Oct 8 Japans Shindler's List
Mrs. Yukiko Sugihara, who had helped her husband, Chiune, rescue thousands of Jews from Lithuania during World War II. They were a...
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Pearl of Great Price
Oct 15, 20213 min read
Oct 2 Mindzenty of Hungary
Today in 1945 we travel to Hungary where Josef Mindzentsy was appointed Archbishop and leader of the Catholic Church - a position with...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 28, 20213 min read
Sep 20 Christianity in Korea
Today in 1884 we remember how Dr. Horace Newton Allen arrived in Chemulpo, Korea, praying for an opportunity to evangelize Korea, where...
Pearl of Great Price
Sep 9, 20214 min read
Sep 4 Croatia, Fascism, Catholics & Orthodox
Today in 1941, the abbot of the Sisatovac monastery in Croatia, Rafailo Momcilovic would die, he had been kidnapped by the Ustaše on 25...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 27, 20216 min read
Aug 22 De Lubac & Spiritual Worldliness
Today we travel to Lyon where the French Jesuit, Henri De Lubac was ordained a priest in 1927. Earlie in his training, the French ...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 20, 20214 min read
Aug 17 Excavating Armageddon
Today we travel to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where Clarence Stanley Fisher was born in 1876. He would devote his life to Near Eastern...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 17, 20213 min read
Aug 16 Operation Baptism
Today we got to 1944 Hungary where a dispatch from Angelo Roncalli to the papal nuncio in Hungary illustrated the intensity of...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 17, 20213 min read
Aug 15 Cologne Cathedral - 632 years in the making
Today in 1880 Cologne Cathedral was finished. It was Germany's largest cathedral and for four years it was the tallest building in the...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 2, 20215 min read
Aug 2 Edith Stein
Today in 1942 the Carmelite Nun Edith Stein was arrested in her convent in the Netherlands by the SS and taken to Auschwitz concentration...
Pearl of Great Price
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 6, 20216 min read
July 7 Alexander Solzhenitsyn Repenting in the Gulag
The Russian writer Alexander Solzenhitsyn was sentenced in his absence to an eight year term in a labour camp in Siberia. He would be...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 5, 20218 min read
July 6 Mircea Eliade and the Eternal Return
Today we look at the life and thought of Mircea Eliade a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at...
Pearl of Great Price
Jun 11, 20214 min read
June 12 St Petersburg outlasts Leningrad
On the 12 June 1991, the citizens of Leningrad overwhelming voted to return the name of the city to St Petersburg. It was a clear...
Pearl of Great Price
May 10, 20215 min read
May 10 Karl Barth, influential Protestant Theologian
Karl Barth the most influential Protestant theologian of the 20th century was born on May 10th 1886. A leader of the 'Confessing Church'...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 22, 20213 min read
Apr 23 St George, Windsor and the Order of the Garter
Recently many British Royal Weddings and Funerals have occurred in St Georges Chapel in Windsor, outside of London. It is also the home...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 21, 20211 min read
Feb 21 - World Council of Churches
Today we go back to year 1991 and travel to Canberra in Australia, and the closing of the 7th assembly of the World Council of Churches. ...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Feb 9 Unexploded Bomb in Genoa Cathedral
Today in 1941 a targeting error by a gunnery officer on board a British warship some thirteen miles offshore caused an armour-piercing...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 31, 20213 min read
Jan 26 - India becomes a republic, Mukherjee is vice-president
Today in 1950 the Constitution of India came into force, forming a republic. An ancient, massive and deeply religious country with 80%...
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