Sunday, March 25, 2018

Links For Palm Sunday And Maryland Day

Today is Palm Sunday, when western Christianity recalls Jesus's entry into Jerusalem on a donkey as the crowd watching him scattered palm branches in front of him.  (Eastern denominations use a different calendar, but in some years the dates coincide.)  In modern times, instead of throwing the branches on the ground in front of someone riding a donkey, we carry them into church and hold them during the service.  Read more at Catholic Online and Crosswalk.
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Today is also Maryland Day, the anniversary of the landing in 1634 of the first European settlers in what became the colony, and later the state, of Maryland.  Read more at Visit Maryland, and if you have the chance, eat some Chesapeake Bay crabs.  I would suggest watching the Baltimore Orioles play a game of baseball, but since the regular season hasn't yet started, they won't be in Baltimore.
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In more recent news and opinion:




From the Washington Examiner, former President Obama imagines a million more of himself.  (I can't imagine the sins we'd have to commit in order to be given such a punishment.  The story comes via The Blaze.)

From Philly(dot)com, a priest in Philadelphia is accused of "possible alleged misconduct with minors".

From Independent Balkan News Agency, Turkish President Erdoğan has some harsh words for the E.U.



From Sputnik International, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsepras demands that Turkey stops their illegal activities in the Aegean Sea.  (Today is the anniversary of Greece's independence from the Ottoman Empire, which came in 1821.)

From Deutsche Welle, in northeastern Greece along the Evros River, the border patrol finds some migrants while hunters and fishermen find the dead bodies of others.

From Voice Of Europe, the Mayor of The Hague is robbed in her own city, and a Polish woman was raped by Arabs in Sweden, after which the police act like Sgt. Schulz.


From the Sunday Express, in Manchester, England, a man attacks a policemen with a sword.



From Breitbart London, homelessness in London doubles due to deportations of Romanians and Poles being judicially blocked.






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