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FLASHBACK - High Plains Daily Leader Headline: APRIL 6, 2011

 

 

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Easter celebrations vary around the world

easter cross walk philippinesFilipinos participate in a reenactment of the Passion story from the Bible. The Philippines is a mostly Catholic country, and Easter celebrations are taken very seriously. Courtesy photoELLY GRIMM • Leader & Times

 

Sunday marks the Easter holiday and throughout the world, many are commemorating Jesus’ resurrection.

In Africa, Easter is widely celebrated in churches throughout Africa from the Thursday before Easter (also known as Maundy Thursday) through Easter Sunday, according to a Wycliffe.org article. 

“In Ethiopia, Christian churches celebrate Faskia, which is the 55 days leading up to Easter. Faskia is actually a bigger deal to people than Christmas, and that’s why it’s celebrated longer than our Easter in the U.S. During this holiday, people spend 55 days fasting from meat and animal products,” the Wycliffe.org article noted. “The night before Easter, Christians have a vigil that begins somber; but when morning comes, dancing and music breaks out. Families and communities spend Easter Sunday at church services and in homes, eating and celebrating. In South Africa, the day after Easter was officially recognized as “Family Day” in the 1990s. Originally the holiday was called ‘Easter Monday’  and was designed for people to recover from the Easter weekend’s festivities. Today the holiday gives families the chance to spend time together.”

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NATIONAL HEADLINES

Opinion

Media proves conservatives right when McDaniel bullied out of NBC

L&T Publisher Earl Watt

 

Trying to get a balanced view of the news has been scrutinized for years with those on the right claiming left wing bias in coverage.

Of course, the left outright denies the claim believing that networks like NBC, CBS, NBC and CNN shoot down the middle.

They are correct if they see the two sides as liberal and progressive. They balance those priorities well.

But if the goal is to be balanced between liberal and conservative views, they fail miserably and harm true journalists who really do shoot it straight.

NBC management recently attempted to provide some balance to its news coverage by hiring Republican Ronna McDaniel who recently stepped down as chair of the National Republican Party. It was a decent move to attempt to appear fair.

But the talking heads at NBC wouldn’t have it.

On air, they revolted, criticizing their own management and trashing McDaniel as a supporter of “The big lie,” which form the liberal point of view means anyone who questions anything about the 2020 election. Forget the fact that multiple Democrats called Donald Trump an illegitimate president for four years, which might be considered a “big lie,” they simply could not co-exist with anyone who sees the world differently than their socialist, big government view.

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