With the help of Henning Kristiansen's atmospheric cinematography, in a range of muted primary colours, Axel captures the bleak Jutland peninsula of the 1870s, where live two unmarried sisters (Bodil Kjer, Birgitte Federspiel), daughters of the former pastor, and founder of an austere religious sect, who devote themselves to keeping alive his memory and his teachings in the tiny remote community.
He thundered, "I will not rest" until Christian pastor Saeed Abedini is released from Iranian prison, but was cagey about what his wakefulness entailed: "everything within our power, within our voice, from the White House, from the State Department, from our government" stops conspicuously short of military intervention.
The service, which is being led by Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki, of the Catholic church, and Annette Kurschus, a Protestant pastor, is being broadcast live on German television.
Just before midnight on 14 April in Chibok, north-east Nigeria, pastor Enoch Mark's phone rang.Half asleep, it took him a while to make sense of the voice talking rapidly down the line.Eventually four words penetrated: "Boko Haram are coming".
Yesaya was given the land by the pastor of the church as a place for his community support group to meet.
"Mr Rudd's bullying of Christian pastor Matt Prater on Q&A [in the week before the election] has caused many people to worry about freedom of speech and freedom of belief should the law on marriage be changed.
Among them was the firebrand pastor Scott Lively, who first came to Uganda in 2002 and began peddling his distinctive variety of hot-headed and active homophobia.
Jonathan Falwell, the pastor and son of the television evangelist Jerry Falwell, was scheduled to address an NRA prayer breakfast on Sunday.
It's a veneer that reverend Jeff Gannon, a Wichita pastor and the eponymous plaintiff of the recent Gannon v Kansas, can smell from the pulpit.
Michael Peck, pastor of Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Overland Park, attended the service and said the shootings "ripped a hole in the fabric of our community".
Written by George Oduch, a senior pastor of the Victory Church of Christian Ministries International, the text was peppered with quotes from the so-called gay manifesto, testament to "the kind of aggressiveness that was in Sodom and Gomorrah… the same with which the homosexual community is promoting this evil cause".
