Eat No Meat, on Good Friday and Holy Saturday Fish is the Dish

Good Friday and Holy Saturday are the last two days of Holy Week and, if you are Catholic, on these days you must not eat meat. Catholics don't eat meat on all Friday's during Lent, the 40 days and nights between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday, but not eating meat on Good...

What To Give Up For Lent? How About Facebook?

Today is the first day of Lent, a time for people to sacrifice earthly pleasures to honor their Catholic faith. Lent rules dictate that Catholics give up one of their favorite things for 40 days and 40 nights. But...

Fat Tuesday Freebie: IHOP Marks Mardi Gras with Free Pancake Day

On Tuesday, February 24, 2009, IHOP (International House of Pancakes) in the United States will be giving away free pancakes between 7am and 10am local time nationwide to mark National Pancake Day.  The date is...

Riot police sent in to quell Greek carnival disturbances

Riot police were deployed against teenagers who had blocked roads in the centre of Greece's second city, Thessaloniki last night during Carnivali celebrations, the Greek Orthodox equivalent of Mardi Gras. (Click...

South American leaders support Morales

The political crisis in Latin America has intensified, with Bolivian president Evo Morales accusing the United States of giving aid to the breakaway rebel region in the east. Morales expelled the American...

Labour seeks £10m loans delay

Prudence, year after year after year...."Labour is in emergency talks to renegotiate more than £10m of loans from wealthy businessmen to prevent itself running out of money.Most of the millionaires who secretly...

40 Days Without A Crackberry

Personally, I don’t practice Lent but I think that everyone else should. Especially every one of my friends who continuously sits across from me at dinner with their blackberry planted prominently on the table....

Carnival Season Underway (Neckties Strongly Discouraged)

Update: Another facet of the Carnival season is Weiberfastnacht, or the Women's Carnival. It's a German thing: six days before Ash Wednesday, ladies roam the streets, snipping off guys' ties and kissing them....

Is this offensive?

I find it interesting that New Zealand casinos have in recent times not shown any moral or ethical judgement when it came to dealing with extreme "problem gamblers" (go to Listener article). I also agree with...

Home Mortgage Broker nears bankruptcy

The  long-awaited "sub-prime" crisis may yet be heralded by the bad news released today about Home Mortgage Investment Corp. and its reported troubles making payments. And yet - consumer confidence in the US continues to surge ahead of other business indicators (see...

Top tips for a Litegreen Lent

Fancy giving up something this lent? Do you want to help the planet? Why not try these easy tips from Litegreen.com

Making confession cool? DC churches hope so

The most interesting thing about this story to me is the fact that people are choosing to go elsewhere for their confessional needs, specifically online. This comes just one day after christian1021 posted a link...

The Big Lie About the Middle East

"Tell James Baker: Arab nations don't care about the Palestinians. No sensible person is against peacemaking in the Holy Land. Applause and hopefulness would seem the reasonable reaction to the Iraq Study Group's recommendation that the Bush Administration "act boldly" and...

Pine Trees Know When It’s Easter

Ever noticed the Pine tree crosses on Easter Sunday? Pine trees start their new growth in the weeks before Easter. If you look at the tops of the Pine trees two weeks before, you’ll see the yellow shoots. As the days get close to Easter Sunday, the tallest shoot will...

Devotees nailed to cross in Philippines

"At least 11 Filipino devotees were nailed to the cross during Good Friday reenactments of Christ's final hours. The Lenten ritual, opposed by religious leaders in the Philippines, is an annual tradition in this farming village about 45 miles north of the capital, Manila."

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