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The Failure of the Pilgrims’ First Christmas

The Pilgrims’ first Christmas in the new world was remarkable, but not for the reasons you’d think. On December 25, 1621, William Bradford, the governor of the Plymouth Colony, prohibited the celebration of Christmas. But he wasn’t a Scrooge or a Grinch; He was simply following his religious conviction. He believed that Sunday was the

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Entretenimiento

Pilgrim’s FY23 Revenues Soar with Four-Fold Jump

Direct-to-consumer (D2C) personal care brand Pilgrim’s operating revenue for 2022-23 jumped over four times to Rs 76.46 crore from Rs 16.89 crore in FY22. Its net loss, however, more than tripled to Rs 23.06 crore from Rs 7.53 crore during the same period as expenses ballooned to Rs 99.95 crore in FY23 from Rs 24.72

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Deportes

Santiago de Compostela sees record numbers of pilgrims in 2023

With fifty days of the year remaining, pilgrim numbers look set to smash the previous record of 438,300 annual visitors. ADVERTISEMENT They come from France, Portugal and Spain, walking for many days along the ancient Camino de Santiago routes followed by Christian pilgrims for more than a thousand years. And this year the northwestern Spanish

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Global

18 killed in Iraq after bus carrying Shiite pilgrims overturns

A bus carrying pilgrims to the Iraqi city of Karbala overturned north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing 18 people, medical officials said. Millions of believers converge on the city each year for the Shiite pilgrimage of Arbaeen, regarded as the largest annual public gathering in the world. Pilgrims come from various parts of Iraq as

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Global

Rwanda’s Kagame warns Catholic pilgrims who ‘worship poverty’

Almost all Rwandans are Christians, with Catholics making up roughly half the population. Rwandan President Paul Kagame has threatened to round up Catholic faithful who visit a global pilgrimage site in his country, accusing them of “worshipping poverty”. Every year thousands of people, many travelling for several days on foot, visit Kibeho, a town in

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Global

In Istanbul, Tombs of Religious Figures Still Draw Pilgrims

Years ago, when her sister was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, Mahire Turk sought divine intervention. She trekked to a shrine atop a hill overlooking the Bosporus, sat under an ornate dome close to the grave of a Sufi master who died nearly 400 years ago and prayed intensely for her sister to beat the disease.

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Noticias de dinero

A real thanksgiving lesson for the pilgrims

Reprinted from Independent Institute Holiday and football. That’s what many of us think about Thanksgiving. Most people identify the origin of the holiday with the first rich harvest of the pilgrims. But few understand how the Pilgrims actually solved their chronic food shortage. Many people believe that after a harsh winter, the Pilgrims’ food shortage

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