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Opinion: Welcoming Christ this Christmas - Archbishop Scicluna

Sunday, 24 December 2017, 11:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Mgr Charles Scicluna

The Cathedral of Mdina is once again displaying a beautiful Neapolitan crib. Neapolitan cribs are a unique genre in art for they place the nativity scene in the Neapolitan environment that existed 300...

TMIS Editorial: Messages of unity

Sunday, 24 December 2017, 10:15 Last update: about 10 years ago

Every year on the Saturday before Christmas, the country’s four leaders – the President, the Prime Minister, the Opposition Leader and the Archbishop – gather in Valletta for their...

Network Neutrality: a serious threat to the internet

Sunday, 24 December 2017, 08:26 Last update: about 10 years ago Philip Micallef

Bringing to an end Network Neutrality is very bad news. This is what Donald Trump has just initiated in the USA through the US regulator, the Federal Commission of Communications (FCC). On 14...

The double meaning of Christmas

Sunday, 24 December 2017, 08:07 Last update: about 10 years ago Mark A. Sammut Sassi

My original intention was to write exclusively about Christmas, but I have to depart slightly from that plan and start off with two comments. 1) There are enormous implications to the discovery...

Defining a successful year

Sunday, 24 December 2017, 08:00 Last update: about 10 years ago Justyne Caruana

Although financial wealth is not the only measure of our country's strength, it is so befitting the festive season that we have, again, achieved a further surplus and increased employment as a...

Traffic and the Winter Solstice

Sunday, 24 December 2017, 07:36 Last update: about 10 years ago Colette Sciberras

At this time of the year, something happens which has always struck me as beautifully symbolic. Just as the Sun, that universal symbol of Enlightenment, Reason, and Goodness and, once, even seen as...

Christmas: God’s greatest fraternal act

Sunday, 24 December 2017, 07:23 Last update: about 10 years ago

Today's Vespers make us enter into the mystery of Christmas. Our Seraphic Father, St Francis of Assisi, used to call Christmas the 'Feast of Feasts'. Spontenously comes to my mind what the...

Helping missionaries through Mission Fund

Sunday, 24 December 2017, 07:19 Last update: about 10 years ago

I am a Maltese religious of the Congregation of Our Lady of Sion and have worked in Jerusalem for the last 52 years. My stay here has been blessed by many joys, first and foremost by living in the...

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