By Roy Alex Mannar, Sri Lanka, Dec 30, 2024: The week after Christmas becomes a time of stocktaking, examining the highs and lows of the past year, and setting hopes and resolutions for the year ahead. This has always been my customary approach, but my perspective was profoundly challenged thisContinue Reading
By M K George Rome, Jan 11, 2023: Yearend perusal of journals and newspapers gives a lot of insight about what went by and what people dream for. There are always the optimists and the pessimists, the romantics and the doomsayers. The world is better than ever One of theContinue Reading
Don Aguiar We have begun the Year of the Lord – ANNO DOMINI 2023. The marking of the dawn of a new year is no secular holiday, because time and history have been drawn into the coming of God into the world. We keep track of our time as eitherContinue Reading
Somalia’s government has banned celebrations of Christmas and New Year in the Muslim majority country, saying the festivities might attract Islamist attacks. “All events related to Christmas and New Year celebrations are contrary to Islamic culture, which could damage the faith of the Muslim community,” the director general of theContinue Reading
