Vatican Weekend for December 24, 2016 features “No Crib for a Bed,” our traditional Christmas Play by Jill Bevilacqua, set in the year 1223 when St. Francis of Assisi set up the first living crib scene on a hillside near the town of Greccio in central Italy.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for December 24, 2016 features “No Crib for a Bed,” our traditional Christmas Play by Jill Bevilacqua, set in the year 1223 when St. Francis of Assisi set up the first living crib scene on a hillside near the town of Greccio in central Italy.
Listen to this programme produced and presented by Susy Hodges:
Vatican Weekend for December 25th, 2016 features a Christmas sacred music special presented by music historian, Monsignor Philip Whitmore.Listen to this programme produced and presented by Veronica Scarisbrick:
Vatican Weekend for December 25th, 2016 features a Christmas sacred music special presented by music historian, Monsignor Philip Whitmore.
Listen to this programme produced and presented by Veronica Scarisbrick:
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- If Santa Claus stops in North Korea this year, he'll find some trees and lights and might even hear a Christmas song or two. But he won't encounter even a hint of what Christmas actually means - not under a regime that sees foreign religion a very real threat....
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) -- If Santa Claus stops in North Korea this year, he'll find some trees and lights and might even hear a Christmas song or two. But he won't encounter even a hint of what Christmas actually means - not under a regime that sees foreign religion a very real threat....
MIRPUR KHAS, Pakistan (AP) -- The mother rummages through a large metal trunk, searching for a picture of her young daughter taken away in the night to be the bride of a man who says the family owed him $1,000....
MIRPUR KHAS, Pakistan (AP) -- The mother rummages through a large metal trunk, searching for a picture of her young daughter taken away in the night to be the bride of a man who says the family owed him $1,000....
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) -- Two hijackers diverted a Libyan commercial plane to Malta on Friday and threatened to blow it up with hand grenades, Maltese authorities and state media said....
VALLETTA, Malta (AP) -- Two hijackers diverted a Libyan commercial plane to Malta on Friday and threatened to blow it up with hand grenades, Maltese authorities and state media said....
MILAN (AP) -- The Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin was killed early Friday in a shootout with police in Milan, ending a Europe-wide manhunt, Italy's interior minister said....
MILAN (AP) -- The Tunisian man suspected of driving a truck into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin was killed early Friday in a shootout with police in Milan, ending a Europe-wide manhunt, Italy's interior minister said....
LUJAN DE CUYO, Argentina (AP) -- The children said they wailed as the two Roman Catholic priests repeatedly raped them inside the small school chapel in remote northwestern Argentina. Only their tormenters would have heard their cries since the other children at the school were deaf....
LUJAN DE CUYO, Argentina (AP) -- The children said they wailed as the two Roman Catholic priests repeatedly raped them inside the small school chapel in remote northwestern Argentina. Only their tormenters would have heard their cries since the other children at the school were deaf....
