12-06-21 Our vicar(教区牧师) is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired. The big clock which used to strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and has bee...
12-04-09 At least 38 people have died in a car bombing in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, officials said. 尼日利亚北部城市卡杜纳发生汽车炸弹爆炸事故,至少38人死亡。 Attacks in the area over Easter had been threatened by the Islamist group Boko Haram Ma...
12-03-12 At least 10 people were killed after a Catholic church was targeted by suicide car bombers in the restive central Nigerian city of Jos, officials say. 尼日利亚乔斯城混乱地区的一座天主教堂被自杀式汽车炸弹袭击,至少10人死亡。 The bomber detonated expl...
11-10-07 Three pastors in the south were having lunch in a diner. One said, You know, since summer started Ive been having trouble with bats in my loft(阁楼) and attic at church. Ive tried everything----noise, spray, cats----nothing seems to scare them awa...
11-08-20 Via Dolorosa Traci Brimhall We have been telling the story wrong all along, how a king took Philomela's tongue after he had taken her body, and how the gods turned her into a nightingale(夜莺) so she could tell the night of her grief. Even now the...
11-04-29 It's not the type of welcome most wedding guests expect before they get into church background checks, ID verification and a security sweep. 大多数参加婚礼的宾客都不希望在进教堂前受到如此接待接受背景审查、身份认证,还有安全扫描。 But then again, Pri...
11-03-23 Bat Problem Three pastors in the south were having lunch in a diner. One said, You know, since summer started I've been having trouble with bats in my loft and attic at church. I've tried everything----noise, spray, cats----nothing seems to scare th...
11-03-01 New Zealand has held a two-minute silence exactly a week after the devastating Christchurch earthquake. 克赖斯特彻奇毁灭性地震发生一周之际,新西兰举行一场时长为两分钟的默哀仪式。 Engineers say at least a third of the buildings in the centre of Chris...
10-12-05 Two million husbands and wives are not lawfully married because of a Church of England blunder, it was revealed yesterday. 昨日有消息透露,由于英国国教会的一个失误,200万夫妇都未能成为合法夫妻。 Their church weddings are legally invalid because the...
10-11-07 A senior Iraqi Christian is to call on believers to quit the country, after gunmen targeted a church in Baghdad. 持枪歹徒袭击巴格达一座教堂之后,一位资深伊拉克基督徒号召信徒们离开伊拉克。 The archbishop wants the UK to grant asylum to Iraqi Christia...