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I'D HAVE NEVER CHOSEN THE BOOK FROM THE CATALOGUE MYSELF. It was one of those 'Editor's Choice' titles you get from the book club when you forget to send in your latest selection. But thumbing through the pages of The…

YUSHCHENKO'S VICTORY IN THE CONTROVERSIAL PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN THE UKRAINE WAS FUELED BY THE FERVENT PRAYERS OF ORTHODOX, CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT BELIEVERS ALIKE. This is the view of Sunday Adelaja, the pastor of Europe's largest church with a membership of…

FASCINATING SUPPORT FOR THE TRADITIONAL STORY OF THE THREE WISE MEN comes from Marco Polo, that intrepid Venetian explorer who opened up the thirteenth-century European mind to the east. WW-reader William Bouman drew my attention to Polo's account in The…

YES, IT'S ALL A BIT CONFUSING. Epiphany, or Three Kings, was celebrated this past week in various European cultures, by the exchange of small gifts on January 6th. The day before, January 5th, was the twelfth day of Christmas, or…

ENOUGH BAD NEWS FOR A WHOLE YEAR SEEMS TO HAVE SWEPT OVER US IN THE FEW DAYS SINCE CHRISTMAS! One of the greatest natural disasters in our time has taken a huge toll of life in a dozen Asian and…