Tuesday September 16, 2003
The people in a remote Italian village walled up their local Priest in the parish church to prevent him from leaving. Fr. Emilio Succhiella became a 'prisoner of love' after Capuchin Franciscans decided to withdraw from Trasacco, in the mountainous Abruzzo region near Rome, after 428 years of service.
Protesting villagers took the unusual step after they had unsuccessfully appealed to the Order ...
Tuesday May 25, 2004
Even in death Irish comic genius Spike Milligan managed to have the last laugh. Two years after his death at his home in Sussex, England, the creator of "The Goon Show" has finally got the epitaph he wanted.
A headstone bearing the words "I told you I was ill" has been erected above his grave at St. Thomas's Church in Winchelsea, East Sussex. Sadly for more than two years after his death at the ...
Monday July 23, 2007
Church leaders are using the magic of Harry Potter to help spread the Christian message. In the past Harry Potter books and movies have been attacked by evangelicals for 'glamorizing the occult.' But now a guide published by the Church of England advises youth workers how to use the wizardry of fantasy novelist J. K. Rowling as a launch pad for exploring Bible themes.
The publication of the gui ...
Our next song is: "Angels We Have Heard Get High."
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Sign seen in a bar: "Those drinking to forget, please pay in advance."
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Bertha Belch, a missionary from Africa, will be speaking tonight at Calvary Methodist. Come hear Bertha Belch all the way from Africa.
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