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Curanderismo enjoying rediscovery (The Yuma Sun)
An ancient tradition of magic and healing was forced to hide behind the veil of Christianity after the Spanish conquered Mexico. But curanderismo survived over these centuries.
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In the beginning (BBC News)
The stories that were left out of the modern-day Bible
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The rival to the Bible (BBC News)
What is probably the oldest known Bible is being digitised, reuniting its scattered parts for the first time in 160 years ago. But it is markedly different from its modern equivalent. What's left out?
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Chloe Veltman on how culture will save the world (Arts Journal)
Like many things in life, people often judge an arts experience by the entrance that a performer makes on stage.
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Uganda: Mass Weddings Good for Evangelism (AllAfrica.com)
SEVERAL Catholic churches have of recent embraced mass wedding, the practice of blessing and legalising many marriages at a single wedding ceremony. Mathias Mazinga asked Fr. Achilles Mayanja , the parish priest of Rubaga Cathedral, why the church has started the practice.
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Students help to fight cancer (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)
St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth School Principal Lois Widner began volunteering her students five years ago in memory of her parents. Photo caption: Students from St. Joseph-St. Elizabeth School, as well as their principal, Lois Widner, help at Kroger Scott’s Cancer Day. Other local organizations also volunteered. Photo by Dean Musser Jr.| The Journal Gazette
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Hockey moms and capital markets (Asia Times)
Why do Asian investors depend on American capital markets? Given the near breakdown of key sectors of the American market, one might expect Asians to bring their money home. Quite the opposite has happened: Asian currencies have fallen sharply against the American dollar.
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Ricci goes back to school (Toronto Star)
Nino Ricci deftly picks his way through a lot of tricky intellectual terrain – from Darwinism and Freudian psychology to Reaganomics and Christianity – while talking about his new novel, The Origin of Species.
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TOMMY STEVENSON: New Orleans' Smith more than a photographer (The Tuscaloosa News)
New Orleans' Smith more than a photographerNew Orleans photographer Michael P. Smith, who died Sept. 27 at the age of 71, was more than a man simply handy with a Nikon.
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Kerala-born nun to be made saint by pope on Oct 12 (The Times of India)
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The 2000-year old Christianity in India will soon have its first woman saint with Pope Benedict XVI concluding the long-drawn process of canonisation of Kerala-born Sister Alphonsa at Vatican on October 12.
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