroyed by fire in February 2017? (2017-03-03)
... that although Parmenian is considered by some historians to be the most important
Donatist writer of his day, none of his works survive? (2017-03-14)
... that in earlier paintings of a sacra conversazione ("holy conversation"), the figures are rarely shown speaking (example pictured)? (2017-03-18)
... that the Rest on the Flight into Egypt is a popular subject in Christian art, but the earliest known example (pictured) only dates to about 1379? (2017-03-20)
... that the 17th-century German hymn "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" has been described as "one of the most exquisite strains of pious resignation ever written"? (2017-03-20)
... that Giyorgis of Segla(pictured) was imprisoned by emperor
Dawit I because of his controversial views on the
Sabbath? (2017-04-02)
... that during the March 1605 papal conclave, a fight broke out that was so noisy that people outside opened the doors early because they thought a new pope had been elected? (2017-05-26)
... that Reverend Arthur Broome was one of the founders of the
RSPCA and, as guarantor for the society's debts, went to
debtors' prison when it declared bankruptcy? (2017-05-29)
... that the Marriage (Wales) Act 2010 was passed by Parliament to bring the marriage law of the disestablished Church in Wales into line with the established Church of England? (2017-06-03)
... that Cardinal Agagianian (pictured), leader of a small Eastern church, was twice a serious papal candidate? (2017-06-22)
... that Mkrtich Khrimian(pictured), head of the
Armenian Church, endorsed an armed struggle against the Ottoman Turks? (2017-06-26)
... that the hymn "Breathe on Me, Breath of God" was described as being so simple it belied the education and knowledge of its author, Professor Edwin Hatch? (2017-07-02)
... that Paul Abels, the first openly gay minister to serve in a major Christian denomination in the United States, was nearly removed from his pastorate after he
came out in the 1970s? (2017-07-19)
... that "Von guten Mächten", a poem written by
Dietrich Bonhoeffer in prison in 1944 where he faced execution, became a hymn with several melodies? (2017-10-10)
... that
Prince of WallachiaRadu Paisie was deposed by his
Ottoman overlords in 1545, with measures taken to prevent his "abscond[ing] with the treasury"? (2017-10-13)
... that facing the rise of Nazi ideology,
Otto Riethmüller compiled the song "Sonne der Gerechtigkeit" for young people from hymns by three authors of two earlier centuries? (2017-11-08)
... that a
Hiroshimapeace bell was donated to the Aegidienkirche, the ruin of a Gothic church that was left as a war memorial? (2017-11-18)
... that the hospital in Southern Rhodesia where Theresa Robinson Buck worked was renamed in her honour after her death? (2017-11-19)
... that the simple hymn "Nun laßt uns Gott dem Herren", used at the end of a meal, became a model for other songs of thanks? (2017-11-23)
... that in 1975,
Solzhenitsyn visited the Paris office of the YMCA Press and presented a book with an inscription thanking the publisher for all his work for Russian culture? (2017-11-24)
... that Bach's setting (pictured) of the
chorale "Es ist genug" ("It is enough"), with a melody beginning with an unusual
whole-tone sequence, was quoted with variations in Alban Berg's
Violin Concerto? (2017-11-26)
... that Ireland national rugby union team player Dr. Claire McLaughlin gained the nickname "McSwaplin" owing to her swapping medical shifts in order to play rugby? (2017-12-10)
... that the bells of St Stephen's in Ealing(belfry and spire pictured) caused complaints, were later moved to the Docklands, and were finally installed in
St Machar's Cathedral in Aberdeen? (2017-12-22)
... that Silvia Correale, the first female
Postulator in the Vatican, focuses on guiding potential Argentine saints through the
beatification process? (2018-01-07)
... that after the American Civil War, "Fighting Parson" Fountain E. Pitts helped grow poppies to make
opium in Nashville, Tennessee? (2018-01-12)
... that statesman Costea Bucioc, who reputedly survived a poisoning attempt at the
Moldavian court, was later impaled by the Ottoman army? (2018-01-14)
... that many modern
Bible scholars consider the story of the prophet Jonah a work of
satire? (2018-02-16)
... that Satan frequently appeared as a comic relief figure in late medieval
mystery plays, in which he "frolicked, fell, and farted in the background"? (2018-02-23)
... that the recognition of Marițica Bibescu(pictured) as Princess-consort of
Wallachia involved "complicated maneuvers", including the ousting of an
Ecumenical Patriarch? (2018-02-28)
... that David Meade's prediction of a hidden planet named
Nibiru hitting Earth on September 23, 2017, was based on what he says are coded messages hidden in the
Giza Pyramids in Egypt? (2018-03-09)
... that the
Church FatherOrigen drew heavily on the teachings of
Plato and tried to harmonize Greek philosophy with Christian teachings? (2018-03-10)
... that Leon Tomșa, who passed laws limiting Greek immigration to
Wallachia, was reportedly a Greek oyster-monger? (2018-04-07)
... that on 12 April 1945, a white flag was hung from the tower of the Große Kirche Aplerbeck(pictured), one of two churches after the same design by
Christian Heyden, to signal capitulation? (2018-04-12)
... that R. A. Hardie, a Canadian physician and missionary to Korea, was the catalyst for the 1903 Wŏnsan Revival and also inspired the
Great Pyongyang Revival of 1907? (2018-04-13)
... that before taking over
Moldavia in 1561, Iacob Heraclid(pictured) had been executed in effigy and staged his own death? (2018-04-19)
... that Ralph Abernathy(pictured), mentor and friend of
Martin Luther King Jr., led a demonstration protesting the use of federal funds for the
Apollo 11 project when many Americans lived in poverty? (2018-05-04)
... that the
Romanesque cross basilica St. Georg in Aplerbeck from the 12th century fell into such disrepair that its street was named Ruinenstraße? (2018-05-04)
... that the Father Serra statues in
Ventura, California, have been vandalized and called "a direct slap in the face" of Native American cultures? (2018-05-09)
... that the Sunday Observance Act 1695 banned the playing of sports on Sunday in Ireland, and parts of the act are still in force in Northern Ireland? (2018-05-18)
... that creating human hair
wreaths is a part of Mormon folklore, and a wreath containing hair from prominent church leaders was on display in the
Salt Lake Temple until 1967? (2018-07-07)
... that the centenary of the Protestant Church Wilnsdorf in 2013 was celebrated by the same hymn, and a sermon from the same biblical text, employed at its consecration? (2018-07-12)
... that the Serra Cross(pictured) in
Ventura, California, was sold in response to a threatened lawsuit challenging the use of public funds to maintain a religious symbol on public land? (2018-07-18)
... that followers of the second-century
Carpocratian Christian leader Marcellina venerated Greek philosophers alongside Jesus? (2018-08-06)
... that the
antependium of Lyngsjö Church has been said to be "better suited for the high altar of a cathedral than a countryside church"? (2018-08-09)
... that the South African composer
Stefans Grové wrote a setting of Psalm 138 for choir, children's choir, African drums,
marimba, and string orchestra? (2018-08-14)
... that Telfair Hodgson was the original financial backer and first managing editor of The Sewanee Review, the oldest continuously published literary quarterly in the United States? (2018-08-19)
... that Kloster Gnadenthal(building pictured) was a
Cistercian nunnery from 1235, a Protestant women's Stift from 1564, and became an ecumenical community in 1969? (2018-09-27)
... that in 1833, Ursula Newell Emerson drew some of the earliest surviving manuscript maps of Hawaii for instructional use? (2018-10-07)
... that American missionary Clarissa Chapman Armstrong led Bible study meetings for Queen
Kalama in Hawaii while her husband served as Minister of Public Instruction under King
Kamehameha III? (2018-10-12)
... that Schloss Weilburg, a Baroque garden palace, contains a Renaissance palace (engraving pictured)? (2018-10-16)
... that the citizens of
Târgoviște, Romania, put a jinx on
boyarEmanoil Băleanu, which was seen as being fulfilled when his wife died in childbirth? (2018-10-31)
... that the 1227 Gothic church of the
CistercianMarienstatt Abbey escaped demolition because it became a parish church in 1831? (2018-11-06)
... that in 1800, a reviewer of Francis Hews's writings was unsure whether he should be sent to "
Bridewell for correction, or to
Bedlam for a cure"? (2018-11-14)
... that the church of St. Nikolai, the oldest building of
Kiel, was destroyed in World War II and restored with a simpler interior (pictured)? (2018-12-24)
... that "
Joy to the World" is one of the hymns based on Psalm 96, "Sing to the Lord a new song"? (2019-02-04)
... that paintings of Saint Sebastian tended by Saint Irene(example shown) reflected the position of both Catholic and Protestant churches that people should not flee to avoid the
plague? (2019-02-22)
... that
Bach set the phrase "Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks" from Psalm 75 in German to begin
a cantata, and in Latin in his
Mass in B minor? (2019-02-28)
... that Ten Talents, a 50-year-old
vegetarian and
vegan cookbook that is still in print, was the first to feature recipes for
soy milk ice cream shakes? (2019-03-08)
... that the Chandos Anthems, psalm settings by
Handel(pictured) as composer in residence at
Cannons, were described as a "panorama of the composer's creative output"? (2019-03-10)
... that
Jules Van Nuffel, founder and conductor of the choir at the
Mechelen Cathedral, set Psalm 93, Dominus regnavit, for choir and organ – but it was Psalm 92 for him? (2019-03-16)
... that Raymond Butt compiled a directory of "every station,
halt, platform and stopping place on the British railway passenger network"? (2019-03-16)
... that the Good Friday hymn "My Song Is Love Unknown" asks what Jesus had done to deserve crucifixion? (2019-04-19)
... that the 1862 Easter hymn "Christ Is Risen! Christ Is Risen!" (visual depiction shown) by
Gurney was virtually unknown until two revised versions were sent to the United States? (2019-04-21)
... that
Church Fathers such as Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, and Lactantius accepted the association of the angelic descent myth with the "sons of God" passage in Genesis 6? (2019-04-21)
... that Katharine Timpson Cook established training programmes for midwives in
Namirembe, Uganda, but distrusted her students and censored their mail? (2019-04-23)
... that although the Transylvanian nobleman János Gerendi refrained from eating blood and animals that had been strangled, he did not keep all the
Old Testament laws? (2019-06-03)
... that Matthias Goethe, who was born in
Prussia and trained to become a Catholic priest, became a
Lutheran pastor and established congregations in Australia, the United States, and Mexico? (2019-06-16)
... that after Christian bakers refused to decorate a cake in support of gay marriage, the UK Supreme Court ruled that no one could be forced to promote a message with which they disagree? (2019-06-25)
... that when Joseph Wood was appointed as head master of
Harrow School, he was by far the oldest to be appointed since the retirement of Thomas Thackeray in 1760? (2019-07-03)
... that Armenian pianist
Tigran Hamasyan believes that God intervened in the recording of his album Luys i Luso? (2019-07-13)
... that
James Kyle, Roman Catholic bishop of Aberdeen, designed a
Buckie parish church so grand that it is known locally as the Buckie Cathedral(pictured)? (2019-09-05)
... that billionaire Max Auschnitt bribed Romanian authorities, and worked with "an anti-Semite, but a civilized one", to help Jews escape the Holocaust? (2019-09-11)
... that in 1894, the Ringkirche was the first Protestant church to follow the
Wiesbadener Programm of
Johannes Otzen, which focused on providing a clear view of the combined altar, pulpit, and organ areas (architect's sketch shown)? (2019-09-23)
... that the
nave entrance doors of St Rufus Church in
Keith, Moray, Scotland, incorporate a two-sided memorial to the First and Second World Wars? (2019-10-15)
... that water seeping from a statue of Jesus in Mumbai was initially called a miracle, but turned out to originate from a nearby overflowing drain? (2019-10-26)
... that as a 10-year-old, Lin Mei-hong joined a dance troupe in Taiwan founded by the Italian priest Gian Carlo Michelini, and later choreographed for the troupe? (2019-11-24)
... that in later life, Paul Mickelson bought the
organ upon which he had made his first recording as a solo artist at
NBC? (2019-12-25)
... that "The Sinner's Redemption" was called a "rude old carol" favoured by peasants? (2019-12-25)
... that Tetsu Yasui(pictured), who was raised by devout Buddhists, later converted to Christianity and served as president of
Tokyo Woman's Christian University for 17 years? (2019-12-26)
... that a
cantata titled God is Now, based on the hymn "Gott ist gegenwärtig" and scored for choir, big band, organ, and live electronics, premiered on the 250th anniversary of
the hymn writer's death? (2019-12-31)
... that leaders within the Independent Network Charismatic Christianity movement do not aim to grow churches, but rather seek to influence the "seven mountains of culture"? (2020-01-10)
... that a verse from Psalm 85 inspired artworks depicting the kiss of Justice and Peace (example shown)? (2020-01-28) ... that a verse from Psalm 85 has inspired artworks depicting the kiss of Justice and Peace? (2021-07-03)
... that the bell of the Church of the Good Shepherd(pictured), one of New Zealand's most photographed buildings, commemorates photographer and explorer Edward Sealy and his granddaughter? (2020-01-29)
... that three cannonballs were discovered in the roof of the Church of St Cuthbert, Bellingham, during renovation works? (2020-01-30)
... that American missionary Vernon Andy Anderson noted that those accused of witchcraft in the
Belgian Congo were likely to be women over 55 and subject to murder by vigilantes? (2020-02-06)
... that 2019 concerts in the 19th-century Bergkirche in
Wiesbaden, Germany, included Pärt's Passio and Handel's Messiah? (2020-02-26)
... that Asmundtorp Church(pictured), built between 1895 and 1897, was financed with returns from Swedish farmsteads that were donated to the church during the
Middle Ages? (2020-03-05)
... that Heidi Cruz, wife of U.S. senator
Ted Cruz, is the primary breadwinner of the family? (2020-03-08)
... that Kakwkylla(depiction shown), a female saint venerated in Sweden and Germany during the late
Middle Ages, may have originated from a misunderstanding of
an Irish abbot's gender? (2020-03-10)
... that Riverside Church in
Manhattan includes a movie theater, gymnasium, and observation deck, and formerly contained a bowling alley? (2020-04-10)
... that the 1775 Easter hymn "I Know That My Redeemer Lives" became popular in both the United Kingdom and the United States, albeit with different words? (2020-04-12)
... that a wall and a statue of
Mary that survived the World War II bombing of St. Kolumba in
Cologne have been incorporated into a chapel within the
Kolumba art museum? (2020-05-06)
... that the churchyard of the Church of St Thomas à Becket in
Box, Wiltshire, includes a pyramidical tombstone (pictured, right) said to have been contrived to prevent the deceased's wife from dancing on his grave? (2020-05-14)
... that an annual church service is said to have been held at the Gospel Oak in
Polstead, Suffolk, for more than 1,000 years? (2020-05-17)
... that the producers of the 1990 American comedy film Home Alone were threatened with legal action by the French director of 3615 code Père Noël, who alleged that it was a remake of his film? (2020-05-17)
... that the Norwegian band Vardøger formed, recorded music, disbanded, re-formed to release Whitefrozen, disbanded again, re-formed to release Ghost Notes, and then disbanded yet again? (2020-05-18)
... that the Protestant Film Commission was founded partly in response to the sympathetic portrayal of Catholics in
Hollywood films of the 1940s, while Protestants were played for laughs? (2020-06-02)
... that St Anselm's Church, Pembury, a Catholic church for former Anglicans, once used an altar on wheels? (2020-06-18)
... that The Cincinnati Enquirer commended makers of the 1950 film Again Pioneers for basically telling the Protestant churches that sponsored the production that they "are not doing their jobs"? (2020-06-20)
... that the 1949 film Prejudice drives its point home by having characters use many
ethnic slurs, including "nigger", "wops", "dagoes", "dirty Jew", and "dumb Swede"? (2020-06-27)
... that Storkyrkan,
Stockholm's oldest church, was the first church in Sweden where
Mass was celebrated in Swedish? (2020-06-28)
... that as health minister of Indonesia, Johannes Leimena focused on
preventive care in rural regions, contrasting with prior colonial policy? (2020-07-03)
... that the founders of the literary journal Irreantum hoped it would become the source for nationwide publishers to access the best of
Mormon literature? (2020-07-25)
... that the
Doric columns used in Christ Church in
Byculla, India, were imported from England? (2020-07-27)
... that St. James Church in New York City was once occupied by a veterans' organization, an Indonesian church, and a group for Chinese senior citizens? (2020-07-29)
... that the Viklau Madonna(pictured) is one of the best-preserved 12th-century wooden sculptures in Europe? (2020-07-29)
... that during the
Congo Crisis, American Methodist bishop Newell Snow Booth was threatened at gunpoint by a soldier before being released by an officer who recognized him? (2020-07-30)
... that
Kanye West premiered his song "Wash Us in the Blood", which discusses mass incarceration, slavery, genocide, and drug-dealing, at a Christian opera? (2020-08-01)
... that after the American Revolutionary War, only five of First Presbyterian Church of Newtown's congregants remained, so a nearby Dutch church took them in? (2020-08-02)
... that students and adults of three different religions visited the Armenian church in
Kuzguncuk, Istanbul, as part of a social activity organized by the local women residents of these religions? (2020-08-08)
... that Jewish homes in the
Diaspora often feature a mizrah wall hanging (example pictured) to indicate the direction of prayer towards Jerusalem? (2020-09-06)
... that on the single "Bra Off" from
Natalie Lauren's album Handle with Care, Lauren asserts that women should not be subject to insult, assault, or
sexism when they do not wear a
bra? (2020-09-19)
... that
Newcastle architect Gibson Kyle lay in wait and caught a burglar who was absconding with 33 lb (15 kg) of lead belonging to
Richard Grainger? (2020-09-21)
... that
Kanye West used an extended version of his track "Jesus Is Lord" under the title of "Every Knee Shall Bow" for his film Jesus Is King? (2020-10-04)
... that limpa, a sweet Scandinavian rye bread, was historically leavened with fermented brewer's
wort? (2020-10-10)
... that Saint Ninnoc(depicted) is often shown with a stag lying at her feet, said to represent the at-risk women who came under her guardianship? (2020-12-01)
... that the
lehenga was the traditional dress of women belonging to the Bettiah Christian ethnoreligious community of India? (2020-12-03)
... that after a visit to a
ragged school, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol, in which he uses the ghost of Jacob Marley(illustrated) as a mouthpiece for his own views on social responsibility? (2020-12-24)
... that John Montgomery Cooper advanced the theory that both South American and North American Indians were "marginal peoples" who were cultural relics from prehistoric times? (2021-01-10)
... that The Gospel of Afranius, a 1995 Russian novel and polemic challenging an American evangelical
apologist text, has not yet been translated to English? (2021-01-15)
... that according to a chaplain at
Nonnberg Abbey, an abbot was immediately struck blind after stealing one of Saint Erentrude's relics 300 years after her death? (2021-01-18)
... that after the Dreikönigskirche escaped destruction in World War II, it became Frankfurt's leading venue of church music performances (example pictured)? (2021-01-19)
... that virtuoso organist Frederick Swann was seen weekly on television by an estimated audience of 20 million viewers in 165 countries? (2021-01-20)
... that the Christuskirche in
Idstein-Walsdorf received this name in 1993, 600 years after a first chapel in the village was mentioned? (2021-01-24)
... that clergyman David Williamson's time as an outlaw is commemorated in the traditional Scottish song "
Dainty Davie"? (2021-01-25)
... that after Saint Eustadiola, a 7th century
abbess in
Bourges, France, prayed with her nuns for rain during a drought, they got drenched before they were able to return to the convent? (2021-01-26)
... that Dax Reynosa began his hip-hop career as a
battle rapper who would burn the rhyme books of defeated opponents, and later co-produced a documentary depicting battle rap in
Los Angeles? (2021-02-02)
... that although
Dallas minister Walker Railey was acquitted of the attempted murder of his wife in a criminal court, a civil court awarded an $18 million judgment against him? (2021-02-02)
... that Gore Vidal's novel Live from Golgotha has been called a "masterpiece of blasphemous vulgarity"? (2021-02-03)
... that rapper Zane One does not listen to much hip hop music, and her debut album features samples from classic rock and folk songs? (2021-02-06)
... that the Dreikönigskirche in
Dresden, a Baroque church completed in 1739, was bombed in 1945, not restored until 1984, and served as the seat of the state parliament from 1990? (2021-02-10)
... that the English clergyman Frank Thewlis was related to Prime Minister
Harold Wilson and wore a red handkerchief in his jacket pocket when preaching to show his support for Wilson's
Labour Party? (2021-02-19)
... that philanthropist Sidney Hill began a new life in England as a gentleman farmer, adding stables to the estate, a dairy and Langford Bullock Palaces for his prized
shorthorn cattle? (2021-02-20)
... that the Indonesian drama film Ave Maryam focuses on a forbidden romantic relationship between a Roman Catholic nun and her pastor? (2021-03-01)
... that Millie Dienert was called the "first lady of prayer" for her work on behalf of evangelist
Billy Graham? (2021-03-21)
... that the music styles in the discography of mewithoutYou range from screamed post-hardcore vocals to acoustic campfire songs? (2021-03-22)
... that so many people attended the golden-jubilee celebrations for the pastor of Galeed Chapel in Brighton in 1932 that they had to be held in a different church? (2021-03-23)
... that Dalby Church(pictured) may once have been part of a Danish royal palace complex? (2021-03-27)
... that when Canadian preacher Perry F. Rockwood criticized the Presbyterian church in 1947, he was ordered to recant and burn his sermons? (2021-04-05)
... that Grote Stadskerk, a church located in the historical
centre of
Paramaribo, is the first and the largest church of the
Moravian congregation in Suriname? (2021-04-07)
... that the miracles that established Saint Glodesind's claim to sainthood did not begin until 25 years or more after her death, and many of them occurred over 200 years later? (2021-04-18)
... that one of the Cehennemağzı Caves in northwestern Turkey features a very old Christian church, which was used as a secret place of worship in the
first years of Christianity? (2021-05-03)
... that the 11th-century Dalby Gospel Book is the first medieval manuscript known to have existed in Denmark? (2021-05-07)
... that the Heiligen-Geist-Kapelle in Bruck, a unique late-
Gothic chapel with a star
rib vault(pictured), was almost demolished to make room for a highway? (2021-07-04)
... that the Basilica of Saint Maternus in
Walcourt, Belgium, contains one of the oldest preserved Marian devotional statues in Western Christianity? (2021-07-07)
... that when Cordula Wöhler was expelled from a Lutheran pastor's household for converting to Catholicism, she wrote
a poem that became one of the most popular
hymns to Mary in German? (2021-07-21)
... that, while drunk, Romanian government minister Gheorghe Chițu allegedly had a dentist "pull out the roots of all his molars and his front teeth", resulting in permanent neurological damage? (2021-07-27)
... that New York City's St. Patrick's Cathedral(pictured), praised upon completion as the "finest church edifice on the American continent", was funded mostly by poor Irish Catholic parishioners? (2021-08-13)
... that three verses from Psalm 86 became part of Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah, including the opening "Lord, bow thine ear to our pray'r"? (2021-08-18)
... that the steel-framed Church Missions House(pictured) in New York City predates the city's first steel skyscraper? (2021-08-19)
... that Phyllis Le Cappelaine Burke helped found the
Sydney chapter of the St. Joan Social and Political Alliance, which advocated for equal rights for women? (2021-08-22)
... that all stanzas of the 1963 song "Herr, gib uns Mut zum Hören" (Lord, give us courage to listen), with text and tune by Kurt Rommel, begin with a prayer for courage? (2021-12-03)
... that during W. Sterling Cary's presidency of the
National Council of Churches in the 1970s, the council voted to support gay rights for the first time in its history? (2021-12-11)
... that
Salvatorian priest Pankratius Pfeiffer saved hundreds of Jews in Rome during the Second World War? (2021-12-13)
... that William Rounseville Alger's(pictured) 1857
Fourth of July speech was so controversial that the city of Boston refused to print it for seven years? (2021-12-27)
... that Chninkel, a Franco-Belgian comic mixing Tolkien-like fantasy with Biblical themes, has been translated into several languages? (2021-12-30)
... that
Dante used the third circle of hell(illustrated) to discuss contemporary Florentine politics rather than the sin of
gluttony? (2021-12-30)
... that Nothgottes(interior pictured), a pilgrimage destination in the
Rheingau since the 14th century, is a monastery of
Cistercians from Vietnam? (2022-01-06)
... that
Kanye West's "24" was recorded in tribute to
Kobe Bryant a few days after his death? (2022-01-18)
... that the text of "In dir ist Freude" ("In Thee is Gladness") was written in the 16th century to a 1591 dance song melody by
Giovanni Giacomo Gastoldi, and first published in a collection of Christmas carols? (2022-01-19)
... that Saint Juliana Olshanska is said to have appeared to Archimandrite
Peter Mogila to reproach him for the lack of respect paid to her relics? (2022-02-12)
... that the organ in Hastings Unitarian Church had previously been in three other Unitarian churches? (2022-02-17)
... that a London shipbuilder founded Wellington Square Baptist Church in Hastings out of gratitude for his daughter's health improving while staying in the seaside town? (2022-02-20)
... that Cheok Hong Cheong sold bananas for a decade, after which he became superintendent of the Church of England of Melbourne? (2022-02-26)
... that the second college founded by David Nelson was known as an "
abolitionist factory"? (2022-03-05)
... that two sculptures from 1428 (one pictured) in the Church of Saint Quentin in
Tournai are among the earliest examples of a style that was to dominate most of Europe for the following century? (2022-03-10)
... that John C. Young served as president of
Centre College for nearly 27 years, longer than any other president in the school's history? (2022-03-20)
... that Jean Webster daily served hundreds of people free food directly out of her home kitchen for over a decade? (2022-03-22)
... that "What do you hope to achieve with this?" were the last words of the Nigerian college student Deborah Yakubu while being lynched for alleged
blasphemy? (2022-06-01)
... that James McChord was elected to the presidency of
Centre College by its board of trustees, but died before he could take office? (2022-06-03)
... that after bombing in World War II, the surviving tower of the Friedenskirche, a Lutheran church in
Stuttgart, was combined with a new concrete structure? (2022-06-11)
... that the Patriarchy really does control the sisters of the Monastery Saint Claire in Nazareth? (2022-06-14)
... that Red Jordan Arobateau adopted "Red" as his first name after dyeing his hair red because he thought the color represented sensuality and eroticism of his work? (2022-07-02)
... that based on the biblical principle of omnia sunt communia,
Thomas Aquinas argued that theft is not a
sin if the thief genuinely needs what they are stealing? (2022-07-13)
... that
Kanye West recorded "Everything We Need" as a new version of his leaked track "The Storm"? (2022-08-01)
... that Joseph-Alfred Archambeault threatened to excommunicate a writer who criticised the Catholic Church's opposition to the theory of evolution? (2022-08-01)
... that within the graveyard of the Category A–listed Crossmichael Parish Church, there is a memorial (pictured) to William Gordon of Greenlaw that is itself
designated Category A in its own right? (2022-08-09)
... that Akron Baptist Temple(pictured) once featured 6-foot-tall (1.8 m) red lettering that flashed? (2022-08-10)
... that despite two 16th-century books often being referred to as the Edwardine Ordinals, the word "ordinal" was not applied to them until the 17th century? (2022-09-13)
... that despite the commercial success of previous
Kendrick Brothers films, star
Kirk Cameron said that Lifemark was unable to secure a distributor due to its pro-life stance? (2022-10-02)
... that the nonconformist minister Ichabod Chauncey was banished from England under the
Religion Act 1592 and spent two years in exile in Holland where he published a defence of his actions? (2022-11-06)
... that in 1772, Gowan Pamphlet(pictured) was ordained while still a slave? (2022-11-08)
... that the Maria Advocata(pictured) is one of the oldest icons of Mary, mother of Jesus, and that according to legend it was painted by Luke the Evangelist? (2022-12-20)
... that use of the 1604 Book of Common Prayer was authorized by the king of England, but later outlawed by Parliament? (2022-12-30)
... that while at high school, Johann Georg Seidenbusch declared to
Our Lady: "ad carissimam Sponsam te eligo" (I choose thee as my dearest Bride)? (2023-01-05)
... that the medieval
baptismal font of Löderup Church in Sweden contains a depiction of a ship with a dragon's head at the stem, similar to a
Viking ship? (2023-01-05)
... that Romanian poet Dimitrie Stelaru said that he once traveled to Paris by truck, adding "I hardly remember anything, I was drunk the whole time"? (2023-01-17)
... that the
particular church to which one belongs determines the right rite and the use to use? (2023-02-18)
... that Jane Dempsey Douglass became the first woman to head a worldwide communion of churches in 1990? (2023-02-21)
... that Minuscule 1689, a Greek minuscule manuscript of the
New Testament, went missing for nearly 100 years after it was moved during World War I for safety reasons? (2023-02-24)
... that in 1785, at the age of 24, James Freeman convinced his congregation to adopt his revised prayer book, which contributed to
King's Chapel becoming the first Unitarian congregation in the United States? (2023-02-25)
... that the 14th-century St Mary's Church, Mablethorpe, in
Lincolnshire, England, is constructed of material classified as random mixed rubble, red brick and slate? (2023-03-16)
... that in a recent book, David Bentley Hart – a
New Testament translator and proponent of the existence of fairies – engages in dialogues with his dog Roland (both pictured)? (2023-04-06)
... that during the time of the
Church Fathers, the velatio nuptialis was used by the church to validate the sacrament of marriage and emphasize its importance? (2023-04-11)
... that The Vision of God sparked controversy in Mexican radio? (2023-04-12)
... that 19th-century American evangelist
Dwight L. Moody was converted to Christianity in the stock room of a shoe store by his Sunday School teacher Edward Kimball? (2023-05-06)
... that a photograph inspired by one of
Leonardo da Vinci's paintings shows 14 Israeli soldiers and was described as a "homoerotic challenge to Israeli machismo"? (2023-05-18)
... that Luo Wenzao(pictured) became the first
Catholic bishop from China in 1685, after initially declining the appointment in 1677? (2023-05-24) ... that Luo Wenzao became the first
Catholic bishop from China in 1685, after initially declining the appointment in 1677? (2024-05-24)
... that one
abolitionist said that William L. Breckinridge's anti-slavery views would "disqualify [him] from political usefulness"? (2023-05-27)
... that evangelist Bob Harrington would drive miles out of his way to avoid the sight of a steeple? (2023-05-28)
... that to prevent bishops from opposing the Elizabethan Book of Common Prayer, reformers had the entire papalist party arrested during a debate? (2023-06-08)
... that Emmanuel Zheng Manuo was the first Chinese student in Europe and the first Chinese
Jesuit priest? (2023-07-19)
... that because of violent reactions – such as
Jenny Geddes's on 23 July 1637 (pictured) – to a Scottish prayer book,
Walter Whitford kept loaded pistols visible to his congregants while using the book? (2023-07-23)
... that Chinese missionary Tan See Boo moved to Singapore to work for the
Presbyterian Church, but later returned to China to persuade Christians to leave the Presbyterian Church? (2023-08-27)
... that Minuscule 1582, a Greek manuscript of the New Testament Gospels, has an ancient note before
Mark 16:9–20 which casts doubt on the authenticity of these verses? (2023-10-23)
... that according to Christian tradition, the cloth used to shroud the body of Christ was made of sindon? (2023-10-26)
... that the Retable of the Virgin of Montserrat(pictured) was commissioned by a merchant, perhaps as a sign of gratitude for his safe return from a shipwrecked journey from
Savona to
Valencia? (2023-11-15)
... that the pastor John Littlejohn went from selling pornographic literature to sailors as a youth to protecting the Declaration of Independence? (2023-12-21)
... that on Christmas Eve in 1818, the Christmas carol "Stille Nacht" ("
Silent Night") was first performed in the Nikolauskirche in
Oberndorf, Austria? (2023-12-24)
... that Dimitrie Ralet, a pioneer Romanian orientalist, commended
Ottoman reformers for not "blindly adopting what we in Europe take to mean civilization"? (2023-12-28)
... that when Abbess Stephanie of Courtenay's niece's marriage to the king of Jerusalem was annulled, the court's reasoning was so flimsy that a noted jurist had to ask Stephanie to explain it to him? (2024-01-04)
... that two towers remain (pictured) of the otherwise almost completely demolished Abbey of Saint Winnoc, because they were used as
daymarks by sailors? (2024-01-26)
... that a street in
Bucharest was once named after Ioniță Tunsu, an outlaw who used to visit his girlfriend there? (2024-02-04)
... that the only proposal from the 1749 book Free and Candid Disquisitions to be implemented by the
Church of England was a prayer "for the ceasing of the distemper" of cattle? (2024-02-05)
... that Lewes Friends Meeting House, built in 1784, replaced an earlier building whose proximity to a slaughterhouse made it "unfit to sit in"? (2024-03-18)
... that in the 3:16 game, Tim Tebow threw for 316 yards with 31.6 yards per completion, the ratings for the game were 31.6, and the opposing team's time of possession was 31 minutes 6 seconds? (2024-04-08)
... that within the Armenian Rite, it takes 40 days and more than 40 flowers, herbs, and spices to create the
chrism known as myron? (2024-04-10)
... that the Federal Aviation Administration uses the brightly lit Oakland California Temple(pictured) as a navigation beacon, despite complaints about light pollution? (2024-04-10)
... that Syncletica of Alexandria, a 4th-century saint and
Desert Mother, was called "an upper-class girl who does not care about her body"? (2024-04-14)
... that the 18th-century hymn "Alas! and Did My Saviour Bleed" has been criticised because its lyrics have singers call themselves a "worm"? (2024-06-03)