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December 27, 2023
December 27, 2023
ULAANBAATAR – One of the world’s smallest Catholic flocks is growing in number, after the Mongolian Church added three native women to its ranks on Christmas Eve, nearly four months after Pope Francis’s visit earlier this year. There’s no other country on earth where the addition of just three converts would warrant much news. But
December 27, 2023
Then Herod, seeing that he had been made fun of by the Magi, was very angry indeed. And he sent and destroyed all the male children who were in Bethlehem and in its boundaries of two years and under, in accordance with what he had exactly inquired about from the Magi. Then it was fulfilled,
December 27, 2023
Bethlehem’s main square is bereft its usual festive splendour and twinkling red, green and white lights. Usually bustling this time of year with thousands of global visitors and with Christians visiting from across the Holy Land—including Gaza—the square is now desolate.  There are no tourists or pilgrims. The abrupt halting of access for Christians from
December 27, 2023
They say that desperate times call for desperate measures, and right now the situation in Ukraine is getting increasingly desperate for President Volodmyr Zelensky and his administration. Despite its unquestionable valour, the Ukrainian Army remains locked in a grinding stalemate with Vladimir Putin’s Russian invaders. If this weren’t enough of a challenge, President Zelensky has
December 27, 2023
On this day 180 years ago Charles Dickens gave his first public reading of A Christmas Carol. Just two days after Christmas, around 2,000 people gave the author their rapt attention, not to mention frequent applause. Published on 19 December 1843, it had already sold 5,000 copies by Christmas Eve. It has never been out of
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