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This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. This is a list of notable converts to Christianity from Judaism after the split of Judaism and Christianity. Christianity originated as a movement within Judaism that believed in Jesus as the Messiah. The earliest Christians were Jews or ...
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The same day, Tell No One, a documentary detailing accounts of sex abuse by Catholic Church clergy in Poland, went viral, reaching 8.1 million viewers on YouTube by 13 May. [243] Among many, the film featured a priest known as Father Jan A., whose case is being reviewed by the Diocese of Kielce , who confessed to molesting many young girls. [ 242 ]
A depiction of Máni, the personified Moon, and his sister Sól, the personified Sun, from Norse mythology (1895) by Lorenz Frølich.. The name "Sunday", the day of the Sun, is derived from Hellenistic astrology, where the seven planets – known in English as Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury and the Moon – each had an hour of the day assigned to them, and the planet which was ...
Pope John XXIII, 81, Italian Pontiff of the Roman Catholic Church. As Cardinal Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, he had been the Patriarch of Venice when elected on October 28, 1958, to succeed Pope Pius XII.
April 27, 1978: Monument to the construction workers killed in the Willow Island disaster April 15, 1978: Train wereck in Italy kills 48 people and injures 117 April 20, 1978: Korean Air Lines Flight 902 strayed into Soviet airspace, leading to the Soviet Air Force intercepting and shooting it down (artist's rendition)
Disasters and accidents A tour bus hits a bridge at Miami International Airport, United States, killing at least two people and injuring many more. (NBC News) (BBC) (The Miami Herald) [permanent dead link ] At least 8 people are killed and 36 injured when a passenger bus overturns on the highway between the cities of Sucre and Potosí in southern Bolivia. (RIA Novosti) International ...