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When many parts of the world, religiously affiliated or not, have been immersed in the Merry Christmas air, there are some tensions and miseries we can't turn a blind eye to. Pope Francis urged Christians to celebrate the birth of Jesus by thinking about the plight of today's children, bemoaning how.... |
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Ups the fun quotient of any festival, makes you nostalgic and brings people together. Festivals are joyous moments for me not just because of how they are celebrated and their significance, but also it feels like we can become children again and all the beautiful childhood memories can be relived again. |
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(AFP) Britain's Queen Elizabeth II will pay tribute to inspirational unsung heroes in her Christmas Day broadcast to the Commonwealth on Sunday. The 90-year-old monarch will put the focus on "ordinary people doing extraordinary things", according to the text of her annual message. |
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Lymphedema. Hope Cancer Resources and Highlands Oncology Group offer a support group for patients and caregivers affected by lymphedema. It meets at noon Wednesday at Highlands Oncology Group in Rogers. This group is co-facilitated by lymphedema professionals and an oncology social worker. Information: (479) 361-5847. |
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Shakespeare, As You Like It, IV, 1. Not only did some people sell their lands to see the lands of other people, in this modern day many max out their credit cards or take out loans to visit the lands of others. Some may even sell their souls as they forfeit their birthright and adapt the culture of other people. |
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. Today is Sunday, Dec. 25, the 360th day of 2016. There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 25, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a communist superpower that had already gone out of existence. |
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Candles, flowers and individual messages are placed at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the Christmas market attack near the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedaechtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) in Berlin on December 24, 2016.
Tunisian security forces have arrested three suspected militants.... |
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© AP Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, will say economic progress hasn’t resulted in economic justice. Britain’s Christian leaders are focusing their Christmas messages on uncertainty, anxiety and fear at the end of a tumultuous year on the global stage. |
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Pope Francis said has that Christmas had been “taken hostage” by dazzling materialism that puts God in the shadows and blinds many to the needs of the hungry, the migrants and the war weary. Francis, leading the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics into Christmas for the fourth time since his.... |
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In 1931, New York’s Metropolitan Opera broadcast an entire live opera over radio for the first time: ‘‘Hansel and Gretel’’ by Engelbert Humperdinck. In 1961, Pope John XXIII formally announced the upcoming convocation of the Second Vatican Council, which opened in Oct. 1962. In 1977, comedian Sir Charles Chaplin died in Switzerland at age 88. |
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. Today is Sunday, Dec. 25, the 360th day of 2016. There are six days left in the year. This is Christmas Day. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 25, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev went on television to announce his resignation as the eighth and final leader of a communist superpower that had already gone out of existence. |
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