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I Used to Love Christmas in Gaza. Now All That’s Left of It Are My Memories.
4 hours, 11 minutes ago

I Used to Love Christmas in Gaza. Now All That’s Left of It Are My Memories.

Slate  

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The malls put up their Christmas trees, which everyone takes their selfies next to; the streets resound with Christmas songs and New Year receptions, and Christian institutions organize many celebrations that continue throughout the month of December. The Young …

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NYT Connections Today: See hints and answers for December 22, 2024
2 days, 9 hours ago

NYT Connections Today: See hints and answers for December 22, 2024

Hindustan Times  

Get ready to enhance your vocabulary and uncover the hidden connections between words with The New York Times daily Connections puzzle! How to Play NYT Connections Brilliant work with this stunning 4×4 words puzzle whereby 16 words should be placed in groups of four words each, but they are linked. NYT Connections Hints for December 22 Yellow: Noggin Green: Mirror …

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Takeaways from AP’s reporting on young nuns
4 days, 5 hours ago

Takeaways from AP’s reporting on young nuns

Associated Press  

Less than 1% of nuns in the United States today are 30 or younger. From sharing flip phones to wearing habits, nuns choose a radical life In August, Zoey Stapleton, 24, joined the Franciscan Sisters, T.O.R of Penance of the Sorrowful Mother — a community in rural Toronto, Ohio. Power found support through the Labouré Society, a Catholic nonprofit organization …

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Catholic nun among 25 arrested in mob bust in northern Italy
2 weeks, 5 days ago

Catholic nun among 25 arrested in mob bust in northern Italy

CNN  

Rome CNN — A Catholic nun with the Sisters of Charity Institute in Milan was among 25 people arrested early Thursday morning for a litany of mafia-related crimes, including aiding and abetting extortion, drug trafficking, receiving stolen goods, usury, tax crimes and money laundering. Sister Anna Donelli, 57, was known among prison inmates as “Sister Collina” when she volunteered at …

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Isabella Rossellini: ‘I was afraid to be compared to my mother’
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Isabella Rossellini: ‘I was afraid to be compared to my mother’

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “And I get offended now if I’m not asked about being Ingrid Bergman’s daughter!” We …

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Supreme Court dismisses pleas to exempt salaried nuns from paying income tax
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Supreme Court dismisses pleas to exempt salaried nuns from paying income tax

The Hindu  

The Supreme Court on Thursday dismissed 93 petitions from various missionaries to exempt salaried nuns from paying income tax. The missionaries had argued that nuns and priests enter a State of civil death when they take their vow of poverty and need not pay tax. The various ecclesiastical orders had challenged a December 1, 2014, Income Tax Department directive to …

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Indonesia volcano eruption: 10 killed and Catholic convent destroyed after Laki-laki erupts on Flores Island
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Indonesia volcano eruption: 10 killed and Catholic convent destroyed after Laki-laki erupts on Flores Island

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy At least 10 people have …

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Deadly Volcanic Eruption Engulfs Flores Village, Killing at Least 6
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Deadly Volcanic Eruption Engulfs Flores Village, Killing at Least 6

CNN  

Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupts, killing at least 6 people. The eruption, which began last week, has spewed thick ash and hot ashes into the air, burning houses and affecting multiple villages. The Disaster Management Agency has lowered the death toll but is still collecting information, while the volcano's alert status has been increased to the highest level and …

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Vatican Tribunal Convicts Cardinal of Aggravated Fraud and Other Charges
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Vatican Tribunal Convicts Cardinal of Aggravated Fraud and Other Charges

Associated Press  

The Vatican tribunal has convicted a cardinal of aggravated fraud and other charges. The cardinal, Angelo Becciu, faces five and a half years in prison after being convicted of embezzlement, fraud, and other charges stemming from the Vatican's participation in a fund to develop a former Harrod's warehouse into luxury apartments. Becciu was convicted of aggravated fraud for his role …

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Mother Teresa's Heartwarming Visit to Priyanka Gandhi's Wayanad Home
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Mother Teresa's Heartwarming Visit to Priyanka Gandhi's Wayanad Home

Hindustan Times  

Priyanka Gandhi shares a heartwarming story about her encounter with Mother Teresa in Wayanad. She expressed deep gratitude for the love and support she received from the nun, who visited her house months after her father's assassination. Gandhi also spoke about her work with Mother Teresa's organization and her commitment to serving the destitute.

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Australian author Charlotte Wood shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional
3 months, 1 week ago

Australian author Charlotte Wood shortlisted for the Booker Prize for her novel Stone Yard Devotional

ABC  

Charlotte Wood has become the first Australian to be shortlisted for the prestigious Booker Prize since 2014, for her novel Stone Yard Devotional. The 2024 Booker Prize shortlist James by Percival Everett Orbital by Samantha Harvey Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner Held by Anne Michaels The Safekeep by Yael van der Wouden Stone Yard Devotional by Charlotte Wood Wood's previous …

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Martin Phillipps, founder of New Zealand’s influential Chills, dies at 61
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Martin Phillipps, founder of New Zealand’s influential Chills, dies at 61

LA Times  

Martin Phillipps, whose band the Chills was a mainstay of the 1980s New Zealand indie-rock scene that served as a formative influence on the likes of R.E.M. The statement didn’t say when or where Phillipps died or specify a cause but noted that he’d died “unexpectedly.” A 2019 documentary about Phillipps and the Chills chronicled the musician’s struggles with hepatitis …

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Who is the Buddhist nun who built a global charity from a tiny apartment in rural Taiwan?
5 months, 1 week ago

Who is the Buddhist nun who built a global charity from a tiny apartment in rural Taiwan?

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. What sets Cheng Yen apart is that she is …

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A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the founding nun's message of compassion global
5 months, 1 week ago

A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the founding nun's message of compassion global

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Stephen Huang, executive director of …

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A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the founding nun’s message of compassion global
5 months, 1 week ago

A Taiwan-based Buddhist charity attempts to take the founding nun’s message of compassion global

Associated Press  

HUALIEN, Taiwan — When a 7.4-magnitude earthquake ripped through Taiwan in April, it took about 30 minutes for the region’s most ubiquitous charity to set up an emergency response center. Stephen Huang, executive director of Tzu Chi’s global volunteers based in Southern California, became Cheng Yen’s disciple 35 years ago, during a time of personal grief — days after his …

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He usually makes movies about neurotic New Yorkers. Now he’s made one with Swedish metal band Ghost
6 months ago

He usually makes movies about neurotic New Yorkers. Now he’s made one with Swedish metal band Ghost

LA Times  

It’s been nearly 20 years since the world was first graced by Ghost, the theatrical Swedish metal act with a seemingly satanist bent. It wouldn’t be until Forge crossed paths with indie film director Alex Ross Perry that a movie, “Rite Here Rite Now”, would come to fruition. “We love that theatricality,” Perry says of the show and Forge’s overall …

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A priest honors the nun who demonstrated 'the ministry of presence'
6 months, 3 weeks ago

A priest honors the nun who demonstrated 'the ministry of presence'

NPR  

A priest honors the nun who demonstrated 'the ministry of presence' toggle caption James Martin This story is part of the My Unsung Hero series, from the Hidden Brain team. “She took a particular shine to my father, who always said, ‘She's a wonderful woman,’” Martin recalled. toggle caption James Martin/Supplied “Janice said to me, ‘I'd like to come visit …

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Eight of the best films of 2024 so far
7 months ago

Eight of the best films of 2024 so far

BBC  

Eight of the best films of 2024 so far A24 BBC Culture film critics Nicholas Barber and Caryn James pick their highlights of the year so far, including a vision of a war-torn America, a wonderfully creepy nun horror, and an outrageous Kristen Stewart crime thriller. Love Lies Bleeding Kristen Stewart's character has a miserable life at the start of …

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Cohen The Dog 'Fixer'... Stormy The XXX-rated 'Nun'... and the shock moment that exposed the whole sham: KENNEDY's riotous verdict on Trump's trial - and the REAL crime in this legal abomination
7 months, 1 week ago

Cohen The Dog 'Fixer'... Stormy The XXX-rated 'Nun'... and the shock moment that exposed the whole sham: KENNEDY's riotous verdict on Trump's trial - and the REAL crime in this legal abomination

Daily Mail  

Not since Stormy stumbled out of a Nevada hotel room has anyone been so underwhelmed. If there was ever final proof that this Trivial Trial of the Century is nothing more than the utter debasement – dare I say – political pornification of the US legal system, it's this: It all hinged on the word of a for-hire, screw-job artist… …

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20 new books you need to read this summer
7 months, 1 week ago

20 new books you need to read this summer

LA Times  

There was a time when “summer books” meant popcorn reads you consumed in a sunbaked afternoon — disposable books devoured and left behind for the next hotel room guest. Godwin By Joseph O’Neill Pantheon: 288 pages, $28 “The next Pelé” or “the next Messi” are words sure to ignite the fantasies of soccer fans anywhere. Bear By Julia Phillips Hogarth: …

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Lama Rod describes himself as a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. He wants to free you from suffering
8 months ago

Lama Rod describes himself as a Black Buddhist Southern Queen. He wants to free you from suffering

LA Times  

Lama Rod Owens lies in the yard of his childhood home in Rome, Ga. Owens is an influential voice in a new generation of Buddhist teachers, focusing his work on social change, identity and spiritual wellness. “Being a Buddhist or a spiritual leader, I got rid of trying to wear the part because it just wasn’t authentic to me,” said …

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Barbara O. Jones dead at 82: Revered actress appeared in films such as Daughters of the Dust and Bush Mama
8 months ago

Barbara O. Jones dead at 82: Revered actress appeared in films such as Daughters of the Dust and Bush Mama

Daily Mail  

The actress Barbara O. Jones died Tuesday at the age of 82 at her home in Dayton, Ohio, according to her brother Raymond Minor. Her movies included the 1973 short film Child of Resistance, 1977's Diary Of An African Nun for writer–director Julie Dash, 1979's Bush Mama for writer–director Haile Gerima and 1979's NBC miniseries Freedom Road, in which she …

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Christian nun in Lebanon prays for the Shiite Muslim fighters of Hezbollah. A furor ensues.
8 months, 3 weeks ago

Christian nun in Lebanon prays for the Shiite Muslim fighters of Hezbollah. A furor ensues.

The Independent  

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The 20 best episodes of Death in Paradise, ranked
8 months, 3 weeks ago

The 20 best episodes of Death in Paradise, ranked

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It’s been another killer season …

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