So the traditional outdoor Nativity scene unveiled on Christmas Eve next to a giant illuminated Christmas tree in St Peter's Square has been paid for not by the Holy See but by the taxpayers of one of Italy's poorest regions, Basilicata, in the heel of Italy.
The question is just one of the ten submitted by the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church to a government commission set up two years ago, but whose work is only now coming into fruition.
Mr. Hess's Belgian "Trinitas" beer, named for the Holy Trinity, is now one of the brewery's mainstays.
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If the results of human trials are just as good (not a sure bet), a pill to make fat people thin--one of the holy grails for drug companies--will have been discovered.
Flower sellers line the walk to one of the most sacred shrines in Anuradhapura, the holy Bo tree.
The Monastery of the Holy Trinity is accessible by climbing 140 steep steps, making it one of the least visited.
Like many Muslim Olympians, Khadija will be fasting for the holy month of Ramadan, which starts one week before the Games.
After all, as it is written in the very first stanza of the Sikh holy book, we are all one under one guiding spirit.
Back in the 1934, Martin Luther King Sr. was one of 10 Baptist ministers who traveled first to the Holy Land and then to Germany.
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Lera approached one, an image of the Holy Mother, silent pain in her flat painted eyes.
It is also one of the traditional "Three Holy Mountains" - along with Mount Tate and Mount Haku, both in central Japan.
"While we were there, al-Jazeera ran a totally false report that American troops had gone and detained one of the key imams in the holy city of Najaf, which was a false report, " Mr Wolfowitz said.
Tai Shan, a holy mountain south of Beijing, is one of the country's most popular tourist sites--especially among would-be grandmothers, who trudge to the top, drape red strings over trees and then return home to wait for the grandson this ritual is supposed to guarantee.
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One of Christianity's most holy places, the site's focal point is the Grotto of the Nativity, a rectangular cavern beneath the church that has been considered the site of Christ's birth since at least the 2nd century.
One such policy suggests that colleges reform their academic employment policies by replacing tenure with one of a number of alternatives that would preserve the holy grail of higher education, academic freedom, which is necessary to prevent faculty from being arbitrarily dismissed for saying or writing things that administrators or influential outsiders consider wrong or offensive.
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If not one of his own pieces, you would expect it to be something by one of the great houses synonymous with the collector's Holy Trinity: Tradition, Innovation and Perfectionism.
These are the holy grails of the baseball-collecting world, items hardcore collectors dream will one day be found.
One young devotee, Ashutosh Pandey, a pharmacy student, said the holy dip was a form of prayer for him.
Situated on the banks of the Ganges River, Varanasi (formerly Benares) is visited by millions of Hindu pilgrims each year, most coming to cremate a deceased loved one and bathe themselves in the river's horrifically polluted but extremely holy waters.
Pope Clement VII's 1530 bull approving the coronation of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V might seem an assertion of papal supremacy until one notes that it followed the 1527 sack of Rome by Charles's mutinous troops, many of them German Lutherans.
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Since then, SBG has had only one sizable project: for the royal family, to connect Jedda to the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.
As with the perennial struggle over the horrors of medical malpractice, the question of whether or not to screen for cancer is one of those health-care Holy Wars that will never be resolved merely shunted off into another who-pays economic grind-down because where data ought to rule, emotion will always overrule.
Transatlantic anti-trust immunity is a holy grail for European and American airlines, allowing carriers to effectively operate as one without all the cost and rigmarole of a full merger.
As I wrote in a story last year, the reopening of the case could get historians and collectors one step close to what both groups consider to be their own Holy Grail.
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One of the most important of these documents made public to date was entered into evidence during the Holy Land Foundation trial.
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