Tag: Christmas

We should be more giving, more caring, more kind, more respectful of others every day of our lives.  This is what the good Lord wants all of us to do: good will toward all and on earth, peace.

Jesus does not appear explicitly by name in the Hebrew Bible, which forms the Christian Old Testament. However, there were many prophecies of the coming Messiah. These were not a coherent set of Messiah prophecies, but rather clues and glimpses of the future.

That is the first thing we need to know about Christmas. Christmas is all about the Word becoming flesh and making His dwelling among us.

Lloyd John Ogilvie in his book ‘Facing the future without fear’ says there are 366 verses that say ‘Fear not' in the Bible, one for every day of the year, and an extra one for the leap year.

WHILE there won't be a Christmas holiday for Navodaya schools, the central board hasn't given any direction to private CBSE schools yet. It is also not clear whether staying open on Christmas would be mandatory for such schools.

“IT'S all over the country,” he said. “You have the secularists and the humanists who are wanting to take Jesus Christ out of his birthday and they want to deny he ever existed.”

THE Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) in Bastar region of Chhattisgarh has raised questions over use of school buses for religious functions as well as Santa Claus distributing chocolates to school students during Christmas.

WHILE Christian pilgrims and tourists are streaming here from all over the world to visit the birthplace of Jesus Christ and worship at the...

WHAT is Christmas at its worst? It is crass, commercial, empty, exhausting, and very expensive ritual. But the fact is, Christmas should not be about the activities, the shopping, the parties.

FORsome, it brings memories of the heavenly taste of rum cakes, for others it means fabulous feast with family and friends, for others it’s time to ‘open the bottle’ as a popular film song says in Tamil.