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Johannesburg — Lion Songs (Duke University Press), Banning Eyre’s biography of Zimbabwean musical innovator Thomas Tafirenyika Mapfumo, is an intensely detailed and lucid work. Eyre, a guitar-playing journalist, is also the author of Griot Time: An American Guitarist in Mali and producer of Afropop.... |
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Friday, January 15 will remain memorable in the electoral annals of Uganda. The Waganda were out to prove that what the Americans, the Brits and the Kenyans can do, they, too, can do, with even a lot more hilarity. The Uganda Interreligious Council, an august body of our venerable spiritual leaders,.... |
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OUTSIDE Edinburgh High Court, on a 15-foot plinth, sits a statue of the great Scottish philosopher and economist David Hume, draped in a toga and thinking deep thoughts. A blustery wind blows around his exposed chest, and there is persistent drizzle, but this is a dauntless tourist city, so now and.... |
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RICHARD Holloway has long been something of a hero of mine. His forward-facing mind challenges all thinking that is stuck in old ways. Whether on Christianity itself or a gentler understanding of the travails of migrants or minorities, he calls on none of us to leave our brains behind when reflecting on matters of faith. |
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MOSCOW, January 23. /TASS/. Reporters of the Russian Orthodox television broadcaster Tsargrad have been deported from Moldova in the wake of an information blockade in that country. Tsargrad Editor-in-Chief Aleksey Kravchenko told TASS that on Saturday morning Moldova’s special services forced a TV.... |
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“Modesty aside, we are 125 percent ready. We are down to our last two percent of things that remain to be done, the nitty gritty,” said Monsignor Joseph Tan of the IEC committee, less than two days before the event kicks off. Tan said the IEC, which was last held in the country in 1937, is to adults.... |
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With the theme, “Christ in you, our hope of glory (Col 1:27),” the week-long Eucharistic Congress is intended to strengthen the faith of the people and to promote awareness of the central place of the Eucharist in the life and mission of the Catholic Church. It is also believed to be a pause for commitment and a pause for prayer. |
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Dr. Ben Carson is a renowned pediatric neurosurgeon who performed historic surgery separating conjoined twins. Carson runs on that resume — an outsider who can pull together smart people to solve difficult problems. He rose in politics after criticizing President Obama's policies in a 2013 speech, with Obama two seats away. |
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Bigg Boss Season 10 to open its arms to the nation. India isse apna hi ghar samjho. Now you too can participate in the next Season of Bigg Boss. The biggest reality show of India is all set to do something unthinkable! The 10th Season of Bigg Boss will open its gates to the public as contestants in its house. |
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The rapid spread of the Zika virus has prompted Latin American governments to urge women not to get pregnant for up to two years, an extraordinary precaution aimed at avoiding birth defects believed to be linked to the mosquito-borne illness. What until recently was a seemingly routine public health.... |
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Pope Francis speaks with the Sudanese Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir as they pose for a collective picture with the members of the joint Sudanese South Sudanese delegation on January 20, 2016 (Photo Obsservatore Romano) Vatican Radio reported that Pope Francis met with the bishops of Sudan and South Sudan.... |
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