The knight Malta, one of the most peculiar organisations in the world marked its 900th birthday Saturday Feb 9, 2013 with a colourful procession through St Peters Square,a mass in the basilica and an audience with Pope Benedict XVI, himself a member of the onetime chivalrous order drawn from Europe s nobility.read more
9/4 Cardinal Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson, 64
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Ghana Cardinal in the Ghanaian Catholic Church
– Peter Turkson (Ghana, 64) is the top African candidate. Head of the Vatican justice and peace bureau, he is spokesman for the Church’s social conscience and backs world financial reform. He showed a video criticizing Muslims at a recent Vatican synod, raising doubts about how he sees Islam.read more
A sign from God? Lighting strikes the basilica of St.Peter’s dome earlier this evening during a storm that struck Rome on the same day Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignationread more
As Benedict Ratzinger leaves his post, it is time to remember Cardinal Arinze who has been robbed his deserved position many times because he is a Black man.read more
SUPER Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi, who led Nigeria to its third victory in the African Nations Cup Sunday in Johannesburg, has dedicated Nigeria’s victory to African coaches.read more
RETURNING to Africa, I will focus on three Sub-Saharan cultures, in which the bright star Sirius served as a timekeeper—the Nubian Kingdom of Kush (or Cush), the Borana of Kenya and Ethiopia and the Serer of the Senegambia region in Western Africa.read more
By James Hamblin
Social injustice and “a most wonderful invigorator of sexual organs”
1894 ad for Vin Mariani, art by Jules Cheret
When cocaine and alcohol meet inside a person, they create a third unique drug called cocaethylene. Cocaethylene works like cocaine, but with more euphoria.read more
Rastafarian Views on Life, Politics and Social Issues
Knight of Malta Nelson Mandela with Duke of Gloucester
SUPER Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi, who led Nigeria to its third victory in the African Nations Cup Sunday in Johannesburg, has dedicated Nigeria’s victory to African coaches.
