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A Brief History of Christmas

The feast of the Nativity wasn’t always Christmas trees and jingle bells, and Jesus probably was not born on December […]

Test your Christmas knowledge! Answers below 1. Who predicted the birth of the messiah? a) Ezekiel b) Isaiah c) Joshua

This is the time of the year when many Christians get annoyed at the use of “Xmas” instead of Christmas,

A new TV series has at its centre a young American pope. GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER took a look at The Young

ST FRANCIS UNCENSORED, by Patrick Noonan OFM. Choice Publishing, Ireland. 2016. 197pp Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher Seconds after Cardinal Jorge

SANCTIFYING THE SPIRIT, by Julia Beacroft. Sancio Books, UK. 2016. 390pp Reviewed by Günther Simmermacher Regular readers of The Southern

Among the riches of our faith is the great diversity of our churches. Here Southern Cross editor GÜNTHER SIMMERMACHER picks

At the press conference after he had led Portugal to the European Championship in France this month, coach Fernando Santos

Christianity is active and beautiful in Cairo. In the tenth and final part of his series on the recent Pilgrimage