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Oct 3 Zionism in Africa and John Alexander Dowie

Today we look at the figure of John Alexander Dowie suffered from a stroke in Chicago on Oct 3rd. Dowie was a Scottish / Australian...

Oct 14, 20215 min read

Sep 30 George Tyrell and Modernism

Today in 1907 and a letter in the Times from the priest George Tyrell, and publisjed in London, which was against the papal encyclical...

Sep 20, 20216 min read

Sep 13 Dostoevsky and the Brothers Karamazov

Today in Christian History we go back to year 1874 and travel to Russia where today the writer Fyodor Doestoevsky finished the first...

Aug 14, 20214 min read

Aug 14 Maximillian Kolbe

Today in Poland, the Franciscan Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German concentration camp at Auschwitz....

Jul 24, 20214 min read

July 23 Cuba's Hurricane Priest

The Jesuit priest Benito Vines spent decades observing the skies at the Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba. He is now seen as a pioneer...

Jul 17, 20214 min read

July 17 China, Matteo Ricci and the Oldest Newspaper

Ying Lianzhi, a Catholic Manchu aristocrat, founded a newspaper, today, in 1902 in order to, "help China become a modern and democratic...

May 31, 20214 min read

June 1 The Dead Sea Scrolls

A Bedouin shepherd throwing a stone into a cave on the shore of the Dead Sea was puzzled by the cracking sound within. Investigating he...

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