We have scrapped all plans for travel in the coming months, including Holy Week. The SARS scare certainly took care of that. We had planned to take a cruise to Shanghai via Hong Kong where we were to board the ship. In May we planned to take another cruise through Europe, boarding in...
Israel's Wartime Cabinet Minister Benny Gantz also warned on Friday that the fighting would continue during Ramadan -- the Islamic holy month of fasting, which starts on March 10 this year -- if the hostages are not returned. Israel will keep in touch with Egypt, which borders Rafah, and ...
Here’s the a timeline for Holy Monday and Tuesday. The horizontal axis is a timeline; the vertical axis represents the proximity of specific individuals and groups of people who played an important role in the Easter story: Below are the scriptural descriptions of these events. Holy Monday The...
Some Advent calendars are simple, revealing a picture of a portion of the nativity story behind each tiny door. Some calendars feature a piece of chocolate, a pair of socks, a tea bag, or even a pet treat for each day of the countdown... Some are more elaborate and expensive and ...
12 Days of Giving is dropping soon, and it's going to be more off the charts than Mariah's "All I Want For Christmas Is You"... Read more Nov-Jan 2024 Life in Motion - Festive Season Installation We are proud to host Anna-Wili Highfield’s latest installation series, a breathtaki...
For many, Easter is also a time to reflect on the meaning of life and the power of love and forgiveness. Through the symbolism of Easter, Christians are reminded that no matter how dark things may seem, there is always hope in the power of resurrection and new beginnings....
What are some of the traditions and customs associated with Eid al-Fitr? In Indonesia, the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, many people embark on an exodus to their hometowns to celebrate the holiday with loved ones. This year, an estimated 193.6 million travelers are expected ...
Many of the grandchildren of these Arab refugees still live in camps today, solely because the Arab nations wanted to keep them that way. There is even mind-numbing hypocrisy in the way these people are treated. People still refer to a Jordanian whose ancestors fled the mandate area in 1948...
One way to pinpoint events was to say what else was going on at the time according to other reckonings of time. The overlap of the dates would then give you the desired result, like a chronological Venn Diagram. The overlapping of the dates of the events cited in the Proclamation ...
Ragusa province towns like Ispica, Modica, Scicli and Comiso have many events all during Holy Week and Easter Sunday. And Erice and Trapani are lovely on Holy Thursday and Good Friday. Expect tourist destinations like Agrigento's Valley of the Temples, Taormina and Ortigia to ...