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MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian plane headed to an air base in Syria with 92 people aboard, including members of the world-famous Russian army choir, crashed into the Black Sea on Sunday minutes after taking off from the city of Sochi, Russia's Defense Ministry said. There appeared to be no survivors....
CHICAGO (AP) -- It'll be a white Christmas for the northern Plains and some Western states, but it's likely to cause troublesome travel....
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- President-elect Donald Trump says he will dissolve his charitable foundation before taking office to avoid conflicts of interest. The Democratic Party says that's not enough and is calling for the billionaire businessman to put his assets in a blind trust....
MOSCOW (AP) -- The Latest on the crash of a Russian aircraft with 92 people on board en route to Russia's air base in Syria (all times local):...
MOSCOW (AP) -- A Russian passenger plane with 92 people aboard, including a well-known military band, crashed into the Black Sea on its way to Syria on Sunday minutes after takeoff from the resort city of Sochi, the Defense Ministry said....
MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- A powerful typhoon is on its way to slam into the eastern Philippines on Christmas Day as officials struggled to divert people's attention from family celebrations and travel. A provincial governor offered roasted pigs to entice villagers to move to emergency shelters....
HONOLULU (AP) -- For most people, a Christmas Eve phone call with the first lady of the United States is an unexpected surprise. But Austin was holding out for someone else....
HONOLULU (AP) -- The Latest on President Barack Obama's annual two-week vacation in Hawaii (all times local):...
Christ the Messiah, the giver of “new life” comes in three ways: He came 2016 years ago; He will come at the end of time; and He comes to us in our daily lives in events, people, Sacraments, the Scriptures and at death.Daily events are centred around and in the cultures of the people. Therefore, as the Messiah comes, He comes to evangelise our cultures. A culture of a people is its religion. It defines them and presents these people’s world-view. How do they perceive things and the world? According to John S. Mbiti in the book, Introduction to African Religion, “Religion has been for Africans the normal way of looking at the world and life experience itself. For that reason, it is found whether people are. It is integrated so much into different areas of life that in fact most of the African languages do not have a word for religion as such. They only have words for religious ideas, practices and objects or places.”As a people, we wait for the Messiah...
The Catholic Bishop of Nsukka diocese in Nigeria, Godfrey Onah says that Christians and Nigerians must continue to be joyful at Christmas even though things may be difficult in their lives.The Bishop who is also the Episcopal Chairperson of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Nigeria (CBCN) on social communications said this in his Christmas message titled “Joy to the world, though the times are tough." In the message, Bishop Onah noted that as “Christmas pervades the air, everybody smells it, everybody feels it. The enthusiasm, the preparations, the expectations, and the projects (are such that) no other feast in the year, anywhere in the world has that level of importance and excitement.”He explains that the birth of Christ, the incarnation is an eruption of God in human history. Underscoring the many challenges that Nigerians are facing amidst the many failed promises of Nigerian governments to alleviate their problems, Bishop Onah said that, &l...
