Archive for May, 2009

From the Files of Peculiar Evangelism So, there I was on my run. For those of you that don’t know, I like to run as a form of exercise. I run on my days off, and I will usually run 2 or 3 miles depending on how I am feeling, but I always run at [...]

 By Stephen Brown and Andrei Khalip VATICAN CITY/LISBON (Reuters) – Pope Benedict created five new saints on Sunday, including Portugal’s national hero Nuno Alvares Pereira, a medieval warrior-friar credited with securing Portugal’s independence from Castile. The pope told pilgrims at the canonization in the Vatican that the 14th-century nobleman had shown that “in any situation, [...]

Mon Apr 27, 1:18 PM   JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Swine flu? Not in the Jewish state.   “We will call it Mexico flu. We won’t call it swine flu,” Deputy Health Minister Yakov Litzman, a black-garbed Orthodox Jew, told a news conference Monday, assuring the Israeli public that authorities were prepared to handle any cases. [...]