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Niki Cairo’s inspirational story features Keisha Castle-Hughes in the role that made her a star. As Paikea, a young girl of the Maori tribe of New Zealand, Castle-Hughes confronts issues of tradition, family, race and gender in her struggle to prove herself to her grandfather...
“Many people don’t understand what our money is doing there to begin with, in foreign bonds that are linked to human rights violations,” said Ron Francis, an organizer for Somerville Divestment Project. The group presented a petition with over 1,100...
This description is of Goa on May 6, 1542, the day the missionary St. Francis Xavier first set foot on the Indian subcontinent. Four hundred and sixty-two years later, you can still find some in the backpacker idyll to whom Coleridge's words apply. But the suggestion that the...
The bare facts of Xavier's life hold few clues to his continued esteem. Unlike some of his fellow missionaries in Africa or the Americas, he discovered no new wonders of the world. None of the countries he visited was converted root and branch to Christianity. He died without ever...
Yet, as the religious historian Alban Goodier writes in his book Saints for Sinners: "To many of his contemporaries, he was thought a failure ... [but] probably there is no saint ... no hero in history who has more enthusiastic admirers than St. Francis Xavier." For whatever the vicissitudes and disappointments, Xavier...