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  2. Mount of Olives Hotel - Wikipedia

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    The hotel has 54 rooms, 11 of which offer a view of Jerusalem from the highest vantage point in the city. [2] In addition to the Church of the Ascension, which adjoins the hotel to the south, the Garden of Gethsemane is approximately a ten-minute walk away to the west, down the steep slope of the Dominus Flevit ("Jesus Wept").

  3. Vantage Point (film) - Wikipedia

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    Vantage Point is a 2008 American political action thriller film directed by Pete Travis and written by Barry L. Levy. The story focuses on an assassination attempt on the President of the United States in Salamanca, Spain, as seen from the various vantage points of different characters. Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, William Hurt ...

  4. Rothko Chapel - Wikipedia

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    The Rothko Chapel is a non-denominational chapel in Houston, Texas, founded by John and Dominique de Menil. The interior serves not only as a chapel, but also as a major work of modern art: on its walls are fourteen paintings by Mark Rothko in varying hues of black. The shape of the building—an octagon inscribed in a Greek cross —and the ...

  5. Corey J. Hodges - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .thepointslc .com. Corey J. Hodges (born December 14, 1970, in St. Petersburg, Florida) is an American preacher and the chaplain for the NBA Utah Jazz professional basketball team. He was a columnist for The Salt Lake Tribune faith section for five years. He was also a regular host of the television program This week in the Word ...

  6. José María Vigil (theologian) - Wikipedia

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    From the privileged vantage point of "The Revolutionary Nicaragua" he accompanied the avant-gande militant Liberation Theology, the grassroots communities and the Church of the poor, working closely with his friend and claretian companion Pedro Casaldáliga.

  7. Southern Baptist Convention - Wikipedia

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    The official name is the Southern Baptist Convention.The word Southern in "Southern Baptist Convention" stems from its having been organized in 1845 in Augusta, Georgia, by white Baptists in the Southern United States who supported continuing the institution of slavery and split from the northern Baptists (known today as the American Baptist Churches USA), who did not support funding slave ...

  8. St. Augustine's Church, Warsaw - Wikipedia

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    During the Warsaw Uprising the church tower was a vantage point and German machine gun nest. On 5 August 1944 the tower was damaged during the assault on the nearby Gesiowka Prison by soldiers of Battalion Zośka. After the uprising, Germans set fire to the roof of the church and a considerable amount of the church was burned.

  9. Omega Point - Wikipedia

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    The Omega Point is a theorized future event in which the entirety of the universe spirals toward a final point of unification. The term was invented by the French Jesuit Catholic priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1955). [1] Teilhard argued that the Omega Point resembles the Christian Logos, namely Christ, who draws all things into ...