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Background to the nativity story. A Christmas meditation.

A simple Welsh friend believed that our Lord must have been a Welshman, “Because,” said he, “He always speaks to me in Welsh.” To me it has often seemed as if the well-beloved of my soul had been born in my native village, had gone to my school, and had passed through all my personal experiences, for…

Officials at Guinness Book of World Records confirmed that San Jose Del Monte in Bulcan set a new record for the largest number of living figures participating in a Nativity scene when 2,101 people dressed for roles in the scene in 2019. The previous record had been 1,254 people who participating in…

Animal rescuers in Maine were called to save a roadrunner that stowed away on a move from Nevada. The Avian Haven animal hospital said a man named Gary contacted them, when he and his son opened the back of the moving truck at a storage facility and discovered the bird inside. A volunteer helped the…

Officials at Death Valley National Park said they hope to capture a goat seen wandering in the California section of the park. A tourist spotted the goat near Stovepipe Wells and shared a picture with park officials. Rangers immediately went to area to find the non-native animal and remove it from the…

Danny Vellow was leaving his home when, in the curbside bulk trash pile, he found a World War I artillery shell filled with more than 22 pounds of high explosives. “Lo and behold, I almost stepped on the bomb,” Vellow, a London, Ontario, native told the CBC. “I was like, ‘Holy heck, eh?’” Vellow wasted…

The preschool nativity play at a Tennessee church took a hilarious turn when a 2-year-old “sheep” kidnapped the baby Jesus from the manger. Tana Benson posted a video on social media showing her daughter take the baby Jesus out of the manger and dance across the stage with him. At the same time, the…

An Irish wildlife park said a pair of giant pelicans that flew out of their enclosure last summer returned home several months later. The Fota Wildlife Park said the great white pelicans flew to freedom despite having their wings clipped to prevent their escape. After 21 weeks on the loose, they returned…

Several groups of concerned people met in Portland, Maine seeking a solution to a problem that impacts several industries. About 100 years ago, the green crab, which is native to Europe, was introduced into the waters around New England. Since then, the crabs have multiplied and have threatened the shellfish…

A tropical bird found in England may have logged the most air miles in the history of aviation. Wildlife officials say the red-footed booby, a native to the Caribbean, was found on a beach in southern England. The bird was 5,000 miles from its native habitat and was the first reported sighting in Britain.…

The United States Post Office decided to honor Christmas 2016 by releasing a brand new Forever stamp depicting Mary, Joseph, and the baby Jesus. The stamp features an image of the family silhouetted against a dawn sky. The baby Jesus is laying in a manger filled with straw while Mary kneels on the right…

In the book Voices of the Faithful Beth Moore includes an interesting story about missionaries to rural China who every Christmas would make a manger and place a baby doll in it in lieu of having a Christmas tree. One day as the husband was explaining the manger to a visiting Chinese friend he meant…

A Pennsylvania woman who stole baby Jesus from a Nativity scene and dropped the figurine off at a local hospital said she thought her prank was a harmless joke. Local authorities said they were not amused when Jacqueline Ross dropped the porcelain baby off at a local hospital along with a note explaining…

Faith Comes By Hearing, based in New Mexico says they have now released a new app for Roku systems that will make Scripture available to at least 10 million additional people in the United States in 750 different languages. Roku is a set-top device created in 2008 will allows users to integrate their…

Mikel McLaughlin has an impressive 560 friends on Facebook. While looking over that list, McLaughlin realized that he did not actually know most of those people so he set out to change that. The Minnesota native messaged a few friends and asked them if they wanted to meet for some quality time. Then,…

In the movie The Mission, Robert DeNiro's character, Mendoza, a kidnapper and slave trader of the indigenous people of South America, repents from his ways and turns to God. Mendoza repeatedly carries a load of armor tied to his body while climbing up a cliff as a form of penance for killing his brother…

After a huge fire destroyed his home near Colorado Springs, Ted Robertson went to inspect the damage with the hope of finding one very special small item. Robertson didn’t expect to find much when he saw that the fire had stripped the pine trees of their needles and colored them black and only the brick…

The last known native speaker of a dialect from a remote fishing village in Scotland has died at the age of 92. When Bobby Hogg passed away, the unique language he spoke became extinct. Hogg spoke the Scots dialect known as Cromarty fisherfolk, which has become the first unique dialect to be lost in…

Linguists from around the world are rushing to get a recording of Gyani Sen. The seventy-five-year-old woman is the last fluent native speaker of a language that could soon disappear. Sen speaks Kusunda, a unique tongue spoken only in Nepal. The language is known as a language isolate because linguists…

The Mars rover, Curiosity, has found another striking example of God’s creative power on the red planet. The rover took a picture of a shiny object that bears a resemblance to a door handle or hood ornament. Scientists say the unique find is not evidence of an ancient civilization on mars that took the…

An obscure piece of pottery donated to Goodwill by an anonymous donor may be a very valuable artifact. Goodwill says the piece was put up for auction and received two bids of $4.99 before a couple of people pointed out the potential value. A note found inside the pot indicated it was found in a burial…

A taxi driver and self-proclaimed atheist who had once planned to sue to have a nativity scene removed from the courthouse lawn says his perspective has changed because of the love he and his wife were shown. Patrick Greene said he thought the placement of a nativity scene in front of the local courthouse…

Two men were pushing their way through the crowds in New York City’s Times Square. They had to shout to each other to be heard above the din. One man was a native of New York, the other was a Native American from Oklahoma. The Native American stopped suddenly and said to his friend, “Listen! Can you…

Ingeborg Sjöqvist is the world’s oldest living Olympian. She is 100-years-old. In her younger days she was a high-diver competing in the 1932 and the 1936 Olympics for her native Sweden. While she fondly remembers the events surrounding the Los Angeles Olympics, the high-diving itself is heartbreaking.…

In the movie “Coming to America” An African Prince by the name of Prince Akeem (played by Eddie Murphy) and his sidekick-Seemi (Played by Arsenio Hall) came to America to find Akeem a Queen, and decided to live in Queens, NY. Akeem wanted to find an ordinary woman who loved him for more than his wealth…