The Mediterranean Cradle of European Culture
The Mediterranean Cradle of European Culture by Michael Streeter The alphabet devised by the Phoenicians, the philosophy and drama of the Greeks, the Roman mastery of civil engineering and the
A point of view – The rewards of Bible Study
Attending regular Bible Study classes each week at the Chaplaincy House in Luz has become a Thursday highlight. Discussing, in depth, a few verses chosen by Father John, set as
A soft spot for pigs
By MARGARET BROWN FOR THE city dweller, pigs mean pork, to the butcher a pig arrives in two halves to be sliced, boned and packaged. While for the farmer, who
It’s a mad, bad, world
Skip Bandele reflects on life and his world – as he sees it SHORTLY AFTER I was born, John F Kennedy was felled by an assassin’s bullet in Dallas, and
HUNGARY
Demands for prime minister’s resignation BUDAPEST SAW the largest rally yet by Hungarians demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyursany for lying to the nation. A crowd of between
SOMALIA
Prime minister asks for international help Interim Prime Minister, Ali Mohamed Ghedi, has appealed for aid against the Al Qaeda and terrorist expansion in the country. He spoke in Kenya
NEPAL
Rebels accused of human rights violations A United Nations human rights agency has accused Nepalese Maoist insurgents of continuing to commit human rights abuse. The Office of the High Commissioner
A point of view – Divine revelations
By MARGARET BROWN I HAVE listened to stories of instant divine revelation at various times in my pilgrimage and marvelled that these things have happened, but never to me. Born
Success and suspicion
By MARGARET BROWN BIG BROTHER is watching you! The book by George Orwell entitled 1984 came out in 1949 and, at the time, the very idea of “thought police” monitoring
Time to put an end to animal cruelty
By Ruth Sharpe ruth@portugalresident.com “WE WILL never visit your country again.” This is the shocking reaction that ANIMAL, Portugal’s premier animal rights organisation, regularly encounters after tourists see how animals