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By Joynel Fernandes – If you are dreaming of a White Christmas, Pieter Bruegel’s deep wintered ‘Census at Bethlehem’ would definitely not fit your list.
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Let there be Christmas to help us realise that Joseph together with his young, pregnant wife had to trudge a long distance to get themselves
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No room in the Inn (Lk2:7). The scene of Bethlehem continues even today. Because of indifference and closed hearts, many people experience the same rejection
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[tta_listen_btn] By Jacqueline Kelly. Once again it is Christmas, the feast which we love most. The young and the old all over the world are
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[tta_listen_btn] By Tom Thomas. “I want to do something that will recall the memory of that Child who was born in Bethlehem, to see with
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Janina Gomes – Across many nations, Christmas has increasingly turned into a secular spectacle—marked by glittering lights, festive markets, decorated trees, mistletoe, and the relentless
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Third Saturday in Advent – December 20, 2025 Judges 13: 2-7, 24-25; Luke 1: 26-38 Like the light that shines all over and enters every
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Verghese V Joseph – Bengaluru’s own “von Trapp” family – the Abreos – turned a December morning at Jyothi Seva Home and School for Blind
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Diocese of Kontagora’s Catholic Bishop, Bulus Dauwa Yohanna, on Monday confirmed to Vatican News the release of 130 students and staff abducted from St. Mary’s Primary and Secondary School in Papiri on 21 November. The children and staff were part of an original 315 victims forcibly taken by gunmen from the school in the night.
Following his second visit in six months to the Gaza Strip—the first since the ceasefire—the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem speaks of a strong desire to return to normal life.
Israel’s security cabinet has approved the recognition of 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, deepening the government’s push to expand its presence in the territory.
The only entirely Christian village of the West Bank is getting ready to celebrate the Lord's coming in an atmosphere halfway between the joy of the festivity and the fear of new attacks by Israeli colonists.