Within the next month or so the government is due to take a decision the importance of which puts all other government decisions in the shade....

Four million pilgrims gathered in Rome yesterday to pay their last respects to Pope John Paul II. Many more millions turned on their TV set to follow what was happening at St Peter’s Basilica....

A nine-year-old Jewish boy stood outside a church to wait for his Catholic friend. A lady emerged from the church and, seeing the Jewish boy, asked him what he was doing there. “I am waiting for someone,” he replied. ...

Local councils have become part and parcel of our local community and, generally speaking, they have helped to give a new image to the locality under their responsibility. ...

The world is rightly mourning the death of Pope John Paul II and many countries have proclaimed one or more days of mourning as a sign of respect for this great man....

Pope John Paul II has still to be laid to rest, but speculation about the man who will succeed him as head of the Roman Catholic Church is already rife....

No matter what one’s creed is, no one can argue against the fact that Karol Wojtila, Pope John Paul II, was a giant of a man and an inspiration to the human race, even as he lay dying on his deathbed....

These have been 27 years that have changed the course of history....

One could sense it all over the world yesterday as the whole world – with its many wars, famines and tragedies – ground to a halt and focused on a room in Rome where an old man lay dying....

The Deaf People Association stood up on Wednesday and spoke out against the fact that they are being excluded from our society because the services they need to be part of our community are non existent....