9 things about MLK’s speech and the March on Washington By Jim Polk and Alicia Stewart, CNN updated 1:50 PM EDT, Wed August 28, 2013 The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. addresses a crowd near the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on August 28, […]
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† Holy and Righteous Symeon the God-receiver and the Prophetess Anna
“There is an ancient tradition that the holy, righteous elder Symeon, who came from Egypt, was one of the Seventy learned Jews chosen in the days of the Pharoah Ptolemy Philadelphus (285-246 BC) for the task of rendering the Hebrew Bible into Greek, and that to Symeon was assigned […]
Egyptian court sentences Christian family to 15 years for converting from Islam | Fox News
The 15-year prison sentence given to a woman and her seven children by an Egyptian court for converting to Christianity is a sign of things to come, according to alarmed human rights advocates who say the nation’s Islamist government is bad news for Christians in the North African country.A criminal […]