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Prayer meetings at a public garden

Sunday, 7 February 2016, 09:11 Last update: about 12 years ago

Mayor Anthony Chircop said that the Sliema local council is considering removing the recently installed statue of Indian spiritual leader Sri Chinmoy from the promenade. The real reason why...

Save the children

Sunday, 7 February 2016, 09:10 Last update: about 12 years ago

International Holocaust Remembrance Day held on 27 January commemorated the victims of the Holocaust, one of the darkest periods in human history. On this day, many films relating to this most tragic...

Not normal but holy

Sunday, 7 February 2016, 09:09 Last update: about 12 years ago

Pope Francis is taking the bull by its horns in everything he says and does. Recently, he directly addressed an issue which has become so pertinent in the Church and especially in the lives of us...

Pooh-Bah

Sunday, 7 February 2016, 09:09 Last update: about 12 years ago

Simon Mercieca's blog, about the problems faced when one person holds multiple offices, reminded me of the Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera The Mikado, set in Tipitu, a fictional town in...

The current poverty of ethical discourse in Malta

Sunday, 7 February 2016, 09:08 Last update: about 12 years ago Michael Asciak

Political rulers immediately and intrinsically upon assuming office, have an ethical conundrum thrust on their shoulders. They have to administer the country economically well, but they have to do so...

Us, Greece and the rest

Sunday, 7 February 2016, 09:00 Last update: about 12 years ago

Further to my contributions to your paper on 15th July covering the developments in Greece, Yanis Varoufakis had, inter alia, so much to say recently: 1.    "We had an opportunity...

Talk of locking the stable doors

Saturday, 6 February 2016, 09:23 Last update: about 12 years ago

Now that the horses have bolted, it’s all hands on deck to shut the stable doors. Yes, a court action will be launched ton try and recoup the lands that crossed hands in the Gaffarena...

Cancer: The blight of families around the world

Friday, 5 February 2016, 08:41 Last update: about 12 years ago

Yesterday was World Cancer Day. Cancer is a horrific disease that sometimes can kill people slowly over years, ending up in a painful lingering death. One in four of us will be touched by cancer at...

Climate change: This is a reality, we must act now

Wednesday, 3 February 2016, 07:54 Last update: about 12 years ago

There are still a great many people, despite the mounting and undeniable volumes of scientific evidence, who believe that climate change is a myth. Fortunately, it seems that world leaders are coming...

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