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...
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,...
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...
