Monday, December 27, 2021
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Jesus Statue Smashed in Spate of Attacks on India’s Christian Community
THE GUARDIAN: Amid growing intolerance to India’s Christian minority, several Christmas events were targeted by Hindu right wing groups
Christian devotees pray at a Church to celebrate Christmas in Guwahati, Assam. Violence against Christians is growing in India Photograph: David Talukdar/NurPhoto/REX/Shutterstock
Festive celebrations were disrupted, Jesus statues were smashed and effigies of Santa Claus were burned in a spate of attacks on India’s Christian community over Christmas.
Amid growing intolerance and violence against India’s Christian minority, who make up about 2% of India’s population, several Christmas events were targeted by Hindu right wing groups, who alleged Christians were using festivities to force Hindus to convert.
In recent years, Christians have increasingly faced harassment around Christmas but this year saw a notable surge in attacks.
In Agra in Uttar Pradesh, members of right wing Hindu groups burned effigies of Santa Claus outside missionary-led schools and accused Christian missionaries of using Christmas celebrations to lure people in. » | Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi | Monday, December 27, 2021
Festive celebrations were disrupted, Jesus statues were smashed and effigies of Santa Claus were burned in a spate of attacks on India’s Christian community over Christmas.
Amid growing intolerance and violence against India’s Christian minority, who make up about 2% of India’s population, several Christmas events were targeted by Hindu right wing groups, who alleged Christians were using festivities to force Hindus to convert.
In recent years, Christians have increasingly faced harassment around Christmas but this year saw a notable surge in attacks.
In Agra in Uttar Pradesh, members of right wing Hindu groups burned effigies of Santa Claus outside missionary-led schools and accused Christian missionaries of using Christmas celebrations to lure people in. » | Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi | Monday, December 27, 2021
Sunday, December 26, 2021
One Year On, Most Voters Say Brexit Has Gone Badly
THE OBSERVER: An Opinium poll also found that 42% of people who voted Leave in 2016 had a negative view of how it had turned out
Brexit. Photograph: Lenscap/Alamy
More than six out of 10 voters believe Brexit has either gone badly or worse than they expected – a year after the UK left the EU, according to an anniversary poll for the Observer.
The Opinium survey – coming a week after the minister in charge of Brexit, Lord Frost, resigned from Boris Johnson’s government – also found that 42% of people who voted Leave in 2016 had a negative view of how Brexit had turned out so far.
26% of Leave supporters said it had gone worse than they expected, while 16% of those who voted for Brexit said they had expected it to go badly and had been proved right.
Among people who voted Remain, 86% said it had gone badly or worse than they expected. Overall, just 14% of all voters said Brexit had gone better than expected. » | Toby Helm | Saturday, December 25, 2021
The penny is slowly dropping that the electorate have made a grave mistake in voting for Brexit. Increasingly, they will come to realise that they have been led up the garden path by chancers and the few politicians at the top seeking to line their own pockets at the expense of the many. Brexit was, is, and will remain a stupid idea. – © Mark
More than six out of 10 voters believe Brexit has either gone badly or worse than they expected – a year after the UK left the EU, according to an anniversary poll for the Observer.
The Opinium survey – coming a week after the minister in charge of Brexit, Lord Frost, resigned from Boris Johnson’s government – also found that 42% of people who voted Leave in 2016 had a negative view of how Brexit had turned out so far.
26% of Leave supporters said it had gone worse than they expected, while 16% of those who voted for Brexit said they had expected it to go badly and had been proved right.
Among people who voted Remain, 86% said it had gone badly or worse than they expected. Overall, just 14% of all voters said Brexit had gone better than expected. » | Toby Helm | Saturday, December 25, 2021
The penny is slowly dropping that the electorate have made a grave mistake in voting for Brexit. Increasingly, they will come to realise that they have been led up the garden path by chancers and the few politicians at the top seeking to line their own pockets at the expense of the many. Brexit was, is, and will remain a stupid idea. – © Mark
Carols from King's 2016 | #12 "It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" - Choir of King's College, Cambridge
I am re-posting this beautiful Christmas carol because the version I put up originally was taken down by the person that posted it on YouTube. Another ‘Christian’ who doesn’t understand Jesus’ message or Christianity! Let’s hope for better luck this time. – © Mark
Machtwechsel in Afghanistan: Taliban wollen Musik und Frauen ohne Hijabs aus Autos verbannen
NEUE ZÜRCHER ZEITUNG: In Afghanistan haben die Taliban im August 2021 die Macht übernommen. Viele Staaten haben ihre Landsleute und lokalen Mitarbeiter unter teilweise dramatischen Umständen evakuiert. Die Lage im Land ist unübersichtlich.
Wer in Afghanistan Auto fährt, soll dazu weder Musik hören noch eine Frau ohne Hijab als Passagieren mitnehmen. Dies heisst es in einem Schreiben des Ministeriums zur Erhaltung der Tugend und Unterdrückung des Lasters, das an Autofahrer verteilt wurde. Der Sprecher des Ministeriums, Mohammed Sadik Asif, bestätigte am Sonntag (26. 12.) die Direktive. Wie genau der Hijab aussehen soll, geht aus der Anordnung nicht hervor. Die regierenden Taliban verstehen darunter in der Regel nicht die Bedeckung von Haaren und Hals, sondern einen Umhang von Kopf bis Fuss. Die neusten Entwicklungen: » | NZZ-Redaktion | Sonntag, 26. Dezember 2021
Wer in Afghanistan Auto fährt, soll dazu weder Musik hören noch eine Frau ohne Hijab als Passagieren mitnehmen. Dies heisst es in einem Schreiben des Ministeriums zur Erhaltung der Tugend und Unterdrückung des Lasters, das an Autofahrer verteilt wurde. Der Sprecher des Ministeriums, Mohammed Sadik Asif, bestätigte am Sonntag (26. 12.) die Direktive. Wie genau der Hijab aussehen soll, geht aus der Anordnung nicht hervor. Die regierenden Taliban verstehen darunter in der Regel nicht die Bedeckung von Haaren und Hals, sondern einen Umhang von Kopf bis Fuss. Die neusten Entwicklungen: » | NZZ-Redaktion | Sonntag, 26. Dezember 2021
Desmond Tutu, Whose Voice Helped Slay Apartheid, Dies at 90
THE NEW YORK TIMES: The archbishop, a powerful force for nonviolence in South Africa’s anti-apartheid movement, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984.
Desmond M. Tutu at Washington National Cathedral in 1984. The archbishop was a spellbinding preacher, assuring his parishioners of God’s love while exhorting them to follow the path of nonviolence in their struggle. | Associated Press
Desmond M. Tutu, the cleric who used his pulpit and spirited oratory to help bring down apartheid in South Africa and then became the leading advocate of peaceful reconciliation under Black majority rule, died on Sunday in Cape Town. He was 90.
His death was confirmed by the office of South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who called the archbishop “a leader of principle and pragmatism who gave meaning to the biblical insight that faith without works is dead.”
The cause of death was cancer, the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said, adding that Archbishop Tutu had died in a care facility. He was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997, and was hospitalized several times in the years since, amid recurring fears that the disease had spread.
As leader of the South African Council of Churches and later as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop Tutu led the church to the forefront of Black South Africans’ decades-long struggle for freedom. His voice was a powerful force for nonviolence in the anti-apartheid movement, earning him a Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. » | Marilyn Berger | Sunday, December 26, 2021
Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace winner, dies at 90: Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, has died at 90 »
Desmond Tutu’s long history of fighting for lesbian and gay rights »
Desmond Tutu kämpfte sein Leben lang für Gerechtigkeit und blieb bis zuletzt ein Quälgeist für die Mächtigen: Desmond Tutu war neben Nelson Mandela der grosse Held Südafrikas, für das er den Traum der Regenbogennation am Leben erhielt. Tutu hatte unermüdlich zum Sturz des Apartheidregimes beigetragen – und legte sich danach unverändert vehement mit den neuen Mächtigen an. Er starb am Sonntag im Alter von 90 Jahren in Kapstadt. »
Ein Architekt des neuen Südafrika: Mit unbedingtem Willen zur Aussöhnung: Der Erzbischof Tutu bekam den Friedensnobelpreis für seine Bemühungen um das Ende der Apartheid. Er blieb ein scharfer Kritiker des ANC. Im Alter von 90 Jahren ist er gestorben. »
Décès du Nobel de la Paix Desmond Tutu : les hommages se multiplient : Le président sud-africain Cyril Ramaphosa a exprimé «sa profonde tristesse» après le décès de ce «patriote sans égal». Emmanuel Macron a salué son combat «pour la fin de l'apartheid et la réconciliation sud-africaine». »
Desmond Tutu, infatigable pourfendeur de l'apartheid et des injustices : DISPARITION - L'archevêque, Prix Nobel de la Paix, s'est battu sans relâche contre le système ségrégationniste, puis contre les injustices qui traversent son pays. Il est décédé ce dimanche à l'âge de 90 ans. »
Desmond M. Tutu, the cleric who used his pulpit and spirited oratory to help bring down apartheid in South Africa and then became the leading advocate of peaceful reconciliation under Black majority rule, died on Sunday in Cape Town. He was 90.
His death was confirmed by the office of South Africa’s president, Cyril Ramaphosa, who called the archbishop “a leader of principle and pragmatism who gave meaning to the biblical insight that faith without works is dead.”
The cause of death was cancer, the Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation said, adding that Archbishop Tutu had died in a care facility. He was first diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1997, and was hospitalized several times in the years since, amid recurring fears that the disease had spread.
As leader of the South African Council of Churches and later as Anglican archbishop of Cape Town, Archbishop Tutu led the church to the forefront of Black South Africans’ decades-long struggle for freedom. His voice was a powerful force for nonviolence in the anti-apartheid movement, earning him a Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. » | Marilyn Berger | Sunday, December 26, 2021
Desmond Tutu, South Africa's Nobel Peace winner, dies at 90: Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist for racial justice and LGBT rights, has died at 90 »
Desmond Tutu’s long history of fighting for lesbian and gay rights »
Desmond Tutu kämpfte sein Leben lang für Gerechtigkeit und blieb bis zuletzt ein Quälgeist für die Mächtigen: Desmond Tutu war neben Nelson Mandela der grosse Held Südafrikas, für das er den Traum der Regenbogennation am Leben erhielt. Tutu hatte unermüdlich zum Sturz des Apartheidregimes beigetragen – und legte sich danach unverändert vehement mit den neuen Mächtigen an. Er starb am Sonntag im Alter von 90 Jahren in Kapstadt. »
Ein Architekt des neuen Südafrika: Mit unbedingtem Willen zur Aussöhnung: Der Erzbischof Tutu bekam den Friedensnobelpreis für seine Bemühungen um das Ende der Apartheid. Er blieb ein scharfer Kritiker des ANC. Im Alter von 90 Jahren ist er gestorben. »
Décès du Nobel de la Paix Desmond Tutu : les hommages se multiplient : Le président sud-africain Cyril Ramaphosa a exprimé «sa profonde tristesse» après le décès de ce «patriote sans égal». Emmanuel Macron a salué son combat «pour la fin de l'apartheid et la réconciliation sud-africaine». »
Desmond Tutu, infatigable pourfendeur de l'apartheid et des injustices : DISPARITION - L'archevêque, Prix Nobel de la Paix, s'est battu sans relâche contre le système ségrégationniste, puis contre les injustices qui traversent son pays. Il est décédé ce dimanche à l'âge de 90 ans. »
Édith Piaf: Ohne Liebe ist man nichts | Doku HD (Reupload) | ARTE
Ce documentaire est disponible en français ici.
Saturday, December 25, 2021
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing | Descant: David Willcocks | Carols from King's 2021
I am re-posting this Christmas carol because the original version was nixed. Some so-called Christian, I suppose, who understands diddly about the real meaning of Christianity took it down! Let us see how long this recording remains up! Let us see just how Christian these people really are! Homophobia has no place in true Christian teaching. Ask yourselves one simple question: For whom did Christ really come? – © Mark
The Queen's Christmas Broadcast 2021 | BBC
The Queen strikes a hopeful tone in personal Christmas message: Monarch speaks of the death of Prince Philip, and encourages the nation to see the joy in simple things »
Elizabeth II apporte une dimension personnelle à son message de Noël : La reine a déclaré que si Noël était un moment de bonheur pour beaucoup, il pouvait être difficile pour ceux qui ont perdu des proches, une peine qu’elle dit comprendre tout particulièrement cette année, marquée par la disparition du prince Philip. »
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