Since chef Fadi Kattan was a child getting underfoot in his grandmother’s kitchen, the preparation and communal eating of the burbara pudding has been a pre-Christmas symbol of the coming of the holiday on the Palestinian West Bank.
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Patriarch Sabbah: This Christmas, there is ‘no peace on the earth’ in Bethlehem and Jerusalem
Patriarch Sabbah: “When you celebrate Christmas, remember that in Bethlehem, in Jerusalem, life is not a Christmas life. It is not the blessed life of the new redeemed humanity. The song of the Angels is far away.”
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A hospital run by Nigerian sisters provides free fistula surgery to women desperate for treatment
Sister Sylvia Ndubuaku: “We are for women the society has rejected. We receive traumatized women with this illness and we perform free surgeries for them.”
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As Latin American economies decline, U.S. again becomes destination of hope for migrants
New migrant caravans to the United States are always forming with large contingents of Central Americans, but there is a growing presence of Haitians, Venezuelans and Brazilians among them.
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Pope Francis in Lesbos: The root causes of the migration crisis ‘should be attacked,’ not migrants
“Five years have passed since I visited this place with my dear brothers Bartholomew and Ieronymos. After all this time, we see that little has changed with regard to the issue of migration.”
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Canadians are losing patience with the unvaccinated — and the Catholic Church is sending mixed signals
Canadians have embraced coronavirus vaccination in large numbers and are feeling a deepening exasperation with the unvaccinated.
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Analysis: COP26’s ‘Glasgow Climate Pact’ is a flawed deal that has satisfied nobody
Glasgow was meant to deliver what Paris had begun. Instead, as its last days ground on, discontent and disappointment were rising.
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‘Nobody flees from love’: Brazil’s alternative prisons offer a model of restorative justice
Criminals “are not dangerous people. They are only people who are not sufficiently loved.”
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Protests shut down in Cuba after bishops call for free political expression
“Every Cuban should be able to freely and respectfully express and share his personal opinions, his thoughts or his convictions, even when he disagrees with the majority,” the bishops said.
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Could a U.S.-style culture war over abortion be brewing in Europe?
A grassroots pro-life movement is emerging across the continent with elements that seem straight from the U.S. pro-life playbook. Could a U.S.-style culture war be brewing in Europe?