A VISIT TO A FRIARY for any purpose, as a pilgrim, as someone offering help, as someone needing help, or even as a journalist, seeking to learn something to convey to others, is,...
WHEN THE POPE visited the Holy Land in 2000, he expressed a hope that, during the jubilee year, many thousands of Christian pilgrims would converge on the Holy Places where Christ...
THREE YEARS AGO this month, Dr. Matthew Lukwiya died of Ebola at a hospital in Northern Uganda. The doctor who had led a fight against the virus became one of its victims. He was...
IT’S DECEMBER, when Christmas and images of Jesus’ birth come to mind: the child in the manger, Joseph, Mary, the ox, the ass, the shepherds, and choirs of Angels in the sky above...
“IT’S THE SAME every year. As soon as I flip the calendar over to December it’s much like opening the starting gate of the Kentucky Derby. I’m off for the Christmas race - there is...
LIBERIA’S long-running political soap opera finally came to an end on 11 August this year with the resignation of President Charles Taylor and the swearing-in of his Vice President...
