Topic: Central Europe
Annihilated by Nazi Germany and largely forgotten by Poles, lost Jewish culture is re-emerging in Poland as youngsters scour their communities, searching for traces of Jewish life as it once existed.In Konskie, a small town of 20,000 people located 130 kilometres (80 ...
Vienna's Jewish Museum re-opens its doors this week after a thorough renovation, with a new exhibit dedicated to the first film studio bosses in Hollywood, many of whom were Jews emigrated from eastern Europe."(It is) a lively house, a house that will ...
Each August for the last 300 years, thousands of Poles have made a spiritual journey to the country's most revered monastery, home to an ancient Catholic icon believed to work miracles.Carrying rosaries, crosses and hiking poles, believers of every age, entire families, ...
About 1,500 people flocked to a musical about John Paul II's life, including his years as a student under Nazi rule in Poland, on Wednesday in Madrid on the eve of Pope Benedict XVI's arrival in the city.The show, called "No Tengais ...
Vampires, the devil's deceit and mental illness are among the hot topics for some 300 exorcists who flocked to Poland this week from as far away as Africa and India for a week-long congress.Held at Poland's Roman Catholic Jasna Gora monastery, home ...
Travelling on a fleet of planes, trains and cars, more than 50,000 Poles are expected to flock to the Vatican for the beatification of "their" saint-to-be, Polish-born pope John Paul II.The funeral of Karol Wojtyla in April 2005 drew half a million ...
The Passover herbs are bitter, but the symbolism is sweet for Poland's Jews, a community which has emerged from the shadow of Nazi German genocide and communist-era anti-Semitism.As Jews worldwide commemorate the ancient Exodus from Egypt with traditional fare from dry matzoh ...
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Belief in a god, or a supreme being, and some sort of afterlife is strong in many countries around the globe, according to a new Ipsos/Reuters poll.Fifty one percent of the 18,829 people across 23 countries who ...
WADOWICE, Poland (Reuters) - In the sleepy town of Wadowice in southern Poland, they are sprucing up the main square and renovating the house where its most famous son, the late Pope John Paul II, was born as Karol Wojtyla 91 years ...
Religious belief may be on a sharp decline in the Czech Republic but the Zeliv monastery has found a new role as a spiritual refuge while it recovers from its own decades of turmoil.Today's pilgrims to the monastery tucked in a picturesque ...
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