When Mary came to visit her relative Elizabeth, who was miraculously pregnant with John the Baptist, the old woman “was filled with the Holy Spirit” (Luke 1:41) and she prophesied. “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the…
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Echo CI concerned over secularist hate crime proposals
Last year, The Institute sounded the alarm over Law Commission plans to lower the threshold at which hate crimes can be committed, including criminalising so-called hate speech even in private dwellings. Now the NSS…
Ethiopian refugees pray for safe return in Church mass
Ethiopian Christians living in a refugee camp in Sudan have marked Coptic Christmas in exile, desperately praying to be reunited with loved ones and return to their conflict-hit home. Priests carrying wooden crosses led…
Restrictions put a damper on Bethlehem Christmas celebrations
BETHLEHEM, Palestinian Territories – Deprived of its usual tourist influx by the pandemic, Bethlehem will celebrate a quiet Christmas this year that is less about commerce and more about religion, says its parish priest. …