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In polar night, Norway-Russia kids event lights up Christmas

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Children's choir travels three hours by boat to mark holiday with 40 children in Barentsburg. For 18 months, none has come to celebrate services in chapel filled with icons. During Cold War, tensions flared between the two countries in Svalbard. Church members approved the choir's Christmas visit to help the children not see one another as enemies.

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Associated Press News

In polar night, Norway-Russia kids event lights up Christmas

The children’s choir from the Lutheran church in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard traveled three hours each way by boat to mark Orthodox Christmas with the 40 children in Barentsburg,

1 year ago·United States

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KIFI

In polar night, Norway-Russia kids event lights up Christmas

By GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press BARENTSBURG, Norway (AP) — A 15-year-old boy in a polar bear hoodie took turns reading the Gospel passage about Jesus’s birth in Russian with three girls in dresses and bows who proclaimed it in Norwegian, in a shared celebration of Orthodox Christmas deep in the Arctic undimmed by war and the round-the-clock polar night. The girls and a dozen of their fellow members of Polargospel, the children’s choir at …

1 year ago·Idaho Falls, United States

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Winnipeg Free Press

In polar night, Norway-Russia kids event lights up Christmas

BARENTSBURG, Norway (AP) — A 15-year-old boy in a polar bear hoodie took turns reading the Gospel passage about Jesus’s birth in Russian with three girls in dresses and bows […]

1 year ago·Winnipeg, Canada

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Bloomberg

In Polar Night, Norway-Russia Kids Event Lights Up Christmas

Barentsburg, Norway (AP) -- A 15-year-old boy in a polar bear hoodie took turns reading the Gospel passage about Jesus’s birth in Russian with three girls in dresses and bows who proclaimed it in Norwegian, in a shared celebration of Orthodox Christmas deep in the Arctic undimmed by war and the round-the-clock polar night.

1 year ago·United States

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Coast Reporter

In polar night, Norway-Russia kids event lights up Christmas

BARENTSBURG, Norway (AP) — A 15-year-old boy in a polar bear hoodie took turns reading the Gospel passage about Jesus’s birth in Russian with three girls in dresses and bows who proclaimed it in Norwegian, in a shared celebration of Orthodox Christma

1 year ago·Sechelt, Canada

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San Diego Union Tribune

In polar night, Norway-Russia kids event lights up Christmas

The children’s choir from the Lutheran church in the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard traveled three hours each way by boat to mark Orthodox Christmas with the 40 children in Barentsburg, a village owned by Russia’s Arctic mining company in the remote Norwegian territory

1 year ago·San Diego, United States

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