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Paul D. Beran, the director of the Outreach Center at CMES, emphasized the multitude of populations that share in the Nowruz holiday...
Harvard students celebrated St. Patrick’s Day with green beaded necklaces and an abundance of Guinness beer at the Queen’s Head Pub on Saturday—but their partying among shamrocks and leprechauns has come a long way from the original meaning of the holiday. The festivities featured a river dancer and an Irish band, as well as an abundance of Irish flags and green paper streamers. Several inflatable plastic leprechauns were nestled among the beer steins behind the bar. The event’s river dancer, Whitney L. Kress ’08, gestured...
...religious holiday's first parade occurred in 1762 in New York, when Irish soldiers conscripted by the British army marched to bond over their shared and distant homeland. Ever since, the event has been more popular abroad than at home - though Dublin's days of revelry is no poor showing - with especially large festivals in Boston and Chicago. "The parade is a celebration of diaspora," Roach said. With hundreds of Irish nationals living in Beijing and over 50,000 Chinese emigrants composing the largest non-European community living in Ireland, the holiday has morphed into a celebration of heritage across...
Most Holy Father, I write to thank you for allowing the Irish bishops to move the feast of St. Patrick to March 15. March 17, as you know, falls on Holy Monday this year. Obviously, it would be a tragedy if the most cherished holiday of the Irish—first among all the nations of Christendom—were cancelled. St. Patrick did the Church a great service by bringing the Irish—the stalwart Irish, the high-minded Irish, the brave, the creative, the swarthy and attractive and fine-smelling Irish—into the fold...
Neighbors of the Mercaz Harav seminary in Jerusalem at first thought the noise was the popping of firecrackers for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Purim. But it was gunfire and, in fact, the deadliest terror attack in the city in the last four years...